The Official NBA Thread 2011-12

[ArtsyGirl]

"oh don't worry, I'm mental" hahaha.. Love it

Shaq to Boston.. How many teams has Shaq been through?

 

[yak pac fatal]

^theres the magic, lakers, heat, suns, cavs and now the celts

celtics are interested in signing larry hughes now. he'd fit the team well with his defense.

 

[Kobe]

Probably the final move the Lakers will make this off season? Agent: Shannon Brown will return to Los Angeles Lakers - ESPN Los Angeles

 

[ArtsyGirl]

^ YAY! Can't wait for the start of the season..

 

[yak pac fatal]

Isiah Thomas rejoins Knicks; still at FIU

Isiah Thomas to serve as New York Knicks consultant - ESPN New York

never will understand this franchise.

nba2k11 pics

 

[EDouble]

Bulls a top East team

added Boozer bogans Cj watson kurt thomas korver & ronnie brewer

 

[Snowman]

HOLY SHIT @ the NBA 2K 11 pics.

isiah thomas is a bum..i wouldnt hire him for anything to do with the NBA.

 

[Kobe]

HOLY SHIT @ the NBA 2K 11 pics.

Its amazing what computer game graphics are and what the future holds. The level of detail in those pics is incredible. The only thing I can nitpick about is the fact that the uniforms still seem like stiff computer models mounted onto the players. Other than that, its superb. I'm hoping the game play can be great as well. Most of the time you can go through a season unbeaten until you opt to simulate the remaining games. Only when I play vs a friend does it become exciting. This whole better graphics over game play might prove to be a frustration.

Totally random but still in the world of whacky:

Remark about Lakers may have sparked parents' brawl

VICTORVILLE • A disparaging remark on Facebook about the Los Angeles Lakers sparked Wednesday’s brawl involving some 20 adults at a local kindergarten graduation, according to one participant.

“This all started because of a Facebook comment between this other woman and my grandmother about the Lakers,” said Queiona Burt, 31, one of the women arrested following a brawl that broke out at a recent Puesta del Sol Elementary School kindergarten graduation. “But I want to apologize to the school and the community and say this is not what I’m about. I was trying to defend myself.”

 

[yak pac fatal]

^lol wow

Draft Express, at the NC Pro-Am today, is reporting via Twitter that McGrady has signed with the Pistons for a one-year deal. Hurray! Tracy's journey is finally over and he can sail into the sunset on a big, aging-winged, sub-.500 vessel.

Well, okay, maybe not. Again.

Dave Pemberton of the Oakland Press (as opposed to the Oakland Tribune which is in the Oakland you're probably thinking of) in Michigan reports that Joe Dumars has stated nothing is final, saying "discussing it, definitely not signed."

So the Pistons are definitely in discussions about adding McGrady, and somebody at the Pro Am is talking. McGrady would add.. well... very little of what they need. But he's probably at the minimum, so this wouldn't hurt. And if McGrady can add some bench scoring, that's probably a good thing.

im guessin the pistons are the only team that want him...

Boston Celtic fans might have to put those retirement party balloons for Rasheed Wallace on hold.

The newest Celtic, Shaquille O'Neal, said Wallace may in fact return to the C's this season.

Wallace told the Celtics during the NBA Finals in June that, despite having two years and nearly $13 million left on his contract, he was planning to retire.

i think if theyre healthy theyre the most dangerous team in the east.

 

[EDouble]

Not 2 any one in here but
people talk about the 3 on the Heat are gonna be selfLess,Deferrent

these fuckin assholes came up on a stage on risers while smoke & fire works are shot off

sold their basketball souls

 

[ArtsyGirl]

^C'mon they did it with humility and grace.

 

[yak pac fatal]

Not 2 any one in here but
people talk about the 3 on the Heat are gonna be selfLess,Deferrent

these fuckin assholes came up on a stage on risers while smoke & fire works are shot off

sold their basketball souls

lol i agree. i think to them its more about entertainment than actual basketball and the way lebron left cle was fucked up. what kind of man comes up with that shit?

