the lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

I can see Kobe asking they retire his name to the rafters. "I don't care about number 8 or 24, I want you to never have another player with 'Bryant' across the back of his jersey. And two statues out front, one young Kobe and one for the Mamba."

q: do u think Kobe identifies as an otherkin

lol @ "the seated kobe"

haha kobels would absolutely 100% go for two statues

its the al jazeera feeds always w/this so rad

― lag∞n, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:13 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzfKojOm4c

baby fro and the mamba, holding hands, dunking on shaq

he'd have some faux chummy "hey, five rings, two statues, you guys are the math wizards but I think that's at least two per statue" with the press at the conference

then he would retire to his fortress and continue his eternal torment of dwight for failing him in his quest to tie jordan

mamba out.

Does Staples have a rear entrance? Cuz, you know, the Mamba would totally be there.

zing!

it totally does btw

i think they're planning to put kareem's statue there because everyone hates him

rly feel like y'all are thinking too small with the whole statue thing
I mean rly, Kobe clones in perpetuity is the only homage fitting mamba, just an endless array of baby frobes, 81 pt ballhog extremism Kobe, pau tolerating Kobe, pau hating Kobe Dwight eating Kobe, come out of retirement to play for the pelicans Kobe u know

like don't insult the man with a static image

They should be dicks and make Kareem sky-hooking toward Mecca.

Or Milwaukee.

staples center shd be a mosque

guys what if steve nash totally engineered this whole thing because he's ready to retire but cashing twenty mil in lakers checks while watching them crash and burn while wearing a sweet suit on the sidelines was just impossible to resist, plus he got his man mike d a job after he had some hard times...think about it

nash walks out of the police station without a limp. meanwhile jimmy buss sees "howard shipping co" pinned to his corkboard and "gasol porcelain" at the bottom of his coffee cup

support grifter Nash theory

matt, i still stick with atdhenet.tv for streaming. way less ads than anything else i've seen.

im a firstrow user too

duncan is playing so high level. love it. thought he would never recover from that thing in his foot. tendinitis ?

ya he's an utter joy to watch in the post this year
I hope he has some win one for the gipper moment that leads to spurs murking the heat in the finals, I know I'm stupid to dream but this is the world I want my son to live in

biedrins made a free throw tonight

man tiago is playing w so much more confidence than last year

nothing fills me with more self loathing than a pan of hooting spurs fans in the lower bowl

so many pinche 30 and 40something gabachos in polos feeling way too good about the accomplishments of others

faried just saves ALL BALLS

this de colo-g neal-James anderson-bonner-tiago line up is cooking right now

i want to live in a world where kenneth suddenly learns defense

law-son.....

lawson has wbrook-type lapses

Josh Smith turned 27 today...

Just started the Nugs/Hawks game and had to ffwd all the way to the end cos I cant listen to John Barry for more than 2 minutes.

guys how do former ballers get selected for tv duty? it feels incredibly random, like u put a box of 90s upper deck (collectors choice, no sense in running nice trading cards) into a bucket and draw

oh I got god shammgod guess he's doing TNT coverage with cuttino mobley

idk, been wondering this too. i guess backstage talks during their careers, players that like to talk a lot (jalen rose comes to my mind)

parker / de colo / manu !!!

melo hurt his finger tonight, might sit vs the heat tomorrow night

btw mavs & suns are the late tnt game tomorrow night so everyone make plans

pop just seated duncan in the final quarter. not a word...

vucevic vs enes going on alert

Blake just got v v high

melo hurt his finger tonight, might sit vs the heat tomorrow night

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:53 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sit them ALL

maybe this is a new thing, bench yr stars vs heat, don't give them the satisfaction

Unless you're the Wizards

every team benches their staters v the heat they end up w/the best regular season record ever entering the playoffs w no idea how good they are having not played a meaningful game all year

game 1 of the playoffs, d wade scratching his head
I DON'T GET IT he thinks I WAS ALWAYS ABLE TO BLOW BY COURTNEY LEE AND SCORE 47 PTS

CBSSports.com polled 35 NBA types, guys who have been out running from tourney to tourney over the first month of the season, on who they would select if picking first. Here's the tally:

Cody Zeller (Indiana): 31 percent
Nerlens Noel (Kentucky): 23 percent
Alex Len (Maryland): 11 percent
Shabazz Muhammad (UCLA): 11 percent
Alex Poythress (Kentucky): 9 percent
Rudy Gobert (France): 6 percent
Tony Mitchell (North Texas): 3 percent
Archie Goodwin (Kentucky): 3 percent
Anthony Bennett (UNLV) - 3 percent

did they really need to use percentages there

Austin Rivers watch: 28.3%

Mickael Pietrus just threw down a nasty dunk and is having an awesome game, believe it or not

Would be a perennial all-star if they widened the court by a foot on all sides.

austin rivers plummet like the dow jones ;]