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<\/a><\/p>\nWow. So fans like the drama, but have a clear mandate for NOT signing LeBron James. Where will he go? Maybe Philadelphia? I have no idea, but rumors have been that the Rockets are not interested in bringing James to the Bayou City.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next? How about \u201cWhich of the most prominent traded or signed players will have the biggest impact on their team?\u201d. As far as contrived plots go, the Jaylen Brown trade is right up there. As far as something predictable happening goes, Bam Adebayo punching, slapping or \u201cstriking\u201d Tyler Herro is the least surprising.<\/p>\n
I personally disagree with the results here. I think Giannis will have a bigger impact in Miami. Even if he doesn\u2019t play a lot. It\u2019s difficult to overstate how much better Giannis is than the players in Miami he\u2019s replacing.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure the 76ers will have far better forward play than they had from Paul George (minus the last few weeks of the season) but there\u2019s a kind car wreck of usage coming for the 76ers. too. Brown, whether he\u2019s a good or bad player analytically speaking, is a high usage player. So to a lesser extent, is Tyrese Maxey, so is Joel Embiid if he plays. The 76ers will also want to feature VJ Edgecombe more as well, I would think. It\u2019s not that there\u2019s \u201conly one ball\u201d so much as \u201cthere are only so many shot attempts\u201d. So while I think the 76ers will improve, I\u2019m just not sure how big the delta on offense between Paul George playing well and Brown will be, given likely lower usage. That said, Brown typically always plays, unlike PGOut13Weeks. That\u2019s subject to the usual caveats, but 76 games of Brown WILL improve the 76ers, especially on defense. How much is the question.<\/p>\n Next up? Who wins the Finals? Can you guess what people said? Probably.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not a New Yorker, or a Knicks fan, but that\u2019s downright disrespectful. Seven percent picked the Knicks? Seven? The Knicks will return pretty much everyone except their one key player they actually drafted, Mitchell Robinson. Robinson played great minutes for them, but doesn\u2019t strike me as someone who couldn\u2019t be replaced. The Knicks came within a whisker of sweeping the last three rounds of the NBA playoffs, including the Finals against the favorite (by 4x over the Knicks) Spurs. That seems like it should garner more than 7% of votes.<\/p>\n Guess what? You can put your money where your mouth is, on this proposition, with Fanduel, if you live in a place that allows such things. By \u201cputting your money where your mouth is\u201d I mean, maybe don\u2019t spend more than a fancy sandwich and drink, perhaps? Show that you, too, heart NYC or something, if that is something you choose to do, with Fanduel following this here link.<\/a><\/p>\n Finally we reach the Rockets.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n