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John Paxson is the most infuriating motherfucker in this organization. Because whenever he speaks he seems to loving get it. Like you listen to him talk and he clearly doesn't like the direction of the team. Then nothing changes. Gar stays on. The coach that he couldn't say a single loving nice thing about at the end season press conference stays on and nothing changesRedgrendel2001 posted:Is the general consensus that Wade and Rondo come back? Wade most assuredly is unless they trade Jimmy. And even then 25 million is a lot to turn down. Rondo likely is too because he was the only NBA caliber PG on the team last year. DeimosRising posted:Celtics Slightly West is not a terrible fate but I don't know if the Bulls have the parts to avoid a full tank in the next few years. JB is good enough to carry a team alone to the playoffs as this year proved. Jimmy sells tickets. The Bulls are gonna run him into the ground use him up and then assasinate him in the media like they do all their stars. Dexo fucked around with this message at 17:49 on May 21, 2017 |
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Dexo posted:John Paxson is the most infuriating motherfucker in this organization. Because whenever he speaks he seems to loving get it. Like you listen to him talk and he clearly doesn't like the direction of the team. Then nothing changes. Gar stays on. The coach that he couldn't say a single loving nice thing about at the end season press conference stays on and nothing changes I'm assuming he'll bail if they don't make a huge improvement or trade him before he demands it
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May 21, 2017 18:07
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TBeats posted:I hope Lebron actually makes the world ending chaos dunk on Draymond to end the series with a 4-0 sweep by the Cavs. If he gets the chaos dunk this year to win the title I think the warriors will completely disband out of shame.
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May 21, 2017 18:08
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Pop says Kawhi is likely out for game 4.
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May 21, 2017 18:11
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Just move game 4 to Cedar Park and let the Austin Spurs get some postseason experience.
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May 21, 2017 18:23
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Bashez posted:Pop says Kawhi is likely out for game 4. https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/866344127461380096
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May 21, 2017 18:28
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i checked okc's cap situation for this offseason... it's not good
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May 21, 2017 18:44
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May 21, 2017 18:47
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Metapod posted:i checked okc's cap situation for this offseason... There are a bunch of teams that are lower-half seeds but somehow have insane cape situations this offseason. It's going to be a buyer's market on middling dudes on bad contracts. Basically the inevitable result of last season's cap surge bonanza.
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May 21, 2017 18:51
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May 21, 2017 18:55
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Bashez posted:Pop says Kawhi is likely out for game 4. well, of all the ways to end what has been a fun season, this truly is the saddest the 2016-17 spurs season ends not with a bang, but with a whimper
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leftist heap posted:There are a bunch of teams that are lower-half seeds but somehow have insane cape situations this offseason. It's going to be a buyer's market on middling dudes on bad contracts. Basically the inevitable result of last season's cap surge bonanza. i just want a solid backup pg and its not looking like it will happen. I miss eric maynor Femur posted:Get ready to pay Westbrook 50m a year i'm ready op
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May 21, 2017 19:00
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Whatever else it was or wasn't, the Zaza play was a gigantic money loser. Probably cost the teams at least 2 extra games of playoff revenue/player pay, dampened ratings, and cooled enthusiasm that was building for the Finals, plus it produced a week long no basketball gap which will allow attention to drift.
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DeimosRising posted:Whatever else it was or wasn't, the Zaza play was a gigantic money loser. Probably cost the teams at least 2 extra games of playoff revenue/player pay, dampened ratings, and cooled enthusiasm that was building for the Finals, plus it produced a week long no basketball gap which will allow attention to drift. Just play a loop of Lebron's blocks from last year's series and it will get me hype
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https://twitter.com/KwaiYang23/status/866330494270615553 #Spurs #badguy #Holocaust
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leftist heap posted:If your team is in the market for a guy that can be at best the 7th man on a fringe playoff team, who's making $18 million a year for the next 3 years this is the offseason for you. Evan Turner is available already?
