The official NBASupes 2021 NBA Draft thread

[Spud2nique]

24 minutes ago, sturt said:

Shouldn't we be seeing some trades go down beginning this weekend, or am I just over-anxious?

Probably start poppin the day of the draft.

[sturt]

[JayBirdHawk]

51 minutes ago, sturt said:

Shouldn't we be seeing some trades go down beginning this weekend, or am I just over-anxious?

Yes. 

[NBASupes]

13 minutes ago, sturt said:

Generally trades don't have to the week of. Brooklyn got insider info that KD and Kyrie wanted to come so they were ambitious to get a deal done asap

[thecampster]

32 minutes ago, Spud2nique said:

Probably start poppin the day of the draft.

tues/wednesday they'll pop. Monday we'll start hearing legit rumors.  80% of what you hear won't happen though.

[Spud2nique]

11 minutes ago, thecampster said:

tues/wednesday they'll pop. Monday we'll start hearing legit rumors.  80% of what you hear won't happen though.

Yes. Trust the process…. Of the draft..

[NBASupes]

This year will be two waves

The blockbuster wave: This is picks being moved, a stud player, or a superstar player for a superstar price. That will take place the day of the draft. 

Keys:

Bradley Beal

C.J. McCollum 

Lottery picks 

Siakam who's leaning to staying in TOR

Lillard who's leaning to staying in Portland

Collin Sexton/Kevin Love - I am hearing Portland and Cleveland could be working on a deal that brings McCollum to CLE and Love/Sexton to POR but POR is looking for a better option than Sexton as of right now.

The 2nd wave: This be future picks, guys on expiring deals who the team doesn't want to resign or guys they can't agree to resign. This will take place the 2nd week of free agency during summer league. 

Keys: 

Marvin Bagley III 

Mo Bamba 

Kevin Knox

Many don't believe Mikal Bridges be available but if he is, teams will be fighting for him. Same for Kevin Huerter to a lesser extent. 

Jarrett Culver 

Anfernee Simons

Steven Adams 

Eric Bledsoe 

And others.

[Spud2nique]

25 minutes ago, NBASupes said:

Many don't believe Mikal Bridges

My guy. 

[sturt]

1 hour ago, sturt said:

 

 

(The 2017 draft was 6/22/17.)

[kg01]

Somebody convince me the Mobley cat isn't Nerlens Noel 2.0. 

[marco102]

51 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Somebody convince me the Mobley cat isn't Nerlens Noel 2.0. 

Way too skilled to be Nerlens. He does have a lot of defensive upside.

[ATLHawks3]

1 hour ago, kg01 said:

Somebody convince me the Mobley cat isn't Nerlens Noel 2.0. 

Lol, are you always down on non-hawk young players? 

[kg01]

58 minutes ago, ATLHawks3 said:

Lol, are you always down on non-hawk young players? 

Yes, everyone knows this.  Ask marco.

So can you convince me?

[NBASupes]

You want to know what is extremely stupid, the executive who thinks we could Cam Reddish. I got banned from Twitter for saying that executive who stated this needs to be shot

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by NBASupes

[sturt]

I won't say no... next year.

Right now, we have a championship to pursue, and we need Cam and the rest.

[Marvin24Williams]

2 hours ago, NBASupes said:

You want to know what is extremely stupid, the executive who thinks we could Cam Reddish. I got banned from Twitter for saying that executive who stated this needs to be shot

 

Kinda shit is that. I'd be absolutely heated if we trade Cam 

[sturt]

 

[KB21]

20 hours ago, kg01 said:

Somebody convince me the Mobley cat isn't Nerlens Noel 2.0. 

He's far more skilled than Noel.  

[thecampster]

The things he does well translate to any level of basketball.

[KB21]

Outside of John Collins and Onyeka Okongwu, Travis's picks have all been centered around players who could shoot, pass, and dribble.  I'm curious to see if that continues this year.  If it does, then I think the Hawks are likely looking at Chris Duarte from Oregon, Trey Murphy from Virginia, Tre Mann from Florida, and Jared Butler from Baylor.  If they are more focused on projecting improvement in those areas, then I think that brings Cam Thomas of LSU, Kai Jones of Texas and Jaden Springer of Tennessee into the mix.