Johnathan Motley, you need to come join your brother Bear

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By some if not most of the big boards I've seen, Motley is the top undrafted free agent tonight, albeit evidently b/c of some medical red flag(s).

Taurean perhaps could sway his old teammate to sign up for some Hawks summer league at least, ya think?

[Guest]

Was rooting for him or Cam Oliver to end the draft. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Spud2Nique said:

Was rooting for him or Cam Oliver to end the draft. 

I was rooting for Kobi Simmons.  Local kid angle.  Talk about a poor enter-draft decision.  Should've just transferred.

[Thomas]

Would be excellent if we could bring both Motley and Simmons in for camp. Not like we are short on wide open roster spots here, watch them compete and see if they fit in with Schlenk's goals.

[coachx]

I'm curious what came up either in his medical report or background check to cause him to fall out of the draft.

 

[marco102]

Simmons signed with Lakers.

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, marco102 said:

Simmons signed with Lakers.

Man, decision-making is this guy's weak suit apparently.  LAL has a rookie pg who's gonna get all the reps.  No way his backup(s) are gonna be rooks too.

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DAL sounding confident... unfortunately...

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/dallas-mavericks/mavericks/2017/06/23/mavs-gm-donnie-nelson-hopeful-fairly-optimistic-can-sign-baylor-pf-johnathan-motley

[sturt]

Almost certainly, shortly after I click "submit," word will come out, but at 7:21 pm CDT, I checked Mr. Motley's twitter, and he has yet to say anything at all since last night (.... mind you, it seems typical that the first impulse is for these guys to tweet out to everyone that they've signed).

[sturt]

Seems like it's always the Mavs who keep doing this crap... dang it.

[Thomas]

3 minutes ago, sturt said:

Seems like it's always the Mavs who keep doing this crap... dang it.

Yeah, he's staying close to home. Oh well.

[CP61]

20 minutes ago, Thomas said:

Yeah, he's staying close to home. Oh well.

I can think blame him for that

[sturt]

(Technically, HOU is home, fwiw.)