2011-12 NBA Season Thread: Year 0 of the World Peace Era

b/c we were in the 'box when the season started

v excited for clips vs undefeated blazers tonight. feel like we could learn some stuff about these teams tonight. Or it will be another meaningless, frustrating regular season game in an accelerated season.

yeah that game should be great

Rubio looks amazing

nuggets are the most fun team ever

Gallinari playing amazing D on Kobe for realz

just max out Kevin Love already ffs

rubio is playing out of his mind, holy god

did Rubio just tank the past 2 years in Europe, sulking away his buyout?

feel like maybe the over coached super physical euro game just wasn't the place for rubios free wheeling ways

but he was pretty good at that euro game when he was 18, and somehow got worse.

yah who knows

anybody with league pass unable to get the clips/blazers game? i can't figure out why it's blacked out

nah I got it

Birdman just hit a totally bananas baseline fadeaway buzzer beater

what the hell is going on in this bulls-grizz game

The clips are so ridiculously athletic, like it seems like cheating to be that athletic as a team

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is it getting close to most lopsided of all time? 100 to 56 right now, woof

rubio didnt get "worse" at europe later. it was his new team, barcelona, who played in a... strange way. didnt match w/ his game at all.

euro basketball doesnt make any sense, its garbage

ps r u coops chucklebutt aka ice cram aka jhooey jho jho shabadoo

nuggetssssss

i like it =/ (euro bball)

so glad to not see j.r. smitty in thread title anymore

i love this team

i am just me a new me for a new era cant be nobody else also the heat should trade lebron for dwight howard #tradebron

when bron puts up 30/8/6.5 this year and the heat win the title u will regret those words

if it is 30/8/6, u wont regret it that much

an extra 0.5 assists pushes it into the regret threshold paradox

bron dies heat dies deadly 2012 unless trade bron #mayaprophecy

lol

nostradwightus

srsly tho doesnt bron average 30/8/6 every year

yeah i was kinda underselling that there lol

ya thats why when he goes 30/8/6.5 u will b like WHOA *looks down at floor with solemnity*

*_*

looks like z-bo is prob okay btw

whew good

Norris Cole had another pretty damn good game tonight. I may have a hat to eat at work for all of my cole-downplaying.

lol DJ has become an autofoul

Portland looking pretty darn incompetent tonight

damn ur gonna have to eat a hat cause a 23 y/o rookie back up pg had a couple dece games, thats a rigorous workplace

mo williams just tried to lob to brian cook

lol brian cook just missed the train to LOB CITY

wow kobels had a real bad game today

yo portland vs clips close game alert if you turned away because it was a blowout at the half

clips really need to deal williams or bledsoe for a decent big at some point

yah one would think thats the plan

Whoa cp3 that's NUTS

holy shit cp3

Clips really don't know how to close a game at all. Missing free throws, jacking up terrible 3s with time left, all while up 4 with under a minute left.

cp3! that was a tough finish

Yeah that was sick, over Aldridge too

this jump ball will be v funny

he doesnt get a block for that?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5m12XoYF1qzaoamo1_500.jpg

welp, guess I have a new favorite basketball player

kidd is all dont smile just ignore him maybe he will stop

blazers-clips was lol, clips announcers all "here we go again" and cp3 just put on the superman cape for a minute like it was nothing, it's gonna take them a while to get used to actually having one of the top ten (?) players and a clutch guy

bet offense worst defense going into last nights game at least http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/34906/the-grittier-side-of-lob-city

so glad to not see j.r. smitty in thread title anymore

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haha

this kevin love 3pt shooting thing is out of control

god san antonio's perimeter D is gone

If anyone is watching this Wolves game the Minny shooting guard is called Wes Johnson, he was a pretty good small forward in college.

OKC is going to seriously embarrass Dallas tonight, aren't they

I'm glad Bogut looks healthier this year, one of my favorite current players.

god the twolves cant miss from distance right now

How can prevent fifth
metacarpal fracture?
Since most fifth metacarpal fractures happen because
of hitting hard objects with your fist...don't hit things!

lockout 4 manu

nba without manu makes no sense at all

ayo looks like my stream connect dried up

spurs had 21 total rebounds O_O

league pass broadband is free til the 8th fyi

jfc the Knicks starting lineup right now is just ;_;

xpost I saw that but I can't seem to order it online -- guess I have to call the 800 number?

i think u just need to create a login

atl beats miami, has best point differential

shawn marion has the ugliest game in the league

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddms-RLOjOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV5BirDfuAc

super cool beas

Looked like "Oh shit! That's my bone!"

okc lose too nobody undefeat

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx6ysn4CDQ1qhkq6oo1_400.gif

atl beats miami, has best point differential

led by tracy mcgrady O_O

omg dying (xpost)

^_^

clay, we hitting a game this season or what?

oh shit yeah man webmail me yr infos and I'll try to grab you when some tix come through

done bud, psyched if something comes through

My bro up in Minny went to the wolves game tonight and sat near Kahn.

1. He would yell at Kahn periodically about how awful Wes Johnson is ("Wes sucks" etc., and Kahn would glare at him subtly.

2. Whenever Darko got the ball, Kahn would get really tense and lean way forward in his seat.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6749/img1212uz.jpg

as my friend was leaving, Kahn was yelling at Beasley "Tighten it up, Michael!"

http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/526213/beasley.gif

oh shi- thats my bone!

lol yup

lol yikes

early season stats r the best http://hoopdata.com/advancedstats.aspx

how good is kyle lowery btw, is he gonna make an unexpected leap into the ranks of the elite

hes the houston 2nd best player

johnhollinger John Hollinger
I'm on Jazz-Bucks now. Raja Bell has 11 points and six rebounds. No, not tonight -- that's his total in five games as a starter.
1 minute ago

wow atl -- back-to-back wins over mia and chi would be impressive

lmao what if tmac returned to like 3/4 peak tmac performance, that would certainly complicate this whole wacky season

lol, the main pic on T-mac's website is still him in a pistons uniform, and the video from last night's game is captioned "Tracy's 13-point 4th leads Rockets past Heat"

HA

Don't know if I feel "The Turkish Hammer" as a nickname

ugh, better than "Turkish Delight" though

"the ___ hammer" has to be the most played out nickname ever, give it a rest earth, ty, kk

Chris Herrington
Tyreke Evans with 4 assists through three quarters. One away from tying the Kings' season high!

If the Bulls lose this it's pretty much on Korver as things stand right now

wth is up w/ this bulls hakws game

it is the sloppiest thing I have ever seen

Ugh, Lieutenant Deng? Fire this clown.

Oh, guess it's Stacey King

luol deng sometimes reminds me of the reincarnation of tyrone hill

the hawk's offense is the worst thing I have ever seen

thunder looking very human today. starting to think the west is more wide open than I prev believed.

