reg season chat 08-09 featuring where u go now ai

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is AI really going to DETROIT today?!?

oh damn

Man, Billups AND McDyess? That seems like a risky trade for Detroit. AI isn't really AI anymore.

Also, I wonder how Dice feels about going to Denver for the third time.

shawn marion gets fit for a mask after breaking his nose

HOLY SHIT CRAZY TRADE 1ST WEEK OF THE SEASON YEEHAW!

chauncey :( ;_;

both guy epitomized their respective teams culture now headed to v diff places - im not sure what to make of this - chauncey will be good for denver w/his D steadiness and not needing tons shots - im struggling to imagine how iverson fits in detroit - tho having a dude who can get to the hole will def help their shooters - they didnt really solve their whole three starting quality backcourt players for two jobs problem tho

btw <3 a.i. n billups - sweet dudes all around

poly, dice is not happy and may opt to retire. that is just SAD.

Dice should at least see if the Nuggets flip him elsehwere. I understand that he's like an ultra-sensitive nice dude but he could do a lot of good on a strong playoff team.

guys i am getting a little misty over this :(

yah its def the end of an era when detroits movin chauncey in a straight salary dump - keep in mind dumars assembled that team from scrap tho - he can do it again

I guess AI is in his final year, and next year there are a bunch of awesome free agents out there. Very smart move by Dumars.

how much longer does sheed have

this is his last year too

excellent reference page http://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

btw the year after next is when all the sweet free agents supposedly become available - even tho all of them will prob resign w/their current teams cause it pays so much better

hollinger loves chauncey in denver http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=IversonTrade-Nuggets-081103

btw the year after next is when all the sweet free agents supposedly become available - even tho all of them will prob resign w/their current teams cause it pays so much better

― 888 (ice crӕm), Monday, November 3, 2008 5:12 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

does D’Antoni know that? the Garden is being dismantled in hopes that lebron is coming to resurrect that mess in 2010.

btw the year after next is when all the sweet free agents supposedly become available - even tho all of them will prob resign w/their current teams cause it pays so much better

I would rather make less in order to live in a city that isn't Cleveland (for example).

because teams can sign their own free agents to more money - and because any max deal is based on a raise over what a player was making in his previous contract - if youre a player that has a couple of max contracts left in his career it can add up to a $50m+ difference between playing for yr current team and going to a nicer place

lebron maybe will goto new york cause he can supposedly bridge that gap w/increased endorsements - but it unlikely lebron et al ever go to detroit

aaand any team unless they draft perfectly and manage to sign a few good players for way under market value will have to basically be in rebuilding mode to afford any of these max contract type guys - who wants to go to a rebuilding team - thats the catch 22 w/clearing cap space

hollinger loves chauncey in denver http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=IversonTrade-Nuggets-081103

― 888 (ice crӕm), Monday, November 3, 2008 5:25 PM

i hopes he's right on the melo point, i'd really like to see that

i like this trade a lot for detroit

i think they realized they've been lapped by the cavs and the celts and maybe even orlando at this point so why not try to shake things up with a maverick move. i could see this really igniting them.

who's gonna guard ppl b/w rip and AI though

min and san antonio game is redic

jordan, mavericks lose. have you not been paying attn???

i don't need no sarah palin shit fucking up my team!

links to all nba game streams
http://www.ppnba.com/english.html

why billups not play last nite ?

Carmelo Honors Woodrow Wilson

November 6, 2008 10:06 AM

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz

Carmelo Anthony wanted to honor President-Elect Barack Obama during last night's game against Golden State:

At the Nuggets' shootaround, there was a post-election buzz. Carmelo Anthony smiled and said, "I'm going to try to score 44 tonight," in honor of president-elect Barack Obama, who was elected Tuesday as America's 44th president.

Noble intention, to be sure. And an auspicious matchup if you want to go for 44 -- Golden State ranks 8th in pace.

Unfortnuately, Anthony finished with only 28 points on 13-30 shooting from the field. In doing so, Anthony pays homage to the nation's 28th President, Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ).

carne does that work on mac? it looks like you have to install something but its an .exe

even if it doesnt end up working id just like to say: i love the internet

http://i37.tinypic.com/wtd0fd.jpg

http://www.skycn.com/img/logo.gif

carne does that work on mac? it looks like you have to install something but its an .exe

some of them do. the ones on justinTV work and a couple other ones. i have not loaded any of the ones with plug-ins

i think the trick is to go to the actual site that is streaming.
http://i35.tinypic.com/35jmh3m.jpg

http://www.ppnba.com/images/smile.gif

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?page=jchill-081106

"Some people say 'groundbreaker.' Some say 'trailblazer.' I say I'm the test dummy. I'm the guy who's gonna test it out for everyone else."

aw good dude :)

watch the vid where he takes the interviewer to a greek supermarket XD

carne does that work on mac? it looks like you have to install something but its an .exe

leeee sent me this a week or so ago - no mac :(

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/1107/nba_g_iverson_412.jpg

the end of that rockets/blazers game was insane

justin.tv i <3 u

repost justin.tv chat lols here:

10:43 sunline: go FU_CK YORSELF up the *** with a DILDO how the spelling on that celticsrule1965
10:43 celticsrule1965: sunline u seem angry

http://www.justin.tv/jose3030

Channel Info
Basketball , Football and assorted stuffs, sons.

celticsrule1965 otm

Gotta say, AI looks great in the Pistons uni.

melo cut his braids off!

"Sports have always been a central part of my life," Obama told SI.com before being elected president. "Growing up, I learned about competition and teamwork on the basketball court, and these days I try to get in a pickup game whenever I can.

"If I'm fortunate enough to move into the White House, I'd consider putting in a basketball court," he added.

the clips somehow manage to look and feel exactly the same w/ baron davis, w/ elton, w/o elton, whatever. they just have the stink, god lov3e em. watching them over the course of a year you feel like you're watching the same game over and over, it's just fucking weird is what it is.

i mean the lakers are hateable and loveable (no, really), win big and lose big, i guess part of that is media narrativebut i've been watching both for 15+ years and the clips live in a hellish timeloop quite apart from just sucking most of the time

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081108/capt.d8f1f4a29329476dae19d36e3d08c0a9.aptopix_pistons_nets_basketball_era107.jpg?x=213&y=302&xc=1&yc=1&wc=289&hc=410&q=100&sig=WOnCkFukMCW_8N.PCFsvLQ--

justin.tv i <3 u

― eman, Friday, November 7, 2008 10:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM! rocket vs lakers right now

ladies and gents your remaining undefeated teams at 5-0: lakers and ATLANTA HAWKS

huh?

i mean it's not far in but the hawks have beaten orlando (no joke) philly (preseason darlings of the mark stein types) HORNETS (whaaa) and the toronto boshes

plus okc chunder

"If I'm fortunate enough to move into the White House, I'd consider putting in a basketball court," he added.

<3

but man oh man did the lakers manhandle the rockets, they looked so good and the rockets weren't even all that bad.

ladies and gents your remaining undefeated teams at 5-0: lakers and ATLANTA HAWKS

huh?

― schrödinger's googler (agent hibachi), Monday, November 10, 2008 12:19 PM

the hawks did take our '08 champs to 7 games in the playoffs though

mcdyess back 2 pistons?

isnt dyess obsessed w/getting a ring - if so why fuck w/the pistons - go celtics dude!

news flash news flash smush parker was drafted...by the rio grande valley vipers (wtf) of the D LEAGUE

lol d league draft

http://www.dubdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/smush_parker.jpg

^^^smushcalade

BRINGING THE HEAT

the hawks are real fucking good

mario williams even made a jumper last night

um marvin williams

lol @ justin.tv dude checking out the other games at halftime of the celtics game

wow @ 17 pt comeback

damn durant did the damn thing tonight

kevin durant is going to score a shitload of points this year

calderon has a 6-1 ast/to ratio !

the east ( i originally typed afc lol) has the most compelling teams/storylines this year by far:

- the celts going for two in a row
- the end of the world as we know it in detroit, with AI conducting the orchestra as the ship goes down
- lebron turning the nba into a man vs. boys game
- the hawks emerging as a power we can all get behind (eastern warriors if w/o a first round flameout ceiling)
- DWIGHT HOWARD
- d' antoni & the knicks
- danny granger: 2nd leading scorer in the nba
- lol the sixers actually suck (this would be way more fun if the phils hadn't just won the series)

yow celtics D still scary!

