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I just figured they keep mentioning it because it's still on fire. Not true?

Master of the "hand in the cookie jar"/denial face. 

If there ever was a player that deserved a max contract every year since his rookie contract, it was Tim Duncan. Players like Allen Crabbe making $18+ million a year is an absolute joke and travesty.

Having KD is a must for me to sell my tickets lol, prices plummeted when he went down. But I'm just happy Iggy is back to form like our championship year. Harden and Westbrook get too much love from the refs for touch fouls, makes the NBA soft. Silver is basura in my books.

I think Embiid may be better than Townes but only time will tell. I think Lebron may end up with the #1 spot for scoring but will be considered soft compared to Jordan or Bryant.

I like Silver OK.  He certainly is better than Goodell. I might agree with you on Emiid, but he needs to play more than 20 games (in limited minutes!) before we can know for sure.  I know this one is a knee, but foot injuries in 7 footers never seem to end well.  I like LeBron more every year.  I might like him even more because he isn't the asshole Jordan or Kobe is/was.

We got Jimmy Butler for essentially nothing.  I'm very excited.  Not that we have a shot at the Warriors as currently constructed, but I'm still excited.

CP3 to Rockets is fun.  Not enough to get past Warriors though.  Who knows, maybe the Rockets aren't done.  I'm trying to think what move by what team could potentially unseat the Warriors in the next year or two.  Paul George to Cleveland for Kevin Love?  Does that get them there?  Paul George to San Antonio?  Can you win a title right now, regardless of your roster, if it doesn't have KD or LeBron?

BG is basura as he never takes care of his body so he is injury plagued. He did extend to the 3pt range more last year to combat the new style of NBA, but I'll let him shoot it always.

CP3 can be a good or bad if he can keep up with the Rockets faster pace, but aside those two not much else going on for them. Also, he on a one year tryout as he will be a FA next year and can negotiate a supermax deal.

GH is another basura in my book as his game is just lackluster, at least he style his hair each game...

Melo will still never get a ring.

It does seem ironic that we're all making fun of Phil Jackson for being old and out of touch, but also acting excited about CP3 and Melo, two old farts that probably won't help any team get to a title.

For once, I'm glad Cuban is being quiet, I want no part of any of the current FAs.

I think Blake has moved significantly beyond the dunker that he was coming out of college.  He is an effective passer from the elbow and pick and roll and has added a 3 pointer to his arsenal.  I don't think he'll ever be a lights out shooter, but the defense can't ignore him at the 3 point line which opens up the middle of the court for DeAndre or other offensively limited big men.  

What is your beef with Silver?  I think he's the best commish of the four major American sports and probably in my recent memory.  I don't think last years' salary cap increase was very well handled, but it allowed your dubs to get KD.  I'm also not a fan of owners extorting cities to pay for new arenas, most recently Milwaukee, but I think that's on the owners more than Silver.  He seems like a nice guy who at least partially has the player's interests in mind.  I also like how he has tacitly allowed and even encouraged players' social/political expression via social media.  

I think the Barnes deal was probably a mistake.  As a former Iowan, I root for him (he's from Ames, I grew up in Cedar Rapids) but I don't know that he's going to live up to that contract. 

I guess I don't know his contract but it was a max deal, right?  No, 19/5 isn't bad and there are certainly worse players with sillier contracts, but I don't know if those are max deal numbers unless you bring something substantial to the table defensively.  That said, its not like I watched a lot of Mavs games this year, so what do I know. 

EDIT:
Yep, max deal, 4 years, $95 mill.  

Yea, landing Iggy would be fun.  I think Carlisle could (hopefully) utilize him well.  One of my favorite things about this year's playoffs were the endless wide open dunks from Iggy and Shaun Livingston off of backdoor cuts.  

The problem, of course, is that the defense is too distracted by Steph, Klay and KD to also keep an eye on those cuts.  Don't know if those opportunities will be available on the Mavs.  If anyone can make them though, it's Rick (or Pop or Brad Stevens).