god save antawn jamison -- 2010 regular season thread

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtejCR413c&feature=youtu.be

makes more sense here: espn's pre-season power rankings.

ACKNOWLEDGE ME!!! Lakers three peat season dont sleep

great ad.

lebron's going to have a monster year.

New York released Patrick Ewing Jr.
sadface

quality thread title

almost unspeakably psyched for the season TOMORROW NITE YALL

hell yeah

i prefer slamball

want new CBA to include "no blood, no foul" rule.

want new cba to include steph curry to the thunder draft do over, this more than anything is killing me

also thunder to seattle move do over

the world just aint right

is what it is imho

spinning on its axis, coughing up miami heats

hell yeah

you'll learn to luv the heat trust me

they are the most borningest possible great team

existence of butthut joe is gonna be hilarious this season

butthurt

feel like butthut could be some sort of business tho

like pizza hut

but for butts

buttfet

sounds like a nonsensical name for a surf shop in malibu or something

i will lol when bosh goes out for the season, and the whole world will lol along w/me, then who will be butthut

(you)

they are the most borningest possible great team

nah. they've inspired the most interesting series of instant rivalries in recent memory:

• heat v. celtics
• heat v. lakers
• heat v. magic
• heat v. cleveland
• heat v. ice cr?m
• celtics v. lakers

heat v. ice cram

ICE CRAM MELTS IN THE HEAT

BURN

LITERALLY

pfft those arent rivalries, all those teams suck, nba sucks, slamball 4 evr

WHEN DOES THE LOCKOUT START

the HEAT will begin LOCKING OUT the other NBA FRANCHISES from COMPETITIVE BASKETBALL GAMES this week

if thats what u mean

not what i was talking abt

o rly?

lockout starts 3 minutes after 2010 -- 11 finals.

instead of introducing your world champ 2011 nba heat boys, stern will get on the mic mcmahon style and be like YOURE ALL LOCKED OUT OF THE THUNDER DOME and kevin durant will lead the scab league

I think Pat Ewing Jr. should be scab spokesman in honor of his father's, "Sure, we make a lot of money, but we spend a lot, too."

http://www.draftdaysuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/david-stern.jpg

U DONT HAVE TO GO HOME BUT U CANT STAY HERE PLZ CLEAR THE COURT

All your baseketball are belong to us.

an entire year of punching people on yachts

http://raptorsrapture.com/files/2010/02/hedo.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/553/naw.gif

heaven needed a ball

i love nba, i bought japanese beer for season opening night but butthut TNT is going with some late game that is NOT phoenix/portland so i will be drinking it thru my tears. also cant really watch opening game because a) we have a commitment and b) dont want to. STILL THOUGH NBA #1 GREAT JOB

preseason but look at where he jumps from

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

smh

ha the announcer

Alright - so, let's put up some predictions:

MVP - Durant, with Dwight Howard coming in second
Defensive Player of the Year - Dwight Howard
6th Man - No idea. Sasha?
Most Improved Player - No idea.
Eastern Conference Champs - Boston
Western Conference Champs - Lakers, unless Bynum's return is delayed or he gets hurt again. Then, OKC.
Champs - Lakers, or, if OKC v. Boston, Boston.

Just don't see the Heat being able to beat the Celtics with the amount of just sheer size they have down low. When Perkins comes back, they'll have 24 fouls to give between him, Davis, Shamrock, and O'neal. Going to make the East pretty damn interesting, what with these two and Orlando.

With the Lakers, its all about health. They've got some good role players, better than last year, I'd argue, but Kobe has to get back into shape after knee surgery, and Bynum needs to just stay healthy once he returns.

Orlando didn't change a thing. Which means they've still got Vinsanity, which doesn't win playoff games. Howard is going to have a beast of a year. From what I've heard and seen, he's been doing a ton of work on his low-post game, which could mean trouble. He still has no ass, though, and will get shoved out of the paint by Shamrock, Davis, Perkins, and any other wide-body they put on him.

OKC is going to be MAD trouble. They are really, really good and young. However, they have no size. Ergo, lots of regular season wins, nowhere in a seven game series.

Chicago will be a dark horse out of the East, and will be much more than that if they can score 'Melo. What they will have to give up for him, however, might be too much. I wouldn't want to give up Noah, and they won't give up Rose, but do they have enough to make the deal work otherwise? Rose-Melo-Noah would be an amazing nucleus for a team.

SO FUCKING STOKED. LAKERS GET THEIR RINGS TONIGHT (I have TOTALLY purchased a $2 raffle ticket to get Ron's, and I will send you all 8x10 glossys if I get it), and BOSTON/HEAT? No work getting done today. NONE!

By the way, I have dedicated myself to dancehall-style chants of "Welcome to SHAMROCK!!!" whenever he dunks this season.

lol. an espn crawl-line says bruce bowen predicts the heat will be 50 -- 32? hm.

SO BE IT.

bruce bowen, prophet

blam you missed the easiest prediction of the year- griffin for ROY. as long as some freak injury doesn't happy to him, he's got it locked up. guy is a maniac, everyone is going to love him. seems like a good kid in the durant mold too.

i mean, he sat on the CLIPPERS bench for a year and doesn't even seem bitter about it!

MVP - Kobe Bryant
Rookie - John Wall
Defensive Player of the Year - LeBron James
6th Man - Ty Lawson
Most Improved Player - Michael Beasley
Eastern Conference Champs - Heat over Celtics
Western Conference Champs - Lakers over Utah
Champs - Heat

most venereal penis?

guys what if something really bizarre happens like utah goes on a run and makes the finals against ORLANDO or something??

ty lawson is a good call for sixth man

then rip nba is wut

blam you missed the easiest prediction of the year- griffin for ROY. as long as some freak injury doesn't happy to him, he's got it locked up. guy is a maniac, everyone is going to love him. seems like a good kid in the durant mold too.

i mean, he sat on the CLIPPERS bench for a year and doesn't even seem bitter about it!

Probably true. If he lives up to the hype, and continues to play in the maniacal way he has been, he's going to be a shoo-in. Wall may get some love, however, if Hibachi doesn't eclipse his excellence with insanity.

mvp wade
rookie blake
defense supermans
most improved/coach/6th man who gives a fuck
west lakers
champs heat

^^^^omg so boring

Wade? Hm. Doable. Gotta stay healthy, though.

