they reminisce over yao -- 2010/2011 regular season second half thread

Eastern Conference

1. * Boston --
2. * Miami --
3. * Chicago 2.0
4. Orlando 5.5
5. Atlanta 6.5
6. New York 12.0
7. Philadelphia 14.0
8. Indiana 16.0
9. Charlotte 17.0
10. Milwaukee 19.5
11. Detroit 20.5
12. New Jersey 24.5
13. Washington 25.0
14. Toronto 26.0
15. Cleveland 31.0

Western Conference

1. * San Antonio --
2. Dallas 6.0
3. * LA Lakers 8.5
4. * Oklahoma City 10.0
5. Portland 14.0
6. New Orleans 14.0
7. Denver 14.5
8. Utah 15.5
9. Memphis 15.5
10. Phoenix 18.0
11. Golden State 19.5
12. Houston 20.5
13. LA Clippers 25.0
14. Sacramento 31.5
15. Minnesota 33.0

also i propose that the ilh board description be changed to kevin durant's twitter bio for reasons of being otm:

IM ME, I DO ME, AND I CHILL

nice

so the underrated part of this knicks-nuggs-t wolves trade is that if it goes down we will get to witness the triumphant new york return of renaldo balkman

from yahoo

The proposal, which was first reported by CBS Sports, will send Danilo Gallinari(notes), Raymond Felton(notes), Wilson Chandler(notes) and the Knicks’ 2014 first-round pick to Denver. The Knicks would also trade Anthony Randolph(notes) and Eddy Curry’s(notes) expiring contract to the Minnesota Timberwolves, who would send Corey Brewer(notes) to the Nuggets. The Knicks would receive Anthony, Chauncey Billups(notes), Shelden Williams(notes) and Renaldo Balkman(notes).

The Knicks aren’t willing to include center Timofey Mozgov(notes) in the deal, the source said.

The Nuggets continue to measure the Knicks’ revised offer against the New Jersey Nets’ bid, which is built around rookie forward Derrick Favor and four first-round draft picks, said a source involved in the talks. Keeping Anthony no longer appears to be an option, the source said.

Anthony has told confidants throughout All-Star weekend he’s hopeful he’ll be traded to the Knicks, but thinks the talks could drag to Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline. He met with Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and other team officials on Saturday, but has given no indication of wanting to sign the three-year, $65 million extension with New Jersey.

After denying he had any plans to meet with Anthony, Prokhorov told CNBC on Sunday that the two had a “fantastic” meeting. A source with knowledge of the meeting, however, told Yahoo! Sports that Anthony didn’t give the Nets any reason to feel confident about their chances to convince him to commit to the extension.

“I think we made a very good tactical decision to force [the] Knicks to pay as much as they can,” Prokhorov said.

here's the link on that http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvMJZ4BPlanOrSmEcdFXHeO8vLYF?slug=mc-anthonyknicks022011

The Knicks aren’t willing to include center Timofey Mozgov(notes) in the deal, the source said.

this can't be isiah's work

MOZGOV

WojYahooNBA/Adrian Wojnarowski. The Nets puncher's chance to get'Melo is muck up the waters, create chaos and steal him at end. Prokhorov wants the star -- not spare parts.

the thread title is kind of freaking me out

hahah

forks, can u fix the spelling of "reminisce"

and the spelling of 'dayo' thx

twitter saying melo to nyk about to go down but I can't even tell what's real anymore so

l: clay r: carmelo

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/commentary/videomemory/matrix1.jpg

basically yes exactly

I think there's a lot of (1) strategic "leaking" and (2) HEY LOOK AT MY TWITTER FEED going on

nuggetsnews Benjamin Hochman
by fivethirtyeight
TRADE official, source told Denver Post. Melo to Knicks www.denverpost.com/sports
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haha this graphic

http://grab.by/954g

:(

shit appears imminent

this is p awesome

The Nuggets traded Melo to the New York Knicks tonight, a league source said. Denver gets Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, the Knicks 2014 first-round draft pick, the Warriors' 2012 second-round pick, the Warriors' 2013 second-round pick and $3 million in cash.

Anthony will go to New York, along with Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams, Anthony Carter and Renaldo Balkman.

of all the crap I follow, didn't think I'd get re melo news broken by 538

lol otm

that said, i do feel bad for raymond felton

stodamire/melo/danatoni is a triumvirate i can appreciate

feltons prob gonna get flipped again i hear

knicks kinda fleeced devner, none of those players/picks are that good

melo's interview with conan that is on tonight is gonna be hilarious

too bad its not live

yeah are any of those pieces really going to help the nuggs?

also, i have to admit that i was warming up to the idea of hating dani for the foreseeable future -- feel kinda robbed of a villain

Knicks get the best and also second best player in the deal. Always a good sign.

man nuggs were in the conf finals what, two years ago, and now they've absolutely blown up their team. Hard to get a sense of what that roster will even look like by next season.

you could make an argument that felton and billups are relatively even at this point, but yeah

are the knicks even better than the hawks right now

they'll flip Felton for draft picks and expiring deals and "build" around Ty Lawson I expect n

billups on his last legs

probably not xxp

randolph to the wolves too -- kahn lowkey pimpin

knicks cleaning house!

how many ppl even are on the knicks' roster right now?

