2019 Summer Rumors official thread

[JSD]

Bill Simmons suggested Kevin Love is ripe to be absorbed by the Lakers if Kawhi falls through.


I’m wondering if the Lakers or even the Clippers would want to take on his 4 years $120M remaining contract?

I think the Clips would steer clear, because two injury-prone big contracts in Love and Gallo. Lakers would do it though, lol

What about Gallo and a protected 1st for Love 🤔

[gouki88]

Bill Simmons suggested Kevin Love is ripe to be absorbed by the Lakers if Kawhi falls through.


I’m wondering if the Lakers or even the Clippers would want to take on his 4 years $120M remaining contract?

I think the Clips would steer clear, because two injury-prone big contracts in Love and Gallo. Lakers would do it though, lol

What about Gallo and a protected 1st for Love 🤔

If they got Kawhi that would be pretty fun. Sucks that Love is made of glass, but so is Gallo

[JSD]

Bill Simmons suggested Kevin Love is ripe to be absorbed by the Lakers if Kawhi falls through.


I’m wondering if the Lakers or even the Clippers would want to take on his 4 years $120M remaining contract?

I think the Clips would steer clear, because two injury-prone big contracts in Love and Gallo. Lakers would do it though, lol

What about Gallo and a protected 1st for Love 🤔

If they got Kawhi that would be pretty fun. Sucks that Love is made of glass, but so is Gallo

Dallas is another interesting team that could make a play for Love.

Zinger
Love
Doncic

Could be formidable. Cuban has never hesitates to spend.

[gouki88]

Bill Simmons suggested Kevin Love is ripe to be absorbed by the Lakers if Kawhi falls through.


I’m wondering if the Lakers or even the Clippers would want to take on his 4 years $120M remaining contract?

I think the Clips would steer clear, because two injury-prone big contracts in Love and Gallo. Lakers would do it though, lol

What about Gallo and a protected 1st for Love 🤔

If they got Kawhi that would be pretty fun. Sucks that Love is made of glass, but so is Gallo

Dallas is another interesting team that could make a play for Love.

Zinger
Love
Doncic

Could be formidable. Cuban has never hesitates to spend.

Love would definitely counter Zinger's rebounding struggles, but it's a risk dependent upon Zinger's recovery

[CelticsElite]

I’m told that Jimmy Butler did receive the 5-year full max offer from Philly and he turned it down to go to Miami.


https://mobile.twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/1145803646225043456

Also:

[Fafnir]

That would make sense with the reports that Horford was set to the 76ers weeks ago. If Jimmy told them he was out then they would know they would eventually have the space to sign Horford.

[CelticSooner]

So where’s Morris going to end up?

[Somebody]

Bill Simmons suggested Kevin Love is ripe to be absorbed by the Lakers if Kawhi falls through.


I’m wondering if the Lakers or even the Clippers would want to take on his 4 years $120M remaining contract?

I think the Clips would steer clear, because two injury-prone big contracts in Love and Gallo. Lakers would do it though, lol

What about Gallo and a protected 1st for Love 🤔

Gallo has low key been better than Love this season tbh.

[BringToughnessBack]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/kevin-durant-left-warriors-because-fans-didnt-appreciate-him-report

How do two big peas fit in one Brooklyn pod?

A fox link? No offense but that is scraping the VERY bottom of the journalistic resources available. Lucky they are only writing a second-hander about this Marc Spears piece:

https://theundefeated.com/features/kendrick-perkins-on-kevin-durant-finally-he-got-his-own-team/

Yep, I originally saw it on the SFGate site and then saw it on front of Fox listed in Google results as well so linked from there. I saw it came from theundefeated article. Hard to call many sources out there high quality journalism in this day and age! Fox is just one of many that is in that huge pond.

[BringToughnessBack]

Bill Simmons suggested Kevin Love is ripe to be absorbed by the Lakers if Kawhi falls through.


I’m wondering if the Lakers or even the Clippers would want to take on his 4 years $120M remaining contract?

Interesting. Imagine a finals with Davis and Love vs. Embiid and Horford...I think my breakfast almost just came back up thinking about that!

[greenrunsdeep41]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/kevin-durant-left-warriors-because-fans-didnt-appreciate-him-report

How do two big peas fit in one Brooklyn pod?

A fox link? No offense but that is scraping the VERY bottom of the journalistic resources available. Lucky they are only writing a second-hander about this Marc Spears piece:

https://theundefeated.com/features/kendrick-perkins-on-kevin-durant-finally-he-got-his-own-team/

Yep, I originally saw it on the SFGate site and then saw it on front of Fox listed in Google results as well so linked from there. I saw it came from theundefeated article. Hard to call many sources out there high quality journalism in this day and age! Fox is just one of many that is in that huge pond.

I’m not a conservative or a republican. But if you think Fox News can simply be dismissed as a news source, you are being painfully biased. They are, much to my chagrin, a reputable news source.

[BringToughnessBack]

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/kevin-durant-left-warriors-because-fans-didnt-appreciate-him-report

How do two big peas fit in one Brooklyn pod?

A fox link? No offense but that is scraping the VERY bottom of the journalistic resources available. Lucky they are only writing a second-hander about this Marc Spears piece:

https://theundefeated.com/features/kendrick-perkins-on-kevin-durant-finally-he-got-his-own-team/

Yep, I originally saw it on the SFGate site and then saw it on front of Fox listed in Google results as well so linked from there. I saw it came from theundefeated article. Hard to call many sources out there high quality journalism in this day and age! Fox is just one of many that is in that huge pond.

I’m not a conservative or a republican. But if you think Fox News can simply be dismissed as a news source, you are being painfully biased. They are, much to my chagrin, a reputable news source.

Pretty sure Republicans say CNN is horribly biased and Democrats say same about Fox. I am independent so if I see one site is flooded with anti one side propaganda, I simply go elsewhere. BBC is a good source for news in this day and age it seems. More people have been fleeing CNN recently though and they lost me years ago when they shifted so many of their articles on one side with a lot of hate towards the other. Unfortunately,  Politics caused some really good news sites to go off the deep end!

OK, back to rumors! When do we get Cousins?!

Scratch that last comment, I see we just since Poirer which means we are done with big men for now I believe.

[celticsclay]

From realgm:
Kawhi Leonard has not made a decision on his free agency at this time, according to Cris Carter of Fox Sports. Carter has consistently been one of the most plugged in media sources into Leonard's camp.

Carter also adds that there is not currently a hierarchy of how Leonard is leaning.

"To think the Lakers are ahead of the Clippers or the Raptors would be wrong," wrote Carter.

[rondofan1255]

Free agent Dorian Finney-Smith has agreed to a three-year, $12M deal to re-sign with the Dallas Mavericks, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA

https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1146107280666038272?s=21

The Washington Wizards have applied for a Disabled Player Exception in respect to John Wall, per a source.

Team has not yet received notification from league as to whether or not the application has been granted or denied.

If granted, the Wizards will have the amount of the full non-taxpayer mid-level exception to use to either sign, trade for a player, or make a waiver claim. That number this season is $9.258 million.

https://twitter.com/sam_vecenie/status/1146068851227938816?s=21

[Birdman]

Memphis to buy out Iggy..iggy may go to Lakers