2017 NBA OFFSEASON

literally none of the mlb players have ever dunked, all of them are disqualified from the halla fame

"the 50th best baseball player ever is probably a lot better at baseball than the 50th best NBA player"

I would hope so

mike trout dunks

Baseball >>>> football (as of 2015 for next)

Basketball obv better than both

mike trout doesnt dunk in game, shit dont count

here are the team sports

basketball>>>>>>>>soccer>>>>>>>>>>hockey>>>>>>>>>>cricket (bc its cute)>baseball>>>>>>>concussionball>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>esports

lol bise likes the floppy sports

All of life is a *~performance~*

ah the ultimate game of being alive

like half the nba teams own esports franchises now, its a plague

I'm more into speedruns

speedruns r good

http://www.blazersedge.com/2017/5/2/15527350/brandon-roy-shooting-report-los-angeles-la-king-5

Brandon Roy was maybe ... shot?

yikes

KCBS in Los Angeles reports about 20 people, including several nieces and nephews, having a barbecue in the street. They were watching children play basketball in the 2000 block of North Nestor Avenue about 9:30 p.m. when two men walked up and opened fire without saying a word, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The suspects fled the area.

Roy was standing next to his six-year-old niece, according to the girl's grandmother. He put her in a bear hug and took her to the ground. In the process, he was shot in the hamstring and butt.

hero

wow

started this thread: BIG3 — America's 3-on-3 Professional Basketball League

Paul pierce is a hall of farmer u lunatics

Anyone who clowned Kobe in the finals gets in no questions asked

Seriously though just going by the usual "qualifiers" (not saying these are the best but just what historically gets u in) top twenty scoring a finals MVP a bunch of all star spots and a ring basically means a lock

Melo is gonna be a real interesting test, I'm assuming he has another couple yrs of decent but declining production and probably a massive drop off after that, and no way he's winning a ring unless he gets on someone's bandwagon as a 37 yr old eighth man

the melo comparison is funny cause "hes just a smarter tougher defense playing melo" is a description of a great player

lol otm. PP is in for sure. ive gone through a bunch of phases w him where i hate him then love him.

i don't think you can really look at what the basketball HOF is and conclude pierce and melo aren't HOFers. they're both locks

College and international play counts too. Melo could prob get in on that alone

Melo clearly deserves it, i mean McGrady just got in.

mcgrady is much better than melo tho

more adrian dantley than MJ obv but there's no shame in that

McGrady for peak obv, no argument

the only point i was making was that clearly the bar is lower for basketball than it is for other sports. it's probably just due to smaller roster sizes. it wouldnt be very fun if there was like one hall of famer every other year

its because basketball has more good players than other sports

Oh I forget the ball hall is totality of ball, just on the medals and college champ Melos def in, deservedly on that score- dude was a monster in a couple of Olympics

the only point i was making was that clearly the bar is lower for basketball than it is for other sports. it's probably just due to smaller roster sizes. it wouldnt be very fun if there was like one hall of famer every other year

I don't see the logic in this argument. More people are on MLB rosters but that doesn't mean the bar to hall of fame caliber play is higher. You could make the same argument that making it into the NBA at all is a higher bar to clear.

more people playing a sport --> more people >2 standard deviations above the average player

guys like paul pierce just don't make the baseball hall of fame

that's for damn sure

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/4/7/0/139410470/072815_oaklad_pierce_firstpitch_med_bxk2ihrk.gif

like pierce was a top ten player for a year or two maybe. even without adjusting for size of the field, are modern baseball players who were rarely if ever among the top 10 players in the game making the hall of fame?

NBA hof is a bit warmer to guys who have some kind of champion/winner pedigree than MLB hof, i think? you never really see the same kind of gatekeeping debates about cumulative stats and that sort of thing. I guess it could be argued that Paul Pierce is like an NBA version of Kirk Gibson, like a clearly superior player who could do almost everything, but one with a brief peak.

which is fair, a single player can definitely influence a playoff series way more in basketball than in baseball and we're still not great at quantifying that

(that said pierce wasn't the best player on his championship team and was pretty average in the playoffs in general)

why does baseball even have a hall of fame it shd have a hall of shame

baseball is good now that aaron judge is here

If Steph Curry ends is career tomorrow, does he make the hall of fame?

yes

yes. next question.

yeah

i mean hes got 2 mvps

is rose the only mvp that isnt going to get in? did we talk about this already?

good stuff from dame n crew
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2708008-damian-lillard-leads-blazers-in-donating-playoff-bonus-money-to-team-staff?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national

steph holds the record for most threes in a season by such a large margin it's crazy.

nice thats cool xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl8RvgLywz8

travelgate continues