THE 2017 NBA 'OFFS™

im talking as much shit as possible bc we are probably gonna get trashed by the warriors aka the fakest bunch of fake ass gangsters who might as well be a 19th century trust but with basketball instead of oil and railroads

really enjoyed watching murray tonight. def seems like he'll be a player.

GSW are just enjoying the fruits of a super-cheap Steph contract atm. Their idyll will end soon enough.

before he got injured, he was getting some good minutes and had some performances. prediction: if he can shoot >40% from 3, he will make at least one all start team. he's got the prototype NBA body (6'5" tall and long arms) and hes fast and he's being coached by pop.

oh yeah if he ever shoots that well from 3 he'll be a star. won't even need to shoot that well to be good tho.

nice for the spurs to get some more size in the backcourt. him, DG & w/ kawhi will be terror on defense.

omg wow tw

JAMES HARDEN U R DEAD TO ME ,TO THE WORLD TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LACED UP SNEAKERS AND PLAYED A PROFESSIONAL SPORT. PUT A GUN IN YOUR MOUTH. pic.twitter.com/jqfTHWq5GE

— Stu Feiner (@StuSource) May 12, 2017

GSW are just enjoying the fruits of a super-cheap Steph contract atm. Their idyll will end soon enough.

Is that how the cap works now? I guess they have to pay him 40m a year and it's only 100... I got used to teams being able to keep all their stars no matter what.

*if they were willing to pay

decent breakdown

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/after-new-cba-heres-what-has-to-happen-for-warriors-to-keep-durant-and-curry/

you cant really overstate how punitive the luxury tax gets after the first year tho

clearly their only option is to trade dray to orlando

zach lowe it was my understanding the bulls didnt want to make this kind of trade

Boston would have almost no chance against Cleveland, and the "almost" is generous. Swap, say, Crowder, Marcus Smart, and a Nets pick for Butler, and the odds of an upset get better.

i've developed a new orlando magic theory

i would not trade crowder, smart, and the nets pick for butler!!

and neither wld the bulls!

anyway good article otherwise http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19361564/zach-lowe-boston-celtics-vs-washington-wizards-game-6-nba

my takeaway washington has the best player but boston plays better

emma baccellieri's deadspin piece "James Harden Comes To Houston To Watch Rockets Take On Spurs" is cold but accurate

some good highlights of hardens game

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

lagoon would you do that trade if you're boston?

loool xp

amazing scene

lagoon would you do that trade if you're boston?

― k3vin k., Friday, May 12, 2017 12:48 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya

tho if they actually get the #1 pick prob no

im in the harden was concussed camp

def seems like a reasonable theory

the fact that he threw the ball to a phantom teammate instead of trying to draw a phantom foul on a three pt shot says something.

the dream scenario for boston tho as i wrote in the offseason thread is not to trade for butler but rather for dre jordan and then sign gordo hayward

long shot on both counts but not impossible, wld be happy to trade for butler too tho then they still need to address their rebounding problems

i think hayward is like 90% to stay in utah

yeah seems like he has a p good setup there + they can offer him a lot more money, only wild cards are what if hes madly in love with brad, and if the celtics succeed in trading for another star the celtics wld be a much better team than the jazz, and he wld escape the horrors of having to play the dubs in the second round

oh dang i forgot about the brad stevens connection

tbf imagining him and brad having a love connection is not hard

much more so than the weird sweaty drug addicted undercover cop they have in utah

lol really brad shd be in utah and snyder shd be in boston culture wise

when was the last time a top 30 player went west to east

isaiah to boston B-)

dont think he was a top 30 player 2 years ago

he was but no one realized it

snyder always struck me as a surfer stoner dude listening to him talk

the story of isaiahs career preboston is so funny and weird both sacto and phoenix looked at his production and went "this cannot be possible" then traded him for nothing

ive watched a lot of movies and i know what a crooked cop looks like

https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/quin-snyder.jpg

he crossed the thin blue line, now hes desperate, and in too deep

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9EfIHYj3jKQ/maxresdefault.jpg

oh youre telling me how things go now? you dont tell me I TELL YOU! IM THE MOTHERFUCKING LAW AROUND HERE!!

http://i.imgur.com/o6qCitR.png

sign me as another vote for concussed harden

he got hit in the head toward the end of game 5 and was off for the rest of that game too iirc

im in the harden was concussed camp

― ciderpress, Friday, May 12, 2017 12:53 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this still seems like the occam's razor explanation although he was at a strip club after the game which is not high on my list of places i'd want to be if i was concussed.

haberstroh:

Pull up data on NBA.com and you'll see that Harden dragged along at a snail's pace in Game 6 with an average speed of 3.36 miles per hour. That was the slowest of any player that played at least 10 minutes in the game.

It gets worse, the next slowest guy, Eric Gordon, registered 3.97 miles per hour, according to the player tracking data, which means that Harden was moving 50 feet per minute slower than the next slowest guy. Consider the tickling fact that Jonathon Simmons could have stood in place for six straight minutes on the floor and he still would have covered more ground than Harden in equal minutes.

wow

the fact that he threw the ball to a phantom teammate instead of trying to draw a phantom foul on a three pt shot says something.

― nomar, Friday, May 12, 2017 9:56 AM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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