The USA Today NBA Preview is worth about a handful of Hornets/Wizards tickets.

http://www.beersandideas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/slamball-13.jpg

MVP - lebron james
Rookie - blake griffin
Defensive Player of the Year - dwight howard
6th Man - anthony randolph
Most Improved Player - serge ibaka
Eastern Conference Champs - heat over celtics
Western Conference Champs - lakers over rockets
Champs - heat

guessing wade just based on a really predictable media narrative underpinned by the fact that they wont want to give it to bron for a third year straight after he did cleveland dirty

u prob right

never thought of that pretty cool actually. blake ROY, dwight on d, and laker 3peat atm. serge ibaka might be a good call, he was putting in work offensively he just needs time, haven't seen them in the offseason though. haven't thought about the others

y'all lebron was killing it with the trench walking to the locker room

damn even PP got his suit tailored right

big step for him -- rocking the jay-z nerd glasses too

http://i42.tinypic.com/2i6crbt.jpg

what an opening game tonight.

guessing wade just based on a really predictable media narrative underpinned by the fact that they wont want to give it to bron for a third year straight after he did cleveland dirty

aka the jeff kent award

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcX7yJSttrU

MVP - dwight howard
Rookie - blake griffin
Defensive Player of the Year - dwight howard
6th Man - uh
Most Improved Player - uh
Coach - Jerry Sloan (I do this every year)
Eastern Conference Champs - heat over magics
Western Conference Champs - lakers over blazers lol
Champs - heat

wade's awesome, but he can be fragile. i think he's missed hundreds of regular season games since he began his career.

why such a consensus for ROY for griffin over wall? what little i've seen of wall has been very impressive.

Griffin is an insane beast + doesn't have the responsibility / learning curve of NBA point guard + lol wizards are even worse than lol clippers.

hm. okay, well, i get that. my only point is that wall's looked damn good in the preseason (where, yes, everything means nothing, but still).

Wall has a better chance. Griffin is dependent on Baron Davis -- BARON DAVIS!!!! -- passing to him. if he gets 10 shots a game I'll be surprised. Also, Kamen is going to get lots of touches on the offensive end too. Griffin may have all the ability but it's not the best situation for him to beast it.

Davis is smart enough to know that Griff is the future of the franchise and that it is wise for him to get on his good side.

lol wizards are even worse than lol clippers.

― Clay, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 6:40 PM

barely, they had almost identical records @ the end of last season

IT'S TIME

y'all!!

with you guys in spirit :(

rondo BRINGING IT

this is like the allstar game if everyone cared.

Shaq!

boston's starting five looks impressive.

advice going forward: don't trust shaq

lol. i agree. he looks good so far, tho.

Still sorts can't believe this shit really happened.

Welcome back ilh btw.

totally forgot about big baby!!

big baby!!!!

james jones is pretty terrible

joel anthony looks good

wait the heat signed Jerry Stackhouse?

man it is so so good having basketball back.

stackhouse signed to temporarily replace mike miller.

wade looks rusty.

uh, we've really got to score at least 10 points in the first quarter.

lol on pace for 60-36 game

both teams look to have amazing defenses.

long-haul upside favors miami, but . . . damn, boston is good.

okay sick of this commercial already

the miami vice skit makes it all worthwhile.

this heat team is going to need to develop a real identity. and they will of course it will just take awhile

BBD! Who says you can't trust a big butt and a smile?

people i'm tired of: delonte west

i feel like the last time i physically witnessed delonte west make a shot was in march 2009

looks like heat problems are (a) zero inside/post presence and (b) no cohesion offensively.

man who would have thought that this game would be really sloppy and anticlimactic...did not predict tihs at all

well, the defense has been awesome on both sides, to be fair.

man i kind of forgot that marquis daniels is still on the celts...i'm guessing he gets decent regular season run backing up 1-3 and then zip in the playoffs, esp if delonte is useful

lebron james: turnover machine

the heat suck.

(j/k)

docfunk This Daniels/Big Baby/Nate Robinson bench is going to lead the league in times teaching others how to dougie.

completely writing off the heat now guys sorry daniel :(

you are so wrong. we will win 45 -- 50 games, if not more.

the heat look like a dog tied to another dog

maybe we should have signed joe johnson, after all.

boston's crowd is louder than i remember them being vs. lakers last spring.

wait, wait: we have to score at least 30 in the first half!

isn't this how every lebron game in boston is? the heat are gonna be leading midway through the fourth, right?

idk about that. the paint looks like a total "no-go" zone for miami.

are you interpreting it differently?

i'm making a "joke"

the game is gonna get closer cuz the heat aren't gonna shoot 20% in the second half

james jones is seriously garbage

damn i wanted eddie to throw it off the backboard

i believe -- in my heart -- that if we try hard enough, believe in ourselves, and pull together, miami can reach 30 points this half.

30!

sager went stylish with the lavender tonight

muted!

craig fukkin sager

i am so proud of our guys.

Craig should be drawn and quartered for wearing purple to the C's first game after losing a heartbreaker to the Lake show. Drawn and quartered!

his red bloody stumps would clash nicely w/ the lavender

no idea if we'll do better this half, but at least we seem like we're going to attack the basket more.

first time i've heard a play tonight involving both lebron and wade.

also, the area near boston's basket has no heat players near it. none.

it's so weird to have guys like wade and lebron not dominate the ball. i mean fuck are either of these dudes even on the heat?

it is weird that there can be possessions where bron is on the floor and you forget that

Yeah

BULL-SHIT. BULL-SHIT. BULL-SHIT. Open court incredibly blown call. Refs still in preseason form.

bron...

okay so the heat have been the best when resembling the cavs

Imagine how good they'll be if they find a play or two to run.

lol. can't be all-lebron all-year tho. got to get wade into the flow.

docfunk If you missed the Shaq statue at Harvard Square, you can catch the Jermaine statue on TNT right now.

i stepped away for 10 minutes, and that's when the heat scored all their points.

i think it went from 63 -- 9 to 63 -- 57 while i was talking.

48 points in 10 minutes has to be an nba record

i'm sure it is. one of many, many records we'll break this year.

what's the lowest point total in a single quarter? 9s got to be close.

