2018 NBA OFFSEASON

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

it's def a twitter thing to save letters.

xp jfc

klay looking good with the beard and hair a little longer

Klay grew the hair out and got the beard now. Y'all in trouble. (via @JLawbball) pic.twitter.com/spTnlJcyjd

— SLAM (@SLAMonline) September 14, 2018

def a good lewk for him

Sources: Minnesota All-Star Jimmy Butler has begun to seriously contemplate his future with the franchise. Our @JonKrawczynski reports Butler and Thibodeau will meet on Monday.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 15, 2018

i think he just understands whats going on here

most cursed nab franchises

1. knicks
2. magic? idk
3. wolves

clippers are pretty dang cursed

peak griffin and cp and what came of that not to mention the entire pre-basketballmer era

kings

i don't think the magic are cursed status yet they haven't been around long and have had good teams twice

they've made the offs in half their seasons! that's pretty average

its more of a feeling i have of them being somehow cursed

you're saying the magic...has worn off

the curse of dwight

it really has been a bad post-dwight run of things. bad picks/bad trades. oladipo+sabonis for ibaka who you trade for terrence ross and a future 1st rounder, woof

clippers are hella cursed for sure

i agree with knicks twolves clippers as the top 3 curses

if we're weighting recent situations more heavily i think the pels have a better case than the magic, losing 10 players to injury every year

wolves are curse. lowest winning pct all time, reg season AND playoffs. 2nd fewest playoff games all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_all-time_NBA_win-loss_records

Wade is running it back

suns pretty cursed xps. jordan, joe johnson broken nose, amare eye, amare/diaw suspensions, kobe air ball right into the hands of artest

i think suns are my #4 yeah

Also the Tim Duncan bank three lol. The moment every suns fan knew they’d never be able to beat the spurs in a series

haha oh boy

Of note in here: Karl-Anthony Towns won’t sign his max rookie extension until the Jimmy Butler situation is resolved. So if Minnesota wants to lock Towns up long-Term, that means a pre-season Butler trade. Rookie extension deadline not that far away... https://t.co/FQDQquDfO3

— Sagar Trika (@BlazersBySagar) September 17, 2018

kat really putting in work to become my least favorite nba player

it seems like jimmy might be really hard to be around

yeah im not so sure about jimmy as a teammate. sounds like he has some kpbe in him?
https://sports.vice.com/en_au/article/kzzjxw/jimmy-butler-has-something-to-say

"I'm confrontational. I feed off of confrontation. It makes me go."

The conversation turns to his work ethic. He understands not everyone is as driven as he is, but can't comprehend the thought of someone (especially another NBA player) not doing all they can to reach their full potential. It bugs him, even though he knows it shouldn't.

"I think it's wrong for me to think that people want what I want because in reality they don't. Some people are OK with getting drafted. Some people are OK with playing two years in the league, four years in the league, six years in the league. Some people are OK with just scoring a basket in an NBA game. I'm not OK with any of that. I'm not satisfied until I win a championship," he says. "I want everybody to work the way that I work and it's wrong for me to think like that because people don't do it! But in my mind I'm just like why? Why don't you want to chase greatness the way that I do?"

Last January, after a humiliating loss in Atlanta that saw the Bulls blow a 10 point lead with three minutes left, Butler was fined for publicly dragging his teammates through the mud. After he was traded, former NBA player Antoine Walker called Butler a "bad locker room guy." A recent report suggested the Boston Celtics had concerns about trading for the three-time All-Star because Butler might clash with Gordon Hayward, who they eventually signed in free agency.

"Even as a first-semester freshman, he wasn't gonna let guys drift through practice," says Mike Marquis, Butler's coach at Tyler Junior College. "He is very, very competitive, and he is great when he finds an enemy. I think that's one of his charms. He knows how to psychologically find an enemy and attack it."

I ask Butler if he's a difficult person to be around.

"Yes," he says.

But it's not as simple as that. Difficult is in the eye of the beholder, just like laziness.

"But then again it's bad on my part because I know better," Butler says. "It's kind of contradicting itself. It's like, 'Well Jimmy you know better, don't do that.' But then the other half is just like, 'Well, if you can do it everybody can do it.' But then it goes back again. 'You know that it don't work like that, right? Yeah, I know, but I think that it can so everybody needs to work like this.'"

"I think it takes a very special person to deal with Jimmy Butler," says Gaines. "He's actually too smart for his own good."

"I'm confrontational. I feed off of confrontation. It makes me go..."

yikes!

the wolves wld really be in a better situation if this kat ultimatum didnt leak

I think that's one of his charms. He knows how to psychologically find an enemy and attack it.

jfc lol