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Bigass Moth posted:What are the five best NBA player tweets of all time and is there one better than the glazed donut rear end face? I don't know about that, the 11 rings tweet was funny until we realized it was just marketing and not an old man being bad at twitter. Cool Buff Man posted:I'm not sure if it was instagram or twitter but Danny Green's holocaust selfie is the best piece of NBA social media. Also this top tier tweet. IMO most of the best NBA tweets are all the ones from either early twitter or before players became famous.
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Spacebump posted:IMO most of the best NBA tweets are all the ones from either early twitter or before players became famous. The exception being the entirety of Embiid's twitter catalogue obviously.
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Ammanas posted:Max salaries are there for owners benefit, they will not remove The cap and max contracts don't affect labor's share, just how it's organized. They minimize inequality within the players not between the players and the owners. Many players sign deals that are effectively for a % of the team's cap and not a flat number, and no player is actually going to get the exact amount of their contract because it's modulated by the precise outcome of the BRI calculation. The cap doesn't actually affect what the players are paid - if it miraculously turned out that the BRI was double what they expected this year, everyone's pay would double but their contract wouldn't change. Also the actual way to prevent the current GSW team is to fix restricted free agency. If Steph had not been an RFA he wouldn't have signed an extension in 2012 because he'd have been able to expect a max from another team for sure just on potential. As it was, he risked another injury shortened season and then no one would offer him and tie up their space on a lottery ticket. He should have gone to RFA anyway and his agent is dumb, but if he had been an UFA or if RFA didn't allow the other team to hold your cap space hostage, he'd be on a max right now.
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Jun 2, 2017 20:58
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attackmole posted:Yeah rumour is that Tolliver was a great veteran. Wasn't there some report about him working with the young guys and telling them something like "my job is to teach you how to take my job"? That kind of frankness, humiliate and willing to teach while being putting up solid minutes as a stretch four off the bench seems like it would be worth the 6 mill he was getting paid in this economy, but I ain't Vivek.
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It's kinda crazy still that Steph only managed 11 million annual but someone like Chandler Parsons and Noah easily got big money despite similar spotty injury histories. I should look up who his agent was at that time.
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Jun 2, 2017 21:01
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Tae posted:It's kinda crazy still that Steph only managed 11 million annual but someone like Chandler Parsons and Noah easily got big money despite similar spotty injury histories. I should look up who his agent was at that time. Steph's 11 million in 2012 when he signed it was a bigger % of the cap(19%) than Noah got and only a bit under what Chandler got. There were a lot of people here that called that contract a bad one when it was signed.
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Lockback posted:Steph's 11 million in 2012 when he signed it was a bigger % of the cap(19%) than Noah got and only a bit under what Chandler got. There were a lot of people here that called that contract a bad one when it was signed. They were wrong but in fairness the Gilbert Arenas collapse was fresh in everyone's mind. Curry missed 40 games the season before. Still, by the end of the season everyone knew he'd hosed up, he was a 100% max player that offseason if he waited. His max offer was 15 million and Dallas, Toronto, Brooklyn, and Phoenix were all in a position to max him and be better off for it even with the people they'd have to give up. edit wait did he resign in 2012 or 2011? either way in summer 2013 he could have gotten a max from Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Utah for sure, Houston if they hadn't opted for Dwight, and the Blazers if they had gotten creative but they already had Lillard. Looks like he signed the extension a couple of days before the 2012 season started, so yeah if he'd gone to RFA summer 2013 he'd be on a max in GS, Dallas, Detroit, or Atlanta right now I bet, and Durant would be in OKC or Boston. DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Tae posted:It's kinda crazy still that Steph only managed 11 million annual but someone like Chandler Parsons and Noah easily got big money despite similar spotty injury histories. I should look up who his agent was at that time. I mean, he signed back when the cap about about 40% lower, but the main he reason he signed for so cheaply was that he was coming off severe injury issues. The season before he signed the extension, he had only played 23 games (in the lockout shortened year, but he still missed well over 50% of the season with recurring ankle injuries).