I believe the corpse of the Drain has scored a point for the first time since last March. I can't wait for Perk to return and the Drain can be nailed to the bench.

I mean that literally, by the way. Nail his feet to the damn floor so he can't check in.

that karl malone commercial is terrible.

^ real talk

karl malone is terrible

was that james jones??

can't wait for mike miller to get healthyh

DEATH TO THE HEAT

0-99

we don't play 99 games.

You will be. You will be.

ray's mom! welcome back!

FLO ALLEN

you won't play 99, yoda would like to note, if lose them all you do.

xpost

ray allen's mom!!! god i missed the nba

xxp lol lol

last shot eddie house

guess that settles that burning question

great stat line bosh

my fantasy team is thankin u

=(

http://www.graceisforsinners.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fork-in-the-road.jpg

The Heat should not have traded for Cleveland's old playbook when they got Lebron.

did shaq leave the arena at halftime?

he headed back to the celtics' team cafeteria.

they're serving tater tots.

should've got the ball into Z's hands a little more

;)

Lol heat. Lmao.

yoooooooooooooooooo

Enjoy the late game fellas. Can't bring myself to watch the Lakers tonight.

curse of dan gelbert. heat will be 30 -- 52.

Looks like the THREE KINGS brought gold, frankincense and MEH!

Lebrolololololo

Dag, sucks for that dude who was standing between Craig Hodges and Kareem, not getting called over the PA to show off his championship ring.

Also, it wasn't until Jackson announced who wasn't there that I realized the Lakers brought back everyone except Josh Powell, DJ Mbenga, Jordan Farmar, and Adam Morrison. So not a ton of lost productivity.

BALL

Adding Steve Blake more than makes up for the loss of Farmar. Lakers will be tough again this year.

Farmar also couldnt run the triangle. All he wanted to do was fast break.

its true steve blake and farmar are both shitty basketball men

kareem lookin like he's the one w/ A.I.D.S.

digging the rockets this year

brooks & martin can fill it up
scola & brad miller banging
battier on d
budinger & courtney lee off the bench

+ morey might swing a deal

& the yao wildcard

love aaron brooks

enjoying yao vs pau tonight

pau ming
yao gasol

Well this blazers/suns game was shaping up to be a nail-biter, then phx tucked their heads into their shells and Portland went on a 15-1 run with a minute to go.

http://cdn.faniq.com/images/blog/235cf5eb306d31d15bee3f06aa810bdc.jpg

this always makes me lol

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scola wtf

bahah I totally caught that Yao fist bump. awesome gif.

if fucking justin beiber is going to be at every laker game from here on out I give up..

scola was balling the fuck out at the end there lol/wtf

might've went to the well one too many times imo

also final play should've been kevin martin jacking a 3

shannon! i;ll give it another couple months before i trust that 3 (very devean george-like release shudder)but he's been good-streaky since preseason. nice game all around good to see yao

Looks like the THREE KINGS brought gold, frankincense and MEH!

― your favorite homoerotic savior imagery (Hurting 2), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i just want to go back and say this is a quality post for real

haha yeah

funny how people would call pau weak when the soft serve was chillin up in toronto the whole time

ha its true bosh is a softer vers of pau

http://img.skitch.com/20101027-qc11c9xbmygydts2cx4rhtuncp.jpg

is lebron wearing a picture of rondo

is charlize theron 7' 6"

theron james

http://www.lebronjames.com/

web 2.0

http://i53.tinypic.com/2artyx.jpg

pro tip

#goodactors

its true steve blake and farmar are both shitty basketball men

So untrue.

Lakers 1-0. Holla.

They're gonna go 99-0!

gone extrapolatin

They're gonna go 99-0!

Equally untrue.

It's really me on Twitter, check out the twitpic or should I say Twitzki! http://twitpic.com/30s58t
8:47 AM Oct 25th via Twitpic

whaaaaaaaat

heat open with a set play -- bosh handoff to wade, dunk

jason kopono is wearing #72

we have broken last night's first-quarter point total with more than 5:50 left in this quarter.

revenge.

bosh is straight working elton brand

yeah, but we still seem very rusty. not the dominating team i expected, and i guess still expect when they coalese.

defense looks special even at this stage, tho.

fukken streams

I mean I still think it's pretty cool that the heat pulled pretty close in the fourth quarter last night.

yeah. they're going to be great, when they finally get on the same page.

ex. a: lebron draws all sixers into his lane, and makes a sweet pass to haslem, who jumps up -- expecting something else entirely -- and the ball flies between his legs. that won't happen as we progress into the season.

but serious problems with size/post-play and point guard.

bosh was dominating in the post, dunno why they took him out

our "shooters" look terrible, which is making it much harder for lebron and wade to operate.

players that can't guard dwyane wade: jrue holliday

so the formula for domination really is to hit millions of wide open three pointers

''formula,'' no, but it helps

i think that rose is a lil overrated cuz he has no outside shot & doesn't get to the line but hell he looks amazing so far tonight

knicks only beating the raptors by 4 = more embarrassing than anything that happened w/ the heat last night

over/under combined score for spurs/pacers: 100

under plz

knicks only beating the raptors by 4 = more embarrassing than anything that happened w/ the heat last night

ugh, hopefully we're not at the point of taking comfort in our relative success over the new york knicks

DUDE CHILL I'M KIDDING

i know.

kids today, so sensitive.

d blair w/ an and1 to start the game, so happy

cavs are about roughly as good as the heat right?

cavs equipped w a time machine, ya

oh please.

ps d blair is a fucking BEAST

he is 3-3 on ft

also this pace is nutz, spurs are the nu suns

guys, jvg is sooooo trolling the heat this year

17 pts in less than 5 minutes

xp

james jones is shooting out of his mind tonight

looks like the heat's plan is to let lebron cavs it up during the third quarter

manu just kicked granny danger in the junk

3 free throws btw (for manu)

not watching the game anymore, but heat defense -- from the 1.5 games i've seen -- is very active and impressive.

lol knicks

things heard during the first game of joe johnson's 6 yr 120 mil contract: "sometimes your stars not going to have it going and someone else needs to step up. tonight that man is zaza pachulia."

out of context lols: sean elliot just said "the penetration from the red rocket" GROOOOOOOOAN

i don't think anything this year is gonna beat stuart scott saying "from the land of big d"

lol celts btw

old team on the road back to back RECIPE 4 DISASTER

0_0 celtics.

