LOL @ anyone trippin' over ESPN's 75 anniversary team rankings.

LMAO @ Reddick sounding like a grumpy ol' man about Zion not sending a text to McCollum, when CJ himself read nothing into it and said he looked forward to connecting with him soon (*Zion has reached out since then). Everyone knows there's some discord going on with New Orleans, but to speculate on private communication btwn teammates that have yet to share the same space is ridiculous.

LOL @ the NBA still not adding 1 on 1 to the All Star festivities.



*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

because jj tends to be non confrontational and almost always shows deferrence/favoritism toward ex teammates.

but he said this is something he also brought up to zion in front of the team when he played for the pelicans. so something tells me he isnt the biggest fan of zion based on what hes seen up close and personal.

I'm surprised there wasn't a post on this.

I'm curious where a team would draft Bronny if that meant they get his Dad for one season.

Top 5?

And the final LeBron season?

How many national TV games does that team automatically get?

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That said - he said he'd play with Bronny for his last year. He didn't say he'd play the year Bronny gets drafted - and I have to think that's intentional. Do I think Bron CAN play that long? I mean, it kinda seems like it. But he's under contract until the end of next year and let's say OKC drafts Bronny but Bron thinks he can still play at the level he's at right now, or even slightly less - I just CAN'T think he'll sign a multi year deal with any team that HE doesn't want. I do think he'll sign with whatever team Bronny is on for his last year though.

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>That said - he said he'd play with Bronny for his last year.
>He didn't say he'd play the year Bronny gets drafted - and I
>have to think that's intentional.

I don't know what type of prospect Bronny is,
but is he good enough to be in the league for a 2nd or 3rd year?

Bomani and Dominique Foxworth had a great conversation about LeBron
on The Right Time talking about players learning to invest in organizations
instead of trying to be "LeGM" everywhere they go.

Bomani said something to the effect that LeBron is quick to sign
for NON-basketball reasons. And when I thought it he's right.

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that being said I’d have both of their jerseys, as soon as they went on sale.

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where ever his father is.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

It would be a really fucked up manipulative situation or all parties involved, but it's not like we don't have precedent in the NFL and NBA for players to juice their draft outcomes by saying they absolutely will not do X or Y if Z happens.


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Sure, there were some misses. And it was a bummer some people who could have participated didn't. But all in all - a really cool thing to see these legends together and man...all the credit in the world to Shaq and Barkley too. Their speeches were amazing.

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Let's see if McBride plays any meaningful minutes (as in more than 20) before April.

If Rose comes back and is playing 30 minutes a game, Thibs should be fired before the end of the season. Seriously.

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What the fuck is Thibs doing with any of the backcourt??

<---
Fuck a sig, my presence is enough.

and to do this to Kemba??? Hometown dude? Consumate professional????


Fuck Thibs.

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>Fuck Thibs.

I’m with you

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Fuck a sig, my presence is enough.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

..full slate of games.

What say you?




*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-02-23-1

"Sacramento Kings player De'Aaron Fox announced his "SwipaTheFox" NFT project in mid-December, and the "high utility NFT collection" went live on January 15. The project roadmap promised a metaverse basketball court, a scholarship to a University of Kentucky student, and chances to win all-star gaming tickets, as well as "much more to come". The project had over 100,000 people in its Discord, and pulled in about 475 ETH (about $1.5 million at the time).

Suddenly, on February 23, the project deleted its social media accounts and most of its Discord. Fox wrote in the remaining Discord announcements channel that "The time and attention that y’all deserve and that I wanted to give you all/what this project requires, was not known to me and I overstepped and stretched myself too thin, trying to do this project in the middle of an NBA season." He promised to send anyone who bought more than five NFTs (which would have cost ~0.4 ETH, around $1,300, if bought at mint price) a signed jersey (thanks I guess!). Meanwhile, Fox made no apparent effort to communicate publicly that the project was shutting down, such as on his personal 288,000-follower Twitter account where he had previously been hyping the project."


