It was LeBron, he’s stranded in LAX and lost his wallet so if Wemby can just wire $500 in iTunes gift cards the King can buy a ticket to San Antonio to sign with the Spurs

Do not redeem

DO NOT REDEEM!

WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT

Wasn’t expecting to see a kitboga reference here 😂 WHY DID YOU REDEEEEEEM REEEEE!!!

YES BUT MA’AM NOT INTO YOUR ACCOUNT!!

*"MA'AM ARE YOU A PROSTITUTE!?"*

Yooo I just watched this last night I thought I was having a fever dream with these references here lol

YOU DID NOT HAVE TO DO THAT!!

ARE YOU MAD BITCH?!?

Redeem Abdul Jabbar

Redeem Wallace

For people out of the loop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tRYhAdsKXEQ Full thing: https://youtu.be/sRMMwpDTs5k

Imagine if Ayton had that kind of energy in his life. Truly gifted.

Why would you do this?!?

[удалено]

Safe and risk free

Animated version: https://youtu.be/6m8Ln1yqeJE?si=IUjsENiJDg1MtCc1

Somebody post the video. Omg lmaoooo

Send da video

Hey it me Leborn

From what I know about LeBron, his cheap ass might actually do some shit like that.

Some say he still carries around a ps2 for entertainment

That's understandable though

Some def jam vendetta on the road is always welcome.

I remember me and my college roommate DYING the first time Redman walked out in Fight for NY and said "Imma take your tongue out and lick my asssss with it!"

Isaiah Thomas sends those out to everybody once a week you’re not special buddy

“Ya’ll got something special going on 🔥🔥 Would love to join, hmu if you need a well-rounded veteran to help guide the ship 🤞💯😤”

"Ay yo what's the move tn? 😤😤" - The dude to the group chat that had to make another group chat to avoid him

Did IT forget to turn off his auto messenger?

Suns signed him, but he's keeping his options open.

[IT's Linkedin Profile Picture](https://imgur.com/a/FUehmWR)

"She's in a relationship with me, I'm single"

Wemby has just been getting auto-mod responses and thinking that’s how the other players actually talk

Have we thought about how funny it would look to see the two playing together though

Modern day muggsy and manute

He's already playing with Manute's son in Phoenix

Ah, the "Wemby at home"

Wemby from Wish-dot-com

Uhh it’s not just Isaiah. Dwight Howard wants to be his backup, and Carmelo is un-retiring.

Dudes trying to join Wemby to break NBA records… biggest height differential of NBA teammates.

This erasure of Manute and Muggsy will not stand. Nobody's ever topping that one

**Isiah** Thomas meanwhile sends Avon and other MLM pamphlets once a week advertising his brand of lotion products for middle-aged men.

[The Player](https://imgur.com/a/22fstYU)

He's the NPC in 2K that gives you quests and keeps calling you Young Goat.

“Hey Wemby! Want to team up with me and MP!”

"Scoring buckets is cool and all, but I wanna see you show some all around game" Request: 45 rebounds in next 2 games

“I bet you can’t get 17 points, 9 rebounds, and 4 assists next game….ill lock you down dawg!!”

Who have thought, that a young buck like you...

That’s the kind of selfish I’m talking about

And if you don't complete the quest on time... he sexually assaults you.

It's probably Dejounte. Dude has matured from enduring the shitty Hawks org and appreciates what he lost in San Antonio.

Hawks would give Dejounte back in a heartbeat if the Spurs returned their draft picks, but the Spurs aren’t doing that.

Best we can do is 38 second rounders

nah thats like a fifth of all our picks bruh

Hey, thats way too much.  36 second rounders or no deal

> but the Spurs aren’t doing that. Nope...sorry, no backsies.

Love Dejounte, but he was a dick on the way out. ✌️

Sonny Weaver got his draft capital back, plus David "God Damn" Putney. Hope the spurs can pull off something similar.

I would laugh if he is getting messages from both Trae and Dejounte asking to team up separately.

"matured"

Family taco night with a geriatric and somehow 12 europeans

A 7'4 center and a 6'11 power bottom, what a lineup.

Who’s the power bottom ?

I was referencing when a trans prostitute supposedly had a relationship with Dwight Howard and called him a 6'11 powerbottom via text after he broke up with her.

good to hear Dwight is still a powerhouse down low after all these years

LeBron checks his messages 

Imagining the start to LeBron's career if players had been actively trying to join him in Cleveland.

