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Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

paternity suitor posted:

If anything, let Oden be a warning to teams: it's risky to draft middle age men posing as teenagers.


It worked out with Lebron but it's risky

Thon Maker is actually playing way better than I would have thought. He was 35 while a Freshman in High School.

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Hashtag Banterzone
Dec 8, 2005


Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM
With modern training techniques and improved medical care teams are more willing to take a flyer on middle aged men pretending to be teenagers.

Thon Maker would've probably been a 2nd round pick 10 years ago, and Tanguy Ngombo would go in late lottery if he was drafted today.

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

News: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lkTQJv_eBGw
View: https://twitter.com/trailblazers/status/825190757921206272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Bush Did Outer Heaven
Jan 18, 2005

The Sweetest Payne

Hashtag Banterzone posted:

With modern training techniques and improved medical care teams are more willing to take a flyer on middle aged men pretending to be teenagers.

Thon Maker would've probably been a 2nd round pick 10 years ago, and Tanguy Ngombo would go in late lottery if he was drafted today.

Tanguy Ngombo is a myth used by cruel AAU coaches to motivate the youth. Nobody wants to turn out like Tanguy Ngombo, a wistful, imaginary man who never made it to the big leagues.

Papercut
Aug 24, 2005

His mechanics are so bad. He releases the ball like 6" below where he should and predictably bricks it short.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Does Evan Turner starting over Moe Harkless actually help or something?

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

zelah posted:

Do you think Lebron ever comes off the bench? I always figured that he'd just retire in a year or two before he declined to that point

He never would have to if he didn't want to.

I mean hell, Rondo had a starting spot at the beginning of this year. There will always be a team that would give 50 year old LeBron a starting spot.


If you pause it right after the cross over and turn it off, it's still a really fantastic play.

pubic works project posted:

Paul George is cool and good.

drat straight.

Doltos
Dec 28, 2005

🤌🤌🤌

Is Parsons just busted or is he seriously injured? He can't get above 20 minutes a game and he looks tired and lovely all the time.

Paul Zuvella
Dec 7, 2011

Doltos posted:

Is Parsons just busted or is he seriously injured? He can't get above 20 minutes a game and he looks tired and lovely all the time.

He's the next Danny Granger.

Up Circle
Apr 3, 2008
Chandler parsons sucks.

Paul Zuvella
Dec 7, 2011

Turns out signing a slightly above average player to a 100 million dollar contract immediately after he goes through major knee surgery is a bad idea.

Who would have guessed?

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe

Tae posted:

Does Evan Turner starting over Moe Harkless actually help or something?

Maybe it's actually all Noah Vonleh ever think of that?

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop
He's running out of body parts

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CRISPYBABY
Dec 15, 2007

by Reene

quote:

I called my brothers and told them. They were superexcited. I told my son and he is only 13 months old. And he looked at me like, ‘All right. Whatever. I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ He wasn’t like, ‘Daddy made the All-Star team.’ He was just like, ‘OK, read me this book. I don’t care what you’re talking about.’ But I was superexcited. Nine years. Some years I thought I was going to make it. Some years I knew I wasn’t going to make it. This was pretty exciting.

Deandre Jordan d'awwww

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

I hope on the night before the All-Star game the NBA changes their mind and gives his spot to KAT or Gobert instead.

Brolander
Oct 20, 2008

i am but a vessel

RCarr posted:

As long as he can purposely run into people and get to shoot free throws he will always have a spot in the league.

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

Kyle Lowry loving owns.

Doltos
Dec 28, 2005

🤌🤌🤌

Redgrendel2001 posted:

Kyle Lowry loving owns.

Think you can talk about the unlawful banning of a hole group of people based off of their religious beliefs from entering a country of their families and loved ones without using naughty swear words?

TheShazbot
Feb 20, 2011

Tae posted:

Does Evan Turner starting over Moe Harkless actually help or something?

Harkless has been injured, iirc - so it's not as if Portland has a choice. It's either play Evan Turner, Noah Vonleh, or some other 2nd-rounder who would get roasted

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
Vonleh is starting to look decent but he is probably like 2 years away still.

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
Swapping out Aminu and Harkless for Vonleh and Turner was an explicit starting lineup change, injury or no. Stotts said so himself.

zelah
Dec 1, 2004

Diabetes, you are not invited to my pizza party.
Jake Layman would never get roasted.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
NBA N/V: I think it's bullshit

Jerry Stackhouse
Apr 12, 2008

Should we be paid to watch NBA games? An investigative report: https://66thtake.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/the-baggy-shorted-philanthropists/

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://twitter.com/amandakaschube/status/826135036307111937


Rondo is operating on team cancer levels that have never been reached before.

Libertine
Jun 21, 2004

When I die, I hope they say I made the eSports industry a better place than I made millions of dollars.

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/amandakaschube/status/826135036307111937


Rondo is operating on team cancer levels that have never been reached before.

He's infected Mirotic with brain cancer apparently.

CRISPYBABY
Dec 15, 2007

by Reene

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/amandakaschube/status/826135036307111937


Rondo is operating on team cancer levels that have never been reached before.

He learned from the best.

http://www.theonion.com/article/stephon-marbury-embroils-celtics-big-3-in-elaborat-2676

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


Stockholm Syndrome

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Paul Zuvella posted:

Turns out signing a slightly above average player to a 100 million dollar contract immediately after he goes through major knee surgery is a bad idea.

Who would have guessed?

I knew that Portland got a bargain with Festus Ezili!

He may never play a game, but he only got 16 million. :)

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Young players want Dwyane Wade to practice more - Taj Gibson
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/young-players-want-dwyane-wade-184305659.html


tanglewood1420 posted:

That would get you to the East finals at least. Maybe light on shooting, but you could sort that in free agency in the summer and package Okafor/Covington/Saric to get some help if you want to get more vets in considering you are now in win now mode.

LBJ + Butler seems like an instant finals berth.

Away all Goats posted:

I don't think that team beats the Warriors though.

The same could be said for any team.

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Kings play the sixers tonight in a make up game
https://twitter.com/boogiecousins/status/826190401359007745

God does not want the Kings and sixers to play

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

Doltos posted:

Is Parsons just busted or is he seriously injured? He can't get above 20 minutes a game and he looks tired and lovely all the time.

Microfracture surgery claims another career

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Let's speculate which high end liquor boogie and Barnes are drinking when this game is cancelled

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
doesn't boogie have like a wine cellar or something? probably some classy as hell poo poo while he brainstorms more witticisms to torment sacramento bee reporters with

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

This play had me screaming my fuckin head off. TT gave `em the melo jabstep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UX6XnSqW0

AggressivelyStupid fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jan 31, 2017

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

AggressivelyStupid posted:

This play had me screaming my fuckin head off. TT gave `em the melo jabstep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UX6XnSqW0

Lmao Russ is like "What am I seeing right now"

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Looks like the Sixers are resting Embiid and showcasing okafor and Noel

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

euphronius posted:

Looks like the Sixers are resting Embiid and showcasing okafor and Noel

Let's showcase Okafor by having him guard Cousins. Ballsy gambit.

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Don't the kings play a center next to cousins? Idk.

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