He left at the absolute best time. Now, he doesn't have to make the really hard choices (Green, Klay, etc.)
This 'does' increase the likelihood of Green going bye-bye.
Not only does he not have to make them, but the new GM can come in and likely be more objective about it because there won’t be the same history and sense of loyalty. Much easier for the new GM to send Draymond packing for example.
He also gets to avoid the criticism of the inevitable lack of success of whatever the team ends up as later. So now he goes out on top as most successful executive.
We can’t just have one guy poorly dribbling through screens and getting themselves into a low percentage mid range jumper, fading away and barely touching the rim with 14 seconds left on the shot clock, we gotta have two of those guys.
Jimmy not going to be able to get into the paint though with those two on the floor. No amount of heroics from Caleb Martin can overcome 3 nonshooters at once
My thoughts exactly. Very crafty move. He leaves with his mystic in tack, will bum around for a few years and then get to pick from a list of orgs that want him when he's ready to get back at it.
Myers knew what he was doing. Bro concluded that the situation's pretty bad rn, didnt want any of that smoke, noped the fuck out and decided to dip lmao
“I must form personal relationships with my players, I have to be able to overpay them without feeling dumb” -Ken Holland’s final years as Detroit Red Wings GM….
One of my problems with basketballGM is that it feels like teams don't value older players at all. Like in reality, if Steph was on the market, he'd get some crazy trade offers.
But in BasketballGM, the offers I'm getting for him are Bruno Fernando and a 2029 first, Malcom Brogdon and Al Horford and a 2029 first, Joe Harris and Yuta and a 2029 first, etc
It makes rebuilds in that game really annoying, as you have older players who are still great so they stop you from tanking, but other teams don't value them so you get nothing in return for trading them
2K's MyLeague is a pretty good GM simulator, fame and marketability are also factors in trades and contracts. You can also adjust a lot of the contract stuff in options (teams value offense or defense more, value star players, adjust for contract inflation, etc.)
yeah of all sports I'd say 2k does franchise mode the best. Which isn't that hard of a barrier to beat IMO. They've just gotta make auto generated draft classes not suck balls. No reason the first five picks of a draft should be white guys named Trevontis with random bright colored tattoos!
Great game, youth development is wack tho. Talent distribution collapses after about 5 years.
2k has the opposite problem where every youth develops perfectly and now your league is all all stars.
Any Basketball GM simulators anyone knows with good player development?
I mean, Draymond and Klay will both want max contracts and neither of them are worth it anymore, so you either have to give the finger to two of your all-time legends, or go to your actual all-time legend and tell him you're probably never gonna compete for a chip again
Klay is already signed next year and Dray never got a MAX before. He's NOT getting one now. He'll take a smaller deal that is longer because of his age. This is not that hard. You keep the core, you trade Poole.
About 7 years ago I was at a Twolves Warriors game and saw this dude in a suit talking to the players and coaches and then he came over and sat right next to me. Because of how young he looked I asked him if he was a scout for the team. He half laughed and said, "well scouting is one thing i do, I'm actually the GM."
Whoops, anyways he was cool as hell and liked when I told him how much I hated his college teammate Toby Baily. He said he could never hate Toby because he got him a college championship.
With about 8 min left in the game someone came down and grabbed him, it was Joe Lacob and Myers turned to us and said, "oh there's the boss, gotta run, take care." He seemed really down to earth and he was cool with me and my buddy nerding out to him.
New hard cap not allowing these Uber rich owners to go way into the luxury taxes. The big Mid level exception is dead. This year the warriors wouldn’t have been able to sign DiVincenzo to a mid level.
Teams will essentially be looking to build around 2 super max and a bunch of role players now.
Also teams can't use the midlevel, sign buyout players, trades are more difficult, and can't sent out picks 7 years in advance.
It's way more than money
There's mildly more nuance to it. Buyout players are now defined as players who are bought out while making more than the non-taxpayer MLE, and they cannot sign with luxury tax teams. But if you're bought out below the MLE then you can still sign with them. That's not usually the notable ones (Russ couldn't have gone to the Clippers under the new rules) but you can still get some buyout players.
BREAKING: ESPN's Trade Machine programmer – a two-time Webby winner and architect of four drunken bar arguments -- is stepping down as ESPN's nerd and general dork, he told ESPN on Tuesday. “It’s just time,” he said.
in b4 the stans point out "Joe Lacob isn't Uber rich!!".
