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2011 NBA Mar |OT| Now listening to the Stan Van Gundy mixtape
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ItWasMeantToBe19
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Love can't leave until 2013.
Ninja Scooter
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dIEHARD said:
No he'll have signed a 4 year contract with the injured list by then.
Ninja Scooter
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Jeff-DSA said:
CP3 is damaged goods, and Deron is fat. Dwight will be on the market too soon. 3 years is the target. That's when Kobe, Pau and Blake will all come off the books, with Odom having come off the year before. We can set ourselves up to reload and sign another star or two.
Gigglepoo said:
He's from Oregon, I believe. And players for the most part will go where they can win. I don't think Love cares as much about attention whoring or hanging out with JayZ like Bron or Bosh. Duncan has stayed in San Antonio for the same reason.
He played there one season in college. His uncle is one of the members of the Beach Boys, but he grew up in Lake Oswego, OR -- a suburb of Portland. He's already played for the Lakers, too.Gigglepoo said:
In other words, Love is coming to the Trail Blazers! Or something utterly stupid.
Ninja Scooter
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Darkman M said:
if he wasn't injured he could have saved Charlie Sheen from getting fired from Two and a Half Men. It keeps him up at night thinking what could have been.
Rodeo Clown
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This. Restricted free agent in 2012, or he sign a one year tender and become an unrestriced FA in 2013.ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
He's from Oregon.Gigglepoo said:
Pretty sure thats racist.KingGondo said:
Duh.
(And he's really more from Oregon, although he was born in SoCal.)
He dreams about what could have been if he had've signed with a team in vegas so he could've shared some of them white bitches sheen was paying for.Ninja Scooter said:
Ninja Scooter
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Branduil said:
what about Tyson and Kidd's inevitable $50 million extensions?
Rodeo Clown
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You'd trade a role player for an all-star. You don't say.KingGondo said:
Ninja Scooter
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Branduil said:
"Or will he?"
Yeah, it is really, i don't really give a shit though.KingGondo said:
And yeah, it probably is. But it's also probably true
I do love shaq, guy is awesome. He's only going to play what 20 regular season games? and then just join on to be the starting 5 for a chip team?Legendary.
Grimm Fandango
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Gigglepoo said:
Chicago ain't that crummy...
It's different though. NBA players are in the town they play for what? Six months out of a year tops? And half of that time they're on the road traveling to different cities.Gigglepoo said:
It's very rare that a player decides to permanently live in the city they play for.
Channing Frye is one of the rarer examples. He liked Portland so much that he chose to live here permanently. But eventhough he lives in Phoenix, he comes back into town during the off-season.
I think everyone needs to chill out on the whole crying thing. Yeah it's only the regular season but when you fall so far short of the expectations you've set yourself in any endeavour it's hard to keep your emotions in check.
Whether or not those expectations were appropriate or not is irrelevant. Also irrelevant is where the blame lies for the failure.
Nobody will have any idea what i'm talking about but I remember being at the 1989 Australian Rugby League grand final. Balmain Tigers - my team - had been beaten in the grand final the year before and after dominating what was and still is the greatest game of league ever played, lost in sudden death extra time.
To a man, the players dropped to the ground and bawled. I mean some of them howled so loud you could hear it in the grandstand. And the guys who played 80's rugby league were tough as fucking nails.
Everyone who was there or saw it on TV remembers them not for being pussies, but for how devastated they were by the result. I know it seems borderline idiotic to compare that to game 60-something of a regular season but the whole crying is for pussies thing is stupid.
Whether or not those expectations were appropriate or not is irrelevant. Also irrelevant is where the blame lies for the failure.
Nobody will have any idea what i'm talking about but I remember being at the 1989 Australian Rugby League grand final. Balmain Tigers - my team - had been beaten in the grand final the year before and after dominating what was and still is the greatest game of league ever played, lost in sudden death extra time.
To a man, the players dropped to the ground and bawled. I mean some of them howled so loud you could hear it in the grandstand. And the guys who played 80's rugby league were tough as fucking nails.
