Kolek planning to go pro
He gets unfairly profiled cause of his obnoxious Dad, but from all reports he grew up ALOT as a player and a person during his time in Australia. And in doing so, he’s become a hell of a player. I watched a couple games and he’s REALLY good. Say what you want about Lavar, but he raised and trained 2 top 3 draft picks. That’s pretty incredibleBulls reached quite a bit for Williams IMO
Merrill goes to Bucks at 60, Howard undrafted.
Legendary pick.
Bulls reached quite a bit for Williams IMO
What happened with that Creighton guy Tyshon Alexander? Thought he was a sure fire pick? Also Paul reed has got to be kicking himself right now. He passed on perhaps being a part of a legit Depaul team to get drafted in the low low second round?
I do take solace in the fact that Myles Powell went undrafted and Markus was signed before him.Dude is just so unlikeable.
Obviously time will tell whether he was worth the #4 selection, but it definitely wasn't a reach by "quite a bit." Williams was a big mover the past couple of weeks, which really means that he was going this high, it just wasn't until recently that the people who cover the draft found out. A couple of late mocks yesterday had him going to the Bulls. Add that to the fact that there were no trades in the lottery - i.e. very little interest from anyone in moving up in the draft - it seems the Bulls didn't have the option of moving down a bit and still drafting Williams. So, if you can't move down and Williams is your guy, you take him where you are.
Take the 6'4" shooter over the 5'10" shooter.
Big East had two picks, Bey and Reed.Powell just signed with Knicks, not known if two way or just a camp invite contract.
Bucks cut Ersan, which means the Bogdonovic trade is officially dead.So the Bucks roster is Jrue, Donte, Khris, Giannis, Brook, DJ, Thanasis, and draft picks 45 and 60 in a week draft, and a 2 way contract undrafted free agent rookie. With only the midlevel exception to sign someone and then veteran minimums to fill out the roster. Excellent.Giannis should ask to be traded to Dallas tonight.
I’m going to hold out hope until he officially goes somewhere Friday, but I’m an optimist. Hopefully it can still be done without Ersan. It certainly doesn’t look good though.
You have to think there's a reason they waived Ersan. There was zero reason for them to do that if their plan was to stand pat.A theory is that the Bucks are going to straight up sign Bogdan as a RFA, and they need the cap space to put the offer sheet under the cap so that is the reason they waived him now. Then Sacramento matches and a trade of some sort still goes through.
If I'm understanding this correctly (and I have no idea how some of the NBA cap stuff works and trades, etc., so I may be very off base here), the Bucks are over the cap with a Bogdonovic deal so they needed to match the salary (within a certain percentage) that he would be getting, which is why Ersan was needed in the trade. That part I am less certain on. The part I am nearly positive on is that he can't be traded to the team that signs him to an offer sheet. And another part I'm not certain on is that the Bucks only have the mid level exception, and Bogdonovic will get a contract larger than that.My understanding is the only way they could get Bogdonovic is through a sign and trade that matched salaries. They needed Ersan's salary to make that work. Now they would need to include Brook to make salaries match.Again, I could be totally off base because all the salary cap and matching salaries makes no sense to me.
You are correct that if the Bucks sign him to an offer sheet, and the Kings match, he could not be traded to the Bucks for a year.But again, there must be a reason they waived Ersan. They must be planning on signing someone.