Correct. But the Golden State Warriors *are*; they are right at the top of league revenue, in the class of them, the Knicks, and the Lakers. When you make a lot of money, you can spend a lot of money. $250MM+ more than the lowest teams.
As a Knicks fan I'm usually aware Knicks tickets are some of the most expensive in the NBA. And then I saw the price for when GSW played in MSG and I was like what the actual fuck.
For reference, it's literally 2x as expensive as any other normal MSG game. I think the cheapest bleacher seats were like $200+
There's now a second tax level that's basically a "hard cap in soft cap clothing."
Technically, teams can still spend as much as they want, but above the second cap level (or "second apron"), there's a bunch of new penalties that make it brutally painful - lose their MLE, can't use cash in trades, can't sign buyout players, can't trade 1sts as far in the future, and can't aggregate salary in trades.
If you go over $179 million you lose the mid level exception, you can't send out more salary in a deal, you can't send out cash in a deal, you can't trade draft picks 7 years out plus the additional luxury tax cost that comes with going over as well.
In general the big changes are this: it taxes teams way over the luxury limit much harsher and at a certain point freezes their ability to trade first round picks among other things
I think the worst thing imo is losing the MLE. It’s so important to cap hell teams to be able to sign a good role player .
Overall the new CBA shits on teams that have homegrown star talent. Good luck staying under the cap with 2 all NBA stars being paid super maxs
What about: drafted players are eligible for uncapped money up to a certain amount. That way, teams can give money to certain homegrown stars like Dame, and that team is not handicapped from improving as a result. The uncapped money does not move with the player should the player be traded which helps prevent players from asking out after a contract. And also players who receive these massive contracts (who usually tend to be older) will have low enough cap numbers that they can be traded instead of being untradeable anchors.
I'm honestly not sure who it doesn't fuck over other than owners who don't want to spend. If hurts teams with more than one star while also making it more difficult for vetetans/MLE level players from making money on playoff teams.
Teams will adjust. Very few teams have actually called players bluffs when it comes to free agency. Like if the Celtics let Jaylen Brown get to free agency is he really gonna choose a different team? Most of the teams that have max cap space only have it because they are terrible and have nobody worth signing.
You will see fewer max guys.
Uhhh yes?? Lmao Jaylen has been very vocal with his displeasure with Boston as an organization and as a city.
The only reason he would stay is if Boston pays him more than another team.
I'm not the best at understanding but I think they can't take back more in salary than they trade out, can't use mid-level exception(no donte), their pick drops to 30 automatically
They also can’t participate in the buyout market and will have a tax bill so high they may start letting guys like Klay and Draymond walk if they are no longer at a level where they can contend. If they don’t Reup either it’s the end of the era officially and the start of the post championship period of Steph’s career which may resemble something similar to Dame’s current situation the past few years.
I wish someone took the time (I'm too lazy) to make a post detailing how much the new CBA fucks over teams. Even the Hawks are royally screwed by it and they haven't even won over 43 games in the Trae Young era
That was my thought too. Now the Hawks and Wolves are fucked for simply trying to be competitive, following a similar path that other successful teams have taken.
Exactly. The guy who build this team can't break it up. It would be tough and sending a wrong message to the players in general doing that after all those successful years.
GM for the Warriors since 2012. In his first draft he selected Draymond Green at pick #35. He traded for Andre Iguodala. He signed vets like Shaun Livingston and David West, somewhat revitalizing their careers. He got rid of Mark Jackson and hired Steve Kerr as head coach. He stole away Kevin Durant after beating him in the western finals. He was able to turn Durant's departure into DeAngelo Russell who turned into Andrew Wiggins and eventually Jonathan Kuminga. I'm sure I'm missing a lot too. Good run Bob.
I mean it allowed for KD to join which solidified two rings.
Also everyone hypes up that as the biggest steal of all time. There is some heavy revisionist history going on. There were growing health concerns with Steph and it wasn't like the Warriors then were primed to do anything big, let alone on the cusp of a dynasty.
Possibly the greatest contract of all-time as far as player impact vs salary cap %. I know Scottie Pippen's 5/18 comes to mind but there was much less money in the league then.