Favors has five blocks in ten minutes.

harden pnr w/ anyone: *_*

kurt thomas knocking down jumpers: *_*

rubio standing still: *_*

Ha Perk vs Aldridge

hold that heartbeat lamarcus plz

Felt like it was me vs Boston ilh contingent for a sec

loool @ ATL

sorry hungry4ass

awesome W for the portland tho

great 2nd half by batum, felton looked okay too - but sometimes he goes "WTF i need to turn a ball over"
alridge killed ibaka and last but not least KURT THOMAS.

ball don't lie

Felton is pure instinct, he's super fun to watch but those 4 assist, 8 turnover games come a little too often.

tbf, felton hasn't had much time to learn his teammates, yet

r.i.p. ginobels heaven needed a baller w/ a monk haircut

the heat have trouble w/the zone because they cant shoot http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/11102/putting-the-brakes-on-miamis-run-and-gun

but hey i give spo credit for being the first coach to realize that if you have lebron james you should prob try to run a lil

comeback on the hawks last night was one of those moments where you could almost believe things were scripted wwf-style

hawks were just gassed prob, either that or it was scripted

yeah, 50/50

The Memphis Grizzlies are in advanced discussions on a three-team trade with New Orleans and Philadelphia that will bring 76ers center Marreese Speights to the Grizzlies, according to sources with knowledge of the trade.

The deal, on course to be completed later Wednesday, would send Memphis' Xavier Henry to the Hornets and two second-round picks to Philadelphia.

free marreese!

oh speights TOTALLY needs to be on the grizz

agree!

quality post http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/35051/what-happened-to-picks

does deng even make contact with anyone in that highlight?

no but ~thats the point~

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

ouch sounds painful!

that's gotta hurt!

lol xpost

cornball minds think alike

:)

http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2012/01/04/keyon-dooling-is-wearing-rajon-rondos-shoes

z-bo out 6-8 weeks with torn mcl

rip grizzles

didn't hollinger or someone point out how they had a freakish run of good health last year?

damn zbo rip

didn't hollinger or someone point out how they had a freakish run of good health last year?

― rock out with your lock out d-stern (agent hibachi), Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uhh, Rudy Gay was out for the season.

Damn 6-8 weeks is like the whole season!

rip z-bo

I could see the Grizz holding on until Z-Bo is back and getting in to the 7th or 8th seed. The bottom of the west playoff picture is pretty murky.

*fantasy bball team commits suicide*

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/03/2571940/lebron-james-people-reject-bakers.html

tbh that cake looks kinda weaksauce for $3000

Sad news bout Zach.

heh yeah I was gonna say #teambron sadly otm, that cake looks like it was designed for a 10 year old heat fan and not the multimillionaire player who the 10 year old is a fan of

w/e lady was dumb to do it for free, team bron are dicks for requesting it for free and not using it

It looks bizarre.

it reminds me of the burger king

http://dayandadream.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/the-burger-king.jpg

http://p.twimg.com/AiU9qujCMAMnjZZ.jpg

tbf, she's getting more publicity from this than if she just got paid like normal or w/e.

Would have to know more about the details, but just generally (1) If you're doing something free for a celebrity for the "publicity" it seems kind of implied that they might reject it if it's not up to their subjective standards and (2) if you're really concerned about getting paid, have a contract

probably couldn't afford lawyers or only lawyers who would work for cake

Plus if you're doing a cake under those circumstances, you fucking come correct with it.

I would love to see what her lawyer cake would look like.

Might be reasonable of them to just pay her labor + supplies costs. Don't really see how that could be 3K but I know little of cake baking.

three-lawyer cake (xpost)

that cake is tremendous you guys just dont 'get' the intese world of celebrity caking

I mean I don't see it as being that different from "Hey, write me a song for my movie." If you're doing it for money, you say "ok, how much will you pay me for a song" or "I will charge you $x for a song." If you don't do that, and you're doing it for the "publicity" it's kind of common sense that your song might not make it in the movie AND you might not get paid.

That cake was $3,000 because of the edible gold dust, not because of the size, other ingredients or the outstanding design. Gold is freaking expensive these days.

how much is the darko cake

I was kinda feeling bad for cake lady but then I saw the cake they went with and I was like sorry bro, your cake sucks

lol @ the rejected cake

yeah that is a lame cake, i wouldn't even eat that shit

goldschlager costs like $20 a fifth iirc

lol you would need so many bottles of goldschlager to get enough gold flake for a cake

meanwhile the heat sans wade are blowing the pacers out of the building

also twitter is making it sound like the knicks are having some sort of apocalyptic meltdown vs the bobcats right now

charlotte has put up 62 in the first half

and marshon brooks has 15 in the first quarter for the nets against the c's

nets are without d-will too

lebron with 14, 6, and 7 in the first half

Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh 4m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
LeBron checked in with 6:54 left in 2nd quarter with the score 40-33. Now it's 62-39. You do the math.

Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh 4m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
LeBron checked in with 6:54 left in 2nd quarter with the score 40-33. Now it's 62-27. You do the math.

still keep thinking about that cake, the picture of how proud she is standing next to it kind of kills me, the whole story sounds like it should be a simpsons plot that ends w/ marge driving to AA arena and hitting lebron over the head w/ a rolling pin

Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh 4m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
LeBron checked in with 6:54 left in 2nd quarter with the score 40-33. Now it's 62-27. You do the math.

so the pacers lost points how bron do that

oh shit i thought dayo posted that without seeing sarge's, i was trying to clown him

guess you are the one who is clowned *does deke finger wag*

sarge is the real clown though for following tom haberstroh on twitter ; )

i have no idea whats goin on here

im watching celtics/nets and this IS NOT pretty basketball

believe it or not: Byron Mullens is an ok player.

xp lol its hideous, isn't it

believe it or not: Byron Mullens is an ok player.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:10 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark

this isn't totally shocking -- dude is still only 21 (or 22?) and was like the consensus no. 1 recruit when he came outta high school

DJ White also looks really solid.

dj white had a pretty big game vs the heat the other day

ok this is a nice sequence--avery bradley abusing jordan farmar

that was hilar

tommy just called deron 'diane williams'

my god the celtics second unit is just

Brandon bass is p good

hey, maybe NYK shouldn't have given away 3 of their next 5 first rounders?

have they played this shot blocking white yet

uh oh, lebron is down and not getting up

lol 4 ever @ nyk

i was just wondering the other day how lebron has basically NEVER gotten hurt

i think he just turned his ankle, he was writing for a second there

lol 4 ever @ dead bron rip

#ripbron rest in peace

bass is good but theyre making him do more than he should be doing imo.

i haven't seen much of the shot blocking wite (jho i bet you can guess how much good press he's gotten in boston over the last week) in this game--not sure why. i have literally never seen chris wilcox do anything.

