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Yeah, fuck Seattle, the entire damn city. Not just the one investor who was a prick.That entire city who's team was stolen away from them.
There's just a lot of history with Seattle fans that annoy people fans of rival teams.
Miami HEATVerified account@MiamiHEATOFFICIAL: The @MiamiHEAT have signed Michael Beasley.
It is a non-guaranteed deal, but if Beasley makes the team, he will make $1.027 million.
Why did a source close to Lakers management tell ESPN.com: "Within the organization there isn't a single person that believes we can bring LeBron aboard"?
The second reason the Lakers may struggle to get a free agent is that Bryant has gained a reputation as a difficult teammate. The Lakers have been a fine destination of late for role players, but not for would-be stars such as Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol, Shaquille O’Neal and Andrew Bynum, none of whom get the ball as much as they'd like, and all of whom, despite playing well, become targets for media scorn. “Pau is a two-time champion and a five-time All-Star and he’s one of the most disrespected players ever,” notes one agent. “He gets bad press all the time.” Another agent says: "The Lakers are Kobe. You have to understand that. It's not the organization for you if you want the ball or the spotlight. All that glitters ain't gold." I asked a third agent, who has a Lakers client right now, if he thought Bryant might be a sticking point for free agents. His immediate response: "Uh, duh. Yes." This might sound like a lot of rumor spreading, but players already have declined the option to play on the Lakers alongside Bryant. Howard turned down more guaranteed money to move on to a less celebrated franchise. And don’t forget the fascinating case of Ramon Sessions. He was the toast of the Lakers for a brief spell -- and when he reached free agency there was every chance he could have returned as the Lakers’ starting point guard. Instead he declined the Lakers' offer and opted to become the backup point guard for the Charlotte Bobcats, who were coming off the worst season in league history. Sessions has never expressed the slightest hint of regret. The multiyear deal Charlotte offered was part of Sessions' calculus. But sources with knowledge of his thinking say tricky Lakers politics, where the blame tends to fall everywhere but with Bryant, was also on his mind. The theory of finding a star to play alongside Bryant hinges on the notion that such a star would find joy in doing so. But who’s the role model for that? Here’s a Nash quote, from an interview this summer on Grantland: I knew it wasn’t gonna be the same. I felt like I was going to try something new, and that I was going to adapt — and to accept that, and embrace it. I think it’d be nice to find a middle ground where he does his thing but the ball still can move for great parts of the game. Hopefully we can find that this season. But I knew it wasn’t going to be the same. When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time.Does Nash sound joyous to you?
Speaking of Birdman, can the Beasley and Birdman combo be called 'the Bird and the Beas'?
J.R.: bro, you know we have Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire right?Me: yesJ.R.: then?Me: but you know that they’re Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire, right?J.R.: Carmelo just won the scoring titleMe: yeah, but he also wore cornrows for like nine yearsJ.R.: :/Me: cornrows are the spirit enemy of nba championships
Shaquille O'Neal — "Dr. O'Neal," if you ask him — is hoping to help cure the Sacramento Kings.As the Kings continue their image makeover that was sparked by the late May sale of the team to Vivek Ranadive, they have made a big and bold move by adding O'Neal as a minority owner
MIAMI -- So long, James, Allen, Pierce and Garnett.King James, Jesus Shuttlesworth, The Truth and KG might be headed to the backs of NBA jerseys.Some members of the Miami Heat have been told the NBA is considering having them and the Brooklyn Nets wear "nickname jerseys" in at least one of their four matchups this season. The NBA has not announced the plan, but teams apparently have been aware of the likelihood of it happening for at least several weeks.For now, only the Heat and the Nets would be taking part. It's unclear how many times those teams would wear the nickname jerseys or whether they would ever wear them against other opponents."It shows growth in our league and it shows we do adapt to what's going on around us," said Ray Allen, the Heat guard who plans to wear "Shuttlesworth" on his jersey, a nod to his character from the film "He Got Game." "And we're still kids, playing a kids' game. Even though we're now men playing a kids' game, we still remember where we come from. Everybody had a nickname, and it's a way to let the fans in a little bit more."Players were asked to submit what names they would want on the jerseys.Four-time NBA MVP LeBron James is expected to wear "King James." Heat guard Dwyane Wade would have any number of nicknames to choose from, with "Three" -- both his jersey number and championship-ring total -- being his current favorite. He also could go with his more commonly known name, "D-Wade."Brooklyn forward Paul Pierce has been called "The Truth" for many years, and fellow new Nets forward Kevin Garnett has long been known by his initials or "The Big Ticket."The Heat and Nets are among the preseason favorites in the Eastern Conference, which Miami has won in each of the past three seasons.Miami forward Shane Battier -- who wasn't exactly thrilled about the nickname idea -- said he wanted to wear "Batman" on his jersey, although he was told that Warner Bros. holds the rights to that name. Other players also have had to deal with copyright-related issues with their suggested monikers. Battier said he'll go with "Shaneo" instead."Fans will like it, and so will a lot of the players," Allen said. "Guys will get a good kick out of it."Kendall Marshall of the Phoenix Suns wasn't supportive of the idea on Twitter.