0_0 the mighty caveliers.

combined score after one half of spurs/pacers: 131

Nets get their first win and it's still october

NEW ERA

old team on the road back to back RECIPE 4 DISASTER
old team on the road back to back RECIPE 4 DISASTER
old team on the road back to back RECIPE 4 DISASTER
old team on the road back to back RECIPE 4 DISASTER
old team on the road back to back RECIPE 4 DISASTER

let's just repeat this to ourselves for a while

i'm setting it to a crunk beat, and looping it.

Cavs 1-0!!

feelin pretty stupid for drafting bosh

josh mcroberts gettin some crazy wite boy air

sean elliot again: "you know manu can't resist another ball in his face"

sean elliott is the king of pausing (except he doesn't)

LOL BULLS HAVE SCALABRINE HOW DOES THIS GUY STAY IN THE LEAGUE

ginger affirmative action roster slots

CAVS 99-0 aHHHHH

HE IS CURRENTLY PLAYING IN THE GAME ON THE COURT

Snrub otm

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/28/drudge-siren.gif manu just flopped and drew an offensive foul http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/28/drudge-siren.gif

REVIEW THE TAPE
more sean elliott 'slips' if you would

kyle korver just made a sweet move that ended two seconds after the shot clock

derick rose is taking some v bad shots here

elliott: "the officials have swallowed their whistles"

when does boozer get back?

15-20 games iirc

ask not how he can disappoint you

am now imagining jfk saying "boozah" in his jfk voice

his ghost jfk voice, his regular jfk voice is dead

guys I think mike breen is an ilh lurker b/c he is MAD hyped by this okc run right now

mike breen, if u r indeed one of us, plz say only "ball" for the next 5 minutes

hi blake!

HOLD THAT THOUGHT CLIPPER TIME

lol xp i guess
HOLY SHIT

marcus camby, flexing

"he made a clean strip of skin off his body"

-- s. elliott

may want to put a body on this guy!

told y'all bout blake

Also so glad to hear uncle hubie again

just an idea!

xp gonna say hubie u the man

bison he didn't say that (at the game)

YES HE DID I WAS THERE

total points b/w spurs/pacers: 231

favors and cousins both had dece first games

turner and wesley johnson too aamof - just need to hear from WALL now

thought oden was back already dang

blake killing it at one end deandre killing it on the other randy foye not fucking up atm
*gotta wear shades*

baron looking old :(

lol tirico: they've given a season's worth of clipper highlights in one half!
f u clown
(clips up by 1 pt. btw)

just tuned in, hows professor griff(in) doing

dude be slammin

wow welcome 2 tha nba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20F9dIw_onk

just ran the break and dished to gordon for a dunk >__<

lol oberto

man kaman blanking it tonight this would have been a walk if he was on

kaman is actually http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/will-oldham-bonnie%281%29.jpg right?

haha yeah so what

aaaand randy foye airball will just about do it. welcome back clippers!

blazers are better defensively for sure

pretty perimeter heavy but they can harrass teams until the bigs get back

i'm liking hollinger's prediction of blazers finishing second in the west

cousins was just ok imo, johnson looked way better, super atheletic

cousins is powerful and had his moments but you really see his sorta "in-and-out of games" thing...he was flat out walking up the court lazily a lot

also: i worry about him in the long term, his body type just screams "future weight problems", he's already kinda doughy

ESPNForsberg
NBA spokesman confirms that uniform rules this year prohibit players (including @RajonRondo) from wearing their headbands upside down. 12:54 PM Oct 26th via Tweetie for Mac

the nba where 8====D~~~O-: happens

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0510/nba_g_rondo_576.jpg

http://oi54.tinypic.com/1ikd9t.jpg

HAAH

That's what Space Jam should have been.

i felt cranky about the new tech rules but obviously everyone will adjust, and i think stern has his heart in right place (make the players nicer and player-ref relations less antagonistic) versus the nfl's stupid no having fun rules

but def some kinks to work out, eric gordon got manhandled on a layup in that game last night and made the universal arm chop motion without saying anything while getting up and got T'd up for it

refs luv to t it up the first few games, pent up off season agression, itll dissipate

^wisdom bomb

gawd save us

motion to change blake griffins nickname from the terminator to terminator X

magic casting a spell on the wizards rite now

lmao :(

just when u thought vince carter couldn't be worse he goes and adds a creepy beard

i must be the only one that cares about how well mike conley played last night

could be.

i care! no j/k

i care bc u do.

and because he's on my fantasy team.

thank u bison

i mean first i had to remember which team hes on - was torn between memphis and charlotte - ended up guessing right (kudos!) - then i checked last nites box score and it really like wasnt thaat good of a game

pretty damn good for mike conley! granted it was against the rotted corpse of mike bibby, but still

pretty good for mike conley, is that a thing now

well idk for a pretty big pick he had been terrible for his whole career but i noticed that line last night and was sorta O_O

lol #4 pick smdh

in other news hasheem thabeet had a MINUS 18 +/- last night

is he the most predictable bust ever, feel like this demands some research

him and darrius heyward-bey

memphis is so fascinating to me. it's a team full of college stars

gay, mayo, randolph, conley, darrel arthur, thabeet, acie law, xavier henry

yeah they are super college-y gp

from what i watched arthur looked the best out of all those guys last night. xp

File under things I never thought I'd say or think, and yet here we are: these jazz unis are dope.

ok russell westbrook starts this play on his own baseline behind all of the bulls and finishes it just god damn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgobGTTC9J8

What was the best case scenario for thabeet when he was drafted? Like, presumably there's no way you take a guy #2 on the basis that in three seasons he just might be as good as Eric Dampier? If memphis hadn't taken him he'd still have gone top 5 right?

iirc no one was thrilled with the top of that draft beyond griffin, and in those situations taking size seems like a shield from blowing the pick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g03xuCrNQas

jazz blown out 2 games in a row nagl

How the hell did Gordon Heyward get 3 blocks last night? U go whiteboy.

damn, warrick put up some nice stats last night. must be nice playing w/ nash.

he played pretty active d from what i saw in preseason xp

interested to see what josh childress does with them too. seems like a good offensive system for him. before he left for his grecian getaway he was becoming one of the best 6th men in the league.

