ARE we having FUN yet? - 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 3)

8. Houston 29-26 .527 13 ½
Portland 25-28 .472 16 ½
LA Lakers 25-29 .463 17

LOL REGGIE

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/226168/TNT-Apologizes-For-Reggie-Millers-Bleacher-Report-Error

Miller also called the Memphis Grizzlies his darkhorse in the Eastern Conference, despite the fact that they play in the Western Conference.

love this shoehorned in at the end of that article.

tbf that's quite the darkhorse

Reggie! Please get fired

Poor Reggie, think it's tough for him to succeed at anything that doesn't involve drawing fouls on jump shots.

Sad thing is that he brought up one of the few interesting tidbits of the whole telecast: when LeBron goes right, he almost always drives it to the hole; when he goes left, he almost always shoots a (lower percentage) jump shot.

RIP, Jerry Buss:

http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2013/2/18/4000992/lakers-dr-jerry-buss-has-passed-away-cancer

http://spike.mtvnimages.com/images/import/blog//2/0/2/2/2022731/201005/1273598918328.jpg

RIP PLAYA

that was quick

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDZnyB9CQAEjlGp.jpg:large

Compupost, michael Jordan is the one that brought up that lbj going left/right thing. In that outside the lines article/interview.

Poor Reggie, think it's tough for him to succeed at anything that doesn't involve drawing fouls on jump shots.

Sad thing is that he brought up one of the few interesting tidbits of the whole telecast: when LeBron goes right, he almost always drives it to the hole; when he goes left, he almost always shoots a (lower percentage) jump shot.

― Faried, Spirit Manimal (CompuPost), Monday, February 18, 2013 10:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the thing is, and i would have to see the data on this, but i feel like jordan's completely wrong about this. lebron takes it to the rim ALL THE TIME when he goes left

dan mccarney ‏@danmccarneysaen
Dating back to last year, Spurs have won 66 of their past 81 regular-season games.

i feel like jordan's completely wrong

somehow I doubt mj has been doing seriously intense film sessions on lbj to isolate his tendencies.

it could just as easily be mj is messing with bron's head.

i'm pretty sure that the hundreds of people in nba organizations tasked with scouting lebron james have tipped players off to his tendencies before a story on michael jordan

Last night, Lil Wayne told the crowd that he has been banned from all NBA events at the request of the Miami Heat. It’s hard to believe that this is actually true, but that didn’t stop him from telling the NBA and everyone associated with the Miami Heat to go get fucked. The coup de grâce came when Wayne loudly proclaimed that he has boned Chris Bosh’s wife

http://deadspin.com/5985104/lil-wayne-says-he-humped-chris-boshs-wife

banned from all NBA events??????

hahahahaha

man bosh is having a rough weekend

bosh is the best, in every facet

Yeah, bosh is top 3 or 5 wkiw in the NBA.

rip dr buss, tru playa for real

i love hating some lakers but it's gonna be sad how badly jim buss is gonna run them into the ground over the next decade

^^^

http://105.imagebam.com/download/OQdcaPHS6ygsCBAIX5lHBQ/22000/219998055/MSOURCES.jpg

this time of the year

oh, david

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
Minnesota has been aggressive in offering multiple first-round picks for established talent, league sources tell Y!

rip dr buss, i personally am v much looking forward to seeing the lakers run into the ground

they would presumably be in great shape if Jeanie was running the ship but for some reason Jerry went with goofball mcgillicutty

it'll be really interesting to see if they have to sell. I would lol if after all his failures this is the team Ellison finally gets.

theyd have to f things up p bad to kill the cash cow but its possible I guess

let's talk more about david kahn's continued desire to drown the t-wolves future in lake superior for the rare opportunity of getting swept in the first round by the spurs

the most interesting thing about David Kahn's tenure is how the fanbase just shrugs off his failures. It's like if Matt Millen just cruised along.

the wolves have had awful management from the start so they just dont know any different

wolves are currently 7.5 games out of 8th place with dallas, la lakers, portland, houston ahead of them in the battle for that spot. so even getting swept by the spurs is just an insane longshot unless they add lebron.

tho i hear MJ could still play in the league so maybe khan can get him for his 2015 and 2016 first rounders.

