ReturnOfJudah
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Lakers
BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are preparing to lose four-time NBA champion Klay Thompson in free agency, an expected parting of ways
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Sure just like he went 0-10 is a must win play in game… Klay is washed bro
SadimirPutin
Superstar
Steph went 0-9 from 3 in a Finals game and the Warriors won
Way the cookie crumbles sometimes
They’re literally going to be eventually pushing up against the 2nd tax apron just like other teams, which is my entire point.Minnesota already has 3 max players and a half-max, there's no room to claim that they're being "screwed" by anything.
Their ownership team is worth over $6 billion, if they don't want to pay taxes then that's on them.
A lot of these smaller market teams are once their younger players start becoming extension eligible.
Going by the rankings on The Ringer, they had a top-10 player, three top-35 players, and six top-100 players this year.
The average team should have one top-30 player and three top-100 players. The Lakers, for example, have only three top-100 players and only two of those are top-50, yet they're up near that second apron too.
In other words, the Timberwolves have twice the top-end talent of an average team, and they signed 3 max players while paying another vet half-a-max. Why shouldn't they feel the financial sting at that point?
The market is irrelevant; their owners have MORE than enough money to pay those taxes if they want to.
Once again you’re showing that you don’t watch the NBA like that and completely missing the point
Whether the owner has enough to pay the luxury tax is irrelevant because the 2nd tax apron penalties make the consequences not worth it for crossing it.
That’s the entire point that the 2nd apron exists to punish teams who choose to go over it.
.could've sworn there already was one lol
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Time to throw away my klay/#11 shirts and bobble head 
T-K-G
Veteran
They paid klay when he was hurt, they can't just keep giving dude checks, their job is to make the team better every year to get another ring, Bob left cuz he KNEW he was gonna have to get some of those guys up outta there if they started trending downwards
Steph is not going to keep losing just to be with those guys either
don't care how much he smiles on camera, that lil nikka wants to win, he's been saying it in press conferences warning y'all he's down with whatever is gonna raise his chances
Ray Allen went 0-8, 0-4, and 0-4 from 3pt in three consecutive Finals games. 0-13 overall in that first game. (Granted it was after Ron Artest injured his leg, but still).
Two years later he goes 28-92 from 3pt in the postseason (30%) and Boston tells him he's getting benched.
So then he leaves for Miami, shoots 42% from 3pt regular season and 41% from three for the postseason and makes the game-tying shot in Game 6 of the Finals.
Klay could have the exact same arc. He's still 6'6", he shot 41% and 39% from 3pt in the last two regular seasons, 39% and 37% from 3pt in the last two postseasons. There's no reason he can't get a fresh start on a new squad as a shooting specialist. In a league where Seth Curry regularly gets 20-30 mpg in the postseason for playoff teams, Klay can definitely find a contender who wants to play him.
Jaylen Tatum
Superstar
Saddest day in the history of the bay
