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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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This got me thinkin'... drat I've killed a lot of bosses in my life. Killed more bosses than my father or his father before him.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:06
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I think that Doris would've hit Cam Newton with a full on RKO if he said that poo poo from yesterday to her.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:20
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EvanTH posted:is he going for Ilunga-Mbenga? That dude is easily up on the NBA All-Time Top Ugliest charts. Face was downright tragic, ready for a Star Trek guest appearance and poo poo Please do not insult the greatest Laker fifteenth man of all time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1rZBxn3Zx8
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Oct 5, 2017 16:21
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creamcorn posted:Please do not insult the greatest Laker fifteenth man of all time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1rZBxn3Zx8 I remember walking around the Staples Center and seeing posters/wall banners or whatever of him up everywhere. It was insane
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Oct 5, 2017 16:58
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I watched 7 minutes of the Pacers game last night. I'm just going to go ahead and pencil them into the 8th spot of the East where they will do nothing but tank their draft rank but feel good about it because they made the playoffs. They will be pretty fun to watch though, which is the important part. Myles Turner is going to lead the league in 3 point shots taken from the top of the key.
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Oct 5, 2017 17:09
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Aldridge was just fine last year guys the Spurs were really happy with himquote:"It was an afterthought [to get me the ball early]. But it was both [probably my fault and the team's] because I didn't feel like I would get it," Aldridge said. "So I probably didn't run the floor as hard, or I didn't seal as good. Then, they didn't look for me. Then, when we both thought about it, it was too late
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Oct 5, 2017 17:26
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WhyteRyce posted:Aldridge was just fine last year guys the Spurs were really happy with him I've rarely seen someone look so miserable on a basketball court, it's a shame EvanTH posted:
Brazzaville has the "Ka" Kinshasa has the "Ga"s They're pretty much stuck with him for now right? Isn't Payne out for 4 months (does it even matter, will he ever play again) The Bulls are my second favorite team
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Oct 5, 2017 17:32
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WhyteRyce posted:Aldridge was just fine last year guys the Spurs were really happy with him I accept his apology and am looking forward to moving on.
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Oct 5, 2017 17:33
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Cool Buff Man posted:I've rarely seen someone look so miserable on a basketball court, it's a shame Hmm, well "Mutombo and Biyombo are both from DR Congo", seems to work, but it doesn't actually help differentiate Rwest from DReast plus Mutombo was born in Kinshasa back when it was still called Leopoldville I think a Matt Groening cartoon I read when I was a kid hosed me up for years on some stuff:  Because he wrote it when DR Congo was still Zaire, but I read it a few years later when DR Congo was what you'd see in the news and in Bongo's head he's using it to mean the unpopulated rainforest region of the Congo Basin which is a huge area, like bigger than India but I didn't totally get that because I was small
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Oct 5, 2017 18:13
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So because I've stupidly looked other sports places and been irradiated with stupidity, help me out here: Houston is probably #2, MAYBE#3 in the West right? Kawhi is a bit of a question mark and until I see Melo working in OKC I'm going to assume clusterfuck. Am I nuts?
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Oct 5, 2017 18:19
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Probably but who knows. I could see 2-4 in any order. Paul will help Houston, but they sacrificed depth to get him and he usually misses 10-20 games a year. Kawhi's hurt-ish. OKC's a ???
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Oct 5, 2017 18:21
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OKC is the 2nd best team on paper, but they might fall behind a bit because they had such a roster turnover in the starters.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:23
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Tae posted:OKC is the 2nd best team on paper, but they might fall behind a bit because they had such a roster turnover in the starters. Plus like I said, Melo is Melo.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:24
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Tae posted:OKC is the 2nd best team on paper, but they might fall behind a bit because they had such a roster turnover in the starters. That team seems like less than the sum of its parts. Houston and San Antonio have an identity and OKC could be a chemistry set this season.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:28
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I know that preseason is Small Sample Size Theater incarnate, but I'm starting to think Kyle Kuzma is legit
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Oct 5, 2017 18:29
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👍👍👍 https://twitter.com/pompeyonsixers/status/915990392016982016
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Oct 5, 2017 18:30
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Melo will work in okc
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Oct 5, 2017 18:31
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Tae posted:OKC is the 2nd best team on paper ehhhhh
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Oct 5, 2017 18:32
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Cash Monet posted:That team seems like less than the sum of its parts. Houston and San Antonio have an identity and OKC could be a chemistry set this season. The Spurs lost a lot of depth and Tony Parker is out until next year. The Thunder replaced lovely Oladipo and a rookie bad stretch 4 with Paul George and Melo.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:33
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https://streamable.com/1cufi rofl
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Oct 5, 2017 18:34
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Metapod posted:Melo will work in okc 
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Oct 5, 2017 18:35
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Tae posted:The Spurs lost a lot of depth and Tony Parker is out until next year. December.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:38
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Ahaha my man
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Oct 5, 2017 18:45
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https://twitter.com/Trilladelphian/status/915722298061139974
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Oct 5, 2017 18:46
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Do these vegan giant athletes eat their body weight in beans every day or what
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Oct 5, 2017 18:50
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Nah the trick is you gotta supplement with steroids
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Oct 5, 2017 18:56
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Horse piss extract is not vegan.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:58
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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/915997843789197312 Good for Norm.