simmons column today is kind of all over the map but he does make the point that the heat have brought some genuine rivalries back to basketball, which is an ironic outcome considering that the drive behind the decisions was "we're all friends, let's play together" (even tho simmons doesn't concede and/or realize that he was one of the dudes that was initially crying out that this was gonna be "bad" for basketball)

well if the heat walked the celtics and looked amazing he'd be allllll over "this was bad for basketball"

if this anecdotal shit about bosh is true, that's gonna be an issue

i don't know -- i like simmons but i don't like him in "i know what i saw" mode

someone -- hollinger iirc -- made a better point about bosh & it's that he's deadly off the pick & roll popping jumpers but neither wade or bron look for him right after the pick which sort of negates his strength there

i don't buy that he was like, terrified of the game or whatever

what the fuck is delonte west's problem & why does he still have a job

Less than one week after tempers flared during a two-on-two game in practice, Delonte West and Von Wafer had another altercation earlier this afternoon.

During a three-on-three game with Avery Bradley, Luke Harangody, Semih Erden and assistant coach Tyronn Lue, West began fouling Wafer each time the reserve guard touched the ball. West was increasingly physical to the point that Wafer exited to the locker room midway through the game. As he walked away, West barked obscenities and taunted Wafer.

After Wafer had showered and sat down at his locker, West approached from behind and threw a punch. Wafer didn't see the punch coming but quickly got off of the ground and connected on two punches of his own. He then wrestled West to the ground before being separated by the team's veterans.

simmons columns are entertaining exercises in projection

His recent Nike ad was done so brilliantly that some viewers digested it incorrectly, thinking it was just the latest example of a superstar making a corporate comeback in a typically contrived way. Releasing a creative commercial to get people talking: Isn't that Step 1 of the "I'd Like To Reacclimate Myself Into Your Lives" blueprint? To an extent, yes. But in this case, the commercial was done so slickly that it obscured the underlying (and crucial) message: LeBron James wants to know, "What do you people want from me?"

^^this is pretty funny

xp jesus i was gonna say wafer has a rep too but that sounds like all delonte

feel bad for delonte - always liked that guy - clearly has some serious problems

@vonwafer13: Today was a test!...I am a professional and will continue to conduct myself as one...God has a plan for me

that commercial is weird failure to me mostly because lebron vacillates between phony smiles and kind of dead fish-eyes

i think he's just mouthing lines when he asks what we want him to be, the underlying message is that he really doesn't care or have any need to care

barkley is a nicer and more complete human being with a real actual personality anyway

btw shame on you if you missed this year's WHO HE PLAY FOR? on inside last night!

@WojYahooNBA No one with Celtics believes Delonte West had been an issue in locker room. Only the 15th man on roster, Wafer, has problems with him.

assistant coach Tyronn Lue

assistant coach Tyronn Lue

good for tyronn lue!

i'm sort of shocked by woj's reporting that the celtics believe that they need delonte west to win a title

Need? Well, more than Von Wafer. Can't trust Nate as the sole backup guard on the roster.

if they play the heat in the 3rd round, someone needs to have sex with bron's mom to throw him off his game

dunno why ppl are siding with delonte on this, von wafer is also a pretty chill dude

http://samtoman.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/von-wafer.jpg

he knows my secrets

Vakeaton Quamar Wafer

i'm sort of shocked by woj's reporting that the celtics believe that they need delonte west to win a title

mad overstatement (which seems typical the more i read this guy?) but delonte is the perfect backup guard for this team (and prob a lot of teams; i love his skillset)

dayo - are people siding with Delonte on anything besides importance to the team? He's a nutter and this 10 game suspension is a joke. He was riding around with multiple loaded unlicensed weapons. How is that not as bad as (or, honestly, worse than) unloaded weapons in the locker room?

well i think ppl have heard a lot about delonte and how he's a fundamentally nice but extremely troubled person.

xp lol I was being facetious, I don't really care about this beef

but yeah delonte clearly does not have his head screwed on straight. the celts have sort of painted themselves as the halfway house of the NBA and really believe that they can reform anybody they take on, bet they would have even taken AI if the money was right

they would have even taken AI if the money talent was right

That's probably true. AI just can't do what he needs to do to be effective in the NBA anymore. AI without his quickness is a short, inaccurate, shooter.

Personal problems notwithstanding, I liked Delonte when he played for the Cavs. He could add some instant offense with his running teardrop shots. I believe he was off his medication when they found him armed to the teeth so I hope he's found some help in the meantime.

is anyone scared of dwight howard?

what do you mean? he's awesome (defensively, at least).

IAMI – For months now LeBron James has made it clear that all the criticism he received since signing with the Heat in July has affected him.

He has promised to keep track of his detractors and then prove them wrong.

To keep that message at the front of his mind and perhaps to make sure the media knows it, James has prominently posted a famous quote about critics from Theodore Roosevelt in his locker. It is in large print:

“It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

I AM I

I AM I

damn dayo beat me

really lebron should just hire somebody w/ this in a flipbook http://twenty-somethingtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/haters_gonna_hate.gif to stand at his locker and flip it

callin' it now, heat will lose tonight 124 -- 68.

lol @ headline

Magic G Williams banned for touching ref

man, 'bron looks tense. the heat look tense.

or maybe they're just bummed out that their home intro music is in the air tonight.

loved the understated intro

nice block on wade.

love jvg

dwight def leaves his feet before putting down the ball

heat D is so active. but they haven't been running offensively like i'd expected.

maybe this game . . .

refs all over this game.

god why are wade & bron so bad free throw shooting

why does arroyo even bother bringing the ball up

rashard lewis is kind of awful isn't he

why does arroyo even bother bringing the ball up

seriously.

okay, this is a different miami team. much more attacking. much better integration between lebron and wade.

hey marc jackson

stfu

er, mark

lol

love the fang mouthpiece

yeah.

yeah, heat are getting comfortable playing together, wouldn't you say?

that's what i want to see ('bron to wade)

did magic sell his stake in the lakers so he could embrace riles & the heat?

lol z's feet didnt even leave the floor

he's considering buying a % of the dolphins. i think that's why he's here (aside from interviewing riley for espn)

two bullshit techs already called in this game

Tbf they should adjust the suspension threshold cuz these players are getting t's and learning as they go

heat second unit made brandon bass look like dwight howard

hahahahahahahahahah vince

docfunk Vince Carter is going as Vince Carter for halloween. #Injured

the chick on the espn "road trip" segment is cute.

this is a good game.

lol @ eric spolestra's halftime comments to team: "we're doing good enough. if they start hitting some threes, just stay in the moment . . . "

countdown to riles swooping down GODDAMIT U R DOING IT ALL WRONG ERIK

also weeooeooeeoooeeoo nets are two and oh drudge siren weeooeeooeeooeeooeeoo

ruh roh

nets unleashed.

hopefully the new CBA will dismantle the nets.