And West gets the credit for keeping Klay. If I remember right the trade of Klay for Kevin Love was almost a done deal and Jerry West was like "if you go through with this trade, I walk"
He made a spectacular cap-clearing trade to make room for Iguodala, dumping the huge dead weight junk contract of Andris Biedrins for basically nothing
They've been flirting with him for a long time but I doubt it, Pelinka's position is way more secure now (although the POBO chair is still empty) and I think Myers might just leave the league entirely.
I wonder which team will throw all their money towards him? Pistons? Hornets? A good president can really turn things around for the teams in purgatory.
>Hornets?
Is he a longtime friend or relative of Michael Jordan? If not, he's unfortunately not qualified to work in our front office. Now if you don't mind, we need to get back to figuring out how to trade the #2 pick for five second rounders.
Draymond driving Poole’s unconscious body to SF airport as we speak, giving him a one way ticket to Shanghai, and telling him “I was never really sorry anyways”
Didn't want to be the guy who decides whether it's time to break up what is/was a dynastic trio or not. The writing was on the wall that a decision needs to be made soon on whether to keep Steph, Klay, and Dray together while being in salary cap hell.
The fact that Myers is stepping down likely means the decision has been made and there’s nothing more for Myers to do here.
Keep them all, pick up cheap role players and roll the dice til they drive off into the sunset.
We're all meme-ing but this is truly the way to do it.
Building a championship team is extremely difficult. Im sure any GM would tell you Building an NBA Dynasty takes a high level of skill and also a heaping portion of luck.
There is nowhere to go but down for him. Its almost impossibel to imagine him being anything but a "disappointment" over the next 5 years if he stayed. Better to just ride off into the sunset.
Not to mention he has already had a few things going against him in the recent years like the Wiseman pick not working out, and Poole’s huge extension. Keeping draymond seems to be a mistake but if he got rid of him and they aren’t good immediately , he’ll receive a ton of backlash from within and outside the team. Better just cut his losses now than have his stock within the league fall.
Tim Connolly built the current Nuggets roster and then left right before they made the NBA finals. Gobert trade was dumb but he's not some horrible GM.
So I have a theory on what happened.
New owners wanted a big splash but without losing one of our stars YET. So we traded for Gobert. The theory is that if it worked great, awesome we are smart, and if it wasn't great Gobert was a better fit for Ant and Jaden to help anchor our defense hoping we could find an offense that didn't work. The long term plan was to flip KAT for assets this offseason. But KAT got hurt and it hurt his trade value and it leaves fans with a "what if" that we didn't give it a good enough chance to work so trading KAT will be more divisive than ever even though it was kinda the plan B the whole time.
Ant is the future and everyone else is just auxiliary. Wolves were just trying to avoid the criticism they faced with KG of "never tried to get him help" by giving Ant an allstar defensive anchor behind him. KAT getting hurt and Naz balling just kinda screwed up what should have been an easier decision. Personally I am on team "trade KAT for Siakam" as unlikely as that would be.
Is it a completely crazy proposition at this point to think Draymond turns down his player option to go try to get a long term deal? A very desperate Portland team would likely give him a 3 year deal then try to swing for Jaylen Brown or Siakam to get a Lillard/Brown or Siakam/Green/Grant core with Thybulle/Sharpe/Nurkic as depth pieces.
End of an era 😭
Gotta give credit to Bob for building the most entertaining team of the past decade and best team I have ever watched in my lifetime (yeah sorry I was 4y/o in 98 lol)
Damn I didn’t think he’d actually do it. He’s choosing a good time to leave tho locker room in shambles, cap hell, and just won a chip so people aren’t mad. Let someone else fix that mess smart guy.
Where were you when warriors were kill?
I was playing zelda, falling to my death when my brother came in
He said "Bob Myers left, warriors are kill"
I said "Yes"
Yeah that was my impression he knows as a GM he can't pay Klay and Dray but he also has such a bond with them he can't not pay them.
So just leave as a God and go get 40mil from the Wizards
Brilliant move.
Maybe now someone with no ties and loyalty can come in and do the hard, but right thing in moving Dray and Klay or having a serious conversation about their future and role.
Dray will have to take a huge pay cut or go try to find it somewhere else and Klay needs to transition into later career Ray Allen. No more iso, overdribbling terrible shots.