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Oct 5, 2017 19:00
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Tae posted:OKC is the 2nd best team on paper, but they might fall behind a bit because they had such a roster turnover in the starters. That's drat near every year. 2 years ago they looked like that until the last 2 weeks of the season, then they would have beaten the Warriors if Durant hadn't thrown the series. So them and the Celtics will look out of sorts the 1st half until things start jelling. I can easily see both of them in their respective finals.
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Oct 5, 2017 19:08
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WhyteRyce posted:Aldridge was just fine last year guys the Spurs were really happy with him Having to deal with millionaire toddlers seems unenjoyable Reggie Jackson has a groin pull which means his hip is hosed up which means I need to do something else with my life like watch the Milwaukee Bucks Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Oct 5, 2017 |
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Oct 5, 2017 20:00
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 This is also what he says to people he encounters on the street.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:11
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https://twitter.com/QCHspencer/status/916019578295033856 bluh
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Oct 5, 2017 20:21
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Congrats to everyone that bought the under on Charlotte
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Oct 5, 2017 20:25
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This is good. This is unfortunate. I like Batum.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:31
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Zogo's poll blowing up on me even before the season has started. Sweet.
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Oct 5, 2017 20:42
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The East is bad enough that they can maybe sneak in as the eight seed and have Batum back in time for the playoffs but whatever. More Malik Monk, I guess, maybe they'll be bad enough to snag a top-3 pick
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Oct 5, 2017 20:51
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Kemba is too good to have a record that bad. Imho.
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Oct 5, 2017 21:02
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2-4(5?) in the west is up for grabs, but it also doesn't matter much. they'll each have to go through one another and topple GS. its not impossible, but not particularly likely either. i think kawhi will be fine, but missing tony is going to hurt since murray is still so raw. i'm really looking forward to a big bounce back year from lamarcus. he looks thinner and in better shape, and his potential has always been there. seems like him and pop are really trying to get on the same page this season. plus, his defense from last year was actually really good. so upping his offense while keeping his defense should put him back on everyone's radar. rudy's playing tomorrow night so it'll be great to see what kind of shape he's in. he's really a big key because he allows the spurs to have a super potent small ball lineup. his biggest benefit is allowing kawhi to rest without giving up so much ground. we'll see if he cracks the staring rotation by the end of the season, but for now, listening to manu, it sounds like gay is on the second unit, which is a good thing on the spurs. people love to sleep on the spurs, and every year is supposed to be the year they crumble. i'm just looking forward to some more competition out west. more competition is good, and i'm dreading the same finals matchup for the fourth time in a row. that's super boring.
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Oct 5, 2017 21:15
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https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/916034651751424006 Cool, OK. Assuming this isn't the team putting a rosy picture on the injury, this is like the second time that dude has tweeted out medical info before the beat/national guys and been wrong
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Oct 5, 2017 21:20
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I'm pretty optimistic about LMA, honestly. I think he had a good season and in the playoffs he had some great moments as the second option on a team that was dominating the Warriors before Georgian sabotage. I don't really think there'll be trouble. The ESPN article had some good signs. As long as Pau and LMA are taking threes I'm happy. http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20901861/nba-lamarcus-aldridge-adjustment-spurs-enters-year-3 quote:"This is a guy who played for nine years, I believe, before he came here," Popovich said, "and it takes time to get used to a program that is not just new. But when you have nine years under your belt, doing something different, his concerns are totally legitimate. RaySmuckles posted:i'm just looking forward to some more competition out west. more competition is good, and i'm dreading the same finals matchup for the fourth time in a row. that's super boring.
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