RUH ROH

uhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

miami's pretty good.

RUH ROH indeed.

lebron's defense is amazing.

wade's defense pretty good, too!

i claim my $5 for saying that dwight would not be able to stay on the floor vs this team

well, his offense has been better than usual.

plus: 5 fouls at this point in the 3d quarter will limit him tremendously.

plus, again, heat's defense is swarming. holding orlando to 50 midway thru 3d quarter is pretty special.

there are a lot more whistles so far this year.

magic are missing an epic amount of wide open threes

yeah, but you've got to credit the heat's defense. not on those threes, per se. but they're rattling the magic overall.

what a weird swing between the heat's opener and its home opener, both against elite teams (or maybe boston's that much better than orlando).

magic have 3 total assists thru 3 full quarters!

doris burke just called mark jackson "brother"

lol am now imagining an nba on epsn crew cult

boringest cult ever

lol x2 at fouled-out dwight foldin his arms on the bench looking like a giant child

so who's gonna be the first team to score 90 on the heat

yeah, really. consider: the magic scored 20 points in the second half tonight.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

IraHeatBeat Ira Winderman
Talk about halftime adjustments: The Heat have won the third quarter in each of their three games, by a staggering 86-41 margin

http://3critical.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/080428_spoelstra.jpg

watching the lakers/suns game after the heat/magic game is jarring. so different:

• refs letting the players play
• lakers running a much more well-defined set offense
• night-and-day difference in the defense (tho lakers killing suns on the glass, and la is certainly a big team)

Love how people are sleeping so hard on a laker team that will be better then last years

Halloween marks the 60th anniversary of Washington’s Earl Lloyd becoming the first African-American to play in an NBA game

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/mrtlol.gif

wait who is sleeping on the lakers?

I think you can say there's less buzz about them right now, but that's b/c of miami's total, dramatic, star-studded makeover (vs. LA's just adding a few complimentary players).

Another reason the Lakers are not the center of much buzz right now is that all the big player moves were within or toward the East last summer. Under the circumstances, the Lakers have only solidified their status as the favorites out of the West, while the East has a lot of mystery to intrigue the onlooker.

that's true. and it will be even more true if 'melo moves to the east midseason.

t parker signs 4/50 mil extensh, hell yes

that means for at least three years, spurs have blair, manu, parker, splitter, geo hill, jefferson and lol bonner

continuing sean elliot observation: dude is saying "ball don't lie" after EVERY missed free throw by the opposition. more like stfu elliot, iyam.

Wall watch: 28-5-9 tonight

^^^ hoping that's his averages in a couple years

ROY

wow wall! seems like there's a bumper crop of top-flight rookies or young players (e.g., wall to griffin to durant) emerging just as the league is energized by intense -- and in many cases, new -- rivalries (e.g., heat v. take your pick of boston, orlando, cleveland, LA; boston v. LA; boston v. orlando). it's going to be a great year for the NBA.

ugh spurs down 10 to the hawnets at home after 2 days rest, brb killing myself

i thought you were a lakers fan, not a spurs fan?!?

oh and re Wall, expect every PG who plays the hawks to put up ridiculous numbers w/ bibby and crawford playing D (ie Conley on opening night)

in fairness, you can't stop mike conley. you can only hope to contain him.

i thought you were a lakers fan, not a spurs fan?!?

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:07 PM (3 minutes ago)

do not maek me BAN U

LOL! was honest mistake, promise.

i hate LA, too.

god can yall plz sftu re exciting new rivalries, conceptual marketing bullshit

transplantation of existing rivalries

ZO MORNING v PATTY EWINGS BORINGEST MINDSTATE EVER

its not a good rivalry until theres a fistfite

imo

THESE TEAMS REALLY DONT LIKE EACH OTHER OH BOY JEFF WE ARE IN FOR A GOOD ONE TODAY

heard him talk shit about his momma, DUNK ON HIM 2 DEMONSTR8 UR DISPLEASURE

johnhollinger John Hollinger
As expected, Atlanta, Indiana and New Jersey are your division leaders in the East.

ps spurs how u down 16 u shitheels

The Oregonian reported Friday that the Blazers and Oden’s representatives agreed there would be no extension, making the oft-injured center the first top pick since Kwame Brown not to get one at the end of his rookie contract. Teams have until Monday to reach deals with first-round picks from the 2007 draft.

cant blame em tbh

nope.

man

the kwame brown thing is a bit of a knife-twist, though.

yeah. they can still match any offers for him in the offseason. not that surprising, given his injuries.

the kwame brown thing is a bit of a knife-twist, though.

― Clay, Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:29 PM (1 minute ago)

haha yeah its a kind of "this is how much u mean 2 me *tears up picture of u*" moment

um are the hornets good now or something? theyre about to start 3-0.

mind wanders to wondering what blazers would be like now if they drafted durant instead of oden.

don't get me started bro

I don't see Roy & Durant as compatible. Both are best with ball in their hands. I'd rather have Durant than Roy and they could have got some good value for Roy.

imo roy and durant is a combo u find a way to make work

they couldve had chris paul too iirc

I don't see Roy lebron & Durant wade as compatible. Both are best with ball in their hands

i think they'd be fine.

jesus

rip blazers

yeah, roy is a great distributor / very unselfish and the floor-spacing on that combo would be pretty sick / very beneficial for durant's unbelievable jump shooting.

thanks icey, was gonna bring up the "hey let's trade down to draft martell webster instead of sitting on the #4 and taking chris paul" debacle of the '05 draft but figured i'd stop beating myself up.

lol sry

lol

nbd jus 2 of the five best players in the world

is oden healthy right now?

