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

haha yes he knows that song by heart

o sht

celticshub ‏@CelticsHub
Doc Rivers drops the hammer after the game tonight, threatens trades if the team does not improve: http://sulia.com/my_thoughts/2bb1eae0-7127-443c-bc49-54f63efbe291/?source=twitter …

kd & russ were a combined 35-38 from the line tonight. denver as a team was 23-34.

KD's gonna win the scoring title again, sorry kobels

btw I hate westbrook but mascot harassment is a time-honored NBA tradition that we should all appreciate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRF50ln9B0A

lmao 'that looks like the charles now'

i thought the same

lol rocky really takes some shit huh

charles barkley stepping on you can not feel good

i think the punch was from chuck's last game when he was coming back just for the last game of the season 30 lbs overweight

Sean Highkin ‏@shighkinNBA
If 65% of the Kings is worth $525m, how much would the Knicks or Lakers pull if Dolan or the Buss family ever decided to sell?

excellent question

I can't find the time Rocky was on stilts and Chuck headbutted him in the crotch, that's the best I've seen xp

haah

btw I think they're not selling 65% for 525, they're just selling 65% at a 525 valuation

remember when everyone thought the maloofs were crazy for demanding 500?

that would make much more sense if it were the case

that would make more sense, but still

fwiw Forbes valued the Knicks and Lakers at around 650m each a couple years ago

you got to think theyd sell for more than double that

man didn't that dude get the grizz for only 350 or something?

charles barkley stepping on you can not feel good

― lag∞n, Sunday, January 20, 2013 8:24 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

yearly reminder that charles barkley called me ugly to my face when i was 12 :(

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

The $525 million price is a "valuation" on the total franchise. For 65 percent, Seattle group would pay approximately $340 million.

charles barkley stepping on you can not feel good

― lag∞n, Sunday, January 20, 2013 8:24 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

yearly reminder that charles barkley called me ugly to my face when i was 12 :(

― Clay, Monday, January 21, 2013 12:00 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whaaat

well i know i've told this story before but

when i was like 12 or 13 i was a ballboy for the blazers for the back half of the 93-94 season i think, so I was probably 13 actually. Anyways, i was working the suns game and was sitting under the hoop, where we sat, while one of the blazers was shooting free throws. barkley was lined up on the rebound block. i was sort of spacing out, as i often do, and realized a few moments too late that barkley was yelling at me, saying "hey man, toss me a towel." I kind of came out of my spaceout and pointed at myself like 'who, me?' and he said "Yes you, the ugly one, throw me a damn towel!"

16 or so years later he hit on my girlfriend at a charity event so I mean maybe I won that round?

CLAY THAT'S AN AMAZING STORY

Imagine what he might have said about yo' mama!

idk mostly it always stuck with me b/c i was a 13 year old boy who worshipped basketball players and was uncomfortable about his appearance (as is the case generally with 13 year old boys) and here's one of the world's best, most famous basketball players making me feel really vulnerable and awful about how I look!

but anyways chuck rules.

you should have said "here you go, lard-ass"

in other news, the kings are dead, long live the sonics.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/images/photos/001/138/607/SeattleSonics_crop_340x234.png?1298085151

So, have the mal-oafs been shown the error of their ways and signed off on the deal? Hooray!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-sources-maloofs-agree-sell-051543331--nba.html

heat signed birdman to a 10 day contract, that could be fun.

so i guess he was/is innocent?

they say the investigation is still ongoing but it's been a whole year so I doubt they really have a case

my friend is related to Barkley, has been to family reunions where he's at, says he's a real jackass.
same girl was in HS classes w/Q Richardson, says he was dumb as bricks.

Any other good ballboy stories, Clay?

been thinking on it and I can't come up with a lot; that was like almost 20 years ago!*

I do remember shagging balls for Glenn Robinson one night. It was his rookie year and he was the #1 draft pick, and it was well known that he had held out for a 13-year, $100 million deal (eventually getting a 10-year, $68 million deal, but I probably didn't know that, I remember fixating on the $100 million number). That amount of money was obviously utterly absurd to my young mine (that amount of money actually remains absurd to my much older mind). But I remember going after rebounds and passing him the ball and, like, trying to do the math in my head to figure out how many basketballs he could buy if he wanted to, etc.

Also I was really little and they didn't have shoes small enough for me, so I had to wear shoes a a size or so too big and I remember having to learn to run in those things, probably looking ridiculous.

Mostly the job was just about mopping up the sweat of your heroes.

must be nice to work for your hometown team (:

hear seattle is pursuing buford (eternal gm of the s.a. spurs) w/ a carte blanche offer

also a new era of vice presidents approaches:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GjlhudRY5a4/S6rOyGL60RI/AAAAAAAAASY/8q3pgmxjAv0/s1600/john-hollinger.jpg vs http://basketblog.fr/images/Phil_jackson_020710_10.jpg

Mostly the job was just about mopping up the sweat of your heroes.

― Clay, Monday, January 21, 2013 4:57 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this line, could be a really climactic line in a movie about the life of a ballboy

or just part of the voiceover intro *camera opens to 13 y/o clay, alone in the dimly lit rose garden, mopping the hardwood*

toweling down charles barkelys glistening torso as he insults yr bone structure

Lakers 4 1/2 games from a play-off spot and 4 1/2 games from being the WORST team in the entire Western Conference. Come on guys YOU CAN DO IT!

YOU CAN'T DO IT! (make the playoffs)

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18c70528nybnajpg/original.jpg

lmao

Hahaha

lol way to get russell, morgan freeman and god mad at you