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

holy what

transcendent shot

Who is that, the Sixers?

yessir I believe it's isaiah canaan, recently of the houston rockets, and doing stuff like that guarantees he gets released this summer

may have just always been the case in Chicago regardless of the coach - this is true isn't it? doug collins fired after taking the bulls to their first conference finals in fifteen years, phil jackson basically pushed out a la harbaugh, and then the whispers w/ thibs going back to at least last season. when simmons put popovich in his trade value column it seemed so weird, it's not happening and it's not something there's been speculation over it possibly happening and it's not like simmons did it to work in some insight beyond 'i think gregg popovich is a good coach'. whereas thibs if you're the wizards or the magic or somewhere where you have some talent and a coaching change could have a measurable impact then it might be worth offering a late first rounder or early second rounder and chicago would probably take that offer. unlikely cuz you can just wait for a coach to resign/be fired and then get them w/o giving up a pick (plausibly you can even just start the talks and then let it leak as a means of facilitating that departure w/o tampering but having it work out for you can be tough)(this is basically what happened w/ the cleveland browns and harbaugh last year), and i can't think of any case of a coach being traded in the nba (the knicks got a pick or picks i forget for riley but that was cuz the heat blatantly tampered, it wasn't like a deal had been worked out). anyhow i remember hearing some crazy stuff the bulls management was doing in terms of having a person who decided who had to practice and how much, going over thibs head in practices, and thinking 'man wtf, dude should walk' but at the same time when i heard about butler today i did think 'holy shit thibs really is basketball dusty baker'. re: love i'm not crazy about him on the hawks and he wouldn't sign here anyway. a rumour i have heard (multiple sources!) that i know is ridiculous and not actually true but part of my brain thinks 'but what if it is' is that noah is gonna sign w/ the hawks after next season. i've actually heard it referred to as an 'open secret' (which made me laugh and go 'o rly?'). i'm not sure it's based on anything at all beyond him and horford were teammates and he'd fit. i mean it's not like they have the same agent. btw apparently al horford's agent is bj armstrong?

and i can't think of any case of a coach being traded in the nba (the knicks got a pick or picks i forget for riley but that was cuz the heat blatantly tampered, it wasn't like a deal had been worked out)

Doc rivers man

Joerger almost got traded

celtics trading rivers is lowkey one of the most triumphant personnel moves in recent nba history

they got a first round pick! lol

and then hired farmer statman

the clips then giving rivers full personnel control which he has been terrible at lends an aspect of irony

tbf he was able to bring austin rivers on board in a real coup for the clips

harden out a game for kicking lebron in the swimsuit area

weak

weak bc you wanted more or no suspension?

more kicks

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kicks are fine, it wasn't intentionally directed at the groin, lebron was asking for it after using beverly as an exercise mat

yeah, looked pretty harmless after i bit on the inflammatory espn links

the nba has just gotten too touchy about this stuff, it was a good physical game that everyone enjoyed, no follow-ups were needed.

the league is bill laimbeerless

the magic vs. bird vhs tapes of our fathers are no longer valid

tbf any incursion into the neighborhood of genitals can be treated more severely imo i don't rly take issue w that

are there any known wearers of cups in the nba?

can't believe i forgot doc

poor doc

it's ok doc did not forget about you

I loved the doc trade so much how the hell did ainge get anything literally anything at all for a coach who was ready to just check out and retire for a few years rather than coach a rebuild, just incredible

I still like doc I just think he's a terrible rookie gm and any other gm who made his terrible moves for players who woere good in 2009 and then traded for his own son would have been fired by now

Btw I feel like we should have a dedicated thread for stories like clays epic hardaway destruction, like an ilh brushes with fame hall of fame, there have been a few other stories here and there

All I got is I was on a plane with zach zarba once though

i beat michael jordan in one on one

how much did he lose?

i beat michael jordan in one on one

Baccarat or poker?

feel like everybody is friends with somebody who is friends with somebody that won money off MJ in golf

i dunked on michael jordan then after that he was obliged to refer to me as "my big brother mr cool"

Such a shame that Rondo can't permanently lock into the fuck errebody mode he goes into when under pressure/experiencing adversity.

markieff just got a flagrant 2 for executing some kind of flying hammer attack on dragic, lol

2014/15 suns not the best vibes

it's sad, they were so joyful a year ago

now len and whiteside have gotten in a wrestling match, yeesh

norris cole on the pelicans is funny and strange like to me he only exists in the context of the heat and as a joke

man there was almost another incident in this heat suns game and the other morris got t'd up

yeah these teams just want to fight

i've also had the same problem w/norris and realizing is a human being who can exist outside of being one of our most exciting young players

ha just caught a shot of rubio already picking up the key garnett teammate skill, ignoring his insane ranting when hes sitting next to u on the bench

man there was almost another incident in this heat suns game and the other morris got t'd up

― Clay, Monday, March 2, 2015 9:37 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah these teams just want to fight

― call all destroyer, Monday, March 2, 2015 9:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

/switches to heat suns/

ricky's english is good iirc but maybe not kevin garnett gametime dialect good

oh sick look by wade

ya very nicely done

who is tylor johnson

is that another name for zoran dragic