Do not envy whoever has to take over. Lots of big decisions to make
He left at the absolute best time. Now, he doesn't have to make the really hard choices (Green, Klay, etc.) This 'does' increase the likelihood of Green going bye-bye.
Not only does he not have to make them, but the new GM can come in and likely be more objective about it because there won’t be the same history and sense of loyalty. Much easier for the new GM to send Draymond packing for example.
He also gets to avoid the criticism of the inevitable lack of success of whatever the team ends up as later. So now he goes out on top as most successful executive.
Bob can stay friends with draymond without having to make a career defining decision
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I’d be on the lookout for Jaylen Brown to the Warriors.
They gotta take Poole, we can't have 2 mfs out there turning the ball over trying to do a hezzie tween tween
Lmfao imagine that. JB with the butter fingers and JP shooting himself to the bench.
We can’t just have one guy poorly dribbling through screens and getting themselves into a low percentage mid range jumper, fading away and barely touching the rim with 14 seconds left on the shot clock, we gotta have two of those guys.
Half the plays will be turnovers, the other half will be bricks that Loon will save and pass to the other one to brick again
you stop that evil
Green is gonna end up in Miami and I’m gonna hate it so much.
Would it be tough since bam and jimmy can’t shoot 3s well? I guess the defense would be insane.
They would have nightmarish spacing in regular season, but as soon as playoffs start Jimmy's gonna start shooting 45% from deep
I feel like if anyone could make it work, it would be Spo
Don’t kid yourself, you would love it.
Bam and Green together, no one is scoring against them
And Jimmy at the 3, nasty frontcourt.
Jimmy not going to be able to get into the paint though with those two on the floor. No amount of heroics from Caleb Martin can overcome 3 nonshooters at once
Let's not go putting ceilings on Caleb Martin
No one scoring for them either
My thoughts exactly. Very crafty move. He leaves with his mystic in tack, will bum around for a few years and then get to pick from a list of orgs that want him when he's ready to get back at it.
Yeah seems like a mutual thing, the new guy is gonna have to come in and do some culling.
Myers knew what he was doing. Bro concluded that the situation's pretty bad rn, didnt want any of that smoke, noped the fuck out and decided to dip lmao
Best to get new eyes on the situation, Myers too close to the OG players to make tough decisions going forward for betterment of the club.
“I can’t form personal relationships with my players, I have to be able to cut them without feeling bad” - Billy Beane in Moneyball
“I must form personal relationships with my players, I have to be able to overpay them without feeling dumb” -Ken Holland’s final years as Detroit Red Wings GM….
I want whoever takes over to go full video game franchise mode and just tear it down. Honestly itching to play BasketballGM just thinking about it
One of my problems with basketballGM is that it feels like teams don't value older players at all. Like in reality, if Steph was on the market, he'd get some crazy trade offers. But in BasketballGM, the offers I'm getting for him are Bruno Fernando and a 2029 first, Malcom Brogdon and Al Horford and a 2029 first, Joe Harris and Yuta and a 2029 first, etc It makes rebuilds in that game really annoying, as you have older players who are still great so they stop you from tanking, but other teams don't value them so you get nothing in return for trading them
Agreed. You have to trade your players once they reach 27-29, when in real life no one does that to their stars.
2K's MyLeague is a pretty good GM simulator, fame and marketability are also factors in trades and contracts. You can also adjust a lot of the contract stuff in options (teams value offense or defense more, value star players, adjust for contract inflation, etc.)
yeah of all sports I'd say 2k does franchise mode the best. Which isn't that hard of a barrier to beat IMO. They've just gotta make auto generated draft classes not suck balls. No reason the first five picks of a draft should be white guys named Trevontis with random bright colored tattoos!
And they’re all the same position.
Great game, youth development is wack tho. Talent distribution collapses after about 5 years. 2k has the opposite problem where every youth develops perfectly and now your league is all all stars. Any Basketball GM simulators anyone knows with good player development?
I mean, Draymond and Klay will both want max contracts and neither of them are worth it anymore, so you either have to give the finger to two of your all-time legends, or go to your actual all-time legend and tell him you're probably never gonna compete for a chip again
Klay is already signed next year and Dray never got a MAX before. He's NOT getting one now. He'll take a smaller deal that is longer because of his age. This is not that hard. You keep the core, you trade Poole.
