I would be very very happy to see bynum get traded from the lakers
lol kobe’s got the biggest contract in the league, how would you even begin to make an offer for him
idk and tbh im not sure what the deal w/the new cba is, also w/everyone getting an amnesty chip salary dumps arent gonna be as popular this year maybe making those multi team deals less likely
not sure if this is like a real thing or w/e
SebastianPruiti SebastianPruiti
Chandler to the Nets? Brook Lopez at the 4? Coached by Avery Johnson who played with Duncan and Robinson? I like it...
2 minutes ago
I LIKE IT, TOO.
as long as it doesn’t mean nene to the mavs, i mean.
feel like okc is coming out of the west this year
regardless of where chandler lands, last years mavs were total lightning in a bottle
yeah, OKC has talent. question is whether dallas can hold it together (tho they’re getting old).
lol so you’re saying that dirk nowitski isn’t the second coming of larry bird?
lol i love dirk but srsly
there you are.
haha love that joe got unmasked due to a Howard 4 Bron post on the ILH thread perfect
;)
would have been even easier if you suggested trading wade for howard.
if you suggested trading wade and bron for howard, i wouldn’t have known it was you.
im totally over trading wade now im all abt trading bron, just feel like it would right the narrative of the whole decision fiasco
would suck for bron tho!
bet he would get free disney world passes tho
hes just gonna have to deal w/that
bet they would let him be a voice in a pixar movie
he could just buy disney world and live in it.
its all abt the perks
it would be cool to try and sleep on space mountain while it’s moving.
lebron james presents epcot center, and its just exhibits about ladies he’s boned in different countries he’s been in THINK ABT IT
I don’t want to visit Epcock.
paugasol Pau Gasol
Great workout with @kevinlove and @russwest44 ! I can’t wait to start working out with my team and face this season full of motivations!
2 Dec
replete with motivations!
by “my team,” is pau referring to the lakers or the team the lakers will trade him to?
yes.
pau’s going to be a great addition to the raptors.
hey j0rdan or whoever has insider, would you mind posting hollinger’s player profiles for the blazers today?
sorry to everybody else in the thread who has to deal with 20 pages of text about nicolas batum.
wait, who’s j0rdan?
(i mean, what name is j0rdan posting under in this temporary forum?)
aqui
yeah clay i got you
okay, v-shasty is j0rdan. i can’t keep things straight with the temporary forum names.
wow so professional! thanks!
camby:
and that’s all
hollinger is really a national hero
has he ever written about older players?
lol @ the one for camby
has he ever written about older players?
― k3vin k., Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah he posted his celtics profiles on 11/29
his thing in the okc preview about how durant sucks at getting open was revalatory
lol jord
looool
A+
His defensive value, however, is more than offset by the fact that he is the single worst offensive player in basketball. Instead of his name and number, Anthony’s jersey should have just said “AVOID.” For the most part, that’s what the Heat did. His 4.9 usage rate was not only the lowest in the NBA, it was the lowest in the league in nearly two decades.
you’ll be singing a different tune when we sign KWAME BROWN
kev, i saw this on slate today and thought of you and your interest in the nba’s history. lots of great looking old essays/stories here that i’m excited to dig through. woody allen on earl the pearl!
has he ever written about older players?
― k3vin k., Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
there was a great piece abt the best shooters of all time, hint its steve nash
wait who was it
has he ever written about older players?
― k3vin k., Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
there was a great piece abt the best shooters of all time, hint its steve nash
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, December 4, 2011 7:35 PM (3 hours ago)
yah i linked it like a month ago ;)
sarge:
i think that’s a guy applauding anyway
kev, i saw this on slate today and thought of you and your interest in the nba’s history. lots of great looking old essays/stories here that i’m excited to dig through. woody allen on earl the pearl!
― clay, Sunday, December 4, 2011 7:25 PM (4 hours ago)
thx bro!
hollinger can be BRUTAL in some of these profiles...he’s consistently otm and hilarious
yeah, i laughed at this part of his malik allen profile:
+ May be league’s least athletic player. Terrible rebounder. Can’t create shots.
James Jones
+ One-dimensional corner 3-point shooter. Has no idea he’s allowed to dribble.
+ Poor athlete, but has good size for 3 and plays passable defense. Bad rebounder.
The ultimate Johnny One-Note, Jones did nothing but shoot 3s from the corner, except for that one time he tried a shot at the basket. No, seriously — he took one shot at the basket all season. In 1,551 minutes.
