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2019 Trade Deadline Discussion

Favors is a great dude and great player. But he doesn't help us where we need help in the playoffs. If we had Conley and Lowry, you would trade one to improve the team elsewhere. Having 2 good centers does us no good when we need it most.
And if Gobert gets hurt?
 
By the way, so much for Exum having no trade value. Or how much actual trade value Porter Jr had. It just shows how much we know, which is **** all most of the time.
 
I think we’ve got a dude of a deadline guys. I just don’t think anything gets done.

Oof
 
Wondering why the Heat traded for Ryan Anderson. (I know the Johnson contract is back-loaded but still....)
To cut their tax bill. The Heat and Wiz are the only teams in the league that are both over the tax limit and have losing records.
 
This undersells the history of black people THEMSELVES in Memphis. The history THEY created. And that there is a substantial black community there in contrast to a place that is one of the most bereft of black people in the entire nation.

True.

Thank you

If my earlier post offended you, please accept my apologies. It as flippant and overly harsh. My only excuse is that is was made in haste as I was running between appointments.

Memphis has been one of the musical capitals of the world. Those days have dwindled, but nobody should underestimate the role Memphis has played in Black American culture. I’m not sure what is happening there now, but that stuff hasn’t straight-up vanished.

The arts and culture scene in SLC, on the other hand, is mainly a mixture of what 20-something white kids are doing + the art-grant stuff dominated by old white folks.

For the people who say they’ve been to Memphis and think SLC lacks nothing in comparison: that statement reveals an incredible amount about you.

I think you are mainly talking to me here...so let me respond. I have been to Memphis and it has a lot to recommend it. It also has a negative side to the experience. Granted my visits came from when I was stationed in Little Rock and are a bit dated, but I think it still holds. There are great things and bad things about most places. SLC is no different. We shouldn't look at Salt Lake through nothing but the negative lens. The same could be said of Memphis, Cleveland, OKC and most other mid to small NBA markets. I do hope that DM can help us change the narrative that Blacks aren't welcome or that they can't be happy here.

I am not Black, and can not adequately imagine the Black experience in America. I can imagine what it is like to be the outsider, and desire to be around other people like me. I have had that experience.
 
But don't the Heat now have to pay Anderson 20M next season?
ESPN said:
The tax bill in Miami will drop from $9.7 million to $1.7 million. That figure could drop further if Kelly Olynyk misses out on his $1 million bonus for playing 1,700 minutes, which he is not on pace to do.

Miami will create a $6.27 million trade exception with the deal.... Anderson has a cap hit of $20.4 million this season and $21.3 million in 2019-20, of which $15.6 million is guaranteed with the remaining amount becoming fully protected if he's not waived by July 10.
 
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