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

xxp there's a chance the lakers aren't quite bad enough to keep that top-5 pick

What about Perkins + 2nd for KG?

― polyphonic, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:37 PM (50 minutes ago)

KG is not good and the thunder don't need a big

kobe being hurt is so lame because now his stans can just chalk his struggles up to injury rather than his being cooked

otm

tbf kobe said he played through a labrum tear

pretty sure he'll play through this one for no reason other than to soothe the voices in his head

in other slightly less depressing news https://twitter.com/baxterholmes/status/543643979628036096

KG is not good and the thunder don't need a big

Assuming they got rid of Perk, would you move Ibaka to center or something? Adams can barely log 20 minutes most games, let alone 48.

still got collison

This guy?

http://espn.go.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/1978/nick-collison

collison will regress toward the mean, adams is a serviceable player, and yes play ibaka at the 5

Are we moving Durant to the 4?

durant at 4 as much as possible imo, obvs not a great defensive matchup sometimes tho

coming levels heartbroken about Kobe's shoulder unless he plays through it in which case I'm thrilled

*completely

he very well might!

lmao

“There’s an element in the basketball culture, especially in the NBA, that looks at clean-cut guys like myself and assumes what we can or can’t do and that followed me throughout my NBA career,” Alexander said. “I became sick of it, so I looked around the league to guys who had similar games as me and that at one point in their lives were clean-cut such as Mike Miller and the ‘Birdman’ (Chris Andersen). [I realized] those players had long hair, tattoos, things like that.”

While a member of the Texas Legends, Alexander wanted to send a message so he grew his hair long, just like Miller’s. His campaign in the D-League was a success as he averaged 20.2 points and 8.9 rebounds per contest, earning a spot at the All-Star game. He then got an arm-length tattoo, just like Andersen’s, which consisted of three things that symbolize him most: a basketball (to represent his love and passion for the game), wings (for his incredible athleticism and hops) and a skeleton (to exhibit his inner-demons that battle his clean-cut image).

http://www.basketballinsiders.com/joe-alexander-blasts-the-milwaukee-bucks-explains-overseas-move/

HAAA

wuuut

wow Burke benched for Exum

I haven't watched like...any jazz games but is he any good or does he fall into the fool's gold category of overrated draft picks?

Exum? He's like the youngest player in the NBA... I would say he's been about what they expected so far, flashes of brilliance.

Burke at this point is a bust.

kind of a dire slate of games tonight except for spurs bulls

yeah really a bummer thursday

xxxp interesting, I also expect he isn't getting enough minutes for any sort of comprehensive evaluation

kind of a dire slate of games tonight except for spurs bulls

― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:50 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

blazers vs celtics is the official ILH Bowl tho

Marc Gasol is the Grizzlies first ever all-star starter.

Pdx second night of a back 2 back celts might have a chance

Naaah

Gasol earned that

lol kobe made it again

celts-blaze is only dire bc 1 of 2 things will happen:

1. blazers will run train and celtics will look totally washed
2. celtics will be like last time they faced the blaze and lead for 3 quarters only to shit themselves completely in the 4th

these are some of the worst all star results ever

portland's playing bad (lost 4 of 5 i think) and probably still don't have aldridge too so it's a coin flip tonight probably xxps

Kyrie Irving not named All Star starter, doesn't qualify for his super-max extension to 27.5% of 2015-16 cap (unless wins MVP). Loses $9M.

NBA East All-Star starters: #Wizards John Wall, Kyle Lowry, LeBron James, Pau Gasol, and Carmelo Anthony. Coached by Mike Budenholzer

NBA West All-Star starters: Steph Curry, Kobe Bryant, Marc Gasol, Anthony Davis, and Blake Griffin. Coached by Steve Kerr

i take that back. because of injuries there aren't really that many strong candidates. only real snub is harden i guess

kobe better sit out this all-star game if he's sitting a third of lakers games and has a bum shoulder

Gasol v. Gasol on the block

blake over lamarcus this year is some serious injustice imo

harden is a ridic snub though, kobe voters should be forced to tear their own rotator cuffs.

big props btw to the zero human beings who had buddenholzer and kerr as the all-star coaches

I'm happy for brow and the brothers gasol and kyle lowry i spose

actually make that really happy that lowry made it in over dwyane fucking wade

i dont really care whos a starter or not, but melo and kobe shd obvs not be on the team at all, prob neither of them will play tho so doesnt really matter

LMA's thumb in a cast, probably has ligament damage :(

lol rachel nichols just asked AD if anyone asked him to trim his brow

And the answer!?

he said people did, including relatives but that he was like "nahhh"

who hasnt asked him to trim it

lol at shaq putting deandre jordan on his western reserves and marcin gortat on his eastern reserves