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Collison retiring to be a full time Jehovah's Witness yikes
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He’s always been a Jehovah’s Witness, from the sound of it.

But I do ask myself what I’d do in his situation. I’m currently on vacation with my wife and 5 kids, and I’m going back to work next week — and for only three days. He’s made $30M. If you had most of that, and figuring a very conservative 5% return, you could live off $1.5M/yr without ever touching the principle. On one hand, being able to really cash in on the next few years, say a 3 years 30M deal, would be a nice way to double earnings in way less time, but if you had the ability to, knowing you don’t have to go through the grind the next 3 years, and you could just say, “**** this ****. I’m out.” How hard would that be to not do? I think about that in my current situation, and while I mostly like my profession and find it stimulating (albeit in smaller doses than I’m currently getting), I’d feel a huge amount of relief if I could just say “nah, **** you. I’m done.”
 
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He’s always been a Jehovah’s Witness, from the sound of it.

But I do ask myself what I’d do in his situation. I’m currently on vacation with my wife and 5 kids, and I’m going back to work next week — and for only three days. He’s made $30M. If you had most of that, and figuring a very conservative 5% return, you could live off $1.5M/yr without ever touching the principle. On one hand, being able to really cash in on the next few years, say a 3 years 30M deal, would be a nice way to double earnings in way less time, but if you had the ability to, knowing you don’t have to go through the grind the next 3 years, and you could just say, “**** this ****. I’m out.” How hard would that be to not do? I think about that in my current situation, and while I mostly like my profession and find it stimulating (albeit in smaller doses than I’m currently getting), I’d feel a huge amount of relief if I could just say “nah, **** you. I’m done.”
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Bro, if I had $30M nobody but my family would ever hear my name uttered again. I’d be out in my own dimension. I’d return only for dinner, massage, and stimulating conversation before entering my own dimension again the following day.

I’d pay someone a reasonable sum to stop by every now and then to make sure I was within the boundaries of a hygiene program that I’d established on the outset of my retirement. And I’d have a professional smoothie maker who came by a couple times a week.

Oh, and I’d obviously have the best “pharmacist” money could buy.
 
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Bro, if I had $30M nobody but my family would ever hear my name uttered again. I’d be out in my own dimension. I’d return only for dinner, massage, and stimulating conversation before entering my own dimension again the following day.

I’d pay someone a reasonable sum to stop by every now and then to make sure I was within the boundaries of a hygiene program that I’d established on the outset of my retirement. And I’d have a professional smoothie maker who came by a couple times a week.

Oh, and I’d obviously have the best “pharmacist” money could buy.
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I think about this type of situation more than what most would consider reasonably healthy.
 
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if Kawhi goes to the Lakers, they'll be a very different team from the superteam in Golden State. For one, the Warriors had three elite 3-pt shooters spacing the floor and knocking down big shots. They had gravity out to 30 feet, and it opened up huge driving lanes, enhanced their ball movement, and led to a lot of easy scores at the rim.

If the Lakers put out a lineup with Lebron, Kawhi, Kuzma and Davis, only one of those guys is a 35%+ 3-pt shooter, and that's Kawhi. Teams are going to pack it in on them defensively. They're going to have a hard time getting space on the floor to run their offense. They're prone to shooting a lot of 2-pt jump shots, and they're going to have a hard time keeping up with elite 3-pt shooting teams.

The other thing is that they're not great defensively. Lebron was only a part-time defender last year. Kuzma has never been much of a defender. Kawhi doesn't put the same effort into it like he used to, though he can turn it on when he has to. Davis, for whatever reason, has never been part of an above-average defensive team. It's going to be difficult for them to add real two-way players on minimum contracts.

I know these guys are each stars individually, and they're elite one-on-one individual scorers, but I think they're vulnerable against teams that shoot better and defend better than they do. And this doesn't consider their lack of depth and need for load management. I just see a team that might brick 2-pt jumpers and then not get back on defense.

Elite teams now shoot over 35% of their shots from 3-pt, and this Laker team wouldn't be able to play like that. It sure would have been awesome 15 years ago though.
 
So I just read there's as much collective cap space available as the last two summers combined.Of course some of that will get eaten up quickly with Durant, Thompson, Kawhi, Butler, Kyrie all FA's. If most re-signed with their current teams (we already know Kyrie won't), other players going to get some crazy *** deals as "Plan B's."

Might influence the decision to keep Favors if there's a lot of cap still available collectively. Then we know Jazz might be outbid or have to seriously overpay for who they'd target as their replacement 4 and other depth players.
 
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I'm still pushing for Winslow and Olynyk. Miami is desperate to be relevant. They really want Butler. He wants them.



Bradley, Neto and cap space for Winslow and Olynyk. Miami clears money. They would be another salary cutting deal and a waive/stretch away from Butler. Or we get involved in some kind of 3 team deal.

Highly, highly unlikely, but Winslow is my favorite long term fit on the current roster.

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