waiting for the other shoelace to drop: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

JR can't even sit on the bench w/ his bro anymore, Knicks are some meanies ;_;
― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:09 AM

gooooooooooood title

ayyyyyy

Dubs/Nugs on espn tonight

heads up that espn has dubs/thunder on friday night for those who don't want to subject themselves to the 2013-2014 nuggets

they are still fun dude :(

yeah if anything adding nate nate made them even more fun

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN 3s
Can confirm Heat have traded Joel Anthony and 2 future draft picks for Toney Douglas in three-team trade. Move likely saves Heat 10M+

the nugs are nowhere near as fun as last year but they still play fast and have several reserves who are watchable, something that can't be said about even most good teams, or god help me ILH ex-faves the fucking grizzlies

how in the world does that move save ten milli??

yeah i don't understand that, maybe tax?

whoa jordan crawford to the warriors, very good move by GSW

yeah they needed that, celtics picking up more picks, v nice

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 1m
Celtics just got two draft picks for Jordan Crawford, potentially a first-rounder. Miami dumped Joel Anthony's salary, gets Toney Douglas.

potentially? must be one of those things where a protected pick ages into a 2nd rounder eventually

anyway if they got a first rounder holy shit man jackpot

lol heat do not give a fuck about their draft picks at all, guess its cool if you can keep attracting the top free agents

yeah, that actually makes sense for the Heat, assuming they're going to try to keep their Big 3

basically three second-round picks to the c's is what i'm reading, unless philly finishes outside the lottery in either '14 or '15

philly will prob make the playoffs next year id imagine

niiice

if they haven't conveyed the first rounder in '14 or '15, it becomes second rounders in '15 and '16. future picks have gotten as confusing as fuck

ah philly could give up a p nice 1st rounder in the teens next year score

Jordan Crawford is alright? Crap shooting percentages aside?

hes fine but my impression is the dubs need anyone with a pulse to score/handle the ball off the bench

yeah toney douglas wasn't working out at all

he had some really good stretches of play this year but don't expect too much. he'll be ok in the role kev is describing.

he was super hot like all star level for the first couple months of the season but has reverted recently, hes a perfect fit for the warriors bench imo cause he can handle the ball and is very unshy about scoring, total microwave type, great pick up imo

i dont think he will level out at how good he played earlier this year but theres good reason to think hell be better than he has in the past season considering hes young and played for a highly dysfunctional team in dc

in the past seasonS

yeah agreed, i am a little worried that he did so well earlier this year because he was being coached to actually play point guard, not bench gunner. he is capable of playing really well-rounded games but it's bad news when he gets selfish.

yeah the dubs prob need something in between, a scoring point type

anyway im glad my fav teams made this mutually beneficial trade

he's got the talent to prob average like an 18/5/5 with dece percentages. will be interested to see if mark j. can keep him focused.

jackson really needs to mix up his lineups better tho my god, like two starters shd be on the court at all times, theres no reason why thats not feasible

hopefully will be good for H Barnes too, take some pressure off him

did the dubs give up any of the picks?

sounds like one of the picks is miamis and the other(s) is phillys, and the dubs just absorbed anthonys salary, im just deducting that tho

thats what i got from it too

deducing even

i think the heat had a pick from philly, so the heat traded two

right

philly wanst in the trade

i love looking a randos opinions on twitter after things like this, boston fans all broke up abt losing crawford and warriors fans upset that he isnt a true point guard lol smh infinity

https://twitter.com/search?q=crawford

haha

seriously ANY production at all will be a major step up

TRADE: Warriors get Jordan Crawford and MarShon Brooks. Celtics get Joel Anthony, 1st and 2nd round pick. Heat receive Toney Douglas.

wait the celtics get anthony lol

did the dubs give up anything in this transaction

gotta feel like eventually the celtics will roll some of those draft picks into a real player. they're bordering on too many picks if they're not already

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/warriors-make-three-team-trade-with-celtics--heat-172636712.html

here's the woj article

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN 1m

Another note. In July, Heat tax bill was to be $33 million. After Mike Miller, Joel Anthony moves it is currently less than $10 million

did the dubs give up anything in this transaction

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:01 PM (40 seconds ago)

toney for crawford and brooks

gotta feel like eventually the celtics will roll some of those draft picks into a real player. they're bordering on too many picks if they're not already

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:01 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah danny is from the acquire assets school, hes happy to make slight trade ups until he sees an opening, thats how they got kg

same approach they used to pick up harden in houston

whose picks do the celtics have right now can someone name them

lol joel anthony has scored six points this season

i really like golden state's GM btw

helps that ainge such a good drafter, the players he chooses are often worth more than they wouldve been as picks

even like he picked up crawford for nothing and just spun him into two picks

whose picks do the celtics have right now can someone name them

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:04 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark

Tom Haberstroh ‏@tomhaberstroh 32m

Boston's 1st rd picks: 2014 (3): own, BRK, PHI (lott protected); 2015 (2): own, LAC; 2016 (2): own, BRK; 2017 (1 swap); 2018 (2): own, BRK.

2014 first round draft pick from Brooklyn
Brooklyn will convey the less favorable of its 2014 1st round pick and Atlanta's 2014 1st round pick to Boston (via Atlanta's right to swap for Brooklyn) [Atlanta-Brooklyn, 7/11/2012 and then Boston-Brooklyn, 7/12/2013]

2015 first round draft pick from L.A. Clippers
L.A. Clippers' 2015 1st round pick to Boston [Boston-L.A. Clippers, 6/25/2013]

2015 second round draft pick from Sacramento
Sacramento's 2015 2nd round pick to Boston protected for selections 31-55 (if this pick falls within its protected range and is therefore not conveyed, then Sacramento's obligation to Boston will be extinguished) [Boston-Sacramento, 2/17/2009]

2016 first round draft pick from Brooklyn
Brooklyn's 2016 1st round pick to Boston [Boston-Brooklyn, 7/12/2013]

2017 first round draft pick from Brooklyn
Boston has the right to swap its 2017 1st round pick for Brooklyn's 2017 1st round pick; if Boston exercises this swap right, then Boston will convey its 2017 2nd round pick to Brooklyn protected for selections 31-45 (if this pick falls within its protected range and is therefore not conveyed, then Boston's obligation to Brooklyn will be extinguished) [Boston-Brooklyn, 7/12/2013]

2017 second round draft pick from Sacramento
Sacramento's 2017 2nd round pick to Boston protected for selections 31-55 (if this pick falls within its protected range and is therefore not conveyed, then Sacramento's obligation to Boston will be extinguished) [Boston-Sacramento, 2/24/2011]

2018 first round draft pick from Brooklyn
Brooklyn's 2018 1st round pick to Boston [Boston-Brooklyn, 7/12/2013]

http://www1.realgm.com/nba/draft/future_drafts/detailed

jeez none of those picks are really good

the future brooklyn picks are gold

one of those nets picks is gonna be in the lottery

yeah

this years brooklyn pick could easily be pretty sweet if atl didnt have the right to swap

at the very least

lol brooklyn haggling over small time shit like this while getting totally fleeced

if Boston exercises this swap right, then Boston will convey its 2017 2nd round pick to Brooklyn protected for selections 31-45 (if this pick falls within its protected range and is therefore not conveyed, then Boston's obligation to Brooklyn will be extinguished)

are there rules governing draft pick protections & swapping or is it just whatever two teams agree on

feel like maybe you can only do it so far out in the future is the only thing

breaking celtics acquire knicks 2304 and 2567 protected first rounders for chris smith

ha otm

whoops i guess they give them gerald wallace in that deal too

Whatever happened to MarShon Brooks? He seemed like he was a legit NBA player for a bit.