lebron on the fast break one-on-one with paul george, elevates for a lay up, steps on george's foot, turns his ankle, drops a no look pass off to haslem running behind him, falls to the ground in pain

haslem drops in an uncontested lay up

marquis daniels misses at the rim at an amazing rate

amare is getting jeered in the garden right now

it's still kinda crazy to me that breen does knicks games

lol Knicks fans are kinda the best

celtics are embarrassing the nets in this the third quarter

bass with a 15/13!

shot blocking wite has entered the game and committed a foul

i haven't seen much of the shot blocking wite (jho i bet you can guess how much good press he's gotten in boston over the last week)

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol boston

diaw is 11-13 from the field

clyde: "diaw spinning and winning in the paint, a scoop to the hoop"

i would pay to listen to clyde and tommy do a game together

knicks pwnd

@KBergCBS: It's 102-88 Bobcats over Knicks with 6 1-2 left. The chant at MSG is, "Let's go Giants."

jordan farmar is going to have nightmares about bradley

bradley has nightmares about having to get kg & paul pierce pb&j every day

(Not) Walt Frazier @NotWaltFrazier
An overweight Boris gives Amare the Chuck Norris. Ankle-breakin' despite calorie intakin'!

more or less

the homecourt calls (and no calls) NYK gets are so shameful

this is ridiculous

really sad to hear about bron goin down 4ever #rip

I just grabbed tix to blazers vs lakers and blazers vs clips and I think I'm only really interested in the clippers game.

So upset with the Knickerbockers professional basketball franchise right now.

I mean I missed the game, but jfc who did we just lose to? Who the fuck is Boris Diaw and why the fuck did he just put up 27 points on us? Why are we scoring 110 and losing? Why is the return of BARON FUCKING DAVIS the last best hope for the season?

wait people thought the Knicks would be good this year?

so is bron ok?

RIP PHX Suns

yeah he didn't even come out of the game

Brian Windhorst @WindhorstESPN 1m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
LeBron has been diagnosed with left ankle sprain. Could be an issue tomorrow in Atlanta especially following flight.

i was just wondering the other day how lebron has basically NEVER gotten hurt

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:28 PM (58 minutes ago)

*knocks on wood furiously*

BRON WILL NEVER BE INJURED DONT WORRY HE IS INDESTRUCT

i was almost just the second person to call joe out as Daniel esq for a sec there.

i know u r just trying to 'get a rise' out of me because that doesnt even make any sense

The all caps heat worshipping thing he does

i was clearly attempting to jinx bron!

like I saw the post and I was like oh Daniels doin his thing again but then I was lik lol joe

ha ok

cp3 is just having his way right now, missed u boo

how many more days do I have free nba tv, I better watch some serious bball in the next few days

through 1/8 iirc

Wow 41 point 1Q for the Clips!

clips just put up 41 pts in the 1st Q

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clips, 41; quarter, 1

Srsly I turned on the game and I was like, meh, almost halftime...wait WHAAA

monta ellis had 38 pts on 30 SHOTS tonight, 7 ast too

rudy fernandez and kenny fareid had a party out there tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esZexFhV7Q4&feature=youtu.be

Mo Williams is looking better and better. I think the arrival of Paul kind of lit a fire under his ass.

damn xp

cp3 has 11pts 6ast in 11 mins

of course Cousins pick tonight to have his best game.

faried is fun

http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FARIEDED.gif

Chandler Fucking Parsons!

Denver is probably my favorite team I've seen this year

but I haven't seen love/rubio yet so

the wolves are pretty frustrating

the road to suck is paved with almost good

Wolves have one great player, one pretty good player and then a whole bunch of riff raff.

I have a feeling the clips are gonna be the same way all year. They're always got at least one guy on the floor who doesn't really know how to play basketball.

well, i wouldn't exactly say that vinny del negro is ever on "the floor", but point taken

the lovebio is a good pairing

rockets announcers just called lowry "k-lo"

i thought i saw some spaghetti sauce on his jersey

Denver is probably my favorite team I've seen this year

― Clay, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 11:21 PM (22 minutes ago)

def

sup fools, going to see mavs v spurs tomorrow nite, too far away to heckle

this cant shoot rumor weve been hearing abt rubio seems to be totally untrue, note the pull up 3 http://espn.go.com/video/clip?categoryId=2459789&id=7426238

rubio is not too bad shooting off the p&r if his defender really sags on him

whatre u basing this on

mah eyes

how many ricky rubio jump shots would you say youve witnessed

five

case closed

rubes is shooting 35% on the season from mid-range (6-17 total)

he is 6-9 from three tho

especially impressive considering he's new to the nba 3!

here's an insane stat tho -- so far this season rubio has accounted for 71% of his team's assists when he's on the floor. chris paul? 51%. derrick rose 50%. deron williams? 50%. rondo? 54%.

this cant shoot rumor weve been hearing abt rubio seems to be totally untrue, note the pull up 3 http://espn.go.com/video/clip?categoryId=2459789&id=7426238

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 5, 2012 4:46 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sample size

mayyyybe Rubio vastly improved his shooting in the offseason, but his performance in europe (and the hideousness of his form) indicates that RR can't shoot.

Rubio being an awful shooter for the past 4 years isn't "untrue," it's fact.

does he also then have horrible shot selection, it doesnt make any sense

euro basketball doesnt count, I dont believe in it as a matter of fact

no, he's been bricking wide open shots for years.

another thing I dont believe in is matt armstrongs claimed expertise on shooting form

or whats been going on for years in euro basketball

if you look at his history, he's had good stretches of shooting before, but the sum total is: he's a bad shooter.

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Ricky-Rubio-1155/stats/

lob SLAMgeles!

w/e he prob had some deranged romanian coach threatening his family

He's in America now and America is awesome so

im sayin

Rockets coach looks like some famous conservative, can't put my finger on it

Frankenstein's Monster was a libertarian.

Oh Rockets coach is Kevin McHale, duh. He probably just looks like Kevin McHale.

!!

hmm who does the bobcats owner remind me of can't place it

RON PAUL

google him

ugh clippers announcers are so overly generous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9l0Cgr8mXo

that is how you stop being 4-3

http://blogimages.thescore.com/tbj/files/2012/01/blake-griffin-skrillex.jpg

XD

oh my god

perfect

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx8829jboo1qi0ij1o1_500.jpg

Those junkies look kind of like some celebrities I can't quite put my finger on

I see DeMarcus Cousins finally fired Westphal.

just saw that

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/gallery_images/photos/000/593/951/GYI0062412939_crop_450x500.jpg?1289458455

coachkilling should be worth points for my fantasy team

lol in crummy lil youtube window i thought kenneth faried was like a really good wnba player

saw the latter half of nets-c's last night and owwwwww that was some assketball

I'm sure Westphal isn't a great coach, but can you imagine coaching that team? No point guard, Evans and Cousins being totally insane, what a mess.

