Randolph Freelander
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That's a winner. Team should be coached by Horace and Harvey Grant.
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2014 NBA Off-season |OT| Our cap is tellin me NO! But my fandom is tellin me YEAH!
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That's a winner. Team should be coached by Horace and Harvey Grant.
Xplatformer
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Klay Thompson's extension will be at $15 million per.
Going rate for his position and what Klay does.
Yep. We're going to overpay him, but a necessary evil for a quality 2 guard I guess. And hopefully he will continue to improve (he looked pretty great on Team USA for whatever that's worth).
Randolph Freelander
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WesternHeretic
Member
Of course. Why would he leave if they won 3 straight. Have to at least defend your title. One year contract!
Randolph Freelander
Member
Of course a championship would have kept him in Miami. Nobody walks away from a chance to keep it going. My thought was always that they won, he'd opt into next year (or sign a deal kind of like the Cleveland deal, with a 1 year out). If they lost, that raised the odds of leaving (I still didn't put them that high, though).
Randolph Freelander
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That... that doesn't mean anything. You can choose to believe the letter is disingenuous, but a willingness to stay another year or however long in Miami after a championship doesn't make it so. It only makes you seem petty.
WesternHeretic
Member
Everyone saw the writing on the wall when during last year's NBA finals. When everyone besides LeBron and Ray Allen started looking like shit it was time for him to bounce. Option A) bounce to a new team chase more rings (and get a shit ton of hate for it), option B) go home (get a ton of love), and won't have anyone on his back because he has 2 rings from Miami.
A 7th grader could of made this decision.
eBay Huckster
Member
side effect of this trade: the cavs have up to $16 million in non-guaranteed salary for a deal in the next two seasons
(i think it's $5.3m this season from bogans, and then haywood's $10.5m in 2015-16 is completely non-guaranteed in addition to bogans' $5.5m)
Here's what he said...
"It's a greater chance (to return to Miami), for sure, I mean, it would be hard to leave back-to-back-to-back championships and try to go for four. But, obviously, you really can't live and think of what may have happened. For me, I've always been a person kind of live in the moment."
Don't really see where he...nevermind
Turns out that was a mistaken report:
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ESPN training camp rankings: http://espn.go.com/nba/powerrankings/_/year/2015/week/-1
Yeah, and Brandon Roy
. Meniscus is worst case scenario when it comes to knees.I cannot believe this actually happened haha.
those unis are still ugly as sin
uhh... is Bron off the roids? He looks sickly.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMannixSI/status/515635152282984448
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/source...-six-weeks-after-breaking-hand-230548736.html
The official reason given he slipped and fell in the shower.
So which wall you think Rondo punched?
those pesky showers.
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Cavs Jerseys now are really worse than the old Cavs jerseys.
Really liking the Kings' depth this year:
Collison
Stauskus
Gay
Evans
Cousins
Sessions
McLemore
Williams
Landry
Thompson
McCallum
Cassipi
Moreland
Also, I'm just going to leave this here...
Really liking the Kings' depth this year:
Collison
Stauskus
Gay
Evans
Cousins
Sessions
McLemore
Williams
Landry
Thompson
McCallum
Cassipi
Moreland
35-40 Wins please.
Also, I'm just going to leave this here...
Ninja Scooter
Member
Is that them looking up at the rest of the division?
soundahfekz
Member
Ice cold
Kydd BlaZe
Member
Lol damn!
eBay Huckster
Member
Goddamn bro.
Jigolo
Member
important MJ update
lol
important MJ update
double fisting cigars......nice
those unis are still ugly as sin
Those uniforms FUCKING SUCK.
Go back to the pre-Decisio units. Those were best the Cavs uniforms outside of Shawn Kemp Wrong Rim RIcky Unis.
THIS IS GOING TO BE SUCH A GREAT SEASON.
I need a local radio host to do a audacious celebratory tirade. I'm talking run the point night levels of unhinged shenanigans.
WE NEED HUMAN VICTORY CIGAR NIGHT.
