Official 2013 NBA Offseason Thread

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Love Delle Donne but she definitely got extra points cause she can ball. Other wise there are tons of girls who look better but I'd take her with immense talent than a bad ***** who's worthless any day.
 
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Didn't an NBA player get Tina Thompson pregnant?
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Lol, he must have been thirsty as hell.
 
Daniel Gibson turns himself in on battery charge


Daniel Gibson, who has played seven seasons for the Cleveland Cavaliers, turned himself in Monday morning on second-degree battery charges, New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry G. Flot said.

Gibson, now a free agent, is accused of punching a man in a New Orleans club at 5:15 a.m. CT on July 8 and breaking his lower jaw bone, Flot said, adding the altercation was provoked by a verbal exchange.

Gibson was released on bond from the 8th District NOPD station, which he went to with his attorney. TV station WDSU in New Orleans first reported Gibson turning himself in.

He released a statement to TMZ.com: "Earlier this month during the Essence Music Festival, I was involved in an incident with other individuals while I was out with my wife. ... It's unfortunate that some see opportunity in taking advantage of people who work hard for what they have achieved. ... Once all the facts of the incident come out, I expect to be fully vindicated."

Gibson, 27, is married to singer Keyshia Cole, who performed at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans on July 6.

The Houston native has played 397 NBA games, all for the Cavaliers. He was a rookie for the Cavaliers during their 2007 NBA Finals run, spearheaded by LeBron James. Cleveland signed Jarrett Jack to a four-year deal to be point guard Kyrie Irving's backup this offseason, but The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported the team still was considering keeping Gibson.

The point guard is known as a three-point specialist but is coming off his worse season. He averaged 5.4 points over 46 games and shot career-worsts 34.0% from the field and 34.4% on threes last season.




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The questions come on the other end, which is weird to say, since the Thunder are a scoring powerhouse. But they're a predictable scoring powerhouse, and being predictable becomes more of an issue in the postseason, when the best defenses have days to scout the opposition. Oklahoma City doesn't have an offensive system; they have a half-dozen or so pet actions designed to produce various endgames — Westbrook driving to the basket on a pick-and-roll, Durant getting the ball in the high post against a switch, Ibaka popping for a jumper.

The best defenses do a better job containing those actions when operating with heightened awareness. Teams that stayed needlessly close to Perkins and Thabo Sefolosha in some random February game shift an extra step or two off them under playoff urgency. That's often enough to bottle up that first pet action, and after that, the Thunder have nowhere to go — no counters, no dribble handoffs, no weakside action, no flow. They are not the Spurs, or even the Bulls, at least in terms of continuity. Contain that first action, and a defense is usually left to contain something simple — a Durant or Westbrook isolation, or a high pick-and-roll the defense can see coming a mile away, one that features Durant or Westbrook dribbling at a standstill as the big man scrambles up to set a pick
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This is exactly what I was saying earlier in this thread about OKC matching up with Memphis or any other great defensive team for that matter in the playoffs. Lack of offensive creativity, Brooks not being a mastermind, the fact that Perkins will play 20+ minutes and guys like Thabo, Fisher, Jackson, Ibaka are not going to beat you will make it easier for any defense.
 
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