waiting for the other shoelace to drop: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

Slim Reaper is pretty damn terrible, i don't blame him
The Servant.. uh.. i wouldn't go with that either

the servant is kinda awesome kd is an intersting guy

why it makes no sense

dr. lawyer indian chief from free darko suggested "slim dunkin" on twitter

but mostly i don't get why durant needs another nickname when everyone calls him "KD"

it's not like people suddenly stopped calling michael "MJ" because of "the jumpman" or something

yeah but AI was AI but also The Answer, its not out of the realm

the better you are, the more nicknames you need. which is why Shaq felt the need to give himself 40 of them.

shaq is giving himself new nicknames even as we speak.

"I'm not here to be a guy of, I guess, death."

kd gets in the hall on this quote alone.

'The Servant' feels like some serious christian ish to me and just makers me feel weird about religion for the ten thousandth time.

btw religious, racial and class weird overtones and the total unballerness of it, I say thumbs down

I mean even weirdness aside it's like calling yourself "the Volunteer" or "BBall's Little Helper" or some shit

yeah it is very much not cool

death is cool man we all have to die embrace it

kevin "the under(weight)taker" durant.

yeah death is obviously cool

The Mensch

sports are full of comically tuff black mamba style nicknames i welcome durants earnest religiosity to the fold in the name of deversity

i like the idea too of his game being in the service of communal virtue not individual egomaniacal accomplishment, its a good dynamic, theres tension with the other meaner nicknames

sports are full of comically tuff black mamba style nicknames

kevin "miscreant" durant.

black-mamba is a dumb nickname, anyways.

theres also something nicely ironic about being a humble christian while dropping 40 on yr opponent, youre serving them by reveling the truth, that you are much better at basketball than them

No beef here with the imagery of The Servant, but only with how clunky it is on the tongue. Not catchy at all. He'd be better off as The Truth.

maybe "The Deacon"

no you guys both of those have like totally differnt connotations not to mention the truth is taken

the altar boy

(hangs head) I have failed.

theres also something nicely ironic about being a humble christian while dropping 40 on yr opponent

to keep things lively, maybe he'll become a satan-worshiper in his early 30s. kevin "sullivan" durant.

http://www.lethalwow.com/images3/woman17.jpg

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/2/18/5423300/tony-parker-injury-rest-san-antonio-spurs

mavericks and lakers apparently maneuvering to get kevin love via trade, but timberwolves thus far have shown little interest.

srsly what could either of those teams possibly offer

lakers can't even throw in their 2014 first rounder since they already traded their 2015 pick

Pau for love duh everyone wins

kobe, shamed by exile in minnesota, moves in with prince, they become gods

Ethan Strauss ‏@SherwoodStrauss -- I'd do anything for Love RT @Joe_m543 even adding klay the warriors should still make that trade, right?

warriors would do anything for love, but wolves won't do that.

it's funny how many reporters are trying to make a ruckus over lebron's mt. rushmore comments.

on the other hand, lebron's mt. rushmore comments were the most outrageous words ever uttered so . . .

http://i.imgur.com/M0uVhWq.png

you should focus on the looming possibility of a rondo-to-pacers trade that would give indiana the greatest roster of basketball talent in the history of the NBA

can't believe u blew up the warriors

they were a fun team. now they just have "good outlet passes." too bad.

love wld be so rad on the warriors im amped for this its real to me

Oh sweet I was hoping we'd get Gurgul

should put the THE DRUDGE SIREN around this one:

Ethan J. Skolnick ‏@EthanJSkolnick -- Yes, Dwyane Wade did eat fish for first time last night. Trying to change diet. As for sushi, "I'm a long ways away from that."

SPINNING LIGHTS DENOTE IMPORTANCE

wow smh at wade

lol wut he never tried fish before

https://twitter.com/NBAcatwatch/status/435947970458955776

Nearly positive Wade's had canned tuna before.

rondo on the pacers would be legitimately insane

yes, it would, and i hate the world for even contemplating it.

Clippers say that J.J. Redick is "sidelined indefinitely with a bulging disc in his lower back."

fuuuuck this season ugh