J.R. Smith has literally been shanghaied away for the foreshortened 2011-2012 NBA season: rolling ILH sandbox thread

we r in a weird zone right now

hey jho what do you make of this

"We'll move Kevin," Rivers said. "He will play the 5 this year. I honestly don't think that it'll be a problem. When he was younger it would have been a problem."

"He's older, bigger, stronger and can play both positions and can spread the floor from that position," Rivers said. "He can play the whole game at center and it wouldn't bother me at all."

"I was fortunate enough to play in the big era [from 1983 to 1996]. Right now there's not many of them," he said of the dearth of big men. "Dwight (Howard) and (Andrew) Bynum are two that come to mind. I might be missing one or two."

I thought the return for odom was dallas' trade exception (so, money, not picks)

Man, after Odom and Bynum in the playoffs last season, Odom on the Mavs is going to be, uh, interesting.

wtf is even going ON

i recall people saying garnet didnt like playing center, tho he did a bunch in minny, but it is true there arent too many giant dudes to push him around left, idk

I don't recall him playing much center at all in Minny. and I was a hardcore minny fan from 98-2002 or so.

really i could be misremembering

He played a bunch of center last year after all the injuries. Not starter's minutes though, which is what I think he was always opposed to.

maybe it was after that tho, i think like that was part of his beef w/the organization, that he was playing too much center

lol he prob shouldnt be playing starters minutes at any position

They've signed Chris Wilcox to spell him so it should be fine.

the hornets have 6 players in camp.

chris wilcox, jeff green, david west - these guys all give off similar vibes

Stein is saying Clippers now in the lead for Chris Paul.

i would like the celtics to get paul, i support that

chris wilcox, jeff green, david west - these guys all give off similar vibes

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i agree and im not sure what i think about this vibe

I'm amazed that they've managed to make things seem even fishier and more corrupt.

i hated jeff green last year, apparently he played good defense but mostly he looked like he did nothing particularly well on the basketball court

yeah he was terrible

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perk5yunghawg kendrick perkins
@KDTrey5 i hope everybody know that im not just KD friend and teammate im his full time bodyguard lol but im so serious
3 minutes ago

perk i miss u

I missed him so much I followed Perk out to the mid-South. Only a little further away than I was from Boston.

Mike_Bresnahan Mike Bresnahan
Lakers will get the Mavs' first-round pick in 2012, maybe a second-rounder as well.
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what a haul!

this is confusing

Pick 27 and 52! the sacrifices Cuban makes.

what in god's name

PERK5YUNGHAWG

so the lakers are just trying to amass as many picks as possible in order to trade? also i wonder how this changes dwight's desire to go to the nyets. how hilarious would it be if his secrete meeting w/ prok totally sold him on the nyets and now he has no interest in going to the lakers and so they end up with neither player? i'm sure this scenario is unlikely, but still fun to think about

ha so reading thru this thread over the last few days makes me realise that I know crap all about bball. Even so trading Odom for 2 not very good future draft picks seems insane. Odom wasn't the laker who tried to decapitate barea in the play offs last year was he? Or was that Bynum?

that was bynum

Strange day in the NBA

The Mavericks get to choose any of the next 6 seasons to send the pick, and no matter what it will be top 20 protected.

hollinger

To make sense of an Odom trade with respect to a future Howard deal, about the best I can do is a four-for-two deal that sends Howard, Duhon and Turkoglu to L.A. for Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, and puts Jameer Nelson into the exception created by Odom's trade. In this scenario, getting Nelson to alleviate the point guard hole might ease some of the sting of the Lakers' trading both star big men to land Howard and would give the Magic added cap relief.

The Magic aren't trading away both of their point guards.

man u dont need any point guards when u have gasol and bynum just ask the lakers

what do u guys think of a howard/world peace/BALL/kobe/nelson line up

the magic will just use their t-shirt launchers to pass the ball to open forwards

xpost

lol

it seems like that line ups not quite getting the job done, but i wouldnt put anything past dwight tbh, hes capable of putting a team on his back

I_Am_Iman Iman Shumpert
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22 minutes ago

good for him

i mean, that's another one where i'm like... okay, you're absorbing the nucleus of a team that just lost to the hawks in the first round and adding a 33 year old kobe bryant. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

haha otm

looks like the Mavs first rounder in the Odom trade is "sometime in the next six years at Mavs discretion" and top 20 protected. Not much of a chip to sweeten any trade.

who the hell is iman shumpert

knicks first round pick from this year

i just like his name