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

lol yea and byron doesn't even have the advantage that Monty and brooks have of being liked by players. well maybe excepting kobe bc they are both complete cockbags and game recognize game but that doesn't really count.

hawks mgmt loves muscala apparently. i was...deeply concerned about hawks play the last couple of months, they had a week w/ high profile games against the dubs and the spurs and both those teams showed up ready to play PLAYOFF BASKETBALL and just dominated the hawks, dubs being a blowout didn't concern me too much cuz korver was out it's just we didn't look like we belonged on the court w/ those guys and even w/ the win over the cavs i came away doubting we could win a seven game series against them. BUT THEN i heard kevin arnovitz on zach lowe's podcast and he said that the hawks weren't concerned at all, that they've been trying new things out for the past couple of months looking toward the playoffs and somewhat taking for granted they'd have the one seed in the east. so i'm like fuck it i'll trust coach budd. i just hope we at least make the eastern conference finals cuz if this season ends like yr average hawks season ends - out in the second round - that will suck.

i think w/ byron like an overwhelming part of it really is he's lakers family and the buss kids remember him from when they were kids plus his combination of dumb/arrogant probably plays well w/ jim buss.

just thrashed the suns 96-69! apparently 58 wins is a franchise record. congrats balls, heez & all of ATL.

also that's just an amazing score because I am a child

pelis have a small lead over the dubs w/ a minute to go btw

palindromic!

*rides away on skateboard*

Xp

damn, good game from muscala. big game tomorrow night!

steph curry is... good

daaaaaaaamn

i have no idea what the hell monty williams called for what was probably the most important possession of the pelicans' season. something like "stand around some, maybe pass to some guys, but definitely dont get the ball to davis. oh and the passes should be lazy."

whooooohhhh

that was nuts. pelis have a foul to give & warriors have no timeouts.

oh jeez i've never seen a ball that far down in the hoop and pop up

rip thundermen, the triple doubles were quite fun

omgosh that steph travel/shot

its really good that didnt go in

Haha almost got away w it

Curry didn't want to
Make that tbf they'd much rather play the pels

can't wait for the audio assists of byron scott pretending to be nice to his players while wired up

redick has looked so, so good

lol wait how was i not informed ahead of time that drew magary was gonna be on chopped tonight

.487/.435/.968 redick since all star break

dang

the clips starting lineup is +19.1 points per 100 this year. the bench otoh...

dont let doc rivers be ur gm if u cn avoid it

‏@royceyoung
Dion Waiters on the playoff race: "We control our own destiny, they control their own destiny."

lol

not much of a philosopher

wow i've never seen a dude brick a dunk, catch the ball in midair off the rim, then put it back in one motion

Flip Saunders benched justin Hamilton for some reason and cost me a whole lot of money

Gotta stop betting Matt can't be good for your health

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/indiana-pacers-chris-copeland-stabbed-nyc-club-article-1.2177265

What the heck!!

The two members of Hawks who were arrested, Thabo Sefolosha, 30, and Pero Antic, 32, refused to move when police tried to set up a crime scene, the sources said. They were charged with obstructing governmental administration.

jesus!

theres no way someone from switzerland wldnt obey the police this is some sort of set up

cray cray

whats the nbas policy on players who are caught up in court cases? is it just no worries until theres a conviction?

sounds like its nbd anyway

im sure antic and sefolosha can come up w/ some sort of easy plea bargain, at best they receive some slap on the wrist suspension - like silver clearly cares about "integrity of the league" type stuff but it's not like an obstruction charge levied on dudes who were probably heated up, drunk & concerned about their friend is somehow indicative of moral failing in any minds other than the most tight-assed, and silver doesn't seem quite that type of tight-assed

@ESPNSteinLine: ESPN sources: Vlade Divac has emerged as Kings' top basketball decision-maker. Story link: http://t.co/UI77cZDpyB

vivek mullen crush over?

mullen jumped ship and took a college coaching job, so the writing was on the wall

lol, poor vlade's smoking habit gonna come right back full force (if it ever disappeared), too much stress

wow did not realize that, crazy he turned down a pro job to coach at his middling alma mater where he has a chance to ruin his reputation xp

lol obvs did not read the article

the jokey tone of this piece is terrible but theres some nice shotcharts in there http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-least-efficient-shooters-josh-smith-michael-carter-williams-trey-burke-nerlens-noel-dion-waiters/

i appreciate any excuse for deploying the j-smoove missed 3/SVG pain face vine

it's pretty hilarious that the spot on dion's shot chart that is the most efficient (at least according to the rubric established) is the place he shoots the least, but then again i s'pose he could've just got lucky the times he did take shots there & is ultimately a bad shooter everywhere

this is the other reason why i am all about the pelis backing in (geaux pelis): keep dion waiters out of the playoffs as long as humanly possible

xxp while i am not on team hate-grantland as much as you sometimes are, goon, i def agree re: this piece bc stuff like this is unfuriating:

So if you have a missed-shot fetish like I do, come meet me on Waiters Island. We’ll have the whole place to ourselves.

YOU'RE NOT ALONE, more than half your site's goddamn NBA writers won't shut the hell up about waiters as if those jokes & his bad basketball/worse personality were still funny, then again i'm talking about it & not just ignoring so in the end they win

*infuriating