2011-12 NBA Season Thread: Year 0 of the World Peace Era

b/c we were in the 'box when the season started

v excited for clips vs undefeated blazers tonight. feel like we could learn some stuff about these teams tonight. Or it will be another meaningless, frustrating regular season game in an accelerated season.

yeah that game should be great

Rubio looks amazing

nuggets are the most fun team ever

Gallinari playing amazing D on Kobe for realz

just max out Kevin Love already ffs

rubio is playing out of his mind, holy god

did Rubio just tank the past 2 years in Europe, sulking away his buyout?

feel like maybe the over coached super physical euro game just wasn't the place for rubios free wheeling ways

but he was pretty good at that euro game when he was 18, and somehow got worse.

yah who knows

anybody with league pass unable to get the clips/blazers game? i can't figure out why it's blacked out

nah I got it

Birdman just hit a totally bananas baseline fadeaway buzzer beater

what the hell is going on in this bulls-grizz game

The clips are so ridiculously athletic, like it seems like cheating to be that athletic as a team

xp

is it getting close to most lopsided of all time? 100 to 56 right now, woof

rubio didnt get "worse" at europe later. it was his new team, barcelona, who played in a... strange way. didnt match w/ his game at all.

euro basketball doesnt make any sense, its garbage

ps r u coops chucklebutt aka ice cram aka jhooey jho jho shabadoo

nuggetssssss

i like it =/ (euro bball)

so glad to not see j.r. smitty in thread title anymore

i love this team

i am just me a new me for a new era cant be nobody else also the heat should trade lebron for dwight howard #tradebron

when bron puts up 30/8/6.5 this year and the heat win the title u will regret those words

if it is 30/8/6, u wont regret it that much

an extra 0.5 assists pushes it into the regret threshold paradox

bron dies heat dies deadly 2012 unless trade bron #mayaprophecy

lol

nostradwightus

srsly tho doesnt bron average 30/8/6 every year

yeah i was kinda underselling that there lol

ya thats why when he goes 30/8/6.5 u will b like WHOA *looks down at floor with solemnity*

*_*

looks like z-bo is prob okay btw

whew good

Norris Cole had another pretty damn good game tonight. I may have a hat to eat at work for all of my cole-downplaying.

lol DJ has become an autofoul

Portland looking pretty darn incompetent tonight

damn ur gonna have to eat a hat cause a 23 y/o rookie back up pg had a couple dece games, thats a rigorous workplace

mo williams just tried to lob to brian cook

lol brian cook just missed the train to LOB CITY

wow kobels had a real bad game today

yo portland vs clips close game alert if you turned away because it was a blowout at the half

clips really need to deal williams or bledsoe for a decent big at some point

yah one would think thats the plan

Whoa cp3 that's NUTS

holy shit cp3

Clips really don't know how to close a game at all. Missing free throws, jacking up terrible 3s with time left, all while up 4 with under a minute left.

cp3! that was a tough finish

Yeah that was sick, over Aldridge too

We need the Birdman.

dunk champion cedric ceballos!

also wearing nerd glasses

i like ced's look tonight

dude Kenny STFU

kenny you are ruining everything

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/facepalm.gif

can they declare this year null and void?

great job, league office!

woo-hum

paul george was robbed

Shaq longing for the days when superstars like Terence Stansbury competed.

ban the dunk contest

lol @ the lukewarm cheering

The Derrick Williams meltdown was pretty good

the nba should refund sprite's ad fee + pay sprite damages for harming sprite's brand

manu ginobili ts% .707

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/sports/basketball/the-evolution-of-jeremy-lin-as-a-point-guard.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&smid=fb-share

With the added muscle, Lin pushed his weight to 212 pounds from 200, while increasing his vertical leap by 3.5 inches, Wagner said. The result is evident every time Lin barrels into the lane this season.

“The biggest thing I see is when he gets intro traffic, he’s able to maintain his direction and his balance, because he’s stronger,” Wagner said, adding, “He’s a physical guard. That’s where I see his hard work and the program he did with us paying off.”

Wagner added: “Before, he was a motorcycle: he was maneuverable, but very off-balance. Now he’s like a Porsche: he’s fast, but he’s stable.”

the person who designed these all-star uniforms needs to be sent to a gulag

so uh andrew bynum had synthetic lubricant injected into his knee? and it's a 'normal operation'? uhh

great for the trade value

get andrew bynum with a free oil change

'part of routine maintenance for a 24 year old' gtfo

this is what bynum got

http://www.synviscone.com/what-is-synvisc-one.aspx

Synvisc-One® (hylan G-F 20) is a viscosupplement injection. Made from a natural substance that lubricates and cushions your joint, it can provide up to six months of osteoarthritis knee pain relief with just one injection.

reading up on it, it sounds like it hasn't been in use for very long. a pitcher for the red sox had it last year.

great for the trade value

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get andrew bynum with a free oil change

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao at this

reading up on it, it sounds like it hasn't been in use for very long. a pitcher for the red sox had it last year.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seemed to work out great for the red sox

so nobody watched the all star game?

(darts eyes rapidly left and right, hunches shoulders unconsciously)

no

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/37649/truehoop-tv-hollinger-on-all-star-game

hollinger's outfits are often indefensible

love both of those dudes but they are so awkward

have you seen hollinger's head shot? what would you expect

I watched the game but mostly I played with a baby

INJURY UPDATE: http://t.co/83m2E46v Results of a CT scan revealed that Kobe Bryant suffered a nasal fracture in tonight's game.

lol wade is an assassin

I watched it through three and went to sleep

KD was on a mission

I watched Ax Men and Full Metal Jousting instead.

have you seen hollinger's head shot? what would you expect

― J0rdan S., Monday, February 27, 2012 1:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

face for insiders only

wow http://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2012/02/pi-stat-of-the-day-kings-of-the-midrange/

soeaking of kings, the sacramento ones are definitely staying there from the sounds of it.

good

https://p.twimg.com/AmwVKsTCQAAaM3s.jpg

so I hope that kobe has to wear a rip hamilton style mask from now on, would enhance his serial killer/sociopath look imo

I hope he has it shaped and colored like a black mamba head.

sheed :/

you were supposed to be doing that in summer 2009, then you wouldn't have been winded five minutes into game seven in 2010

so who's gonna start the second half thread?

Clips/Wolves is the only interesting looking game 2nite.

everyone is gunshy about the lin-related pun the second half thread title seems to require

Free League Pass is back through 3/4! I can feed my Kings and Wolves addictions.

i did it, see new thread y'all, see u there