he's breathing without a respirator, if thats what u means

btw http://i55.tinypic.com/208em8w.jpg

mozgov sounds like the website of morrissey if elected to public office

timofey moz.gov

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/16/morrisy.gif

MORRIESSEY WELCOMES U TO THE 23RD DISTRICT

is oden healthy right now?

still recovering from broken kneecap. way behind schedule. won't set a timetable for his return. has recently started playing in light contact 5-on-5 in practice and said he felt "slow" and was reportedly the worst player on the court by a wide margin -- just couldn't really remember how to play and got gassed on every possession. Won't see the court in a real game until january at the earliest, maybe closer to spring.

meanwhile przybilla tore his acl twice in a few months last season and will be back early november. oden is just broken and i've basically accepted that.

yo bison, how is splitter looking so far?

handsome in those suits

could be playing by monday

oh man nets starting joe smith, what

already getting crushed by el heat, lil wrench in plan prokofirov

be looking pretty smart when they get melo

b. lopez ez v. good.

yeah, but at what price will they get carmelo? i assume they won't give up lopez or their star PG, rt?

one would assume: favors, draft picks, cap relief

if melo wanted to go to jersey they would've done that trade this off season

favors seems talented, but you got to give to get.

amare was, like, the best man at melo's wedding. he's going to the knicks.

Not sure how highly the nets, or anyone really, rate Harris. He's a constant in nj trade rubies and has pretty serious injury history. "Star" is pushing it.

i guess -- assuming nets would have to trade favors -- where would be a better fit for melo: Nets or Knicks?

Rock and a hard place tbh.

Nets have more longterm upside imo.

if melo wanted to go to jersey they would've done that trade this off season

― my dark twisted fennessey (J0rdan S.), Sunday, October 31, 2010 1:38 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

his wanting threshold may decline while his wantingness grows, i like to think of it as 'the world famous tipping point'

w0w at wade's hail mary shot (didn't count, but)

a team that's also gonna be lurking in trade rumors for melo & cp3 is the magic

again, heat hold opponent to under 20 in a quarter.

what do magic have as trade bait?

amare was, like, the best man at melo's wedding. he's going to the knicks.

― my dark twisted fennessey (J0rdan S.), Sunday, October 31, 2010 1:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

another way to look at it is: melo is not the only party involved

i feel like melo will be willing to risk doing a contract under the new CBA rules if it means getting to sign w/ the knicks long term

not to mention that the knicks might be able to trade for him this year

the nuggets also have incentive to move him, so it's not like melo is powerless

hm. not sure if -- even with that dynamic combo -- nyk are championship caliber. they'd be v. good, tho.

meanwhile, miami's offense looking better and better (more integration b/w lebron and wade and bosh). defense still looks fierce.

melos not powerless but neither are the nuggs, feels like nets could be a reasonable compromise especially if they play ok and the knicks suck, not to mention brooklyn is by the trading deadline a year and a half away - could also easily have a change of heart and decide to stay den - not to mention all sorts weirdo multi team trades that could land him anywhere

fwiw any player w/any sense should stay far the fuck away from the knicks - possibly the worst org in all sports

truth ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

amare's not a bad building block, tho.

eh im a fan but hes not the most complete player

Neither melo or amare are proven NBA-level winners, it should be noted. Their success has generally been on the backs of smart, dynamic point guards. And their games don't exactly compliment one another's either. Talent != wins.

feel like melo is pretty much easily better than amare - get him in the right situation and he will have a pierce (incidentally the player he most resembles) like public opinion renaissance

Yeah I like melo a lot, and would way prefer him to amare. But both guys are second bananas and need alpha types around them so they don't resort to I'll advised jumpers all game long.

I guess I just feel like without a cp3 on this theoretical knocks team, if it's just melo + amare + whoever, you've got an endless frat party and five years of being the league's most talented sixth seed.

Lol knocks = knicks.

kinda think structure and the positive reinforcement of winning are more important than a particular alpha guy - like you put melo on the nets allow him to do melo type shit and the team starts vibing to a winning formula things could work out quite well - who wouldnt be relived after years of denver chaos style ball

Maybe my point is both dudes strike me as "undisciplined"?

man i was just looking at the knicks roster and it is DEPRESSING feel bad for mikey diantoni

xp yeah thats fair but a bunch of that lack of discipline has got to be laid at the nuggs feet - melos game is pretty polished - its not like you look at him and see a guy who doesnt work

I guess before making all these pronouncements, we'll see how amare looks without Nash setting him up. But at a glance, their games seem really uncomplimentary and you'd need the VERY right set of role players around them.

that pairing would be a disaster for sure, now if they could get cp3

oden is just broken and i've basically accepted that

^^^ otm

It would take several years of good health and consistent productivity to reverse this conclusion.

Personally love the idea of Oden, Beasley, and Darko playing together with the Twolves.

oden/love/beas is stylistically a tite fit

^^^this

http://www.terezowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/x2_334655f.jpeg

lol who is that even?

i meani know it's wade -- but who is he dressed up as

^^^this

so i missed 2d half of heat/nets game, but from the score, looks like miami's defense was v. impressive again.

Wade's dressed as a white in a minstrel show, before he applied his blackface makeup. Payback!

huh?

mediatakeout sez hes supposed to be justin timberlake lol

whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut

http://mediatakeout.com/44530/lmaooo_nba_baller_dwyane_wade_dressed_up_as_justin_timberlake_for_halloween_yeah_he_went_whiteface.html

lmaooo_nba_baller

btw patron saint of this thread antawn jamison 18 min 1-7 2pts 1reb and 0-4 from 3 vs SACTO KINGS

u_u

+/- -1

Paul Pierce posted Halloween pics on twitter; he's the frog from that Disney movie, his wife's the princess and his daughter is a lilypad. All props to Pierce for rocking this:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg185/scaled.php?tn=0&server=185&filename=p2n.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

But it's the C's vest that kicks it into overdrive:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg139/scaled.php?tn=0&server=139&filename=mncw.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

love that guy.

paul!!!

bron posted photos of his kids, they were cuet

R.I.P. Maurice Lucas.