How much that run you? I take it you just bought them to sell, might be a good idea. Then again you're also going to get a lot of games you can't even give away. That's how I always ended up with my dad's company season tickets for the Suns. I would always get the tickets for teams that sucked, but I didn't care, they were good seats and got me into the Toyota club that had free food and booze.Got these bad boys in today....like stugotz, willing to sell game tickets to highest bidder....
Jordan post-retirement seems to always be wearing some weird ass clothes :lolimportant MJ update
Ninja Scooter
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Lee Chaolan
Member
Agree. With LeBron back though, we'll wear Alternate jerseys probably about half the season, and wouldn't surprise me if that included the 03-10 jerseys too.
Gully State
Member
Lmfao! MJ comin' for Takeoff's job.
I want Dion gone TODAY. Trade him for 100 pounds of grass fed beef. Trade Dion for 10 of these:
https://www.joesbarbequecompany.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=91
He was working out during the summer all right... Taking plates back and forth from his table to the buffet table. There's no excuse for a shooting guard to be fat especially one that plays with Lebron, KLove, and Ky.
*EDIT*
Dion for Roy Hibbert is/was in the works?!
http://www.hngn.com/articles/43993/...hibbert-trade-pacers-dion-waiters-haywood.htm
This gives us Big 3 insurance in case Kevin Love leaves in a few years. I don't know what I'd do if we landed Roy Hibbert. I'm still partying off the back to back perfection of Bron and KLove. Add this to mix and I just might do something crazy...
Dan Gilbert played the NBA like a damn fiddle if this happens. How have the Lebron fans that left Miami in mass exodus adapted to Cleveland fandom?
I want Dion gone TODAY. Trade him for 100 pounds of grass fed beef. Trade Dion for 10 of these:
https://www.joesbarbequecompany.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=91
He was working out during the summer all right... Taking plates back and forth from his table to the buffet table. There's no excuse for a shooting guard to be fat especially one that plays with Lebron, KLove, and Ky.
*EDIT*
Dion for Roy Hibbert is/was in the works?!
http://www.hngn.com/articles/43993/...hibbert-trade-pacers-dion-waiters-haywood.htm
This gives us Big 3 insurance in case Kevin Love leaves in a few years. I don't know what I'd do if we landed Roy Hibbert. I'm still partying off the back to back perfection of Bron and KLove. Add this to mix and I just might do something crazy...
Dan Gilbert played the NBA like a damn fiddle if this happens. How have the Lebron fans that left Miami in mass exodus adapted to Cleveland fandom?
If Roy plays anything at all like last year I'd rather have just about anybody else than that guy.
Jag
Member
He slimmed down intentionally considerably this summer.
Btw, when the time comes I'll add some of you on PS4 for some 2K. I won't be getting it day one but I'll be there at some point within the month of October.
soundahfekz
Member
It's like he never let go of the 90's.
bruhhhh
who the fuck is even still making these jeans
Jigolo
Member
Southpole
I know I saw the pictures... but it appears he may have lost quite a bit of muscle in the process. Probably just a bad angle. I was just bein a dick anyways.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Jeremy Lin's favorite TV show is Naruto...go figure lol
Barack Lesnar
Banned
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Kobe Bryant said he felt like himself after his first team practice in about 10 months as the Los Angeles Lakers opened training camp on Tuesday under new coach Byron Scott.
"I felt normal. I felt like myself," Bryant said. "That's a good thing."
"Kobe looked good," Scott said. "The first drill, the 10 minutes you could see the guys were in shape. Kobe looked good. Steve was in great shape. Both of those guys did about three-fourths of the practice. I basically had to ask Kobe to shut it down. We got another one tomorrow. He went through one more drill and then shut it down. He felt he felt great and could have done more but right now it's a progression of just going a little bit today."
"This is the most running I've ever done in an NBA practice," Bryant said. "It is, for sure. I've never run this much in an NBA practice.