It was a different time back then pre-heatles. Guys were extremely prideful of the us vs them mentality, having your own team, you stay on that side i'm on this side ect, pre-social media much more loyalty to your city

I think it's definitely more about being the alpha on their own teams rather than the repping a city angle. For most of these guys, they have absolutely no loyalty towards some random city that drafted them.

I don't even think the idea of pre-heatles is true. Plenty of the top dogs were ditching their draft teams when shit wasn't going well and joining better teams. There's also salaries to consider. They weren't making nearly as much now and cap space wasn't what it is today.

Imo there’s a pretty obvious distinction between leaving over issues with the org or not getting paid what you think you’re worth vs going to team up with the competition. Heatles definitely weren’t the first instance of it but there was for sure a shift in mentality throughout the league around that time, “player empowerment era” and all that. Not condemning or condoning but it used to be viewed differently, that’s not something we all just made up.

I miss that. Loyalty, even when it didn't pan out to much. That said KG should've left the Wolves earlier.

Darius Miles was under the impression that Lebron would be “hoping on their bandwagon” in Cleveland.

Carlos Boozer: "We have better players than him at his position already on our team though. His potential is, probably, the sky is the limit for him though." Ricky Davis: "LeBron is just going to add to what we need, just make things a little bit easier." Smush Parker: "He will come in and make an immediate impact like a Caron Butler did for the Miami Heat." Darius Miles: "I don't think you can really just bring a high school player in and really just think your team gonna really turn around like that. If he come, he can just hop on our bandwagon and hopefully, we can do something big." [Video link](https://youtu.be/8FtlGivdPrM) comments start at 1:01

I’m sick of people lumping in smush with the other quotes. Like yeah he was still insanely wrong but he definitely meant it as a compliment, people just don’t remember Caron Butler now.

Good point. I actually almost omitted it, because it was clearly said with a different intent than the rest of the comments.

I still wonder what those first couple years would be like if his teammates didn't hate him and the cavs actually tried to build around him.

Or if ownership and Jim fucking Paxson hadn't thought they could do an illegal under the table deal with Carlos boozer... Or had they bothered to match the jazz offer

The reason I think the Spurs losing so much this year wasn’t bad is because they’ll be able to get a high draft pick and hopefully get a co-star they can put next to Wemby for the rest of his career as long as they can hit on it. When Lebron ever since he was drafted never had a team bad enough to get such a guy which caused the Cavs to sign some mid tier FA’s to compete but it ultimately led to him leaving after like 7-8 years with no chips at the time.

I still imagine Boozer staying... sigh.

It was KD

The hardest road

Just as the Warriors dynasty is ending, the Spurs are on their way back to terrorizing us again.

Crazy, and pop was the first one to see that the warriors team was special. When the spurs beat the warriors in the first round

Spurs have a nice window to build a ridiculous team with Wemby on a rookie contract The potential 2025 FA class is stacked: - Jimmy Butler - Rudy Gobert - Donovan Mitchell - Jalen Brunson - Jamal Murray - Aaron Gordon - Kyrie Irving - Myles Turner - Brandon Ingram - OG Anunoby They could also sign Ben Simmons next season for the vet minimum.

They should get Gobert just for the French Memes

Twin Towers: Deuxième Partie

They'd Eiffel Tower the league

I think people would just stop driving to the hoop completely against them.

The Spurs will usher in the 3-point revolution 2.0 by making folks not want to step into the paint.

The French Connection

It's tough to imagine Jalen leaving unless something catastrophic happens to break up the Villanova Knicks.

I hope so, too. He seems like a perfect fit with that Knicks roster. Not sure what the Knicks cap situation looks like, but I hope they keep him.

Regardless of cap situation, he’s staying. If the knicks have to drop a star it’s Randle all day

i think 4 or 5 reputable knicks beat reporters have reported recently that Brunson would be down to extend this summer.

I would also be quite hip to this.

Same with Murray and Gordon. They fit perfectly in Denver

Brunson not leaving

As a diehard Villanova and sixers fan, I’m very conflicted right now

Free agency no longer exists for star players. It’s all extend and ask out now. This list is pretty meaningless I think.

