2010/11 NBA Dec |OT| of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7lMXXaUaIo PEACE

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The Chosen One said:
The talent is spread a bit thin...
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I don't know how much I agree with this point. Every team has at least one All Star-caliber player or an up-and-coming player who should blossom in a year or two. There's tons of talent and I really don't think contraction would solve anything.
 
Uhh, if PG Quality is what Melo's looking for, he might as well go to Chicago right now. Rose will beat out Felton and Ancient Kidd any day.
 
Barrage said:
Uhh, if PG Quality is what Melo's looking for, he might as well go to Chicago right now. Rose will beat out Felton and Ancient Kidd any day.
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Dude he already has a "Melo's people of Utah" chapter.

(i don't want Melo)
 
dIEHARD said:
Dude he already has a "Melo's people of Utah" chapter.

(i don't want Melo)
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I was talking about teams that actually have a shot at Melo. You don't have a choice, you'll stick with your AlJeff/Millsap 2nd Round elimination and like it.
 
peterb0y said:
Merry Christmas NBA Age! Hope all of you enjoy the gift of watching Lebron and his talents on TV today!
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Should be a fun game to watch no matter who wins! Hopefully i can watch all of the bulls/knicks before my relatives come over too...then i have to make them watch the lakers/heat Xp It's either that or they'll put on a random movie that's on tv and not watch it, so why not watch the nba!
 
Ho-leeeeeeeeee shittttttttt.

The others that also will hit the stores Sunday are James' LeBron 8 V/2, which has a suggested price of $160, and Bryant's Zoom Kobe VI, which retails for $130. So the natural question is: Why in the heck does the Miami star's shoe sell for $30 more?

"Yeah, it's a better shoe,'' James said Friday after a practice at UCLA on the eve of Miami's Christmas Day battle with Bryant's Lakers at the Staples Center. "But we're all one Nike family.''

So why is it a better shoe?

"Because it is,'' James said. "Because it's LeBron's shoe. It's got my name on it. I take pride in my shoes every year and I've always taken pride in having the best shoe. So they're going to cost a little more if you decide to wear them.''
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
 
What. The. Fuck.

No way I am buying that. LeBron is just trolling the league now. I'm done.

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Lebron is just daring the Basketball gods to turn him into Grant Hill 2.0. Someone/something needs to humble him quick
 
Man, I'd give Lebron credit for being an awesome heel but I don't think he has the self awareness that a heel needs. Dude just seems to be a jerk. It's especially disappointing after watching Reggie Miller Vs. The New York Knicks. Now there's a quality heel if i ever saw one.
 
Derek Fisher gets it...

"I don't necessarily agree with [James' comments], but at the same time I understand and respect the fact [that] 460 opinions won't always be alike," Fisher, the NBPA president, said after practice Friday, citing the approximate number of players in the league. "I don't think it's my place to tell one of our guys what they should be thinking or feeling or saying, but I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment."
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http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=5954572
 
Woj said:
LeBron James has embraced the villain role in a most unprecedented way, pushing away from his peers and aligning himself with David Stern, Dan Gilbert and the owners desperate to destroy the Players Association. He left the sport stunned on Christmas Eve, searching for an understanding of why he would go so far to undermine the union on the cusp of an apocalyptic collective bargaining brawl.

James advocated contraction of teams, the loss of jobs and furthered the make-believe revision that the 1980s had a deeper pool of talent with fewer teams. “Watered down,” he called the NBA, and ownership has been gifted such a public-relations coup in its historic campaign to crush the players’ union.

LeBron James' comments on contraction are more in line with the stance of NBA owners than that of the Players Association.

As one prominent agent said, “How do you say that right before collective bargaining? Does he get that he’s advocating to reduce the number of jobs in the league? LeBron has no idea what happens when he says [stuff] like this.”

What people don’t like now is how a two-time MVP would quit playing in the biggest playoff series of his life, or how a superstar would hijack the NBA Finals stage as a prelude to his free agency or how a star like James can manage the marketing of a rival like Chris Paul. Whatever James’ personal preferences for a league littered with mini All-Star teams, his logic is forever flawed and based on nothing beyond his own myopic prism of the world.

The NBA is a far better, far more popular product today than it ever was in the 1980s, and that’ll be clearer again on Christmas when LeBron James and the Miami Heat play the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center. Already, this had promised to be a monumental meeting, but now it becomes so much bigger.

