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

danny ainge is a goddamn dark mage if he can turn austin rivers into a draft pick

Nelson has an option and Robinson doesn't

jameer nelson isn't that good and nate rob is awesome, albeit not necessarily for objective basketball reasons

guess nates gonna get bought out

denver must be getting a pick or something or else there's no reason to do this

aw man

Woj sez maybe if Nate gets bought out clips will take him?

(greg monroe)

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:48 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:-/

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:53 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why don't you believe in greg

it's a perfect fit

only real issue I can see with it is that this is a bigman heavy draft but mudiay isn't chopped liver

at what point do the knicks start playing defense tho

okafor or mudiay should help the defense a lot right?

obviously they'll have all the rookie defense issues

i mean monroe is fine. maybe they will get him at a reasonable price! if i were a knicks fan would i want them to pay greg monroe $60 million for 4 years. i'm not sure.

I think you were right about a melo-monroe-okafor frontcourt probably being a mess defensively tho

let's not dismiss the importance of being competent in one area of the game first tho!

I think you were right about a melo-monroe-okafor frontcourt probably being a mess defensively tho

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 6:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

any defense with okafor at center will probably be bad for the first year or two and then great after that regardless of who is around him

maybe this doesn't work for the knicks because of the triangle but if asik goes for half the price of monroe i think i'd rather sign up for that

oh my assumption was that melo would be the 4 and monroe the 5, so they wouldn't go for okarfor. a melo-monroe-okafor front court would be pretty crowded

monroe is a weird player since he's a near-7 footer who can neither shoot nor defend the rim. not sure it's wise to be spending much on those kinds of guys. plus going with that frontcourt forces melo, their best and highest-paid player, to play the 3 again where he's less effective

their future is weird because they want to win but also they're gonna be drafting a top 3 pick. it's hard to reconcile those two timelines.

like how do you build up a playoff contender in one offseason while also thinking about how best to bring along your potential superstar draft pick? i honestly have no idea

the knicks could buy a decent starting 5 next season but then what do you do with your top 3 rookie? you could leave a spot open for him but then you might be wasting your money on presently good free agents whose team is dragged down by the presence of a raw rookie.

i don't really know

the true answer is to trade melo and do a full on, donnie walsh-style rebuild. but that's not happening. so they're stuck b/w a rock and a hard place from what i can tell.

monroe is a weird player since he's a near-7 footer who can neither shoot nor defend the rim. not sure it's wise to be spending much on those kinds of guys. plus going with that frontcourt forces melo, their best and highest-paid player, to play the 3 again where he's less effective

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:01 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the thing is he's a weird player who is perfect for the triangle

lebron is playing tonight after all

break out your microscopes

Horford close to a trip dub in 3Q apparently

Guess bron's done making trades for the moment

Spurs wiz is a good game

big ups to Mo Williams

delkesque

attn treamers, the chromecast is the bomb

tried couple laptops, failed attempts at ps3, this is so far the best method

Lebro did not have time for a haircut b4 this game

Imagine taking a pj tucker elbow to the head like lebron just did

I have to say "mo Williams scores 52 to end 15 game wolves losing streak" is the least expected alert the NBA app has sent me this season

Maybe second behind j smoove getting waived

he dropped like 7 dimes too

attn treamers, the chromecast is the bomb

― pursuit of happiness (art), Wednesday, January 14, 2015 2:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and cheap too

Wow lebron looks incredible

Phx was up by 20 and now losing

cavs defense u_u

man lebron with his body language man

Yah that was weird. Seems so pouty when something small doesn't go his way

someone explain to me why irving is guarding markieff morris

they owe JR this game if they steal it.

Couldn't do much worse than Kevin love did all night xp

looks like love's lost his crunch time spot

Love not in in crunch time hmmm

Haha

wow morris can't miss

Yah career high and adding