"nick young but sullen" is a bad combo

he was OK on the Nets last year, but not particularly good

one dimensional chucker m/l

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/001/314/831/hi-res-170251650-miami-heat-players-from-left-mario-chalmers-joel_crop_exact.jpg?w=650&h=433&q=85

why would anyone take this picture

for lolz

lol did guys here Pres Obama zing Chalmers?

lol no

yeah that was great

Greg Oden is active tonight

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-pistons-shouldnt-be-this-bad/

i'm more or less baffled at lowe's bafflement here. it would have been much more surprising to me if this ridiculous team worked as constructed.

yeah that team was an open disaster from a conception standpoint i didn't get the tone of that article either

i mean i guess i'm surprised by how bad they are defensively but their overall record and offensive problems were blatantly obvious

yeah i wouldve guessed theyd be slight better

I'm just gonna reaffirm my love for Danny ainge

He turned the almost literal corpse of Barbosa into Crawford and turned Crawford into some picks, one potentially a first rounder

I mean look at that giant pile of picks, even crazier that he got one for a coach who was ready to check out and they still have all their own, even low first rounders are super valued now bc teams need those cheap contracts under the new CBA- even if some of those later Brooklyn ones are mediocre gms are gonna be circling the like vultures when it comes time for some current taxpayers to try to get under the repeat penalties

And obviously some of the last Brooklyn ones are gonna be lottery jams

I think we found out sometime last thread that you can only trade picks 7 or 8 years out max

jackson really needs to mix up his lineups better tho my god, like two starters shd be on the court at all times, theres no reason why thats not feasible

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:44 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Z Lowe noted this and says the reasoning is so he can get his five starters max minutes together, I'd imagine it also helps reduce their minutes a touch to go with a full bench mob at times, but yeah I agree, u only go 8 deep in the playoffs anyway so he better get a plan for that together by the spring

Like Crawford for them though some Nate rob "steal a playoff quarter" potential there

cad otm re Detroit and Lowe not otm any hoops head should have known that team was gonna be garbage

Only possible positives were the high numbers of lefties and maybe a monster breakout from Drummond

I'm just gonna reaffirm my love for Danny ainge

He turned the almost literal corpse of Barbosa into Crawford and turned Crawford into some picks, one potentially a first rounder

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:29 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ainge is on course to be one of the greatest GMs ever.

projected score: heat 72; wizards 172.

good game.

it's funny how good of a GM ainge is and how patient he is considering he's a former player and one who was pretty fiercely competitive, you wouldn't think he'd be on board with tanking in his next life watching him play

even crazier that he got one for a coach who was ready to check out

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yes this is all time

Rondo on the active roster for tonight.

He won't play, but there he is.

lol i just got an email from the celtics telling me about the trade

just want to keep you up to date your friend the boston celtics

it's funny how good of a GM ainge is and how patient he is considering he's a former player and one who was pretty fiercely competitive, you wouldn't think he'd be on board with tanking in his next life watching him play

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:36 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's corny but he really may have learned some things from Auerbach. When Red was asked about waiting a year on Bird he said "Do you realize how short a period of time a year is?"

dear kev,
we wanted to let u know the marshon brooks era is over and stay tuned for when we turn more trash into future picks
love
the mormon gangsta

haha wow will the heat ever win another game this is bad

they should just bench the big 3 and let the rest of the team coast into the 3rd seed right?

*nods*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJW4wNnRj2Y

this prob belongs in basketblolz but feels more watercooler

its true andy kaufman is still alive

Greg oden alert

Also lol heat wha happen

ODEN DUNKED

Also lol heat wha happen

what do you think happen the heat is terrible has-beens

literal human garbage

take them to the dump they deserve it

yup and while you're there, try to revamp the team wade-for-nate robinson lebron-for-what's his name crawford etc

nenes hair

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeEAgx-CUAEWYvb.png

nene is a golden god in my book

some fun games tonight

manu starting again!

btw there was a 5-on-5 on ESPN today and no one gave the right answer to "what is the best backcourt in the league" which is parker-manu

oh boy we're back to wade taking long 2s, this is going downhill fast

whos the fat guy next to riley?

really do love the wizards corner 3 hunting

lebron *deandre jordan face*

heat have cut it to 1

11*

lot of heat fans in the building

111

btw there was a 5-on-5 on ESPN today and no one gave the right answer to "what is the best backcourt in the league" which is parker-manu

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:14 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't find this but I'm guessing it was a lot of curry-klay banana riding

After those two sets though it is a p good question actually

i'd take cp3/redick over curry/klay too

rudy gay is 7/10 from the field with 18 points

jeez so the heat lose three straight to the nets, knicks, and wizards, pretty bad

it was funny how it looked like they were gonna storm back but then they didnt

wow the celtics are owning the shit out of the raptors

it was funny how it looked like they were gonna storm back but then they didnt

cuz they're terrible

http://twitpic.com/dsdwyu

everyone who does that is the man

otm it is never not cool

celtics are trying as hard as possible to blow this

im v interested to know how good sullinger can be when hes not fat cause i suspect the answer is quite good

wow nick young just punched Dragic

so that's what the p stands for

manu 2 for 1 upcoming :)

<333333333

this raptors team is quite the collection of unremarkable players no one thinks about ever

demar derozan is barely even a real human being to me

its just like oh these guys running around doing basketball

eric gordon (remember him?) is having a monster game

its just like oh these guys running around doing basketball

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:53 PM (31 seconds ago)

yeah even lately when they've been playing well and supposedly fun to watch i'm like, i have to watch demar derozan, kyle lowry, and amir johnson play? i'll pass

theyre basically a fictional team from a movie

lowry being one of haralabob's favorite players was always a headscratcher to me

Lowry leads the NBA this season in charges drawn

lowry has always been good at weird subskills like that. i've always been curious as to why no one can stand him.

