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« Reply #21000 on: December 06, 2018, 01:38:05 AM »
I think my surprise mainly comes from basically assuming he was washed up in phoenix these last few years instead of just understanding that Phoenix was terrible.

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« Reply #21001 on: December 06, 2018, 01:42:03 AM »
Duncan of course being the master of that for years and years. Spurs have been effective teaching it to other guys like Rasho, Oberto and Matt Bonner too where it would just shut down the logical centers of the brain and perimeter guys wouldn't even try it against a guy like Bonner.

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« Reply #21002 on: December 06, 2018, 01:46:30 AM »
I think my surprise mainly comes from basically assuming he was washed up in phoenix these last few years instead of just understanding that Phoenix was terrible.
Also, to be fair, he wasn't exactly giving his best efforts with them, and he missed a lot of games the last two years. They also threw a lot of garbage out there around him defensively compared to LeBron and Ball and even someone like Stephenson who all give a shit.

Booker and TJ Warren and Chriss weren't exactly guys who were even trying much against their own man.

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« Reply #21003 on: December 06, 2018, 02:46:11 AM »

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« Reply #21004 on: December 07, 2018, 06:55:56 PM »
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The Milwaukee Bucks were finalizing a deal Friday to add a veteran and clear their books in the short-term future in a four-player deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers, sources told ESPN.

The Bucks will acquire point guard George Hill and forward Sam Dekker in exchange for guard Matthew Dellavedova and center John Henson. The Cavs will acquire the Bucks 2021 first and second-round draft picks, though the first may not convey until as late as 2023 because the Bucks owe a future first to the Phoenix Suns that might not convey until 2021.

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« Reply #21005 on: December 09, 2018, 02:37:02 AM »
Pop be trollin?


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« Reply #21006 on: December 09, 2018, 02:38:54 AM »
Wizards got in on that Bucks-Cavs deal to cut some money off their tax bill:
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Bucks get: Guard George Hill, forward Jason Smith and a 2021 second-round pick

Cavaliers get: Guard Matthew Dellavedova, center John Henson, a 2021 first-round pick, a 2021 second-round pick and a 2022 second-round pick

Wizards get: Forward Sam Dekker

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For Cavaliers and Bucks, there was an urgency to a get deal done by 6 PM ET today. Now the players in the deal are eligible to be aggregated on the Feb. 7 trade deadline. Essentially, they can combine these players with other contracts to move before the deadline.

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« Reply #21007 on: December 11, 2018, 12:20:25 AM »

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« Reply #21008 on: December 11, 2018, 12:25:08 AM »
All-Star Weekend should feature a debate between him and Kyrie

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« Reply #21009 on: December 11, 2018, 02:53:15 AM »

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« Reply #21010 on: December 12, 2018, 01:35:43 PM »
KD on Bill Simmons again


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« Reply #21011 on: December 13, 2018, 01:31:04 AM »



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« Reply #21012 on: December 15, 2018, 12:57:46 AM »
There’s a HUGE gap between 5 and 6 in the east rn

and the timberwolves, at 14, are only 6 games out of first in the west

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« Reply #21013 on: December 15, 2018, 09:50:36 AM »
A MEM/PHX/WAS trade involving Trevor Ariza fell through because there was confusion about which player named Brooks they were talking about.

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« Reply #21014 on: December 15, 2018, 02:51:51 PM »
the deal ended up going through

ariza will remove sato from the starting lineup and have him primarily playing point off the bench leaving more minutes for troy brown jr, the latter being the biggest net positive imo outside of ariza's potential leadership role. this also gives our team length which should help with rebounding, maybe. the best news is we didn't give up any picks for this trade

for oubre... having no point guard is going to potentially expose more of his game and i'm not sure if his new teammates will appreciate him hunting shots without anyone dictating the offense.  i would've preferred if he landed on the grizzlies which has the structure (leadership and accountability) to bring out the most from a player like him. i wish nothing but the best for him because the kid has so much potential but he's boneheaded af

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« Reply #21015 on: December 15, 2018, 10:47:53 PM »


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« Reply #21016 on: December 16, 2018, 12:33:52 AM »
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MarShon Brooks said his family became aware of the trade through social media before he was informed by the team. He said his mother was trying to mouth the words to him from the crowd during the fourth quarter of Memphis' Friday night home game against the Heat.
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« Reply #21017 on: December 16, 2018, 12:36:19 AM »


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« Reply #21018 on: December 16, 2018, 12:38:33 AM »
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I'm Surprised not any team doing this to Kyrie "Earth is Flat" thing maybe cause its True?....

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« Reply #21019 on: December 18, 2018, 06:45:18 AM »
Suns ate Austin Rivers contract and cut him.

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« Reply #21020 on: December 18, 2018, 09:23:27 PM »
Suns ate Austin Rivers contract and cut him.

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« Reply #21021 on: December 19, 2018, 05:20:47 AM »
some reporter asked LeBron what it would be like if the Lakers got Anthony Davis :lol
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That would be amazing, like, duh. That would be incredible.

