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

he wrote bad things about basketball on gawker, man.

max ban max

Warriors 5 losses in a row, ouch.

KObe 4 pts on 1-8, 9 assists and 8 turnovers in a Lakers win. This team is so weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vijg_JwRAL8

As a basketball fan, past week of LeBron has been so much fun-- not often that I feel engaged by every shot someone takes / expecting the shot to go down. If he'd chill a bit on those long two-pt jumpers he'd probably be on a 30pt/70% streak!

Royce White 7pts/8rbs/4asts/18min in first D-League game, which is impressive for a dude who said that he's only been picking up a bball maybe once a week since the season started.

Many xps I hope Faried continues to be more and more vocal about his LGBT support. Feel like the major roadblock to any NBA player coming out isn't fan support but rather team/player support, and having dudes like Faried be honestly supportive could make a huge difference.

Also Max too OTM about bike helmets/drones to ban.

Ha and Bosh went 13-16, 32 pts, nbd.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/bulls/2013/02/12/derrick-rose-knee-injury-return-chicago-bulls/1912521/

still no date on d-rose's return

I forget where -- maybe Bill Simmons' podcast w/ Marc Stein? -- but someone said that he almost certainly wasn't making it back by the end of the season.

yeah stein said that

Just gonna put it out there that Jamison is another year or two away from 20,000 pts / 8,000 rbs, which is a HoF'er statline.

Over the course of his whole career, he's only been named NBA Player of the Week / Month once (PotWeek in March of '08).

Such a weird career.

hes like the Johnny Damon of basketball

Damon got a ring though, and really helped the Sox take that 04 title.

Heh unless 'Tawn counts as a nickname, the closest thing Jamison has to a nickname is Austin Carr calling him "The Jump Shooter."

JAMISON GETS IT RIGHT
* ... For thirty years now Antawn Jamison has lived with the spelling of his first name as "Antawn" and the pronunciation of it as "An-TWAN." The former Tar Heel star and current NBA star of the Washington Wizards will continue to do so. But his son, born on December 28, 2006, and given the name of Antwan Cortez Jamison Jr., will not have that to deal with.

"We decided we didn't want him to go through life having to answer that question," Jamison told The Washington Times about spelling his baby boy's name A-n-t-w-a-n instead of A-n-t-a-w-n as his name is spelled. Jamison's parents intended his name to be spelled and pronounced "Antwan" when he was born, but the hospital typed it incorrectly as 'Antawn' on the birth certificate back on June 12, 1976. The error went unchanged leading to confusion since the name went on being pronounced "An-TWAN" by his parents.

"The hospital made a mistake on the birth certificate and they just left it alone," Jamison told the Times. "They just never dealt with it."

According to the article, Jamison is often teased about the spelling of his name in opposing arenas being called "An-TAWN" as his name appears and is pronounced phonetically.

Jamison and his wife, Ione, wanted a junior, but didn't want their first son (and second child) to go through the misspellings, confusion and mispronunciations that Antawn Cortez Jamison has gone through.

"So we made life easier on him," Jamison said.

I can't believe they got Hedo for steroid use.

Turkoglu explained his positive test in a statement released by the Magic.

“While I was back home in Turkey this past summer, I was given a medication by my trainer to help recover more quickly from a shoulder injury,” Turkoglu said. “I didn’t know that this was a banned substance and didn’t check before blah blah blah...

“While I was back home in Turkey this past summer, I was given a medication by my trainer to help recover more quickly from a shoulder injury, killed a herd of deer with my bare hands and smeared the bloody velvet of their antlers all over my naked body,” Turkoglu said. “I didn’t know that this was a banned substance and didn’t check before blah blah blah...

goin to nets/nuggs tonight

fun!

nets gonna get destroyed, i fear

Yesssssssssss getting one of those continuous live feed streams.

26 pt Blazer first half, vs NO

weird game from kyrie huh? just got home

4th quarter of this Cavs v. Spurs game was tremendous. Back and forth, clutch shot after clutch shot.

Gif comin soon of jj hickson just flattening a lady as he dove into the crowd for a loose ball.

beginning of the 4th quarter, 49-43 chicago over boston.

one player on the two teams has double digit pts (belinelli)

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2163871/hickson-fan.gif

would crash into

yeah she uh, seems to have a lot of cushioning in a certain area of her body, fortunately

celtics win a trench war, 71-69

triple double for TMac 2.0

Which one is tmac 2.0 again?

more than a few totals like that tonight, all-star break right on time. xxp

austin rivers is truly a horrendous basketball player

ha wait did matt just call paul george tmac 2.0 or did someone else have a triple double tonight

man know yr Ilh memes

btw congratulation Boston celtics, 71s got to be the lowest winning score of the season no

hornets won by 36, did not reach 100 points.

so the clippers might score 50 in the first quarter

caron butler is 7/9 for 17 points in the quarter

10-1-6-2-0 for lebron, i mean cp3, in the first quarter

so guess who's still not first in WS/48? #greatstat

triple double for TMac 2.0
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:b fwiw this is becoming a more popular comparison!

In other news Vince Carter has now scored more NBA points than Larry "Gordon Hayward 1.0" Bird.

Lol

so the tmac thing is a joke, right? i seem to remember tmac scoring more than 17 ppg