Adding depth to our frontcourt was probably next on the list. “Re-signing Kyrie Irving was priority number one. You can read Part 1, which were general NBA comments here and Part 2, which were notes from the Eastern Conference teams here. A handful of times, folks followed up after the fact with further thoughts, but most were collected while I was on the ground in Las Vegas. In the vast majority of cases, these notes and thoughts were collected through Tuesday, July 11. In exchange for anonymity, you often get candidness.Īnything that is an opinion from myself will be noted as such with “Opinion: …”. Each one came from NBA team personnel (generally a front office executive, coach or assistant coach). But that’s ok! Who can’t use a little more positivity in their life?Īll quotes are anonymous. With that in mind, the vast majority of the quotes about players and teams will be positive ones. “We feel good about what we did, given our limited resources this summer.” (Note: Said by teams with cap space, teams without cap space, teams that only had veteran minimum deals to offer and teams that had multiple draft picks.)
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“We were lucky he wanted to sign with us.” (Note: Said about almost every free agent signee.) “The draft fell off right after pick X.” (Note: This is at whatever pick the team had, traded up to, or the pick after a pick they traded out of.) “We had him at the top of board.” (Note: This is said almost no matter what pick the team had.) Admittedly paraphrasing, it’s very common to hear things like: Everyone feels great about the work they did in the offseason and what it means for their club going forward. It’s also probably the most optimistic time of the NBA calendar. The draft is done, free agency is largely done (especially this year!) and NBA folks are chatty. Summer League is a very relaxed environment.
These can be notes about players, teams, the league as whole or really anything related to the NBA.
Longtime readers of mine (back to my RealGM days) will know that each year that I attended NBA Summer League, I came home with an overflowing notebook of items from talking to people around the NBA.
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