Jimmy Butler is going to play 60 minutes tonight

lowry is a cool player what gives

everyone who does that is the man

― Clay, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:31 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its an automatic 5k-10k fine now

5K for each enormous ball

even more baller if you're burning money with each heft

lowery is ok but not ok enough to give the raptors any charisma

James Johnson has been so fucking good for the Grizzlies

he has 15-5-5-5-2 tonight

the wolves are really never gonna turn it around

60 minutes and 20 seconds of game action for Jimmy Butler

fun list

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pgl_finder.cgi?request=1&player_id=&match=game&year_min=&year_max=&age_min=0&age_max=99&team_id=&opp_id=&is_playoffs=N&round_is_eds=Y&round_is_edf=Y&round_is_ec1=Y&round_is_ecs=Y&round_is_ecf=Y&round_is_wds=Y&round_is_wdf=Y&round_is_wc1=Y&round_is_wcs=Y&round_is_wcf=Y&round_is_fin=Y&game_num_type=&game_num_min=&game_num_max=&game_month=&game_location=&game_result=&is_starter=&is_active=&is_hof=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&c1stat=mp&c1comp=gt&c1val=60&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pts

utah making a p intense too little too late comeback here cut it to two w 4 secs left spurs ball

27-7 run

faried's defense man

still love Wilson's shot form so much

bogut looking spry v recently

pressuring curry with a center maybe not the best idea

Gerald Green having a party

him turning into an actual player is one of the coolest stories of the season

I have a friend who played AAU vs. him and said he was the biggest asshole he'd ever met

nice

lillard is so, so bad around the basket

*blows a dunk on cue*

Spottie
Posted: January 16, 2014 at 4:04:11 AM
nice

irl lol

maybe gerald's nicer now that he's not, you know, in high school

chandler is going nuts

i wish him a full recovery

maybe gerald's nicer now that he's not, you know, in high school

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:08 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesn't seem like it

mjax sitting all of the warriors' good players at the same time again, let's see what the damage is this time

bazemore rejected by the rim v hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6XebhDAXW8

rip austin rivers

yeah that was unfortunate for him

ruff

it's sad

i like how he raises his arms like whats goin on before hes even done back peddling

how did we get here guys he asks his team

i love rivers putting his arms out like whoa i'm going in reverse what why

lol xp

Lakers are gonna have a really good pick

lol kev

Austin Rivers moves like he's 50, wtf

he's so awkward, i can't believe people ever thought he'd be a good player

i like how he raises his arms like whats goin on before hes even done back peddling

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:14 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hoping for an offensive foul?

this raptors team is quite the collection of unremarkable players no one thinks about ever

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

demar derozan is barely even a real human being to me

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its just like oh these guys running around doing basketball

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol at this
btw didnt we settle on toronto drake owls as a team name come on, we practiced this

yeah thats why but harden didn't touch him, just really bad footwork xp

lmao at shaw holding onto Nate after he saved the ball and at the progression of nates reaction from laughing to no but srsly r u seeing this

yeah rivers was saying that harden pushed off with his other hand (which he didn't)

toronto popular rappers imo

toronto popular dinosaurs

not demarma! *hits john goodman-inspired dinosaur dad in the head w frying pan*

jj redick beast mode, 6/8 from 3 in the first half

deng looks pretty good so far. bennett with a dnp-cd through most of 3 quarters.

I think the Deng acquisition means no bennett for a while

denver making some shots tonite

zeller has this problem where he fouls a lot

5 fouls in 9 minutes

lol

that guy is not very good why did the bobcats pick him that high

cld be asked of any number of bobcats draft picks

i dunno zeller had showed a routine inability to get his shot off against tall, athletic players

seemed like a blatant obv overdraft but you're right #bobcats

oh i meant the other zeller, the one on the cavs, but they are both kinda bad

so many zellers

zellers plumless and morrises oh my

oh :-(

i liked the cavs zeller coming out of the draft i wonder if his development got by the concussion

and by "liked" i mean he seemed like he could be a decent back up big

i'd take him over meyers leonard in that department i guess if he stops going over the back on like every rebound

there will probably be 3 antetokounmpos in the league someday

I think the one in the d-league right now is definitely getting drafted

whoa dirk just pulled up and hit a 40 footer

there will probably be 3 antetokounmpos in the league someday

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i thought you were joking about this but i guess he has 4 pro basketball brothers?

they shd have a team w all the nba brothers

blazers color guy after aldridge is fouled on a missed layup: "oh no! that woulda been an and-1 if he makes it!"

good point

blake griffin 5 second backdown violation

nice shot, fournier

ya v under control

I thought the clippers had been playing better defense?

den*____*ver

idk if ive ever seen a smaller line up than denvers playing right now lawson/nate/foye/fournier/faried

Nate you dirty dog

ha love nate

Bradley on Sully: "I don't know what to say. I'd never seen anything like it."

Man, Nate just has those microwave games

Lol these lineups

more fade aways on smallers defenders in the lane klay !! cmon much better than those lazy post ups

Lol these lineups

― Spottie, Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:59 AM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh sometimes basketball feels just like a joke
its great tho

Smh at this whole game by klay

ty lawson guarding david lee in the post seems less than ideal

jj redick hitting a career high and a huge 3

Lol sorry for raising my arm at a normal height and hitting you you midget

damn nate that isn't very foundation for a better life

the 2 games going on right now have a combined like 500 points

wtf are the nugs doing!!

which game to watch!!

did denver's entire coaching staff get ejected

Leave Nate and Ty to cover lee on back to back possessions

guess the league is trying to correct those 2 bad calls the mavs benefited from

there is about to be dirking

Good look by calderon

omg DAJ

Haha what a boneheaded pass!!

3 seconds is a lot

oy

um

JJ HICKSON!

Curry dude

Done that like 3 times tonight

cavs never should have traded hickson obv

wow hickson

omg how dumb is this ref

much in the same way i shouldnt have dropped jj redick from my fantasy team

lol nba

hickson just got a board over 4 guys

no bogut, no rebound

hickson > bron

WTF JACSKON PLAY BOGUT AT END OF GAMES

hickson man

Oh now put him in f u

seriously what was going through that ref's mind?

that shot was bunk but curry's ability to get open on out of bounds plays when everyone knows he's getting the ball is incredible

well the nuggets seem to like each other

His shooting % is dipping bad

nugs are crazy streaky this year

now that u need a 3 ball. smh at jackson jesuswag tonight

xp some guys coming off screens are just magicians

Swaggy punk

john wall put up the same statline as lebron tonight he's making the ASG right?

yeah it's the east

I think Wall is a better player than his stats indicate btw

best night for players named JJ in NBA history

Nate's a blast to watch. Thinking about jumping back on the nugz wagon until Bledsoe gets back with the Suns.

