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| The Big3 Tourney |
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67 | 22.41% |
| Will Lakers draft Ball |
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40 | 13.38% |
| Where will the Pauls go |
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54 | 18.06% |
| Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? |
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41 | 13.71% |
| Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking |
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97 | 32.44% |
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Cavs/Celtics conference finals are going to be loving amazing Then the Cavs can just not give IT the max when Lebron walks they will still have the Nets pick to kind of start a rebuild The Cavs did something smart? So confused right now
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Aug 23, 2017 01:03
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xbilkis posted:Everyone laughed at Ainge for his inaction all summer long, but the only returning Celtics this season are Horford, Smart, Brown and Rozier I always preferred playing with Smart and Rozier over IT in 2k17 but I'm also not very good at that game.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:04
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straight up brolic posted:Apparently IT had surgery, so he should be fine and doing the initial stages of physical therapy now? If there is some significant set back it'd likely be discovered during the physical He elected not to have surgery and they're still unsure about when he's going to be able to play/practice again, per Brad the other day
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Aug 23, 2017 01:04
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MourningView posted:every time you talk about how LeBron fits with people I wonder if you have actually seen him play basketball in the last decade I feel the same way when I read posts where people just list Lebron and a bunch of nonsensical lineups the Cavs could play. It is good to have that for a rebuild but if the Celtics win this trade the Cavs basically never touch them again in their mutually competitive window.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:05
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Been a crazy couple months for IT that's for sure.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:05
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milk milk lemonade posted:Really bummed Kyrie is gone. His God tier handles are now going to be wowing the worst, shittiest, most racist, stupidest fanbase in the US
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Aug 23, 2017 01:05
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I don't think either team got fleeced. It's just an odd deal because both those teams could have used those assets to acquire Butler or George.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:06
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Potatum played Duke PF in college, although I wouldn't expect him to ever play passable big defense, at least not for 7 years or so. It's not impossible to play them together, sub optimal though Sorry for insinuating that IT's hip injury was career ending and poisoning the well. My instinct is that if his hip injury is as severe as it seems, he'll never be the man he was, hip injuries can quietly be as devastating as achilles tears, but I honestly have no idea, I'm just guessing based on the balance of the trade and spectre of future contracts.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:07
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EMC posted:Cavs/Celtics conference finals are going to be loving amazing They also legitimately improved the team's chances of winning by adding Crowder. No need to bring out 600 year old Richard Jefferson to try and guard KD. This deal is insane.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:07
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Dejan Bimble posted:Sorry for insinuating that IT's hip injury was career ending and poisoning the well. My instinct is that if his hip injury is as severe as it seems, he'll never be the man he was, hip injuries can quietly be as devastating as achilles tears, but I honestly have no idea, I'm just guessing based on the balance of the trade and spectre of future contracts. It's been a hot topic all summer amongst Celtics circles, but everyone was too nervous to call a spade a spade and now people are finally admitting that they were worried about the hip. Even though he's on Cleveland now I love IT and I hope his hip heals up but I'm also glad I'm not really worried about it anymore Now I'm just worried about the 0% roster continuity and the guaranteed < .500 start
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Aug 23, 2017 01:08
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Wow!!!! I focus on football for a week and this happens?!?!
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Aug 23, 2017 01:09
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uh i just got a push saying kyrie to boston whats goin on in this crazy mixed up league??!?!?!?
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Aug 23, 2017 01:09
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Why not keep Fultz and 2018 nets pick and trade crowder and it for a starting center or something.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:10
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going from finals hero to traded out of town in 14 months i love this league
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Aug 23, 2017 01:11
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Cool Buff Man posted:Getting rid of and replacing IT seems to have been the priority, something that getting PG or Butler wouldn't have done. I'm still not sold on the whole thing but it's not anywhere near as dire as people want to make it out to be How can that be true when they traded away the Fultz pick?
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Aug 23, 2017 01:12
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Ramadu posted:uh i just got a push saying kyrie to boston whats goin on in this crazy mixed up league??!?!?!? NBA App?
