I love this.
Dat focus son. He ready.
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2013 Mar NBA Season lOT| Change This Face, Be Happy, Enjoy it!
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Dat focus son. He ready.
let me have this moment
enjoy it- I'm actually pulling hard for the Rox to make the playoffs, something about Parsons, Asik, Lin, and Harden just seems really likeable.
Iron E Man
Member
So fly.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
You have those capris before YN too?
I think those are too tight to be capris.
Jeggings?
I like how Harden looks Oliver Miller-sized.
yo damn
Justin Timberlake
Member
Yeah, this is how I see it ending as well.
Though maybe LA will outplace GS for 7th.
LiveFromKyoto
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He may have started the day before.
thekad, Im wet bro. thank you for posting that picture. DMo is gonna surprise alot of people. He needs better defense, but he's gonna be good.
Haha. Looks like he just had his wisdom teeth pulled.
Or he is trying to get a role in Weird Al's video for "Fat"
ryutaro's mama
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Trend setter.
Just not a good screen setter.
ryutaro's mama
Member
There's no "i" in screen but there is one in win.
Funny enough, there's no "I" in "pull up jumper rather than pass to Durant," either.
Dominican Power
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yo damn
The Heat play defense.
CherryWoodFuton
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Lebron expected to play tonight after being checked out for that knee scare yesterday. He's built like a
tank
n HGH
Gordon0Freeman
Member
Wonder if we'll here about his suppose connection to Anthony Bosch on ESPN anytime soon... Hope its not true
CherryWoodFuton
Member
Probably would never see the light of day (even if it was true)
Edit: Just googled it. Lol at the source of this rumor. Incacerated Bob???
I do like that someone wrote a "7 biggest questions in the NBA" article today and my first reaction "I bet 'How many NBA Players are on PED's' isn't listed as the biggest question".
The NBA is going to have its day sometime soon, just like cycling.
CherryWoodFuton
Member
Interesting article about that same issue
Basically NBA players know ahead of time when they are gonna be tested which is lol
Btw I didn't know OJ Mayo was caught juicing:
I've read about the NBA's drug testing policy, and how the NBA PA only allowed it as a last resort to gain some legitimacy back in the 60's or something.
It's basically a bad joke and to suggest (not saying YOU did) it's of any value is just... naive.
Dwight or LBJ or someone is going to have a really bad reaction one day, or get a complication from it all, and it's going to be bad.
If LBJ gets caught with it what do you all think happens? I think his legacy is forever ruined, same with if Kobe gets caught with it.
Anybody caught would have a destroyed legacy. Comparisons to Jordan would also cease immediately. Maybe you could still compare Kobe to Al Jefferson though.
CherryWoodFuton
Member
It would be BIG news, bigger than Mark McGwire thats for sure.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
Dwyane 'Stan Smith' Wade always creeps me out.
Legacies will be tainted, but how much? I have no doubt at least half the league is on them.
And i don't doubt people have been using for a very long time. Probably well back into the 90's.
Its sort of like cycling, we knew they were ALL doing it. But it doesn't make it right, and it doesn't mean the competition was fair just because they were ALL doing it.
Which is kinda crazy because we're assuming Jordan or Wilt or anyone in the past never took banned substances. I mean to be honest I don't think Jordan or Kobe have...Bron's and Wade's physique make me feel like its a possibility.
I think you have a far more pessimistic and distrusting view of professional athletes than most.
MorisUkunRasik
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Or realistic. Something like 9 out of the last 10 tour de france winners have since tested positive. And they have a drug testing program that has been updated in the last 40 years.
The NBA doesn't.
Black Mamba
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I don't know if it would be as bad as in baseball.
Baseball people took steroids to improve their production.
Basketball it seems the HGH is more about healing and stuff.
It's kind of a morally ambiguous thing. I would hate if Kobe took something his whole career to make him perform better but I wouldn't care if he took HGH to fix his knee so he could play at his previous levels.
Baseball people took steroids to improve their production.
Basketball it seems the HGH is more about healing and stuff.
It's kind of a morally ambiguous thing. I would hate if Kobe took something his whole career to make him perform better but I wouldn't care if he took HGH to fix his knee so he could play at his previous levels.
Thats not really ambiguous at all.
Pessimists always think they're realists. If the winners are testing positive but the others aren't it doesn't lend to the theory that ALL were doing it. Same with NBA athletes, I think some of them may be doing it, but I doubt you can honestly say half with any level of credibility...that's just wild conjecture - its kind of the definition of a conspiracy theory - which by its nature isn't realistic.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Future PhaZe
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Wouldn't be surprised to learn that Kobe took PEDS.
Competitive high level ball has been his life since forever. Beyond all his other reasonings (insane competitiveness for one), simply not wanting it all to end would be justification enough for him to take PEDS if it meant extending his career.
With that said I haven't seen much evidence of it, but yea.
Competitive high level ball has been his life since forever. Beyond all his other reasonings (insane competitiveness for one), simply not wanting it all to end would be justification enough for him to take PEDS if it meant extending his career.
With that said I haven't seen much evidence of it, but yea.
I doubt Kobe's been doing it for 15 years. If anything i think it's the last few - would he really risk his legacy of 5 clean rings and 15 great years just to chase #6?
I just have to believe he's not that stupid.
sans_pants
avec_pénis
baseball is too much an old mans sport focused on stats(namely, home runs)
basketball isnt nearly as revered
something like 9 out of 10 of every top 10 over the last 10 races have tested positive. 90 / 100.
The others are a waiting game.
As i said, you're just incredibly naive with your head burried deep in the sand.
Become famous athlete, make $100M over 10 years, fuck bitches, get paid to train, and fuck around all day just for taking hgh for 10 years?
Black Mamba
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sure it is. Why would HGH to help with a knee injury be wrong but cortisone shots to numb pain while playing be okay?
Or even surgery to replace cartilage be okay? All of these are due to advancements in science.
At a basic level, besides things that are illegal, it's an arbitrary call.
sans_pants
avec_pénis
i think its a tragedy that our favorite athletes arent extending their careers with whatever drugs they can find
Not really.
sans_pants
avec_pénis
what makes kobe's german knee treatments different than hgh?
1) 90% of the top 10 guys haven't tested positive
2) it's pretty much the same top 10 guys over and over again anyway.
3) there are hundreds of cyclists who participate.
You're just taking a few and extrapolating it out to everyone. You might as well say all nba players are stupid and waste all their money on gambling because you saw a documentary on Antoine walker or Allen Iverson. It starts with a very low opinion of athletes and then a confirmation bias in seeing a few hand picked stories.
I think the people who would be taking HGH in basketball would be low level guys in contract years who are literally playing for their livelihood, and that increase in production for one year means an extra 20-30 million and 5 more years of job security. It helps explain contract year performances from typically inconsistent players.
The Frankman
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what?