4 iirc

Maybe Isaiah is coming back as a player not a coach.

player/coach/gm

isiah actually killed spike lee & is wearing his skin

btw balkman thrown in p much verifies that isiah is back in the mix no

i'm overjoyed by the balkman part

haha what why

yeah not really feeling this game or the cs anymore, amazingly think they are desperate to have shaq back

jor-el anthony dunk at end of quarter = tv off, time to do something outdoors instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3OXVegfbIA

the funniest part is that he thought he made the dunk

apparently charlie villanueva is actually trying to murder ryan hollins irl nbd

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20110412&Category=SPORTS03&ArtNo=104120455&Ref=AR&MaxW=300&Border=0

guys NBA cares is coming to pimp my fucking school

so jacked, meeting today after school was like that episode of the simpsons whee they find oil underneath the school and everybodys asking for like....double guitars

deetz plz

Bynum noooo!!

wha happen to andy?

fucked his knee up, fucked his fucked his knee up

most absurd home/road splits in the nba this season:

pistons: home 21-20, road 8-32
wizards: home 20-21, road 3-37
warriors: home 25-15, road 10-31
clippers: home 22-18, road 9-32

the only team in the nba with a road record better than their home record is the sacramento kings. mavs are close: 28-12, 28-13 (best road record in the nba though miami is close at 27-13.)

deetz plz

― we the_best (Clay), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 6:33 PM (Yesterday)

shits going down early may, school is scramblin to get stuff ready cos it's kind of short notice

arroyo! wafer! green! davis! krstic! your celtics starting lineup!

man, last games of the regular season are the BEST

so many playoff implications in this mavs/hornets game it's like i'm working for fucking nasa over here trying to figure this shit out.

iirc lakers get the 2 seed if they beat sacramento, 3 if they lose and mavs win.
mavs get the 2 if they win and la loses, 3 seed if they beat the hornets and la beats the kings, 3 seed if both okc and dallas lose.
okc gets the 4th seed unless dallas loses and okc wins.

my points is i really need the mavs to be the 3 seed.

so glad that kobe got docked for anti-gay slur

my points is i really need the mavs to be the 3 seed.

dont sweat it, they're out in the first round regardless

well yes, i know, i want them playing my team!

i know, just took opportunity to clown the mavs

why are there like 10 games that all started at the same time tonight? c'mon nba, you gotta stagger that shit.

no throwing the last games for seeding iirc. doesn't really work, obviously

man i really shouldn't have waded into the youtube comments on the video of kobe's slur.

this is only a thing because it got picked up by court mics and it's kobe bryant, right

i think it was lip read first & i think it's a thing cuz it happened on national TV, not necessarily cuz it's kobe

but it should be a thing anyway

pretty sure it being kobe had something to do with this being a big story + $100k fine.

like shannon brown doing this just wouldn't have been a huge deal.

never sat courtside at a game but I imagine a lot of worse shit gets said on a daily basis?

my understanding is that a player calling a ref "a fucking faggot" is unusual, yes

I agree in principle that stuff like this is vile but there is def a 'boys will be boys' mentality about the whole thing

would really honestly pay a ton of cash to watch games w/ no crowd sound/no commentary/all the players mic'd up.

xp to js - so would calling another player the same slur be a normal thing?

i'm not sure it would be normal but player to player & player to ref interactions are generally different yes

not in the least because players can't issue technicals to each other

NBA could insitute a sb system bw players

well I'm just trying to figure out what line was crossed - that kobe insulted a ref, that he used an anti-gay slur, or that he used an anti-gay slur to insult a ref

i think it's that he got caught.

i mean he embarrassed the nba, that's the line that was crossed.

its a fucked up thing to say, and its a big deal henceforth, when people get caught, is all we know

grizz obv going to tank this game so sit back and enjoy the last blake griffin dunk show until 2012

If grizz bench can beat the clips, then Hollins will let them.

who is this biyombo dude? interesting imo.

BISMACK?

2011 nba draft thread

There's some talk of Jerry Sloan to the Warriors, which would be great.

That would be some strange shift, after Nellie Ball.

http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2011/05/09/kirilenko-gets-massive-self-portrait-tattoo/

RMJ=H says:
05.09.11 @ 2:09 PM EDT
If were him, I’d totally head to Chipotle, eat a giant bean burrito, and ask people if they want be in “the wind beneath my wings.”

Uh Bulls have a much more solid unit than the Magic. Peep Orlando's five:

Dwight--nuff said
Hedo--Had an awful season in which he could barely squeak out 11 points a game and routinely forced shit up

J-Rich: had some good games but madf inconsistent, often struggled to create offense

B-Bass: decent offensively, but undersized and easy to outmuscle

Jameer--good, but definitely backslid this year

The Bulls have a suffocating D which the Magic did not.

wrong thread :(