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

:)

sick

nice nice. i forget what team you're near?

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/4/7/8365261/byron-scott-lakers-fox-hole-god-the-lakers-are-so-sad
first off just gaze lovingly at that URL text, then delight in byron throwing his players under the bus, taking zero responsibility for running plays that make derek fisher look like an offensive genius:

"I got a sense of a whole lot of them I wouldn't want to be in a fox hole with," Scott said after Monday's practice. "I think they'd end up shooting me in the back. So I've got a pretty good sense of the guys that I think are going to be around, that we will build around, build together in this process and go through it."

uh, no byron, if a purge ever happened they'd shoot you in the front and sides long before getting to the back because you're stupid and bad

wow what a clueless a-hole

Sources told ESPN that Scott agreed to a four-year, $17 million contract with the Lakers

sick move

lol if you start typing "byron scott" into twitter search the 2nd suggestion after his name is "byron scott horrible"

twitter knows

clay - atl. i may have just paid over $200 to watch two celtics games.

niiice balls

Seems fine

my gf and i want to take a vaca this summer and SF was mentioned as a possible destination. i wonder how much a couple of dubs tix would be going for around that time

Byron Scott seems horrible

This might be revisionist but looking at his record he had his only real success with two teams that I bet were basically coached by their point guards (the Kidd nets and the cp3 Hornets) and he's mostly flailed around otherwise

I mean that laker roster is just an insult but if he really wants it he should just spout positive platitudes about next year and shut his mouth. I'm guessing he probably knows he'll be fired the minute kobels retires if not before and this will probably be his last head coach gig so he's just getting unhinged

Um kev my guess will be A LOT but it totally would be worth it

yeah def catch at game at oracle man, pay the price

A chuckling Dominique Wilkins just said josh mcroberts should never have been in the mcdonalds game dunk contest and implied he humiliated himself. Dominique is a stupid asshole.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e-hHIdLH5j0

kawhi waited approximately 90 seconds before exploding

spurs gonna win this by 20 points

guess kawhi has shut down talk about whether or not he's a max guy pretty solidly this year

Clay yr Jurassic park metaphor re Spurs looking very apt

If I may extend it the rest of the league is looking at the glass of water on the desk right now and seeing it start to shake

hah yes

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070315192616/jurassicpark/images/2/27/JP-WhenDinosaursRuled.jpg

if the spurs win this year this is the they should raise

the *banner* they should raise

is 4/60 what kawhi gets or even bigger like 5/75?

4/60 would be an insult, especially with the cap going up

i really hope he takes a hometown discount though. i haven't heard anything about whether he's open to that

everyone on this board is rooting for the pelicans to slip in right like you are all in favor of that

Ya kinda rooting for depressing OKC to fall out tbh and the brow deserves a couple of TV playoff games for sure

xxp or perhaps some sort of short deal with an opt-out to be renegotiated in a year when the cap rises, like what bron has?

okc falls out of playoffs --> brooks gets fired --> durant demands trade --> kd to wiz for .50c on the dollar --> a full year of insane russ before he splits for LAL --> the thunder are cursed and bad forever

well kawhi is a RFA, not unrestricted

fine with either. playoff lone ranger russ would be fun but so would brow

absolutely rooting for the pelis to sneak in. the result will be almost identical in the first round but the juiceman is running out of juice, which will just be depressing w dion and kanter by his side, and I think even in losses AD's play on that stage will be spectacular

https://vine.co/v/MjQATWDgZIa

i will never tire of this

i'd rather the pelis fire their coach than okc so i'm slightly leaning okc. like clay's scenario above makes sense but i could just as easily see okc misses playoffs, gets a very good player in the draft, hires a good coach, wins the title next year, durant stays, westbrook stays, thunder remain contenders for a few years, justice delayed is justice denied in okc.

idk the coaches are pretty similar. known for their abilities to be there for their players and loved by players for that reason, but baffled by the minutiae of playmaking and game plans that resort to "uhhhhh you three guys are talented do some stuff." front offices also have similar problems although presti is starting to manage OKC a little better than the pelis roster has been devised & constructed. toss up in many ways

muscala's playing really well with millsap out. hopefully he's taking pero's minutes in the playoffs.

yeah presti has shown some savvy while the pelis literally just won the lottery. pelis ownership has apparently had somewhat absurd expectations for two seasons running now (like trading for jrue was a 'we need to make the playoffs now' move)(new owner plus he old about to die -> some real dumb shortsightedness), maybe they'll have enough sense to realize that o right the west is loaded though. i'm always amazed that really bad coaches can hang on so long though or that it can take so long for a guy to finally be exposed (and even then if you coach the lakers...).

lol yea and byron doesn't even have the advantage that Monty and brooks have of being liked by players. well maybe excepting kobe bc they are both complete cockbags and game recognize game but that doesn't really count.

hawks mgmt loves muscala apparently. i was...deeply concerned about hawks play the last couple of months, they had a week w/ high profile games against the dubs and the spurs and both those teams showed up ready to play PLAYOFF BASKETBALL and just dominated the hawks, dubs being a blowout didn't concern me too much cuz korver was out it's just we didn't look like we belonged on the court w/ those guys and even w/ the win over the cavs i came away doubting we could win a seven game series against them. BUT THEN i heard kevin arnovitz on zach lowe's podcast and he said that the hawks weren't concerned at all, that they've been trying new things out for the past couple of months looking toward the playoffs and somewhat taking for granted they'd have the one seed in the east. so i'm like fuck it i'll trust coach budd. i just hope we at least make the eastern conference finals cuz if this season ends like yr average hawks season ends - out in the second round - that will suck.

i think w/ byron like an overwhelming part of it really is he's lakers family and the buss kids remember him from when they were kids plus his combination of dumb/arrogant probably plays well w/ jim buss.

just thrashed the suns 96-69! apparently 58 wins is a franchise record. congrats balls, heez & all of ATL.

also that's just an amazing score because I am a child

pelis have a small lead over the dubs w/ a minute to go btw

palindromic!

*rides away on skateboard*

Xp

damn, good game from muscala. big game tomorrow night!

steph curry is... good

daaaaaaaamn

i have no idea what the hell monty williams called for what was probably the most important possession of the pelicans' season. something like "stand around some, maybe pass to some guys, but definitely dont get the ball to davis. oh and the passes should be lazy."

whooooohhhh

that was nuts. pelis have a foul to give & warriors have no timeouts.

oh jeez i've never seen a ball that far down in the hoop and pop up