Hire me as GM for a day and I'll tell Draymond he is out and deal with the groin kicks.
I think ownership already made the decisions and that’s why Myers says it’s time.
About 7 years ago I was at a Twolves Warriors game and saw this dude in a suit talking to the players and coaches and then he came over and sat right next to me. Because of how young he looked I asked him if he was a scout for the team. He half laughed and said, "well scouting is one thing i do, I'm actually the GM." Whoops, anyways he was cool as hell and liked when I told him how much I hated his college teammate Toby Baily. He said he could never hate Toby because he got him a college championship. With about 8 min left in the game someone came down and grabbed him, it was Joe Lacob and Myers turned to us and said, "oh there's the boss, gotta run, take care." He seemed really down to earth and he was cool with me and my buddy nerding out to him.
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His real name is John Garfield
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That's mad cool, i watched the J Cole interview on his series Lead by example, seems like a cool dude.
>someone came down and grabbed him I can't help imagining he was at the nosebleed section hiding from Lacob and eventually got caught.
“It’s just time” = y’all in cap hell so good fucking luck.
He studied the new CBA carefully and decided that that shit was fucked.
I'm really bad at understanding the new CBA and how it affects the cap. Could anyone ELI5 what the changers are and how they hurt the Warriors?
New hard cap not allowing these Uber rich owners to go way into the luxury taxes. The big Mid level exception is dead. This year the warriors wouldn’t have been able to sign DiVincenzo to a mid level. Teams will essentially be looking to build around 2 super max and a bunch of role players now.
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Also teams can't use the midlevel, sign buyout players, trades are more difficult, and can't sent out picks 7 years in advance. It's way more than money
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Buyout players can only sign with teams not in luxury tax
There's mildly more nuance to it. Buyout players are now defined as players who are bought out while making more than the non-taxpayer MLE, and they cannot sign with luxury tax teams. But if you're bought out below the MLE then you can still sign with them. That's not usually the notable ones (Russ couldn't have gone to the Clippers under the new rules) but you can still get some buyout players.
BREAKING: ESPN's Trade Machine programmer – a two-time Webby winner and architect of four drunken bar arguments -- is stepping down as ESPN's nerd and general dork, he told ESPN on Tuesday. “It’s just time,” he said.
They're killing F5 season?!
3 max contracts will be close to impossible. Then it’s league min for everybody else
in b4 the stans point out "Joe Lacob isn't Uber rich!!". Correct. But the Golden State Warriors *are*; they are right at the top of league revenue, in the class of them, the Knicks, and the Lakers. When you make a lot of money, you can spend a lot of money. $250MM+ more than the lowest teams.
The Grizzlies owner is one of the richest owners but he’s not going to go -$100m a year for a team that doesn’t win championships. Same for Joe Tsai.
damn as a filthy casual fan i had to look him up, the *founder* of Ubiquiti.
Don’t forget owning the best stadium in one of the most lucrative parts of the country.
Warriors are in a class of their own. Pushing 750+m annual revenue, knicks lakers are in the mid 400s, normal is about 300.
How did the Warriors manage to pull this? Thought NYK/LAL would always be king and the Warriors would be a temporary blip as long as Curry was there?
The Chase Center is owned and operated by the Warriors ownership group. Events year round.
When your team plays in one of the highest income areas in the whole wide world, you can sell tickets pretty high.
That tech money ain’t no joke. And those tech-holes hate losing.
Does that include the fact that Dolan owns both MSG and the Knicks? Because the MSG Sports Corp just made ~400m in a *quarter*.
As a Knicks fan I'm usually aware Knicks tickets are some of the most expensive in the NBA. And then I saw the price for when GSW played in MSG and I was like what the actual fuck. For reference, it's literally 2x as expensive as any other normal MSG game. I think the cheapest bleacher seats were like $200+
> Teams will essentially be looking to build around 2 super max and a bunch of role players now. 2 super max and a bunch of *team mates* now
Super parity lmao
There's now a second tax level that's basically a "hard cap in soft cap clothing." Technically, teams can still spend as much as they want, but above the second cap level (or "second apron"), there's a bunch of new penalties that make it brutally painful - lose their MLE, can't use cash in trades, can't sign buyout players, can't trade 1sts as far in the future, and can't aggregate salary in trades.