- the raptors being really awesome and chris bosh being a top 5 player in the league

meanwhile the west has oj mayo, the blazers, chris paul, the lakers and a bunch of old ppl

east:

- derrick f. rose

sixers will def NOT suck this year tho

yeah maybe not (LOUIS WILLIAMS) but they've already been soundly beaten by every good team they've played this year

eh theyre just working out the kinks integrating brand

yeah you're probably right. i guess it depends on what realistic expectations are for them? no way they are getting past the second round but i guess that's a pretty good season

yah well theyre not likely beating the celtics or cavs - next year if they add a shooter or two they could be serious tho

lol @ justin.tv dude checking out the other games at halftime of the celtics game

― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Monday, November 10, 2008 8:54 PM

lol the chatroom goes batshit when they do that

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?page=jchill-081106

"Some people say 'groundbreaker.' Some say 'trailblazer.' I say I'm the test dummy. I'm the guy who's gonna test it out for everyone else."

― eman, Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:47 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

good for j chill, i remember hearing stories about how certain players (josh smith) used to treat him like a second class citizen cuz he came off the bench (even tho he's clearly superior to the likes of nominal-starter marvin williams), dont blame him for leaving

lol @ justin.tv dude checking out the other games at halftime of the celtics game

― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Monday, November 10, 2008 8:54 PM

haha! some dudes last season had a camera pointed at a TV set up. you'd hear the guys in the room talking shit and getting wasted.

O.J. Mayo on just-completed four-game West Coast trip: 28 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 50% from the floor, 51% from three.

Last night, down 17 with a minute to go in the third, Marc Iavaroni moved Mayo to point for the first time in his NBA career. Result: 19 points and 4 assists in 13 minutes, leading the team from 17 down to 2 up before Phoenix finally won.

NICE JOB KEVIN MCHALE!

chicago upsets atlanta! tonite @ 830 est

lolwizards 0 - 5

lebron is hitting some amazing shots tonite

this is otm

Mayo, he's for real like Beasley and Rose. I like that, despite his profligate scoring, he also makes smart plays, resourceful plays, almost mature-beyond-his-years plays that bespeak a certain calm and wisdom. Maybe it's just the beard, which frames his face in way that's anything but post-Bron. I just get the feeling that he's never really in a hurry, and that when he starts going off, it's because he's decided the time is right. There's something Joe Johnson-esque to it.

freedarko obvs

ha i was all hmm sounds good O FFS BEARO FREE DARKO FOOL ME ONCE...

why has igoudala taken 9 shots tonight and thaddeus young 14

lebron gonna average 35 this year? how good will cavs be if they move expiring szerbiak + picks for redd?

the cavs are going to win it sll

everyone talks about lebron winning bolting for ny/nj to make mad dollars or pal around with hov but no one ever brings up the fact that if lbj wins one in cleveland it kind of absolves him from turning on his team and his state

winning

maybe if they get redd or someone comparable xp

mostly i think lebron is a transformer who plays basketball

maybe if they get redd or someone comparable xp

― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

mo williams is good enough?

in addition to mo williams

wow you know theres a bunch of good teams this year

and one v scary one

this is crazy

George Hill, PG
Roger Mason, SG
Tim Duncan, PF
Ime Udoka, SG
Fabricio Oberto, C

8 pts 4 rbs in 11 mins for ariza at half

cavs should start varejao and run imo

good game going on in dallas

Chris Bosh Dancing To Busta Rhymes Arab Money On FLOW935 FM

i love chris bosh

this is crazy

Did Timmy get traded to the developmental league or what.

haha for serious

btw bosh's youtube channel is essential http://www.youtube.com/user/cboshtv

here he is pwning someone in rock band

10:47 mrluna2012: is this for people who cant afford cable

or whose cable box is locked in a trunk

which feed are you watching?
xp

im watching dallas-lakers on fifa09 online gaming

chicago upsets atlanta! tonite @ 830 est

― Because it's a snow machine (deej), Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:31 PM

...

it was a close game!!!

to be fair that was more hope than prediction

imagine what would be different without kh's injury ...

die kevin mchale die die die

:D i kind of agree with that freedarko take on oj mayo thus far, he won't keep it up but i see a weird continuity that goes oj mayo -> joe johnson -> paul pierce, that time-controlled, loping old man game; oj obv more explosive and more error-prone for now and pp having all the veteran moves and 'all star mode' where he just can't be stopped but it's def a continuum

if lebron didn't exist joe johnson would be racking up player of the weeks and months this year

also chris bosh now >>> gilbert for tru 21st century people's star

what's going on in Oakland? Nelson is fucking it all up or what?

monte ellis moped kinda fuckd w/their plans

Greg Oden might possibly play some minutes in another NBA game tonight! How's that for really big excitement?

uh....?

shaq v. yao

poor yao - born too late

what's going on in Oakland? Nelson is fucking it all up or what?

It sounds like Nelson is trying to force Mullin out and install Donnie Nelson. Mullin and the team president Robert Rowell are not on the same page at all, and Rowell just fired Mullin's good friend Pete D'Alessandro and replaced him with Nelson's friend Larry Riley. Mullin had a deal to re-sign Baron but blew it. Rowell is playing hardball with Monta Ellis after Mullin asked him not to. Jackson is going to be re-signed long-term for no good reason. Nelson won't let his young dudes off the bench even though the team obviously won't contend this year (although he's been giving them more run with Maggette and Harrington injured). Harrington hates Nelson. It's pretty bad.

Mullin had a deal to re-sign Baron but Rowell rejected it, I mean.

iirc rick bucher said nellie might have thrown salt in the deal too

which game 2 watch:
c's v hawks
lakers v hornets

d v r

Hi guys, greg oden just got his first nba points on a offensive board, spin and pretty serious dunk.

posey backs into bynum, bynum shoves posey to ground

d v r

― nize narcisso (tremendoid), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:58 PM

not an option but i got 2 justin.tv windows open XD

this game sucks. celtics/hawks is way more interesting. and the feed is overdubbed in.. russian?

pierce with the clutch jumper!

also chris bosh now >>> gilbert for tru 21st century people's star

― schrödinger's googler (agent hibachi), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:50 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

yes

just got in from the bars..oh shiit lakers 7-0

That Pierce.

mcgrady taking down nash!

shaq pushing everyone

shitty move by barnes

ladies and gentleman, the 2008 suns

yes, just one gentleman...

oh! nice buzzer beater nash

oh! nice buzzer beater nash

http://216.71.158.68/webcat/media/siren.gif jazz jizzed on by wizards http://216.71.158.68/webcat/media/siren.gif

jizzing wizard would be a good name for a high school punk band

d-will played like he was still hurting, real tentative - would rather see price or knight in there until he is back at 100% tbh. no okur or fesenko and AK not really showing up either didn't help.

matt barnes: still a d-bag

PAUL PIERCE !!!!

holy fuck @ dwight howard tonite

http://ap.google.com/media/ALeqM5hgXSXznokYWuI0c8HRhnB7Uwf0mA?size=m

nice nail polish chunderhead

http://www.crucialminutiae.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/mystery.jpg

game of pick up artist

lol at the suns/lakers fight

what a girly fight including shaq pushing four rockets at once

LOL user profile http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=put+points+on+your+face&aq=f&oq=

damnnnn googles fast

haha

kings coach fined $25,000 for calling officiating "ridiculous"

can players get away with that or do they get fined too

jordan loses 1 on 1 to some mutal fund guy

*

Bruce (WA): What's playing on your iTunes?

J.A. Adande: Now it's Black Moon. Enta da Stage is an underrated album.