One time within the last couple of years, when the small-market owners were pushing hard for revenue sharing, Buss waited for everyone to make their case before weighing in. He mentioned how one owner had juggled multiple businesses over that time — making hundreds of millions beyond basketball — whereas Buss had thrown his life into running the Lakers. Now that owner wanted Buss to share his NBA profits with him? Buss maintained that he wasn’t against revenue sharing; if anything, he believed the idea made sense. But could they at least agree that, had the other owner devoted all of his time and resources to his team like Buss did, his franchise would be doing better? What if they struck a deal — all the full-time NBA owners shared their NBA profits, but only if the part-time NBA owners shared the profits from their other businesses with the full-time NBA owners?

The room fell silent. He had totally defanged the other owner — not to embarrass him, but to prove a point. If the league was gravitating toward revenue sharing, he just wanted to make sure it was for the right reasons, not because a handful of unsuccessful, part-time NBA owners were trying to game the system their way. And yes, Buss eventually agreed to revenue sharing. But he made everyone think about it, too.

that sort of feels like those With Merely A Single Sentence This Brave Marine To His Snooty Professor That God Exists And Evolution Is A Farce emails.

"thrown his life into running the lakers"

the wolves have had awful management from the start so they just dont know any different

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah man the fans hated mchale, and the regime before him. But now they have this weird Stockholm Syndrome goin' on

Jesus people give Minny a break, if they'd been healthy this whole season they'd be right there in the mix. Plus their books are a hell of a lot cleaner than most teams.

lol @ Mephisto line:

HOUSTON—While competing in the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest Saturday, contestant Gerald Green reportedly incorporated characters, dialogue, and set design from 16th-century English playwright Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus into his elaborately choreographed dunk routine. “Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee/Faustus hath cut his arm, and with his proper blood/Assures his soul to be great Lucifer’s/ Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!” proclaimed the spotlighted and costumed Indiana Pacers small forward before catching a full-court lob from the demon Mephisto—played by devilishly attired teammate Lance Stephenson—and driving to the hole. “View here this blood that trickles from mine arm/ And let it be propitious for my wish.” Upon completing the 10-minute-long scene in which the Elizabethan drama’s titular character exchanges his soul for Satan’s corrupt bounty, Green dribbled between his legs, scrawled his name in Lucifer’s black book, and launched toward the hoop from the free-throw line, whereupon the basketball clanged off the rim, forcing the 2007 dunk contest winner and his fellow castmates to return to half court and start the intricate routine from the beginning.

Kahn has made just enough good moves that I can understand why an optimist would want to believe in him

have we not pointed out how hideous that Simmons article was

He's made a ton of lulzy moves; but, as their books stand right now, they're built really well. Rubio/Love locked in until '15/'16 (Rubio w/ insanely good contract) along w/ Williams, who played the best NBA bball of his life over the past month. Shved super-cheap 3-yr deal, Darko hitting FA at end of year, Andrei signing looking really smart right now, etc.

So much of it hangs on Williams' development. If he makes the jump to a 16/8 type guy next year, then Williams/Rubio/Love is a pretty solid core to have locked up and playing together for the next three seasons. Shame they don't have Pek for longer @ $4m/yr, which ends this year.

i dunno. they still have to pay pek after this season (or lose him), kirilenko will probably opt out after his deal as well. chase budinger is a FA after this season too. love is gonna opt out in 2 more years. derrick williams still can't shoot... really nobody on that team can shoot. shved is more a "nice player" in a second or third best player off the bench way... they have brandon roy on the books for $5 mill next year (unless they can void his contract).