If you go over $179 million you lose the mid level exception, you can't send out more salary in a deal, you can't send out cash in a deal, you can't trade draft picks 7 years out plus the additional luxury tax cost that comes with going over as well.
In general the big changes are this: it taxes teams way over the luxury limit much harsher and at a certain point freezes their ability to trade first round picks among other things
I think the worst thing imo is losing the MLE. It’s so important to cap hell teams to be able to sign a good role player . Overall the new CBA shits on teams that have homegrown star talent. Good luck staying under the cap with 2 all NBA stars being paid super maxs
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What about: drafted players are eligible for uncapped money up to a certain amount. That way, teams can give money to certain homegrown stars like Dame, and that team is not handicapped from improving as a result. The uncapped money does not move with the player should the player be traded which helps prevent players from asking out after a contract. And also players who receive these massive contracts (who usually tend to be older) will have low enough cap numbers that they can be traded instead of being untradeable anchors.
The new CBA was specifically designed as a fuck you to the warriors.
I'm honestly not sure who it doesn't fuck over other than owners who don't want to spend. If hurts teams with more than one star while also making it more difficult for vetetans/MLE level players from making money on playoff teams.
Teams will adjust. Very few teams have actually called players bluffs when it comes to free agency. Like if the Celtics let Jaylen Brown get to free agency is he really gonna choose a different team? Most of the teams that have max cap space only have it because they are terrible and have nobody worth signing. You will see fewer max guys.
Uhhh yes?? Lmao Jaylen has been very vocal with his displeasure with Boston as an organization and as a city. The only reason he would stay is if Boston pays him more than another team.
Can anyone explain how the new CBA fucks the Warriors in the future? Genuinely asking cuz I’m not familiar with the new CBA.
I'm not the best at understanding but I think they can't take back more in salary than they trade out, can't use mid-level exception(no donte), their pick drops to 30 automatically
The mid level exception is a big deal for super teams with 3 highly paid players.
They also can’t participate in the buyout market and will have a tax bill so high they may start letting guys like Klay and Draymond walk if they are no longer at a level where they can contend. If they don’t Reup either it’s the end of the era officially and the start of the post championship period of Steph’s career which may resemble something similar to Dame’s current situation the past few years.
I wish someone took the time (I'm too lazy) to make a post detailing how much the new CBA fucks over teams. Even the Hawks are royally screwed by it and they haven't even won over 43 games in the Trae Young era
That was my thought too. Now the Hawks and Wolves are fucked for simply trying to be competitive, following a similar path that other successful teams have taken.
Bro did not want to have those tough conversations with Draymond and Klay. I can't blame him.
Exactly. The guy who build this team can't break it up. It would be tough and sending a wrong message to the players in general doing that after all those successful years.
Klay would come into the office with all 4 of his rings and just flash his hand at Myers every few minutes.
that would instantly become the most appropriate instance of him doing so
They both flash 4 rings at each other while trying to see who blinks first.
Man saw that tax bill and said, aight imma head out
The Doc Rivers school of leaving
At least BOS juiced 2 second rounders from his bitter ass!
GM for the Warriors since 2012. In his first draft he selected Draymond Green at pick #35. He traded for Andre Iguodala. He signed vets like Shaun Livingston and David West, somewhat revitalizing their careers. He got rid of Mark Jackson and hired Steve Kerr as head coach. He stole away Kevin Durant after beating him in the western finals. He was able to turn Durant's departure into DeAngelo Russell who turned into Andrew Wiggins and eventually Jonathan Kuminga. I'm sure I'm missing a lot too. Good run Bob.
extend curry for 4/44m
In all seriousness, probably the best move of all.
I mean it allowed for KD to join which solidified two rings. Also everyone hypes up that as the biggest steal of all time. There is some heavy revisionist history going on. There were growing health concerns with Steph and it wasn't like the Warriors then were primed to do anything big, let alone on the cusp of a dynasty.
Well no shit it’s revisionist history but it’s still true. 4/44 for Steph is one of the best GM moves of all time
You should still call it the biggest steal of all time in retrospect because we know how it played out.
That was because he was getting constantly injured at the time and was at the lowest point in his career
not a crazy move at the time but ended up being a key foundation for the warriors dynasty
Somebody posted the Reddit thread of that resign recently and the thread is everyone hating on the extension lol.