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Aug 23, 2017 01:12
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As somebody who has been solidly in the "bad offseason for Boston" camp and frequently got told I just wasn't seeing Ainge's amazing master plan, lol
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Aug 23, 2017 01:12
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Adun posted:How can that be true when they traded away the Fultz pick? Fultz has nothing to do with it? He won't be "good" enough for how they want to compete for years. Also Danny clearly doesn't really like him either
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Aug 23, 2017 01:12
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Cool Buff Man posted:It's been a hot topic all summer amongst Celtics circles, but everyone was too nervous to call a spade a spade and now people are finally admitting that they were worried about the hip. Even though he's on Cleveland now I love IT and I hope his hip heals up but I'm also glad I'm not really worried about it anymore It's frightening. When a little guy loses his pop, everything is over, ask Nate Robinson. Unfortunately Kyrie Irving is now on your team If Brad Stevens could get Kyrie to play defense, that would be loving crazy
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Aug 23, 2017 01:13
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Honestly now that I've come down from how goddamn loving funny this is, I'm not sure this is really a bad trade for either team. e: in a vacuum, anyways. relative to the selling prices for PG and Butler it's a fleecing
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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Am I crazy for thinking the Cavs got better in the immediate term with this deal?
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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euphronius posted:Why not keep Fultz and 2018 nets pick and trade crowder and it for a starting center or something. Ainge doesn't have time to wait for quick fixes.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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Well you could have had Fultz and Kyrie and then Fultz in one or two years when Kyrie leaves or is traded again .
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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If they were willing to give up Isiah, Crowder and that protected first, there's literally no reason they couldn't have had Butler or Paul, either of whom would have been better than trading Isiah for Kyrie, and if they were willing to trade Isiah they should have taken Fultz.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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chunkles posted:the nets pick...no...it is a mere legend A fayint rumore... has comme to paff...
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Aug 23, 2017 01:14
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Him not getting surgery is really dumb - Me, the labrum knower
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Aug 23, 2017 01:15
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euphronius posted:Well you could have had Fultz and Kyrie and then Fultz in one or two years when Kyrie leaves or is traded again . I'm really not interested in rehashing the Fultz thing, it became boring months ago
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Aug 23, 2017 01:15
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troofs posted:If they were willing to give up Isiah, Crowder and that protected first, there's literally no reason they couldn't have had Butler or Paul, either of whom would have been better than trading Isiah for Kyrie, and if they were willing to trade Isiah they should have taken Fultz. To Ainge's credit he offered the Pacers much more than they got for George, midseason, so did 6 or 9 other teams. It was Kevin Pritchard's spite that halted all of that
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Aug 23, 2017 01:16
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Cool Buff Man posted:I'm really not interested in rehashing the Fultz thing, it became boring months ago The main reason for not taking Fultz was that he would be blocked by IT Hmm
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Aug 23, 2017 01:16
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euphronius posted:The main reason for not taking Fultz was that he would be blocked by IT Where are you getting this
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Aug 23, 2017 01:16
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I like the deal for Cleveland the more I think about it. IT and Crowder for Kyrie is a wash in the short term assuming IT is healthy. If the thought is that Lebron leaves, they kickstart their rebuild with a top-5 pick and and can move Love and Crowder for more assets too.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:17
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cavs should've found some dumb team to dump IT off on since they already have a better IT in my lil boy Special Kay
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Aug 23, 2017 01:18
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can't wait for the Boston globe to interview Kyrie
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Aug 23, 2017 01:18
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BTW the Celtics only did this so they could trade Kyrie for Anthony Davis
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Aug 23, 2017 01:18
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straight up brolic posted:can't wait for the Boston globe to trash IT
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Aug 23, 2017 01:19
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Cool Buff Man posted:BTW the Celtics only did this so they could trade Kyrie for Anthony Davis I know this is a joke but I want to seriously reply that without the Nets pick that dream is over
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Aug 23, 2017 01:19
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Boogie and Kyrie seems like a bad combination of personalities
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Aug 23, 2017 01:19
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Cool Buff Man posted:BTW the Celtics only did this so they could trade Kyrie for Anthony Davis
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Aug 23, 2017 01:19
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Cool Buff Man posted:Fultz has nothing to do with it? He won't be "good" enough for how they want to compete for years. Also Danny clearly doesn't really like him either I mean if Ainge was so laser focused on getting a PG upgrade you're telling me the Clippers wouldn't have traded CP3 for the same/worse haul than what the Cavs just got?
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Aug 23, 2017 01:20
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Woof. Gonna take some time to process that one. Initial reaction is that the Cavs did pretty great, not only improved their team for now, but gave them some room to do stuff post Lebron. Artic Puma posted:It's pretty weird that two teams that met in the conference finals and are decently likely to be back there are trading with each other, right? It's fairly normal historically in the NBA and really there was always a sort of "we'll still do trades" mentality, basically until Paul Allen and all the new money that followed him not being able to divorce themselves from that stuff in the late 90s.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:20
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