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

Curry didn't want to
Make that tbf they'd much rather play the pels

can't wait for the audio assists of byron scott pretending to be nice to his players while wired up

redick has looked so, so good

lol wait how was i not informed ahead of time that drew magary was gonna be on chopped tonight

.487/.435/.968 redick since all star break

dang

the clips starting lineup is +19.1 points per 100 this year. the bench otoh...

dont let doc rivers be ur gm if u cn avoid it

‏@royceyoung
Dion Waiters on the playoff race: "We control our own destiny, they control their own destiny."

lol

not much of a philosopher

wow i've never seen a dude brick a dunk, catch the ball in midair off the rim, then put it back in one motion

Flip Saunders benched justin Hamilton for some reason and cost me a whole lot of money

Gotta stop betting Matt can't be good for your health

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/indiana-pacers-chris-copeland-stabbed-nyc-club-article-1.2177265

What the heck!!

The two members of Hawks who were arrested, Thabo Sefolosha, 30, and Pero Antic, 32, refused to move when police tried to set up a crime scene, the sources said. They were charged with obstructing governmental administration.

jesus!

theres no way someone from switzerland wldnt obey the police this is some sort of set up

cray cray

whats the nbas policy on players who are caught up in court cases? is it just no worries until theres a conviction?

sounds like its nbd anyway

im sure antic and sefolosha can come up w/ some sort of easy plea bargain, at best they receive some slap on the wrist suspension - like silver clearly cares about "integrity of the league" type stuff but it's not like an obstruction charge levied on dudes who were probably heated up, drunk & concerned about their friend is somehow indicative of moral failing in any minds other than the most tight-assed, and silver doesn't seem quite that type of tight-assed

@ESPNSteinLine: ESPN sources: Vlade Divac has emerged as Kings' top basketball decision-maker. Story link: http://t.co/UI77cZDpyB

vivek mullen crush over?

mullen jumped ship and took a college coaching job, so the writing was on the wall

lol, poor vlade's smoking habit gonna come right back full force (if it ever disappeared), too much stress

wow did not realize that, crazy he turned down a pro job to coach at his middling alma mater where he has a chance to ruin his reputation xp

lol obvs did not read the article

the jokey tone of this piece is terrible but theres some nice shotcharts in there http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-least-efficient-shooters-josh-smith-michael-carter-williams-trey-burke-nerlens-noel-dion-waiters/

i appreciate any excuse for deploying the j-smoove missed 3/SVG pain face vine

it's pretty hilarious that the spot on dion's shot chart that is the most efficient (at least according to the rubric established) is the place he shoots the least, but then again i s'pose he could've just got lucky the times he did take shots there & is ultimately a bad shooter everywhere

this is the other reason why i am all about the pelis backing in (geaux pelis): keep dion waiters out of the playoffs as long as humanly possible

xxp while i am not on team hate-grantland as much as you sometimes are, goon, i def agree re: this piece bc stuff like this is unfuriating:

So if you have a missed-shot fetish like I do, come meet me on Waiters Island. We’ll have the whole place to ourselves.

YOU'RE NOT ALONE, more than half your site's goddamn NBA writers won't shut the hell up about waiters as if those jokes & his bad basketball/worse personality were still funny, then again i'm talking about it & not just ignoring so in the end they win

*infuriating

ya guys who arent funny trying so hard to make jokes is sad and lame, like how much better wld lowes columns be if he just played it straight (20%)

Donut Motiejunas is out for the season :/

dang

Lowe could keep trying to be funny but cut his word count in half and it'd be an even bigger improvement. he'll go for broke and do both. Concise and informative, what are the chances

oof sux xps

he'll supposed to be hell there, obv neither will ever happen.

at least lowe owns his inherent dorkiness & his corny jokes are just like dad humor, not getting in the way of readability (the wordiness sorta does that, but not too bad). and not this faux-edgy-millennial blogger shit that andrew sharp peddles to disguise his lowest common denominator/status quo ideas, or the weird smarm of goldsberry or the "PLEASE let me keep nick young relevant w/gossip items/fawn over prettyboy wite players" juliet litman style; she might be the most grating bc she def is a leaguepass junkie who understands the sport but is actively pretending not to in the NBA shit she writes/on the after dark podcast. (sidebar: man, i wish molly lambert cared about sports enough to sometimes write about them along w/her other stuff.)

OTOH, i continue to pay attention to their coverage bc of stuff like today's draymond green profile, which is really good & interesting

bummer about d-mo, there goes the only other likable rocket to the disabled list (unless terrence jones came back)

I just don't and never have read those ppl other than the occasional goldsberry when it was relevant to my interest. I mean grantland has simmons dna and will always have that pop-culture hook and they need to skew young for clicks so it's unsurprising that's what their roster looks like.

you're a wiser person than i. obv i get myself into such holes of interwebs frustration by bothering to read stuff aside from the straight-up coverage in the first place, much like (for prob the 6th time i've made this reference, apologies) michael bluth seeing the bag marked DEAD DOVE and looking inside as if the dead dove won't be in there

Gotta stop betting Matt can't be good for your health

Can't quit in the black!

isn't that the perfect time to quit?

No way man clearly I'm on the road to being the next haralabos

D-Mo had the most beautiful post game in the league, get well soon man

"He got all excited afterward. I told him to learn how to make a shot."
-- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, describing his response after losing to Rondo in Connect Four

lol

also lol at lance stephenson shooting 16/100 from 3.

how is that even possible?

Joseph Goodman @JoeGoodmanJr 20h 20 hours ago
Lance Stephenson checks in. Fan calls out in measured tone: "Lance, are you a bust?"

dass how

I bet baron davis had some 16/100 stretches