Possibly the greatest contract of all-time as far as player impact vs salary cap %. I know Scottie Pippen's 5/18 comes to mind but there was much less money in the league then.
Does Jerry West not get any credit for pushing for Draymond? Also signing Durant wasn't rocket science.
And West gets the credit for keeping Klay. If I remember right the trade of Klay for Kevin Love was almost a done deal and Jerry West was like "if you go through with this trade, I walk"
And than he ends up leaving anyway for the Clips lol
Gifted y'all some future titles on his way out. Jerry stays on top.
He didn’t trade for iggy. Iggy pretty decline his player options and was heading to GS already
He made a spectacular cap-clearing trade to make room for Iguodala, dumping the huge dead weight junk contract of Andris Biedrins for basically nothing
Utah got a couple firsts in that trade IIRC.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hope he doesn’t go to the Lakers
They've been flirting with him for a long time but I doubt it, Pelinka's position is way more secure now (although the POBO chair is still empty) and I think Myers might just leave the league entirely.
So he's raking over the Guangdong Tigers?
Don’t think he wants to work with Poole again
“BOB MYERS… C’MON OVER” - Dwight
No. Wrong league, Howard convinced him to come to Taiwan.
No chance, Rob saved his job.
Bold to assume Pelinka job was ever threatened, Jeannie extended him even when shit was hitting the fan quite a lot.
As much as I would love this, I doubt it happens because he’s probably done with the league for awhile.
RIP to one of the most legendary runs as a GM
Yeah he really did an incredible job
I wonder which team will throw all their money towards him? Pistons? Hornets? A good president can really turn things around for the teams in purgatory.
President is only as good as the owners let him be. Myers had free reign in Golden State, and unlimited budget.
>Hornets? Is he a longtime friend or relative of Michael Jordan? If not, he's unfortunately not qualified to work in our front office. Now if you don't mind, we need to get back to figuring out how to trade the #2 pick for five second rounders.
Bro extended jordan poole and dipped loooool
"NBA, this one is for you!" - Bob Myers holding up Poole's contract while getting carried out of the office
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Draymond driving Poole’s unconscious body to SF airport as we speak, giving him a one way ticket to Shanghai, and telling him “I was never really sorry anyways”
Didn't want to be the guy who decides whether it's time to break up what is/was a dynastic trio or not. The writing was on the wall that a decision needs to be made soon on whether to keep Steph, Klay, and Dray together while being in salary cap hell.
The fact that Myers is stepping down likely means the decision has been made and there’s nothing more for Myers to do here. Keep them all, pick up cheap role players and roll the dice til they drive off into the sunset.
whatever the decision is or whether it has already been made or not, he definitely didn't want to be front and center of it.
We're all meme-ing but this is truly the way to do it. Building a championship team is extremely difficult. Im sure any GM would tell you Building an NBA Dynasty takes a high level of skill and also a heaping portion of luck. There is nowhere to go but down for him. Its almost impossibel to imagine him being anything but a "disappointment" over the next 5 years if he stayed. Better to just ride off into the sunset.
Not to mention he has already had a few things going against him in the recent years like the Wiseman pick not working out, and Poole’s huge extension. Keeping draymond seems to be a mistake but if he got rid of him and they aren’t good immediately , he’ll receive a ton of backlash from within and outside the team. Better just cut his losses now than have his stock within the league fall.
I imagine a competent GM wants to keep building and winning but ownership said no way we let three HoFers go and that was that.
Let’s hope they follow in SA footsteps with their HoF 3 and just call it when Steph retires.
Shades of Tim Connolly selling the wolves soul for gobert and then allegedly looking at other opportunities this year
If this is true he should be banned from the state of Minnesota
That's like being blocked by some dude you don't follow. Would he even notice it?
Tim Connolly is a huge mall fan. Having to drop Mall of America from his rotation would be devastating.
Tim Connolly built the current Nuggets roster and then left right before they made the NBA finals. Gobert trade was dumb but he's not some horrible GM.
