he’s not going to single-handedly will a d’antoni team to play defense which i guess is what they expect?

assuming chandler and amare can stay healthy which they totally cannot the knicks prob just bought their way to the second round

hey in three more years they’ll have bought themselves a title

if they ever have the chance to move melo for a better player whos demanding a trade they could be onto something, but idk two injury plagued big men on a v thin team is just not likely to pan work out

they REALLY need landry jones to not be terrible

troo

hope that pan works out for them

...toney douglas would be their starting PG?

then they’d have... iman shumpert, andy rautins (...)... um, bill walker. balkman.....

already read some saying knicks next move will be to trade a’mare for CP3

bill walker is a sleeper im tellin u!

Why would NOLA want A’m^ar’e? He has no knees and would try even less on a team he didn’t want to be on.

4 real

love amares passion in ny btw

i would be hella depressed if amare got dumped

i don’t think the knicks are gonna do that btw

i could see melo getting moved for paul, but thatd be folly too imho, both rondo+picks and curry would be better—rondo because hes cheaper and u get picks and curry cause he has a vv high ceiling

and so it begins

WojYahooNBA: As SI reports, the Lakers, Hornets and Rockets are engaged in 3-way talks on deal that would send Chris Paul to Lakers.

obvs curry is the best out o the proposed trades ive seen

WojYahooNBAAdrian Wojnarowski

The Lakers are trying to do a deal for Chris Paul that will allow them to keep Andrew Bymum, front office source says.

so, rockets are getting pau, and hornets are getting a bunch of shit from the rockets?

do the rockets have some sick picks or something

umm knowing morey they probably do

unless they’re gonna offer up scola or something idk

lol what a poorly formed rumor

they have a lot of young players, but idk who would really want any of them

chase budinger dawg CHASE BUDINGER

haha yeah i think you can basically post “breaking: any combination of any number of teams talking about trading or signing any vaguely reasonably available player” right now and and have a 90% chance of it being kinda true

hearing steve kerr talk about it on lol simmons podcast actually made me realize how crazy it is that gms have like ten seconds to read the new cba, figure out what they want (and have) and sign/negotiate/trade/cut etc etc etc

and presti, buford, morey aside your typical gm is probably not THAT much smarter than the ilh brain trust

an I just welcome back the nba and it’s ridiculously awesome free agent period

otm

you apparently haven’t been paying attention to baseball

well im a dodger fan so no

baseball is a meaningless wasteland lets all be cool

i keep hearing about tyson chandler chris paul blah blah blah

guys guys: WE SIGNED EDDY CURRY

EDDY CURRY

*~*~*i saw the future*~*~*

SpearsNBAYahooMarc J. Spears

Names talked about in CP3 3-way are: CP to Lakers, Gasol to HOU & Kevin Martin & Luis Scola and possible picks to Hornets, source tells Y!

if that deal happens and bynum gets hurt — as he often does — LAL are going to really lack size

and they’ve won championships with bynum basically out with injury for the season/playoffs

man wut if kobe and/or cp3 get hurt is prob what will happen, not that i think this trade is real

i dunno; i wanted nene and chandle and cp3 and dhoward to sign with us

this all makes me sad. make is stop.

I have to start watching more pro hoops so I can get this image of Nene Leakes taking the rock to the hole out of my head

hahaha

i luv when ilx stalwarts get more into the nba, its v personally satisfying to me

except deej who thinks derrick rose is good at basketball

i wish nene leakes played in the NBA

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA — Just spoke to Andy Miller, agent for Chauncey Billups, who describes his client as “irate” over possibility of Knicks using amnesty on him.

U MAD?

not just mad — IRATE

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA — More agent Andy Miller on Knicks exposing Billups to amnesty waiver wire: “....unless it’s a team he chooses himself. Buyer beware.”

heehee, open warfare. WE WANT BILLUPS, TOO!

you know, if he gets amnestied AND the heat lose chalmers, you might not be too far off

his contract is too large, no?

idk how the amnesty works

point being the heat will need a point guard

there’s a draft system in place, so the top-tier teams can’t just pick the cream of the crop of those amnestied. so billups threat is the only way he has any leverage at all (over the NYK or his future team).

Billups should go back to Detroit. They need a PG, and since they’ve basically rebuilt the team that was good before Sheed got fat it’d be perfect.