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« Reply #21022 on: December 19, 2018, 08:36:33 AM »
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« Reply #21023 on: December 20, 2018, 10:41:11 PM »

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« Reply #21024 on: December 21, 2018, 02:23:25 PM »
oh lawd he comin
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« Reply #21025 on: December 22, 2018, 09:44:15 PM »
scott brooks is easily the most inept coach in the nba

morris has been closing out games the entire season while getting 25 mins or so off the bench while our starting center thomas bryant, who has been balling the fuck out and most importantly moving on both sides of the court and being able to guard the pnr, was getting only 15 mins . well moriss finally fouls out and bryant is fucking BALLING as expected from some amazing pnrs from beal. moriss has a box score of -9 for the game while bryant has a +9

but watch, this performance will change NOTHING

fuck brooks, and especially fuck eg


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« Reply #21026 on: December 22, 2018, 10:22:02 PM »
that was the best ive seen the wiz all season and thats with three starters out

all because that bum moriss fouled out and wall was ill




edit: worth noting that wizards were 97-104 when morris fouled out. bets on brooks doesn't learn from this?
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« Reply #21027 on: December 23, 2018, 12:42:34 AM »
Is this the first time ever that both the clippers and the lakers have been good?

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« Reply #21028 on: December 23, 2018, 02:46:50 AM »
I don't know about good, but there was one year when they both made the playoffs, and both got eliminated by the Seven Seconds Or Less Suns.

It was the one playoff year with Elton Brand, when they'd traded for Sam Cassell. With Corey Maggette and a pre-injury Shaun Livingston. Was also the year Kobe scored 35 a game and played with Smush Parker and Kwame Brown.

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« Reply #21029 on: December 24, 2018, 12:42:47 AM »
Bulls seem to finally be figuring out that looking to set up markkannen 20 times a game is a good idea

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« Reply #21030 on: December 25, 2018, 12:25:26 AM »
They realized there's no reason not to play him with Carter.

Also the Jabari Parker saga is a top five Bulls nonsense saga this season.

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« Reply #21031 on: December 25, 2018, 09:11:35 PM »
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« Reply #21032 on: December 25, 2018, 10:00:55 PM »
some reporter asked LeBron what it would be like if the Lakers got Anthony Davis :lol
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That would be amazing, like, duh. That would be incredible.

Honestly, he gone.

Pels need to act accordingly. Wait til the offseason when Boston can trade and start the bidding war.

I just hope Gayle doesn't half ass it like her husband had been doing. But I get the sneaking suspicion we are going to drastically overpay to bring in someone before the deadline that isn't going to be enough to keep Davis and then wait to fire Demps until he has damn near sold off every asset we have as a last ditch effort to save his skin and embarrassment.

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« Reply #21033 on: December 25, 2018, 10:34:12 PM »
LeBron teasing us before he ultimately folds to the Warriors in the playoffs.  ::)

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« Reply #21034 on: December 27, 2018, 12:04:54 AM »

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« Reply #21035 on: December 27, 2018, 04:52:56 AM »
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« Reply #21036 on: December 28, 2018, 12:35:18 AM »
Lakers blow game they controlled all night.

https://twitter.com/SacramentoKings/status/1078524224686325760

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« Reply #21037 on: December 28, 2018, 05:10:12 AM »


this has no right to be this good

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« Reply #21038 on: December 28, 2018, 05:11:18 AM »


lets go home

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« Reply #21039 on: December 28, 2018, 06:49:25 AM »
didn't even see that the Knicks waived Ron Baker...and the Wizards signed him...

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« Reply #21040 on: January 03, 2019, 06:20:05 AM »
Miami Heat is 6th in the East with a .500 record!

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« Reply #21041 on: January 03, 2019, 09:51:08 AM »
DeAndre Jordan FT%:70.5


Lonzo Ball: FT%:45.0%
Lebron James: FT%:68.2
Brandon Ingram: FT%:62.0

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« Reply #21042 on: January 04, 2019, 12:32:43 PM »

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« Reply #21043 on: January 04, 2019, 12:56:23 PM »
that Rockets GSW game was incredible.

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« Reply #21044 on: January 04, 2019, 06:11:31 PM »
Harden averaged 36 points a game as Houston went 10-4 in December.  He's averaged 41 ppg in their last ten as they've gone 9-1. With Chris Paul missing like half of those or more.

Capela's also been in BEAST MODE: 17/15.5 over those ten games.

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« Reply #21045 on: January 06, 2019, 08:02:15 PM »
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« Reply #21046 on: January 06, 2019, 08:03:49 PM »
And down goes Thibodeau.

Everybody was waiting for that domino to drop forever.


Lakers without Lebron, Kuzma, and Rondo are understandably free falling.

Lonzo might have a capable NBA career but he's looking more and more like he will never be anything but an average NBA player.  And Brandon Ingram simply hasn't taken the step this season that most people thought he was capable of. He's playing worse for whatever reason than he did last season rather than improving.