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Paul Zuvella posted:I legit used to work with people who think chicago is a war zone. Really not surprising at all the way it's covered in the news. Basically the only time I see Chicago in the major publications or on the networks there's a graphic with a pistol and a spiderwebbed broken glass pane. For whatever reason it got real intense in the last few years or so even though I don't believe there's any corresponding unique crisis around Chicago? My guess would be that it followed Obama addressing Chicago crime in some speeches in early 2013 ("the equivalent of a Newtown every 4 months")? After that you saw a big wave of what was essentially local crime stories making their way into the National news. After that you can find lines referring to Chicago gun crime with practically poetic language from every major media corporation. I think it speaks to the power of the Presidential voice over national debate more than anything else.
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May 21, 2017 19:46
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Punkin Spunkin posted:https://twitter.com/KwaiYang23/status/866330494270615553 Popovic is giving big minutes to a player who is literally missing a finger.
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May 21, 2017 19:49
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Rick posted:I never got over the death of WCW, now I only believe in making money, this is my JRPG origin story. *bows solemnly then immediately heads to social media to publish a picture of a three paragraph written apology begging forgiveness for the offensive gesture*
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May 21, 2017 19:52
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EvanTH posted:Really not surprising at all the way it's covered in the news. Basically the only time I see Chicago in the major publications or on the networks there's a graphic with a pistol and a spiderwebbed broken glass pane. For whatever reason it got real intense in the last few years or so even though I don't believe there's any corresponding unique crisis around Chicago? Not that there aren't real issues in Chicago but it's been a convenient boogeyman for law and order types
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May 21, 2017 19:54
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Lockback posted:Popovic is giving big minutes to a player who is literally missing a finger. That gif of Pop where he beats the everliving poo poo out of Kawhi during the 2014 finals, his star player cowering in fear, unable to fight back.
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https://twitter.com/TJDhoops/status/866357589084438530 👀👀👀 Edit https://twitter.com/SBondyNYDN/status/866024276096417793
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May 21, 2017 19:57
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Man. If Zingis is available Boston should shoot their shots.
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EvanTH posted:Really not surprising at all the way it's covered in the news. Basically the only time I see Chicago in the major publications or on the networks there's a graphic with a pistol and a spiderwebbed broken glass pane. For whatever reason it got real intense in the last few years or so even though I don't believe there's any corresponding unique crisis around Chicago? I picture Chicago as a frozen tundra where everyone is sad all the time because they cannot get any ketchup for their hot dogs because all of their tomatoes went into supporting the deep dish pizza industry and the only passtime is to be horrendously tortured with Jerry Reinsdorph's whips or shot by his illegal handguns and forced to watch the Bulls all winter and then the Cubs all summer while telling each other tales of Ice Hockey to keep hope alive.
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May 21, 2017 20:04
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Dexo posted:Man. If Zingis is available Boston should shoot their shots. That would be a fantastic fit.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:That would be a fantastic fit. I'm not sure I do #1 for Zinger.
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Paul Zuvella posted:I'm not sure I do #1 for Zinger. Crowder and the right to swap picks (NYK and Brooklyn) in 2018?
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Paul Zuvella posted:I'm not sure I do #1 for Zinger. That is insane to me. Harder to find someone with Zingis skill set than Fultz's And hes on a rookie deal and controllable.
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Dexo posted:That is insane to me. Harder to find someone with Zingis skill set than Fultz's You know who else is going to be on a rookie deal and controllable? Fultz. If you're the Celtics, I say you hold onto your pick and draft him.
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It's getting really hard to win with a big man as your best player. If Zinger could learn to take advantage of smaller guys in the post, I'd feel better. We also don't know if he can handle being a full-time center.
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Pungry posted:You know who else is going to be on a rookie deal and controllable? Fultz. If you're the Celtics, I say you hold onto your pick and draft him. Sorry give me the 7 footer who has proven he can do it in the NBA with a ton of potential over the scoring PG with tons of potential.
