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Kemba Walker traded/given away to Thunder. Kemba, and a 1st (16) plus a 2nd for Al Horford (36 yrs old) and a2nd year center.

 

moses brown was pretty good for okc. he's raw and a bit spindly, but had a 20-20 game and can play. i doubt he's starter material tho -- at least, until he fill out a bit more.

i like kemba to okc. they need more play making. i mean, they need a center too now, but maybe this is less about building a team and more about moving things around to build a team in 3 years.

if houston drops out of the top 4, then okc can swap picks with them but they won't swap their own pick, they'll swap miami's pick. so it's possible okc could have two top 5 picks this draft.

 

even with conley the jazz had no answer for the clippers zone defense. i think the shoulda pulled gobert -- he was essentially useless against a zone and when the clips went zone, they had no big out there so their spread offense was causing rotation problems with gobert trying to recover to shooters. snyder got outcoached.

 

Never bothers me to see a Duke alum struggle

 

i grew up hating the jazz, so it's weird i was routing for them over the clippers. but i just can't stand the clips. not sure what it is. with cp3 they were just sooo whiny. and since then they've gone the "super team" route which i inherently dislike. i'm always going to pull for homegrown talent over all-stars teaming up.

 

rooting

 

Yup, always against super teams

 

I just knew after KD made the shot to go into it went in they would win. But no.
Seems like we will have July basketball

 

yeah, he almost won it right there but for maybe an inch. i didn't think it was actually that close to a 3 till the replay.

great game. ot maybe was a bit rough, but totally back and forth all game -- big plays, big shots. kinda weird to end on an airball.

 

pretty amazing play to end the suns game. not sure why cousins wasn't protecting the baseline more, but i'll take it. pg missing both ft's was huge too.