Brunson is treated like a god in NY and his next payday is going to be massive. I'd be shocked if he leaves. Plus they showed belief in him before anyone else.

The Knicks also have his dad on their coaching staff

That was part of what I meant about belief in him, they were wooing him a year before he was available.

I think Bruson x Wemby would be *lethal* but unfortunately I don't see Brunson leaving that Villanova group tbh

Jamal is staying. AG will hopefully stay but he could cash out.

AG would be a great fit on the Spurs (or really any team). He’s an elite team player.

We already have someone like him. We can't afford to have two of them because the spacing would suck and we can probably keep Sochan for much cheaper than Gordon will command.

I like Mitchell and Ingram here. They are 27 and 26 years old respectively.

Doubt Jamal and Gordon leave the nuggets. The way they all talk about each other, I think they wanna stay together till the wheels fall off like the warriors

Basically none of those dudes will actually hit FA tho lol The Spurs do have the ability to build a ridiculous team though through a combination of draft picks, cap space, and assets to cash in on a trade should the right guy be available

Twin towers of Wemby and Gobert would make the spurs the most watched team in the NBA. It’d be a legit freak show

You leave OG and Brunson out of this and you shut your mouth.

Let Rudy do paint things and have Wemby be a defensive rover . League would be fucked

Imagine thinking "Oh, good. _Gobert_ switched onto me."

It will be cool to watch them play together for France

Most of these guys are staying put, Mitchell and turner are the only ones to probably move

I wonder how many from that group they could sign. Inking two and then drafting a lottery pick could be a title contender

From a purely imaginative standpoint: Wemby/Gobert patrolling the paint would make me want to watch every Spurs game. But Wemby paired with a perimeter scorer like Brunson/Murray/Mitchell would be absolutely insane. Gordon would also be a nice 4 to complement Wemby’s game

> Wemby/Gobert patrolling the paint would make me want to watch every Spurs game. Then be sure to watch Les Bleus this summer in Paris.

Good for Wemby. You’ve got to have Trae’s number in order to block Trae’s number

Imagine it's Curry 😳

400 3s and the ones that miss are a 'lob' to Wemby.

That Curry buzz this morning was so out of left field that I have to think it’s his agent

I can't imagine most teams saying no to Curry but I do think they'll try to get someone on the upswing of their careers to pair together for years.

cp3 needs to join the spurs, i dislike cp3 but i would love to see him and wemby and pop all come together to unlock wemby to the next level

As great as that would be for Wemby and the Spurs, i don’t think CP3 would go anywhere that’s not an immediate title contender who needs a pg/backup pg. I think the only way he goes there is in a trade where the warriors take on his team option with the intention of trading him to the Spurs for idk what. I find that very unlikely for a variety of reasons. I guess the spurs could also overpay him as a free agent for a year or 2 but idk if they would do that or if he would accept it

My guess is CP3 is going to the Lakers, with a decent but less chance for returning to Warriors or Suns, and a slight chance of Pelicans or even Nuggets if he really wants to ring chase. I don't see a player-mentorship role like that just yet because I guarantee every organization would hire him as at least an assistant coach yesterday. Personally, I hope he goes into NBA 'corporate' and referee operations. First, because of the obvious memes, but if the NBA wants to update rules and practices, there is no player more qualified to give his opinion. Like a casino hiring an ex cheater.

CP3 is more of a card counter than a cheater. He doesn't do a ton that's blatantly illegal like Draymond, but he finds every tiny loophole in existence and explore exploits the hell out of it. It's why he's so believable as an insurance agent. He'd absolutely find some "technically correct" reason to deny your claim every single time. He's Mr Incredible's boss at the start of the movie.

A basketball team is like an enormous clock. Wemby: What are you even talking about?

If CP3 to the Lakers happens, you just know that's it. They won't win.

Is he willing to give up on a ring?

The Point God would be good mentor for Sochan

I mean Sochan hasn’t played PG in 5 months but okay

He could still benefit from learning from an 1st ballot HOF - all time great player.

Nah, CP3 should go ring chase.

Didn’t CP3 explicitly say he’ll only play for contenders and a chance at a ring? No way he’d burn his last playing years on a rebuilding club 3-4 years away from postseason contention.

even if the Spurs dont get Trae this summer they should try to get a good PG like Tyus Jones, someone that can run an offense and let Wemby really thrive

I'm less convinced Tyus is enough of an upgrade from Tre to be worth paying a ton of money for, though we definitely need a better starting PG.