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morestuff posted:Not that there aren't real issues in Chicago but it's been a convenient boogeyman for law and order types True. I mean, the Right's made whole fields of hay associating Obama with all the seedier aspects of Chicago ( to couch it in Ball Term, I'm sure we all remember earlier in his career when attempted knock on him was that he was simply a "Chicago system politician"), so it's kinda been in their interest to highlight all of Chicago's problems (although it's so patently ridiculous that they don't even try to provide any causal relationship, just a sort of bad-with-bad vague association). I'm mostly just saying you don't have to be reading Breitbart to come away with the idea that Chicago has a "unique" gun crime problem. There's been all sorts of stuff like these articles: http://time.com/4635049/chicago-murder-rate-homicides/ (the little "also other major cities have a worse problem but we didn't include them in the chart because it would have undercut our point" bit 3/4 of the way down is so strange) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-august-most-violent-shootings-chicago-20160829-story.html Anyhow, as long as we're speaking of retaliatory cycles of violence, I'd like to take the opportunity as this thread's most consistent Steph Curry Detractor to say that Dedmon knee at the end was absolute weak horseshit, and it's exactly why I wanted Zaza ejected and suspended when it happened. Failing to punish some goon for targeting a team's star almost guarantees some on-court revenge. Basketball is not a blood sport that garbage needs to stay way out of the game.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:https://twitter.com/KwaiYang23/status/866330494270615553
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Bashez posted:Trade Aldridge for Porzingis and sign Chris Paul imo Pop probably drug LMA behind the AT&T Center after last night and put him down. For his own good, of course. Dunno if the Spurs have the money to sign Paul. George Hill wouldn't surprise me though.
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Dexo posted:Sorry give me the 7 footer who has proven he can do it in the NBA with a ton of potential over the scoring PG with tons of potential. People underrate players actually being good in the pros and fall in love with the prospect of someone maybe being good.
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WhyteRyce posted:Remember when Mike Miller did nothing all year and then came in and single handily sunk the Pacers in an elimination game It's a shame that like most """white players""" he was endlessly injured due to poor movement patterns caused by cultural patterns of footwear and sitting Dexo posted:Lmao the Bulls with a super smart but otherwise deficient player in Rondo managed to call and communicate a defense that made the C's look foolish. It made me laugh too, I couldn't believe it but I believed it before it happened and picked them to win. Brad Stevens isnt a Popovich
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Spring Break My Heart posted:"rinks too much"? dude just loves skating
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Femur posted:Get ready to pay Westbrook 50m a year Only kind of related, but do people think we'll see more stratification in veteran star contracts at any point during this CBA as opposed to instantly handing out max deals to anyone who is All Star caliber? As people get more accustomed to the new salary cap landscape, I can't imagine high-end max contracts for dudes like Kyle Lowry being conducive to long-term team-building, and those contracts are gonna be absolute bombs if a guy falls off. Although I guess the price for average starters/rotation pieces would probably come down first if people are going to change their spending habits, right? I am not good with money please help
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xbilkis posted:Only kind of related, but do people think we'll see more stratification in veteran star contracts at any point during this CBA as opposed to instantly handing out max deals to anyone who is All Star caliber? As people get more accustomed to the new salary cap landscape, I can't imagine high-end max contracts for dudes like Kyle Lowry being conducive to long-term team-building, and those contracts are gonna be absolute bombs if a guy falls off. It's really an echo of the NBA pre lockout, there shall be an endless landscape of Allan Houston 100m esque contracts. Again, the owners tried to protect themselves by locking up star players and instead have put it in a team's best interest to let good players leave, and given attractive destinations an advantage in offering the not-hometeam max by being in a nice climate or already being good. Also the Banana boat coalition is going to monopolize cap space as useless broken down 38 year old players and will create sympathy for owners and "teams." The next CBA will be punitive and will probably remove another percent or two from the players' share of the CBA or at very least refuse to budge on all the fake accounting when it comes to basketball related revenue or whatever the term is. That short haired players union director is either stupid or just gave in to their desires in hopes of ingratiating herself and keeping the position long term.
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