James has raised the stakes and raised ire. Across the floor, Kobe Bryant and union president Derek Fisher promise to be livid with such an important player selling out the players’ cause on the eve of the regular-season’s biggest game. Sometimes, James just talks and talks. Sometimes, he knows exactly what he’s doing. In this case, it almost doesn’t matter. The damage is done, and LeBron has breathed credibility into more of ownership’s absurd propaganda.

Here’s an irony, too: Recently, Bryant told Yahoo! Sports, “Hey, I’m a product of the 1980s. That’s the era that I watched and I admired. I do wish we could go back to the ’80s’ style of playing.”

He wasn’t talking about the concentration of star players, but the way the great ones didn’t have to be buddies, didn’t have to run around and gang up in free agency. Bryant loved the physicality, the unapologetic nature of the times. He was raised in Europe, and understands there were far fewer non-American stars in those days, justifiably fewer teams for a smaller pool of players. Now, there’s never been so much global basketball talent, and with proper ownership, management and revenue sharing among owners, the NBA doesn’t need to lose one team.

The 1980s were a romantic time in the sport, a golden era, but there weren’t more deeper, more talented teams in existence than today. It isn’t even close. The Lakers and Celtics were fantastic then, but they would have a hard time beating these Lakers and Celtics teams. Never mind the level of teams trying to beat San Antonio, Dallas, Chicago, Utah and on and on.

And how about the Spurs dynasty, whose eclectic, international roster couldn’t have existed in the 1980s? San Antonio illustrates why the NBA has a much deeper talent pool now, and that’s because of the influx of international players in the game. There are reasons to love the ’80s over today’s game, but that has more to do with the competitive disdain the teams had, the way the Celtics and Lakers, the Pistons and 76ers, hated each other. For James to insist the NBA should do away with the Minnesota Timberwolves and New Jersey Nets so contenders could have Kevin Loveor Devin Harris is preposterous.

The Timberwolves and Grizzlies are in such terrible shape because of ownership and management decisions. They’re messes because Stern has fostered so many incompetent ownership groups under his watch, and then pushed bad executives into small markets in political paybacks. James should understand these things, but doesn’t take the time – nor do the people surrounding him. When the Players Association wanted LeBron involved a couple of years ago, James’ camp insisted it must let his business manager, Maverick Carter, sit in on one of the big agent meetings. Carter isn’t an agent, but just plays one on his personal cable sports television network.

Kobe Bryant says he's "100 percent" committed to the players' cause. "I'm not going to just sit here and give back what guys have fought for in this league."


Here’s the case James could make, and he’d be right: The biggest stars in the sport – LeBron, Kobe, Dwyane Wade(notes) – are far underpaid with maximum contracts. And the rest of the league’s players? They’re mostly overpaid. Privately, Lakers owner Jerry Buss tells people that Bryant has been worth as much as $80 million a year to his franchise. Most of the players in the sport are interchangeable and never affect television ratings, ticket sales or merchandising. Yet, Kobe and LeBron – and before them Michael, Magic and Larry – are responsible for the sport’s immense popularity and profitability.

The Players Association is a one-man, one-vote entity, so you’ll never see it willing to sell out its self-interests for the elite to make $50 million a season. Owners created the max contract to cap the pay of the biggest stars, but ended up giving those deals out like cotton candy to the Rudy Gays and Joe Johnsons of the world. That’s on ownership, not the players.

Nevertheless, you have to give King James this credit: He’s embraced the villain role like no one before him and alienated people at a historically rapid rate. Now he’s isolating himself among his peers, and that’s a bold, unprecedented move on his part. The NBA has never had a superstar align himself with the interests of the commissioner and owners on the cusp of such a monumental fight, but understand this: It’s an edgy move that will win him favor in the league office.

This promises to be a lonely road for James, especially in the context of the game’s most important figures. When it comes to this CBA Armageddon, Kobe Bryant made himself clear to Yahoo! Sports weeks ago. “I’m 100 percent in this fight. I’m not going to just sit here and give back what guys have fought for in this league long before I got here – not for us now, or the players who come after us. I’m not backing down.”

Christmas Day at Staples Center, and the battle between basketball’s two biggest stars has never been framed with such a resounding, rigid narrative. Two worlds clashing now, two ways for everything to go in this sport. Suddenly, this is LeBron James vs. Kobe Bryant for the future of the National Basketball Association.
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Per Woj.
 
Lebron is right. Like always.

The talent pool in the association is diluted.

And his shoes should cost more than Kobe's, since Lebron is a much better player.
 