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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

exactly why anyone jumping on this should be ridiculed.

he offered a signed jersey and kept quiet on twitter. smh

''i went from bashful to asshole to international''- CdoubleO

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it's probably going to go down as one of the best mid-season pickups.

that man is going to get valuable minutes in the playoffs.

makes the signing worth it.
once he gets aligned with the defense,
and caruso and ball return,
we'll be deep.

https://digife.com

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37 points 9 assists 2 boards and just a flawless game executing the offense and splashing from all over the floor

23 in the 4th quarter


Point guards with nice jump shots >>> point guards who just run fast dunk and miss free three throws / threes

Gonna be real sweet when the T Wolves knock the Lakers out of the play-in game



>LOL @ anyone trippin' over ESPN's 75 anniversary team
>rankings.
>
>LMAO @ Reddick sounding like a grumpy ol' man about Zion not
>sending a text to McCollum, when CJ himself read nothing into
>it and said he looked forward to connecting with him soon
>(*Zion has reached out since then). Everyone knows there's
>some discord going on with New Orleans, but to speculate on
>private communication btwn teammates that have yet to share
>the same space is ridiculous.
>
>LOL @ the NBA still not adding 1 on 1 to the All Star
>festivities.
>
>
>
>*skatin' the rings of saturn*
>
>
>..and miles to go before i sleep...

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

Another 35+ point game.

37 points tonight
15/21 FG
2/3 3P

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

So by your definition, runner up for MVP also means nothing - which is, of course - false.

But sure. Let's go with 4th place for MVP doesn't exist.

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

Or maybe just that fans wanted to think of it the way baseball fans do. When you look at LeBron's B-Ref page for example you get bombarded with numbers and they'll even note All-Star seasons but you have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find out what years he won MVP, and it's not intuitive to tie certain years when he SHOULD'VE or COULD'VE won without going even deeper and looking at their vote records.

Whereas I pull up, say, Chase Utley on B-Ref and in the same exact format they keep a table for rewards right alongside each season and note who placed where on the MVP ballots down to, what, 30 or something like that? I think it's cool to see that in his prime the writers considered him somewhere between the 7th and 14th best player in the league. Or even more esoterically, someone more famous for a specific accomplishment than a full career like Roger Maris, you can see the only time he got MVP votes other than the two years he won it he placed 25th.

At a glance I think that stuff is a fun thing to think about and keep in mind when considering a player's legacy when looking at a page like Rajon Rondo's and seeing he placed 10th on the ballot in 2010-11. That's my kind of wonky.


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Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2021.html#mvp

^^ That happens every year. Top 5 MVP finishes is absolutely a thing. Do people REMEMBER it? No, probably not. Doesn't mean it's not a THING. All I'm saying is dude is behind the big 3 MVP frontrunners.

Stop being weird, dude.

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>Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
>
>https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2021.html#mvp
>
>^^ That happens every year. Top 5 MVP finishes is absolutely a
>thing. Do people REMEMBER it? No, probably not. Doesn't mean
>it's not a THING. All I'm saying is dude is behind the big 3
>MVP frontrunners.
>
>Stop being weird, dude.

It’s a fluid thing, a lot of the talking heads on tv have Derozan 1 or 2 right now.

Top 5 MVP finishes is a thing for certain players when people want to prop them up and dismiss for others.

PG was 3rd in MVP voting but people act like that didn’t happen. Westbrook was top 5 four years straight but now people try to act like he won on some fluke shit.

You’re the one being weird as always when you’re called on your bs lol

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

he should be higher.

not saying he's number 1, but his fourth quarter/last minute performances this season should be given more consideration.

He's having an INCREDIBLE season. It's just not as good as those dudes. And that's okay.

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played when they were available or healthy, its just funny now that every one has to go through a "ramping up" phase, did they do this before and call it something different or is it part of the new "load management" era?

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

lol

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they got punched in the mouth by the Celtics

If he sits out that game in Philadelphia, he better sit out the next game after it just to make it look better.


>played when they were available or healthy, its just funny
>now that every one has to go through a "ramping up" phase, did
>they do this before and call it something different or is it
>part of the new "load management" era?

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

the next day.

Somehow, this will be spun as World Wide Wes' fault.

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Meanwhile Simmons sitting courtside watching his team get bludgeoned

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

Philly is going to be a problem.

well he seems to be learning lol.

that pnr with harden bout to be deadly.

he still scored (thats how clear his path was).

but you can tell he didnt expect it because nobody hes played with was finding him in those situations.

hes gonna learn to play with his head/hands up at all times with harden.

where he aint used to playing with someone who gets him the ball there.

hit an open 3.