"Everybody wants to play defense but when you're not in the condition to play defense you go back to your natural instinct which is to play offense first."
Scott smiled when he heard Bryant's comment and said that his practices weren't going to change anytime soon.
"Every day until we get to the point where I don't think we need to and I don't think that's going to happen," Scott said. "I know from my years of playing and coaching, that's what wins championships and that's something we have to continue to work on every single day."
Bryant said recovering from his torn Achilles tendon has actually given his career new life and admits he has the same questions and concerns as everyone else as he approaches this season.
"I love playing the game," Bryant said. "I truly enjoy it. The game was becoming a little stale but the Achilles injury ignited a new challenge for me personally to see if I can do this because you don't know. This was a challenge that presented itself to see if I can make this a successful comeback. My concerns are no different anybody else's in being able to comeback from this. A lot of it is the same thing. If I can prove to myself that I can do this I can prove it to everybody else as well."
The Lakers had a team dinner on Monday night before the start of training camp and Bryant said he's still getting to know his teammates. His longest tenured teammate is now Jordan Hill, 27, who was traded to the Lakers in 2012 for Derek Fisher. No one is left from Bryant's last championship winning team in 2010 after Pau Gasol left for Chicago.
"The guys that we have on the team now are so much younger," Bryant said. "It requires a little different touch. Most of the guys, I don't know personally, so it takes some time to get to know them a little bit, get to know their personalities. In the past I knew all the guys. Most of the guys were veterans and had been in the league for a while and was familiar with them a little bit more. These guys, not so much, so it's going take a little time to get to know them."
"I felt normal. I felt like myself," Bryant said. "That's a good thing."
"Kobe looked good," Scott said. "The first drill, the 10 minutes you could see the guys were in shape. Kobe looked good. Steve was in great shape. Both of those guys did about three-fourths of the practice. I basically had to ask Kobe to shut it down. We got another one tomorrow. He went through one more drill and then shut it down. He felt he felt great and could have done more but right now it's a progression of just going a little bit today."
"This is the most running I've ever done in an NBA practice," Bryant said. "It is, for sure. I've never run this much in an NBA practice.
"Everybody wants to play defense but when you're not in the condition to play defense you go back to your natural instinct which is to play offense first."
Scott smiled when he heard Bryant's comment and said that his practices weren't going to change anytime soon.
"Every day until we get to the point where I don't think we need to and I don't think that's going to happen," Scott said. "I know from my years of playing and coaching, that's what wins championships and that's something we have to continue to work on every single day."
Bryant said recovering from his torn Achilles tendon has actually given his career new life and admits he has the same questions and concerns as everyone else as he approaches this season.
"I love playing the game," Bryant said. "I truly enjoy it. The game was becoming a little stale but the Achilles injury ignited a new challenge for me personally to see if I can do this because you don't know. This was a challenge that presented itself to see if I can make this a successful comeback. My concerns are no different anybody else's in being able to comeback from this. A lot of it is the same thing. If I can prove to myself that I can do this I can prove it to everybody else as well."
The Lakers had a team dinner on Monday night before the start of training camp and Bryant said he's still getting to know his teammates. His longest tenured teammate is now Jordan Hill, 27, who was traded to the Lakers in 2012 for Derek Fisher. No one is left from Bryant's last championship winning team in 2010 after Pau Gasol left for Chicago.
"The guys that we have on the team now are so much younger," Bryant said. "It requires a little different touch. Most of the guys, I don't know personally, so it takes some time to get to know them a little bit, get to know their personalities. In the past I knew all the guys. Most of the guys were veterans and had been in the league for a while and was familiar with them a little bit more. These guys, not so much, so it's going take a little time to get to know them."
Future PhaZe
Member
That contract was so dumb
I just don't understand who this benefits. The Lakers are basically in limbo until Kobe is gone. Kobe himself...is it really that big of a deal to retire a Laker?
I just don't understand who this benefits. The Lakers are basically in limbo until Kobe is gone. Kobe himself...is it really that big of a deal to retire a Laker?
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