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Akala · « **Reply #21420 on:** June 11, 2019, 08:19:07 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on June 11, 2019, 03:32:29 PM

https://gfycat.com/weeklybaggybongo

respect

I mean guy has a KD tat yeah? Liked how most they showed around were cool and didn't want to see that. The crowd cheering when he went down was dirty, but didn't really see anything bad when the cameras were on or anything.

I feel so bad for KD, that is awful. Kind of sucks as it surprised no one really.

I think odds favor the raps at moment, they have looked the better team most of the series. I wouldn't put money on it though, those last three minutes last night were kind of a dumpster fire. Dubs were committing unforced errors and Toronto didn't put them away. If GSW can run off two wins they will never live it down.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21421 on:** June 12, 2019, 08:00:46 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on May 19, 2019, 04:41:21 PM

Warriors should probably just rest Durant for the rest of the playoffs if they can. Send him to his place in New York for rehabbing and relaxing in case they need him in the Finals.

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Warriors star forward Kevin Durant flew to New York City on Tuesday and was set to undergo an MRI on his injured Achilles, sources told ESPN.

stop me before i kill again

benjipwns · « **Reply #21422 on:** June 12, 2019, 05:59:16 PM »

Durant is expected to be out for the entire 2019-20 season:

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"What's good everybody I wanted to update you all: I did rupture my Achilles. Surgery was today and it was a success," Durant wrote in the post, which accompanied a picture of him in a hospital.

agrajag · « **Reply #21423 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:19:15 PM »

GS management derailed Durant's career

benjipwns · « **Reply #21424 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:40:23 PM »

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ESPN canvassed the league after Durant's injury, asking front offices if they would still offer the All-Star forward a max contract. The answer from teams was a resounding yes.

Teams that ESPN talked to also confirmed that they would not add injury protections to the final two years of a contract to hedge against a reoccurring injury. Such protections, if proposed, could resemble the contract extension Joel Embiid signed with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2017.

Well obviously the Knicks don't care, they gave Amare $100 million uninsured. What's $30 million for a way better player.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21425 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:41:32 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on June 12, 2019, 07:19:15 PM

GS management derailed Durant's career

What are the odds that he opts out and some desperate team maxes him out anyway? Gotta be pretty high, right?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21426 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:42:53 PM »

n/m, Benji already doxxed the NBA and answered my question

benjipwns · « **Reply #21427 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:46:51 PM »

opting in would be a hell of a move, I have to think they were thinking he'd leave and bail them out of having to decide on paying all of the guys and eat like a billion with the repeater tax

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #21428 on:** June 12, 2019, 11:24:44 PM »

I don’t understand how LA/Boston and NO are having talks in a 3 way deal. Who would be the team that gets AD?

Akala · « **Reply #21429 on:** June 12, 2019, 11:38:06 PM »

I mean it would be LA.

I just don't want zo.

RE:KD I would take the player option, but if people are actually going to roll the dice on a max you do you. I hope he comes back from it. Before Pels lucked into Zion I figured we'd lose the team to Seattle and KD would end up there in the end as a glorious circle.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21430 on:** June 12, 2019, 11:45:38 PM »

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Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving is changing representation and is expected to partner with Roc Nation Sports, league sources told ESPN.

Irving parted ways with longtime agent Jeff Wechsler on Wednesday, clearing the way for him to ultimately work with Jay-Z's Roc Nation prior to the start of NBA free agency on June 30, sources said.

Irving, a six-time All-Star, will become an unrestricted free agent, and league sources say he remains intensely interested in the Brooklyn Nets. The New York Knicks are expected to remain competitive for Irving, too, sources tell ESPN.

The Nets and Knicks have both hoped to sign Irving and Kevin Durant together into max salary slots. Durant's free agency has been complicated by a ruptured right Achilles tendon that will keep him out of the entire 2019-20 season. The Knicks and Nets are both still interested in signing Durant and Irving together, league sources said.

Wechsler had represented Irving since he was the No. 1 overall pick out of Duke in 2011

benjipwns · « **Reply #21431 on:** June 13, 2019, 12:38:35 AM »

I hadn't noticed this one during it:

Quote from: Zach Lowe

Hold up: Did Cook use a fake timeout in the fourth quarter of an elimination game in the NBA Finals? "I did," he told me. "I practice that in my mind. Anytime Steve tells me to take [a timeout], I think about doing it." (Cook said Kerr indeed asked for a timeout, and you can see Kerr signaling for one.) "It's an NBA thing. You kinda point at the ref. But when I went to point the ref, Norman Powell cut me off, so I made a move."

I have long advocated that every team should have the fake timeout in its playbook. Cook says Curry does it now and then, but Cook has been a little wary of stepping out of his lane. He also worried this column might put Toronto onto the scent. I don't think so. The fake timeout works.

Sam Cassell and Baron Davis used to have brutal versions of this, they'd dribble cross court slowly towards the bench, Davis would just jet suddenly past everybody while Sam had to be a little more clever about it but dudes fell for it every time with those two it felt like. Best part of the fake timeout is that you can just call one, especially if the coach actually wants one, that was always Baron's bail out.

team filler · « **Reply #21432 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:03:01 PM »

green to iggy

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #21433 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:12:45 PM »

Very good first half of basketball. For both sides.

