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He was running point in Summer league. They must envision him in that role, or at least to some extent.

Arguably the best player in summer league was the guy taken after Bufkin, Keyonte George.

I think he will be solid as a scorer once he gets comfortable, but he does not look like a natural point to me. Probably a Jordan Poole type.

What can I say, they have Hawks DNA.

It's a big game of chess. He's trying to make it harder for Toronto to trade him. Toronto is basically saying, "take a discount or we will trade you." And team Siakam is trying to undermine their leverage. Usually once things get this ugly, a trade ultimately happens, but who knows.

Jokic shines no matter how you crunch the numbers. He's well on his way to becoming an all time great.

Your boy Embiid got some good numbers

Hawks basketball tonight!

Id be on board with that.

Well at least youre not predicting multiple championships like you were before.

We didn't stand pat. We traded JC for a bag of chips. We got worse.

And that's very different than a trade for obvious reasons.

Yea, why do fans think if a player has an exciting announcement, it's going to be a trade? First of all, players really aren't supposed to be involved in decisions such as trades. Particularly a trade where players are going out, that would kinda be throwing shade on the players that are going out by celebrating a trade. Teams also know trades can fall apart quickly or come to an impasse. I'm pretty sure GMs wouldn't be like, "I'd say it's better than 50% odds, go ahead and start teasing it on instagram.'' Obviously if a player has an announcement, that it's a baby, marriage, shoe deal, etc. is far more likely than a trade.

They should expand summer league playoffs. We are 3-1. We deserve a shot.

Good to see Kobe redeemed himself. Nice poise in the 4th quarter.

There are way, way more busts than stars. Some guys are just busts. It happens. In fact it happens often.

Trae was a terrific passer in his summer league though.

I know it's summer league. I know he's young. But he does not look like an NBA player so far.

90s comedy puts today's comedy to shame.

Yea we can't shoot the three ball. It's gonna be our Achilles heel, no doubt about it.

A very high stakes game of poker going on. Masai is probably not going to cave. He's the type who would rather lose his guy for nothing than take a deal he thinks is unworthy.

So we know about the KAT negotiations, but KAT himself doesn't know. Come on man.

I dont see Minnesota trading KAT right now. They are gonna give the KAT/Gobert pairing one more go. Plus KAT's salary for this year is still reasonable. They might trade him at the deadline or next summer, but as for this summer, dont see it happening. He sure as heck isn't getting traded to the Hawks right now.

Masai, along with Luc Mbah a Moute, basically discovered Siakam at his basketball camp in Africa when Pascal was still a teenager. They go back a long way, and I wonder if there is some sentimental attachment that is influencing how he is going about this trade.

Look, Toronto is in a tough spot here. But so are we. We basically traded JC for nothing if we can't secure a trade.