yeah, i'm talkin dwight / yeah, i'm talkin steve: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 1)

hahah the offside thread, people got mad

feel like the celtics are okay, like a 2nd round team, which could easily translate to an ecf team seeing as theres not a clear 2nd best in the east this year

minny has whitewashed for the majority of this game

keep meaning to get back to that offsides thread, i have new FACTS

u guys kwnow josh smith is shooting worse on the line than on the floor? .318 ft%, .405% fg

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smithjo03/shooting/2013/

unprecedented stuff

reverse psychology contract year

Amazing that the tip-in from Bass there was the first offensive rebound of the game for the Celtics.

gotta admit im finding the fines for flopping v interesting (except for the no stars thing)

#freejavale

hollinger had a piece on the celtics offensive rebounding or lack there of, ive long been suspicious of their do not contest the offensive glass strategy, tho the fact that theyve had so many great defensive teams does say something for it

shved reminds me what i think spanoulis could become in nba. sadly, didnt happen

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Overtime in Miami, Monta Ellis blocked Wade's shot at buzzer.

wat

Love has cooled off

Shved is super fun to watch

cool dre

did you guys read zach lowe's thirty thousand word piece on why and how melo should stay at the 4 the other day

made me remember the days when a three guard set w/two points and a shooting guard sliding to sf or point and two sgs was really unusual, now it's kind of the norm, then 4s started playing the 5 normally (duncan, kg, bosh), now its 3s playing the 4 (bron, durant)

This Nuggets v. Wolves game is fun.

jj barea, warned for flop

cool dre (2)

clips-okc goes to OT, good defense by russ, cp3 didn't have a backup plan for when he didn't get the switch and ended up with a terrible turnaround j at the buzzer

those christmas day alternate uniforms look like a windows 8 tie-in

another game where the heat sleepwalk through 3.9 quarters before lebron goes "hold the fuck up i'm not losing to the rockets/nuggets/hawks/bucks etc"

oooh deandre stepped to ibaka

footwork-wise, i mean

Damnit

lolllllll wizards

hey ilh, #hoopsidea
I wanna do an I love football crossover thread
want to expand our market share outside of the US

― there but for the grace of god, go "Wheeeeeeee!" (m bison), Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:20 AM (1 hour ago)

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/BlogsEntry/0,,10265~2441458,00.html

BIG O

there are approx 8 people at the suns/blazers game in Phoenix

Asik was smiling as he blocked it. Knew exactly what Noah was going to do.

" He writes about my NBA heroes, why I got interested in the US sport - and how good I am at the slam dunk!"

aw he's good making the score points

hey can someone pls explain to me what is going on with the back of hasheem thabeet's head, also his hair as a general thing

It's a tribal tradition from back home in Tanzania

*andrew bynum adopts excuse*

portland's bench hit their first fg with about 5:30 to go in the third,

Dwight's the worst.

kobles toying w sacto

CRYINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnhLQc5gJU

* gasol 3 alert *

That kid is awesome!

IT'S HORFORD'S LITTLE BROTHER LMBO

lol

Seriously? Even better.

oh my lol

Damn. Tyreke just blocked Metta at the rim.

Tyreke should keep a close eye on Metta's elbows for the next few times down.

seems like a waste of effort when the rim usually takes care of that itself

Robin Lopez: 3 of 17

Brandon Roy admitted that he's dealing with level III degenerative arthritis in both knees.

Roy's knees have reached Level III arthritis, and there are only four levels. The fourth would require Roy to get a knee replacement.

Multiple doctors have told Roy to stop playing basketball, and his current condition erodes the cartilage in his knee before the cartilage disappears entirely. Roy said he wouldn't be disappointed if this is the end of the line, but it would be a sad ending to his basketball career.

know who just had a "knee replacement"? phil jackson. hes 72

this is honestly ridiculous

The horrible thing, aside from how horrible knee replacement is in general, is that Roy will be getting them replaced so young in life that he'll eventually have to have them replaced again