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« Reply #21047 on: January 06, 2019, 08:11:29 PM »
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Former Chicago Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg is in serious consideration by Minnesota owner Glen Taylor to become either the general manager or head coach in the future, league sources told ESPN.
don't just take everything the Bulls cast off jeez

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« Reply #21048 on: January 06, 2019, 08:12:57 PM »
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Chandler Parsons' career with the Memphis Grizzlies is likely over, with the two sides agreeing to a separation on Sunday, league sources told ESPN.

Parsons will leave Memphis as the organization and his agent, James Dunleavy of ISE Sports, work to structure a resolution on Parsons' future, sources said.

Parsons, 30, is owed $38 million on his original four-year, $94 million maximum contract, including $25.1 million for the 2019-20 season.

The sides will work to find a trade for Parsons, sources said. The Grizzlies haven't shown a willingness to include a first-round draft pick to move Parsons' deal but have been open to accepting a longer-term contract for him, league sources said. The team still believes Parsons will have value as an expiring contract, even if it takes into the offseason to make a deal.

The final disagreement that led to Parsons leaving the team and city -- perhaps permanently -- has been centered around the circumstances of a possible G League assignment.

Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace wanted Parsons to play several games with the Grizzlies' G League affiliate, the Memphis Hustle, before deciding on returning Parsons to the active roster with the Grizzlies, sources said.

Parsons has been willing to play games with the G League affiliate but wanted a clearer plan and a timetable in place that would return him to the Grizzlies' active roster, league sources said.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers waived guard Patrick McCaw on Sunday, one week after signing him to two-year, $6 million non-guaranteed deal.

McCaw, 23, played in three games with Cleveland. The Cavaliers had to make a decision by Monday to keep McCaw on their roster at a prorated $3 million for the rest of the season.

The Cavaliers got McCaw after the Warriors declined to match an offer sheet last week.

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« Reply #21049 on: January 07, 2019, 01:04:54 AM »

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« Reply #21050 on: January 08, 2019, 02:08:53 AM »
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25705352/hedo-turkoglu-says-enes-kanter-new-york-knicks-irrational-smear-campaign-turkey
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Former NBA player Hedo Turkoglu, now a chief adviser to the president of Turkey, says comments by Enes Kanter about the country are nothing more than an ongoing "political smear campaign" by the New York Knicks center.

Kanter last week said he would not travel with the Knicks to London for a game against the Washington Wizards on Jan. 17 because he fears for his life because of his ongoing clash with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
wait, why is Hedo a chief adviser to Erdogan?

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Kanter told reporters at the Knicks' shootaround Monday in Portland that Turkoglu likely was being told to say those things.

"It's probably not [Turkoglu], but the president making him say it," Kanter told reporters. "If you look at his Twitter, it's German, English and Turkish. It's three languages, and he doesn't even know German. They're probably making him do it. He's kind of like his puppy dog. Lap dog is better. He probably got so much money for that."

A Knicks team official said last week that Kanter wouldn't travel to London because of a visa issue, but Kanter on Monday said that was incorrect.

"They don't understand the conversation and it's very confusing," said Kanter, who posted a photo of a travel document on Twitter. "It's not a visa issue. ... I have a travel document.... I can travel."

Kanter reportedly was indicted by the Istanbul Cyber Crimes Investigation Bureau last year because of "hurtful and humiliating" comments made about Turkoglu, the president of the Turkish Basketball Federation, on social media.

I can't seem to figure out exactly what Hedo is advising about other than taking shots at Kanter. :idont
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday appointed a former basketball star as one of his senior advisers, a source within the presidential office said.

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« Reply #21051 on: January 11, 2019, 08:31:47 PM »

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« Reply #21053 on: January 17, 2019, 12:02:49 AM »
James Harden is breaking basketball


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« Reply #21054 on: January 17, 2019, 12:40:50 AM »
Was there, ruined at end as they choked it 😭

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« Reply #21055 on: January 17, 2019, 01:18:54 AM »
Kyrie might have the best touch ever with his off hand

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« Reply #21056 on: January 17, 2019, 09:29:35 PM »
A bundle of rumors came out about the Mavs trying to move Dennis Smith Jr., so now they're apparently having meetings to smooth things over. Smith apparently has demanded a trade though. Mavs were looking to deal him because they don't think he and Doncic can play together long term as he forces Doncic off the ball.

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« Reply #21058 on: January 19, 2019, 05:28:16 AM »
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Brooklyn Nets forward/center Kenneth Faried has agreed to a contract buyout, clearing the way for him to sign a free-agent deal with the Houston Rockets
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The Rockets are aggressively working to find a trade for the exiled Carmelo Anthony before Monday's 5 p.m. ET deadline to clear a roster spot for Faried, league sources said. The Rockets will need to trade a player to a team with an open roster spot, or waive a player

The cleanest solution to the Rockets clearing a roster spot without a trade is releasing James Nunnally five days early from his 10-day contract.
i would think the cleanest solution would be to just waive Melo?

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« Reply #21059 on: January 23, 2019, 11:36:43 PM »


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