NBA Free Agents Bluffing That Their Moves Will Topple the Warriors/Cavs??

[Witch-King]

not exactly sure where to put this. mods, please move it you think of a better place.



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Sources: Milwaukee's been trying to shed contracts to create space. Bucks need to make moves to get into position to sign significant FA's.

Adrian Wojnarowski‏ @wojespn 50m50 minutes ago
Free agent guard Derrick Rose is meeting with Milwaukee Bucks officials today, league sources tell ESPN.

any realistic players the celtics might be interested in here? and please, be mindful of the caveat "realistic." 

There aren't too many options in free agency now because big names have signed elsewhere.

[MaxAMillion]

Acquiring two top-4 players and two other top-20 players is hard. If you were expecting a team to do that, then you were destined to be disappointed.

Even if that was the case (it very well might be), then what is the interest in watching the next NBA season from any point earlier than the Finals, which is becoming increasingly likely to be a contest between the same two teams for the 4th season in a row?? It's not impossible for a new team to emerge that could challenge Cleveland or Golden State; the Celtics only had Paul Pierce going into the fabled offseason when they acquired Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, and none of those 3 players had ever won NBA MVP before, yet they were still enough to have the best record in the league and win banner 17 once they joined forces. You don't necessarily need the very best players in the league to become formidable, maybe just one transcendent talent plus one or two former or current All Stars and a quality supporting cast, just look at how the Celtics and Spurs fared last season for example. It may be difficult to create such a team, but it isn't impossible.

There isn't any...GS will win it again next year. I hate GS so I didn't watch the finals this year and I won't watch it next year either. The playoffs themselves were pretty dull this year with it being obvious that Cleveland and GS would end up in the finals.

[Sophomore]

Interestingly enough, both the Celtics and Spurs' best player got injured in their Conference Finals against the two teams that were heavily favored to go back to the Finals yet again. I'm not crying conspiracy, here, but it was rather unfortunate for both sides. If both teams had their star players healthy, maybe we could've actually seen a competitive series against the "shoe-in teams" before the finals, or maybe not. You(and everyone else)'re right when you say that the Warriors are a rare team in terms of quality of talent, though Max215

Right. Any of the top teams is vulnerable to an injury or (less so) the unexpectedly rapid development of a younger player on another team. Not rooting for an injury, but at some point every team is bitten. Can't ever tell.

[timpiker]

That's why they play the games.