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It would be super funny if Harden won the 3 point contest http://instagram.com/p/zGDR2-NlSZ/
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I vaguely recall the Sheed archive. He should write a book.
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Feb 14, 2015 23:29
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Salvor_Hardin posted:That's because they do. Labor is ridiculously underpaid across the board. Promotion it's different than raise
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Feb 14, 2015 23:35
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"it was a good game, both teams played hard" by Rasheed Wallace
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Ramadu posted:Really though, how many kids are actually "NBA ready" at 18? Maybe if the D-League was really functioning then you might but these kids aren't that great outside of some notable exceptions like Lebron and Kobe. Mornacale posted:It's players who either show promise but clearly aren't NBA-ready... I know it's a term that gets thrown around a lot (usually by someone saying players need to play in college at least 2-3 years) but I'm not even sure what kind of standard "NBA ready" actually is. It further gets muddled because we know a lot of guys would get few minutes on one team and a lot on another. Even many all-time greats come into the league well below average their first year. Ross posted:Sometimes I wonder if the 35-second clock doesn't end up actually increasing scoring college. Most of the defenses are so bad that it's really hard to guard even a slightly-above-average offense for that long. At least in the pro level there doesn't seem to be a correlation between offensive/defensive efficiency and pace. I think everyone would agree that the offense is weaker on the whole. The average ORtg/DRtg is about five points lower in college this year compared to the NBA. The B_36 posted:It's always seemed like the players end up ignoring the analytics side of player rankings as well, so would much really change for the better if they chose the awards each year? They're just as susceptible to over rating guys based on performances years ago (Kobe Bryant), or saying a guy is way better than he is because he's gets along with everybody or has 'intangibles' (Derek Fisher). It would be interesting if we had voting results year-by-year so we could do a side-by-side comparison.
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Zogo posted:I know it's a term that gets thrown around a lot (usually by someone saying players need to play in college at least 2-3 years) but I'm not even sure what kind of standard "NBA ready" actually is. It further gets muddled because we know a lot of guys would get few minutes on one team and a lot on another. I generally tend to think professional development is going to be a lot better than development with the pretense of going to school, too.
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hitze posted:
Anyone else notice he started to write "Seth Curry" for MVP? 
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OH WORD SON posted:Also going against Giannis is a terrible mistake Zach LaVine is totally winning the dunk contest. It's the only thing he can do really well
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DeMarcus Cousins is poking the bear:espn posted:DeMarcus Cousins responded to Charles Barkley's criticism of him by saying he simply doesn't care about anything that comes out of Barkley's mouth.
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Time posted:A long time ago I saw a similar thing but it was a list of stories about rasheed wallace and it was many pages long. I laughed so hard at it but I haven't been able to find it ever again. It was copy/pasted into fyad in like 2004 http://www.oocities.org/colosseum/loge/7346/
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Also speaking of NBA content of old, what other old fogies in here remember https://www.niggaslike.us from the minds of BIZORT and friends? This is still one of my favorite things: http://www.niggaslike.us/slava-game.html
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quote:#1 Got thrown out of the McDonald's All-American Game.
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JAMES HARDEN STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR AS WE SPEAK http://instagram.com/p/zGWGpmtlfP/
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hitze posted:
Klay hastily scribbled out "Sef"
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Bashez posted:I thought smoothing would just give money back to the players evenly. Basically sign contracts as if the cap were X (a smooth increase) but return money as if the salary floor were Y (based on the new deal) so free agents weren't the only people gobbling up the increase. It would be artificially held lower for a few years, then artificially higher than it would have been for a few years to make up the difference, so the net amount is the same money. The point is to avoid a 1-year jump and instead have that jump spread out over several years with everyone spending/making the same amount of money. I thought it was a good idea, but I understand why current players would vote against it.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I'd vote for Lt. Frank Drebin. Spoeank posted:Refs shouldn't be in the HoF, that's like a branch manager being elected employee of the month. Jesus. I would vote for the custodians, security guards and abused trainers everywhere. Also, the surgeons and doctors who keep repairing tendons and ligaments so our favorite athletes can play till their mid40s. Metapod posted:crawford is awesome Donald Sterling for president 2016. That should deflect some.