:D

gross suns-kings game real boring

phoenix turnovers like theyre going out of style
ahhh it got way more interesting the lazier the suns play - if sacramento pulls this out it would be XD

pistons laying it on the lakers

nite of upsets dertoit>la denver>boston nj>atlanta sa>houston

oh + charlotte>utah

sacramento almost upset the sun too, really wish they had - i had to leave when the game was going into OT

jesus christ did you guys see what shaq just did

what happened

hes acting like a baby too

just clotheslined dude and got ejected

haha what the fuck

he just got fined $35,000 for shoving the whole suns team

has he lost his mind

see the replay if you can

im sure it will be all over sportscenter tonight

good news for my fantasy team lol

damn lopez is killin it

8:11am3king3:STUCKEY IS BUFFED AND SEXY HE IS BETTER THAN BILLUPS

word to god

8:14chaudhry737:i agree with am3king2

ahaha nash blocks a shot

Leandro Barbosa, SG Has not entered game

what the hell is this

really want a nashblock.gif

amundson with the dunk and the ugly free throws

this is a great game

http://www.nba.com/media/act_chris_quinn.jpg

Leandro Barbosa, SG Has not entered game

His mom died.

haha was just the other day telling co-worker who played neighborhood ball with Chris Quinn (Quinn is a few years younger than co-worker, yet was better than all the "big kids") how his NBA.com photo was scaring me.

http://i33.tinypic.com/vdk5f.jpg

somewhere david stern is smiling

and fondling himself

too bad he didn't have insider information before trading for j kidd

like last year's "kidd is shooting .00038383% for the season" thread

hahaha yeah read "inside info" as "a box score"

pssst hay mark cuban mere a minute - keep this under yr hat but jason kidd is 1m years old ok - if anyone asks you didnt get it from me

just clotheslined dude and got ejected

― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:01 PM

watching this now. so dope

was that payback for ai's elbow to nash?

keep this under yr hat but jason kidd is 1m years old ok

lolol

http://mamma.com/images/mamma_reg.gif

suns-pistons was a real fun game to watch

The Mother of All Search Engines®

what a fucking lunatic

millsap just blocked shaq's dunk, wauuu!

AK 2 consecutive blocks on shaq, love this man

no okur, no d-will, but we rollin'

LOL justin.tv dude was watching juno during a commercial - now alien vs predator

a little girl just asked renaldo balkman how long it took him to grow his hair and he responded "it took me abt five years - beofre that i had a fade but i figured to be a guy w/dreadlocks that would really help out on the court"

wtf?

now on nba tv gary payton is being hilarious hating on everyone on the allstar team ballot - chris webber loving it

why was a girl asking renaldo balkman something

some cute segment the nuggs do i guess

chris webber just described kevin love as "a guy who looks like hed be pretty easy to score on"

watch the celtics/knicks justin.tv feed right now for sweet gary payton nbatv action - recommended

damn i missed a scalolabrine 3-pointer

"He played good defense and hit two big 3s and I just feel good for him," Celtics guard Eddie House said. "He got his number called and he was ready. He was a true professional."

XD

http://assets.espn.go.com/media/apphoto/6a6743d9-0f11-48e3-ae7c-6bd62d7b1c69.jpg

lol wut

http://assets.espn.go.com/media/apphoto/09ea4100-13ff-4cd3-8bb9-969598d9e680.jpg

real talk i won a mini bball hoop that i still have in my parents' garage at a heat game back in the 90s when i was real young doing some shit like riding a bike through cones and then making a shot in this little hoop that i ended up winning

then when was 15 two days after i got a cast on after i broke my arm i answered a trivia question right in one of those "go ask a random person in the crowd a question" games and i could take a prize under a box or shoot a 3 for a cruise for 2 and i immediately yelled cruise but then i realized i had a broken arm but they would let me go back so my friend had to shoot and he missed

lol Oden has an Abe Lincoln thing going on.

My mom is convinced he has Marfan's syndrome like Honest Abe too.

Artest explained in training camp that he chose No. 96 with the Rockets because the digits, to Artest, look like a lower-case Q and lower-case B, letters synonymous with the Queensbridge section of New York where he grew up.

eric snow is retired. had to hear it on real houswives of atlanta finale. hats off dude you made noise

I remember hearing Artest chose #93 because the digits looked "crazy".

I saw Artest out in Santa Monica two weeks ago and he was wearing either a Mets or Knicks hat (or both?) and was confused. This makes sense now.

Artest is one of the few players in the history of the game that I will tune in to watch play D in the same way you'd tune in just to watch Kobe or Lebron play the other end. He reminds me of this kid on my block growing up who had that same sort of straight-back defensive posture and the same combination of tenacity and strength.

kind of loving the new rough and tumble suns

shaq don't give a fuck it seems

Artest is one of the few players in the history of the game that I will tune in to watch play D
^^^^truth

i wish there were more defense replays on televised games. our boy hubie is always a pleasure to hear on a game with guys like artest, he sees and explains the shit that ron does in a way that makes it sound as fun to watch as cp3 with the ball

i wish there were more interesting things to say about the celtics d other than it's really freakin good

My mom is convinced he has Marfan's syndrome like Honest Abe too.

lol bulls

man they got thrashed.

i'm feeling kind of off balance, not knowing which teams suck and which don't so far this season.

yah really only la cleveland and boston have played well - everyone else is 6 and 5

bulls looked fucking awful

and vinny del negro looks like he has no clue how to change that. even with the excuse of not having deng or hinrich, that was disgusting. it's amazing how this team went from being so likeable 2 years ago due to their defensive toughness and all around no I in team spirit to me hating everyone in the organization not named derrick rose.

hay maybe they suk this year and draft someone sweet right

my roomie was otm when he said that the bulls have 13 six mans

ben gordon was on fire the last couple games then he went and made 2 field goals in 30 mins headinhands.gif

does vinny del negro know how to coach? i swear like 60% of the bulls possessions last night was just someone (usually gordon or hughes) dribbling down the court and taking a jump shot 2 steps in side the 3 point line w/ 15 seconds on the clock

i missed the game - but i got the autotext score when i was out drinking and it was like 'guh'

ya it was really frustrating-- also the bulls need someone who is tall. oden and aldridge just murdered them last night on the glass. gooden, noah, thomas are all pretty good in their own way (though none of the three should really be starting) but they were getting killed early by joel pryzbillia even.

and this is esp a problem because the bulls rarely drive to the rim. they just get no offensive rbds off their jump shots

yeah I don't wtf VDN is thinking re: his offensive "strategy". If I see BG iso'd at the top of the key one more time I am going to steal VDN's hair products. This team looks fairly good when they're swinging the ball from side to side, making basket cuts, y'know, actually PLAYING BASKETBALL as opposed to playing their version of 21. But there's only so much blame I can throw VDN's way. Pax is the one who assembled the team, Pax is the one who gave VDN a head coaching job. Dude has done a whole lot of jack shit in his time as GM, time for a new man at the helm.

haha pax's strategy as GM is the same as his as a player huh

hannity & capone & noreaga

hannity is on fox news

nah when someone set him up nicely, Pax the hooper wasn't hesitant to pull the trigger. Imagine this team without D Rose! Pax can't even take credit for getting him.

shaq gettin aggressive w/ gasol :)

crowd full of laker fans?? fuk u phoenix

celtics givin detroit the business!

right after detroit beat la and cleveland too - second night of a road back to back for the pistons but still celtics were up by 30 before the scrubs went in

knicks and warriors swap jamal crawford and al harrington

seems like a decent swap on both sides, jamal gets to play pretend baron davis until monta comes back, harrington gets to go nuts in d'antoni world which is probably second only to being one of don nelson's favorites

oh and his contract expires in the magical 2010 when the knicks will throw out lebron, randolph and three d-leaguers

whoa i think this means nelson's dream is about to come tru: four shoot-first small forwards plus andris biedrins

Make that lebron and 4 d-leaguers. Randolph to Clippers with Mardy Collins for Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley.

lol, can we get a picture of d'antoni with a "i could be coaching derrick rose instead" look on his face?

wowo knicks clearin the deck - now the only thing left is for lebron to STAY IN CLEVELAND - plz plz plz i dont think i can deal w/the new york media if he comes here

these trades are crazy. How do the warriors need another shoot-first swingman? Who gets benched in LA, Kaman or Camby? How does Z-Bo work next to either of them? Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley: A+, Knicks. Is Curry gonna have to get some run now? This whole thing makes my eyes cross.

dude on espn is saying lebron AND bosh will be knicks in 2010

disturbing

there are so many dudes who are gonna be free agents that year - gonna be a weird season

Crawford's going to liberate Nellie from using D-Leaguers at the point, and he has something resembling an outside shot.

carlolsimo

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i almost felt a little bad for the chunder last nite, they were pretty bad

dude on espn is saying lebron AND bosh will be knicks in 2010

― eman, Friday, November 21, 2008 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was jalen rose. it was incredibly retarded.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/782922.html

Pembroke teen's suicide unfolds live on Web

"The suicide video of the teen first appeared live on Justin.tv, then was posted to other sites such as YouTube.com. Both have since have removed the clip."

this was jalen rose. it was incredibly retarded.

