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January NBA Season Thread - A No Puddin Zone

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DMczaf

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Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O'Neal and four other NBA players have promised to donate $1,000 for every point they score in a game later this week to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Bob Sura of the Houston Rockets, Jalen Rose of the Toronto Raptors, and Pau Gasol and Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies also are taking part in the $1,000-per-point donations, which will be made to UNICEF.

``I first talked about it with Jermaine and Tracy right before New Year's. We talked about different ideas, and that's how it started,'' said agent Arn Tellem, who said he will match the highest donation made by any of the players.

Mark Madsen should jump in! I'm sure he can raise like $50!

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:lol Kobe is just doing it so that if people ask him "Why are you shooting so much!?!" he can give them a guilt trip about saving lives. GENIUS!
 

AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
101-80 early in the 4th? WTF happened to the T-Wolves tonight? On 2 nights rest too... I thought this would be a close game, actually I was hoping it would be. Guess I need to be more confident in my Suns, but WOW.
 

Cloudy

Banned
Ninja Scooter said:
:lol Kobe is just doing it so that if people ask him "Why are you shooting so much!?!" he can give them a guilt trip about saving lives. GENIUS!

Brilliant! :lol
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Another bailout call for Kobe as Horry had his fastbreak layup measured and didn't even touch him. :lol


Good to see that Kobe hasn't lost his penchant for screaming like a bitch whenever his shot is in danger of getting blocked or challenged to draw attention to himself and make the refs blow the whistle. :lol
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Ninja Scooter said:
:lol Kobe is just doing it so that if people ask him "Why are you shooting so much!?!" he can give them a guilt trip about saving lives. GENIUS!

<Guiness commercial mad scientist voice>

"Brilliant!" :D


Crap man, these guys should be donating like $5K+ per point. After all, only the players with the bigger salaries are likely to score > 15 points anyway, and these guys are all millionaires many times over.
 

DMczaf

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Loki said:
<Guiness commercial mad scientist voice>

"Brilliant!" :D


Crap man, these guys should be donating like $2-3K per point. After all, only the players with the bigger salaries are likely to score > 15 points anyway, and these guys are all millionaires many times over.

Yeah, Michael Jordan donated his entire 2001-2002 salary to the 9/11 Relief Fund :)
 

Fifty

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Vince with 31! Good for him. I hope he chokes on a dick. Good thing they lost, because I don't want him going near a ring for the rest of his life.

But more importantly, Heavyweight fighter Jermaine O Neal scored 55 points (19-25 at the line, kobe would be proud). That's incredible, I've got to see these hilights.
 
DMczaf said:
Yeah, Michael Jordan donated his entire 2001-2002 salary to the 9/11 Relief Fund :)


yeah, but by that time he already had like $500 billion in his band account. The extra million dollar salary was probably more of a nuiscance than anything else. He was like "What am i gonna do with this shit?"
 

DMczaf

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Ninja Scooter said:
yeah, but by that time he already had like $500 billion in his band account. The extra million dollar salary was probably more of a nuiscance than anything else. He was like "What am i gonna do with this shit?"

He could have put it in the "Just in case I'm caught" Fund, created by Kobe Bean Bryant.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
DMczaf said:
He could have put it in the "Just in case I'm caught" Fund, created by Kobe Bean Bryant.

:lol

a.k.a. The "Im'ma have to buy a biiiiig ring for this shit" fund. :D
 

retardboy

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Horrible game by the Lakers... No defense, no offense, no energy. =( On the plus side, hopefully this will signal the return of the UKRANIAN MICHAEL JORDAN! (SLAVA) Slava has shown he can do something and sure the heck is better than Cook these days. I think he should be stealing some of his time.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Man, KG had 47 points and 17 boards, and the Wolves managed to score 115 points in regulation, but still fell to the Suns 122-115.
 

DMczaf

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/lal

Miami's streak ends at 14 with loss to Seattle
AP, Jan 4, 2005
Perfection lasted nearly a month for the Miami Heat. Then, the Seattle SuperSonics came to town. Ray Allen scored 35 points and Rashard Lewis added 17 points and 13 rebounds as the SuperSonics snapped the Heat's franchise-record 14-game winning streak Monday night with a 98-96 victory. Seattle improved the NBA's second-best road record to 12-3.

The top news on the Lakers' team site? Does Konex run Yahoo Sports? :lol
 

DMczaf

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[19:40] Konex2k4: lakers will beat dalls 2morrow
[19:40] Konex2k4: book it

Not again, bionic...GET OUT THE WAY!

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Cloudy

Banned
Loki said:
Man, KG had 47 points and 17 boards, and the Wolves managed to score 115 points in regulation, but still fell to the Suns 122-115.

Too many options. Unless your D is near perfect like the Spurs, you can't stop them cos doubling anyone = doom...

Slava has shown he can do something and sure the heck is better than Cook these days. I think he should be stealing some of his time.

There is ABSOLUTELY no reason why Cook is in the rotation and Slava isn't...unless they are trying to trade Cook. When the 3 isn't falling, the dude is worthless...
 

Loki

Count of Concision
DMczaf said:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/lal



The top news on the Lakers' team site? Does Konex run Yahoo Sports? :lol

:lol


What sucks is that the Spurs are so balanced this season that Duncan's stats will likely dip a bit from his career averages by the end of the season. They're just clicking on all cylinders, and you can't say that they're not fun to watch anymore-- they were incredibly exciting tonight with their transition game and ball movement, and the athleticism of Ginobli, Parker, and Brown mixes things up nicely.


