My ublock has been at a constant "0" on this site since I've started. A youtube tab will have over a hundred by the end of a 10 minute video.

I feel like this keeps the suns about the same but adds a couple years to the window. The shooting is going to be insane though. Booker KD and Beal are going to score 70 points a game.

at least he found a fall man

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.

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.

Cavs Free Agency

UFA Georges Niang (3/26) - I'm assuming we used 8.5 of the MLE on this contract

Sign and trade Max Strus (4/63) for Cedi Osman and Lamar Stevens

Caris Lavert re-upped on a 2 year 32 mil contract.

Pretty happy with these moves so far considering we didn't have a lot of assets or any cap room available. Sad to see Cedi and Lamar go, but you have to give up something to get something.

I migrated from there. Everyone is welcome and mods especially. If a mod from the Cavs subreddit would like to help with this sub I would love to bring you in to the fold.

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!

"We can't have people in this organization getting punched in the face. With that said we have to move on from Jordan Poole"

This is complete non-news. The Cavs front office has been very clear that Darius Garland and Evan Mobley are absolutely untouchable and in no world has Darius been on the trade block to begin with. Let alone for there to be news that he's not on the trade block.

In other news, The Nuggets have not had any discussions about trading MVP Center Nikola Jokic and don't intend to move him.

i just got permanantly banned from the Cavs sub for this comment

cavsfan9000 0 points 7 minutes ago i would like to announce that all Cavs mods who stepped down are more than welcome to join us at https://lemmy.world/c/cavaliers. as well as anyone else who would like to help build a new community. that is with full respect to everyone here and what everyone in this Cavs sub that may be disenfranchised with the current state of things.

I know how people feel about running backs, but I truly feel Nick Chubb is one of the special ones. I don't think he's going to drop off, rather have a more extended career like some of the other greats. Rarely should a RB get a third contract in this NFL but we'll probably look back and say how obvious his greatness was.

The 'ole Ben Simmons Special

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.

Maybe you can't with Max contracts due to the max cap % you can pay out and then the annual raise restrictions and all that, but you always could with sub max contracts. You can also just split up the contract evenly, like Jarrett Allen's deal. He gets 100 mil for 5 years and every year he gets 20 mil. Which is in practice a regressive contract where his % cap hit decreases year over year.

What you said is interesting in that it doesn't seem to happen that often, where you could butt up against the cap one year, get relief for future years with a regressive contract. Maybe it's just the belief in kicking the can down the road and counting on cap increases while maximizing current rosters.

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

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.

I'm definitely concerned that our biggest weakness is SF and we traded 2 rotation SF's for what appears to be a shooting guard (who is probably 3rd on the depth chart behind Donovan and Caris, unless he gets traded). Can Strus play the 3? And does he play defense? I definitely don't know much about him, so I'd love to have any incorrect assumptions pointed out.

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.

Our roster composition by position:

PG - 2

SG - 6

SF - 0

PF - 3

C - 2