I love Keith Smart but he has his hands full for sure.

yah sactos a mess

free cousins #tradeboogie

*puts up ice cr?m signal*

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7424646/los-angeles-lakers-new-look

i knew what this was about before i even clicked, confirmed adande, closed tab

Anybody watching this awesome hawks heat thing? Hawks are pretty fun.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxct5ip66d1qi0ij1o1_400.jpg

manuham lincoln

waaaah can C's fans explain this to me

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcos0HerP1qi0ij1o1_500.jpg

Manu a pretty serious :( face goin on

I guess "with" should be in there somewhere who cares

the joke is confusing deshawn Stevenson w/the celtics rookie shot blocking white xp

when rondo does it it's cool when stevenson does it it's gucci mane

shaq and chuck hating on each other is the absolute best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXPPmzd6Ro

barkley went mma on shaq

aw I miss rudy T

lol chuck h8s the hawks so much

horford blocked some guy on the hawk w/his elbow

the heat, lol

so now they're winning the ass end of a back to back against a team that beat them earlier this week. without bron or wade

wut is this season

miami will prob not win the game tho

some of the shots miami has put up this half my god

lol my stream of hawks heat has harlan and charles just shooting the breeze during commericals

lolt

2lolt

tf bron wearing

what is going on

Someone put this fucking game out of its misery already.

hahaha

chuck is disgusted

Fuck this

can these assholes at TNT just show the lakers game?

Laker blaze will be at the half when this junk is done

didn't know yglesias was a bball fan

just got back from spurs mavs,, ugggggly shooting, but hot 3s from spurs, led by 20 fr aout 47 minute, lolmar odom, dirking did not commence, spurs held em to 29 in the first HALF, lotta fun

worst 3ot game eveeeeer

Bynum having a ridic start to his season

wonder when he'll get injured and/or throw a tiny man to the ground

Ugh that game was awful, sweet Jesus it had everything

Up to Reggie refusing to sell Harlan's awesome nickname for Ivan Johnson (drago) and insisting on using his dumb obvious one

don't forget "where the bread and butter is"

reggie is a huge disappointment as an announcer

Bynum having a ridic start to his season
― lag∞n, Thursday, January 5, 2012 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it makes me nervous that he is playing so well. Last couple of times he was killing it right before he broke

tbh I had paused the dvr for like 45 min so I merrily skipped thru most of the OTs

Mostly stopped to hear chuck explain beer on weight watchers
Xpost

every time I remember mike brown is the lakers coach I lol a lil

:/

gerald wallace running over kobe:)

loving the blazers speed

I think he's been good for them tho xxp

Kerr naive attributing it to Felton tho

yah idk maybe mike brown is good, im suspicious tho

Not sure ill say the same when the first playoff series jumps off

damn blazers blazing the. lakers

@Monroe_SA
Mike Monroe
Tim Duncan, learning Matt Bonner outscored him and Dirk, combined (17-16): "That's what Matt Bonner's supposed to do; that's why he's here."
19 minutes ago via web

yah idk maybe mike brown is good, im suspicious tho

― lag∞n, Friday, January 6, 2012 5:15 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He's certainly gotten the team to take more bullshit charges than before. But on offense they're pretty much just riding bynum and hoping he plays like a superstar for 66+ games. Good luck with that! I do have him on my fantasy team and all.

it's amazing to me that after all this time they still don't have even an ok point guard.

lol that game, lakers fans are the worst. Kid two or three rows in front of me with a Kobe jersey throwin his hands in the air and waving a second Kobe jersey like a flag every time anything good happened for the lakers. Like Steve Blake hits a free throw with 5 minutes to go in the second, this guy is jumping out of his chair like he's hearing the word of god. Watching the whole section shame him as he walked out with a minute to go, eyes to the ground, flag-jersey drooping like Linus' blanket.

lol.

I love Gerald Wallace, he'll probably have like 7 points and 5 rebounds next game but will still have a huge impact.

Anyway lakers are like bottom half of the west at best playoff picture at best right now. The lack of depth is really visible. When ebanks.com is playing around 20 minutes when he should be the best player on LA's d-league team is sorry. Kobe had a bunch of awful late-game turnovers that helped prevent a comeback. Gasol doesn't seem all there (is he hurt maybe? He didn't seem to want the ball and wasn't helping a lot on defense). Bynum relies almost entirely on his strength and can't lead a playoff team at all at this point. MWPeace is beyond cooked.

Meanwhile Gerald Wallace is insane, I loooooove that guy. XP

Have you heard that Barry White / Gerald Wallace mashup that a local Portland station made?

http://www.csnnw.com/common/medialib/289/399787.mp3

I am hearing it just now, ha. Never even heard about this! Pretty good if slapdash work.

yeah was pretty sloppy, but the comparison and concept is lol.

Wallace!

Kid two or three rows in front of me with a Kobe jersey throwin his hands in the air and waving a second Kobe jersey like a flag every time anything good happened for the lakers.

― Clay, Friday, January 6, 2012 1:53 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

smdh

lmbo @ crash white

reggie is a huge disappointment as an announcer

― lag∞n, Friday, January 6, 2012 12:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

everybody figured this out like 5 minutes into his first announcing gig, the mystery is why he's been allowed to continue for all these years instead of being led behind the barn

he was probably hiding behind the shadow of mark jackson for a minute

yeah i know its no great revelation, i just assumed hed be an hilarious dick like he was as a player smh

we all thought he was a hilarious dick cuz he wanted to be, turns out he was a hilarious dick cuz he couldn't relate to other people on a basic level

he reminds me of that one nerd you knew as a kid who would always beat you 50-2 in some video game over and over and never give you a break and would just go "what? I'm just playing the game" when you called him out on it

lol yep

lol clay re double kobe jersey kid (what does it mean); lakers fans outside of la are the absolute worst, basically tied with yankee fans outside the tri state area

also lol ebanks.com

reggie is a huge disappointment as an announcer

― lag∞n, Friday, January 6, 2012 12:03 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

everybody figured this out like 5 minutes into his first announcing gig, the mystery is why he's been allowed to continue for all these years instead of being led behind the barn

― dayo, Friday, January 6, 2012 6:52 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its weird that he hasnt gotten any better either in like five years, if anything he's almost more awkward and worse at interacting with his play-by-play guy, i was so glad phx fired steve kerr so he could reunite with marv and kick reg back down to the b-team, except now hes effing up my weekly harlan buzz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAPL5Td7uo

pulled :[

ahh fuck the nba and fuck this shitty ass season

http://deadspin.com/5873598/thinking-hes-off-air-charles-barkley-says-his-weight-watchers-endorsement-is-a-big-scam

^^not pulled

lose 2 lbs a week to pay for your blowjobs

chuck's got it made

that clip is the best, love harlan slamming the entire game, irl lols

Watching this Wizards v. Knicks game has to fall under some protocol of the Geneva Conventions. Hor-uh-bull.

how is it a 'scam'? seems like it's working?

seems like he needs to lose 2 lbs a week (not too hard when you have that much to lose) and you prob don't have to actually eat weight watchers anything

I think he just means "I'm getting paid to lose weight, how lucky am I! It's like that time I spent a decade watching sports with my buddies and getting payed to do it! Ridiculous!"

