I am not entirely sure how the system will work though. It is not stopping the season, everyone else continues with their regular season, meaning teams who have games against the ones who play in the tournament will have to reschedule and otherwise all other games will stay the same and this will make it a bit harder to arrange again and again depending on the results.

I would highly suggest that the best thing to do right now would be to put this on either at the start or somewhere on the break. Like for example have a week longer all-star break, that way you will have a tournament before the all-star break, have a champion, then have all-star break, then go back to regular season.

You are right, this is probably a rumor for clickbait. I do not see the Lakers trading Anthony Davis before getting rid of Westbrook. And if it happens, the Lakers will have 3 players that need the ball all the time, Westbrook, Lillard, and Lebron. I wonder how this will help the team. It will be painful for the coach to draw plays if this will happen. Lebron and Davis, in my opinion, is a better tandem than Lebron-Lillard.


It is just an announcement. It will take time before the new team can put together their roster, coaches, trainers, and back office. It will not disrupt any season. If it comes true, we may see them play in 23-24 season but not this upcoming season.

Portland Trail Blazers is crap. There's no such thing as rebuilding as their purpose. They are just going into the flow. As for Lillard, there are many times already that he shows disappointment with the team but still, he will not break his loyalty. The Blazers are not even involved and doing some attempts in getting a big fish in the off-season or trying to surround Lillard with good role players.

I agree though that the Davis-Lillard trade is not likely possible. The Lakers won't do that and let's say if it will happen, it's either Davis who will be the one to ask for that trade or the Lakers ended up on that decision as they see Davis always got sidelined because of injuries. If I remember it right, during the off-season after the Bubble, LeBron James told Anthony Davis that he's the current man of the Lakers and should not go anywhere else.

Yeah, but he got injured and so the team decided to overhaul and trade CJ, Norman Powell and Robert Covington. So it might be a complete roster build for them and we will see how Lillard will come back.


And now that they have a new coach, it seems the he will explore Davis more often as he has said publicly. He will be the first choice in office.  But the injuries though, he has been plague for years and hopefully he will be at least play as much game as he can and will be healthy.

Yes, that's correct. Coach Darvin Ham even looking forward too for a change in Russell Westbrook this upcoming season. Good to see that their new head coach understand some of the "issues" that the team is dealing with last season and already have a plan for some adjustments.

Pointing to Anthony Davis, there's no question about his performance even after an injury. He is consistent in establishing decent stats every time he returns to the court. However, it's just that he always got injured. I thought before that he has that strong built but the more he will continue to suffer injuries, he might become a Boogie 2.0. So unfortunate seeing a player with a superstar or all-star level and still considered on their prime but always being sidelined for long because of injury.

Westbrook was healthy last season and yet he doesn't play like a real big 3. If Davis will have a great season, I hope Westbrook will not ruined his moment as his inconsistency is really a big problem to the team, especially during crucial times.

I just googled it and I found out that Floyd Mayweather has a net worth of 450 million dollars. And at the same time, LeBron James has a net worth of One billion dollars. I was actually quite surprised to see that. I thought either they at least would be very close or Floyd Mayweather would have more net worth.

Anyway, I think it is not going to be so much money that they want to be able to make a 50/50 deal. I think however the net worth is for both of them, they can afford a 50-50 deal. But I can see the appeal for them trying to own an NBA team. The money is so fluent that they will see themselves having some profit from this.

Are you serious? Westbrook needs to prove to anyone that he can dominate the court? That expectation is too much. That was a big requirement just to impress the people? He only needs to prove that he can consistently play good and smoothly with his teammates. That's enough. If people sees that even losing the game, but he played well, people might change their bad view about him.

He doesn't need to dominate the whole game. What kind of expectation is that for a player that already considered as not on his peak already.

Blazers will not surely let go of Damian Lillard but that was their only dedication for the team. They are not doing their best to give Lillard a good set of teammates. I'm really amazed that Lillard didn't force and demand the Blazers management to trade him even he is vocal about his concern with the team.

Lillard is now entering his 10th season at 32 years old. He will surely start showing signs of slowing down from here. Still not to late for the Blazers to act and do their best to give Lillard all the help he needs.