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

thats an improvement!

it also shd be noted at the same time leaves at least one really shitty team out

i remain ambivalent about this and maintain that the playoffs are as much about teams banging into each other over the years as anything else

cleveland vs portland and dallas vs toronto do nothing for me, for instance

that is a fair assessment

look at the current matchups do they all do something for you guessing the answer is no

no, of course not

i'm not saying that the current match ups are obviously better, just that these aren't either

playoff rivalries are cool for sure but even cooler is watching better teams play each other, besides it not too hard to imagine a way of keep conference seeding mostly intact

well current matchups can also be setting shit up down the line. Portland vs Houston didn't mean a lot going into it last year, but if they met this year there'd be a little bit of stink to it. xps

listen just keep the conference seeding except move the extra teams from the one conference over to the conference that doesnt have enough, best of both worlds

aw dammit my dudes are playing the cavs tonight and lebron's sitting :(

well current matchups can also be setting shit up down the line.

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problem is in this open seeding scheme theyre less likely to reoccur year to year

watching the sportscenter crawl in a bar b/c i hadn't left the house for two and a half days, did i really just see lebron james - questionable (wrists)?

how can someone have problems with both wrists

xp the struggle with juno is so real in this city

re: wrists, idk maybe he was bench pressing and lifted too much & made both wrists hurt

(i don't know jackshit about weight-lifting)

or he could have fallen in the game and landed on both hands

Kobe out 9 months, just hang it up dude

possible

xp fine i guess it is possible to fall equally bad on multiple wrists

it wldnt have to be equally bad, they just both have to be bad enough but one cld still be worse

agree its a weird diagnosis tho

maybe he was playing tennis and has a two handed backhand

makes much more sense

maybe he dunked really hard?

and needs to wear double wristbands like the gawd
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maybe he woke up this morning and his wrists felt tight and hes not sure why

the worst case scenario

#old

kinda hate that ESPN's hastily scheduled hawks national game is against the nets

relatively minor price to pay tho I guess esp since it's a home game, which means ORGAN JAMS

lebron wrists thing btw was from game against detroit last night. went for a block and came down kinda weird and fast and had to brace himself with both hands. just a hard fall thing.

... just hard fall things ...

(wrists)

I think Dallas-Toronto would be a p exciting matchup honestly Dallas is fun and watching rondo v Lowry and parsons trying to stop derozan would be p sweet

Kobe is totally resuming his quest to torture us next year he has 25 million or whatever dollars to bank by not retiring

well of course, no one walks away from 25 million, even people worth 250 million or more

shit, knowing him he prob thinks he could beat the mailman's record even though reality should hit him in the face and say "no you fucking can't"

he cld easily get that money w/o playing another minute

just dont officially retire and its his

wld be cool if he just totally dogged his rehab and got super fat

cavs are playing v good d, moz.gov has changed everything

lol @ mental image of fat kobe

i want to see fat defeated beardo kobe

I feel like some low key substance abuse problem is a more likely scenario than fat kobe

sitting at the end of the bench in an old purple bath robe

like he doesn't play games but travels with the team and shows up reeking of whiskey, throwing cups at wayne ellington

omg the hawks organist is playing "try me" by dej loaf

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThEn2YWGAxr8hHu4Zb2-pVonBmIt5AW8mljvt-mPIL9_lct9Do

carrying on loud rambling conversations with fans while ignoring the game