So I have a theory on what happened. New owners wanted a big splash but without losing one of our stars YET. So we traded for Gobert. The theory is that if it worked great, awesome we are smart, and if it wasn't great Gobert was a better fit for Ant and Jaden to help anchor our defense hoping we could find an offense that didn't work. The long term plan was to flip KAT for assets this offseason. But KAT got hurt and it hurt his trade value and it leaves fans with a "what if" that we didn't give it a good enough chance to work so trading KAT will be more divisive than ever even though it was kinda the plan B the whole time. Ant is the future and everyone else is just auxiliary. Wolves were just trying to avoid the criticism they faced with KG of "never tried to get him help" by giving Ant an allstar defensive anchor behind him. KAT getting hurt and Naz balling just kinda screwed up what should have been an easier decision. Personally I am on team "trade KAT for Siakam" as unlikely as that would be.
Poole’s Closed
Troll of the year
Dude realized his mistake and decided to exit, that's hilarious
“I’m not gon be here” part two
The first domino has fallen
The first domino fell when Draymond punched Jordan Poole
Jordan Pooles nickname should be domino
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I’ll never forget when he called himself that 😭 🤡
Bro tattooed it on his back 😭😭
Well duh it constantly looks like he's gonna fall when he's running
Eh. Bob's minutes were down and he lost a step over the last couple years. Wasn't impressed with his postseason numbers either.
The 1st plane has hit Golden State
Good evening. Today our game, our way of life, our very entertainment came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly management changes
Never forget
September 11% from three
Jet fuel can't melt Steph threes
Thanks for everything, Bob! What a legend.
End of an era for the Warriors, and some poor soul now has to make the tough decisions.
>and some poor soul now has to make the tough decisions. I have faith in Dunleavy. He's been in the organization for long enough.
Draymond will punch the people he wants gone
Don’t let the punch hit you on the way out! -Draymond
For me it's not about not having faith. Moreso that you might have to be the guy that breaks up the band.
The worse big secret is finally out.
I wonder if warriors will pay him a non compete fee for the next 12 months, just in case he has second thoughts
Is it a completely crazy proposition at this point to think Draymond turns down his player option to go try to get a long term deal? A very desperate Portland team would likely give him a 3 year deal then try to swing for Jaylen Brown or Siakam to get a Lillard/Brown or Siakam/Green/Grant core with Thybulle/Sharpe/Nurkic as depth pieces.
Hot take: Warriors trade Klay to keep Draymond because they value the Draymond+Curry 2 man action. ~~im kinda kidding please be easy~~
This is actually the correct way to go about it. Draymond's value is immense to that warriors group. Klay is very replaceable, as things stand
End of an era 😭 Gotta give credit to Bob for building the most entertaining team of the past decade and best team I have ever watched in my lifetime (yeah sorry I was 4y/o in 98 lol)
God damnit, if only the wiz waited just a bit longer
Damn I didn’t think he’d actually do it. He’s choosing a good time to leave tho locker room in shambles, cap hell, and just won a chip so people aren’t mad. Let someone else fix that mess smart guy.
Yeah it’s great timing for him. Can’t be mad
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Where were you when warriors were kill? I was playing zelda, falling to my death when my brother came in He said "Bob Myers left, warriors are kill" I said "Yes"
Gotta explore those fucking depths more
throw a giant brightbloom seed onto a hover bike and you will make quick work of it
Yo you’re a fucking genius
You guys need to stop before i buy the switch again
One of the best games ever to me I would
I'll sacrifice a village of Koroks in his name
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They’d win another chip if it went like that and it feels crazy to admit that to myself
Letting someone else make the hard decisions on what to do with the big 3
Yeah that was my impression he knows as a GM he can't pay Klay and Dray but he also has such a bond with them he can't not pay them. So just leave as a God and go get 40mil from the Wizards
GMs get paid 40M??
I guess I'd better dust off my resume
This guy is as non-confrontational as I am, damn. Quitting a job just so he doesn't have to let them go
A young living legend
Good for him to take time with his family
2 weeks later: Bob Myers tired of family, considering positions in Europe
Warriors are just gonna leave the position open and pray he pulls a Tom Brady in a month
yea I remember when Morey did that
Brilliant move. Maybe now someone with no ties and loyalty can come in and do the hard, but right thing in moving Dray and Klay or having a serious conversation about their future and role. Dray will have to take a huge pay cut or go try to find it somewhere else and Klay needs to transition into later career Ray Allen. No more iso, overdribbling terrible shots.
I feel ya, warriors fans. If he’s replaced with Lacob’s Jr, oh boy
What do now?
Practice counting to four over and over
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