Needless to say, Jones had the league’s lowest rate of shot attempts at the rim last season (see chart). In a related note, Jones had 98.6 percent of his baskets assisted, the most of any perimeter player except Brian Cardinal.
Jones’ other stats similarly highlight his offensive extremes. He had the second-lowest turnover ratio, because all he had to do was catch and shoot. He took five shots inside 15 feet all year. He led the NBA in secondary percentage, because nearly all his shots were 3s, and was second among small forwards in TS%. He was last among small forwards in usage rate, because he just stood in the corner all game.
Somehow, Jones drew a decent number of free throw attempts, as he has become very good at pump-faking the 3 and drawing contact — most memorably on the play that led to his playoff fracas with Paul Pierce.
yeah, i laughed at this part of his malik allen profile:
+ May be league’s least athletic player. Terrible rebounder. Can’t create shots.
― OOOO, Monday, December 5, 2011 12:03 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
A friend and I have a joke re Malik Allen dating back to his first summer league ^_^
sorry ice cr?m your dream scenario is no more heat talking to mavs about a bron for jj barea trade.
tough but fair
lol
“Source”
source: were going to cut him so deep thank jesus
dammit it is 1:25PM EST and the heat still haven’t announced the signing of nene (no surname) and dwight howard wtf?
hay guys i hear there’s gonna be basketball again!
and amnesty international is apparently involved somehow?
(smuggles gilbert arenas away from a bloodthirsty riotous crowd in a black suv)
really no news this morning or early afternoon on signings or player movement. i know it’s early, but this is an extremely compressed signing period. i’m guessing we’ll start hearing about these matters (e.g., dwight howard for joakim noah) later today.
JUST KIDDING
well can that stuff happen yet? thought it had to wait until lockout was officially over.
they can wait til the trade deadline to move howard or anyone else for that matter haha xp
im not ready to be trolled, still adjusting to the reality of a basketball season
lol
the article does make some sense, if you assume that bynum is the key return player in any trade for CP3 or howard. only one bynum to trade.
Lakers missed out on the championship series last post-season. Bryant has no knees left to speak of. In L.A. that means they are definitely thinking about rebuilding asap. I’m pretty sure they’d take Howard of CP3, if given a choice. Dominating centers have always been L.A.‘s preferred building block.
and the howard-to-lakers rumor has been there for a while.
but, shockingly, new jersey has good pieces to trade, lots of cap space, and a fine player (dwill) who is friends with howard and who would like to play together. so . . . . .
I’m pretty sure they’d take Howard of CP3, if given a choice. Dominating centers have always been L.A.‘s preferred building block.
― Aimless, Monday, December 5, 2011 2:59 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
also howard is like 1mx more valuable going forward
but, shockingly, new jersey has good pieces to trade, lots of cap space, and a fine player (dwill) who is friends with howard and who would like to play together. so . . . . .
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, December 5, 2011 2:01 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
i may be mistaking, but it appears as if you just called one of the lopez twins “a good piece to trade”
the nets had good peices to trade, that’s how they got deron williams
why isn’t brook lopez a good trading piece?
hes like an ok player, dwight howard is the 2nd best player
at some point someone will offer an actually legit young player and/or a v top draft pick
and no bynum is not actually legit
i’d take, like, kentucky’s entire line up over brook lopez. i’d let howard walk and aim for the lottery over going “welp, i guess it’s brook lopez then!”
i don’t disagree, but at the moment, those two players — lopez and bynum — are the “centerpieces” of a potential trade for d. howard. in the abstract, yeah, someone should give a superstar in their prime for howard, but that’s not what’s happening at the moment.
chicago also wants in on the howard trade discussions, BTW. they really are offering noah and other pieces. i think what i read was “any two players on chicago’s roster besides rose.”
brook lopez was a 20 & 10 center two years ago
know he stunk it up last year but he’s one of the few legit 7 footers in the liggue
I think orlando should trade dwight for kevin love
just to stick it to dwight
even if it didn’t work out monetarily
sorry dwight, you’re stuck in cold minnesota
DWIGHT HOWARD FOR MIKE MILLER AND JUWAN HOWARD
fair value!
im gonna go out on a limb and say today is the only day of the season that the espn nba page features a montage including greg oden and vince carter
cut to three months from now when they both tear their acls during warmups of a blazers / Knicks game
(u know Vince will end up 10th man on the Knicks you just know)
for the first day that NBA teams can talk to players about contracts and moving teams, things seem very quiet.
too quiet.
I’m happy Marbury got his shit together somewhat.