LovingSteam said:
Ok i am a fan of any writer who calls out Fraud but Woj is an idiot if he thinks this Lakers team would beat the Magic / Kareem Lakers. An idiot.
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Really? Who's gonna stop Pau, Bynum, and Odom? Cap can't do it all. Kobe/Artest rotating on Magic. Its a lot closer than you think.
 
RJNavarrete said:
Really? Who's gonna stop Pau, Bynum, and Odom? Cap can't do it all. Kobe/Artest rotating on Magic. Its a lot closer than you think.
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Not even remotely close.... Bynum? please. He's barely even a factor in today's game - go back 20 years and he's an overgrown towel boy. Odom has never been consistent in his life. Pau? Hurray... sort of - because he's only the big he is today because there are barely any legit bigs left in the league. He'd have been blown the fuck up.

Its not even close.

And I'll say it again, today's two-peat Lakers are the weakest NBA champs of the last 20 years. Easily.
 
RJNavarrete said:
Really? Who's gonna stop Pau, Bynum, and Odom? Cap can't do it all. Kobe/Artest rotating on Magic. Its a lot closer than you think.
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There might be an argument for the starters, not for the bench.

It would be entertaining as hell, though.

And I'll say it again, today's two-peat Lakers are the weakest NBA champs of the last 20 years. Easily.
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The sad part about this post? It's better bait than anything thekad has said this year.
 
Boombloxer said:
There might be an argument for the starters, not for the bench.

It would be entertaining as hell, though.



The sad part about this post? It's better bait than anything thekad has said this year.
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1) Its only entertaining if Magic deflowering Fisher in front of a packed stadium is your idea of a good time.
2) Its not even bait. No one in Lakers-age is dumb enough to bite.
 
DY_nasty said:
1) Its only entertaining if Magic deflowering Fisher in front of a packed stadium is your idea of a good time.
2) Its not even bait. No one in Lakers-age is dumb enough to bite.
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Fisher wouldn't take him, Artest/Kobe would, leaving someone else for Worthy to manhandle. Cooper on Kobe would be fun to watch.
 
RJNavarrete said:
Kobe
Artest
Odom
Pau
Bynum

New age Lakers take it.
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That team barely beat a Rockets squad full of role players - they're supposed to beat one of the best teams of all time? Did you get crack for Christmas?
 
DY_nasty said:
And I'll say it again, today's two-peat Lakers are the weakest NBA champs of the last 20 years. Easily.
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Naw, I say the honor goes to the asterisk Spurs team. There's reason why they weren't able to get back to the Finals until four years later.
 
Adam Blade said:
Per Woj.
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Woj is a half-step away from forming his own Anti-Lebron religion, L. Ron Hubbard style. The dude has found his cash cow and spends much of his time whipping up fanfic that casts Lebron as some criminal mastermind responsible for all the ills in Woj's life. I see how he feeds the antis' bandwagon, but the dude is a fucking hack and betrays that fact with each new article. Even when Lebron does something right, the guy casts him in a negative light.

Not sure what's worse though, Woj or the people who read his articles regularly? He's just taking advantage of their hatred for his monetary advantage. They're...well...just haters.

Bron's heelish antics matter not for Heat fans. We got him, not for what he does in the press, but for what he does on the court. Pining over every word he utters is something for GAF to spend countless pages on...smh. PEACE.
 
Pimpwerx said:
Woj is a half-step away from forming his own Anti-Lebron religion, L. Ron Hubbard style. The dude has found his cash cow and spends much of his time whipping up fanfic that casts Lebron as some criminal mastermind responsible for all the ills in Woj's life. I see how he feeds the antis' bandwagon, but the dude is a fucking hack and betrays that fact with each new article. Even when Lebron does something right, the guy casts him in a negative light.

Not sure what's worse though, Woj or the people who read his articles regularly? He's just taking advantage of their hatred for his monetary advantage. They're...well...just haters.

Bron's heelish antics matter not for Heat fans. We got him, not for what he does in the press, but for what he does on the court. Pining over every word he utters is something for GAF to spend countless pages on...smh. PEACE.
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+1
 
K.Jack said:
He's a ghetto ass, selfish, undisciplined version of Manu.
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lol this is spot on. He does some crazy moves like Manu, shoots well(when he takes good shots), and can distribute the ball.

Merry Christmas everyone!
 
He grew up a couple towns over from me in Lakewood Nj ... No where near ghetto... He went to Benedict prep... He is far from ghetto, the dude is just dumb. There is a difference.
 
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