i think in the end kahn has made a bunch of egregious errors in drafting and even his good moves can be read in a way that is unfavorable to the team as it stands now

kirilenko will prob opt out after this year*

fucking love over is easily one of the singles stupides things any GM has done in the nba in the last decade imo

id say khan has done fairly okay otherwise, though

altho Boston Ny should be fun

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doug, byron ,lawrence frank

maybe hunter/casey too

― moullet, Thursday, April 18, 2013 2:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i didnt realize this meant frank had been fired too, dang

looking at steph's form, his three is basically almost a set shot - he doesn't get that high off the ground. he's able to get it off because defenders play him back cause of his driving ability, or he's able to create space with the dribble. pretty crazy

Yeah more of a lunge than anything, minimal effort really.

i was never able to master the jump shot (not like i tried very hard lol) because it's so hard to time the release @ your apex, also it feels like you just dont have as much control over where it goes. also if you do a set shot it means that even late in the game you can still jack since you're not so dependent on power coming from your jump. bird was a set shooter

Brent Barry, Ryan Anderson, Nash

lunge shooters I call em

yeah... nash is probably most similar to curry in that respect and how defenders play him

donyell marshall (lol) sam perkins

curry's closest parallel is Nash imo

man now i wanna go ball

*goes outside, practices set shot, never gets picked for a pickup game*

even down to the left handed passes off the dribble xxl

haha xp

I have a game tonight! game two of our single elim tourney. Final next week if we win

nice! good luck

iirc the laws of physics make it so that it's easier for short people to be more accurate in shooting, nash/curry have that advantage as well

dat arc *drools*

can jordan interview aubrey plaza and talk to her about chris bosh? and then give her my number?

otm

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9186204/nba-trade-value-column-part-1

trade value part 1

fucking a

that video of bradley picking people's pockets is AMAZING btw

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakersnow/la-sp-ln-metta-world-peace-san-antonio-20130418,0,140201.story

now youve gone too far

― 乒乓, Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have it begun to go far

not

clips grizz seems like the biggest tossup. haven't seen the clips much this season though. Is the loss of reggie evans really that big of a deal for them?

cp3 in the playoffs is always super

lol xp

not enough fun

"I think under the circumstances, Mike did a great job. We don't anticipate any kind of a change," Kupchak told ESPNLosAngeles.com.

haha "don't anticpiate" is like...we never saw this summer firing coming, honest!

that video of bradley picking people's pockets is AMAZING btw

― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, April 18, 2013 7:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah its pretty great

im happy steph didnt get picked but thats some pretty good d

haha just yesterday i was thinking fuck simmons for bailing out on his last good yearly gimmick because he's too busy with that train wreck of a pregame show and then poof trade value column appears

(two months after actual trade deadline)

After helping the Nets relocate from New Jersey to his hometown of Brooklyn, rapper and entrepreneur Shawn Carter — better known as Jay-Z — has officially confirmed reports that he is dropping his stake in the franchise so that he can pursue a future representing NBA players as an agent.

http://nba.si.com/2013/04/19/jay-z-sells-stake-brooklyn-nets-player-agent/

did everyone know this was coming except me? this is crazy!

wow I didnt know either

I thought we talked about it earlier. Maybe not.

you aint hear about it on twitter?

we did but it went by fast on a couple of high-traffic days, also it popped up that his stake is actually really small, like 350k or so

i mean that's real money but still pocket change to most owners

you aint hear about it on twitter?

― 乒乓, Friday, April 19, 2013 4:33 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I dont twitter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wizards/allen-iverson-nba-icon-struggles-with-life-after-basketball/2013/04/19/bfd108f8-a76e-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_print.html

super depressing for an iverston stan like me :(

hopefully he can make it to 2030

starbury was in sichuan when the quake happened http://i.imgur.com/grXSnjA.png

damn a.i.

Playoffs start tomorrow, someone crank up a new thread.

last time i did that i got shouted down

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/04/18/avery-bradley-has-been-focused-defense-every-step-way/CxuwoTFlwNBLnfuNeqF82O/story.html

good prof

http://i.imgur.com/8b8dajX.png

Awesome

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