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Official April NBA Thread - Playoffs coming sooooooon!

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Cloudy

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The Lakers have zero inside presence and you're all concerned about getting a PG?

Well, Mihm and Odom are out hurt and they are getting Douthit back from the Euroleague. They have nothing at the PG (Don't let Atkins fool you with his play today) and turn it over way too much. They need a dominant lead guard over anything else at this point...
 
Cloudy said:
Well, Mihm and Odom are out hurt and they are getting Douthit back from the Euroleague. They have nothing at the PG (Don't let Atkins fool you with his play today) and turn it over way too much. They need a dominant lead guard over anything else at this point...

douthit sucks, don't even mention that guy. The last thing we need is more NBDL calibur scrubs on this team. Brown and Bobbit are more than enough.
 

etiolate

Banned
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L.A. Lakers Championships: 14
Sacramento King Championships: 0
Do i have an old, rehashed "priceless" punchline to this joke? No.

nicholson.jpg

"Shut up, fattie! No wonder they call Sacramento a cowtown!"
 

DMczaf

Member
Ninja Scooter said:
L.A. Lakers Championships: 14
Sacramento King Championships: 0
Do i have an old, rehashed "priceless" punchline to this joke? No.

nicholson.jpg

"Shut up, fattie! No wonder they call Sacramento a cowtown!"

:lol
 

etiolate

Banned
Ninja Scooter said:
L.A. Lakers Championships: 14
Sacramento King Championships: 0
Do i have an old, rehashed "priceless" punchline to this joke? No.

nicholson.jpg

"Shut up, fattie! No wonder they call Sacramento a cowtown!"

Such anger!

But inside...

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alejob

Member
Who's runs the Madsen Fanclub redux?

:lol this series is so close. 5-5 comming into todays games. I(Haslem Globetrotters) had to "cheat" a little bit since I'm short handed.

Right now with todays games played so far I'm losing 6-4. But I have 4 players playing, Madsen Fanclub redux has his on the bench.
FG% Me .479 Madsen .471
FT% Me .821 Madsen .835
TO Me 74 Madsen 73
Steals Me 38 Madsen 40

Other stats are locked up. So I'm forced to play my players and hope we get the steals and shoot over .47% to get the win.

I think I got the tie breaker since I finished first in the regular season. Thats if thats the way it is, I'm not sure though.
 
Michael Jordan continues to dream of becoming an NBA owner but is starting to wonder if it will ever happen.
With NBA teams topping the $400-million mark these days, and the worst franchises expected to fetch at least $250 million in the future, Jordan's business gurus have complained to league suits in recent weeks that franchises are way out of his price range.

"We're getting priced out of the game," one of Jordan's cronies whined to a league official. "We can't come up with the numbers these teams want."

Jerry Buss>>>MJ. Michael just doesn't have the green to play with the big boys.
 

DMczaf

Member
Ninja Scooter said:
Jerry Buss>>>MJ. Michael just doesn't have the green to play with the big boys.

Considering Buss bought the Lakers for like $250, neither would he if he had to deal with today's business
 

Shinobi

Member
Pimpwerx said:
As for the Heat destroying the Pistons in the championship...you're nuts. With Shaq in, Wade CAN Kobe the ball all he wants and be effective.

You mean like last year? :lol Shaq guarantees regular season success...he doesn't guarantee a championship. If the Heat's outside shooting goes cold at anytime, or if Wade does decide to become Kobe East, the Heat will get their ass kicked to the curb the same way the Lakers did a year ago. So don't fool yourself.





etiolate said:

:lol :lol :lol Don't know which is funnier, the sign or the woman that's holding it...

Judging someone's jumper is a hard thing to do. MJ was an incredible finisher with a great midrange J but career wise he was a medicore three point shooter, save for the second three title run he had with the Bulls. Hell, Kobe's career three point average of 33.4% behind the arc is nothing to write home about, but it still puts him above MJ's 32.7%. So perhaps both of you should shut the fuck up. :lol

(For the record, Vince Carter's career average behind the arc is 38.8%, giving me all the room in the world to talk!)
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Piston, Jordan has $400M (how could he not? He made $70M in his last two years w/Chicago and $40-80M/yr in endorsements for the better part of a decade), but from what I've read in the papers over the past year, he doesn't want to use that much of his personal money to purchase a team (he wants to get investors on board etc.). He's more stingy than anything...
 
Jerry Buss kicked Jordan's ass in a poker game. Jordan failed to pay up. Buss had MJ's dad killed. He even let Magic be the trigger man, as revenge for the '91 finals.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Ninja Scooter said:
Jerry Buss kicked Jordan's ass in a poker game. Jordan failed to pay up. Buss had MJ's dad killed. He even let Magic be the trigger man, as revenge for the '91 finals.

