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

The bucks are ersan ilyasova, zaza pachulia, and some young players who complement them

and a few older vets. khris middleton isn't "young" the way giannis and MCW and Jabari are and he is good

man you and your bizarro euroballers

I do like both of those dudes tho I am a well documented bucks underdog supporter

Middleton is 23

Seriously tho there is a very weird zazasova thing going on right now. A lot of plays are run specifically for them.

The ersan thing I kinda get because he's been productive before but zaza pachulia: triple double threat?

I guess I think of 23 as not "young" given that giannis and jabari are both 20 but MCW is also 23 which I didn't know, thought he was younger, my thesis is squashed

but yeah I feel like kidd is trying whatever works in terms of who he prioritizes in plays, their shit was not working post ASB & maybe this will work on terms of getting them back above .500 and then some

*in terms

Ersan with 12 consecutive FGM including 5 threes

uggghhhh please lose pacers

interesting to see george hill closing games with cj watson. almost like hes a natural sg

there's def an alternate universe out there where ersan is a multiple-time all star

New career high for Turk Nowitzki

Ersan with 12 consecutive FGM including 5 threes

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 26, 2015 10:08 PM (59 minutes ago)

remember that contract year a few years back?

Yeah he's an odd duck

def seems like a bit of a headcase

as an honorary turk im rooting for him

kd having another foot surgery, no basketball activity for 4-6 months.

starting to get some ouiji board feelings about this dude, not happy abt that

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

"Bone graft surgery" man that sounds gross as f

:|

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 1m1 minute ago
If you go with a surgery carrying a quicker recovery time, you need to take extreme caution in ramping up and get some good luck.

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 2m2 minutes ago
Experts tell me bone graft is always safest route for healing, but most teams don't do it off the bat b/c it takes a long time.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 3 — Orlando Magic forward Grant Hill underwent bone-graft surgery on his left ankle today, with the team and doctors predicting a full recovery.

jfc

"Such grafts are apparently standard procedure for the '5 to 8 percent' of Jones fracture surgeries that don't result in initial success."

That really freaks me out if kd is of the 1 in 20 ppl for whom the initial surgery doesn't really work and has to have more surgery to fix the surgery (and it's his third procedure in six months) :(

"Bone graft surgery" man that sounds gross as f

― Clay, Friday, March 27, 2015 3:06 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

To properly convey that you are "with it" please say "gross af" from now on ty

bone graf

Russ had a buncha surgeries in like 2 days and he seems fine now, pulling for KD

uh hello & sorry boys but I do it west coast style 🏄

*surfing emoji*

one encouraging thing is hes been healthy up til now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBIOt91WoAAKpfK.jpg

i'm jumping the gun here but who is the best player ever to have his career derailed by leg injuries? walton? grant hill?

Time to start juicing

Hill for sure imo

Yao?

walton was great too walton is notable for being injury prone right from the beginning where hill had a great run then got knocked the fuck out

bernard king

mchale an also-ran there prob

Me *I skinned my knee in the 7th grade and have never really recovered since*

it seems forgotten but Walton was mvp in his like 5th year in the league, dude could've carried dynasties

yeah he wldve been an alltimer

yeah yao is a good one too

penny

i'm jumping the gun here but who is the best player ever to have his career derailed by leg injuries? walton? grant hill?

1. Walton
2. Sabonis
3. Grant Hill
4. Yao
5. Clark Kellogg maybe!

Penny overrated imo

I've always been fascinated by how ilgauskas and hill had a seemingly endless series of surgeries until somehow one surgery nailed the problem and they were healthy from then on.

man, penny in his prime was near to pippen. definitely hall of famer without the leg injury.

A healthy Penny is maybe the 125th greatest player ever.

I remember the penny hype and it was fun but he wasn't even as good as Brandon Roy.