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Lockback posted:Steph's 11 million in 2012 when he signed it was a bigger % of the cap(19%) than Noah got and only a bit under what Chandler got. There were a lot of people here that called that contract a bad one when it was signed. He had the same ankle injury over and over, and there were many smart people who thought his problems could not be solved given the rigors of the NBA season, and he that he was destined to go out quietly, like a minature Greg Oden. I'm still not sure why he hasn't, to be honest. He deliberately falls on his rear end every time he shoots with another player's foot anywhere nearby, but even with doing that, he has to put a ton of strain on his little baby ankles a hundred times per game. predicto fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Jun 2, 2017 21:34
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predicto posted:He had the same ankle injury over and over, and there were many smart people who thought his problems could not be solved given the rigors of the NBA season, and he that he was destined to go out quietly, like a minature Greg Oden. He apparently has done a lot of hip strengthening. I guess part of the problem was he had little baby hips and put too much strain on his little baby ankles to compensate.
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Ammanas posted:He got better shoes. Those Curry Chef 2s were therapeutic? That explains their look.
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I believe last night was the first time that the Warriors won a Finals game since the Curry dadshoes dropped.
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Ammanas posted:He got better shoes. Gotta be the shoes.
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Lessail posted:I don't want uncommon, I want never again. Ban players from switching teams. You must stay with your original team just like a samurai pledges allegiance to his master in feudal Japan. You must play basketball until your owning team says otherwise. IF a player wants to opt out they MUST commit seppuku. So basically the Spurs win the vast majority of the titles from 1999-2017. Problem solved. No more ring chasers. Redgrendel2001 posted:They could always just point him in the direction of a junior high school in Mexico. 'Back in 2004, Bryant accused Malone of pushing up on his wife. According to an ESPN story at the time, Malone’s agent, Dwight Manley, told the LA Times that Vanessa asked Malone one day, “Hey, cowboy, what are you hunting?” since he was wearing a cowboy hat and boots. According to Manley, she asked twice, and Malone replied: “I’m hunting for little Mexican girls.” “I don’t feel tension. But you’ve got to understand, I’m a hunter, so I’m already right there anyways … I’m ready at all times,’’ Malone said. “You have the problem, I don’t. I love Westerns. I’m old-school Western. Back in the day when you had a beef, you didn’t go get guns and knives. You just, ‘Hey, I got a problem.’ We just go in the back with no cameras, no nothing, and let’s just knuckle up and get it over with.’’ “Hey, this is what I’d say to you. I don’t have a problem. People say whatever they want to say and that’s great. I’m 6-9, 272, to be exact: I’m not hard to find,’’ Malone said. “I don’t want no trouble. But if something’s got to go down, I’m not playing fair. [If] we’ve got to get down, then we’ve got to get down. I’m just telling you.’’ I’ll fight Kobe if he’s still mad I flirted with wife.' http://nypost.com/2015/02/12/karl-malone-ill-fight-kobe-if-hes-still-mad-i-flirted-with-wife/ Idahoant posted:I think it's nice to see KD scoring all these points and kicking rear end in the finals. He looks really comfortable without all the Westbrooking getting in the way. KD just runs to the basket and dunks it. You know RW would've been pounding that ball into the ground.
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Metapod posted:No way in hell he gets forgiven like that I already forgave KD the very day he signed with GSW. He actually received my blessing to establish a dynastic reign in California. Ammanas posted:You could say the result was great but the only game of note was 7 where it was competitive until the last second, makes it broadly a lovely final with a decent ending It could be said that the 2016 finals was a miscarriage of justice carried out by the meddling NBA BOG. But yes your movie analogy is apt. milk milk lemonade posted:Are you asking are they good enough to hold Cleveland to 34.6% shooting again? The answer is gently caress no, GS had a very rare and unlikely-to-be-repeated stroke of luck against Cleveland in terms of raw shooting percentage. I wouldn't bet a lot of $$$ on it but it could happen again. GSW held CLE below 33% twice in the 2015 finals.