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REMINDER NBA FASHION SHOW ON TNT RIGHT loving NOW
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PWI posted:REMINDER NBA FASHION SHOW ON TNT RIGHT loving NOW Haha Comcast didn't list it as sports so at first I couldn't find it.
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The Starters interviewed Arne Duncan this weekend. They asked when Obama will be in the celebrity game, apparently Duncan and Obama have talked about it. Maybe in 2 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwshCHY3MzY
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euphronius posted:Re college basketball: My team of choice (Iowa State) got a tech this season because someone dunked during warm-ups.
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I always thought the stuff Mychal says on Klay, about preferring the Lakers over him was hosed up, but hearing Klay repeat the words on the Simmons podcast kind of lessen the blow. Klay seems to just regard his dad as the sort of the crazy person he is which seems fine.
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Humphries is a good sport about stuff like this. That Harden/Humphries shoe commercial where someone gets traded to Humphries entourage was hilarious.
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Team Bosh
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Lavine's dunks in one handy (giant) gif http://i.imgur.com/RseIzah.gifv (mv if you need to edit this to the link I understand) Mod edit: Yeah gonna make this a link Somebody fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Spoeank posted:I'm worried LaVine will unleash the actual Chaos Dunk next year. Where's the All Star game next year
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Ross posted:I'm referring to drafted baseball players playing in college, not the MLB minor leagues. Baseball teams don't retain the rights to drafted players who go to college (or back to college), the player has to re-enter the draft later. Anyway, it's not the kids who get drafted to million-dollar contracts who would benefit, it's the ones who fall to the late second round or don't get drafted at all. The option to go back to school and maybe break into the first round (or even just escape from a totally dysfunctional franchise) is useful, and the fact that teams would be more willing to take risks on raw prospects helps those guys get that payday earlier.
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dokmo posted:Back in the very early days of the internet there was a website that had a bunch of Earl Strom stories, I think they were transcriptions from his son? Or maybe the son was writing a book? Anyway, these stories were great. I've been looking for an archived version of this site forever. http://web.archive.org/web/20010209115146/http://www.onhoops.com/content/articles/Earl
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I don't care about all star stuff in any sport, like, at all, but I just saw Patrick Beverley won the skills competition and I'm pretty  about it
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So I missed the entire NBA season to this point. Can anyone explain what's up in a paragraph or less?
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Philip Rivers posted:So I missed the entire NBA season to this point. Can anyone explain what's up in a paragraph or less? West is crazy close except Golden State who's comfortably in front. Cavs started shaky but are gaining steam. Hawks own and are the surprise team of the season, second only to maybe the Bucks. Andrew Wiggins is good. Zack LaVine owned the dunk contest. Playoffs in the West will be loving INSANE. OKC might actually miss the playoffs.
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Timothy Mosgov and JR Smith are Game Changers unironically
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SamuraiFoochs posted:West is crazy close except Golden State who's comfortably in front. Cavs started shaky but are gaining steam. Hawks own and are the surprise team of the season, second only to maybe the Bucks. Andrew Wiggins is good. Zack LaVine owned the dunk contest. Playoffs in the West will be loving INSANE. OKC might actually miss the playoffs. I hear the Clips have been playing like big ol' dummies, any takes on that?
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The NBA used to allow kids to go back to school after they were drafted if they declared as such within a certain amount of time. Voshon Lenard did it. The NBA team would still retain their rights while they were in school
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Philip Rivers posted:I hear the Clips have been playing like big ol' dummies, any takes on that? It's really really funny. They had like, 9 techs an ejection and a flagrant in a game they lost by like 40. Then lost the next game by 40 too. 
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Ramadu posted:It's really really funny. They had like, 9 techs an ejection and a flagrant in a game they lost by like 40.  How are the Suns doing?
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