2014-15 NBA regular season thread: 82 games of injuries and inevitabilities

hey

sup

First.

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Kelly Cutrone would be giving that a 4.

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In conclusion, Taylor Swift is as tall as Kobe

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lol

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XD

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lmao when the ball bounces back and hits him

i forgot about how the ball bounces back and hits him on the head xp ha

You can also see the exact moemnt where he injures his wrist

we need barnita back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tFDsL_mwBY

"sleep, that's where i'm a viking!"

-- andrea bargnani

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Puple Prijan

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lmao

You guys are psyched.

stoked 4 the madness

it's gonna b a very good and weird season for sure

psh yall say that ever year (and are correct)

like cool subplots include:
* cleveland extreme makeover
* lebron is home
* return of rose
* kobe is back and will possibly murder all of his terrible teammates
* lol derek fisher is coaching the lol knicks for lol phil
* there's like 20 cool rookies
* russ has his own team for two months
* taylor swift is playing for the knicks

playing fantasy for the first time ever is how psyched i am. got the splash bruvs, obv

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* spurs quest to repeat, duh

had to recut this gif drivin me nuts

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feeling not too excited about this season actually
hopefully the regular season shakes out differently from last year

cmon the best player switched teams

yeah

shakes out differently from last year

It's kind of rare for any team to rise or fall more than three or four notches in their relative position in a single year. That can still translate to some significant shaking out when you apply it across the board.

think cleveland might be better than three or four notches over last year

well, yeah, but it's still a rarity

nhex u crazy

ok besides cleveland/miami obv
but maybe you're right aimless

lol derek fisher is coaching the lol knicks for lol phil

Fish is literally gonna be a phil sock

Russell MVP quest might be my favorite early season plot also the number of talking heads that will detonate when he goes 17 for 48 in a game will be awesome

Mario Chalmers' tenure as the Miami Heat starting point guard will come to an end when the 2014-15 regular season tips off. Chalmers has been in that spot since he came into the NBA in 2008, with the exception of 2010. Chalmers says he will focus on making sure he gets crunch-time minutes with the shift to a bench role.

"Of course you want to start, but you want to finish the game," Chalmers told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "It's more about the minutes. At the same time, it's a mental thing."

Chalmers lost the starting spot to Norris Cole during the preseason. Ether way, head coach Erik Spoelstra expects both players to produce as each will get plenty of time on the floor.

"Regardless of whether who's the starter, who's not, those guys are going to be pivotal players, both Rio and Norris," he said. "They're going to have to play significant minutes for us."

lol forever at the heat point guard rotation

how many teams have two better than their best one, or three even!

mario chalmers is like the bugsey siegel (as portrayed on boardwalk empire, at least) of the heat mafia - occasionally he gets shit done but is really volatile and whiny about things and more or less just makes excuses when he screws up.

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if you cant beat norris cole out for the starting job... m8

yeah that's a pretty good indicator of washedness. y'know, plus the whole "looking like a slapped ass in the postseason" thing.

chalmers wld make a perfectly fine backup imho, problem is they have no starter

weird they didnt try to upgrade that spot a lil so many good point guards in the league rn

there is a flaw in yr system http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11752978/2014-nba-player-rankings-8

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twitter currently freaking out over this

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is sully a boss now or something?

He loosened his hams

sully is a good player mane thats why im constantly in a state of sorrow about how out of shape he is, he has allstar skills and the main thing holding him back is lack of athleticism which cld be solved by losing a lil fn weight gdamn it

suprised woomeyp norris cole was held back for this long

after his freshman season sully was a consensus top 10 pick, then he stayed in college another year and injured his back which is why he went so low

No I remember! It's just been a couple years and he hasn't dented my radar sense really, just surprised to see him cracking elite adv stats even if it's exhib

i feel like "waiting for sully to be in shape" is going to be the new "waiting for rondo to learn to shoot" i.e. a train i need to get off of.

*since xp

kevin love did it sully can do it why cant he do it ughhhhhhhh

No I remember! It's just been a couple years and he hasn't dented my radar sense really, just surprised to see him cracking elite adv stats even if it's exhib

― Clay, Monday, October 27, 2014 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

put up a 13 and 16 per his first two years, hes been good celtics were just terrible last year so no one noticed, and i mean its not liek he put up monster numbers but very solid certainly

good trajectory

i mean he did shoot super poorly last year but some of that has to do w the celtics having no good offensive players at all, also if he lost some weight he could get a lil more lift

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still think kd is going to dc

kd is 100% going to dc

john wall is the best in the league at creating open 3pt attempts for his teammates btw

he shd go to dc too imo f okc and their penny pinching terrible coach hiring cheating seattle out of a team ways

he should make the wiz change their name back to the bullets a requirement of him signing tho

Either that or make them change the name to the Washington Durantulas

the example of lbj going back to Cleveland surely has kd thinking about going to dc

dc vs cleveland 2016 is going to be what we have lived for

if okc wins a title i cld see that changing his mind but hes got to be out of there if they keep under performing, squandering his prime

Either that or make them change the name to the Washington Durantulas

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tarantulas wld be a sick ass name irl imo

or spiders

Going back to DC doesn't have the same resonance, it's not some hardscrabble ex-industrial town where there's gonna be a lone local baller hero

it is kinda the worst place on earth tho

washington tarantulas has a nice rhythm

as does dc spiders

their mascot could just be millions of live spiders they release into the arena during player intros

More pro sports teams should go with arthropod mascots!

mascots nicknames

surprised there isn't a kraken team yet, prob inevitable

black uniforms w red details

f the sonics, seattle squids man

das a good one too!

Das Boots

Seattle Cephalopods IMO (squids are mostly lame unless you're talking about Giant/Colossal MFs).

joe sch @on3ness · 1m 1 minute ago
nets need to get @shayneHBA to redesign their uniforms, theyre so close already

^important concept imo, the nets had the right idea but no attention to detail, need to get streetwear pro to round them into form

obv giant squids man this is a mascot after all

Lolol good call on the HBA/Nets connection

The Seattle PYREX

Sorry Clay, I'm being a science nerd!