Knicks win by THREE over the WIZARDS in a game where anthony scores THIRTY SEVEN. I know I shouldn't be complaining, but lolknicks.

1Q - Blazers V Phoenix. Suns are inviting the Blazers to stand around on defense and the Blazers seem happy to have the chance. Then Pho scores on a quick strike. Second night of a back-to-back for Portland. Maybe the reserves will do better.

nash has 9 & 5 in 10 mins

steve nash is so good

lamarcus aldridge just passed out of a 1-on-1 on steve nash on the block

all my posts from here on out will contain the words "steve" or "nash"

oh good you can still post about steve novak

& nash bridges *breathes sigh of relief*

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/35115/truehoop-tv-john-hollinger-on-kings

in case any of yall wanted to see hollinger's mug for 5 minutes

http://www.magicbasketball.net/2012/01/06/magic-basketball-tv-magic-players-remember-rashard-lewis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magic-basketball-tv-magic-players-remember-rashard-lewis

jj redick is hilarious

feel like were abt to see a wave of injuries do to exhaustion

damnit missed 8 minutes of scalabrine ball tonight

http://www.windycitybanter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mambaa.jpg

lebron could very possibly get a quadruple-double tonight

danny green not a bad player

tellin y'all, spurs bench is loaded w young talent

quadruple-double = points, rebounds, assists, turnovers?

yeah lol

finished 32-8-9-8

didn't even have to use his ak

Griffin makes a funny loud "AAAYYYY" sound on every shot

ayo ilh reporting in from LOB CITY live

Larry sanders has a nice high top fade and no discernible basketball skills

Bad game for griffin you can tell he's frustrated

he's bricking from the free throw line but he's 8-11 from the field!

he kept losing his footing and missing easy plays in the first half and not taking advantage of awful defenders tho

Chauncey almost shot them out of this one early and shot them back into it

Utah is 5-3 with 4 straight wins.

I really just love watching kevin love rebound. 6 rebs in 5 mins

lot of nice young players in this game

8 in 7 mins

ex clipper aminu had a good start the other night with 15p / 12 rebounds..

RIP Flip Saunders

Rubio had 14 assists, 13p, 6 rebs. Pretty sick for a backup guard, although he did see like 30 mins so barely a backup at that point.

so what's this about steph curry's ankle? :(

Portland vs Cleveland one of the most atrocious shooting games I've ever seen. Combined 1-16 from three. 56 total points scored with five to go in the first half.

oh right another pair of laker fans at that game were the (very loud) pair of early teen girls sitting behind us, who were constantly yelling context-free Mark Jackson quotes all game long. Not shitting you. Kobe would make a layup and they'd both be all "whoo! Hand down man down! Hand down man down!"

haha awesome

Their mom was a blazer fan who was hella clownin on them at the end if the game, all around a fantastic thing.

eric maynor out for the year, too bad liked that kid

yeah that sux

oh right another pair of laker fans at that game were the (very loud) pair of early teen girls sitting behind us, who were constantly yelling context-free Mark Jackson quotes all game long. Not shitting you. Kobe would make a layup and they'd both be all "whoo! Hand down man down! Hand down man down!"

― Clay, Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol this is what I would probably do if I ever went to basketball games

so ivan johnson on the hawks plays w/ a diamond grill in

http://twitpic.com/83qxd0

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01360/OBAMA_1360789cl-8.jpg

#swag

i hope dirk teaches barack the one-leg-stepback

cuban always looks so bad and unreal

lurkin in the background... they let a custodian in the white house!?!

I can't see the cut of shawn marion's suit. I think it might be better than obama's.

cuban looks coked up tbh

it's kind of a stretch to say that ivan johnson "plays" for the hawks with a grill on, right?

that looks like a game photo to me

impeccable sleuthing, dayo

looks like he's holding a towel

but can we be sure?

it's kind of a stretch to say that ivan johnson "plays" for the hawks with a grill on, right?

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 9, 2012 2:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he was v good / got a bunch of minutes in that tripple overtime game

Dude was a load, all lower body strength, fools were bouncing off of him. In honesty, that was probably his peak.

Sixers have won five straight and are first in their division, ahead of the Knicks.

http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/85giw0.gif

can't. stop. watching.

In his first time stepping in front of the MSG home crowd as a starter, Iman Shumpert -- "Shump" or "Shump-Shump" as he's now referred to thanks to one wonderfully placed MSG mic in a preseason practice session

i'll go with "shumbert shumbert"

LOLita.

looool

hoopscelsior imo

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At Raptors vs Wizards. Are you the other person in attendance? #PoorLifeDecisions

did you guys notice the anchor unconsciously gives us the finger halfway through that amazing gif

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... must see gif again

for christs sakes let rubio start

rubio's success still feels like some kind of dream

Rubio is life

Stop making shots deng!

Luke!

One thing I'm getting tired of is announcers acting surprised every time a team goes from a reasonable deficit to a lead.

So much young talent on the Wolves.

yeah they are must-see league pass tv

so philadelphia is kind of legit, huh? i thought they'd be a playoff team but they're playing pretty great basketball atm

best defensive team in the nba by points allowed!

thought they'd want to play small a lot going into the season, but spencer hawes sort of suddenly looks like a good nba center

Metta World Peace is 2-23 from 3 this season.

How does he still have a roster spot at this point.

Even World B. Free would shake his head at that inept chucking.

kobels going buckwild

Warriors fans are so great, and they are seemingly forever doomed to inept management.

Monta is the anti-clutch

omg come on

HHAAHHAHAAHHAH

I SAID THAT BEFORE THAT JUST HAPPENED

I'm truly amazed by that sequence.

seriously if you've watched warriors games over the last few years, he's so bad in clutch situations

Didn't mean to condescend there. I just hate Monta, and he's the 'best' player on my team.

Metta World Peace is 2-23 from 3 this season.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:30 AM (39 minutes ago)

hella hurled 3s

Nate Rob ballin though.

yeah he's got 22, didn't even know he was on a roster

Didn't mean to condescend there. I just hate Monta, and he's the 'best' player on my team.

― Chief Queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:10 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

His play last week was awful too. He went wayyy too late, so a David Lee tip in that would have won the game ended up not counting.