Jeff Van Gundy: Heat can win 73

Jeff Van Gundy predicts the Miami Heat will beat the Chicago Bulls' record of 72 wins - ESPN Chicago

agree - disagree?

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Too early to tell.. Van Gundy is just helping add extra expectations to a newly formed team.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

They will lose 19 games.

 

[EDouble]

they prob wont win 60

 

[yak pac fatal]

^lol possibility if someones gets injured plus they have no one intimidating in the paint.

i think theyll win 64-69 games

Hornets, Rockets, Pacers & Nets working on 4 team deal. Ariza to NO. C. Lee to HOU. Collison & Posey to IND. Murphy to NJ.

houstons wins if this happens.

 

[yak pac fatal]

According to an account from Richard Jefferson in the most recent issue of ESPN the Magazine, Tim Duncan gave Jefferson a single, very simple instruction upon his arrival in San Antonio:


"When I first got here, Tim Duncan told me, 'Don't suck. As long as you don't suck, you'll be helping the team.' He basically told me that I wasn't very good. Now, most nights, if I play okay, Tim says 'Yo, you didn't suck tonight.' So for the most part, I try to not think about anything other than not sucking. It's good to know that as long as I don't suck, as long as I don't hurt the team, as long as I'm neutral, I'm okay."


Duncan isn't wrong. If Jefferson could have created some offense out of thin air, knocked down his wide open, spot-up jumpers now and again, and played intelligent team defense, he would have been a huge boon for San Antonio.

He wasn't. Duncan told Jefferson not to think about elephants, so RJ did nothing but think about elephants. He told Jefferson not to suck, so RJ did nothing but, well, suck. Jefferson managed to fall short of the one goal the Spurs' captain placed before him. A 13.1 PER? Ick. 31.6% from three? Yikes. A career-low in FTAs per 36 minutes? Oy vey.

A lot of Jefferson's sucktitude is relative; he was considered a huge addition when the Spurs traded for him last off-season, and he never quite measured up to the player he was supposed to be. After all, as bad as Jefferson was, he could easily have been far worse. He wasn't the worst or least productive Spur last season by any standard, he just had the misfortune of having to live up to his own bloated reputation. RJ has never been great, but he was good enough in his seven years with the Nets that we all expected better. He wasn't good enough last season, though. He sucked.

Now RJ is under contract in San Antonio for the next four years, and his efforts in '09-'10 netted him $38.8 million, somehow, in spite of all the sucking. That's the cost for keeping the band together, apparently.

Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, and Gregg Popovich can work with Jefferson to make him more comfortable, to teach him the defense more thoroughly, to get him even better looks. In the final evaluation though, the responsibility for not sucking falls squarely on Jefferson's shoulders. The Spurs clearly have enough faith in him to assume the best going forward, but is there really any legitimate reason to plug in the same small forward and expect different results?

even duncan knows hes ass

 

[exrp765]

the Celtics with the "big 3" of KG, Allen and Pierce won the titile in the first year...

Wade, Bosh and Lebron are for sure the better "big 3," if u can try to convince me otherwise, please do, they're definetly gonna be VERY VERY CLOSE to the title this year

 

[yak pac fatal]

^celtics have a big 4. rondos a top 5 point guard easy.

celtics d>

"I heard about LeBron's little tweet today that he's remembering everybody who said anything bad about him," Barkley said Thursday on ESPN Radio 103.3 FM in Dallas/Fort Worth. "And he said 'everybody.' Well, I want him to make sure that he puts my name on that (list).

"I thought that his little one-hour special was a punk move. I thought them dancing around on the stage was a punk move, and I thought he should've stayed in Cleveland. Him joining Dwyane Wade's team was very disappointing to me."

Charles Barkley Rips LeBron, Miami's Big Three as 'Punks' -- NBA FanHouse

agree with the chuck. the way he left cle was wrong.

 

[exrp765]

^ i was talking about the first year, rondo wasnt a STAR then yet...