Lolol good call on the HBA/Nets connection

― 龜, Monday, October 27, 2014 1:58 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am very serious about this, might start a petition

Get it on change.org!

just joshing man ;)

as does dc spiders

― lag∞n, Monday, October 27, 2014 1:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a little too close to dc snipers

that wld be a good name too

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re: all the KD to DC talk, if they win a title this season and there's a chance of keeping that gang together in OKC (jackson, ibaka, westbrook, KD), shite coach or not he's staying in OKC at least for a little while, maybe a 2 or 3 yr deal on par with LBJ's latest.

if they don't, he's going SOMEWHERE. my biggest fear is him becoming a fucking laker i think i might claw my eyes out

KD is totally going back to DC, it's written in stone

otm

@kpelton From today's Insider Daily, Kobe Bryant led the NBA in preseason usage at 38.2% of Lakers plays

gonna be such a beautiful year

its so perfect

how are the lakers on TV on opening night

i mean i know how but really

between golden state, the clippers, the suns and the blazers the nba's far west has had a total renaissance and yet we still haven't been able to unshackle national television from the lakers

lakers are so by far the most popular nba team its hopeless

it effectively showcases the new model Loser Kobe who takes 50% of all laker shots and makes 32% of them, while the rest of the team mills around waving their arms for a pass

not to mention northwest division champion oklahoma city sorry this will never not bug me xp

i mean look at this fucking disgusting bullshit

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also the rest of the entire globe is a deep purple too

a good 75 percent of lakers fandom is fucking delusional and the remaining portion is loyal regardless, and almost all other viewers are in it for the schadenfreude or the NBA-soap-opera lols - deadspin would lose like 40 percent of its NBA-related posts if the lakers disappeared

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canada cant even bring itself to root for its only fn team

bc aint loyal

It looks like there's maybe some Grizzlies fans in deep alaska and I'm assuming they are actual bears?

stands to reason

xpost loooollllllll

Who thinks the Spurs are gonna max Kawhi?

not me

that would be crazy

has he not earned it?????

they wouldn't let him walk tho, idk maybe you max him now just cuz the cap will rise so much in a couple years?

the idea of "max" is so loaded but i don't think he's worth that money

he's more igoudala on a max than paul george on a max imo

NBA should just give max deals to everyone.

if kawhi resigns with them (at any money) he will outlive the parker/duncan/manu core and as good as kawhi has played in the playoffs you don't want to turn over your franchise with him making as much money as possible

has he not earned it?????

He underperformed compared to projections really until the finals last year iirc. Everyone thought he'd take a leap but he m/l leveled off.

Selling point Woj is pushing is "youngest Finals MVP since Magic"

to be fair i think the way he just went lights out in games 3 through 5 of the finals has made me forget the first 2 games where his shortcomings were readily apparent (not to mention here and there throughout the WC finals)

but i don't think we've seen his peak yet, he IS pretty damn young after all.

wld be very surprised if he was ever a star, hes very good but in a complimentary way

remember tho we live in the world of max heyward

Leonard prob worth Batum money in a reasonable world. 10-11m/year.

aaaahahahahahaha gordon fucking hayward

is it just me or does he kinda resemble an overgrown-freak version of damien from the omen

prob just you

who deserves more money: kawhi or klay?

max klay is totes happening whether it should or not

xxpost w/e dude still creeps me the fuck out

i would say klay? i dunno i trust his offensive game more and his defense is p good

could you imagine klay on the spurs? christ. he would shoot like 52% from 3

truth

curious to see if warriors new offense can diversify his offensive game any

kt had an unreal preseason

update

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 1m1 minute ago
Sixers waived Marquis Teague and Elliot Williams, league source tells Yahoo Sports.

this guy marquis teague, not sure he's gonna make it

@kpelton From today's Insider Daily, Kobe Bryant led the NBA in preseason usage at 38.2% of Lakers plays

gonna be such a beautiful year

― Clay, Monday, October 27, 2014 11:11 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who will have higher usage rate after the 1st quarter of the season, Kobels or Russ? I sense a poll opportunity

yeah thats a tough call

My "Who He Play For" nominees

John Salmons
Steve Novak
Andre Miller
Luc Mbah a Moute
Sebastian Telfair
Jimmer Fredette
Shannon Brown
Jared Dudley
Joel Anthony
Jordan Farmar
Jannero Pargo
Anthony Tolliver
Cole Aldrich
Ryan Hollins
Trevor Booker
Jerryd Bayless
Al-Farouq Aminu
Lou Amundson
Jason Maxiell
Alonso Gee

John Salmons
Steve Novak
Andre Miller -wiz
Luc Mbah a Moute
Sebastian Telfair -okc
Jimmer Fredette -chigaco?
Shannon Brown
Jared Dudley -bucks
Joel Anthony -celtics
Jordan Farmar -clips?
Jannero Pargo
Anthony Tolliver
Cole Aldrich -knicks
Ryan Hollins
Trevor Booker
Jerryd Bayless
Al-Farouq Aminu -mavs
Lou Amundson -cavs
Jason Maxiell
Alonso Gee

the rest i have no idea at all

mbah moute is on the Kings right?

shannon brown is on the heat

booker is on utah I think?

Joel Anthony is on the Pistons

Moute is on the 76ers

Fredette is on the Pelicans

Joel Anthony is on the Pistons

― polyphonic, Monday, October 27, 2014 8:28 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol he was on the celtics a week ago i swear

yeah he got traded

novak still on the raptors?

nope!

jesus how did bayless end up on milwaukee

who knows where salmons is i want to say atlanta for no reason

Were Bayless and dame ever on the blazers at the same time

I seem to remember a period where the blazers lacked a PG and everybody was like Give Bayless a chance

Then they got Dame dash

Salmons: Pelicans
Novak: Jazz

Were Bayless and dame ever on the blazers at the same time

I seem to remember a period where the blazers lacked a PG and everybody was like Give Bayless a chance

bayless left after the 09-10 season and dame's first season was 12-13 so they missed each other by couple few years, and bayless just seemed to get traded every 3 months after that.

just shelled out like 230 bucks for league pass, smh

Shit didn't it used to be 150

Is this the new and improved league pass that's part of the new TV deal??

it was 180 for the first few years i bought it, then went up to 190 last year. now it's 200, plus various taxes and fees

Still cheaper than cable for the most part

I will prob do league pass next year, plan on cutting the cord after the playoffs

Concerned about the blackouts on TNT and TBS and ESPN gamenights tbh

sitting in sports bars or a friend's house for several hours at a time during basically the entire april - June situation is something I worry about, dunno how I'll do it

I've drdank so many shitty beers at this neighborhood bar that's not crowded because of games ;(

going to a bar is nice if youre in the mood but often u just want to root down into yr couch and enjoy some nba action

*plop*

thats the sound when u hit the seamless order button folks

Ordered seamless last night for game 5 of the WS ;-\

👍

*plops*

i also do not like to drink during west coast game time, just too early in the dark for me, so idk hi i'm at a bar alone drinkin' a soda reading message board threads, sup everyone

*day

Y'all just get cable and live in the city of the team u root for the fucks wrong with yall

it is difficult to have cable and not have any discipline if you want to do creative stuff in yr free time

pardon me I'm new to full-on-complete NBA junkiedom since last year and league pass is 200+? that's pricier than MLB TV for fucks sake.

fuck, guess I'm watching the national games and a lotta shitty celtics action unless the NBA has an equivalent to At Bat

Man there's an ABC game like every seventh full moon of seventhe full moon

Sorry just reminiscing for the days of NBA on NBC when it was liek every other month

what was the story with the new streaming action that espn will be running once the new tv deal kicks in? did that go through? did i dream that part?

