Official 2013 NBA Offseason Thread

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Dejuan Blair is gone. Boris Diaw is fat. Who would be the Spurs big man alternative that can swallow up the minutes Pops doesn't let Duncan play during the regular season?
 
what the hell was the lock out for?

looking at all these contracts handed out and horrible trades (i.e. Knicks) its clear why only the Bulls, Lakers, Rockets, Spurs, Pistons, Mavs, Heat and Celticshave won titles in the past 29 years.
 
So who are going to be the fools to take back Eric gordons ridiculous contract because i find it hard to believe the Kings are matching 11 a year for reke....

If your the pacers do you take a package of Gordon & Vasquez for Granger & a filler?
 
*Tiago Splitter grabs pen to sign off on 5 year, $45 million extension* *LeBron comes from nowhere to knock pen out of his hand*
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Teamlakers909 said:
what the hell was the lock out for?


looking at all these contracts handed out and horrible trades (i.e. Knicks) its clear why only the Bulls, Lakers, Rockets, Spurs, Pistons, Mavs, Heat and Celticshave won titles in the past 29 years.
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8 teams in 30 years..crazy..I'm surprised I still follow this sport.
 
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Dude brought up Brandan Wright :smh:.....Brandan Wright :smh: On top of that, Wright is a free agent and there's no guarantee that HE will even be back.

The Mavs roster is complete and utter crap outside of Dirk. Rebuild dammit. What is wrong with you Mavs fans? Dirk is 35 years old with over 1,100 NBA games under his belt coming off the two worst seasons he's had in the last decade. Paul Pierce was the face of a legendary franchise for 15 years, took them to countless number of playoff series and won them a championship. He was the prototypical Celtic for life. Him and the other greatest and most known Celtic of the last 20 years were just traded for the crappiest package you possibly could think of. And these two were on a team with Rondo, Jeff Green, Avery Bradley, Courtney Lee, Jason Terry, Brandon Bass, Jared Sullinger....talented guys with a lot of basketball left in them besides Terry. And they were in the less talented East. There is nobody out there right now that's going to make the Mavs win the West next year. ******g rebuild. It's frustrating how stubborn you Mavs fans are.
 
This ninja slim thug on a press junket...LOL...already hit up grantland. Straight hilarity below...


http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-t...itter-pitch-to-bring-dwight-howard-to-houston

Q&A: Slim Thug on His Twitter Pitch to Bring Dwight Howard to Houston
By Ian Cohen on July 2, 2013 2:25 PM ET


Dwight Howard has approximately 30 million reasons to stick with the Lakers this offseason, so rival suitors have found it necessary to resort to the intangible: Atlanta thinks playing in his hometown would appeal to D12, the Warriors are banking on the potential of their young core of shooters, Mark Cuban has vowed to make him the face of the franchise. But when it comes to having to kiss *** on some beta-male tip to get what you want, Houston rapper and de facto Rockets representative Slim Thug will be the first to tell you: I ain’t heard of that.

The Big Bawse of the Nawf laid out the best free agent sales pitch in recent memory yesterday, a comprehensive Twitter presentation that enumerated the many real ways in which H-town would appeal to a young man whose net worth will soon be in the low-to-mid nine figures: the superiority of the city’s gentlemen’s clubs, the extreme disparity in liquor prices, the advantages of the Lone Star real estate market, Texas’s legal leniency with regard to both child support and texting while driving (OK?). And, in a cunning maneuver, he pointed out how the presence of an NFL team would reduce the pressure for the Rockets to win immediately. Plus, he gets to one-up Shaq by choosing a relatively classy way to ask Kobe how his *** taste, more or less. Slim Thug didn’t even have to bring up the lack of state income tax. Honestly, Dwight Howard might not end up in Houston, but I feel like I might at some point.

When I caught up with Slim Thug last night, it became obvious that he picked a strange day to advocate ditching the candy stores of L.A. for the candy paint of Houston. For one thing, Thugga is in Los Angeles right now, having spent last night at a video shoot for his associate Kirko Bangz (say the name out loud). Freed from the confines of the 140-character sales pitch, Slim Thug goes in depth even though he could’ve just linked to the uncut version of the “Still Tippin’” video and saved himself the trouble.

How are you going to tell Dwight Howard to leave Los Angeles for Houston when you’ve just bought yourself a place out here?

Houston is so much better for a guy like Dwight Howard. You can really be prestigious. L.A. is over, man, the Lakers are over. Kobe’s out of there. I know everybody’s brainwashed, they still think he’s the greatest. If I was an L.A. fan, I would too. I think he’ll be more comfortable in Houston. In L.A., you got people in movies looking at you and you might be starstruck by them. Goddamn Rihanna sitting on the sidelines, that’s a lot of pressure.