:lol
 

Cloudy

Banned
OMG, I know I'm not the only one watching the Spurs/Warrios. 117-117 heading into OT. TP and B-Diddy with several clutch plays. Man, GS will be great next year :eek:
 

Miguel

Member
Cloudy said:
OMG, I know I'm not the only one watching the Spurs/Warrios. 117-117 heading into OT. TP and B-Diddy with several clutch plays. Man, GS will be great next year :eek:
Well, that about wraps it up for the Warriors. Enjoy your 3 week long success. You've just been KONEX'd
 

Cloudy

Banned
If Kupchak doesn't improve the Lakers roster, they will be the worst in the Pacific next year :(

edit: Hell, they could finish last this year >_<
 

Miguel

Member
Cloudy said:
If Kupchak doesn't improve the Lakers roster, they will be the worst in the Pacific next year :(

edit: Hell, they could finish last this year >_<
Reverse Kobexology doesn't work Sorry.
 

bionic77

Member
Miguel said:
Reverse Kobexology doesn't work Sorry.

That is where you are wrong! Only fools doubt the power of Konex.

Haha, thank you Konex! It looks like the Lakers are going to be raising some more banners next year. :D
 
good job, derek fisher. owned by your bitch tony parker again with his usual crossover to seal the game for the spurs.

fucking fraud.
 

Shinobi

Member
Miguel said:
Well, that about wraps it up for the Warriors. Enjoy your 3 week long success. You've just been KONEX'd

It's the Warriors, they were gonna fuck themselves anyway.





Incognito said:
good job, derek fisher. owned by your bitch tony parker again with his usual crossover to seal the game for the spurs.

fucking fraud.

:lol As someone said (might've been Simmons), Fish should be direct depositing half his cheque directly into Shaq's bank account.
 

levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
Ninja Scooter said:
L.A. Lakers Championships: 14
Sacramento King Championships: 0
Do i have an old, rehashed "priceless" punchline to this joke? No.

nicholson.jpg

"Shut up, fattie! No wonder they call Sacramento a cowtown!"

Minneapolis/LA Lakers... don't be ashamed of their heratige.
 

AirBrian

Member
New PR's, ladies:
It's the second-to-last edition of the Power Rankings, so it's one of our last chances to reward the Denver Nuggets for their stunning run. How amazing? Not since a 27-2 stretch in their ABA days in 1974 have the Nuggets been this sizzling. So with each member of this season's Big Three dealing with late-season issues -- injuries in San Antonio, back-to-back narrow losses in Phoenix and the absence of an MVP candidate in Miami -- it just felt right to move the Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks into the top two slots in Marc Stein's NBA Power Rankings.

1 (5) Nuggets 45-31
Dare we say it's safe to anoint Denver as the proverbial Lower Seed No One Wants To Play. Nuggets are now a ridiculous 21-0 since Feb. 23 . . . if you exclude two losses to Phoenix.

2 (4) Mavericks 52-24
Mavs are becoming a trendy pick to make playoff noise, but more impressive is how steady they've become. This is a fifth straight 50-win season, after just two in the club's first 20 years.

3 (3) Spurs 57-20
Winning those back-to-back games in double OT -- the second without Manu and Duncan -- halted a 1-6 road skid and eased fears that Spurs could actually stumble all the way out of the Southwest lead.

4 (1) Suns 57-19
With a series looming against a team (Memphis) they secretly don't like to play, Suns can be thankful for one thing. After two straight losses to Golden State, at least Suns won't have to face Warriors in Round 1.

5 (2) Heat 56-21
Heat would never be this low if Shaq were playing. More than one cynic, mind you, has wondered aloud about whether Shaq is really ill or simply resting for the playoffs.

6 (7) Pistons 49-27
Instead of saying this is the win streak that proves Detroit Is Back, let's assume the champs have been so up-and-down because they've known for a while that Miami was uncatchable.

7 (8) Bulls 44-32
We can understand Jerry Reinsdorf's concerns about spending big on Curry and Chandler. But someone is going to have to explain why Skiles doesn't have a long-term extension yet.

8 (9) Rockets 46-31
The bad news? Rockets are 7-6 since losing Juwan for good. The good news? A win in Monday's road finale at Seattle would make this Houston's second-best road team ever at 25-16.

9 (13) Grizzlies 44-32 Gritty Grizz would have to run the table to match last season's 50 wins . . . but even if they don't this is the franchise's second-best season by a wide margin over No. 3 (28-54),

10 (14) Kings 48-30
Peja has picked it up (24.6 ppg in his last nine) and Kings, after looking like they could drop all the way to No. 7 out West, have averaged 119 points in their last five games. Looks like they're serious about hanging onto No. 5.