Mozgov was BALLIN too. looks super confident

heads up that espn has dubs/thunder on friday night for those who don't want to subject themselves to the 2013-2014 nuggets

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:30 AM (Yesterday)

zingaling

both dubs thunder games have been incredible tho

24 rebounds for hickson damn

http://www.blogabull.com/2014/1/16/5315292/chicago-bulls-tom-thibodeau-jimmy-butler

3. Jimmy Butler played 60 minutes Wednesday. Is that a big deal?

Elhassan: Yes. It is indicative of the Bulls' lack of depth and Tom Thibodeau's disregard for keeping his guys fresh. His penchant for running players into the ground has to be a topic of concern for Bulls head honcho John Paxson, who once allegedly physically confronted Vinny Del Negro for playing Joakim Noah 2 minutes and 5 seconds over a playing-time limit.

the raptors are 7th and the heat 9th in today's hollinger power rankings

heat got to get their shit together

eh not yet

save it for the last 20 games

theyre letting it ebb too low imo, nagl

like bron even said he was gonna come out and own they wizards and then he did not

its not like they have shaq

true true, I hope they dont figure it out obv

i'd really like to see a great heat-pacers series tho

yeah we really should not be denied that

lol what are the chances you won't get a pacers -- heat eastern finals?

relatedly, what are the chances that the heat can actually make a series of it? meh.

it will be a good series u crazy

4 -- 2 pacers.

I would way rather watch a game 7 in Indy than in Miami

otm both of you

but 4-2 could still be a good series

I would way rather watch a game 7 in Indy than in Miami

WHY THE WEATHER IS BETTER HERE AND THE WIFE OF OUR FOOTBALL TEAM'S QB HAPHAZARDLY LEAVES A HUGE AUTOMATIC WEAPON ON THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT OF A RENTAL CAR.

can't get that in indy.

but 4-2 could still be a good series

not for a heat fan.

can't get that in indy.

you don't think Andrew Luck's gf is packing heat?

not like this

http://www.trbimg.com/img-52d70099/turbine/fl-lauren-tannehill-ar-15-rifle-rental-car-201-001/636/636x474

v nice

true story

m/l if heat/pacers doesnt go 7 game there is no god

what id like is heat in seven then lose to the thunder in five

finals mvp Kendrick Perkins/Derek Fisher (tie)

i would die

if i have to watch d fish in the finals, I may boycott

sorry, finals mvp is already decided (oden)

greatest pick and roll player of our generation

the west has so many fun teams we really don't need the thunder do we

haha otm

golden state v. indy, with all the fast warrior players running circles around roy hibbert.

i think i'm rooting for heat-spurs again lol

i'm a bad person

golden state v. indy, with all the fast warrior players running circles around roy hibbert.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, January 16, 2014 5:00 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that would p a p interesting match up for sure

the west playoffs this year though...

the west has so many fun teams we really don't need the thunder do we

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i really think yr alls thunder hatred is unfounded, there are def teams that are funner but you srsly dont like watching durant gtfo, also theyre just the best team this year, really the only one i cld imagine running away w the title

i mean right now we have

spurs-dallas
blazers-suns
OKC-dubs
clips-houston

with denver, memphis, and minny in the running for the 8th spot

oh the thunder are fine they just have too many people/players i hate, obvs love KD and russ forever

2014 durant against 2014 lebron would be pretty incredible

kinda not into dallas unless dirk really gets to dirkin. voting for denver to get in

#freedirk

imagine if dallas traded dirk to a contender what could happen

lol xp

dallas is pretty watchable. you could make the case that the jazz, lakers, and grizz are the only unwatchable teams in the whole conference. and the lakers play fast and the grizz at least have a couple fun players

i don't know, the only first-round western conference matchup that feels potentially compelling from that list is OKC-dubs.

i guess i'd like to see the clippers smash the rockets into complete, utter oblivion. eh.

rockets would probably win that series, and i'd want to slam a sharpened lead-pencil into my earlobe.

all of those series would be bonkers, tho yeah would much prefer nugs play the spurs than the mavs

Has Doc Rivers accomplished anything this year

They're actually allowing 5ppg more than they did last year.

@sam_amick
Nets coach Jason Kidd on being told by owner Mikhail Prokhorov in a phone call to ignore critics: "I didn't know I had any critics."

Jameer Nelson fined $15K for ‘obscene huge balls gesture’. I was off by 5K

Has Doc Rivers accomplished anything this year

They're actually allowing 5ppg more than they did last year.

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:30 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

valid question

Not sure how anyone wouldn't love a Blazers/Suns playoff matchup

NBA allstar jerseys are gonna be sleeved :(((

no one likes these have they sold one yet why dont they stop

saw a dude at work with one, was very bummed and thought about possibly pissing on his shoes in the bathroom

damn this dastardly phasing in of sleeves. how long until the uniform is just a full bodysuit with corporate logos everywhere?

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/statehornet.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/d9/fd981d14-fffb-11e0-a912-0019bb30f31a/4ea84a11bda9c.image.jpg

pictured above: carmelo anthony

lol

def not lebron, headband not thick enough

altho we all know its gonna be a beanie by then

nah, he'll wear a sombrero and priest robes

team uniforms shd just be anything thats what i believe

Are there any corporate logos on the current unifrooms

Has Doc Rivers accomplished anything this year

They're actually allowing 5ppg more than they did last year.

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 16, 2014 5:30 PM (1 hour ago)

their defense is much better this year than last. their defensive efficiency is actually a touch below last year's, but they started really badly and have picked it up. they're playing faster which is why it looks like they're giving up more points

The worst thing about that randomly almost-good Knicks season last year is that it means they're all over the national tv schedule this year, although I will kind of enjoy watching the pacers smash them tonight

GTFO sleeves but I guess all star unis are a perpetual disaster

Wait I actually kind of like the look of these in a vacuum and glad they picked interesting color schemes instead of trying some red-white-blue variant for the millionth time

But still whether the sleeves are being added to "sell more jerseys" or just getting us ready for godaddy ads get that shit outta hoop

like im ok w sleeved jerseys but only if they are tall t's for in-the-shirt behind the back dribbles

Has Doc Rivers accomplished anything this year

They're actually allowing 5ppg more than they did last year.

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:30 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's done great work planning parade routes

oh roy

Hibbert left his man almost the second melo caught the ball since everyone knows melo can't pass out of the block, that was awesome

Has Doc Rivers accomplished anything this year

They're actually allowing 5ppg more than they did last year.

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:30 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Let's wait for the playoffs to make that call, hoss. But imo they look much better.

so the Sacramento Kings accept bitcoin huh

http://media.coindesk.com/2013/10/king-of-bitcoin2.jpg

"My kids would go to games and ask why we didn't accept Bitcoin," Ranadive said.

"Ps my kids are supernerds" he added

Lance is ballin out of control this game

these Knicks are one of the most hilarious teams in awhile

amare down

Melo looks so fat in these ads

omg that Drake reference from Reggie

legit lolling over how forced that was

Melo looks peeved

udrih really hates shooting

reggie just creeped me the fuck out

OMG LANCE

these Knicks are one of the most hilarious teams in awhile

what do you mean they are awesome

melo alone would beat the heat's starting lineup.

Haha

Lance alone makes the pacers watchable this year

http://ballislife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/128jwls_0609.jpg

Reggie Jackson's defense is really really bad

i love slam magazine and it's "here is a list of some basketball players" cover aesthetic.