And he's a TO machine when it matters.

Warriors fans are so great, and they are seemingly forever doomed to inept management.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:03 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

But, but, but, we ALMOST had Deandre Jordan for like 11 mill a year!

WRRIIIIIIIGHT

man, that's the best look they can get for wade there?

robbed on that call

even the warriors won't blow this

haha

maybe the heat need a 3rd goto guy for lebron and wade both can defer to.

sry for the prepositions

Yesssssssssssssss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10F_6VQ0WY

^^new owner of the Warriors

lulz

ILX user bear, bear, bear and I took in the blazers/clippers game tonight. Was sort of a weird game: cp3 in foul trouble and scoreless in the first half, griffin couldn't get it going, only dunked once, and even air-balled a fourth quarter free throw. Billups and Mo Williams did most of the scoring. But def feel like we didn't get the clippers I wanted to see tonight.

lol at getting home and my lady who had been watching the game at the bar saying griffin was "behaving like a bitch"

Love blake but yeah, he's kind of a bitch. So much yelling and flopping.

Gerald Wallace for MVP of America btw

At first I thought the Clippers were using some kind of 'decoy' first quarter strategy where they kept Blake and DJ out of the center to open things up for other scorers. Which I guess they were at first, but then Blake didn't really deliver on taking over later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPR33AEa2z4

yeah blake was kind of all over the place and floptastic in that game

clay you also got to see vinny del negro's latest innovation, the three point guard set, where he plays cp-billups-mo williams all together with griffin and jordan. he debuted that saturday night and i heard mo williams and chauncy audibly communicating trying to figure out who had to guard the 3 and what to do on defensive switches with the forwards.

which is good (they were trying to figure it out) but billups was already giving up like 6 inches at the 2

oh also portland: hella defense, kind of heresy but i think taking roy's bad knee out of the equation lets them play way more physical with faster switches!

Gerald Wallace for MVP of America btw

― Clay, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:37 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM

Also, mad lulz at the bros on the Mavs bench just hammin it up. WTAF

Stay classy, Detroit fans! Wouldn't want to do something to provoke a reaction from players. Couple of clowns.

serious clippers fans have already turned on del negro, which is no surprise

Kobe dropping 48 points on the Suns in a Laker win was no coincidence. The Mamba never forgets. J.A. Adande »

lmao dude come on

u know who has a lot of good young players the jazz, and they have some good prime of their career players they can trade for more good young players too, i am v high on the future of this team

hollinger was talking about that preseason

lol that kobe had to score 40+ to beat the decaying carcass of the phoenix suns

He can "do it in his sleep" so it didn't take much for him.

lakers also didnt have mcroberts or troy murphy (lol) so they had to give like 20 whole minutes to the decaying carcass of luke walton

u know who has a lot of good young players the jazz, and they have some good prime of their career players they can trade for more good young players too, i am v high on the future of this team

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Favors has improved his skill level a lot.

debuted that saturday night and i heard mo williams and chauncy audibly communicating trying to figure out who had to guard the 3 and what to do on defensive switches with the forwards.

hah, it's great to see an old pro like billups thinking "he wants us to do what?" and then "oh well, guess we better figure it out"

The Mamba never forgets.

my darkhorse team of the future is the Raptors. If Bargnani becomes a 25 ppg scorer on good efficiency (which seems to be what is happening this year), they can just have Valanciunas do all the rebounding and defense.

This Dallas/Boston game is kinda bad and sloppy and old

i'm taking the applause for pietrus's first appearance as a celtic to mean "please help us, we're desperate, we'll take anyone"

Pietrus is really close to Pity Us.

yeah zero interest in boston/dallas

pumped for clips/heat tho!

when in doubt watch nuggz

ok wtf

so i just minutes ago got my broadband account activated, but some games are audio-only? why can't i fucking watch the nuggets game? FUCK

update: Tony Battie still sucks

matt armstrong?

oh i know why i have the nets game on YES

lol

Pietrus just made a couple good plays

this incredibly close super loud movie needs to shut it forever asap

lol they just had a nice replay/discussion of garnets illegal screen setting technique

celtics back from 13 down in the 4th to tie it

Two weeks isn't a huge sample, even with the games coming at us out of a fire hose in this compressed schedule. Nonetheless, it's a big enough portion of the season that by now, radical shifts should grab our attention. For instance, if a player has nearly doubled his assist and rebound rate from last season while scoring more and shooting better, that probably would get our attention. Especially if he was leading all point guards in PER, millimeters ahead of a certain MVP winner.

Or it would, anyway, if the player doing it wasn't Mr. Invisible himself, Houston Rockets guard Kyle Lowry. Already one of the game's most underrated players because his bulldog defense goes so unrecognized, Lowry has stepped up his game in a major way -- his per-40 minute stats are a near triple-double of 18.8 points, 12.2 assists and 7.6 boards, and his 60.6 true shooting percentage includes several bailout 3s at the end of the shot clock.

Lowry has played only seven games because he missed two with a foot injury, but he doesn't have a big outlier game in the bunch. Additionally, he's played one of the league's most difficult schedules -- Tuesday night's game in Charlotte was the Rockets' first against one of last season's lottery teams.

Overall, Lowry's 23.44 PER is miles ahead of last season's 16.51. Although we should expect him to regress to the mean, especially in his percentages, and it remains unlikely that he'll be atop that point guard list for long, enough games are in his pocket that we can't just write this off as a short-term fluke. Lowry probably is genuinely a lot better than he was last season.

You can make a similar case for several other players, if not as profound as the one for Lowry. So let's go through the list of what might be called the "Suspected Surprises" team -- players who have played well enough for long enough that it warrants discussion of how and what they improved. (Side note: As implied by the "improved" tag, there are no rookies on this squad.)

Let's look at the rest of my 12-man squad:

Kobe Bryant

Score one for German knee doctors. Kobe has his highest PER and highest scoring rate since 2005-06, a whopping 32.4 points per 40 minutes. The kicker is that his assist rate hasn't declined. He's quietly yanking more than six boards per 40 minutes, too. Although he isn't driving all the way to the rim as much, Bryant is getting to the line more through a brute-force post game (8.4 freebies a night). He's done all this even though he can't buy a 3-pointer (9-for-48) -- an area in which one suspects the numbers will even out over the next 56 games.

While we're on the topic of the Lakers, Andrew Bynum also warrants mentioning and would be on this list if he were not suspended for the first four games. Bynum is averaging 21.3 points and 17.4 boards per 40 minutes and leads the NBA in rebound rate. There's still room for improvement -- he has only four assists all season and is shooting 56.3 percent from the stripe. Even with those shortcomings, he may be headed to his first All-Star Game given the paucity of Western Conference centers.