Bummer. Rest in peace, Maurice.

is there anything better than the reactions of the bench of whatever team lebron james is playing for?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TMtiLvp3e1I/AAAAAAAAFdw/9l8j-ZibZqY/s1600/13.jpg

dying

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TMtiDfw6bBI/AAAAAAAAFdA/2lTbu3QYRus/s1600/07.jpg

lollin at this one, didnt know funk was a font nerd

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TMth5MoQ88I/AAAAAAAAFcQ/3a6kYPumVhc/s400/01.jpg

damn what happened to the thunder tonight

is there anything better than the reactions of the bench of whatever team lebron james is playing for?

― GAWKA (J0rdan S.), Monday, 1 November 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA

tip maurice lucas

my phone's auto-speller messed that up; trying again:

rip maurice lucas

rip

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2WyAxq3Kt2E/TM6_J558GZI/AAAAAAAAAC0/p_x7Cur3ifM/s1600/celtics-halloween4.jpg

ok rondo as tiger lmao

they are a happy bunch.

WHERE'S SHAQUILLE O'NEAL? i know he isn't the V for Victory guy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2WyAxq3Kt2E/TM6-1BNTsPI/AAAAAAAAACw/GLap81ky-lQ/s1600/shaqueeta.jpg

o that is horrible.

Did anyone post these Chernoff faces modeled on Basketball Prospectus predictions?

http://i54.tinypic.com/2q8troi.png

Face size is forecasted playing time and usage, mouth is defense, eyes is passing, hair is overall offense, nose is blocks and steals, ears are rebounding.

http://i51.tinypic.com/vi1pv8.png

http://i53.tinypic.com/6zsp61.png

Hawks sign Horford to a 5 yr/60 mil extension. Glad to see they can still manage to sign reasonable contracts.

xp lol whut

why are some orange & some yellow

Where did you find those faces? Do they have other teams?

The Wolves didn't think he'd be a fit next to Love. But that wasn't the biggest reason they passed. There was a bigger concern that Cousins would be too much to handle in the locker room -- especially on such a young team.

Those concerns, according to sources, are already being born out in Sacramento. While Cousins has played very well in the summer league, preseason and in the Kings' first three regular-season games, there are concerns.

Sources close to the Kings tell me that Cousins has earned his reputation for being difficult. Several players on the team have complained privately about his attitude and he's already butted heads with assistant coaches in practice.

That was fast!

i like this guy already!

means he must be getting the job done imo

lolin so hard at the chernoff faces

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TM9T4YlaqxI/AAAAAAAAFfA/X4Yz-PM2obQ/s1600/02.jpg

http://dimemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Marquis-Daniels.jpg

wtf

http://dimemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Daniel-Gibson-Keyshia-Cole.jpg

...

boobie gibson's heart is as dark as his idol the joker #ripheath

haah marquis is the weirdest

god is eric gordon flying

splitter is a little nervous

hello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nnN8aIryzE

http://highbridnation.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/farooq-wwe-damn.gif

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/20749/the-unkept-promise-of-greg-oden

"I've been watching 'Two and a Half Men.' That's my number one," he says. "Then 'Gossip Girl,' and '90210.'"

so not baller

conley 45/5 looooool

real talk i thought you were saying that he scored 45 points tonight & was like "i don't think they played" & i checked the scores and they didn't & was like "bad joke imo" but now i see you mean FORTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

http://chernykh.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/garnett-and-shaq-made-mozgov-laugh-for-different-reasons

o_O at that Mike Conley deal - what possible justification is there for that? Would anyone have offered, like, 30/5?

Their justification is that he played well in the first three games this season...

Simmons had the best line when he asked if it wasn't 5 million for 45 years

He only makes two million less than Rajon Rondo.

lol

omg whaaat

seriously conley is an utterly generic modestly above-average point guard. i also would not able to pick him out of a crowd if i hadn't just seen the docfunk img post

guys it is a new day, overpaying for mediocre point guards is the new overpaying for big men, the transition to the nu-nba is complete

so who's gonna be the first team to score 90 on the heat

― my dark twisted fennessey (J0rdan S.), Saturday, October 30, 2010

the timberwolves?

very sorry to see the injury to michael beasley. he was playing a monster game.

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

(sorry m bise)

joke is on the clippers tho, theyre fucking terrible

watched the frst half, tho, griff is a grown ass man, dude is a future HOFer

thought wilbon was otm when he said that griffin reminded him of a young shawn kemp

does he have many out-of-wedlock children?

m bise as ILH mod can you do an autoreplace of shawn kemp w/ this

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

aww danny that's a low blow!! I will not hear anybody speak ill of the REIGN MAN

ah, i take it back. i liked shawn kemp. what ever happened to him?

coke iirc

got fat, had 10 kids, cocaine

Jim McIlvaine happened.

kemp probably has the most amazing collection of dunks by anybody in the NBA, ever (yes even better than nique and dr j)

such power

Fans were cheering "MVP!" while J.J. was attempting free throws, points 26 and 27.

post-bron lifes depressing...

wow heat d -- and o, tonight. 70 points at the half, frightening d in the third quarter.

end of third quarter, and it's basically miami 100, timberwolves 70. i still think minnesota will break 90 on the heat tonight (they only need 20, and they've been hitting some midrange shots, and miami's so far ahead they may ease up on the gas).

yep. heat victims of their own success with regard to holding opponents under 90. there's no incentive to get lebron or wade or bosh back in the game when you're up 112 -- 86 with 6 minutes left.

anyway, held them under 100. again, bummed for beasley.

so now 4 -- 1. here are the next 13 games:

Fri 05 @ New Orleans
Sat 06 vs New Jersey
Tue 09 vs Utah
Thu 11 vs Boston
Sat 13 vs Toronto
Wed 17 vs Phoenix
Fri 19 vs Charlotte
Sat 20 @ Memphis
Mon 22 vs Indiana
Wed 24 @ Orlando
Fri 26 vs Philadelphia
Sat 27 @ Dallas
Mon 29 vs Washington

some good matchups. circle the boston game, obv. orlando's circling their rematch (at home). really curious to see the heat/suns game.

that was a rhetorical question that i don't want to clog up this thread tbh

BTW JOHN WALL *flexes bicep*

SamAmicoNBA. Meanwhile, out in LA, Phil Jackson tells reporters Memphis "would be playoff team" if in Eastern Conference

odd comment. east much better this year than last, and probably better than the west overall.

top heavy, dogg

yeah, it's always been like that

the final three teams in the east are gonna be ass