ESPN Panel Predicts Where 2019 Superstar FAs land

[gpap]

Worth a gander if you have a chance. Not quite sure whom this " ESPN panel" consists of

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26024501/predicting-nba-superstar-moves-kd-kyrie-ad-kawhi

[Jiri Welsch]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

[C3LTSF4N]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

Sounds about right

[bdm860]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

Had to click anyway cuz I wanted to see where Butler would land, thought you left him out of your write up.

Nope, nothing on Butler other than most don't expect him to re-sign with Philly.  How can they do Bulter leaving without anything as to where?  But it apparently the only 3 options for free agents switching teams next year is LAL, LAC, or NYK.  So one of them I guess.

[gouki88]

Interesting that they believe we'll be the team to beat out of the East again, considering a) so much of ESPN's content is quite anti-Boston, and b) a large chunk of them expect us to lose Kyrie.

[Androslav]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

Basically what we all thought before this season even started.
Meaning that all this of this pre-deadline media commotion was and is meaningless.

[Moranis]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

very strange that people that think Kyrie is leaving think Boston is acquiring Davis in that same scenario.

[jambr380]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

very strange that people that think Kyrie is leaving think Boston is acquiring Davis in that same scenario.

Yeah, I would have thought the percentages would be switched. I find it hard to believe more people think we are going to acquire AD than simply keep Kyrie. I guess the non-LAL trade at the deadline probably sealed in people's minds that Tatum is NOP's target.

[Roy H.]

I’d take that offseason in a second.

[Moranis]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

very strange that people that think Kyrie is leaving think Boston is acquiring Davis in that same scenario.

Yeah, I would have thought the percentages would be switched. I find it hard to believe more people think we are going to acquire AD than simply keep Kyrie. I guess the non-LAL trade at the deadline probably sealed in people's minds that Tatum is NOP's target.

Sure, but if Boston acquires Davis I just find it hard to believe that anyone would realistically believe Irving would leave after Boston acquired Davis. Now I suppose there is a weird scenario where a Davis trade gets delayed till later in the summer and Irving leaves and then Boston still goes after Davis, but the odds of Boston putting together the best package in that scenario seem pretty small. 

[trickybilly]

Why, in the name of incel romance would Kyrie be playing for the New Jersey Nets next year?

Russell looks like peak-Conley right now.

[Roy H.]

Save some people a click:

Just over 50% think Kyrie stays in Boston.
Just over 60% think AD is traded to Boston.

Other predictions include: Kawhi to LAC, Cousins to LAL, Durant to NYK, Thompson staying in GS, and only Harris re-signing with Philly.

Had to click anyway cuz I wanted to see where Butler would land, thought you left him out of your write up.

Nope, nothing on Butler other than most don't expect him to re-sign with Philly.  How can they do Bulter leaving without anything as to where?  But it apparently the only 3 options for free agents switching teams next year is LAL, LAC, or NYK.  So one of them I guess.

Ha.  I'm curious where Butler ends up.  I hope Brooklyn isn't dumb enough to sign him; Butler is pretty toxic as a leader.  The Knicks might want him as their "second star", but for a guy who can score, pass, and play elite defense, Butler just doesn't do it for me.

[Moranis]

Why, in the name of incel romance would Kyrie be playing for the New Jersey Nets next year?

Russell looks like peak-Conley right now.

There is no team in New Jersey.  They are in Brooklyn.  They also can have double max room (by moving Crabbe), while theoretically keeping Allen, LeVert, Dinwiddie, Harris (and potentially Russell and RHJ)

[Roy H.]

Why ... would Kyrie be playing for the New Jersey Nets next year?

Russell looks like peak-Conley right now.

There is no team in New Jersey.  They are in Brooklyn.  They also can have double max room (by moving Crabbe), while theoretically keeping Allen, LeVert, Dinwiddie, Harris (and potentially Russell and RHJ)

I think implicit in the question is that the Nets would be better off keeping Russell and adding a more complementary piece, rather than Kyrie.

I agree that Russell and Kyrie would be an odd fit together.  I'm not sure that either guy would buy into that.

[gpap]

I’d take that offseason in a second.

Me too!

Could the Pelicans sign Davis to his 230 mil max deal and trade him to Boston in a sign and trade? That way, at least if we trade Tatum, we'd be assured we'd have Davis (and Kyrie) for 5 years.