yeah making a panic move would be very un-cleticsy here i think. adding brogdon seems like the right move and everyone else on that team should be getting better next season outside of horford/gazelle
― Spottie, Monday, 25 July 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
brogdons a great add for sure i like the team and think they should run it back, pick up whatever bench guy they need at the deadline, now that theyve proven they can make a deep run they really need to limit starters regular season minutes, they were so fucking cashed by the finals
― lag∞n, Monday, 25 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
I think the Celtics should absolutely trade Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and unnamed rotation player for Kevin Durant. This is a great idea. Please do this Brad. Please. The world needs to see this Tatum, Durant, and ? basketball team.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 25 July 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
they have brogdon! and horf! and rob williams! its a deep team!
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Monday, 25 July 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link
I need to see this OKC but way worse basketball team fight for the playoffs.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 25 July 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
Yikes
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 25 July 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
the celtics are definitely better than those OKC teams even without KD
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 July 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
or would be even with KD, rather? either way
I would much rather have White than Smart if I’m the nets
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 02:01 (one year ago) link
hollinger: Jaylen Brown is only eligible to make $36 million in 2024-25 in an extension on his current contract, compared to the $44 million he can make as a free agent. The only way out of it, again, is if he becomes supermax eligible by making one of the three All-NBA teams this season. Otherwise, he has no rational reason to extend his deal and would become an unrestricted free agent in 2024.
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
that’s very odd. possible he makes third team this year but def will be an uphill battle for him
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 July 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
btw friends It's the 5th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - TIEBREAKER FLASH POLL
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
feel like i should post this here, and that some of you will enjoy:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/wrecking-crew-sedale-threat-review
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
omg that is a player i have not thought about in a lonnnnng time.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
There actually is a rational reason to extend his deal
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
its true
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
It's the 5th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - Class of 2022 Inductees
friends...
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Is Jimmy wearing a wig here or what
International Jimmy living his best life in Colombia 🍸(via @JimmyButler) pic.twitter.com/akgd1sWVqw— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 29, 2022
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 29 July 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Jimmy Butler went and got some premium bundles. pic.twitter.com/GYdgKY29Xp— . (@Nigerianscamsss) July 27, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 July 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
What’s Jimmy Butler looking at? pic.twitter.com/pTdY4l2ccF— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) July 29, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 July 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
rip ray raposa of castanets, wonderful dude, guy I took to several blazer games, and very occasional ILH poster under the name Bear, Bear, Bear :(
― Clay, Saturday, 30 July 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
oh man thats awful
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Saturday, 30 July 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
rest in peace ray
very sorry to hear that
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 30 July 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
sorry clay :(
― k3vin k., Saturday, 30 July 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
RIP Sorry clay
― Spottie, Saturday, 30 July 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
sorry to hear that clay
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 July 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link
I had one castanets song hearted in my Spotify library:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgaaYoqYhA
May 28 and the Blazers won in OTCarlyle agreed that the boys had played fairclean in the paint and the calls had been squareJason Kidd and Oden were the last ones there when the cameras had gone
― Spottie, Saturday, 30 July 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
ray was one of the purest blazer fans out there, he really joyed in watching the game in a way that i admired and he even eased some of my cynicism about it all at times. such a massive heart!
― Clay, Saturday, 30 July 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
what a lovely song. RIP
― symsymsym, Saturday, 30 July 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
RIP Ray. Sorry for your loss, Clay. From that song it sounds like he was a real one.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Sunday, 31 July 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
Sorry Clay, RIP Ray.
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Sunday, 31 July 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
An announcement… pic.twitter.com/KMJ7pG4R5Z— TheBillRussell (@RealBillRussell) July 31, 2022
― 龜, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
rip big man
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
one of GOATs on and off the court. i dont think anyone will ever come close to his 11 titles.
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
that stings. he set the standard while he played and in retirement.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
An absolute legend. RIP big man.
― Spottie, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
I didn't know blocked-shots weren't officially kept track of until '73 or so. According to this, there's data on Russell for 135 games:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fRFgkADAK80/VkG0j3zRocI/AAAAAAAAHTA/swVybP9vvpE/s0-Ic42/Russell%252520blocked%252520shots%252520135g.jpg
That averages out to 8.1 per game, which, for his career, would project to ~7,800 blocked shots--more than twice as many as Olajuwon's 3,830 (#1 on the career-leaders list).
Chamberlain averaged 8.8 for 112 known games...I know it was a much smaller game when those guys started, but still.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
rest in peace, bill. hard to imagine a bigger legend of the game, even mj isn't really more important. i noticed he wasn't at the finals this year, but understandably i don't think he'd been there since 2019.
― circles, Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Yah the last clip they showed of him after the finals looked like he was declining pretty bad
― Spottie, Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
this article from his daughter 35 years ago is incredible
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/14/magazine/growing-up-with-privilege-and-prejudice.html
from 1987: "The neo-conservative movement, personified by President Reagan, seems to be leading the way toward retrenchment. To me, the slogan ''Let's Make America Great Again'' is scary.
How far back do these people want to go? Moreover, if making America great again entails the perpetual existence of a poor underclass, I don't know if I want it. If it means enormous military buildup at the expense of social programs, I don't know that I'm for it."
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Sunday, 31 July 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
the striking thing about russell is how he never became bitter, about anything--about how he was treated as a player, about how the game changed around him as he aged, about how his impact wasn't always fully understood. he just kept on going out there with dignity and decency till the end.
i was checking in on a boston sports forum and we've got children of old boston garden employees posting in near tears because they met him once and he made that kind of impact on them.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 1 August 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/bill-russell-champion-nba-civil-rights/671010/
[b]Russell had seen Barkley on television complaining about how much he paid in taxes. Russell was displeased with Barkley’s comments.
“He called me. ‘Charles Barkley, this is Bill Russell.’ I said, ‘Oh hey, Mr. Russell,’” Barkley told me.
“He said, ‘I need you to shut the fuck up.’ I said, ‘Okay.’”
“[Russell] said, ‘Son, let me tell you something,” Barkley said. “‘You grew up poor. You went to public school, and I bet the police came to your neighborhood when somebody called the cops.’ I said, ‘Yes, Mr. Russell.’ He said, ‘Somebody was paying those people, and you didn’t have any money. I don’t ever want to see your Black ass on TV complain about taxes ever again.’ And I never did.”[/b']
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
“He said, ‘I need you to shut the fuck up.
Fucking amazing lmao
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
who else can say that and get an 'okay' response from charles
sonned by bill russell in a taxation beef
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
lol
― Spottie, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
i don't know if it's better than the stuff that's getting published this week, but i think this frank deford feature was my first exposure to the legend of russell, and it holds up pretty well.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1999/05/10/the-ring-leader-the-greatest-team-player-of-all-time-bill-russell-was-the-hub-of-a-celtics-dynasty-that-ruled-its-sport-as-no-other-team-ever-has
it's very weird to reread something from a long time ago and realize what little parts have been stuck in my brain the whole time.
― circles, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
I’ll give that a read tomorrow
― Spottie, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
"Look, all I know is, the guy won two NCAA championships, 50-some college games in a row, the ['56] Olympics, then he came to Boston and won 11 championships in 13 years, and they named a f------ tunnel after Ted Williams."
love this quote
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
tbf williams was better than russell
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 12:18 (one year ago) link