GRANT HILL
JAMAL MASHBURN
JASON KIDD
ALLEN HOUSTON

LUC LONGLEY
VIN BAKER
TYRONN LUE
TOM GUGLIOTTA

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/833900464.gif?1389928168

xp clay its really awesome.i mean NENÊ

howard has wanted no part of durant's finishes tonight

dwight and harden thinking ahead to their post-game visit to the strip-clubs.

that's how they roll.

I bet Dwight just tips singles at the stage

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeIEjI3CcAAMTm4.png

houston just put up a 10 point quarter after scoring 73 in the first half

#staymelo

#staymediocre

melo's had a nice season tbh, them sucking is mostly not his fault

steven adams strikes again

houston just put up a 10 point quarter after scoring 73 in the first half

their season in a nutshell

the knicks sucking is mostly not melo's fault but the way he plays the game is not conducive to winning and i think that trickles down

otm
melo is the suckiest great player ive ever seen

he's played fine. the rest of the roster (and their coach) is a complete joke. part of them sucking has to do with his contract and how it limits what kind of complementary pieces they can build around him, but it's not his fault stat/chandler are perpetually injured or just bad

I wouldn't say he's played "fine." He's not the most efficient guy. I feel like if they had better pieces he'd suck all the energy away from them, unless maybe they had a great scoring pg that didn't pass to him all the time.

Sometimes I feel like Melo isn't even playing NBA basketball, he's just playing Meloball, like he has this whole independent idea of the game in his head and is out of touch with what's actually going on

woodson is a decent coach. the main issue is roster construction... ie the front office forcing bargnani on him and nudging him away from smallball. that their only good defensive player is chandler. A

but melo is connected to all these things. he puts up points -- sometimes efficiently! -- but if he was more of a leader and had a better idea of how to play i also think they'd be better.

the idea of a "culture" is hard to overstate in the nba imo & that's the knicks overarching problem. there is a chicken & egg situation there with melo but I don't think he's absolved.

some people will forever give lebron shit for humbling himself and going to the heat but he saved his career (in a sense) by recognizing that he needed to leave the inmates-running-the-asylum culture of cleveland for a place like miami with a strong structure. then from there lebron was able to help shape the franchise in his image in a positive way (beasley, oden etc).

melo needs his riley/wade etc. i mean dwight recognized it too. melo has his opt out this year but we'll see if he wants to give up the money for the other benefits.

houston put up 73 in the first half and has 92 with 1:18 left this is unbelievable

yeah what on earth

apparently it's a record, -54 point differential between halves

IDK, I really get the feeling sometimes that Melo is just dense when it comes to team basketball, like not stupid, but just in his own world where he's the hero

after melo retires i'm probably sucker punching the first guy that tells me he belongs in the hof

the thing is he is brilliant at creating his own shots, but that's like all he does. if you watch his offensive highlights, there's almost never anyone else involved in the play -- melo isn't passing, melo isn't getting passed to, no one setting screens for melo, it's just melo against the world. And yeah, that might be a chicken-egg kind of thing, where the team never learns to play any other way cuz that's what he does

after melo retires i'm probably sucker punching the first guy that tells me he belongs in the hof

― Clay, Friday, January 17, 2014 5:21 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's been a top 10ish player in the NBA for about a decade, that probably should get you in the hall

yeah you can't really not put a guy with his numbers in the HOF, let's not get carried away

http://philadelphiadance.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ThumbsDown.jpg

kevin mchale. idk

xpost kev not aboud melo exactly, more about the #staymelo ad. putrid

chuck on dwight tonight has been pretty solid

melo's been a top 10ish player for like one year dude

wrong

i was responding to matt

i don't understand

the basketball hall of fame is a really stupid entity

melo's been a top 10ish player for like one year dude

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 5:37 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you could bump it down to 15 maybe

yeah i mean if reggie miller is in the HOF melo probably will be

I mean he's a leading scorer every year. I know that doesn't mean "top player" automatically, but I think "shittiest top player ever" is more apt than "not a top player"

statistics are everything in the hall, he's in

i think lebron's drunk

oh he's just tweeting the lyrics to some crappy TI song nvm

sounds drunk to me

actually kinda loved Melo in 08-09 but imo chauncey was the leader of that squad and wrangled the beast. they complemented each other really well, that was Chauncey's last good year and he lead that team. Melo needs that kind of situation I think.

statistics are everything in the hall, he's in

― Spottie, Friday, January 17, 2014 6:02 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they aren't, actually, or else Artis Gilmore wouldn't have had to wait so long. And he only got in because Colangelo made it happen.

the greatest hall of fame mystery to me aside from Artis is how the hell K.C. Jones made it in as a player.

I guess melo is the gary sheffield of basketball

Maybe we could do a ILH HOF. Like with ballots and everything

Fair enough xxxp.

Maybe college and coaching re KC Jones?

oh melo has that ncaa title too doesn't he, that makes him a sure thing i guess

he'd make the one-on-one HOF in a heartbeat

Maybe college and coaching re KC Jones?

― Spottie, Friday, January 17, 2014 6:10 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if it was for coaching Nellie and PJax would have made it in as players too (and Nellie was a much better NBA player than Jones).

It's pretty much inexplicable afaict.

yeah just looking at his stats, crazy weak

Melo also w two gold medals and may play again in '16

oh yeah and he rules in the olympics too

who is @AD_LT

rondo back 2nite! http://grantland.com/the-triangle/courtvision-everything-you-think-you-know-about-rondos-shooting-is-wrong

my shots let me show you them

http://espngrantland.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/rondo_allshots_1152.jpg

goldsberry is the worst

no way

like what is your point bro yes no one guards him and he makes 50% of his shots from the free throw line very cool story keep gettin dem checks

his analysis is often bad but his charts are nectar bro

yeah the charts are cool i admit

like what is your point bro yes no one guards him and he makes 50% of his shots from the free throw line very cool story keep gettin dem checks

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 12:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is actually a very good insight

i like goldsberry. by nature some of his charts are going to confirm what we already know i.e. that rondo shoots a ton at the basket and from the elbows

simmons should just buy out his technology or whatever and have someone else analyze them

like what is your point bro yes no one guards him and he makes 50% of his shots from the free throw line very cool story keep gettin dem checks

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 12:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is actually a very good insight

― lag∞n, Friday, January 17, 2014 12:46 PM (16 seconds ago)

but this is like, the book on rondo, anyone who watches basketball knows this

but a lot of them are interesting i.e. which three point shooters are super deadly from the corners but actually bad from the wings (chandler parsons) or which player shoot/best from which areas

also his charts that show how a player's shooting has changed over time (lebron ones)

this looks like a fun read, anyone gotta hookup?
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10308520/nba-handing-league-least-valuable-player-awards

As Kevin Durant and LeBron James duke it out in the MVP race and the J.R. Smith circus tours America, it got me thinking:

Who's leading the LVP race so far?