― some dude's gotta give (J0rdan S.), Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:34 PM

was listening not watching but iirc he even went so far as to pick out what numbers they'd have.

ya and obv jalen rose has no sources on this issue and he just pulled the names out of his ass and then the dudes on espn proceeded to analyze the knicks w/ lebron AND bosh as if this was a. actually happening now b. actually going to happen. im not one to get heated over nba fastbreak but got damn

I am watching this houston orlando game and abt four or five times the Magic have had two guys at the top of the arc (1 with the ball) and houston have apparently tried to swap the dudes in front of them, only every time this happens they just step forward and suddenly make the suddenly completely open shot. Is this some voodoo screen shit?

portland and phoenix suddenly shooting the lights out on each other in the 3rd q

shaq using wily old man voodoo on oden

Shaq said he didn’t offer Oden any advice.

“I’m the shogun,” O’Neal said. “And before you get to the shogun, you’ve got to go through a lot of ninjas. He has to go through Dwight Howard and Yao Ming and by that time, I’ll be out of here.”

hahaha

http://i34.tinypic.com/23tfvuo.jpg

am i crazy or is this the same logic that had tim duncan and grant hill signing with the magic and winning 12 titles?

that happened right

eddie jordan gone

am i crazy or is this the same logic that had tim duncan and grant hill signing with the magic and winning 12 titles?

Make sure you sign Duncan before you sign Hill.

Also, make sure you sign Elton Brand before you sign Baron Davis.

lol wizards coach next on the chopping block

Man, Jamal Crawford is really happy to be here!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/24/SP0114B751.DTL

I hated Crawford when he was a Bull but he is made for Nellieball.

lol get me the fuk out ny

guys the warriors have a 2 inch thick playbook? lol doorstop

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots/Basketball-Playbook_2.png

freedarko book outtake?

lol suns need last second three to beat tha thundah

Ah, Simmons, you still crack me up sometimes:

(Derrick Rose's immediate awesomeness) has been one of the most random shockers of this season, right up there with ... Tim Thomas being involved in a trade that was delayed because someone else had a heart problem.

i enjoy reading bill simmons on basketball for things like his noting how good cleveland is and their potential for improvement through expiring contract trades - no one else talks abt these things - why i dont know

His take on Mike Dunleavy Sr. in the article I quoted above was completely fantastic, I thought.

his stuff is always awesome

never got the hate

it's not always awesome, he doesn't really know what he's talking about half the time and he's way too self-satisfied. enjoyable and 50 percent OTM.

he's good when he's not talking about boston (which means his football and baseball writing is insufferable, basketball is the exception because he didn't write a fucking book about the celts)

didnt write a book about the pats, but he may as well have with the amount of ink spilled on them

I especially hate him on baseball because he is completely ignorant of the NL, because he plays in an AL-only fantasy league and can't be bothered to watch the NL, even though he is paid to write about baseball for a living.

dimension 5ive otm

daaang one game separates teams 2-8 in the west, all competitive and shit

Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey doesn't play video games for fun or fantasy. Morey uses the EA Sports NBA game for professional reasons. He uses it to help evaluate talent. Morey says he is a statistical junky, an admirer of Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane and a mathematical nerd. "I've always loved numbers," Morey said. "I don't play EA Sports as a game. I use it as a tool." While the kids plug in NBA 08 to "ooh" and "aah" over how real it looks when Kobe Bryant dunks or LeBron James runs the court and finishes, Morey plugs in for more serious purposes. "Say if you're thinking about acquiring Ron Artest," Morey said from Hawaii, where he was evaluating talent in person at the Maui Classic college tournament. "On the game, you can see how adding Artest can change the dynamic of your team. You can program it to run offensive sets with Artest and any combination of your players." According to the NBA, about half the teams are using the video game as part of personnel evaluation. In the quiet of his office, Morey said he can see how often a player posts up and gets shots on cuts to the basket as well as about defensive and offensive tendencies.

what
the
fuck

military uses those shits for training - antonio gates used madden to learn football after not playing college - now this

pretty fucking amazing

ok nba live is the worst simulator i could think of - bar none

houston gm is a smart dude srsly - ive never played nba live tho

seems like hes just using it as visualization aide

ya i was gonna say this would bring more lols if it was the bobcats GM or something - i mean you really can't hate on the way the rockets are put together

dang lakers really are good and i still think they haven't completely clicked

second unit plus bynum seems like a reasonable starting five in most cities

i'm really enjoying watching this team play, they're winning me over

Jackson and Kupchak have been busy little beavers. The Lakers will be hard to surpass this year. But the season is young. Injuries happen and chemistry can blow up. Still, I like their chances at a title.

what if there's a... championship re-match

over/under on that happening?

cavs are a lil better than the c's right now and they have expiring contracts to trade for help - if cleveland improves cavs/lakers could be epic EPIC

rematch could totally happen tho too - those three teams are way better than everyone else

yeah cavs and lakers would be it

mo williams isnt really delivering for my fantasy team so far, wahts w/ that?? is lebron just giving himself assists somehow

williams is a good game player but i wouldn't exactly hang anything on him fantasy wise - he's there to facilitate the offense and do other things that aren't fantasy-wise

hes more of a combo guard - never a big assist guy

the lakers season starts on christmas day, i'm not hearing that champion shit right now. unless ariza plays 48 min. per game

The Warriors really had to struggle to find a way to lose that game, but mission accomplished.

Now I will post a photo of Brandan Wright:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/rwill4unc/BrandanWrightWings.jpg

Dear Greg Oden:

STOP MISSING DUNKS

TWO TIMES

luv, N8

dear portland,

im never going to be a super amazing offensive player. deal.

love,
greg oden :)

I think even pre-Piston Ben Wallace couldn't back-rim A POINT BLANK DUNK. TWICE.

ha admittedly im not watching

big showdown w/the celtics friday!

good work dunleavy finding new and innovative ways to lose games, the world salutes you

i turned this one off during the timeout with 9 seconds left b/c it was obvious it would be dribble-dribble-dribble, off balance baron three, front rim, game

how did you golden state folks live with this for years

how did you golden state folks live with this for years

We didn't have to live with it very long, and Baron was only one of many dudes who did that shit.

Are the Blazers actually good this year? Like, they seem to be 13-6 and kinda underperforming at the same time.

4th best margin of victory in the nba

sweet statistical look at the significance of early season success http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=393

Yeah I don't get it! Like, by every measure they're rolling but all I ever seem to see is them edging teams by Brandon Roy buzzer beaters. I guess maybe what I am not getting is just Roy and maybe Aldridge being top-15 nba players now? Plus a deep bench?

they beat miami by 40

Yeah I don't get it! Like, by every measure they're rolling but all I ever seem to see is them edging teams by Brandon Roy buzzer beaters. I guess maybe what I am not getting is just Roy and maybe Aldridge being top-15 nba players now? Plus a deep bench?

Not only are they deep, but almost everyone on that team projects to improve greatly, perhaps even within this season.

