2018 NBA OFFSEASON

On way to Springfield. So proud of my guys nashy and jkidd. It’s an honor to say I played with two hall of famers! Unfortunately neither was in their prime....

— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) September 6, 2018

where are the basketball returns?

Good Alonzo Mourning

How you like them apples?

i dont like them, the basketball season needs to start
all these ppl are talking about football and it's bad

got my tix for the Portland season opener against *checks tix* rajon rondo and the Los Angeles lakers

don’t think I’ve seen rondo or lance before, v excited to see how they gel on their new team

def the backcourt matchup is the only thing worth watching in the basketball game between the portland trailblazers and the los angeles lakers

https://i.imgur.com/d6LEONK.png

it remains difficult for me to parse the deep levels of weirdness going on here, absolute bizarro bball

Good luck, Luke!

i love that roster lol

ball-hart-ingram-kuzma-lebron is the lineup with the most intrigue

i like ingram-kuzma-lebron the rest of the team tho lol

hart can shoot tho

im not sold on kuzma at all.

deng 1/2.4 to minny

god bless

glad he's going to get to play. he gave up a bunch of money to do so.

i probably woulda pulled a melo and pulled a f u pay me

fun trip down memory lane:

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24646625/zach-lowe-nba-hall-fame-absurdities

nice

yoooo lebron/kd the new watch the throne or what...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPKiag-TABk

RWB got his knee scoped. getting re-evaluated in 4 weeks. worry about that guys knees

I had to think a bit who the hell RWB was. I've never seen that as a nickname or abbreviation. Always see Russ.

search posts for 'rwb' in i love hoops and there's hundreds of results. might be just us tho

Might be me. I hate abbreviations and shit nicknames like LBJ or RWB or CP3 etc. LBJ is Lyndon Baines Johnson, not LeBron Raymone James.

i think cp3 is the only current player i use that for, i don't like it otherwise

cmon yall this is standard practice

The worst is D Wade, because there are so many other Wade's we'd confuse him with.

Just because it's standard practice doesn't make it less stupid.

i think its ok as an abrv but not very compelling as a nickname

i know we were talking about chase buddinger waaay upthread, but i just found this and i'd like to note that i was otm about him, uh, a decade ago:

YOUR 2008 NBA DRAFT THREAD

prescient

omg that's amazing

i'm like 10 posts in and that thread is wild, like shouts to this guy whose floor prediction for michael beasley was a guy who had a much better career than michael beasley:

it'll be hard to pass up beasley with the no. 1 because at times he looks like a more athletic, bigger, lefty carmelo...

but for some reason it is very easy to imagine dude having an abdur-rahim-esque career.

― hytop, Thursday, April 3, 2008 6:27 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a rare opportunity when your offhand nonsense is documented and turns out to be right. i wasn't that positive about beasley, but i still thought he'd be good.

daer jebus

it's very hard to be the timberwolves. could you pls make it so we get derrick rose?

thank u

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:13 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh no

the lord works in...mysterious ways

omg, haha

btw gay who was the rumored #1 pick all year slipped to 8th on "character issues" - in this case cowardice - and was picked behind Andrea Bargnani LaMarcus Aldridge Adam Morrison Tyrus Thomas Shelden Williams Brandon Roy and Randy Foye

roy is the only guy on that list looking like he has a good shot of being better than gay and thats far from a lock

― jhøshea, Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:00 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the best two players from this list now play for the spurs, wow *makes u think*

westbrook - eh not feeling it

― jhøshea, Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:58 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya i like him actually but the fact that no one thought shit about him until like 4 months ago is o_O

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:00 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"he didn't even start for his high school team until senior year!!" = UH

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:01 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah we could be entering bust territory here - i dont really like this draft too much

― jhøshea, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:01 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kevin Love 6-10 hehe

― Alex in SF, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:03 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Must Improve: Explosion Ability"

― Clay, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:03 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stu scott forgot to read the beach boys wiki

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:06 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great outlet passer = damning w/faint praise

― jhøshea, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:07 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for the culture

Sacto with the first reach.

― polyphonic, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:42 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa

― circles, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:44 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ford had him at #29.

― polyphonic, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:45 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jason thompson

who?

― jhøshea, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:45 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The guy from Rider, a school I have never heard of.

― polyphonic, Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:46 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol the sacramento kings

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:46 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a tradition like no other

the best two players from this list now play for the spurs

Wrong. Brandon Roy is retired and now coaches high school hoops in Seattle. He was easily the best player in that list, including Aldridge.

i kinda can't believe we've been doing this for like almost 15 years now

xp 2 clarify, the best two players at present writing

that thread is great. m@tt probably will cry when he reads his old post :(

and great shout by circles on budinger

oh man im so psyched to not be following the draft compulsively this year

― jhøshea, Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:13 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus fn christ lol

thread on jabari bird domestic abuse details

Details in the Jabari Bird case: He is accused of assaulting his girlfriend for four hours in his apartment. He’s accused of strangling her multiple times, including once until she lost consciousness.

— Tom Westerholm (@Tom_NBA) September 13, 2018

awful

I had to think a bit who the hell RWB was. I've never seen that as a nickname or abbreviation. Always see Russ.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, September 12, 2018 3:53 PM (yesterday)

this may be just the echo chamber I live in but I feel like haralabob popularized this