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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline?
This poll is closed.
The Big3 Tourney 67 22.41%
Will Lakers draft Ball 40 13.38%
Where will the Pauls go 54 18.06%
Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? 41 13.71%
Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking 97 32.44%
Total: 210 votes
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Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/912438338472128512

why not

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Brolander
Oct 20, 2008

i am but a vessel
boy's got hips like a broom

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.

Eltoasto posted:

Media day always delivers



dat rear end

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

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

Dexo posted:

dat rear end

that's a five rebounds per game at 6'0 rear end right there

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



chunkles posted:

Kinky Friedman got 12.6% by expounding on the benefits of industrial hemp I think Pop could top it.

Kinky Friedman got that many votes by virtue of the Democratss nominating a guy who managed to be even more white and bland and forgettable than their last VP nominee.

[quote="“leftist heap”" post="“476758015”"]
like when a skinny dude straight out of college puts on 15lbs after getting their first big boy job
[/quote]

Don't doxx me

[quote="“zoux”" post="“476755332”"]
TWO MVPS? The Cavs cannot be beat.
[/quote]

They went out and matched the Warriors Cavs in 4

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2017/9/25/16363360/nba-media-day-2017-mavericks-rick-carlisle-not-sure-if-nerlens-noel-is-going-to-start

“I had a discussion three days ago with Nerlens’s agent, Rich Paul, about that and then two days ago Nerlens, myself, Rich, and Donnie Nelson were on a conference call talking about it," Carlisle said. “I basically said to them that I’m not sure that he is going to start.”

This situation has quickly shown that when NBA media and projections say ‘this is what is going to happen,’ it’s not always the case. There are other factors that weigh into a decision to start, bench, or sign a player than projections and what ‘seems to be the right choice.’ As Carlisle went on to explain:

“At this point in time Dirk at the 5 position is probably the best scenario for Dirk and for our team. And I just don’t think Dirk is the guy that is going to come off the bench as long as I’m here.” Then he reiterated his previous point as if to emphasize it. “There’s a very good chance Nerlens is going to come off the bench.”

Carlisle also unsure if Seth Curry will start.
If Noel really isn't starting, I'm guessing the starting 5 will be Smith Jr/Curry/Matthews/Barnes/Dirk. If they end up starting Noel, Smith Jr/Matthews/Barnes/Dirk/Noel.

https://twitter.com/TheWellDelivers/status/912415877705994240

Space Camp fuckup
Aug 2, 2003

Devin Booker has a question for Marquese Chriss

https://streamable.com/d2tf8

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/Toucherandrich/status/912390637726650368

The dream is dead

CRISPYBABY
Dec 15, 2007

by Reene

Eltoasto posted:

Media day always delivers



T H I C C

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

I would also lie and say I was trolling everyone if I believed something that dumb.

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

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

Dexo posted:

dat rear end

I'm so happy I found the NBA community where I can get beaten to this comment.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion


Ah yes, the "I was just pretending to be an idiot" troll defense.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch
It was pretty clear he was trolling and he already confirmed it a long time ago though

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012


dude said it on the cavs podcast like, a week after the one he said it was flat on

Brolander
Oct 20, 2008

i am but a vessel
Was he trolling when he gave that barely cogent interview

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Kyrie unlocked the puppet-master :smug: power. Next he will unlock doxxing ability

big boi
Jun 11, 2007

Brolander posted:

Was he trolling when he gave that barely cogent interview

Don't you love when people who don't read decide that they're going to start using big words

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

Brolander posted:

Was he trolling when he gave that barely cogent interview

Now that one is a Kobe inspired affectation and I love it. I want him to make a sentence entirely filled with malapropisms

Michael Transactions
Nov 11, 2013

Yeah he was trolling about the Earth being flat. It's probably square or oval sized.

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.

Half of his instagram account used to be related to conspiracy theories.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

Spacebump posted:

So Thunder starters are Westbrook/Roberson/George/Melo/Adams. Bench unit rotation is Cole/Felton/Patterson/Grant? I feel like they need another center under Johnson can give any kind of decent minutes.

The bench is a rotation of felton abrines grant and Patterson which is solid especially with one of Russ George or Melo being on the floor

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


Dexo posted:

Holy poo poo. Minds can be changed. There is hope for this country yet.



The PG of the fuuuuture

the tags are still on his shoes

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/CavsGregBR/status/912378487310290944

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

R.D. Mangles posted:

the tags are still on his shoes

hahah

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
North Korea has some fun new ideas for the NBA

quote:

... in North Korea, where basketball, with little contact with the outside world, has evolved like the tortoises in the Galapagos Islands. Chinese media have reported that the country even developed its own scoring system, with three points for a dunk, four points for a three-pointer that does not touch the rim and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds. Miss a free throw, and it's minus one.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/28/the-kims-long-love-affair-with-basketball/

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

"Minus 1" - DeAndre Jordan after getting fouled on a dunk

slave to my cravings
Mar 1, 2007

Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.

They should legit play the all star game with some of those rules

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



That is a legitimately cool scoring system. Eh, maybe not the three-pointer one, replace it with a bonus for calling glass

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



[quote="“vaginal facsimile”" post="“476763113”"]
Yeah he was trolling about the Earth being flat. It’s probably square or oval sized.
[/quote]

Actually it's a cube with four corners and four simulatenous 24-hour days moran

[quote="“Bobby Digital”" post="“476764481”"]
North Korea has some fun new ideas for the NBA


http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/28/the-kims-long-love-affair-with-basketball/
[/quote]

The North Korea rules are great because they sound like something I would come up with when I was 13. I think a poster here re-scored a few playoff games under Dear Leader rules for a while.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch
Faried's not accepting that Millsap has pushed him completely off the starting PF position



What a weird career trajectory

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


Cool Buff Man posted:

Faried's not accepting that Millsap has pushed him completely off the starting PF position



What a weird career trajectory

faried confirmed reports he's been "dunkin' since a young'un"

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

R.D. Mangles posted:

faried confirmed reports he's been "dunkin' since a young'un"

I keep watching this

https://twitter.com/chrisbleck/status/884512261972348928/video/1

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


cam's going to have a great post-nba career as a Washington General

hitze
Aug 28, 2007
Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...

Cool Buff Man posted:

Faried's not accepting that Millsap has pushed him completely off the starting PF position



What a weird career trajectory

It's a bummer he peaked so early

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
It's less that he peaked early and more that he has no place in the current NBA

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


i will go to my grave with an encyclopedic knowledge of the 2011 NBA Draft Youtube Hype Videos

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Cool Buff Man posted:

Faried's not accepting that Millsap has pushed him completely off the starting PF position



What a weird career trajectory

People hoped he'd develop as a player, maybe play defense, maybe score points outside the Andre Drummond zone. But he hasn't. The fact that he's been starting speaks to their hideous lack of talent at pf for the last half decade

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

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

Dejan Bimble posted:

People hoped he'd develop as a player, maybe play defense, maybe score points outside the Andre Drummond zone. But he hasn't. The fact that he's been starting speaks to their hideous lack of talent at pf for the last half decade

for some reason i hallucinated a brief time in which he developed a bit of a post game and was scoring closer to 20 ppg than 10, but looking over his stats I guess I imagined the whole thing. He's never played over 28mpg in his career although he has started most games.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/Wells_P/status/912453608385343489

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WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Tae posted:

It's less that he peaked early and more that he has no place in the current NBA

RIP all the rebounding specialists from the late aughts

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