I dreamt that part too Clay. I dreamt it too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

This was the general vibe iirc

I mean yeah that's still a lot when you add up ESPN/TNT/ABC and CSN in boston. guess I'm only watching Anthony Davis on highlight reels though huh

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/us-espn-deals-idUSKCN0HV1SC20141006

bet this doesn't happen or is a really cruddy product, espn always does the internet so bad

5 pelicans games on national TV and one is against the fucking utah jazz jeeeeeeeeeesus

I would be excited about the ESPN thing but the watch ESPN app is wonky enough can only imagine how rough this will be

i'm taking occasional ilher bear, bear, bear to blazers vs pelis sometime in mid november ;)

this is the time of year where i think about getting league pass but then remember that i subject my wife to enough sports and she would justifiably murder me

shit that's not a bad idea I might as well go see 'em at the garden vs celts in january, can't be that pricey bc people still sleeping on the pels (for now)

thats a good call if i'm going to try to attend a c's game this year

i might have tickets to the cleveland game that's like a week away and i don't even know, seems like too much, i might want to keep that team as some kind of imaginary thing that only exists on tv

honestly haven't really reflected on how surreal it's inevitably going to be to see those cavaliers, preseason highlights aside. it was surreal enough imagining it during free agencypalooza.

all ilhers are welcome to come over to my apt and watch the knicks

someone should start a predix thread before the games start tomorrow btw

istn this it

we usually do a separate one but idgaf. tho when this one is 6,500 posts long it'll be harder to tell each other how terribly wrong we all were

i predict the cavs will lead the league in offensive efficiency and ppg

i predict the suns will make the playoffs and the rockets will not but i am gonna be wrong sry

i like it tho

1 spurs
2 clippers
3 thunders
4 warriors
5 mavericks
6 blazers
7 grizzlies
8 suns

1 cavs
2 bulls
3 wizards
4 raptors
5 bobcats
6 49ers
7 royals
8 manchester united

WEST

1. Spurs
2. Clippers
3. Warriors
4. OKC
5. Memphis
6. Houston
7. Dallas
8. Suns

EAST

1. Cavs
2. Heat
3. Toronto
4. Chicago
5. Hawks
6. Wizards
7. Hornets
8. Detrololoit

Sorry clay

its so hard to predict when all the teams on one side are good and the ones on the other side are terrible

that 5-9 logjam in the west is just nuts also spottie u are mega wrong sry to tell u abt that. rly don't think portland can miss it unless they have a significant injury to one of the all-stars. but i do have them falling a spot. still figure 50-52 wins.

yea predictions serve no purpose beyond being -something- to talk about.

oh and i forgot the heat guess they're in that 3rd or 4th spot on mine, sucks to bump out ManU tho.

theyre having an off year tbh

mvp: kobe
CoY: scott brooks
roy: shabazz

prob

Clippers
Spurs
Warriors
Rockets
Thunder
Blazers
Mavs
Suns

Cavs
Bulls
Wizards
Raptors
Hawks
Hornets
Heat
Celtics

wonder what the record for the 8th team in the east will be, like can you get in with 35 wins this year

sure why not just show up m/l

the eastern conference playoffs who ever shows up plays or whatever

Mookie Blaylock sentenced to 7 years prison

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-nba-star-mookie-blaylock-gets-seven-years-200941839--nba.html

MVP: LeBron
MIP: Anthony Bennett
6moy: Isaiah Thomas
CoY: Jeff Hornacek
Executive of the Year: Flip Saunders
Rookie of the Year: Jabari Parker
Finals: Spurs over Cavs in 6 (Cavs have better record)

come on guys doesn't anyone think derek fisher is in the running for coach of the year, surely you can hand an award to a sock if a dead man can win an election

nah jk there's no way it's not pop's race to lose, and cloudy with a chance of thibs if the bulls go further in the playoffs

pardon me I'm new to full-on-complete NBA junkiedom since last year and league pass is 200+? that's pricier than MLB TV for fucks sake.

fuck, guess I'm watching the national games and a lotta shitty celtics action unless the NBA has an equivalent to At Bat

― blood on the peaves (slothroprhymes), Monday, October 27, 2014 11:08 PM (Yesterday)

it's 199 for TV+broadband+mobile access, but it's "just" 149 for all the same stuff without the TV

i am not putting nearly enough thought into this but

WEST

clippers
spurs
warriors
OKC
blazers
mavs
rockets
suns

EAST

cavs
bulls
wiz
hawks
heat
hawks
nets
hornets

clippers over OKC
cavs over bulls
cavs over clippers

MVP: cp3
CoY: blatt

c'mon Milwaukee is getting that 8-spot

lol probs not

i think the east will be deeper this year than it has been recently tho

Would like to thank everyone in advance for the 6k+ Mike Woodson time capsule thread, which I will be setting aside a few hours to read through today to I know wtf happened after Lebron signed with ... the Cavs, maybe? Did that happen?

NB that thread has over 150mb of jpgs and gifs, good job good effort, folks.

btw free league pass until like the 4th i think

Oooh ty for this I always forget

btw Kev you have the raptors falling out of the playoffs?

nuggets will win the nba playoffs

oh duh the second hawks should be the raptors

nuggets will win the nba playoffs

― ciderpress, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 12:08 PM (6 minutes ago)

always

i considered putting them in the 8th spot but the west is really deep

League pass is the best 200 bucks I spend every year

There's an Internet only version and also a smaller Internet version where you pick five teams you want which should fill up your schedule nicely if you just pick a fave team or two plus a couple contenders

Mini pro tip the league pass apps let u listen to radio broadcasts and pick either home or away sometimes I rock that while walking the dog