HowardBeckNYTHoward Beck

Three likely ways to get Tyson-NY deal done: Amnesty Billups, trade Billups to team w/cap room or trade Billups to DAL in sign-trade for TC

no one should play for detroit

Why the hell would Dallas want Billups?

J Kidd hasn’t retired yet has he? They still got Barea?

jjb might be on the way out.

billups has put himself into a corner, too. i imagine he’d be hated in NY if he killed a deal for chandler.

clippers just gave caron butler a 3 year deal...............

for 24 million???????????????

clippers? huh. thought bulls had butler all but signed.

Marc J. Spears @SpearsNBAYahoo — Cavs expected to use new amnesty rule on PG Baron Davis once the new CBA is official, source tells @YahooSports. Until then, BD in Cavs camp

the pistons resigned jonas jerebko? to a 4 yr 16m deal? they need to wheel dumars off like hannibal

guy has problems 4 real

i think hes still high on 04 championship fumes

literally every move he’s made since picking up sheed that year has been straight garbage

yah he built that team off the trash heap and it made him think he was a genius but it was really just flukey

breaking: oden u guyyyys stoppppp

also wtf is going on the nba is fucking crazy again yay!

you don’t know the half of it.

WE SIGNED EDDY CURRY.

apparently some other players might be moving to new teams, too, but whatevs.

Russ Bengtson @russbengtson — Eddy Curry upon arriving in Miami: “Is this beef jerky all for me?” “No Eddy, that’s Juwan Howard.”

dynamite, for the lolz alone.

@WojYahooNBA The Hornets are near a deal to send Chris Paul to Lakers for Bynum and Lamar Odom, league source tells Y! Sports.

NEWS FLASH

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA — The Hornets have started to inform teams that they’re sending Chris Paul to the Lakers for Bynum and Odom, league sources tell Y! Sports.

wow... really feel like the lakers got off pretty easy there

odom is done in like 3 years and bynum is a massive wildcard

has kobe ever played w/ an actual PG? how is this going to work?

but lakers giving up a lot of size, and odom’s been good for them. dunno.

So who wants Rondo? All signs point to butthurt in Boston.

i mean, if they can trade gasol for howard, okay, but otherwise . . .

welp

If they traded Gasol for Howard, who plays PF?

same thing as heat, they’d be a Big 3 with lots of minimum contract guys around them.

and they’d hope that, to chase a championship, some quality players would go to LA for less money.

if the lakers get Paul and Howard I quit

like what’s a guy supposed to do

Correction: The proposed deal to the Lakers is Chris Paul for Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, source says.

ah! holding bynum for howard. WOW.

still, would those pieces fit together that well? great defense, i guess, but very susceptible to injury (CP3) and decline (KobE)

ah! holding bynum for howard. WOW.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:07 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

still not sure if this is gonna happen... the magic would REALLY have to like andrew bynum, or get zero offers from other teams. bcuz w/ odom to NO they basically have nothing left to trade except an oft-injured, possibly psychotic center and a bunch of role players nobody would want. we’ll see.

that’s true.

that...can’t actually be real can it

pau was a giant zero in the playoffs last year and odom is sort of good but not really a building piece

btw way under the radar i LOVE the butler-to-clips move, clips basically had an empty pair of shoes at small forward last year so tough juice is a big upgrade even if his numbers aren’t big

i guess LAL have to be the western conference favorite, tho, since dallas is losing chandler. maybe OKC.

i think it’s still far more likely that they get the godfather offer from the bulls

also wtf is going on the nba is fucking crazy again yay!

― ~occubarn~ (clay), Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:46 PM

srsly its like

all of a sudden

btw way under the radar i LOVE the butler-to-clips move, clips basically had an empty pair of shoes at small forward last year so tough juice is a big upgrade even if his numbers aren’t big

― concussion section, Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:11 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

giving a 31 year old who has played 56 games over the past two seasons a 3 yr / 24 m deal is o_O

yeah feel like the clips either dont have faith in aminu or care more about using him as a trade piece for god knows what.

i def don’t think aminu is ready to start in the nba

i think it’s still far more likely that they get the godfather (pizza) offer from the bulls

this made me think the bulls were going to trade herman cain to orlando

If rest of deal goes through as proposed, sources tell ESPN that HOU would send Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Goran Dragic to N.O. for Gasol

This deal keeps morphing.

so houston gets gasol and . . . keeps trying to get nene or dalembert?

that makes a lot more sense