Everyone who was there or saw it on TV remembers them not for being pussies, but for how devastated they were by the result. I know it seems borderline idiotic to compare that to game 60-something of a regular season but the whole crying is for pussies thing is stupid.
marathonfool
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Living situations don't matter to players. They just go where the money goes.
Except for Cleveland
Ninja Scooter
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That was the final. Derek Fisher cried when the Lakers were eliminated in 2003. People are giving the Heat shit because they are crying after a regular season loss. Makes it look like their priorities are fucked up.
Heat players crying = championship confirmed. You can't teach that kind of passion.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/25914/mark-cuban-hopes-to-lose-and-lose-badly-someday
Cuban talks about not wanting to be on the "mediocrity treadmill" which is something a few of NBA-gaf tosses around as an idea that should be followed. If you are gonna lose, lose big and get that big player. I would say, but what about the Rockets? Build a team that is serviceable and can maybe make the 7th to 8th seed while all the while amassing 1st round pics for talent that you spent time developing that no one else would develop? Takes more work, but it wouldn't lead you to the revenue drop of tanking.
I find the "three all star" idea more interesting though. I do agree with the one top 50 all time guy, and two current all stars ='s success. The fact that it worked 24 out of 25 times is kind of crazy. Though, on the celtics, who is the top 50 guy all time? Pierce? Shaq?
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/25914/mark-cuban-hopes-to-lose-and-lose-badly-someday
Cuban talks about not wanting to be on the "mediocrity treadmill" which is something a few of NBA-gaf tosses around as an idea that should be followed. If you are gonna lose, lose big and get that big player. I would say, but what about the Rockets? Build a team that is serviceable and can maybe make the 7th to 8th seed while all the while amassing 1st round pics for talent that you spent time developing that no one else would develop? Takes more work, but it wouldn't lead you to the revenue drop of tanking.
I find the "three all star" idea more interesting though. I do agree with the one top 50 all time guy, and two current all stars ='s success. The fact that it worked 24 out of 25 times is kind of crazy. Though, on the celtics, who is the top 50 guy all time? Pierce? Shaq?
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Kevin Garnett.exarkun said:
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Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Damn the crying from the Heat is created it's own sports news monster
Heard on ESPN:
"Cry Gate"
"The Crying Game (referencing the movie? LOL)"
I'll create my own Cry-pocalypse/trastrophe
Love the NYK players LOL @ MIA players
+ Is the NYC <===> MIA rivalry from the early '90's reheating? would love some of the hard/hood rat plays, get dirty
Heard on ESPN:
"Cry Gate"
"The Crying Game (referencing the movie? LOL)"
I'll create my own Cry-pocalypse/trastrophe
Love the NYK players LOL @ MIA players
+ Is the NYC <===> MIA rivalry from the early '90's reheating? would love some of the hard/hood rat plays, get dirty
soundscream
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benita said:
Any season ending game its not only acceptable but its endearing to the fans that they care enough.
Regular season though its kind of unacceptable and shows there might be some real issues going on if they cant see the big picture.
In high school my football team made a big comeback from being down all game. We lost in the last seconds on a dropped pass. We all were on the field in tears. But we were 15-17 years old. Only time its acceptable IMO.
Rodeo Clown said:
Just cause he knocked out the bully?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gL_H9zAY8
Plus he cries all the time. Never could win a championship.
Barrage said:
Seeing as how you are a Raptors fan, I shouldn't expect you to know basketball, but:
14x All-Star
9x All-NBA
10x All-Defensive
2004 MVP (and was robbed of 2008 MVP)
2008 Defensive Player of the Year
1 Alpha Ring
What are you talking about?
Black Mamba
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KG is easily a top 50 all-time guy.
And while's he below Duncan, it's not by much. Just because McHale fucked his prime up doesn't mean he isn't an all-timer.
I definitely think he has a case for top 20.
And while's he below Duncan, it's not by much. Just because McHale fucked his prime up doesn't mean he isn't an all-timer.
I definitely think he has a case for top 20.
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