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

i read something that made a p good case that those guys were cut to save money

rondo's cancun adventure II

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
The NBA has suspended Boston's Rajon Rondo one game for making contact with an official and failing to cooperate with league investigation.

oh for christs sake

haha wut league investigation

Atlanta's tv team were all "he should be ejected! He bumped the official!" on Saturday so I'm not surprised. Plus, he's bumped and thrown balls at the refs before so his history isn't a good one.

So, that kills one of the few interesting games tonight.

you should be allowed to punch refs i have no idea who guys dont just do that all the time

To be honest, after that offensive foul called against him I'm surprised Rondo didn't shoulder block the ref into the third row.

http://www.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2013/01/07/010713-rondo.nba/index.html

ha omg what a call, and you can hear the hawks announcer w/the that foul was offensive... rajon rondo to top it off

labrum infos http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/1/7/3847788/dwight-howard-injury-labrum-tear-return-date

and if they miss the playoffs the suns get their lottery pick

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 7, 2013 11:09 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty sure it's lottery protected. Also if it's the most favorable of their options it would go to the cavs, not the suns.

http://prosportstransactions.com/basketball/DraftTrades/Years/2013.htm

i hope you guys are happy now

thread title jinks in full effect fuckers

man just looking over their roster, it looks like the Lakers will have to give Robert Sacre some starts

wait i didn't think the part about dwight & pau being injured was real, holy hell

haha I know, it was a little surreal seeing that headline!

"Gasol and Howard out indefinitely"

you should be allowed to punch refs i have no idea who guys dont just do that all the time

― lag∞n, Monday, January 7, 2013 4:37 PM (47 minutes ago)

yeah fuck refs whats the big deal

"Gasol and Howard out indefinitely"

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 7, 2013 5:06 PM

http://files.sharenator.com/Gif_Living_In_a_LMAO_World_V1-s320x240-221790-580.gif

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
The NBA has suspended Boston's Rajon Rondo one game for making contact with an official and failing to cooperate with league investigation.

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 7, 2013 7:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/997580/turk_medium.gif

KENYON MARTIN SIGNS WITH THE LA LAKERS.

lmao

Is that the same ref who blocked the free throw?

Courtney Kirkland! I think it's the same guy!

haha omg i forgot about the turk ref touch

i was so big on turk like 3-4 years ago wtf

the lakers get swept in those games their playoff odds will plummet

i mean i don't think they will get swept, but they certainly could

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 7, 2013 1:47 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

0-3 just confirmed now

turk beat the shit out of the broncav

#mamabatweets is the best.

I mean after he talks aloud is Kobe like "... mamba has spoken."

"... thus spake mamba."

I imagine Mamba is a separate personality, like Gollum and Smeagol. Mamba scowls and juts out his jaw while Kobe has a cheesy grin and is a wide-eyed NBA innocent.

as far as routine layups go, durant just had one of the most amazing ones i've ever seen

sort of hovered sideways for about ten feet and scooped it up and in off the glass with his left hand

Tommy Heinsohn just had some hilarious comments about the Rondo suspension. "Ludicrous ... [the NBA office] are all Knick fans!"
7:44pm - 7 Jan 13

Snitches get put in ditches.
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/07/danny-ferry-gets-15000-fine-for-giving-video-of-rondo-to-official/

I'm sure he wasn't snitching, he was complaining that they didn't eject Rondo

the refs on the court don't do anything about it after the game, he would send the video to the league office if he was snitching

Danny Narco more like it.

$15,000 fine says otherwise. If it wasn't a big enough deal to merit a tech at the time then his only conceivable motivation is saltiness which qualifies as grade A snitching.

smd danny ferry

pelicans are a playoff team next year i'm calling it

who did they trade austin rivers for this summer?

i don't disagree though- i bet eric gordon gets rolled into some deal somewhere and the brow will be awesome with a year or two under his belt

$15,000 fine says otherwise. If it wasn't a big enough deal to merit a tech at the time then his only conceivable motivation is saltiness which qualifies as grade A snitching.

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:19 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha whatever. the rules say Rondo should have been ejected, it was bitching not snitching.

west is still so crazy hard though. blazers and jazz are going to be better next year. houston might add a piece. lakers who knows. it's hard to make that top 8 in the west!

it's pretty good gamesmanship if it costs the c's a game and ends up affecting where the hawks land in the playoff seeding!

whoa brow

yeah clay you're right. west might have 10 of the top 13 teams

btw

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/07/tommy-heinsohn-with-the-epic-rant-on-rondos-suspension-video/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

btw guys i have an interview with the blazers tomorrow, wish me luck!