The Blazers have so many rookies and players new to the team that it is very hard to say what sort of noise they'll make at the end of the season. The have the potential to improve a lot in a short time. but also a lot of latitude for struggling and flailing their way through the long middle of the season.

I expect they'll at least make the playoffs this season. By April they could be shaky as hell in a playoff atmosphere or the team no one wants to play. I'm happy either way.

Between coach Macmillan and BRoy, I don't think the wheels will fall off for more than a couple of games here or there before it gets fixed and they're rolling again. 56 wins?

hollingers thingy has them projected @ 57 http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds

Also gives them fourth-best odds of making the Finals.

lol @ toronto jumping on the coach-firing bandwagon

― craig sager (eman), Wednesday, December 3, 2008 11:58 PM

watched the raptors last week and noticed that mitchell didn't seem very dialed in (for him). maybe he knew it was coming by then too though.

They're like .500 though.

Is it possible for me to adopt Greg Oden:

Western Conference
Team GB
1. * LA Lakers --
2. * Portland 2.5

Things the Blazers do well:
- They are the best rebounding team in the NBA, and no one save maybe the Lakers and Sixers are really close. There's never a time when they don't have either Oden or Przybilla in the game, which just in terms of gobbling up missed shots is like playing Dwight Howard 48 minutes a night, every night.
- They are lethal from 3-point, second behind ATL in 3P% with six guys hitting 36% or better (though one of those is Channing Frye with a whopping 5 triples). They do an excellent job of ball movement and collapsing defenses through Roy drive-and-kick stuff or posting Oden (who has ugly as sin post moves now, sure, but he's a very good passer out of double teams). And Rudy is absolutely fearless, he can and will get his shot up at any time against any defender in his face.
- Oden aside, they rarely turn the ball over, though they don't force many turnovers on defense, so that's kind of a push.
- Yeah, duh, Roy. He's increased the number of possessions he uses per game without sacrificing any shooting efficiency, and now is something like third in the NBA at getting to the line among guards behind Wade and Devin Harris*. He went from borderline all-star to legit top 10 or 15 player (Aldridge isn't even close, though).

They still have trouble playing defense on the perimeter (explain to me how they hold Chris Paul to his worst game of the year and a week later get lit up by Chris Duhon...) but even on their off nights when the 3 isn't falling against lower quality teams (SAC, NYK, 2x MIN) they still manage to pull out tough wins. When everything IS working, they blow teams off the court. So yeah, they're legit and still with room for improvement.

*Devin Harris is shooting 12 free throws a game. WTF.

And I reserve the right to take all that back when they get killed by 30 on Fri in Boston.

rip lester freamon

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06kQepI6vobBp/610x.jpg

http://therapup.uproxx.com/2008/11/if-wu-tang-members-were-nba-players.html

He was just followin' da money. Sad, really.

that karl malone/ghostface morph is bringing the lols

ha fuk cankles i was just gonna post that

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baron's face isn't fat enough

Chris Mannix, SI.com: "Five games, five Golden State losses and a more than 2:1 turnover-to-assist ratio. Maggette's selfish play hasn't gone unnoticed by other players. According to sources, after the final buzzer against Boston, Celtics forward Kevin Garnett turned to Maggette and shouted, 'Way to get your numbers.' 'He just puts his head down and goes to the basket,' an Eastern Conference scout said. 'He doesn't even look to pass.' Word from team sources is that the Warriors are already regretting signing Maggette to a five-year, $50 million deal last offseason.

^ news

xpost i can't stop watching baron's tongue appear out of nowhere. or whatever it is. the jelly belly.

holy shit -- the last two games against NYK & MIA (combined 250+ Warrior points), CM played 87 minutes and had TWO ASSISTS

god damn

i mean ffs mullin get one league pass, dude is a ballhog's ballhog

lol yeah, it'd be different if it wasn't what he'd done his entire career: never pass but kind of make up for it by shooting a million free throws. only problem is he isn't doing it quite as well as last season so far

I'm pretty sure CM was the owner's idea, guys.

wow mike fratello just got hardsonned by reggie miller on this den-sa broadcast.

reggie was talking about george hill, who went to IUPUI, and he goes "this guy averaged 36 pts in high school. should've been at a major university like indiana" (+ 1 minute more of ranting) and then fratello goes "maybe he wanted to stay close to home? did you think of that?" and then reggie goes "IU and purdue - both of those are in indiana" lololol

cm is a good player - put guy on a good team - f a hater

Celtics v Blazers tonight. I expect about a 9 point Celtics win, if both teams play to form. But, really, almost anything could happen, including a 25 point Celtics loss or vice versa.

LOL BLOUNT

OK, I can officially take back my flowing laudatory prose now!

how 2 roll a blount

xp: take it back if you want -- loyal blazers fans dont jump ship getting beat in boston by the champs (who played dirty AGAIN btw)

No ship jumping here I love these guys to death, I'm just volunteering to eat my prideful words after seeing my beloved squad get punched in the dick by a better (dirtier whinier and more obnoxious) squad.

LOL

lol is dat nigga SNIFFLIN

big babby INDEED

LoLo

"here comes the waaaambulance"

ha i felt bad for big baby his tantrum is basically all the announcers talked abt for the entire 4th quarter - lol @ garnett claiming it was all predicated on him urging the c's to stay together - lol too @ portland fans upthread complaining abt dirty play lol @ u loooool - portlands good but srsly right now there are three teams who are much beter than everyone else

lol too @ portland fans upthread complaining abt dirty play lol @ u loooool

lol too @ portland fans upthread complaining abt dirty play lol @ u loooool

lol too @ portland fans upthread complaining abt dirty play lol @ u loooool

i should prob clarify - i pretty much fell off the couch laughing @ big baby - then i felt bad for him

and bt i missed whatever the dirt play was - did someone get punched in the dik

btw is rondo taking it to the next next level or what - his passing look so different than last season - all these crazy angles - all this tight zip - last night twice he hit dudes perfectly in the lane when they werent expecting it cause hes too abstract - guy is making me feel better abt the c's championship chances

and that one crazy crossover reverse that just rimmed out holy shit kid is mad unique

ya what was the dirtiness. totally forgot to watch this game

Just the usual grabbing and pushing when the ref's view was blocked.

There was Garnett unnecessarily sticking his ass out undercutting Roy who was jumping for a rebound and came down awkward and pulled a hamstring. I didn't think it dirty at the time, but I certainly stopped and thought "hmmm....."

Blazers just have trouble with tough veteran teams that throw their weight around like that, right now Przybilla is the only dude willing to stand up and say "the hell?" when the game starts to get a little nasty. Which I would think wouldn't portend well for a deep playoff run since that's pretty much how every playoff game goes, but the toughness will come with reps and playing together.

Rondo is Rad, yes.

Taking sides: Big Baby upset vs. Sasha Vujacic upset

hey pointing out that the celtics get dirty is not to take anything away from them, that's their style. the issue of whether portland is in the league elite (we're not, duh, and i never said so) is completely separate from garnett undercutting people and getting down on all fours (WTF WAS THAT) and that kind of shit.

not a whine either, makes me wish we had done something about it because my blazers are mad soft. but when we could thug it out no one liked us either, mostly because all our best cheap shots were by rasheed and they went against blazers rookies. anyway yr boring cank-dawg and ice cr?am, celtics are really really good but that doesn't mean they won't get it taken to them someday by a team that is willing to stand up instead of just whatever it was we did.

"lol @ u loooool" is really hilarious to me regardless of the discussion, tbh

the second 'loooool' really makes it i think

i will remember that, in the future

my dad's from oregon and is a blazers fan so i am rooting for them about as much as i am the celtics, fwiw

word?

for what it's worth i always saw myself as playing for the celtics for the first four/five years of my career and then getting moved at the trade deadline back to my hometown club, at least when i was playing by myself at our neighbor's hoop for hours and hours

as a kid i mean

i also attended a hawks playoff game a bunch of years ago, my boy jeff and i were in atl for a convention and strolled right up to the ticket window, got amazing seats because lol hawks fans

There was Garnett unnecessarily sticking his ass out undercutting Roy who was jumping for a rebound and came down awkward and pulled a hamstring. I didn't think it dirty at the time, but I certainly stopped and thought "hmmm....."