If Duncan were on a lesser team, he'd just keep racking up those MVP's, because he's just incredible-- but I think it's going to Lebron or KG this year. Has anyone won the MVP in their second season like Lebron has a legitimate chance to? Magic or Bird, maybe? Duncan is ridiculous, and he does what he does despite not seeing more than 2 inches of daylight from any defense in the league, with the constant help and double-teams etc.
 
Yeah, TD won't get the MVP with the way the Spurs are playing. The team is too deep, plus he is averaging around 30 minutes per game during the last 6 or 7 games. He just does enough to contribute to the blowouts. But it really doesn't matter, the people that know about basketball, know that TD is the real MVP. :D

Right now I'd give Lebron the MVP. His team is playing well, unlike the Wolves. He is putting up big numbers and making his teammates better all-around. But there are many games ahead, let's see if he can sustain this kind of performance.
 

AirBrian

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DMczaf said:
[19:40] Konex2k4: lakers will beat dalls 2morrow
[19:40] Konex2k4: book it

Not again, bionic...GET OUT THE WAY!

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Thank you Konex. Dallas is going to destroy the Lakers tomorrow. :)
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Anyone have a short clip of that Mo Peterson reverse you guys were going crazy about yesterday? I didn't see it on the highlights...
 

Fifty

Member
Cloudy said:
Lakers will win...for the tsunami victims!!!!

That's not cool dude.

Edit: I'll look around for a clip of that reverse, Loki. Haven't seen anything yet, but I wasn't really looking for it.
 

DMczaf

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DMczaf

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http://p085.ezboard.com/fniketalkfrm8.showMessage?topicID=28757.topic

"He's like a mini Charles Barkley." -- Bob Cousy, on Brandon Hunter, who is three inches taller than Barkley.

"I just have to like the way it looks. I don't even have to like the guy to buy his throwback. For instance, I have a Bill Walton throwback." -- Jason Williams.

"Carson, if you're watching, I would prefer to be called a big, young, strapping lad." -- Charles Barkley, on being called "cute" by Carson Kressley from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

Isiah Thomas: "I've got some bad news. We're trading you to Phoenix."
Antonio McDyess: "What's the bad news?"

"Just tell me. Did you do it on purpose?" -- Danny Ainge, to then-Celtics coach Jim O'Brien after O'Brien hit his boss's Acura with his Escalade in the Celtics parking lot.

"People say my game wasn't where it should have been, but...sometimes (circumstances prevent) you from getting to a place where you want to be. So for Ray to say that I never stepped up is cowardly. Go ahead and print that. Because when I see Ray, I'm going to choke the (heck) out of him." -- Tim Thomas, on his tenure in Milwaukee.

"Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses." -- Sam Cassell.

"I didn't go to the Super Bowl. I'm not even going to get into he said/she said between me and my coach, because that's not going to get me anywhere. The Houston Chronicle did a survey which said that I was considered one of the most popular athletes in Houston, so I'm pretty sure somebody would have seen me if I was there. Me and Jeff are cool. We had breakfast this morning." -- Steve Francis, on a disagreement between him and Jeff Van Gundy.

"We didn't have breakfast. What do you want me to say, 'I had scrambled eggs?'" -- Jeff Van Gundy.

"Kobe took over in the second half, especially in the third and fourth quarter." -- Magic Johnson, on TNT.

"I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, loading up the Uzi, I've got a couple of M-16s, a couple of 9s and a couple of joints with some silencers on them. I'm just loading up clips, a couple of grenades, a missile launcher with a couple of missiles. I'm ready for war." -- Kevin Garnett.

"You can probably blame it on the thong Shaq had on before the game. It kind of traumatized everybody in the locker room." -- Kobe Bryant, on why the Lakers lost Game One of the NBA Finals.

"I read that in the papers and I was shocked. Next thing I know, my girl is calling me and saying, 'I didn't know we were getting married.'" -- Tracy McGrady, after Larry Brown said, wrongly, that T-Mac was skipping the Olympics to get married.

:lol :lol :lol
 

jobber

Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
Spurs > Kobe

What up with players going off for 45+ points the past couple of weeks?
 

Loki

Count of Concision
"I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, loading up the Uzi, I've got a couple of M-16s, a couple of 9s and a couple of joints with some silencers on them. I'm just loading up clips, a couple of grenades, a missile launcher with a couple of missiles. I'm ready for war." -- Kevin Garnett.

:lol

I still remember when he said that. Still hysterical. :p


"Kobe took over in the second half, especially in the third and fourth quarter." -- Magic Johnson, on TNT.

:lol


Fifty: Thanks, but don't go crazy. I was just curious to see what the big to-do was. :p
 

bionic77

Member
DMczaf said:
[19:40] Konex2k4: lakers will beat dalls 2morrow
[19:40] Konex2k4: book it

Not again, bionic...GET OUT THE WAY!

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I said it a few weeks and and I will say it again. Konex must simply be stopped. It is bad enough when he is openly using his dark powers to influence sporting events (even worse killig the Lakers franchise), but now he is going to kill tsunami victims!

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Konex must be stopped, no matter the cost.
 

AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Suns-Rockets- Predictions?

None here, I hate the 2nd night of back-to-backs. :/ Thankfully, though, the Suns got to rest Amare for a good deal of the 4th quarter against the Wolves yesterday.
 

AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Miguel said:
108-102, Rockets.

TMac has another 40/8/8 night.

Sadly for the Rockets, they'll need a lot more than just T-Mac if they want to win tonight. See: KG and the Wolves.

Garnett- 47 points, 17 Rebounds, 4 Assists.

Suns 122, T-Wolves 115.

If the Rockets try to run with the Suns it will get very ugly, very fast, but I doubt Gundy will do that. The best chance the Rockets have is to slow the game down to 0.5 MPH and hope the Suns are dog-tired from last night, neither of which are impossible.
 
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