Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

the umpiring has been atrocious

celtics being down 10 to GSW is about 25 less than I figured they'd be down with a quarter and a half left

nets ad in the lil brooklyn paper

tix to nets vs raptors next friday: $19 - $3000

tix to nets vs knicks the following friday: $95 - $4000

lolwut

jennings 6-9 months

brutal :(

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Wish there was a better slate of games for snowpocalypse tonight ;(

just get super stoned and stare into the weather prob

blazers @ nets postponed already

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 30s31 seconds ago
NBA reschedules Knicks-Kings and Nets-Trail Blazers, gives Sacramento 9-game, 14-city road trip

hey is there enough bandwidth for us to do some sort of top players of all time poll ... or is one of the things that makes ilh great the lack of those sorts of polls in contrast to the other ILX boards? What do you guys think?

I think I def associate ILH with a very being in the moment ethos

what about top players of right now?

how would that even go though, is someone gonna vote for kent bazemore in their top 10?

It would go like all the other polls probably, devolving into fights that are either fun or petty or both.

how would that even go though, is someone gonna vote for kent bazemore in their top 10?

idk why ilx doesnt have ranked voted built in

My ballot for greatest of all time would probably shape up like

1. Gilbert Arenas
2. Greg Oden
3. Ernie Johnson

My all-time would just be various California-era Warriors.

my ballot fwiw

1 brow
2 kent bazemore
3 kent bazemore
4 kent bazemore
5 kent bazemore
6 kent bazemore
7 kent bazemore
8 kent bazemore
9 kent bazemore
10 kent bazemore

thats a lie you'd make room at least at #10 for jelly k

tru

it's officially all over

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 21s21 seconds ago
Kobe Bryant will have season-ending shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff on Wednesday, the Lakers say.

rip a legendary campaign

will always remember where I was when I read the tweet

id participate in a poll like that. could be fun

if we did a poll it should be a list of who we think will be the top players in 5 years rather than top players now, that would be much more interesting

i'd personally only want to do that one if we restricted it to players currently on nba rosters

yeah that would be fine

maybe do 3 years then

I say we should each post our own list of who we think will be the top players in a few years. maybe make it more verifiable by saying who in the league today who hasn't been an all star yet, will be in the 2018 all-star game. and then we slag off on each others lists, like we usually do.

I say we should each post our own list

individual ballots at the end, like we always do

maybe make it more verifiable by saying who in the league today who hasn't been an all star yet

unnecessary restriction imo

will be in the 2018 all-star game.

really don't give a fuck about the asg

but also I think it would be fun to speculate about which current all stars will still be good / around / etc.

but just saying so-and-so will be "a top player" leads to nothing new we don't already do all the time anyway, which is argue over relative merits of players and disagree with one another. the asg metric at least allows the possibility of doing a victory dance.

there are all sorts of stats and awards that people use to argue about the relative merits of individual players, and few of them are fundamentally less indicative of ability that all-star game appearances.

fine with me if you suggest some better way

okay you talked me out of wanting to do this

i think maybe a ballot version of your favorite nba players for watching could be interesting

there'd be some pretty universal choices and some regional idiosyncrasies and some pretty personal choices that'd be given voice imo

i actually think "best" would be better if we do the 3 year thing. "favorite" would dilute the ballots too much. we're only gonna get like 10 people voting

KD has an injured left toe? dude ain't got no luck

I say we do a poll of favorite draft busts 2000-present

we could do a poll with like a lot of of different questions

of one where everyone just makes up their own questions

let's all interview each other and start a cool basketball magazine

poll should only include players who have worn hannibal lecter masks to protect broken noses etc

^ Cosign.

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Maybe we should poll possible poll questions first then our magazine can be called hoop infinity: recursive polling