Couple days before the Olympics, any thoughts/predictions?

I've only missed one of these since 2015, Fragile and the rest of the crew run a great LAN. I'll definitely cu@.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSfOB8ANdWU

The passage of time weighs heavily on my conscience.

E:

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They only had XL straws....

Discussion thread for the 78th Season of the NBA.
Congrats to last season's winner, the Boston Celtics!

Free Agency started Sunday June 30th at 6PM

Notable Free Agency bags acquired
Boston - Neemias Queta 4/$??M
Brooklyn - Nic Claxton 4/$100M
Charlotte - Miles Bridges 3/$75M (serial abuser)
Chicago - Patrick Williams 5/$90M, Jalen Smith 3/$27M
Dallas - Klay Thompson 3/$50M, Naji Marshall 3/$27M
Detroit - Tobias Harris 2/$52M
Golden State - Buddy Hield 2/$21M, Kyle Anderson 3/$27M, DeAnthony Melton 1/$12.8M
Houston - Aaron Holiday 2/$10M
Indiana - Pascal Siakam 4/$189.5M, Obi Toppin 4/$60M
Los Angeles - LeBron James 2/$104M, Max Christie 4/$32M
LA Clippers - James Harden 2/$70M, Derrick Jones Jr. 3/$30M, Nicolas Batum 2/$9.6M, Kevin Porter Jr 2/$??M
Miami - Kevin Love 2/$8M
Milwaukee - Delon Wright 1/$3.3M
Oklahoma City - Isaiah Hartenstein 3/$87M, Aaron Wiggins 5/$47M, Isaiah Joe 4/$48M
Orlando - Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 3/$66M, Goga Bitadze 3/$25M, Moe Wagner 2/$22M
Philadelphia - Paul George 4/$212M, Caleb Martin 4/$32M, Andre Drummond 2/$10M, Eric Gordon 1/Vet Min, Kelly Oubre Jr. 2/$16.3M
Phoenix - Royce O'Neale 4/$44M, Bol Bol 1/$??M, Mason Plumlee 1/$3.3M
Sacramento - Demar Derozan 3/$74M, Malik Monk 4/$78M, Alex Len 1/$3.3M
San Antonio - Chris Paul 1/$11M
Utah - Drew Eubanks 2/$10M
Washington - Jonas Valancunias 3/$30M, Richaun Holmes 3/$25.9M

Extensions
Boston - Jayson Tatum 5/$315M (largest in NBA history), Derrick White 4/$125.9M, Sam Hauser 4/$45M
Cleveland - Donovan Mitchell 3/$150.3M, Evan Mobley 5/$224M (could be as much as $269M)
Denver - Jamal Murray 5/$209M
Detroit - Cade Cunningham 5/$226M
Indiana - Andrew Nembhard 3/$59M
Miami - Bam Adebayo 3/$166M
New York - Jalen Brunson 4/$156M (could've taken a 5 year supermax next year but just saved the team tons of $)
Orlando - Franz Wagner, 4/$224M (worth up to $270M), Jonathan Issac 4/$64M
Philadelphia - Tyrese Maxey 5/$205M

Notable Trades
New Orleans gets Dejounte Murray, Atlanta gets Dyson Daniels, Larry Nance Jr., EJ Liddell, and 2 1st Round Picks

Dallas gets Quentin Grimes, Detroit gets Tim Hardaway Jr, and 3 2nd round picks

New York gets Mikal Bridges, and 2026 2nd Round Pick, Brooklyn gets Bojan Bogdanovic, 4 unprotected 1st Round picks (2025, 2027, 2029, 2031), 2028 unprotected 1st Round Pick Swap, top-4 protected 2025 1st-round pick via Bucks, and 2nd round pick in 2025

Oklahoma City gets Alex Caruso, Chicago gets Josh Giddey

Charlotte gets Reggie Jackson and 3 2nd Round picks from Denver (has since signed with Philly)

New Head Coaching Hires
Brooklyn - Kevin Ollie (interim)
Charlotte - Charles Lee
Cleveland - Kenny Atkinson
Detroit - JB Bickerstaff
Los Angeles - JJ Redick
Phoenix - Mike Budenholzer
Washington - Brian Keefe

Other
Jaylen Brown wins his first Finals MVP averaging 20.8/5.4/5 with stellar defense
LeBron James and his son become the first active father son duo in league history with the Lakers selecting Bronny with the 55th pick in the draft.
This is the last season of Inside the NBA on TNT. Enjoy it while you can.
Kemba Walker announces his retirement from professional basketball, returns to the Hornets as a player enhancement coach.

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Sounds like a perfect venue to host RGL LAN at tbh

I rang highlander tonight and yen was on my team. He averaged 80% scatter accuracy across all the logs we played together. A regular human being doesn't do that.

Jesus fucking Christ, this is not UGC Steel Highlander doing a consolation bracket for teams 17 to 32 that played in a free division. What am I READING??

Dear Diary,

The same way cults get followings. They want to be part of a community that values them, even if, and in this case especially, they're all-around shitty people

Is anyone really surprised? Like at all?

I've always wondered what being a deplorable person is like