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

paul george will rise again, fittingly on Sunday against the heat

so dumb

Gotta get them season ticket holders to re-up I guess

It's pretty amazing how good Boogie Cousins is already even with all the rough edges in his game.

Sucks that the owner of his team is an idiot.

free boogie

free the brow

ya hopefully hell find his way out of there (to the celtics)

Love boogie

I don't mind that the lakers are terrible but it bothers me that everyone in the media is afraid to say that it's almost entirely the fault of David Stern.

good for him imo

Only good for the clippers, really.

david stern but fair

xp ehhhh I feel like it's good for a lot more than just the clippers that the lakers are bad

lol xp

like, the lakers sucking now is not entirely stern's fault for vetoing the cp3 trade. let's give some credit to the lakers management and kobe.

yea it is also not sterns fault that nash was run down and dwight couldn't get his shit together

like, the lakers sucking now is not entirely stern's fault for vetoing the cp3 trade. let's give some credit to the lakers management and kobe.

Right it's just almost entirely his fault.

I mean he stole one of the greatest point guards ever from them. That will tend to move the needle.

stern's finest hour

If I was Jim Buss I would ban Stern from Staples Center, get urinal cakes with his face on them etc

its kinda all the owners fault tho cause they approved the league buying the hornet pelicans to protect the market for their teams, the league owning a team is where the real problem was

lede graph of SI's juiceman cover story:

"When Russell Westbrook finishes the orange wedges, the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and the Taylor Swift and Katy Perry songs, he sits swaddled in white towels, his terrycloth cocoon. He stretches out over two chairs on the Thunder locker room, his iPod with its eclectic playlist resting on his right thigh, and lets the metamorphosis unfold. 'He doesn't talk,' says guard Anthony Morrow. 'He turns into Maniac Russ.'"

feel like russ has to be into "style" and "bad blood"

"As my final act as President i award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to David Stern, because fuck the lakers"

-- Barack H. Obama

its kinda all the owners fault tho cause they approved the league buying the hornet pelicans to protect the market for their teams, the league owning a team is where the real problem was

Well and they also bullied Stern into the veto.

Late period Stern was really something.

Stern recommending Kahn for the Wolves job, for example.

lol what clusterfuck

"As my final act as President i award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to David Stern, because fuck the lakers"
-- Barack H. Obama
― Clay, Saturday, April 4, 2015 2:09 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if this doesn't happen, obamas second term was a waste

I mean he stole one of the greatest point guards ever from them. That will tend to move the needle.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, April 4, 2015 1:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ya well they kinda stole kobe in the draft sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

Raptors kind of looking like a team that's ready to mail in the next two weeks and happily get bounced in the first round

assertive
evan
turner

ASSERTIVE-R MARCUS

these arena league-style running start out of bounds plays are great

please lordt let pop play all his dudes vs GSW tonight

Also Kerr too tho. 2nd night of a back to back for dubs

oh i thought it was the spurs on a b2b, nice

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB2DkVPUMAAQ9E3.png

I was just thinking OKC really looks like lottery team plus westbrook out there then they flashed the graphic so far: westbrook 10 pts 4-4 rest of team 2 pts 1-7

yeeeeeep

simmons a broken record about that for sure, like a dozen other NBA writers and 6 zillion fans, but the broken record is otm

kanter is such a traffic cone

well you know the old saying, even a broken record is right twice a day xp

lol mcgary with 5 fouls in 11 minutes

Waiters' bad body language is hypnotic, I can't watch anything else when he's on the court

I've never seen a player so visibly disappointed when any shot -- even a good one! -- goes up that didn't come out of his hands

he's shooting 50 percent at the moment, good by his standards, a grand total of 1 assist and 2 rebounds

but yeah innate arrogance has convinced him he's the best player on the court at any time and you cannot tell him otherwise due to what at this point has to be a certain fundamental basketball stupidity

I wonder if kyrie's style prior to bron's return contributed to that, it makes sense that he'd emulate a star's habits and kyrie's habits were ball-hogging/shooting first and above all other priorities

simmons not letting the harden trade go is the one thing i support about him

it is really funny that durant responded to him tho

it's like commenting on yr ex's facebook posts somehow