(Many xposts to some league pass chatter)

oh duh the second hawks should be the raptors

― k3vin k., Tuesday, October 28, 2014 12:15 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf hawks are raptors

the internet is rich in previews and predictions today friends here is lowe http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-rankings-san-antonio-spurs-los-angeles-clippers-oklahoma-city-thunder-cleveland-cavaliers

xxxpost is there a way to get just the radio? granted basketball isnt as enjoyable via radio as baseball is but it'd be a decent substitute for the giant league pass splurge

how many zillions of words is the lowe piece, trying to decide if I'm gonna get anything done today

it's a preview piece tho you have to read it, ILHer's duty

i'm a couple paragraphs in and no bad jokes yet

paragraph 3 ends with an all caps "spursgasm!!!" ref so idk guys...

kawhi and splitter are out tonight

lol pop trolling already

ray allen still hasn't chosen a team?

idk if I were ray I'd chill til the break and make the obv choice (Spurs)

come on don't y'all have faith in a jalen rose guarantee that he's spending his twilight year with the cavs? surely he's never been wrong about anything he's predicted

ray prob hates bron by now, ray is a hateful man

oof but some of lowes numbers on miami minus bron are pretty rough

I just wanna see the Spurs playing polo out there with ray as a corner three option for 14 minutes a game, it'd be ridic

ya perfect fit for sure

it'd be like the space cowboys of the NBA

ray prob hates bron by now, ray is a hateful man

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 1:14 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm lebron probably forgot to dribble exactly three times then pass to him precisely 17 inches from the apex of the 3pt line's left side curve as the shot clock reaches exactly 4 and now ray hates him forever

lol that reads like im clowning goon but u know im clowning ray and also that seriously could really be true

The Kings are going to be entertaining! Owner Vivek Ranadivé has pitched the idea to the team’s brain trust of playing 4-on-5 defense and leaving one player to cherry-pick, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

lol plz do

naw it read right imo xp

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/b-s-report-zach-lowe-and-haralabos-voulgaris-3/

i am enjoying this

plz summarize i do no pods

updated
http://everyplayerintheleague.tumblr.com/

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/b-s-report-zach-lowe-and-haralabos-voulgaris-3/

i am enjoying this

― k3vin k., Tuesday, October 28, 2014 1:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

they like chicago i guess along w the usual suspects

haralabob went hard on brandon jennings called him "terrible"

z lowe has a weird thing for monty williams because he sometimes runs "creative" stuff bob and bill accurately noted that his creative sets usually end up in a terrible midrange shot and also hes probably getting fired

everyone made fun of byron scott's boner for 1988 basketball

z lowe seemed half asleep and i have a weirdly hard time with haralabob's way of speaking, maybe his accent, am i anti canadian? i dunno

i think lowe noted somewhere that he had just gotten off a plane

the end of lowe's lakers summary:

There’s a chance this is the greatest stealth tank job of our generation.

...there is nothing stealth about what they are doing unless you are jim buss (even he prob gets it by now) or, like kobe, blinded by sociopathy and past glories and also just maybe possibly an idiot.

Remember reading that they're doing away with blackouts for League Pass, any one confirm?

speaking of lakers and idiots.. the lakers radio home station is the worst shit in the world.. if you guys dont want these updates let me know because it gets fucking old..

either way mychal thompson (father of klay) has been predicting the lakers are capable of 48 wins this year. FOURTY FUCKING EIGHT. when pressed on this this morning one of the co talking heads was like "dude the over under is 31 and Im having a hard time taking the over.. you still think theyre capable of 48?" then this dumb motherfucker responds 'well thats only if theyre healthy.. if they can stay healthy they can win 48'

insane

there's a part in that simmons/bob/lowe thing where simmons asks bob how much he'd pay to buy the hornets, that leads to simmons uttering "how much is it worth to you to be anthony davis' owner for the next ten years" and it's, uh...

well he does work for the lakers whats he gonna say xp

I wouldn't dismiss him so easily, he's also said that Klay is getting a max.

everyones saying that!

max klay is totes happening whether it should or not

― Clay, Monday, October 27, 2014 1:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

even me even i'm saying it

klay should get a bledsoe type of deal

klay kind of has the "wait you didn't trade me for kevin love so i assume that means i'm worth a shit ton of money" leverage

yeah warriors are stuck their cap situation means theres no way to replace him if he took someone elses max offer

not that it wld be easy to dig up someone as good as him even if they could

lol not trading for love man wow

Klay is 100% getting the max either from GS or someone else

Scarcity at the 2 and he will be in the window to lock in a smaller max before the new TV money makes everything go krazy

my predix

east

1. cavs
2. bulls
3. raptors
4. wizards
5. hawks
6. heat
7. hornets
8. nets

west

1. spurs
2. clippers
3. warriors
4. okc
5. houston
6. dallas
7. memphis
8. portland

east finals: cavs > bulls
west finals: thunder > clippers

nba finals: cavs > thunder

mvp: 1. bron bron 2. blake 3. steph

west team i don't like at all: denver
east team i don't like at all: detroit

what, klay is totally getting a huge deal from golden state that's why they didn't trade him

thats what everyone is saying

im kinda feeling an everything goes wrong type season for the thunder idk

i didn't pick this but i really really think the warriors can make a run at the west finals

they won't toe to toe with the spurs two years back in their first ever series and i think if they were healthy last year they would've beaten the clippers in the first round

and all of that was with marc jackson

i think okc wld beat the cavs tho cause the cavs cant play D

i'm picking lebron to win every title for the next three seasons basically

that bballbreakdown video from the other day has me pretty bullish on gsw's offense being up there with the elites

im gonna make some really crazy predicts

wcf warriors > clips
ecf bulls > cavs
finals warriors > bulls

mvp steph curry

bogut is such a question mark though and w/o him they're basically boned around the rim / guys can abuse steph up top xp to me

yeah bogut is utterly key

yeah they need bogut to be healthy

they have festus back this year too he's extremely bad at offense but he's at least a better back up big than what they had last year

dubs shd put him on a severe duncan style minutes/games restriction imho i tihnk i said this already

the bulls look really good on paper but i'm just very very skeptical of their ability to beat a great offensive team in the playoffs

if it's them and the cavs in the east finals i think it's 4-1/4-2 series

celtix > sixers

every team should probably put their guys on minutes restrictions xp

like if you're blatt and you're playing lebron more than 32-35 mpg in the reg season i think you are a nutty person

bogut was pretty healthy all last year and didn't play heavy minutes just happened to break a rib at the exact wrong time.

i dunno how many teams in the west can really afford to do that

pop is no doubt ahead of the curve on resting players but i don't think people appreciate how unique of a situation he's in on so many levels (star players take less money so their depth is exceptional, unparalleled job security, immense respect of players owing to tenure etc)

i'm not sure if kerr in his first year trying to revamp the office can just ice bogut for a third of the season -- the difference between home court in the first round and the 7 seed is like 2 games

the bulls look really good on paper but i'm just very very skeptical of their ability to beat a great offensive team in the playoffs

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they have the pieces to be a good enough offensive playoff team this time imho, whether or not thibs can put the pieces together idk, really too bad they didnt get melo

yeah ownership buying in isn't gonna happen everywhere

and like with portland's bench they can't ride lamarcus for 35mpg etc xxp

bogut was pretty healthy all last year and didn't play heavy minutes just happened to break a rib at the exact wrong time.

― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Tuesday, October 28, 2014 4:20 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it was fluky but still just his injury history generally

bron shouldn't play as much as he did last year but i dunno how much blatt can rest him -- they have a lot to build there and their back up wings are all 85 year old guys who shouldn't be playing much either

rose
butler
taj
melo
noah
this wouldn've been an amazing team to watch come together

i mean he should be relied on way less than he was with the heat last year and the cavs are def afforded that opportunity because of kyrie and love

but it's not like you want to be throwing mike miller, james jones and shawn marion out there every night either

feel like the warriors cld afford to rest bogut if their offense is as good as people are expecting they can shoot a lot of bad/mediocre teams out of the gym

there's a guy on Michigan State named Lourawls 'Tum Tum' Nairn

i respect that

Sounds like he's named after Lieutenant Rawls from The Wire, nice.

its the best tv show ever and available in both dvd and streaming formats

would fit in in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss

100% guaranteed wrong
east

1. cavs
2. Wizards
3. raptors
4. Bulls
5. hornets
6. Bobcats
7. heats
8. nets

west

1. Clippers
2. Spurs
3. OKC
4. Dubs
5. Portland
6. dallas
7. Phoenix
8. Houston

east finals: cavs over wizards
west finals: Spurs over warriors

nba finals: Spurs over cavs

mvp: 1 bron 2 Blake 3 Russell

west team i don't like at all: Utah, Denver
east team i don't like at all: deeeeetroit basket-lols
(^good idea j0rd)

man no one believes in stan van gundy huh

i believe in stan and think detroit will be better than last year!

i think stan van is good but i think he really needs a year to turn that roster over before we're talking playoff contention

i don't really want to watch brandon jennings and josh smith and greg monroe play basketball ever much less together

someone will prob want to trade for josh smith hey why not everyone loves josh smith for no reason

drummond looked pretty solid in FIBA play...but then there's josh smith. and an injured jodie meeks.

SVG, your bench - WOOF

xpost stop saying that if you say trade enough times danny ainge shows up and throws away something for a lesser player and a bunch of picks

true

maybe they can trade jeff green for him tho

http://www.theonion.com/articles/lebron-james-relieved-to-finish-filming-nba-season,37306/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Pic:1:Default

some days i'm sad #tradewade never happened we need to work harder next time

feel like the basketball world needs to be taught a lesson in respect

what am i doing with my life

http://i.imgur.com/OAA2bAN.jpg

is wes matthews better than klay thompson is a p good debate

was gonna bring up wes when we were talking about thompson earlier, it's a contract year for him iirc

http://bballbreakdown.com/2014/10/28/is-wes-matthews-better-than-klay-thompson

that reminds me, this is the last year portland will be paying brandon roy. he will receive $14.4 million.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/nba-d-d-the-dungeon-masters-guide-to-the-2014-15-season-20141028

here ya go ya dorks

o gosh

all 3 games tonight with 10+ point spreads, nice job NBA schedulers

Prediction spurs win championship the rest is just some bullshit

4/48 for kemba

they r giving the spurs their rings rn

adam siver is hugging them

kawhi avoided the hug

they shd all play the game w them on

the spurs have the best fans in the nba according to tony parker who is french btw

"hawks" "best fans in the nba"
About 27,800 results (0.47 seconds)

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/nba-d-d-the-dungeon-masters-guide-to-the-2014-15-season-20141028

here ya go ya dorks

― Clay, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How is Tim not lawful good

*flips table throws empty bag of doritos*

i had the exact same dorky thought, hi-five

man no one believes in stan van gundy huh

― blood on the peaves (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, October 28, 2014 5:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Def believe in Stan, best offseason hire, but that team might be a total teardown job

Lol clay Awesome

*misses hi five, knocks over tape deck ejecting Conan the barbarian soundtrack*

extended advertisement featuring chris bosh in a three piece suit at a fashion show recommends u visit nba.com/style

all 3 games tonight with 10+ point spreads, nice job NBA schedulers

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:39 PM (1 hour ago)

the spurs are giving 3.5

i rushed over to bovada ASAP when you posted that because there's no way that could've been true

it is kinda funny they chose to kick off with the not exactly universally loved classic spurs/mavs match up and that it conflicts w game 6 of the world series

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1EpbcdIgAA9D1U.jpg

here we go again

no one is watching this world series tho lol

i think k3v and i posted that pic to diff't threads at the exact same moment

wow tnt going with kendricks i for intro music

haha clay

http://i.imgur.com/Y0saGmK.jpg

Is LP working for anybody else

It's not working in two browsers and I am very concerned that my workplace is blocking it

very concerned

maybe it doesnt work on tnt thrusday?

manuuu

There's one non-TNT game on tonight xp

ya but maybe it doesnt work at all they have some sort of exclusive this is sounding vaguely familiar

Can't be itd be a pretty bad product of it didn't work two days a week

well its only two games, and it is a pretty bad prosuct

anyway im checking it on the appletv and the peiicans game does look like its available but its hanging

tho idk on the main screen all the games are greyed out but then when u click through it offers options to watch them but it also says u can watch the spurs game so idk

Yeah it's hanging for me too

I got it to work on iPad I got a window asking me to purchase or continue that said "free trial“ top, I just closed that and then the video started

Maybe I hit continue

I logged in with my NBA acct but didn't log in w TV acct - iirc from last year I didn't have to put in cable credentials until the free trial ended

it is kinda funny they chose to kick off with the not exactly universally loved classic spurs/mavs match up and that it conflicts w game 6 of the world series

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:02 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Remember our board description

east:
bulls
cavs
wiz
heat
raps
hawks
hornets
pacers

west:
spurs
warriors
okc
clips
blazers
mavs
rockets
pels

okc win finals over bulls

the spurs are giving 3.5

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:56 (Yesterday) Permalink

i rushed over to bovada ASAP when you posted that because there's no way that could've been true