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predicto posted:He had the same ankle injury over and over, and there were many smart people who thought his problems could not be solved given the rigors of the NBA season, and he that he was destined to go out quietly, like a minature Greg Oden. The mystery of Curry's ankle woes disappearing was solved a couple months ago https://www.si.com/nba/2017/04/10/stephen-curry-book-excerpt-ankle-injury-mark-jackson posted:Two days later, several Warriors accepted Jackson’s invitation to attend his congregation. Jackson was the co-pastor of True Love Worship Center International in Van Nuys. uhhhh idgi
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Shear Modulus posted:The mystery of Curry's ankle woes disappearing was solved a couple months ago What if like, Russell Westbrook tweeted a rocket and nothing else.
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Shear Modulus posted:The mystery of Curry's ankle woes disappearing was solved a couple months ago When the DeAndre situation was going down, some of the Clippers were hinting at what happened on twitter by tweeting out various emoji of planes, money, etc. Paul Pierce tried to join in but didn't know what an emoji was so he attached a picture of a rocketship
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Shear Modulus posted:uhhhh idgi http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/7/8/8914659/the-clippers-mavericks-battle-for-deandre-jordan-is-all-out-emoji
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Shear Modulus posted:The mystery of Curry's ankle woes disappearing was solved a couple months ago i literally had a coworker try to pray to god to heal and bless my achilles injury i was flabbergasted
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Ammanas posted:i literally had a coworker try to pray to god to heal and bless my achilles injury Maybe that's how Terrell Suggs came back so fast after tearing his Achilles, hmm
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Maybe that's how Terrell Suggs came back so fast after tearing his Achilles, hmm that guy is steve smith and ray lewis is the coworker
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Ammanas posted:i literally had a coworker try to pray to god to heal and bless my achilles injury Did it work?
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tanglewood1420 posted:Uh no. This is from a bit back but I disagree completely. Everything my eyes tell me from watchin' the Warriors the past few years is that Draymond Green IS the Warriors. Steph shoots some cool shots but he is a defensive liability. You're underrating Draymond by a lot and overrating Steph by just as much. Like saying Kyle Korver was the best player on the those 60 win Hawks. KD I dunno always seems like he should be the second best player in the NBA but he's just so quiet sometimes, especially on defense and that seems odd to me. He's a good defender but he should be much better. Giannis is already showing what you should be doing on D with that kinda spider body, but KD doesn't even have a tenacious posture. He shrinks his shoulders all the time. If Kevin "The American Giannis" Durant played D like Giannis OKC wouldve been in the Finals last year and he wouldn't have betrayed his friend Russell, Greek Jordan https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/03/5f/62/035f62d7b58fe8d030c4c45eb71f3590.jpg Wingspan https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cat.jpg but since he doesn't I still think Draymond is more important to the team.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/7/8/8914659/the-clippers-mavericks-battle-for-deandre-jordan-is-all-out-emoji Still probably my favorite NBA incident ever Although this is on the list too http://deadspin.com/rockets-twitter-guy-fired-over-emoji-violence-1701052004
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Bigass Moth posted:Is Chris Bosh a hall of famer or just a hall of very gooder? Speaking of Bosh. https://twitter.com/AlbertNahmad/status/870759709569110016
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Bosh is a no-brainer hall of famer.
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https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/870671355661795328 Do it Paul. Save us from the techbros
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Tae posted:Bosh is a no-brainer hall of famer. but does he have what it takes to be a heretofore unthinkable Fourth Alpha?
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Can't wait to see Kwahi in some State Farm commercials. "KWAHI WHAT HAPPENED" "i was in a car accident Chris" "YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE IN SHOCK" "......"
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Bigass Moth posted:What are the five best NBA player tweets of all time and is there one better than the glazed donut rear end face? This is one of the only things I smiled at after the election. https://twitter.com/joelembiid/status/796258910617370624 Also Dion's MEN LIE WOMEN LIE BUCKETS DN'T is a classic but I think it was on Instagram.
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Henchman of Santa posted:This is one of the only things I smiled at after the election. Nah it was twitter cuz he linked a youtube without noticing that the description poo poo on him https://twitter.com/dionwaiters3/status/517158752345415682?lang=en
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ADAM SILVER HAS A SECRET TWITTER ADAM YOU BASTARD WE WILL FIND YOU https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/870778694112903168
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