Scrappy play-in team that might spoil the season of a contender is a fun role if you've embraced you aren't winning honestly

KAT, Lauri's perception benefits a lot from being a big fish in a small pond.

They respect his competitiveness

Aces because of Becky Hammon but Carrington is a dawg

Big market in the NBA = where other celebrities live. They live in Miami not Orlando.

Relatively athletic defenders like DiJonai Carrington give her hell, she's not getting separation from NBA athletes/length

Fun fact, Stephon Castle's dad was Tim Duncan's teammate at Wake Forest. Another connection for you.

Domestic abuse victims not co-operating with police happens when they're poor as well, it's usually not about money

There's a pretty good chance the Spurs just trade Tre Jones to a contender looking for a backup this year, he's on an expiring and I don't think the FO look at him as a long term guy. CP3 is there more for the core youth guys.

Also the team will want certain obligations the player has to fulfill, and they'll both negotiate the finer details of the contractual language

SGA said Paul was a very important mentor for him

He'll probably start and close out of respect but won't play 30+ minutes over the course of the game.

Sounds fine, this team needs an experienced vet/mentor

I'd be happy with it if it's like 2+1 years. He can be a good locker room guy with solid forward play while the Spurs finish the rebuild.

After dead ball situations (so after timeouts and stoppages in play) the coach will draw up a set play for the whole team or tell them to run a scripted play they've practiced before. At the end of close games as well, the plays tend to be more scripted for the best chance at a good look.

Within the flow of the game the coach will occasionally indicate a set/formation, and from that set the players can run different plays depending on how the other team is defending them or what scorer is hot. So you might see the coach tell the PG to run a Horns set and the PG directs the other players, but from Horns the team can run a bunch of different play variations. Teams have already worked out gameplans and developed pet actions they think will work before the game has started.

Experienced teams with reliable floor generals will need less input from the coach than younger/weaker teams. So if a team is playing well the coach's focus might be more on maintaining discipline and fundamentals rather than directing plays, and let the PG call out sets. Some coaches like to direct things more play-to-play than others. So it really depends on the team how often the coach is calling plays.

Sometimes players can also just take charge if there's a mismatch they like. If A'ja Wilson is killing somebody in the post, there's no need for a set she can just tell everybody else to clear out and let her go to work.

He could have been one of the guys they wanted, but they still apparently had someone ready to go at 8 even after Salaun was gone at 6.

Lively was drafted last year and was a key piece on a team that made the finals as a rookie. Chet was a rookie and a key piece on a team that was the 1 seed in the West.

It's not really about saving on payroll in a conventional sense, they're going to be paying that same 10mil to other players anyway. More that they think they could get better value allocating that money to different players.

Too early to really judge if it was the right decision or not until all the teambuilding resolves itself.

I think if Timberwolves don't call or they get a trade down to like 12-14 with a future pick swap, there's a very good chance he's in San Antonio right now.

LJ Ellis from Spurstalk mentioned 4 prospects that Spurs sources refused to comment on:

Risacher, Sheppard, Castle and Dalton Knecht. First two were off the board and they picked Castle so by process of elimination probably Knecht at 8, which is probably a little too high for him so they were happy to trade out.

Spurs had him for a workout but all the speculation that Spurs would take him was from scouts and executives of other teams. They might have liked him but I don't think they ever indicated it.

Also seeing as Salaun was off the board already at 6 and they were still ready to pick at 8, there was another name they were ready to go with.

She's a great player and also extremely professional/neutral in interviews, it's a shame the media circus goes too far sometimes because I don't think she's doing anything wrong.

It's not really about Clark, it's just a consequence of the media storm surrounding her.

Think about how people here get annoyed when ESPN focuses too much on Lebron/the Lakers, then multiply it by 1000 because non-bastketball fans are using it to argue race and sex social politics.

Some people just want to watch their favorite players/teams and talk about basketball, they don't want to talk about a player on another team every day and if they're upset with the coach because they suck.

Idk why Hawks fans care what Spurs fans think, and I definitely don't care what Hawks fans think about what Spurs fans think. The teams barely interact, after the Spurs use or trade their picks there's 0 connection.