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 29 October 2014 00:00 (40 minutes ago) Permalink

ugh I use a nba fantasy stats site and they got this totally wrong, very annoying

u heard of this shit http://www4.ballstreams.com

apparently its legit if obviously against usa law, wld think itd get shut down at some point but apparently it was good last season

tw reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2hmyln/is_ballstreams_legal/
http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2hsf89/reminder_ballstreams_prices_increase_tomorrow/

http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2elavy/experiences_with_ballstreams/

the word 'ballstreams' is very unappealing

very evocative

inside of spurs ring:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/drp/nba/spurs/sites/default/files/styles/main_gallery_photo__480_tall/public/spurs_2014_nba_championship_ring_04_web.jpg

forgot abt the Spurs' hiring Becky Hammond, v cool

lets nba

duncan is flopping a lot tonight :/

refs keeping the spurs in the game

really excited parsons isn't a rocket so I can like him now

oh my god yes, clay.

i miss vince

oh fuck yes my first cliff paul ad of the year, really in the swing of things now

lol howard taunting kobe by acting mature and magnanimous http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11780755/dwight-howard-says-exit-los-angeles-lakers-houston-rockets-was-not-due-fear-kobe-bryant

duncan decision not leaving is the greatest ever

wow, richard jefferson is on the mavs?

ha right

they prob just call him vince

wow, richard jefferson is on the mavs?

Between him dirk and Vince surely the oldest team in the NBA?

anthony davis has 22-16-1-2-6 through 3 quarters hi everybody

vince is on memphis now. i think the spurs are the oldest team actually

hi brow

ryan anderson has 22 pts and 7 offensive boards in 20 minutes

brow is up to 8 blocks

we're going to see a lot of wacky davis stat lines this year

and 1 for eric gordon is swish + arthroscopies

wow evan fournier's hair

what if anthony davis bends this entire season to his will its not impossible

i am gonna feel weird promoting for davis as mvp next spring with the pelis in the 9th or 10th spot.

and by promoting i mean on my cross-platform social media machine

Orlando Magic are like the subtle Sixers

he needs one more block for the big man trip dub

League Pass didn't work at home either I think they're just overloaded

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Magic guard Victor Oladipo will miss Orlando's season opener and is out indefinitely with his second injury this month.

Victor Oladipo made the NBA All-Rookie first team last season.
The team announced Friday that Oladipo suffered a facial fracture in practice Thursday and will undergo surgery Saturday. The injury occurred when Oladipo took an inadvertent elbow during a practice drill.

wow did not hear this dude broke his face in half

Orlando Magic are like the subtle Sixers

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 10:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally except they didnt take back to back injured guys is the only difference

xp yeah i just had to google that too, wonder who got him

not a great start to the Chandler Parsons era

i just don't get how the Magic can continue to be this bad, I know oladipo's out but they seem to have a talented roster that should fit together but they'll go 28-54 again

theyre super young, like they def have some promising players but no one in their prime

is tobias harris actually any good at basketball or does he just put up solid numbers on a brokeass team

no one has any idea because no one has ever seen a magic game

This game is fun

Who he play for: Charlie Villanueva

wow cool finish

is tobias harris actually any good at basketball or does he just put up solid numbers on a brokeass team

― Clay, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 10:19 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel with every fiber of my being that it's the latter

Chandler parsons needs to ditch the full length tights, dress exactly like Dirk, woulda made that shot

jesus mo harkless didn't even get into the game?

Harris definitely doesn't guard anyone from what I can tell

do we have more posts than the world series thread yet

no but with a good day tomorrow we'll be in range

#Anythingispossible

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1FLgC4CcAEaNR2.jpg

damnit brow missed the trip dub by 1blk

lol was abt to do this clay beat me nba stats 2014-15

Anthony Davis ‏@AnthonyDavis76 6h6 hours ago
It's that time of year again. lol

I DO NOT PLAY BASKETBALL.

I DO NOT HAVE A UNIBROW.

wow this game is so colorful

jordan hill is actually starting at center

maybe now that dwight is copying his hair harden will change his

maybe dwight will grow a cool beard and change up his #brand

i knew there was something different about dwight

howard "did not spend his summer playing basketball or working out much"

ha that was a very ugly 4 on 1 by the rockets

lin is getting destroyed every time he drives

looooool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1FQL-pCAAAAfYo.jpg

lakers look like an exceptionally bad team rn

http://i.imgur.com/g4O8JiK.jpg

http://biscutball.blogspot.com/2014/10/biscutball-preview-30-portland-trail.html?m=1

a preview of the blazers season by an 8 year old boy. it is the best thing i have read in years.

"Their coach is named Terry, which is a girl's name a lot of the time but Terry is a bod and the coach of the Blazers. I would be cool with it if Terry is a girl, because I think girls and boys should have equal opportunities in the United States and all over the world. Paul Allen owns the Blazers. He sits on the baselines usually and kind of dresses dumpily. Sometimes he is with Dan Aykroyd. I think they are friends because they are both interested in ghosts and finding ghosts, and capturing ghosts and asking them after the afterlife."

lakers are the comedy of the year ALREADY

ha faced paul allen

Ha is that ad actually kobels lighting himself on fire when he realizes what a crap team he's trapped on

Btw lakers are on three of the first four nights of nationally televised games if you count NBA TV

So are the Bulls but I guess the Bulls have a legit shot to be good, I'd much rather watch them obv

Also we should probably enjoy rose for the two weeks we have him

ha kobe could legit self-immolate just before tip-off on christmas day and i'd probabyl be like "yes this is where the narrative was headed"

jordan hill receives 9 million

lakers prob the worst team not involved in an intentional years long cycle of self destruction and regeneration

jordan hill receives 9 million

― moullet, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am obligated to respond "to do what"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtV-7H0R7lg

reggie miller on sports journalism ethics

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1FPcnDIYAAlawY.jpg

who can burst into flame out of shear indignation

"playing like a mathematician" could take on new meaning this year

as in he might not be very athletic anymore get it

its funny cause kobes biggest liability is his low basketball iq

who can secretly murder dozens of homeless men across southern california every summer?

reggie miller on sports journalism ethics

― Clay, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would ask if Reggie understands what anonymous sources are and why sometimes they are obligated to remain anonymous but uh it's Reggie and I'm not sure he is from this planet

" I understand what Woodward and Bernstein did but why didn't deep throat come forward, Nixon shouldn't have to go out and answer all those questions"

reggie still upset at the cowardly and unethical journalist who leaked this

http://www.hoopsvibe.com/images/stories/reggiebelly.jpg

Lakers offense looks like a disaster. A disaster I tell you.