This deserves the 2nd looooool, IMHO -- Garnett yips and mixes it up and gets on all 4s when he's really feeling it and is very tick-like, but construing that one move as dirty instead of incidental / accidental is pretty silly.

okay so it's bush-league instead of dirty, my bad

i didnt invent the idea that garnett has turned dirty since joining the celtics btw

on the other hand, i think i was the first one here to have faith in rajon rondo, as proven by my picking him up in our fantasy basketball league as a rookie. i dont want to lick his naked body like some of us around here, but he is clearly a special player and i dont have any problem saying that without him they are just a failed experiment in owner collusion.

furthermore, I agree wholeheartedly with what this blazers fan says.

i didnt invent the idea that garnett has turned dirty since joining the celtics btw

wait wait wait -- quality player makes noise about winning, moves to bigger market in controversial trade, and now folks are talking shit about him? SHOCKING

FWIW -- Googling for combos of "kevin garnett" "dirty player" doesn't turn up much of anything. I'm blaming Stu Jackson for these slanderous rumors.

nb: I am not Tommy Heinsohn

i dont want to lick his naked body like some of us around here

― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:09 PM

wtf?

check the celtics thread perhaps?

we can't post about celtics in the celtics thread?

or are u maaaaaadd @ the pic of rondo smokin one of ur blazers

oh yes that is it mr. craig sager you have sure nailed me lol @ me looooooool, you are very on the money and not at all a boring dork like me

peace out you crazy kids

KG is one of my favorite dudes when he's not playing my guys... or during that annoying 90 sec NBA ad that's nothing but inane KG yakking to reporters who he clearly doesn't want to talk to.

It was great that he decided to 'bark' at Jerryd Bayless the other night, because of all the dudes on the Blazers Bayless is the one most likely to just take a swing at the guy for no reason. I know he likes to talk shit at tiny point guards but he'd be much better off doing that to Frye or somesuch.

http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=467

The story in Boston has been the play of Rajon Rondo. The Celtics have four of the top 15 players in the league in WP82, a list which includes Rondo and effectively gives Boston a Big Four. Rondo's triple-double against Indiana on Wednesday was epic: 16 points, 13 rebounds and 17 assists. In the era covered by basketball-reference.com, just Magic Johnson (twice) and Lafayette Lever have hit all three of those marks in the same game.

btw everyone theres two kinds of dirty play in the nba grabbing jerseys setting illegal screens and throwin bows etc which is all good and proper - and then theres constantly doin shit that gets dudes injured - in my years of in depth nba experience only one guy fits the second category: bruce bowen what an asshole srsly

ayo i go to knicks-pistons game now!

niiice

lol i'm gonna be late

say hai to ai 4 me

oh yes that is it mr. craig sager

finally someone referred to me by my name. thank you

ai can kiss my ass

ya what happened there

pacers lookin to upset c's streak

this was srsly the worst i've ever seen them play. they started off horribly and never had a lead the whole game. the only quarter they played with any semblance of skill was the 4th, but it was too late (they got w/in 4 points at one point). wtf. ai totally sucks. rip got ejected or walked off after a technical foul (i do not know what happened! and they did not replay!)? it was really depressing.

whence comes your pistons fandom, tehresa?

Detroit played nearly the entire fourth quarter without Richard Hamilton, who was thrown out of game at Madison Square Garden for the third time in four years. He got a technical foul in the first half, then was called for another and ejected after appearing to give a little shove to Jared Jeffries after fouling him about a minute into the period.

^^^answers

i became a pistons fan when my lil sis was living in mi and got me into them... 2004? first time i'd paid attn to any sport since like, baseball strike of early 90s i think!

http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/fullcourtpress/2008/12/rose-injured.html

he Bulls said Rose suffered the injury when he rolled over onto a knife he was using to carve an apple while in bed.

Crazy enough to be true.

i thought we had established that he only eats candy

Hence his awkward sod approach to eating apples. He's not in practice with them.

maybe i can buy that

Don't try to swallow it, though.

the apple in question

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a236/beabarajas/Caramel-apple-Solo1.jpg

he's teeth are obv so rotted from all teh candy that he can't bite into an apple and eat it like a normal person.

sorry tza but... LOL @ wizards beating pistons

lakers fell to kings too, wow

yah wtf w/detroit - they get ai and beat cleveland and la back to back - now they suk ?????

http://www.philipday.co.uk/Images/fifties/tear%20hair%20out.jpg

How are the TMac/Yao/Artest Rockets, even heathy, only about the 7th best team this year? It makes no sense to me that Orlando be remotely on the same tier, what do they have going for them comparatively?

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg262/doricalcinha/DwightHowardSupermanDunk.jpg

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ lol @jason kidd's son

j-rich traded to the suns for raja and diaw

waht?

saw it on espn

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Ajm0d8YGUtHA9eu65OXuLcm8vLYF?slug=txbobcatssunstrade&prov=st&type=lgns

ugh c/p the link

i feel bad for raja/diaw

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3760914

bobcats got tooken damn

haha robin lopez just blocked the shit out of pau gasol in what surely was one of the hilarious plays in nba history

bcuz it involved robin lopez blocking the shit out of pau gasol

I went to the Warriors/Bucks game tonight and it was real fun.

Suns with highway robbery on that trade.

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/1210/nba_g_mowilliams_412.jpg

take note nba franchises - two color unis are sweet action

and ps plz resist the urge to put pointless patches everywhere

oh no look at that wide open space in the shorts stripe its freaking me out lets fill it up!!!

hollinger on melos big quarter:

If Anthony's 33-point quarter is a record, then what can we possibly say about the 6:23 stretch toward the end when he scored 25 points in just 13 Nuggets possessions? At that rate, in a 48-minute game he would have scored 184 points.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=Perdiem-121108

haha that makes per-48 stats sound kind of roffleous

it's a helpful way to identify underutilized talent but along those lines of thinking gets you like 100 million for jerome james based on three good games or whatever

that was a hell of a quarter, though

sigh

Too many ice cream sandwiches and Rock Band the night before, that's the only explanation.

is Roy always this much of a ballhog??

ha I didn't check the boxscore til just now. 43 min, 33pts, ZERO ASSISTS. That's impressive, actually.

He's really not, he's a great distributor but you could tell the end of the ORL game and the 2nd quarter of this one got him seriously PISSED OFF.

message for oden: when okur is spinning around you and dunking, you know you've got some work to do

roy looked impressive trying to take over, they just didn't fall, and the offense was in shambles otherwise. this was the real deron, he hasn't looked this healthy in a while. blake got punished

utah is going to be very tough to beat this playoffs.

Crittenton, James pleased to join Wizards

By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Sports Writer 5 hours, 51 minutes ago

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WASHINGTON (AP)—Javaris Crittenton and Mike James might be the two happiest NBA players ever to join a last-place team.

Both guards sounded thrilled to be cleared to play for the Washington Wizards about 1 1/2 hours before tipoff against the reigning champion Boston Celtics on Thursday night.

So what if the Wizards entered the day an Eastern Conference-worst 4-15? If anything, that means the new guys figure to get more playing time than with their former clubs.

“One person’s trash is another person’s treasure,” said James, who was averaging only 8.7 minutes with the Southwest Division-leading New Orleans Hornets. “Hopefully I can be a treasure in D.C.”

James appeared in only eight games with New Orleans this season, but he has been a regular player in the past. He averaged 20.3 points and 5.8 assists for Toronto in 2005-06.

James and Crittenton, who came over from Memphis, were acquired Wednesday as part of a three-team deal in which Washington sent guard Antonio Daniels to the Hornets and returned to the Grizzlies a first-round draft pick that was part of a previous swap.

With All-Star point guard Gilbert Arenas out indefinitely after his third knee operation in 1 1/2 years, Washington was in need of backcourt help.

