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

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

http://i.imgur.com/kAPEi.png

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
Signed my paper!!! I'm OFFICIALLY a Knick!!! #IS21 and headed to practice! Today is a great day! Let's get to work
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

he's a guard who is a pretty good defender but can't do jack on offense, so he's actually a decent fit in NY

tylercowen tylercowen
Dwight plus Kobe not so different from Dwight plus Gil, esp. with lots of games crammed together, no other big guy or great shooter.
1 minute ago

cold

damn son

so like mario chalmers? xp

no, mario chalmers is way better than this guy on offense

i get the sense he's way more like thabo seflaosha or something

lol @ guy w/ 7 PPG being better than this guy on offense

hollinger

What does Houston do?
First, hide the sharp objects in Daryl Morey's office. After that, the Rockets have a few alternatives. For one, they can turn around and try to get Paul directly, using many of the same players they were angling to use to get Pau Gasol from New Orleans in the defunct three-way deal. Also, Houston is likely out of the running for Nene minus the cap space the three-way deal would have created, but the Rockets might decide to jump in on the Chauncey Billups amnesty bidding, allowing them to dangle Kyle Lowry and Goran Dragic as trade bait. The Rockets also might sign Marc Gasol to an offer sheet.

One thing is clear -- the Rockets had been building assets to set up a trade exactly like this one, a home run that left them with a Gasol-Nene front line and a three- to four-year window to win a title. More than anybody, they got absolutely screwed by how this all went down.

lol oh no did the commissioner stop you from fleecing new orleans you poor thing, maybe you should talk to yr owner abt that whole the league owning a team concept

its funny how hollinger always over rates houston, like explain to me how gasol/nene dont get dunked on every play

its funny how hollinger always over rates houston, like explain to me how gasol/nene dont get dunked on every play

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 11, 2011 9:35 AM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

uh, nene is good defensively bro.