Papanikolaou is crafty

it's not even an offense at the moment.

man the tights are really creeping back into the league didnt they make a rule against that

or like half the guys who dont have tights have knee sleeves that reach almost to their socks

i hope at the end of the season they destroy all the tapes of the lakers' halfcourt game and we all agree it never happened

history should not remember this

Ben Detrick or Treat ‏@bdetrick 37s37 seconds ago
Kobe: Put. That coffee. Down.
[pause]
Kobe: Coffee's for Kobes only.

that pick the lakers owe the suns is gonna be gooood

this season could really be defined by lakers/kobe schadenfreude

it's defined by kobe looking toward the sky, at the jig (which is up)

kobe's defense is AWFUL

nah. but a nice big dose of lakers/kobe schadenfreude will be a very welcome addition to a season mostly defined by good hoops played by good teams, teams beside which the lakers will merely be an irrelevancy, one that teams like the TWolves look forward to playing so as to get an easy W. it will be a season where kobe will not get a single vote for mvp and no one will blink or even notice or comment on it. :-)

Ariza + Papanikolaou > Parsons

loving kostas!!

http://i.imgur.com/4gydoHG.jpg

nother predict

jabari parker will be a better nba player than andrew wiggins

not just this year but for their careers

i get the feeling from what i've seen of wiggins that he's gonna settle into a sorta darius miles w/ a good attitude place

lmbo kobe / dwight double techs

lakers fans chanting "kobe" down 25 on october 28th

guess it's the little things

which is why he's worth 24 mill a year

I'd imagine that has more to do with the Time Warner deal

Ariza + Papanikolaou > Parsons

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:42 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah

looks like Randle blew out his achilles

maybe a broken leg?

wow rip :(( he was my favorite draftee

I'm behind how bad is it to watch? broken leg > torn achilles

that's a bummer, could've been their one bright spot

it's not bad looking, just a slight give to the leg, looks like a broken leg about 12 inches above the ankle

dang

man randle was like the one conceivable good thing for the lakers this season

lol

there shd be an amnesty period where lakers fans can switch to the clippers if they want but they have to forswear the lakers forever

Kenny Smith "I don't believe you can lose three players and be better." what if you replace them with better players

that might be illegal?

jack nicholson just booked three consecutive features

also how did I not realize there's a transporter tv show

ha i was amazed to discover that this evening myself

just remembered anthony davis is 21 years old

literally no ceiling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZo81waJ5zU

In Davis's 36 minutes on the floor, the Pelicans had a defensive rating of 82.5. For context, last year's best defense (the Pacers) had a 99.3 defensive rating across the entire season.

you should have a good defensive rating when your C and PF combine for 15 blocks

him together with asik is basically dont even bother going near the basket

they had 34 rebounds too!

wow that court looks worse than i thought it would look

its super corny

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1F9FzIIAAAXYcy.jpg

broken tibia for randle apparently

bummer

he shd demand a trade tho

obv

kinda digging the new red pelicans jerseys

http://www.rantsports.com/nba/files/2014/10/Pelicans1.jpg

reggie still upset at the cowardly and unethical journalist who leaked this

― Clay, Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Took me years of thereapy to forget Reggie's psychic sun tattoo around his bellybutton... now it's all come back

Thanks Clay

Eric Gordon's eyes look crazy as hell in that Pelicans pic

he really likes the new uniforms

after lasts nights game i was kinda thinking maybe the pelicans cld make the playoffs but then i looked at their roster nd wow after their top six it is real bad folks, jimmer and rivers got 38 mins combined

yeah shallowest team in the league basically?

salmons fredette rivers thats their 7-9 rotation

not sure trading two 1st round picks for holiday was the way to go

who's their 4th frontcourt player? the pelican mascot?

they didnt play anyone else last night more than 2 mins but they have babbitt-withy-ajinca

a group that inspires confidence right there

withy is capable of standing around and clogging the lane a lil maybe but tbh im not too familiar with any of their games, i dont think anyone is

three man rotation shd be pretty doable between davis-asik-anderson tho casue davis can play both spots

yeah i was looking, ajinca was putting up 6/6 in 17 mins last year, might not be awful?

wonder if theyd ever try to go super big w all three those guys, w asik and davis behind him anderson might be able to sort of guard some threes

yeah he had a 16per last year and 14 the year before who knew xp

Thanks to his size, Ajinca is an above-average shot-blocker. His defensive value decreases exponentially the farther he is away from the basket. Out on the perimeter, pick-and-rolls can expose Ajinca's limited footspeed and quickness. Developing his core strength did help Ajinca defend one-on-one in the post.

seems like he might be a fine 4th big

Early in the 2013-14 season, New Orleans went overseas to bring Alexis Ajinca back to the NBA after two full seasons out of the league. Ajinca was 20 when he was drafted and not yet 23 when he last appeared in the league, and he spent the two years back in his native France improving his body and gaining valuable experience. The improved Ajinca started 30 games for the Pelicans and provided valuable minutes at center.

Ajinca literally grew between NBA stints. Listed at 7-foot when he previously played the league, he's now officially 7-2 and looks every inch of it.

crazy

alright i'm officially in on ajinca

he is my favorite player

man i didn't really ajinca went back to france. i remember seeing a hornets game on espn late last year and being like "wait this guy is still in the league huh?????"

If the Pelicans front office stays on course, AD will fly away asap. My greatest concern is that he must never, ever become a Laker prior to the year 2034.

its unheard of for players who are offered a first max contract by the teams who drafted them to not take it so hes prob in nola for at least the next ~7 years or however long that is

imo the pelicans front office hasnt been terrible, picking up anderson and asik were both great moves, but nor have they been great, the holiday trade was pretty dicey as was maxing out gordon, drafting rivers was obvs just unconscionable

that team is a mess

they got anderson on a good deal, but the holiday/gordon/evans moves are *very* suspect

if everyone is healthy they have 6 guys who can play crunchtime minutes which would strike me as a good problem if their coach wasn't monty williams

holiday is almost not that bad like youre giving up two top ten draft picks but you cld easily come away with zero players as good as holiday if you kept them, fwiw tho i suspect philly mightve got two player better than him

feel like all three of those deals fall in the not good but not terrible range

and itll prob be time to fire williams by the time they round into form anyway

anyway i stand by my conclusion that their front office has been kinda ok

or like slightly below average

you cld easily come away with zero players as good as holiday

esp if Austin Rivers is your idea of a good 1st round pick

i would be fine with all those moves if the hornets were in the east, but they cashed all their chips to compared with a half-dozen teams as geared up as they are.

it doesn't make sense but that's ownership so maybe the front office did the best they could

the tyreke deal was pretty bad wasnt it tho

to compete*

tyreke is not a player i'd want on my team let alone for $11m a year

also they sacrificed two good back ups to get him on a team lacking depth

Took me years of thereapy to forget Reggie's psychic sun tattoo around his bellybutton... now it's all come back