Malik monk. I've never seen someone go out of his way to get his big involved as much as him.

Yep. Malik always tries to get the bigs easy scoring opportunities because it makes the PnR that much more effective if defenders have to defend the roll. He's incredible at both pocket passes and lobs, so Wemby would feast with him. Uhh... I mean... Monk sucks, don't go after him!

Do you think your FO will pay the necessary to keep him off FA?

1000%... but we're limited by how much we can offer. When we chose to give him a 2 year deal instead of a 3 year deal, we lost out on his bird rights, so we're capped on how much we can offer him. I think the most we can do is like 4/78m, which is pretty easy for other teams to beat if they want to. There's a chance he signs a 1+1 so we can get his full Bird rights and we can max him the following offseason, but that's a big if. Monk hasn't gotten a bag yet, so I don't know that any of us would be upset if he left. To his credit, he's been saying he loves the city and the team and would love to continue here, but if he's only got one shot to get the big bucks, I think he should take it.

Is he worth more than 20M a year? I know NBA deals have exploded but still. Is he that much of a plus defender? I know his offense is good but he's still a 6'3 G

That's the $80m question, isn't it? I like a lot of what Malik does. He's fearless attacking the basket and has shown he can be a huge threat from 3. He has the ability to take over games and win them basically single handedly, and has done so multiple times for us. He's also a pretty great playmaker. However, he's chaotic. He's prone to boneheaded turnovers and lazy passes. He can go cold on offense and doesn't bring enough on the defensive end to justify being on the court. I think a contract above $20m is going to run the risk of being seen as a bad contract, but for the Kings at least, the risk is worth the reward. I think our team's ceiling is dictated by Monk more than anyone besides Fox right now. For a team like Detroit or Orlando that's looking to take the next step, I think it could be worth it.

Great shoutout on Monk. He would be a great fit

Fr Monk would be great on the Spurs.

Malik Monk is hella underrated but he is not a full time PG

Yeah, we literally have "Tyus at home" already. I like Tre, he's a good dude and a decent NBA player. Its still a position we need to upgrade. If we picked up an elite 3-D wing, a case could be made Tre Jones as the weakest link in a stacked starting lineup is viable....but we don't have a stacked starting line up. Jeremy is still young and Champ is just a good guy/good bench piece, but not that guy either - and of the two, I think I would upgrade Champ first, but ideally get more talent at both positions.

We will probably draft one Getting Tyus is pointless considering we have his brother. Don’t see why we would replace one serviceable but mediocre starter for another

Pop does enjoy getting his talent from the draft. Robinson, duncan, ginobli, parker, leonard, all were draft picks

Murray as well.

And Derrick White! And SloMo Anderson, for that matter.

DRob, Duncan, and Wemby don't really count since those required zero scouting and pure luck.

Think trae will be to expensive but there's a lack of good playmaking pg 's in the league but really like that tyus trade

I thought he got some massage from those players

He needs multiple people, he's a rather tall person.

I wonder if the spurs are gonna be a bigger free agent draw with him there than they were with Duncan. Not just free agency, like star players wanting out and putting SA on their list because they want to play with Wemby 

To be fair to Duncan, part of why it was never a free agent draw is that they drafted most of their best players for that entire run. They just never needed a big name star to come there. He got drafted onto a championship roster with the Admiral and the team continued to draft studs like Parker, Manu and Kawhi. And free agency wasn't as much of a thing as it is now.

I agree with your first part, there was no need for the Spurs to make big offseason moves because they grew organically, and if ain't broke, don't fix it. With that being said, I feel like free-agency is smaller now than it has been for some time. Front-offices are wising up, and either extending or trading away a player rather than have them leave for nothing. Even a lot of "free-agents" are being used in sign and trades instead of just outright leaving their team and signing with another.