Akala · « **Reply #21434 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:53:17 PM »

$:-\$

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Stoney Mason · « **Reply #21435 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:54:05 PM »

crazy

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21436 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:55:28 PM »

Keep on hearing the street people from my apartment.

team filler · « **Reply #21437 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:57:20 PM »

forgot the wheelshair

Akala · « **Reply #21438 on:** June 13, 2019, 10:58:39 PM »

Getting sloppy, has been too good a game to fall apart now.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21439 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:04:18 PM »

Klay's up to 24/41 from three in this series, there needs to be some kind of rule against this.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21440 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:21:32 PM »

Lowry with those slow fakes in the paint are hilarious

benjipwns · « **Reply #21441 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:24:11 PM »

lmao Draymond

Akala · « **Reply #21442 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:25:19 PM »

Honestly fine with either result but I want a game 7.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21443 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:26:20 PM »

that was just an awful minute for the Warriors

benjipwns · « **Reply #21444 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:30:32 PM »

Raptors are jamming every cut borderline perfectly at this point

no idea what the Warriors are doing on defense

Akala · « **Reply #21445 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:32:04 PM »

Death lineup out there.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21446 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:34:05 PM »

there ya go Boogie, SHOOT

him and Draymond were both trying to use Lowry guarding them in the paint for a foul

benjipwns · « **Reply #21447 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:37:36 PM »

put Gasol back in

benjipwns · « **Reply #21448 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:38:33 PM »

cmon not putting Gasol back in wtf

TEEEPO · « **Reply #21449 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:38:42 PM »

what the fuck at these refs

benjipwns · « **Reply #21450 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:39:48 PM »

Gasol would have made the right pass

benjipwns · « **Reply #21451 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:41:41 PM »

lmao if that's the end play

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21452 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:42:15 PM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #21453 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:42:24 PM »

it's the right play with no timeouts you dummy, they'll only be down two with the best shooter ever

benjipwns · « **Reply #21454 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:43:07 PM »

oh you lose the ball? when was that changed?

agrajag · « **Reply #21455 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:43:38 PM »

TVC15 · « **Reply #21456 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:43:44 PM »

Fuck, no parade day off for me

benjipwns · « **Reply #21457 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:44:44 PM »

WE THE NORTH!!!!! ALWAYS LOVED CANADA!!!!

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21458 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:45:13 PM »

This is worse than the time they burned down the White House.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21459 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:45:14 PM »

just noticed my avatar colors are the Raptors ones, more proof of my LIFELONG FANDOM

TEEEPO · « **Reply #21460 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:45:20 PM »

curly · « **Reply #21461 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:45:32 PM »

this has not been basketball at its highest level

benjipwns · « **Reply #21462 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:45:44 PM »

they should let you go "nah, we okay with just winning"

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21463 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:46:11 PM »

Did raptors win? The street people are cheering and someone is dancing in the apartment above.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #21464 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:47:01 PM »

Great game. Great drama. Hell of an effort from the Warriors. I never rooted for them but it was kinda hard not to with all those injuries. But it is what it is. Cavs had stuff when Kyrie and Love went down.

Great series. Congrats to the raps.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #21465 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:47:01 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on June 13, 2019, 11:46:11 PM

Did raptors win? The street people are cheering and someone is dancing in the apartment above.

Let's see if GS can come back with 0.0 seconds left.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21466 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:47:08 PM »

this is the dumbest end of game replay review in NBA history

team filler · « **Reply #21467 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:47:24 PM »

draymond

more like gaymond

tornover machine clown

benjipwns · « **Reply #21468 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:47:31 PM »

THEY PUT TIME BACK ON THE CLOCK

benjipwns · « **Reply #21469 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:48:33 PM »

"Hall of Fame lock KD would have hit a five pointer at the buzzer" - Dubsfan35

benjipwns · « **Reply #21470 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:49:51 PM »

NBA CHAMPION JEREMY LIN

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #21471 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:51:10 PM »

Everyone is honking their horns, even street cars

Akala · « **Reply #21472 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:51:18 PM »

Bad luck for dubs but ended up an exciting finals. Grats to raps, wonder if Kawhi stays.

benjipwns · « **Reply #21473 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:51:22 PM »

when do they play the Bucks versus Sixers third place series?

benjipwns · « **Reply #21474 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:53:05 PM »

dat Raptors defense ratcheting down with each game was great

benjipwns · « **Reply #21475 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:55:13 PM »

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NBA commissioner Adam Silver, speaking Thursday to ESPN's Rachel Nichols, praised the league's reformed draft lottery system while saying he hopes that it changes the "destructive" mindset some teams and fans have about tanking.

"Where I think it's the greatest success is, hopefully it'll stop fans in those markets from rooting for their teams to perform poorly," Silver said prior to Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena.

agrajag · « **Reply #21476 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:56:34 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on June 13, 2019, 11:47:01 PM

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on June 13, 2019, 11:46:11 PM
Did raptors win? The street people are cheering and someone is dancing in the apartment above.

Let's see if GS can come back with 0.0 seconds left.

they added 0.9 to the shotclock MORON

benjipwns · « **Reply #21477 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:57:18 PM »

the "bold trade" lol, they traded DeMar Derozan

and they also got Danny Green!

also no love for the Gasol deal, go away ESPN, stop hatin on MY TEAM

benjipwns · « **Reply #21478 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:59:24 PM »

now we can ban Drake from the league for life

agrajag · « **Reply #21479 on:** June 14, 2019, 12:00:41 AM »

Quote from: benjipwns on June 13, 2019, 11:57:18 PM

the "bold trade" lol, they traded DeMar Derozan

and they also got Danny Green!

also no love for the Gasol deal, go away ESPN, stop hatin on MY TEAM

he said it was a bold trade because Kahwi is an unrestricted free agent

fake edit: this guy sounds like kermit the frog

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