Thanks Clay

you're welcome, follow me on twitter! ;)

lmao

i bet there's a good number of teams that would straight up take grieves over tyreke even if you weren't factoring contracts into it

true

alright im downgrading the nola organization to solidly below average

tyreke's roy trophy got him about about 5mil a year more than he otherwise woulda signed for huh

entire nba media jumping on the dubs bandwagon rn btw

so much depends
upon

a pair of glass
ankles

breaking
toward the basket

picked by the white
center

https://twitter.com/Mike_Bresnahan/status/527545144489168897

poor fuckin kid

Very happy for Randle. The dude managed to avoid this whole cursed season.

unfortunately he accomplished that by literally embodying it

he hadn't been on the team long enough for its virus to infect him and had in theory a promising career, i can never take any joy in injuries

basically all my lakers hatred is turning "be careful what you wish for" on me in ending nash's career and seriously jeopardizing the future of julius's

fn hell curse of kobe

You might root for the Dodgers but hating the Lakers gives you a get out of jail free card IMO, slothrop.

the dodgers are only my NL B-team anyhow! there are 3 teams ahead of them.

dang thats a lot of teams

for some relief: brooks's look of complete flabbergastedness here had me lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1JBXBNIIAEI2sw.jpg

westbrook is prob wearing cowboy boots instead of sneakers

god i hope so

Early in the 2013-14 season, New Orleans went overseas to bring Alexis Ajinca back to the NBA after two full seasons out of the league. Ajinca was 20 when he was drafted and not yet 23 when he last appeared in the league, and he spent the two years back in his native France improving his body and gaining valuable experience. The improved Ajinca started 30 games for the Pelicans and provided valuable minutes at center.

Ajinca literally grew between NBA stints. Listed at 7-foot when he previously played the league, he's now officially 7-2 and looks every inch of it.

crazy

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:21 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he measured 7'1 in shoes before the draft, calling BS on this one

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Alexis-Ajinca-534/

Ajinca is pretty much the worst case Gobert (which seems like it's not happening)

omg im lobbying congress to make measuring basketball players in shoes illegal starting right now

They play in shoes though so it's a more accurate in-game height!

the dodgers are only my NL B-team anyhow! there are 3 teams ahead of them.

― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dang thats a lot of teams

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 1:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yah that's pretty promiscuous.

there can be only one

They play in shoes though so it's a more accurate in-game height!

― pleeechazunga (Leee), Wednesday, October 29, 2014 4:45 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

leeeee i know u can do better than this

shoes are a variable and variables should be eliminated

yeah and like to not mention that no one has ever been measured for height outside an nba combine its just a really weird cultural artifact from a height obsessed league

Chuckles is 5'6", but he's 7'6" in stilts...

srsly like measure players in their stocking feet and then use those numbers for the official profiles and everything dont let teams/players make up how tall they are i just want the truth mane

leeeee i made my major rooting interest very clear in the baseball thread i thought, but i have other teams i enjoy y u gotta be so rood

goon you cant handle the truth about rudy gobert's feet

man fuck you guys!

lol sry dude

u had a good run

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ok i feel better now lol

...celtics have 17 doesnt change our current suck

i only acknowledge titles i watched personally is my policy, also i stripped the lakers of all their minnesota titles and gave them to the wolves fyi

the only thing i was looking forward to was watching Randle this season as far as the lakers go. sucks yo

yeah thats rough i was looking forward to seeing what he cld do too

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most relevant

and im not a huge Kobe stan so i can care less what he does at this point just counting the days till he's done tbh

swear to god y'all better not even think of trying to court KD

leeeee i made my major rooting interest very clear in the baseball thread i thought, but i have other teams i enjoy y u gotta be so rood

Yeah well, unless I wrote it, I don't read posts all that closely, and even then...

have a weird feeling that the lopsidedness of talent in the conferences is going to hurt the lakers' courting chances in the short term. like if you're kd do you go to dc and get to take half the season playing garbage teams and kids still figuring shit out or do you stay west and play the clippers warriors blazers mavs rockets etc 4 times a year each

rick fox was on the radio station I hate so much for the pregame and he was saying it was essential for the lakers to get 25ish minutes from randle every game or the season is a waste. =(

hate the lakers but this news sucks. donald sterling's ghost is haunting the wrong team.

agreed 100 percent this is not how i wanted them to be doomed

lakers upcoming schedule: suns tonight, friday-saturday back-to-back against clippers and warriors, suns on tuesday. this isn't going to get any better anytime soon.

There's a certain irony to this:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/carmelo-anthony-would-like-to-see-some-stability-1.9544199

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.9544444.1414209572!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_2008/image.JPG

THJ's face is fucking priceless

re ajinca, I think it's quite possible that for someone of his height core strength/posture work could add an inch or two between his vertebrae

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lakers shot chart from last night. byronball is truly majestic.

re ajinca, I think it's quite possible that for someone of his height core strength/posture work could add an inch or two between his vertebrae

― micah, Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:08 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i had a friend who swore she gained an inch from pilates

three cheers for byron scott coaching it old school

Lol 'byronball'

*Follows you on Twktter*

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Sorry if I'm doing my forks imitation again.

PS byronball can be rearranged to spell Bronyball.

Yo guess who is starting tonight for the c's

(C-Webb voice)

RondOOOOOOOOOOOO

I would like it even better if Dwight went out of his way to smack Kobe every game but did not say a word to him

haha, kobe really lowering himself to dwight's level here.

An FT analysis of US tax laws shows that Mr Ballmer could claim about half of the purchase price in current terms over the next 15 years against his taxable income. The deduction can be claimed under a little-known feature of the tax code covering so-called active owners of sports franchises.

Under an exception in US law, buyers of sports franchises can use an accounting treatment known as goodwill against their other taxable income. This feature is commonly used by tax specialists to structure deals for sports teams. Goodwill is the difference between the purchase price of an asset and the actual cash and other fixed assets belonging to the team.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/report--steve-ballmer-could-recoup-as-much-as--1-billion-spent-on-clippers-purchase-in-tax-deductions-212247260.html

b/c you know who needs a billion dollars, it's steve ballmer, srsly tho the tax code is the worst

celtics have dubstep in their intro video btw

"Yall ready for BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, WOM-WOM-WOM-WOM-WOM-WOMWAAAAHM, WIBBLE WIBBLE WOOOOOOMP, this??"

Mike Scott's looking great. Expecting big things this yr