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2019 Draft and offseason

Posted on February 17, 2014 at 10:19 PM.

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The 2019 off-season was relatively quiet for us. But there was some movement on other fronts in the league.

Our first step was picking up options:
Ray Ray Francis 2.92M
Fabijan Novoselec 1.16M
Chris Sampay 892K
Luca Tomoni 892K
We declined the option on Sergio Munoz for 3.46M

We didn't have any restricted free agents to make a qualifying offer on.

This leads us to the 2019 NBA Draft where we had the 11th pick in the first round. I didn't think we would be able to get a top tier talent at that level and was looking to leverage it for a pick next year when a big target was hopefully declaring.

This was another draft with quite a few trades during the first round. By the time our pick rolled around I was pleasantly surprised to see Dylan Turner a SF with some very potential fall to us. Any other year and we might have thought about keeping him, but with Parker in the fold another 3 years and really wanting extra picks for next year we deemed him to be expendable. That might end up biting me in the bottom, but we'll see.
I had some talks with the Lakers, who in my honest opinion had a terrible roster and I didn't see how they could fix it in one year, even with 39M in cap space. So I figured their pick next year would still be very high. They took a PG with the second pick and were very interested when I came calling with the rights to Turner. We settled upon a deal of Turner for the Lakers 2020 1st Rd and Brett Fitness. I wanted Fitness to replace the bench minutes that Munoz had occupied.

We moved onto the final phase of free agency. Like I mentioned before we didn't have a ton of money to spend this year after the two max contracts the year before. Plus Ray Ray was coming up for extension. Ultimately, we ended up saving the 4M in cap space we had for an emergency during the year.

As for the rest of the league, the one big huge move was Kyrie Irving decided to take his MVP caliber game to the west coast and the Los Angeles Lakers for 4yr/85M. Even with the pickup of Irving the Lakers had no front court to speak of and were still looking good for a lottery pick, which would become mine. This was the second year in a row that the Bobcats had lost one of their top players to free agency. Their were rumors that the players were not happy with how Marcus Jordan was running things. I say "Karma is a bitch."

Other signings: Derrick Williams - Nuggets 4yr/52M; Carmelo Anthony - Cavs 1/11M; Darius Player - Raptors 4/39M; Adam Cameron - Grizzlies 3/34M.

I might end up regretting trading the rights to Turner if what I'm planning for 2020 does not come to fruition. But when you are trying to build a championship team you have to gamble sometimes.

NBA 2019 Draft - Round 1 Recap
Pick	Team	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt
1	Brooklyn Nets	Blake Cassell	PG
2	Phoenix Suns	Joshua Bodkin	PG
3	Los Angeles Lakers	Nick Donato	PG
4	Denver Nuggets	Damion Peterson	C
5	Miami Heat	Tyrell Carrington	SG
6	Cleveland Cavaliers	Jimmy Stevens	PG
7	Orlando Magic (from Knicks)	Lavelle Thorton	C
8	Memphis Grizzlies	Jackson McCulloch	C
9	Los Angeles Clippers	Carl Holmes	PF
10	Utah Jazz (from Kings)	Mercy Jackson	PF
11	Dallas Mavericks (rights to Lakers)	Dylan Turner	SF
12	Milkwaukee Bucks	Tiquan Shields	PF
13	San Antonio Spurs (from Pistons)	Xander Finnergan	SG
14	Philadelphia 76ers	Ricky Donato	SG
15	Indiana Pacers (from Warriors)	Leon Robinson	SG
16	Utah Jazz	Daquan Nix	PF
17	Golden State Warriors (from Pacers)	Luis Ramos	PF
18	Houston Rockets	Keenan Thompson	PF
19	Washington Wizards	Andre Whitaker	C
20	Minnesota Timberwolves (from Celtics)	Marko Kovacic	SG
21	Minnesota Timberwolves	Antonio Coley	SG
22	Atlanta Hawks	Sancho Escovado	SG
23	New Orleans Pelicans	Javonte McBurnett	SF
24	Detroit Pistons (from Spurs)	Arelious Wallace	SF
25	Chicago Bulls	Adonius Gonzalez	SF
26	Toronto Raptors	AJ Jones	SF
27	Portland Trailblazers	Kai Bennett	PF
28	Orlando Magic	Dejuan Frazier	SF
29	Oklahoma City Thunder	Salim Shakur	C
30	Charlotte Bobcats	Travis Madison	SF

Comments

# 1 Nhender17 @ Feb 17

Dang the Pelicans got a steal with the 23rd pick!

# 2 darkwolf80 @ Feb 18

It's crazy how far some good players will drop sometimes in the draft. I tried once to control all 30 teams just for the draft so that wouldn't happen. but just too much work. lol