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

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

getting healthy can be super tricky obvs with back problems

instead he looks like 2020 bron

which btw he plays pretty fn well w/o his athleticism, wonder what sort of records are within his reach if he can regain health

Getting bounced in the first round might be the best thing to happen to him this year provided it doesn't create complete panic and fleeing the scene

The last time he went home before mid-June was 2010 when he got beat by the c's and made the decision 1.0

which btw he plays pretty fn well w/o his athleticism, wonder what sort of records are within his reach if he can regain health

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:57 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah it's pretty amazing that for all the drama and back pain (killer!!) he's playing through his regular stats aren't so far off his normal hi20s-7-7 type lines

Advanced stats prob a lil worse but even gimpy bron is still a top five guy right?

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

hint take these calls

― lag∞n, Monday, January 12, 2015 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yesss get em Stan Van

Also I love when the lakers are bad and the Internet thinks they're going to get every player on a two week hot streak then sign every superstar in the offseason then they get Carlos boozer etc

trouble in dc

HELLO my name is ‏@JohnCTownsend 3m3 minutes ago
Teams that shoot fewer 3s per game than the #Wizards:

Minnesota Timberwolves
Sacramento Kings

HELLO my name is ‏@JohnCTownsend 2m2 minutes ago
Teams that shoot MORE midrange jump shots per game than the #Wizards:

Los Angeles Lakers
New York Knicks

HELLO my name is ‏@JohnCTownsend 36s37 seconds ago
The problem isn't personnel, despite what the head coach would tell you ("We don’t have that."). The problem is the system. #Wizards

melo is such a mess man http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/13/carmelo-anthony-believes-he-can-trump-knicks-5-35-record-in-selling-free-agents

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 35s35 seconds ago
As @soshnick reports, Brooklyn Nets are on market. Back in June, Prokhorov had started this process. http://yhoo.it/14RDosA

ilh shd buy this team

I got $40+ on me.

But I'm going out to lunch on Friday, so we need to be quick about this.

agree speed is crucial

Prokhorov got bored quick eh

+saw the inflated market thought hey i can quadruple my money why not

+already ruined the nets for the foreseeable future

LeBron James calls injury ‘the most difficult thing I’ve been through’

“It’s the most difficult thing I’ve been through,” he said.

James also said “I hated the fact that we were playing some decent ball when I went out and we just dropped a lot of games when I went out.

it is pretty difficult to reconcile my prediction of the cavs coming out of the east with their inability to even stay on the floor with terrible teams when 2 supposed superstars play

yep

I'm not sure it really matters too much who comes out of the east

idk i think chi could hang with west teams. maybe the hawks idk still haven't watched them enough to judge

kev otm tho

it matter in so much as that will be the team from the east in the finals

what if they got a different coach tho

you'd think kyrie and love would def be enough to play, you know, at LEAST .500 ball

and yet