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Spencer Hawes, Lou Williams and pretty much every other 76er

OK, this is getting ridiculous. Tuesday night the Sixers beat Sacramento by 27 for their fifth 20-plus-point win in nine outings. They rank first in the NBA in offense and defense. Williams very nearly has the top PER among point guards; Hawes and rookie Nikola Vucevic are two of the top seven centers, and Thaddeus Young is the only roadblock to James Harden's Sixth Man Award coronation. Evan Turner nearly had a triple-double Tuesday, and Andre Iguodala is raining jump shots.

I won't belabor the point because I wrote about these guys so much Tuesday, but suffice it to say that if you play for the 76ers and don't have five characters in both your first and last name, you've earned a spot on this list.

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DeMarcus Cousins

Seriously. All the attention focused on the Paul Westphal situation has distracted everyone from how much Cousins has improved from last season. He's in much better shape and posting a monstrous 20.8 rebound rate. Despite criticism of his shot selection, he's posting a better TS% than last season -- one that would be dramatically better, as our Kevin Pelton pointed out, if not for an unusually large number of rimmed-out chippies. He blocks nearly two shots a game and takes numerous charges, and he has his way against star players too. Cousins neutralized Orlando's Dwight Howard by drawing several fouls and overwhelmed L.A.'s Pau Gasol with his physicality.

The only thing holding him back is fouls -- he's picking up nearly one every five minutes, making it tough for him to stay on the court.

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Ryan Anderson

Quick, guess who leads the Orlando Magic in PER? No, it's not Dwight Howard -- it's the grenade launcher, who at 25.17 is a few hundredths ahead of Superman. Anderson averages 23.5 points per 40 minutes by splashing his shoulder-fired missiles -- he's taking more than eight 3s a game -- and you realize how effective it is once you notice that he has two turnovers in nine games this season.

Anderson also can rebound, using the offensive glass as a secondary weapon to generate layups and free throw attempts, but his main weapon is the long ball. His release is quick and accurate, and at 6-foot-10 he can get it off over closing defenders.

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Al Jefferson

We've known that Jefferson could score like this. We've never seen Jefferson score like this and win, however. So far, that's what's happening in Utah, where the Jazz are a surprising 6-3 while Jefferson is setting career highs in PER and shooting percentage. Jefferson's standout feature is his ability to create a volume of shots with virtually no turnovers, and this season his turnover rate is a career-low 5.9.

Meanwhile, he averages 23.7 points per 40 minutes while playing quasi-respectable defense and leads all Western Conference centers in PER. I'm dubious that the Jazz can keep playing this well but am far less suspicious of Jefferson. If the Jazz somehow stay above .500, he could land in the All-Star Game.

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Andrea Bargnani

Il Mago always could score -- even last season, he averaged a scintillating 24.0 points per 40 minutes while disappointing in virtually every other phase. What has stood out this season is that he's doing everything a little better -- rebounding, passing, shooting -- and the visual is that there's more of an attacking mentality and a confidence to everything he's doing. It's easier to envision that, of course, when the ball is going in. Bargnani's 51.5 percent shooting from the floor is unlikely to stay this elevated for long, though.

But there's another reason to put Bargnani on this list: It appears he's actually trying on defense. It's early, and I don't want to get carried away, but the standout feature when I've watched Toronto is the lack of glaring breakdowns that used to be a nightly treat. I've yet to see an opponent score while Bargnani stood 3 feet away with his back to the play, for instance. Baby steps, I know, but it appears Dwane Casey's defensive message is getting through. In the meantime, his 23.53 PER is miles ahead of his previous career bests, and at age 26, it appears he's finally realizing the potential Toronto saw when it drafted him six years ago.

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James Harden

Among shooting guards who have played more than five games and didn't visit a German knee doctor this past summer, Harden is first in PER. He's also nearly leading the Thunder in the same category, which is pretty impressive considering the two other All-Stars on the roster. Harden continues to refine his pick-and-roll wizardry, sharply upping his efficiency through the first 11 games. Harden's 19.5 assist ratio is almost in point guard territory, while his 22.7 points per 40 minutes signify his evolution into an A-list primary scoring threat.

The real kicker, though, is the efficiency. Harden's 65.3 TS% is the best of any player with a usage rate above 20 and more than five games played; he's drawing 6.8 free throw attempts per game despite taking nearly half his shots from beyond the 3-point line, producing a lethal cocktail of high-value scoring chances.

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Byron Mullens

The most shocking moment of the season for me came in the Charlotte-Cleveland game, when Mullens scored on four straight midpost isolations -- the last two coming against Cavs defensive stalwart Anderson Varejao. Yeah, this dude can score. The 7-footer has shown a sweet stroke, shooting 49.5 percent from the floor and making 20 of his 21 free throw attempts; he's also scoring in bunches for the otherwise points-starved Bobcats, pumping in 22.8 points per 40 minutes.

His game still looks a bit one-dimensional, but he's only 22 and has virtually no NBA experience. It seems obvious that the Bobcats need to get him more playing time as the season goes on, and it wouldn't shock me at all if he's starting by midseason.

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Ian Mahinmi

His brief NBA career has produced good enough per-minute stats that it seemed he'd be a productive regular once he got the chance. Well, the numbers don't lie. Mahinmi's TS% is a blistering 70.4, which one might write off as a fluke except that he's never been below 64.5 in four NBA seasons. He's a somewhat disastrous ball handler and commits a foul every six minutes, which may hamper him from taking Brendan Haywood's starting job even though he's badly outplaying him. But with Tyson Chandler's departure opening minutes for Mahinmi in the middle, he's taking full advantage and establishing himself as a very solid frontcourt weapon.

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D.J. White

Notice something about the last four players on this list? Sam Presti drafted all four. Mahinmi was a snag from France when Presti worked for the Spurs; Mullens and White were late first-round picks in Oklahoma City that the Thunder traded when they couldn't wriggle their way into that team's deep rotation, and Harden, of course, was a lottery pick three years ago.

White is the least heralded of the bunch, but his per-minute stats always had indicated he would be an effective player if he played. Now that he's playing, that's bearing out. His 15.9 points and 9.2 boards per 40 minutes are almost exactly what he did in limited minutes last season, and his shooting percentages have held solid, too. He's not an elite athlete and doesn't have much upside to improve upon beyond this point, but he's a smart, low-mistake role player who can't be left open. Every team in the league could use a guy like him.

I wonder if Mullens sucking on the Thunder had a lot to do with having Westbrook as his PG.

lol every nba this year looks like its in triple overtime all the time

Tuesday night the Sixers beat Sacramento by 27 for their fifth 20-plus-point win in nine outings. They rank first in the NBA in offense and defense..

btw wow

just lost to the lolknicks tonight tho

cuz Hawes was out, duh. Hard to win when you're missing your superstar.