Bron dribbles for 11 seconds barely breaks the 3 point line, then kicks it to Melo…35 feet away from the basket. This was out of a timeout.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

fixed...
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<---- 5....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlgiritpmfo

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his shit has never translated to playoff ball.

i'm sure he'll put up great numbers for the rest of the regular season with embiid... and i wish him the worst in the playoffs.

Chip that year.

ALL HAIL THE KING of LOSING: LEBRON
Bulls | Bears | White Sox | Yankees | Notre Dame | Illinois | Chelsea | Real Madrid

>his shit has never translated to playoff ball.
>
>i'm sure he'll put up great numbers for the rest of the
>regular season with embiid... and i wish him the worst in the
>playoffs.
>

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

... and i wish him the worst in the
>playoffs.
>

https://digife.com

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

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Ja, Garland and LaMelo making all-star teams and playoffs and wondering how long he has to wait

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I don't think any of those dudes are really in their prime. Which is crazy to think about.

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>I don't think any of those dudes are really in their prime.
>Which is crazy to think about.

Id say theyre primed next year if they put a couple more pieces to make a run for a playoff spot.

Giddey's confidence paired with Shai. Everyone else on the roster has such limited upside though (or is years away) -- especially at 3-5.

Then i wonder if the two of them can play together long term.

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people are trying to say similar stuff about Donovan. Jayson Taytom is a few months older than SGA and people are asking why he hasn't won yet.

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lol

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…in 16 games

They literally might miss the play in game at this rate

You could easily argue the nets are as big of a disaster as the Lakers


>LOL @ anyone trippin' over ESPN's 75 anniversary team
>rankings.
>
>LMAO @ Reddick sounding like a grumpy ol' man about Zion not
>sending a text to McCollum, when CJ himself read nothing into
>it and said he looked forward to connecting with him soon
>(*Zion has reached out since then). Everyone knows there's
>some discord going on with New Orleans, but to speculate on
>private communication btwn teammates that have yet to share
>the same space is ridiculous.
>
>LOL @ the NBA still not adding 1 on 1 to the All Star
>festivities.
>
>
>
>*skatin' the rings of saturn*
>
>
>..and miles to go before i sleep...

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

was driving to his right and finishing with his right hand too....

Now if we can pair him with McBride and Grimes....

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https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1497717987410944007

so either dude is milking this...or he didnt stay in playing shape in the downtime and his body is already having trouble with the 'ramping up' conditioning process.

nets fans said harden was faking an injury (prolly was lol) but apparently they dont care about this dude completely sitting out games with alleged mental health and back issues.

thats what made all those 'who won the trade takes' so goofy.

its like people based their whole argument on some metaverse ben simmons and not the actual ben simmons.

people assume hes just scared of playing in front of the philly crowd. this dude might be scared to play period. i mean...he was so inside his own head that he just wouldnt shoot *at all* in 4th quarters (not even drive to the cup).

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1497621631648292871

Anthony Edwards the other night too.

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the team absolutely needs lonzo and caruso on the perimeter.

top-5 defense in the league with them, 28th or something in the league without.

We were beating above .500 teams with Caruso and Ball.
It was good to see them come back, I'm waiting for when we're fully healthy.
Good news, Caruso starts practicing with the team next week.

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Amazing streak.

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too easy to double in the playoffs

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

If he's still hurt, fine.
But teams aren't treating the Bulls as if they need to stop 2 guys.
LaVine's shot selection the first two games after the break have been iffy at best.

https://digife.com

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That duo? Man, that PNR is brutal.
Adams is such a large force out there, by the time you get
around his screen, Morant is already at the basket.

Donovan is getting beat up on Bulls twitter for leaving Vucevic in.
And I agree. He should have had Tristan Thompson playing.
The Bulls made their comeback with him in the game.

We knew this stretch was going to be tough.
Lose and learn.

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Been a tough year and his shit has certainly contributed, but if they can make it in, that’s a dangerous ass talent level.

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now that the ridiculous, irrational mandate will be lifted..
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like someone said in the other post NYC has fired a bunch of workers including first responders for not being vaccinated, if they quickly flip and allow unvaccinated basketball players to play ball it may be a bad look and some serious legal ramifications.

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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To people like US, a record is a piece of history. A moment in time.
Most people don't get it.

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