Like James, Crittenton—a first-round draft pick out of Georgia Tech in 2007—can play either guard position.

Crittenton said he’s more comfortable at the point, but wherever he’s used, he certainly is looking forward to more court time than the 6.7 minutes he was getting in Memphis.

“I feel very blessed to be somewhere where they want me,” Crittenton said. “I feel really appreciated right now.”

The two guards weren’t allowed to participate in Washington’s shootaround Thursday morning, because the trade was not yet official. But they were in uniform and ready to go by game time, both on the active roster.

Crittenton even was given a pair of sneakers in Wizards team colors by Arenas. Asked whether he was worried about notorious jokester Arenas setting him up with some sort of prank, Crittenton smiled.

“I’ve heard about Gil,” Crittenton said, “but I don’t think he’ll do that.”

Wizards interim head coach Ed Tapscott wouldn’t say exactly how he expected to use James and Crittenton against Boston.

He did say he had a plan, however.

“I always have a script for how I expect a game to go,” Tapscott said. “There’s that great line from Mike Tyson: ‘Everybody’s got a plan till they get hit in the mouth.’ And so if you guys see my lip bloodied, now you know whether my plan has any integrity to it.”

i like ed tapscott

haha mike james thinks he's gonna play

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AltYTrQvJVhzJY_.lwcJWpG8vLYF?slug=ap-knicks-mobleyretires&prov=ap&type=lgns

tough break, his game was mad respectable. pistol pete died on my church's basketball court. my dad used to play like 40 years over league with him. anyway

i like crittendon

yeah he's good

in a way i think it's funny that the wiz are so bad - their gm obv caved into fan pressure and resigned the nucleus of a team that could barely get out of the first round of the playoffs (if that) every year. this breakdown was so patently obvious, and i hate to say it, but in 2 years were probably going to be looking back @ gil's career post-contract like grant hill or something

it was smart money to sign him, if their plan was to get him as healthy as possible. not saying it wasn't, but that's the bottom line. the other guys, eh

The Wiz aren't THAT bad, having dudes as good as Butler and this 2009 +1 version of Jamison is good enough for a respectable record if not a playoff-caliber team. Gil goes down, that sucks, but once that happens that team can absolutely ill-afford Haywood to go out for the year. Without Hayward the Wiz can enjoy 82 games of marshmallowy soft interior defense and ~26 wins.

idk to me it just seemed patently obvious that the wiz had a perpetual ceiling of a second round loss (i might've discussed this on ilh before). three guard/forwards can't get it done - the nets dealt with this for years and then got rid of kidd and richardson and i think they are better for it (at the very least they are better for finally moving on). seems like a can't see the forest for the trees situation

umm kidd and jefferson

nets made it to the finals 2 years in a row fyi

ok ya and got soundly wiped out by the west team - those teams benefited from having kidd in his prime and being a v weak conference. the wiz have no kidd, idk how any fan of them could've been happy with them bringing back the gil/jamison/arenas nucleus especially w/ the rise of the magic, celts, cavs, raptors etc

ugh, gil/jamison/butler nucleus

With a clear understanding of how bad the team being put out on the floor billed as the 2008-09 WASHINGTON WIZARDS is, I freely admit I really like each member of the Gil/Butler/Jamison/Haywood Wizards

Except Stevenson. FUCK that guy.

i like them all too just not together

i guess my argument boils down to some faceless espn "analyst" shit - i just don't think a that relies so heavily son scoring guards can get it done when it matters in the playoffs - also they need a pg

etan thomas is back guys

i think we can put this conversation to rest.

meanwhile the lakers got a date with a buzzsaw. so much for defense

Dudes I got to watch the Chandler-free Hornets stink up the joint against the C's last night in person (waaaaaay up in the balcony section)!!! C's stunk for the first half, but owned the 2nd half (esp. Pierce in the 3rd quarter)! But my cell phone screen got cracked by my stupid ass seat and/or my fat ass :(

game was pretty sweet. rondo seemed shook by paul and did numerous stupid shit especially in the first half but actually managed to pester him into an off shooting night.

chris paul is the most skilled player in the nba. he doesnt have the size or athleticism of lebron and wade but he makes up for it by just being better at basketball than anyone. dude is a mastermind. if the hornets could pick up another legit scorer or two itd be so crazy to watch.

lebron or wade is 1st/2nd choice for who most fans want on their team. paul has gotta be 1st choice for who players want.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/NBA_article_large.article_large.jpg

ice cream otm

i only caught the 2nd half but paul did seem pretty frustrated. i'd like to get tix for when hornets come to play lolwizards just to see him play.

i saw him play in college - one of the most dominating performances i've seen in person. the game was close but he was so obviously on another plane

I see what you mean

lol

Mo Cheeks is gone as coach of the Sixers. Too bad. He's a straight up good guy and no worse a coach than 70% of the NBA coaches. No justice in the world.

http://sabermetricresearch.blogspot.com/2008/12/do-nba-general-managers-outperform.html

NBA to air February all-star basketball game in 3D
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/09/AR2008120902935.html

????????

ok i think i will go to this

how do i find nearest location???

ok closest is pa >:O http://www.cinedigmentertainment.com/

park slope pavilion! east coast heads NBA allstar 3D fap?

http://f3.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_nba_experts__17/ept_sports_nba_experts-557860179-1229358913.jpg?ymCtBfADIa6IaWVy

http://assets.espn.go.com/media/apphoto/23269fe4-96c5-4bd4-9399-576c2bc125d7.jpg

http://assets.espn.go.com/media/apphoto/71d3733a-cafd-4579-8ce0-d7c298d7cef7.jpg

btw rondo pwnd deron last nite

daerest basketball,

sorry i have neglected you. will be watching you soon!

missing u boo,

t

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there's a lotta buzz abt this game in atlanta!!!!!!!

bill walton: "i love the little pretty boys"

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ich bin ein Hawks fan.

do hawks have the best player names in nba? othello hunter, zaza pachulia, SPEEDY CLAXTON

matt ryan is courtside; he better not be rootin for the celtics

oh Zaza!

doc rivers hit with a t!

rondo is mad dynamic kid

announcer: a lot of hype going into this game and so far its kind of lived up to it!

bill walton: "i love the little pretty boys"

― cankles, Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:04 PM

he just said "6'9" adonises"... ?

ha why does that rondo behind the back fake work so well - he does it all the time - youd think someone would see it coming

def. seems like he's picking up the slack for kg and pierce's off-night or whatever their deal is

off-season more like

this game is sweet btw love the intensity

i know, that crowd is hyped

hornets/spurs should be entertaining

celtics big 3 11-37

:3

>:3

niiice house suk it bibby

mark jackson is full of fucking shit this is a historical ass rivalry, the hawks met the celtics like 4 times in the finals back in the 50s/60s, won their only championship against them too~~~~

wtf tony allen

we all know flip murray is a big time scorer or rly

bibby=assassin

haha <3 kg

http://i40.tinypic.com/dhcthe.jpg

yoooooooooooo

josh smith = beast

YAAAAAAAA GET MAD AT THE RIM!!!

=0 =0 =0 =0

whhoa

nice shot kg

yeah that was pimp ~_~

perkins posterized :( :(

johnson for 3 and the win imo

this fuckin game

YOW PERK!

tony allen really?

oh that was ray lol

>_<

haha

lol @ franz ferdinand

can this announcer count

ESPN pbp dude can't count apparently.

what is going on? what fucking retards. ban espn jesus christ

rob base "it takes two three (to tie the game)"

haha

iiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee~~ that was close!!!

whoa! good game everyone imna go get a burrito now

jealous

this whole rondo is the best player on the celtics now thing is kinda throwing me for a loop - got a chicken mole burrito btw it was goood

posey just sunk a clutch 3

lololololspurs

that sequence last night was like josh smith's career in microcosm - turnover, great rebound, fumbles ball in traffic, recovers for amazing dunk, misses free throw, all in 45 seconds. i sorta hate him.

good post abt chris paul stealing an important jump ball last nite http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-37-66/Chris-Paul-s-Crafty-Jump-Ball.html

haha

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/1218/nba_g_paul2_400.jpg

wtf tim dunan up to ???

