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

ive explained this before but kg just hates little guys and euros and hairless players more, he has rumbled with plenty xl guys also

xl hairy americans shd say

I'm shocked that Dwight Howard doesn't have more enemies who try to go after him that way around the league honestly

Matt a did you find Pistons raps I have both feeds on league pass

I love the Toronto feed Canadian commercials and the announcers had to do a promo for something drake related that had a url like raptors.com/drakebonanaza or something equally ridic

LeBron's season has been totally shocking to me, the loss of athleticism, injuries, lack of leadership, generally paranoid approach to the media

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 12, 2015 7:53 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feel like the 30+ decline hit a little harder and faster than anyone expected bron included and was exacerbated by injuries but the weirdness I think is that bron thought bron the gm learned all he needed to know from Riley and that this slide over to the cavs and recruit k love and what not would all go much smoother

celtics pelicans tied at 49 at the half - jae crowder making himself a lil bit of a highlight reel

xxp the way they pronounce mazda

Feel like the 30+ decline hit a little harder and faster than anyone expected bron included and was exacerbated by injuries but the weirdness I think is that bron thought bron the gm learned all he needed to know from Riley and that this slide over to the cavs and recruit k love and what not would all go much smoother

― we just form a f#!king wall (agent hibachi), Tuesday, January 13, 2015 1:39 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't buy this as entirely an aging thing, he lost a lot of weight and suddenly is injury prone? Has the stamina of Luc Longley?

He started the season calling for timeouts multiple times a game because he was out of breath.

it could be a lot of things, loss of desire, being far away from biogenesis, but no way this is all aging

Luc Longley: Now that was one fine-looking human.

feel like its prob mostly depression/regret re moving back to cleveland

he lost all the weight before the decision tho, I mean what the hell is going on with him

xp lebrons back formed a wall

idk it cld just be some unrelated stuff coming together but it is kinda sus

I think depression over something else in his life is more likely than it being going home to cleveland

hey u guys eric gordon sighting

Yeah I didn't mean to say it's just aging I think there are probably other factors

He's probably still bummed the hair transplants didn't take

tbf u didnt say it was just aging

Roy Jones was never the same athletically after he dropped a lot of weight that he'd packed on to fight at heavyweight, there may have been some PED shenanigans and it was a different sport but makes me wonder

dang KG was going for the nose break

just your standard 34-10 for Jennings

also sealed the game with a defensive play, what we've come to expect from Brad Jenning

anyone know enough about gambling to understand

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HJ3DyJ4QM

not nba but re: crazy shots ala jazz dude already forget his name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmpEPNiqB4

it's worth watching the whole kg vs howard scrum, kg literally would have killed dwight howard if they'd let him

@basketballtalk: Report: Lakers have called Pistons about Greg Monroe, Brandon Jennings

hint take these calls

doubt they're going to shake things up too much with the way they're playing

I like Matt's biogenesis theory, he went back to Miami to catch some more PEDs

gotta think long term man xp

what do the lakers have, picks?

idk just like monroe is gonna leave and jennings is garbage

Classic buy low sell high shit for real

Yah man Pistons need to strike NOW

yeah if svg really thinks jennings is a stone cold 30 & 10 guy welp

better off convincing ol' mitch he is the cornerstone of the next lakers dynasty

it's worth watching the whole kg vs howard scrum, kg literally would have killed dwight howard if they'd let him

― Clay, Monday, January 12, 2015 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg what was he so mad about! love the classic pretend youve chilled out then try to get back at the guy move, never works

So fake. He knows he protected. I never bought kg as an actual tough guy tho

o gosh

maybe he just really hates dwight, totally reasonable

protip: next time, grab the back of Dwight's head firmly before applying your head butt, kg. that way you can add some arm strength to your move.

pretty widely held opinion tbf xp

Is there history or just general eastern conference rivalry stuff?

its dwight howard

btw for everyone whos ever said kg only goes after lil guys (and hairless/non euro for the more knowledgable fan)

― lag∞n, Monday, January 12, 2015 8:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

dwight is emotionally a 12 year old, KG basically headbutted a child ... this might be his most cowardly provocation yet

i never quite understood why lebron lost weight, i assume his people thought it would help him in the long run?

i'm starting to wonder if the heat didn't wear lebron out in the last few seasons. aside from the sheer number of minutes, their style was so frenetic and he could rarely take plays off (although he started to on defense last year). he just looks beat down.

i saw a haberstroh piece saying he's played 7,000 more minutes than MJ had at age 30.

did you guys know lebron has played more career minutes than andre miller?

i'm willing to accept that he's been playing hurt all season and if he can just get healthy he'll be back to elevating at the rim and stuff but if i had to bet i'd say he's on a permanent downslope starting this season

you cld see the decline last year too but i do think a lot of it has to be injury or something

last year he def dropped on defense but that looked mostly like an effort thing, his offensive game was still in peak form

i guess the more i think about it it seems crazy that his game could drop off as hard as it did in one offseason, so i'm willing to entertain the theory that he just hasn't been healthy all season and if/when he can get healthy he'll look like bron again

of course he put himself in a position now where his team can't really afford to have him sit any more games

recall talking here about how he didnt have his youthful explosiveness, first signs of decline, i dont think it was universally received but imo was real, what we wld be seeing this year prob w/o injury is a continuation of that slow decline