hey I'm still around

Caris 40 piece incoming

let's get this season started!

Why do you need to use something? Maybe just stop buying so much sh

We love Ricky in CLE so whatever needs to happen for him to be happy will make us happy

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38138955/cavs-pg-ricky-rubio-pause-career-focus-mental-health

Here's the ESPN article in case the other page doesn't suit you.

Not sure what this means for him or the Cavs going forward but I just hope he makes the right decision for himself and his family. I think we'd all like to see him back in a Cavs uniform and return to his form from 2 years ago.

Thanks for joining us. Right now is incredibly slow, but during free agency we had some good posts from various users. I think things will get much better when there is real basketball discussion to be had.

#9 - Cleveland Cavaliers

2022-23 record: 51-31

Result: Lost East first round

2024 title odds: +2500

After the franchise's momentum was stalled with a first-round flameout against New York, the Cavs have had a strong offseason -- from adding Max Strus and Georges Niang to rookie Emoni Bates looking like a potential steal in Cleveland's run to the summer league championship. Still, the biggest question remains if the team can make enough strides next season to convince Donovan Mitchell to extend and make The Land his home. -- McMenamin

at least he found a fall man

Isaiah Mobley dominated all summer, Sam showed he's 27 and Emoni grew game after game and showed he could fit in a system.

Let's go Cavs!

Does the big Z rule apply here? I'd love to see him back on the Cavs

How much would he get in a sign and trade? And how much is he worth talent wise?

I think he'd be a good add overall, given another 3pt shooting big would be nice. Just from a glance I'd have no problem giving up Dean Wade and some other bottom of the roster stuff. But that may just be an insulting offer for the Hornets

Why did he pick up his player option then? He could have gone to Houston for a max deal and no one could have stopped him.

Getting a second coaches challenge after winning the first seems like a no brainer. I would love for flops to be taken out of the game so I'll be cautiously optimistic about that change.

Emoni absolutely showed out this game. He's been getting better every game and this one was a cherry on top for the summer. I hope he earns some minutes this season, I'd love to see him hit his shots against legit NBA talent.

I would disagree with that. It's not really bizarre given leagues around the world do this to great success. Also I don't think the NBA is so single minded that they only worked on this in season tournament and nothing else to improve the game. I'm also not sure that very much time even needed to be spent on this idea given how it's already in place in other leagues and at the top level it's not very complex.

At the end of the day it was a pretty minor change to the existing infrastructure with respect to how much improvement it could impose. I see it as no negative with possible positive.

Sam Merrill straight up doesn't belong here. He's an NBA player and it just doesn't look fair (going back to last game).

So I don't see teams purposely losing, since it's not like they play more games unless they play in the final. At which point the different between 100k then 200k and 500k is not nothing. Even if some players or teams could care less about the tournament, I can't see them treating it less than a regular season game at the very least.

On your second point, yeah that's incredibly stupid. If the guys play in the games they should get paid for playing in the games. You're playing in an NBA game against NBA teams in an NBA tournament with payouts to players based on how far you go.

Why is everyone so actively negative about this? I get not caring at all, but there's clearly more than that. If you don't like this tournament...just pretend they're regular season games and nothing changes. If you already don't watch regular season games... keep not watching regular season games and nothing changes.

I'm liking the Cavs group. Philly is a real threat but I truly think our guys can take that group.

Additionally, Copy and pasted from the NBA thread:

500k each for the winners all the way down to 50k for the 8th place team will no doubt bring out some good competition. That’s some pretty nice dough even for the max contract guys. Who doesn’t want an extra 50k of pocket change? Especially going forward when the 5th place team sees other guys getting hundreds of thousands more than them, that’ll no doubt bring out the competitive spirit in a lot of guys.

East Group B is looking to be a bloodbath, same with West Group A.

I wonder if scheduling will cause any weird issues like playing a team 5 times or an intraconference team only twice. I suppose you could have games later in the season against team A or team B depending on who of your group went on to the knockout stage.