Duncan surpassed 10,000 rebounds for his career during the game, making him the 33rd player in NBA history to do so.

looks like thinks hes a medieval knight

In that pic Paul is standing pigeon-toed.

good post abt chris paul stealing an important jump ball last nite http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-37-66/Chris-Paul-s-Crafty-Jump-Ball.html

I saw this live and was like "HOW DID HE DO THAT?"

been trying to find video of that

never saw a replay, but looked to me like cp did a kung fu type block move, pushing manu's arm out of the way from underneath while simultaneously going for the ball himself. how good is he gonna be once he learns even more tricks of the trade?

http://hornetshype.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/cp3mvpshirt.jpg

this is kinda dope

little quick dynamic scorers like cp kill it more than anyone else in hs

No doubt in my mind that chris paul is a top ten active player, probably a top five, and likely to stay that way for a long time to come.

top 3 at the moment imo

2nded

omg I love Inside the NBA so much.

It is hard for me to look at Matt Bonner and not think he's Brian Scalabrine.

oh my god Shaq just dunked on Oden like no man has dunked on another man before sweet jesus.

Something like five possessions in Oden has two huge dunks, an uncharacteristically smooth jump hook, a huge block on Amare and oh yeah that Shaq dunk.

LOL and now two fouls.

It is hard for me to look at Matt Bonner and not think he's Brian Scalabrine.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:23 PM

haha i thought the same last nite

Whoa Craig Sager doesn't care if its socially acceptable or not he's draped himself in velvet tonight.

:)

btw heres a glimpse inside d wade's house

http://cdn.faniq.com/images/blog/f7e85453881ec80452b379f398c415c2.jpg

this girl i chilled w/ in high school lives one house over from wade

but what happens in that alcove there? does he pray to himself every morning?

Oden is good at fouling dudes.

well to be fair that last call was really awful.

TNT sure making it seem like the rose garden is easily the loudest arena in the NBA.

That's not TNT the Rose Garden gets friggin NUTS in these games.

As a frequent crowd member I love our eagerness to get really pissed at the refs (despite the refs usually being right when we do).

Well yeah, I mean I go to almost every home game and rarely get to see how the crowd translates on TV. Just makes every other crowd in every other game I've watched this year seem absolutely timid.

Oh snap you a Blazers fan?

I am just LOVING this game. Hopefully this comes out better than the ORL game, which was Red River: The Basketball Game.

End 3rd

POSS EFF
PHX 134.8
POR 69 142.0

this game has been amazing.

jesus christ the suns are 11-15 from 3

AMAZING

=0 =0 =0 =0 <3 <3 <3 <3

It's pretty hard to shoot 58.6% fg, 70.6% 3pt, 86.2% ft as a team and lose a game, but the suns just might!

wow @ b. roy's #s

lol @ steve nash

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Will be checking DavkaBT religiously until this goes up what a game.

WHOA was unaware of DavkaBT until just now

http://www.tnlcorporation.com/images/about.jpg

Dudes who have scored at least 52 on 27 FGA or less

Love those carefully and lovingly chosen stat thresholds, still, it's impressive as hell.

wowo brandon roy - when he came into the league i pegged him for a super solid borderline all star type of guy - but hes rapidly approaching mastermind status

argh pissed i feel asleep on couch at halftime

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I had to head off and start a DJ set and missed the fourth quarter of this game btw ;_;

Is there an animated GIF of CWebb throwing his shoes at Barkley's head? because if not, why.

Well, this will have to do for now:

my Bullies gonna get thwacked by C's tonight. I just hope Rondo doesn't completely show up Rose.

rondo 8/0 asst/to 1st quarter

<3 rondo. do not <3 kg (used to, before i was made aware of the fact that he's a major dickhead) and have always disliked pierce so a blowout would be hard to watch

do not <3 kg (used to, before i was made aware of the fact that he's a major dickhead)

otm

nice rip, rondo

fans turning on garnett is def a theme this season - dont really understand how u can hate one so insane and committed tbh

because he's a major dickhead about it?

eh its funny people just realizing this now that hes got a ring

right well I guess the narrative for so many years about KG was "aw, poor KG, when's he goning to get out of the hell that is McHale's regime in Minnesota and have a chance to win" to "aw, poor rest of the league is getting crushed by this guy and he's sort of smug and we used to like him so much too."

he's taken it to new levels now that he's got the ring
exhibit a:

haha no he did shit like that all last season and for all i know all those seasons in minny too - trying to find a clip of him doing that lion crawling thing last year - lol dude is nuts

according to chauncey billups he was that way in high school too

shame on me for not realizing it sooner then?

perkins has 19 pts!

yah i think its just greater scrutiny starting to dawn on people how v strange garnett really is

yow insane rondo steps behind the 3pt line to garnett oop

Garnett is insane--always has been. If this is a shocka to you you may not know much about the NBA. Pissed that he's trash talking w/Calderon? Spare me, that guy's a bastard too and god love both of them.

lol Usain Bolt is great.

“The messed-up thing is that sometimes I do things on the floor that I don’t even remember, and that might have been one of them” (Garnett, after that insane floor-crawling shit last year)

for further insane celtics related lolz see tony allen talking abt how he blacks out for a few seconds after a sweet dunk

celtics toying w/bulls in the third

Celtics starting 5 ruining basketball for me forever. They play SO WELL together.

c's shooting 600000000% tonite

i can't say i watched much kg as a twolve, that was during my lol college/post college haze/mj mourning period. gave him a pass cause of chicago connection and insane numbers.

wow rondo is DEALING 2nite!

Complete meltdown by the Bulls, who with the exception of Rose might be my least favorite NBA team.

I mean you got lottery pick tenth men like Noah and Thomas, castoffs from the shitty Cavs teams that were not worthy of LeBron, Ben Gordon, Nocioni...doesn't get much worse yo.

i like deng too - i can def see a way forward for the bulls w/those two - but yah agreed the team as a whole is pretty dire

rondo 30min 15asst 1to 5reb 4stl

rondo is better right now than i ever thought hed be and hes still got tons room to grow - crazy

Rondo's turning into a really really good rebounding guard. Great anticipation and leaping ability in traffic.

Basically he's the dude you want as your PG if you're playing pickup ball. Makes it fun for everyone else.

Complete meltdown by the Bulls, who with the exception of Rose might be my least favorite NBA team.

Something I can agree with.

Basically he's the dude you want as your PG if you're playing pickup ball. Makes it fun for everyone else.

said exactly this to friends i was watching the game with

btw i forgot the main reason why i used to like kg. attended a game 2 or 3 yrs ago when he was with the wolves, and he impressed me far more than any player i've seen in person (since i was an adult). had floor seat center court via stubhub luck so i was close enough to hear them talk and whatnot. he was basically the only one who didn't goof off at all while getting warmed up (big ben: shooting 3s, KG: perfecting the 'Dream' shake and other post work, hitting that 18ftr from the elbow), appeared to treat other players, refs, his coaches with respect, stayed focused on both ends throughout, played unselfishly, yadda yadda

Yeah I mean he's still that guy. As a Boston fan who has had nothing to look forward to since Reggie Lewis died, you cannot underestimate the impact that KG has had. It was like he showed up in town and a cloud lifted--you would never think one guy could make that kind of difference but it's become clear since then that when you're on KG's team you're held to a different standard than most players.

yah hes basically the coach of the celtics

Like, on what other team would Kendrick Perkins have ever turned into a competent (and occasionally creative) passer?

kg is insane but also lovable as hell and anyone who disagrees should be shot in the face on the white house lawn

otm

totally calling the cops on yous guys

kg is the man

dam devin harris chrused kidd

(Harris) was removed for good after his dazzling performance with 2:11 remaining, with fans chanting “Thank you Cuban!”

guys heat beat lakers ^ . ^

To hit 5,000 requires a confluence of two skills at historic levels -- the ability to get to the line, and the inability to convert once there.

lol

xp they were way overdue. i didn't see it, assuming wade went off