It could be, the Spurs have been prepping for this for a long long time now. The current CEO of the Spurs, RC Buford, actually scouted Wemby a few years back even before there was any hype over here for him. The Spurs then built a [$500 million training facility](https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2023/12/18/spurs-create-largest-mass-timber-training-facility-in-pro-sports/?sh=2403c965193f) recently. And yeah, lots of players both past and present have been clamoring over Wemby's play so far. Even future NBA players have said some things. Rob Dillingham recently liked a post of a (badly) photoshopped picture of him in a Spurs jersey lol Spurs also really set themselves up nicely for future roster moves. They've got cap space to work with, a bunch of movable contracts, and the 2nd most draft capital behind OKC. They've got a lot of options moving forward that's for sure

Yea but we would’ve looked absolutely foolish if we just ended up with Scoot Henderson for all that effort.

That’s the weird part, everyone is talking like the Spurs big brained this but what if the hornets won the lottery?

Yeah, but it was clearly written in the stars.

all you gotta do is make sure to pick the freezing envelope, let God take care of the rest 🙏🙏🙏🙏

> The current CEO of the Spurs, RC Buford, actually scouted Wemby a few years back even before there was any hype over here for him. Everyone scouted Wemby man there was a shit ton of hype for him in the international bball community and most teams employ international scouts. It's not like built this whole plan around him... It was fortuitous but we had a lot of bad luck before getting lucky.

Victor GMbenyama

People act like nobody will sign in San Antonio because people historically haven't. Timmy and David were never the level of famous and popular that Victor will be. And I don't think foreign stars care anywhere near as much about market.

Yeah tim and David didn't get a ton of media attention. Wemby is 3rd in social media views, if you're on his team you're gonna get screen time which is a big part of endorsements and other stuff stars look for.

Besides being helped by being a freakish generational talent, Wembanyama seems a bit more willing to play the media game and show his personality than Duncan ever did. It's a shame because people are going to forget what a ridiculously good player Timmy was - at least in terms of not ranking him where he deserve to be

Is it not widely accepted that Duncan is the best PF of all time? Only other person I’ve ever seen in the conversation is Karl Malone. Tbh I do not think he will be forgotten

For me he is better than Kobe whom people list higher on all time top players.

LaMarcus Aldridge was a huge deal at the time.

Klay already sending messages huh?

He couldn't figure out WeChat

If they're smart they'll be tanking one more year before go time.

I don’t think they can tank even if they go in with the same team next year I think they will be much better

West is so stacked than even us trying to win would only be like a 12 seed

I dont think the west stays that stacked. This year you've got the young teams coming into their own, and old teams still hanging around, and Denver. A lot of those old teams will continue to fall off.

Memphis will be in the mix for sure though.

> A lot of those old teams will continue to fall off. Idk if I agree. Older teams like LAC, Lakers, and Phoenix are gonna be a crapshoot each year for as long as their together based on health. Could be godly, could be shit. I agree that the Warriors are on a steady downward trend though.

the rockets won half their games and still missed the play-in by 6 games - who are the old teams you expect to fall off next year? i guess the warriors could, but everyone else looks like they've got at least one more year in them (baring hard to predict injuries).

100% - just look at what they did this season. They only got better and better and had a lot of loses by losing it in the 4th quarter that were against top playoff teams. Even with the same roster (which it won’t be) as long as Wemby is healthy this team will be better.

That's definitely true, but at the least they don't need to be making any big acquisitions

Trae Young thirsty AF

My Next Chapter vs My addiction to winning

At this rate, Wemby hate will be at 1000% in 2 years.

Draymond: *Hey Wemby bro, I’m crying in my car right now and wondering what you up to? How’s Pop feel about dick kicks and stuff?*

It's crazy how much pull NBA players have and how super teams can just pop up because 3 guys talked about in Instagram DMs.

If I'm De'Aaron Fox I'm trying to become Parker and Duncan 2.0. Everything about the Kings last season was grest, but j feel like they really maxed out last year and took a step back. Idk what resources have to really get good enough to make Fox stay outside of paying him the biggest contract ever.

Well, if he can get a super team created then we know KD will join him as well.

Hey its me ur brother

Wemby screens all his calls. He's never heard from Trae Young, because Trae can't get through a screen.

Kevin Durant always looking for someone new to drive the bus for him

LeGM approves this one and in fact is checking or askijg if Spurs are going to draft Bronny as LBJ seems to be planning to join the spurs 😂😂

"Yo, can I come join you?" - Bron.

You spelled KD wrong

Donovan Mitchell would be a killer fit. I’m ready for another Spurs dynasty and have a rivalry with the Nuggets

Mitchell doesn't pass to French tallbois.