In this edition of Per Diem, we'll take stock in the race for the least valuable player so far this season. Just like in the MVP race, we're not considering the contract status. For the purposes of this list, we're interested in identifying the players who have hurt their team's chances to win most. In essence, we're not looking at the 15th man on the roster. After all, you can't lose if you don't play.

Taking into consideration every player's traditional numbers and advance metrics including on-court/off-court data, here is one man's ranking of the least valuable players in the league so far.

And the "winners" are …
LVP: Kendrick Perkins, Oklahoma City Thunder

Give the guy a Nobel Peace Prize, because his leadership must be that transformative. Otherwise, there is no way he could convince an NBA coach to give him 20 minutes a night in 2014. Alas, Scott Brooks can't shake his Perkins addiction. With Perkins, every shred of tangible evidence points to "not an NBA player."
Perkins

Get this: He currently has more turnovers (53) than made baskets (48). And then there's the fact that he fouls five times as often as he blocks a shot.

If he does positive things outside the box score, it doesn't show on the scoreboard; the Thunder are 9.2 points per 100 possessions worse with him on the floor, according to NBA.com. That is especially amazing considering he plays almost exclusively (683 of his 690 minutes) with Kevin Durant. Even the MVP favorite can't hide his futility. Perkins ranks last in Estimated Wins Added (minus-1.5) and second-to-last in WARP (minus-1.8). It's hard to imagine a player more unintentionally destructive.

Second place: Anthony Bennett, Cleveland Cavaliers

Please, just send him to the D-League already. This isn't about pity; it's about rehabilitation. You know what's worse for his confidence than a demotion? Sticking with the status quo.
Bennett

With an obscenely bad 1.1 PER and a subterranean 31.9 percent true shooting percentage, this is the worst rookie season for a top pick by a country mile. The guy is shooting 14-for-78 (18 percent) outside five feet and ranks dead last in win shares (minus-0.9).

For someone with conditioning issues, why nail him to the bench when he could work himself into shape in the D-League without the spotlight? Keeping him on the big-league roster reeks of cognitive dissonance by a desperate organization trying to save face. The sleep apnea, shoulder soreness and asthma issues are real, but so is the potential damage to his career and the Cavs' chances at relevance. He might not boast the number of minutes as the rest of the names here, but his play is too toxic to leave him off.

Third place: Ben McLemore, Sacramento Kings.

Maybe it's completely meaningless and utterly arbitrary, but ever since LeBron James posterized him in Miami on Dec. 20, here are the rook's averages over those 12 games: 21.0 minutes, 4.6 points, 2.1 rebounds, 0.8 assists and 31.7 percent shooting from the floor, 32.1 percent from downtown and 0.7 free throw attempts.
McLemore

The worst part? He has 35 fouls and one steal over that span. That's horrendous for an athlete like him.

You probably haven't heard more about McLemore's demise because the most of the top 10 in the 2013 draft (with the exception of No. 9 pick Trey Burke) has been a train wreck. But McLemore's minus-0.4 PER this month illustrates how bad it's gotten, and he's now in danger of dropping out of the rotation after losing his starting spot earlier this month.

He's still just 20 years old, but we could be waiting a while for his athleticism to translate onto the NBA level.

Fourth place: Tayshaun Prince, Memphis Grizzlies

Meet the least valuable player in the league so far -- according to WARP. The 33-year-old has been a tire fire this season as the Grizzlies' starting small forward, posting a minus-1.9 WARP, which means that he's cost the Grizzlies two wins compared to a guy at the end of the bench.
Prince

For a team like the Grizzlies in the thick of the race, those two wins could be the difference between a playoff spot and the lottery.

Now that Prince has oddly abandoned the 3-point line for a team that is starving for treys, his value as an offensive player has just about vanished. He's not a shot creator and he ranks dead last in catch-and-shoot efficiency among the 82 players with at least 100 plays, according to Synergy. His solid defense keeps him from appearing higher on the list, but even that is waning as he ages. Recent free agent signee James Johnson could be starting before long.

Fifth place: J.R. Smith, New York Knicks

The issue isn't if the Knicks should bench Smith. The real question is, why didn't it happen sooner? By benching Smith now after juvenile antics, the Knicks are conveniently trying to distract fans from the actual culprit: he can't score.
Smith

Among the 98 players with a usage rate north of 20 percent and at least 750 minutes played, Smith ranks dead last in true shooting percentage (45.5 percent). The only thing more poisonous than a player who can't score is one that thinks he can.

With knee issues sapping his mobility, he should be reduced to a catch-and-shoot weapon, but the problem is that he believes he's Steve Nash, not Steve Novak. On-court/off-court data from NBA.com suggests that the Knicks are better off on both ends of the floor without him, confirming what our eyes tell us.
Dishonorable mentions:

Mayo

O.J. Mayo, Milwaukee Bucks: Mayo's numbers don't scream LVP on the surface, as he's posted a lukewarm 11.7 PER with an above-average 37.9 percent conversion rate from downtown. But then you realize that the Bucks have been outscored by 15.5 points per 100 possessions with him on the floor and just 1.7 points per 100 possessions with him on the bench. In other words, the Bucks aren't a tanking team with Mayo.

Hinrich

Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Bulls: Not many players can make D.J. Augustin look like an All-Star by comparison. Enter Hinrich. The guy is shooting 29 percent over his last 14 games, ever since the Bulls thumped the Miami Heat by 20 points in early December. He can't get into the paint and can't create enough separation to open up passing lanes so he's just brutal to watch run an offense at this stage in his career. Among players with at least 30 minutes per game, Hinrich owns the worst PER at 9.1. I can't believe I'm saying this, but, more Augustin, please.

Zeller

Cody Zeller, Charlotte Bobcats: Remember when people thought he was the next LaMarcus Aldridge? Let's pump the brakes on that. Zeller has been atrocious as a shooter, converting just 26 percent of his 87 midrange jumpers this season. He has yet to make a 3-pointer, despite the hype that he was the best stretch 4 in the draft. It's early, but the No. 4 pick has been a mess on both ends of the floor.

Green

Willie Green, Los Angeles Clippers: If it weren't for his longtime pal Chris Paul, Green may be out of the league. He can knock down a corner 3 every once in a while, but other than that, he's a liability on the offensive end. The Clippers' starting lineup with J.J. Redick has scored 109.4 points per 100 possessions this season, per NBA.com. With Green? 97.7 points per 100 possessions. It's hard to make an offense that stars Paul and Blake Griffin look mediocre, but Green works wonders.