Kobe might be the worst flopper in the league now.

lol dirk just pwnd the celtics

wow dirk

cuz Hawes was out, duh. Hard to win when you're missing your superstar.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:36 PM (2 minutes ago)

oh i didn't catch the game, can't see any knicks games unless i illegal stream em lol

omg @ that dirk-delonte embrace

Cousins has been pretty awesome since "the incident."

21-19 tonight, he's freaking good

kind of ugly to watch tho

chris paul still looks pretty chunky

yeah i was just thinking the same thing lol. he hasn't looked great this year at all

I feel like Landry Fields is going to continue to disappoint, the Knicks won't resign him, and then he'll be good somewhere else.

Whoa stealth lob!

LOB CITY

"over the top of a player" !

this game is already so much better than the last one

^^^

cp3 :)

lebron's facial hair :/

smash with PANACHE

I hate to naysay but I don't see clipse winning this one

Blake griffin just seems to be having a gay ol time out there

lol billy crystal

deandre jordan should not touch the ball unless he is rebounding or receiving a lob

but what abt blocks

that too

Joel Anthony just fee fie foe fummed through the lane w/ no call

what the hell is Brian cook doing

I'm not sure how the Jazz have chemistry with this wacky roster, but they do.

Metta now 28-80 from the field, 2-25 from 3 on the season.

gah clippers missing so many opportunities

"opportunities" being a euphemism for "shots"

yeah once clips get healthy & subsequently make a trade they will be legit, this second unit is unwatchable

I guess you can give them a little credit for the fact that it didn't break wide open just now

well sure for as long as this is the bench theyre working w/ if they just break even they should be ok most of the time

caron butler has to lead the league in 22-23 foot 2s, dude just gives away so many points by not knowing where his feet are.

hope you bums aren't missing cp3's breakout game

what a quarter

all tebow reggie evans does is win rebound

dude is just a machine

@ESPNMarkJones
Mark Jones Wade fouls Butler. Wade is godfather to Caron's daughter. Heat iso LBJ at top of lane again. Why not drive it to da hoop

^?

dirty little secret of the heat is that Wade has issues in the clutch too.

oh Hubie

oh Hubie

can wade hold onto jordan - who is out of bounds - when he's touching the ball?

tbh I have no idea what the rulebook says about that

it hit the baseline first anyway

jeez lebron having an awful night from the line

OH HE HAD HIM!

man not 100% sure that paul shot would have counted

incredibly close

no it wouldn't have after seeing it again - he put a really nice move on bron there tho

miami is gonna choke in the finals again aren't they

lawl griffin flopz

horrible no-call on the goaltend

yeah this has been a pretty questionably officiated game all-around

i have work at 7 btw u_u

game has been pretty ugly since the end of the third quarter

wtf is hubie talking about

apparently a shot can only be goaltended if it would have swished

yeah he's been pretty incoherent since the middle of the 4th quarter

this is a pretty late hour for a 94-year old

not really sure what to take from this game at all

Lolstra and Carlolse

@blazersedge Redick tells a reporter he's about to start watching "Breaking Bad" DVDs. "Great f****ing show," chimes in Glen Davis.

Lol for some reason thinking of big baby watching breaking bad and getting all stressed out and nervous about walter white's fate cracks me up

This is interesting:
http://nba-point-forward.si.com/2012/01/10/can-sixers-hold-up-against-nbas-elite/

good piece about no-star team basketball even if you don't care about the sixers

so sad that my parents didn't have cable and I couldn't catch any sixers games when I was at home :(

Maybe it's just my relative newness to serious NBA fandom, but I feel like my eyes are just not fast/trained enough to catch half of what was going on there without a lot of explanation and pausing/replaying.

I'm always unsure about how much of what they see comes from the reasons they claim and how much comes from what just happened to happen on that one play

yeah that too, like the ball movement on one play could be the result of lots of drills and coaching or it could just be what happened

off-ball movement is a skill though and while a couple of guys (ray allen, rip hamilton) seem to just know inherently where to go, getting a team of five guys with five defenders trailing them all moving is actually really complex

for a counterexample, watch any wizards game and count how many players are literally standing still once the shot clock hits about 20 or below

alternately count the number of dribbles by the point guard versus the number of passes on any possession by anyone, or how many players are already in motion or start moving when the pg picks up his dribble and can only pivot

tldr: those sixers clips are really good looking basketball and it sounds like they're really listening to collins in practice; also it's almost the exact same group over the last three years

I was joking about Hawes being a superstar obviously, but watching those early sixers games with him it really was like he was a superstar. He just absolutely shredded defenses with his passing and midrange jumpers.

Like... Bill Walton came to mind.

Dude went from undrafted in our deep fantasy league to Bill Walton in like three weeks.

Reggie Miller don't know shit about fuck

man Selby looks good

knicks are bad

fucking knicks

howard has shot 38 free throws tonight

^HOLY SHIT

I really hate "hack a XXXX" when you're winning the game.

rip al horford

rip hawks

rip its sad the hawks were playing v well

J.R. Smith’s sister reportedly choked a woman during a fight in the stands of her brother’s basketball game, as the picture above shows. Deadspin’s Timothy Burke says J.R. Smith’s Chinese basketball team — the Zhejiang Golden Bulls — was playing the Bayi Rockets, which is the same team that brawled with Georgetown over the summer. Apparently Smith drew contact but no foul was called, causing his sister to go on a rampage. Smith’s sister reportedly threw a bottle on the court before trying to fight fans in the stands.

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/images/11/2012/01/xlarge_7283277a21a3be5e8497fa61408961d7.jpg

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/images/11/2012/01/xlarge_a29f08c2b759cd3a84f090d615b02786.jpg

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/images/11/2012/01/xlarge_edc6cf3f8e3c5e04dc777315a983553c.jpg

http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jr-smith-sister-fight2-530x313.jpg

http://img1.gtimg.com/3/332/33290/3329065_550x550_0.jpg

http://img1.gtimg.com/3/332/33289/3328946_550x550_0.jpg

so amazing

Someone needs to shop her into that rampaging punk rock girl photo

wowwww

would want to see a video of the foul tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClAM3zXx-I

remember this? some bad boys pistons shit

chinas gully

http://www.crunktastical.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/smith-sister-4.png

http://i.imgur.com/RlhCJ.gif

:)

aw

kobels is really on some fountain of youth shit this season, i wanna go to germany and get fixed rite up too

https://p.twimg.com/AjEJeLvCIAARTdO.jpg

https://p.twimg.com/AjELXP9CAAAordU.jpg

yeah just based on that G'Town game I'm gonna assume that J.R.'s sister's actions were completely understandable.

IDK if I'm gonna assume anything one way or the other about her choking some lady

fair enough!

i will be attending celtics/bulls shortly. in the process of tempering my expectations.

I'm drinking white whine, eating wasabi peas and watching the bobcats play the pistons.