Chris Bosh as the Raptor.
DeMarcus Cousins' extension with the Kings is a four-year, $58 million maximum extension, league source tells Y! Sports.
Good. People outside of Sac don't know how good he's been despite all the troubles.
Sources: Competition Committee votes unanimously to return NBA Finals to 2-2-1-1-1 format. Owners' approval to come.
Larry Sanders was asked for a response after Brandon Jennings comments on playing with better big men in Detroit: "He has to pass it to them first".
"And it was a tug of war between my feelings and the fans and everybody else and their feelings and what happened to LeBron. And I saw him -- everybody hated him for leaving Cleveland and what he did," Howard said of LeBron James' free-agent move from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat in 2010. "I never wanted anybody to hate me, you know. I wanted everybody to love me, you know, like me, for sticking around and doing what they wanted me to do. And making everybody else happy. And that was a valuable lesson for me, you know."I can't make everybody happy."
What's the point of even having basketball this season. Wish they could just cancel this shit.
How is that funny? The apocalypse wouldn't have been any worse than a second James/Wade/Bosh/Stern title, all things considered.
eh he's just being a sportsdick, as we all are in some respects. I'm a sportsdick because I look the other way when my star quarterback raped a girl. Super Bowls baby!
The Spirits were not included in the merger, but the Silna brothers nonetheless managed to turn the merger, for them, into one of the greatest deals in the history of professional sports:[7][8][9] ) In June, 1976 the remaining ABA owners agreed, in return for the Spirits folding, to pay the St. Louis owners $2.2 million in cash up front in addition to a 1/7 share of the four remaining teams' television revenues in perpetuity.[2][8][10] As the NBA's popularity exploded in the 1980s and 1990s, the league's television rights were sold to CBS and then NBC, and additional deals were struck with the TNT and TBS cable networks; league television revenue soared into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Over the past 25 years, the Silnas have collected approximately $100 million from the NBA, despite the fact that the Spirits never played an NBA game. The Silnas continue to receive checks from the NBA on a yearly basis, representing a 4/7 share of the television money that would normally go to any NBA franchise.[2][8][11] Thanks to their deal during the ABA-NBA merger the Silnas made millions through the 1980s and at least $4.4 million per year through the 1990s.[11] From 1999 through 2002 the deal netted the Spirits' owners at least $12.53 million per year; from 2003-2006 their take was at least $15.6 million per year.[7][8] The two Silna brothers each get 45% of that television revenue per year and their attorney during the merger negotiations, Donald Schupak, receives 10%.[7] They credit their terrific deal to planning they had done ahead of the merger for the Virginia Squires owners; the Silnas had expected the Spirits and Colonels to enter the NBA but for the ailing Squires to be left out, and the Silnas thought up the television revenue deal as a way to treat the Squires' owners fairly if the Squires did not join the NBA with the other ABA teams.[7] The Silna brothers have received over $255 million in NBA television revenue as of 2012.[12] With New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson purchasing the New Orleans Hornets from the NBA in 2012 and planning to rename the team, there had been talk that the NBA might negotiate a deal to end the TV deals for the Silna brothers in exchange for rights to the Spirits name.[13] However, this did not happen, as the team ultimately took the name of Pelicans. The deal cut by the Silna brothers and the incredible amount of revenue it has produced over the years has itself become legend.[7]A resident of Saddle River, New Jersey, Silna lost the money he had invested with Bernie Madoff, with the trustee for the victims of the scheme alleging that Silna and his associates had received $24 million in unearned income from Madoff.[14]