Fisher

Derek Fisher, Oklahoma City Thunder: Like the guy ranked No. 1 on this list, his leadership qualities must outweigh his on-court contributions, which makes you wonder why he doesn't just put on a three-piece suit and join the coaching staff already. He's woefully inefficient with a 50.1 percent true shooting percentage, but unlike other players on this list, he knows his limits for the most part. At 39, he's washed up like a beached whale.

but this is like, the book on rondo, anyone who watches basketball knows this

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 12:47 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in my estimation he shoots much better than the conventional wisdom on him which was the point of the article

also goldsberrys piece from a while ago on how brons game has changed since joining the heat is one of the best basketball jounalisms of the last few years

ya but the point is all of those are unguarded, gimme some play by play data on how he shoots with a defender within x feet of him or something, make it more useful

the point is people are leaving him unguarded but should they

obvs hes not a good shooter but has he become good enough to make teams play normal defense on him is what matters

its pretty borderline at this point but if he improves even a lil bit teams will have to guard him which opens up all sorts of thing

unless his knee sucks

lebron birthday instagram message to wade

Happy Bday to my running mate, homie, brother, and most of all straight up friend!

The friendship we've created our rookie year at pre draft camp was pure and that's why we stuck together from that point on! Obviously didn't know we would eventually become teammates and do the things we've done so far.

I came to Miami for 2 reasons. To play with U and to win championships and I can't thank u enough for the sacrifice you've made since I arrived homie!

No matter what happens in the future we stuck together like brothers for life. And no matter what they say, u still a BAD Mutha-Shut-Yo-Mouth out there on that court! @dwyanewade.

Oh almost forgot u old as dirt! Boy you look 40. Hahaha! #TreyBallBDay #YouASuckaOnYoBDay"

lebron's gone, for sure. sad, really.

unless his knee sucks

― Spottie, Friday, January 17, 2014 12:55 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shush

(ty for article link j0)

btw speaking of M/LVPs i think if the season ended today an MVP vote for durant would be very defensible, as much as it pains me to say it

yeah bron hasnt really been bringing the expert level D on a consistent basis which is ordinarily a huge differentiator between him and kd

def

durants D seems to be progressing too, saw him guarding some point guard in the 4th quarter the other night

he's been solid for a while now, he's guarded PGs before, obv not to a lebron/pippen extent but he is quick and long and pretty smart. in a couple years he's going to be a really good defender

Seriously... has anyone reasonably defended these sleeved jerseys?

Emo Ricky

Wolves’ Ricky Rubio on his continued struggles: ‘I’m just not having as much fun as it used to be’

aw

tell him to punch someone, in the face, on the court.

very cathartic.

Man, I had NO idea that Tayshaun Prince was playing that poorly.

ya but the point is all of those are unguarded, gimme some play by play data on how he shoots with a defender within x feet of him or something, make it more useful

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 5:50 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goldsberry does this better than anyone! He's the pioneer of this basically.

he's been solid for a while now, he's guarded PGs before, obv not to a lebron/pippen extent but he is quick and long and pretty smart. in a couple years he's going to be a really good defender

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 6:06 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he basically only played bad defense his first season IIRC

ya but the point is all of those are unguarded, gimme some play by play data on how he shoots with a defender within x feet of him or something, make it more useful

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 5:50 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goldsberry does this better than anyone! He's the pioneer of this basically.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, January 17, 2014 6:13 PM (1 minute ago)

yeah that's what i'm saying his charts are cool but his analysis is pretty useless

thank goodness the heat can get healthy by playing the worst team in the league.

still, it's a first-round loss to the wizards for the heatles.

rondo officially back. <3

whoa DJ, never seen an oop like that before

hard to understand how knicks are even in this right now

Clips just turned on the jets

Wait I've had this game on mute who did they wedge in with breen and jvg

jay bilas

UGH WHY

Clips just turned on the jets

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Friday, January 17, 2014 9:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup was waiting for that moment

tha fukk
http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/2015623/834055036.gif

btw that LVP article got me thinking baot a couple things

check out perkins' stats including advanced stats and look at where fell off the cliff- then tell me what did danny ainge know and when did he know it

willie green has somehow been in the league ten years and all i remember of him is thinking of picking him up in fantasy late one year when lou williams was injured (maybe) and noticing him in one or two clipper games last year and wondering who he was

matt barnes is gonna get ejected from this game on reputation alone

BALL

hedo looks maybe game-shape-adjacent

♪ ♫ ♩
bobby caldwell in commercial

Can okc succeed with perk? If hypothetically they play the pacers in the finals, it's gonna be bad.

haven't watched the wolves/raps game but does that team even WANT to be in playoff contention? is there a reason love and pek have only played a combined 53 minutes with <2 minutes left?

amazing that Brian Shaw's superhuman patience with Randy Foye's three point shooting paid off

what the hell is going on in minn anyway, everyone's healthy, right? i read something recently about how they're always blowing close games..

it's funny there was an article on ESPN the other day about OKC's "killer" lineup that was destroying people and perk was in it. lineup data is pretty flawed though i wish people didn't rely on it so much

stfu jay bilas

Portland looking v good in San Antonio rn

think imma turn to that game, this shit is not fun to watch

clippers basically carpetbombing MSG right now

it's just about to go to halftime but it's been a good and fun game

pop is generally incensed tonight which always elevates things

what the hell is going on in minn anyway, everyone's healthy, right? i read something recently about how they're always blowing close games..

― brimstead, Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:22 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think Rubio is a big part of the problem. He loses so much effectiveness in the halfcourt game and his numbers in crunchtime are pretty bad apparently.

Utah 95
Detroit 67

Btw rondoooooooo

Tommy is fired up abt rondo

lovin this kid screaming after the rondo-to-bradley 3 pointer

I think Rubio is a big part of the problem. He loses so much effectiveness in the halfcourt game and his numbers in crunchtime are pretty bad apparently.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, January 17, 2014 6:34 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

anti-Lillard

the spurs local commercials >>>>>

stfu jay bilas

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, January 17, 2014 9:22 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Otm and I'm not even sure what he said that you're referring to, just otm on gen principle

He was making a really bad, really extended joke about the Chris/Cliff Paul commercials which are already hateful

As always fuck duke

bilas is ok

reminder that Jay Bilas once said

"Jan Vesely, this guy can really shoot it."

amazing boris possession

spurs/blazers dubs/thunder, ok we can do this

yeah gsw/okc is off to a good start

bilas is ok

― k3vin k., Friday, January 17, 2014 9:43 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's very long I will give you that

He also called for the head of a uni pres and everyone associated with him for not sufficiently vigorously defending accused rapists, who turned out to be legally innocent, but really what does that have to do with it

anyway he's generally a dukebag sorry mang

Wtf how did curry see that pass

pop ejected wtf

curry is phenomenal

Lol Jon Barry just told us to strap it on

pop was basically trying to attack that ref

Wtf how did curry see that pass

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Friday, January 17, 2014 9:56 PM (30 seconds ago)

how did klay hit it is the real question, the ball was barely in his hands

xp yeah lol I heard that too

wow did anyone else just see that spurs possession where timmy brought it all the way up the court, put it between his legs, and kicked out to belinelli for a 3?

manu damn

:O

curry man

this game is bananas offensively

West playoffs are gonna be sick this year. East barely watchable.

