There were always 'guard rails' as you put it. If you spouted hate speech or made some other kind of post that offended people then you were likely to end up banned. That's always been true whether it's irc channels, phpbb forums, online chatrooms, reddit, lemmy or whatever the medium of choice at that time was.

So Payne, Beal, Booker, Durant, and Ayton as the starting 5? That's a very good starting lineup, but that bench looks painfully thin. Not to mention Ayton might still want out.

Wizards look like they're finally starting a rebuild on the other hand instead of treading water. Wonder if Porzingis is up next on the trading block.

I'm not surprised to see him take his option. According to spotrac there's only 5 teams under the cap and 7 teams with practical cap space so not a lot of possible suitors. He gets more money overall by waiting until next offseason to pursue a 2-3 year deal before retiring.

Community's still pretty new and there's not much in the way of mobile apps for Lemmy right now. Probably would have been more posters otherwise. I can't even login on my ipad through the browser, haven't been able to figure out why yet.

Gonzaga here. Miss the flairs right now, but game threads might be more civil without them.

From what I've seen of crossposts so far, the thread in each community has separate comments.

This has to be a straight salary dump to avoid the luxury tax right? Can't imagine why else they'd give away picks and the younger guard in this trade.

Moving Beal saves them a lot of contract space since they can waive Chris Paul before the 28th. Kuzma and Porzingis both have player options, but after next season the biggest contracts they have are Gafford and Shamet. It looks like the Wizards owe the Knicks a first round pick, but they have a good chance at landing high picks in the next few seasons otherwise.

By then the Warriors window will have closed and they'll be looking to start a rebuild. I wouldn't be surprised if Draymond and Curry both retire in the same offseason.

42.8 million per year for 3 years? FVV is a solid player but damn that’s way too much. More than luka, trae, booker, SGA and more. Rockets hurting themselves here.

Can the Suns sign anyone to fill out the roster since they're over the cap? This is a really expensive group of 4.

I don't think Giannis is going anywhere, but the Bucks window for contention is pretty short. Lopez is the perfect frontcourt partner for Giannis and I'm skeptical they can find anyone near as ideal a fit if he doesn't re-sign this offseason. Not to mention Jrue and Khris are both in their 30's and starting to decline. If Mil doesn't make some good signings or trades then they could become a non-contender faster than people might expect.

Kinda think the Suns would walk back on waiving Chris Paul if this rumor is true. Played around with a trade machine and something like Paul or Ayton / Shamet or Bazley seems to be what it takes to make contracts line up.

Blazers feel like they're in kinda a weird position since almost every path forward depends on what Charlotte does with the #2 pick.

Whitmore falling has to be one of the bigger surprises. Think he was still being mocked in the top ten before today. Also happy to see Strawther go in the first round, to the Nuggets no less.

Some much needed depth during the regular season, but how playable is he during the playoffs?

I’m guessing fvv/jalen green/brooks/Jabari/sengun. Mills, Christopher, whitmore, jeff green and landale off the bench? Defense is a question mark but they could push for the playin if green and Jabari take a step forward under Udoka.

Who's going to start at the 4 now? Slide Hunter over and start Saddiq or Griffin at the 3?

If dame had been available before the porzingis trade it might have happened. Now I doubt Boston could make it happen without giving up Jaylen Brown since most of their other assets are gone.

Guess we'll see if any of the players back him up on this since they supposedly met with him. They certainly didn't waste much time hitting the portal.