I take it that neither Beyoncé nor anyone else from Destiny’s Child reps their hometown team like that.

You’ll rarely see Destiny’s Child at a Rockets game. Everybody thinks they’re a superstar in Houston, but nobody really trip like that.

Dwight Howard’s known for being a connoisseur of candy and having an ultra-religious upbringing. Do you think he’s really concerned with which city has better strip clubs or cheaper alcohol?

I was just joking, but all of it’s true, though. I was still angry about spending $1,600 on a bottle at Greystone last night, y’all prices are ridiculous out here in L.A. compared to Houston. It’s $1,000 [for a bottle of rosé] out here, and then you gotta add taxes and gratuity. It’s Houston, that ****’s $250. The gas out here is ridiculous too! I’ve never filled up out here for less than a hundred dollars. His money can take him so far in Houston, I’m talking about living like a king. You can buy a $10 million house out here in L.A. that’s small as ****. But in Houston, you spend $10 million, you got yourself a Walmart. He could have all kinds of comic book **** in the backyard, acres!

All of the financial advantages of Houston apply to Dallas as well, and the Mavericks are certainly going to make a pitch to Howard. Why should he turn down Mark Cuban?

Dallas is a nice city, it’s good, too. But if he’s really trying to compete, that’s the reason to come to Houston. Him and Harden and a couple of other pieces, I don’t think Dallas can pull something like that.

Dwight Howard never strikes me as much of a hip-hop fan. Do you think he listens to Slim Thug?

I doubt if he listens to my music. I make real underground, street ****. I don’t do it for the radio, I do it for chicks.

If he ended up in Dallas, do you think he’d get a shag haircut and learn how to dougie?

[Dallas rapper] Dorrough get played out here on the West Coast, he might be listening to him! When he gets to Houston, he gonna hear me, though. He’ll get used to it and I’m cool with that.

Do you often see visiting NBA teams at Dreams and V-Live after the game’s over? If so, who’s their best customers?

All the NBA players, the NFL guys, I’ve seen everybody in Dreams in Houston, it’s goin’ down. It’s paradise! I definitely ain’t gonna say nobody’s name.

All of the financial and cultural advantages of Houston are well known, so why isn’t it a more popular free-agent destination?

I don’t know. They don’t look at us like we’re really trying to win. With Dwight Howard, that’d be a whole ‘nother picture. I don’t think they feel like we had a real chance. With Harden and Dwight Howard and maybe another guy like Josh Smith, it’d be on.

Have you been contacted by any NBA officials telling you to knock it off or any Houston Rockets representatives telling you to keep it up?

They know me, they know I don’t listen to nobody but myself.

So if this D12 thing falls through, who’s the next guy Slim Thug is making a sales pitch to?

I ain’t even looking farther than that. We’re getting D12 and then we make our next move.
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Dude brought up Brandan Wright :smh:.....Brandan Wright :smh: On top of that, Wright is a free agent and there's no guarantee that HE will even be back.

The Mavs roster is complete and utter crap outside of Dirk. Rebuild dammit. What is wrong with you Mavs fans? Dirk is 35 years old with over 1,100 NBA games under his belt coming off the two worst seasons he's had in the last decade. Paul Pierce was the face of a legendary franchise for 15 years, took them to countless number of playoff series and won them a championship. He was the prototypical Celtic for life. Him and the other greatest and most known Celtic of the last 20 years were just traded for the crappiest package you possibly could think of. And these two were on a team with Rondo, Jeff Green, Avery Bradley, Courtney Lee, Jason Terry, Brandon Bass, Jared Sullinger....talented guys with a lot of basketball left in them besides Terry. And they were in the less talented East. There is nobody out there right now that's going to make the Mavs win the West next year. ******g rebuild. It's frustrating how stubborn you Mavs fans are.
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The Mavs don't have a roster outside of Dirk, what are you talking about?

Its Dirk, Marion, VC, some second round players Barry Larkin's kid and some cap space.

What they are doing is the definition of rebuilding.
 
If the Clippers grab Carl Landry, that might be the move of the summer. He is exactly what they need, and he is about the best they can do in that area since they're afraid to move Griffin and don't have a ton of money/assets.

Edit: And signing undrafted Brandon Davies is a shrewd little move, too. He could have a really productive career off the bench.

Like the potential Brand/Knicks fit a lot, too.

Also, Tiago Splitter is really good and a center, so I'm not sure what the backlash of $9 million per is (and Al Jefferson absolutely would not be cheaper - not even close). And along those same lines, Asik has been worth his contract so far, too.

D. West getting one more nice contract. :smokin

What a solid career he carved out for himself. Can't believe he's been around 10 years already.
 
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