11 (6) SuperSonics 50-26
This is no joke. Sonics haven't won since April 1 and seem to be racking up nothing but injuries (Rashard, Radmanovic, Daniels and Fortson).

12 (10) Pacers 41-35
Indy'll be the first team in history to win less than 52 games after a 60-win season, but we repeat: Carlisle has never coached better, with Pacers about to finish this roller-coaster ride over .500.

13 (15) Celtics 41-35
Peter May makes a strong case (as usual) about Ricky Ricky playing too many minutes to be considered a true sixth man, but we still feel Davis hasn't received sufficient props.

14 (18) 76ers 39-37
Iverson has essentially clinched the scoring title, but this is still a big week for Sixers with games against the team they're chasing (home to Celtics) and the team chasing them (at Nets).

15 (19) Nets 38-39
Nets haven't seen the .500 Club since Nov. 9. But they're closing in and can secure the club's fourth straight winning season with a 4-1 finish.

16 (11) Wizards 41-35
After four 43-point games, Arenas finally reached 44. Problem is, Wiz are 1-4 in those five games, so they need to get back to balance if they want to do something in the playoffs.
And for you Lakers fans...
24 (22) Lakers 34-43
Not sure if this is supposed to cheer up Laker Lovers, but another one of our faves (L.A. Times' Mark Heisler) points out that Boston 'all but invented this league' yet hasn't won a title since '86. Meaning greatness isn't guaranteed forever.
 

AirBrian

Member
Matlock said:
Where'd you pull that from? NBA.com's PR's are still listing suns #1, as is ESPN's.
Change the week date (+ 1) in the URL. Usually, the list is complete around 8 AM (CST), but ESPN won't link it until around 10 AM.

Week #23
 

Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
OH SNAP. Me Vs. Madsen Fanclub Redux in the GA Fantasy BBall Championship.

Code:
[b]Eminem (115-90-5) [/b]

PG C. Billups (Det - PG)
SG D. Wesley (Hou - SG)
G A. Iguodala (Phi - GF,SF)
SF K. Korver (Phi - SF)
PF B. Cardinal (Mem - F)
F V. Carter (NJ - GF) 
C R. LaFrentz (Bos - FC)
C E. Dampier (Dal - C) 
Util S. Marion (Pho - F,SF)
Util J. Childress (Atl - GF)
BN F. Hoiberg (Min - SG) 
BN R. Patterson (Por - SF) 
BN P. Stojakovic (Sac - SF)

VS

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[b]Madsen Fanclub Redux (113-94-3) [/b]
 
PG T. Lue (Atl - PG) 
SG R. Miller (Ind - SG)
G G. Arenas (Was - PG) 
SF R. Davis (Bos - GF)
PF K. Garnett (Min - F) 
F C. Butler (LAL - SF)
C A. Stoudemire (Pho - FC,PF)
C D. Mutombo (Hou - C) 
Util T. Parker (SA - PG)
Util J. Smith (NO - SG) 
BN B. Skinner (Sac - FC) 
BN C. Mobley (Sac - SG)
BN M. Jaric (LAC - PG) 
IL S. Claxton - IL (NO - PG)
IL M. Madsen - IL (Min - FC,PF)
 

bigfurb

Member
Vinsanity and the Baron of Westwood are the players of the week. Isn't it amazing what a change of scenery has done for these two.
 

DMczaf

Member
1985 Lakers reunion on Fox Sports West right now

Jerry West and Pat Riley are there, but Dr. Buss is no where to be seen :lol
 

DMczaf

Member
Speaker: "Thank you very much, they will now carry on individual and informal interviews afterwards"

Magic talking while the players begin to stand up: "John...John? How we do that?"

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:lol
 

Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
another double-double for the #1 bench rebounder in the NBA, Tyson Chandler. Talk about a beast.

bulls down by 2 with 1:20 left...


...and we go into OT


bulls up by 8. noch is on fire. :lol :lol :lol :lol @ the entire stadium chanting DETROIT SUCKS when Billups is at the line
 

AirBrian

Member
Mavs just put the hurt on the Grizz. Josh Howard had a great game...23 pts, 9 rebounds, and 2 steals. He had a couple monster jams too. He can really get up.

And...let's go Bulls!
 

SKluck

Banned
That came down to experience. Bulls scored the first 8 of OT... and Pistons came back and stole the game they owned to begin with. When you have such a young team out there like the Bulls, they don't know what to do except hoist the ball up.

Considering Rip was 2 for 17, being the Pistons' leading scorer and all.... But I'll call it a wash due to Gordon sucking tonight as well.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Geez, are the Fakers gonna beat the Suns? :lol Phoenix hasn't been able to run much on LA for whatever reason.
 
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