No team was hit worse by Marksy Marks’ RFA traps than the Portland Trail Blazers. Stuck spending way over the luxury cap for a team that finished 41-41 and were swept in the opening round of the playoffs. That’s not ideal.
You know, Corey Webster was at long odds just to hang around at all after his international mini-camp with the Dallas Mavericks. A 28 year old international player with no NBA experience, just getting that invite was a victory.
With only a classification match left to play the Golden State Warriors went and made a few ch-ch-ch-changes for their final game. Starting five of Tai Webster, Bryce Alford, Noah Allen, Kevon Looney and Damian Jones.
Paul Henare may be chilling out at the NBA Summer League, scouting for those precious last couple import spots, but one glimpse at the current NZ Breakers roster as it stands for next season and there’s something that immediately catches the eye: they’re all from Aotearoa.
As Tai Webster’s Summer League travails stumbled along in Orlando with the Charlotte Hornets, older brother Corey’s had to wait his time for his own chance too... until Las Vegas.
So… what have the Brooklyn Nets been doing this time around? Well, aside from using their copious cap room to trade for D’Angelo Russell and also picking up the odd curious draft prospect… pretty much the same as last year, actually.
So… the Charlotte Hornets thing didn’t work out as planned. One more hurdle to leap over for Tai Webster, he always knew there’d be a few of those.
Going undrafted was the first step. Had Tai Webster been picked up late in that second round, which was always an unlikely chance, then he coulda skipped all the other steps but that’s not what he was preparing for.
Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder though, who saw that coming? Of course OKC were involved in trade talks going back awhile, they always are. Barely a season goes by in which Sam Presti doesn’t pull trigger on something eyebrow-raising.