18 point third quarter for manu

spurs +11 since pop got ejected

manuuuuuuuuuuuu

man this game is pretty intense

duncan putback slam like it's 2003 out there or something

aldridge just put some gorgeous moves on duncan that really reminded me of... a younger tim duncan

the spurs local commercials >>>>>

― k3vin k., Saturday, January 18, 2014 12:38 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg this

blazers out of timeout plays in crunch time so beautiful to watch

wesley matthews O_O

ginobili throws it to a ref in transition with 40 seconds left in a close game oops

manu just passed to a ref >.<

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lAR_ixCx8Ao/Uti9HBlBehI/AAAAAAAABK0/NQJ4WOTC3BY/s1600/mc.gif

gonna be the first spurs loss of the year when leading after the 3rd

done

lol perk

omg durant

Can't miss

So many fouls

Warriors foul shooting is the difference.

durant's line right now is really something

Overshadowing a good game by curry as well

durant.....

!!

GIVE HIM THE BALL

get off you bitches

Ummmmm

didn't even realize this was on espn, my god that fadeaway

Bs call

Only a Macklemore commercial could make this more painful. Oh ther it is

Fun game regardless.

kind of weird of mjax to throw in the towel that quick

Agree !

11 point game with 1:45 left I think

Also never playing bogut in the 4th wtf

pretty good game from Kevin Durant there

one of the nba's most exciting young talents

Unguardable

carmelo shooting 4-23 was more impressive than durant putting up 54

Haha

Nick Collison ‏@nickcollison4 13m

57 is the number. Ive always said whenever @KDTrey5 and I combine for 57 we have a great shot to win.

hahaha

Ugh more emo WE are NOT having FUN quotes from Rubio. Hoping he doesn't realize that he'd probably be happier leaving Minnesota, going back to Barcelona, getting stoned and wandering Park Güell on the reg while averaging 25ast/game.

http://instagram.com/p/jUJUgUTO-X/

wow

btw congrats to kd on the career high, that was a cool game

rubio needs to be locked in a gym with a shooting coach for the entire coming offseason. there's honestly no reason for him to be this bad.

and anytime someone says "hey josh smith is a cool player" i'm just going to repost that clip

Josh Smith is cancerous to his team and our league

Otm

Lol Collison

warriors bench...

http://www.82games.com/1314/1314GSW.HTM

trade barnes

for some reason i was under the impression that josh smith could dribble

he shd really be playing center on some smallball running team

That josh smith clip is so so so close to the incredible z-bo yackety sax Knicks sequence

i like how jennings almost tries to steal the ball from him then thinks better at the last second

The warriors bench man alive. Iggy has zero confidence on offense right now too. Still doesn't look quite right since the hammy.

Barnes I just dunno. Draymond is playing Better than him over the last few weeks

barnes is garbage trade barnes take out the garbage

bet you could get two solid bench dudes for him

He was good last year as a starter. Might just be a bad fit coming off the bench

lag∞n
Posted: January 18, 2014 at 9:56:11 AM
barnes is garbage trade barnes take out the garbage

this post so wonderful all over

ty clay

barnes for deng, straight up

barnes is garbage
trade barnes
take out the garbage

ee cummings

sry i didnt visit u when i was in portland i was gonna surprise u at yr dj nite but then my friend and i swam in a river and got tired

i threw a rock across the river into tiny hole high up in a cliff that the nerds i was with couldnt even reach

that sounds like a much more lasting experience than watching me stare at a laptop and telling people I don't have any Katy Perry and no sorry the Internet is down.

wtf u werent even planning on playing katy perry why do i even bother

all I have is my integrity man don't make me compromise, I gotta be me

hear clay roar

lagoon great job being an example of

if ur visiting a city, NEVER post it about it publicly. if u do, do not be corny and say "attn: [city] name" or "i'm going to be inside u." contact everyone privately.

ideally, no one should know that u visited until MONTHS later, when u casually mention it in passing. remember how darth vader did a surprise inspection of the death star in star wars? that's how it should be. like a secret, unofficial state dignitary visit.

it was just instagram i thought i was safe, busted by the keep portland weird bumper sticker

such a cliche too I mean cmon

i just wanted to get in on the sweet gentle ribbing of portland is that so terrible

*puts a bird on it*

i watched a video of a rapper from portland the other day and he literally was wearing a shirt w a bird on it

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/lamarcus-aldridge-put-bird-portland-jersey-carrie-brownstein-001311168.html

he is much bigger than her

a lot of the in game video ephemera at the moda center this year stars Carrie and Fred doing their portlandia characters, like being two feminist book store workers telling sports fans not to throw stuff on the court. It's weird.

I mean if it's a tight game I don't need a 50 foot Fred armisen saying "it's the fourth quarter blazer fans, and you're the sixth man" in a silly voice

there's a fine line w/that stuff, like its cute in moderation but too much and it kinda diminishes the sporting event aspect

imo there shdlnt be any in game entertainment, only crazed fans yelling and throwing things on the court, and organ music i guess

oh for sure, it's just for years it's been like george foreman or bill walton, now it's... 1/3rd of Sleater-Kinney?xp

idk gotta get the kids and corporate squares entertained or the league would fizzle, altho I agree in principle

no corporate squares allowed in the building, all games to be played in the old boston garden

fine

there's been 4 or 5 games this season where for whatever reason Josh Smith didn't dick around and instead banged around in the post a lot and in those games he averages like 30-15-7

blazers ball movement tonight >>>>>>

25-6-1 for Terrence Jones in the first half o_O

anthony davis w/21 and 7 at the half

Haven't seem him play much before, dude is pretty limber

i mean, at first i'm thinking he should put on some mor muscle but then it's not like duncan is really ripped or anything #deepthoughts

Nice steph/bogut alley-oop, can't believe bogut of all people has been healthy all season considering the glut of injuries leaguewide.

duncan is who davis shd be copying 4 sure

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3882335/omgPG.gif

:O

ya

i was gonna post a gif of this nice mo williams no look behind the back pass to batum for a simple dunk but i mean i think i need a couple hundred posts of buffer between that and any other dunks

Get it PG

in-game dunk that will be better than any dunk contest jam i betcha

whoooa

curry taking it to the rim 2nite

dallas has some serious interior defense problems

dejuan blair plays C for them. he's 6'5".

that's fucked up
Dallas whole roster is pretty weird overall

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19cz9jaxpkiplgif/ku-large.gif

another angle

acceptable bandwidth clay

Wow that dunk

http://i.minus.com/ihXSNKXxNxkzZ.gif

http://i.minus.com/ihXSNKXxNxkzZ.gif

360 windmill nbd. Such a weird looking dunk, like in order to windmill it he has to start his 360 turn in the wrong direction. Ball almost doesn't make it above the rim :0

no corporate squares allowed in the building, all games to be played in the old boston garden

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