2013-2014 NBA Thread - IND @ WAS and OKC @ LAC on ESPN

[rck3sactown]

Oh this again

 

[dt43]

Bergen County's very own. From Mahwah, New Jersey.

I would hate rooting for this Pistons team if I were a fan.. just a bunch of insufferable chuckers who play no defense.

Joe Dumars has done a terrible job as their GM, he's gotta go.

At least they didn't take Rudy Gay off Masai Ujiri's hands.

They signed Josh Smith for 50mil+, equally as bad


Seth Curry sighting in garbage time.. where is Antidope

 

[antidope]

You rang?

SETH!!!!!

 

[champcruthik]

I would have taken Greek Freak over KCP. Then Dumars doesn't have to chase for Josh Smith or Rudy Gay.

 

[drones]

Is it me or this season a massive bummer?

-All these Injuries to elite players (Rose again, Westbrook again, Kobe again, Marc Gasol, Chris Paul, Rondo still out)
-Massive disappointments in the Bulls, the Nets, smaller disappointments in teams like the Wolves, Pistons and the Cavs
-everyone scared to make any trades
-Tanking is in full effect across the league ahead of the coming stacked draft

Hopefully Silver changes the winning incentives, right now losing is incentivized and it's resulted in a crappy overall product.

 

[sea manup]

splitter out 3-5 weeks

 

[champcruthik]

splitter out 3-5 weeks

Can't stay healthy this season.

 

[bhzmafia14]

Jon Leuer

Ed Davis finally coming into his own.

I have no idea what this team is going to do when Gasol comes back. Randolph, Koufos, Davis and Leuer have all played well in his absence.

 

[champcruthik]

Jon Leuer

Ed Davis finally coming into his own.

I have no idea what this team is going to do when Gasol comes back. Randolph, Koufos, Davis and Leuer have all played well in his absence.

Two strong games against the Suns and now one more on the Pistons.

 

[pmatic]

Shaq sleeper-hold story

Grant Hill figured to be a natural for TNT and NBA TV work when he brought his gift of gab and a career spanning 19 years to the studio.

It is even better when he spills some locker-room juice.

Hill, the host of NBA TV’s regenerated “NBA Inside Stuff,” was filling in on the set for TNT’s “Inside the NBA” on Thursday night when he dropped a couple of beauties about being Shaquille O’Neal’s Suns teammate.

The first was when Roger Mason Jr. stole Christmas. Jason Richardson famously left Mason alone in the corner for a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that gave San Antonio a 91-90 victory at US Airways Center. Hill said O’Neal came into the Suns locker room and knocked an entire postgame Christmas feast for the players onto the floor.

Hill redacted a main character from his other story, sharing only that O’Neal put a sleeper hold on a teammate. It was no exaggeration.

The Heat Index filled the gaps in his anecdote. It was April 2008. Imagine the Suns environment after a crushing Game 1 loss at San Antonio when Tim Duncan made a game-tying overtime 3-pointer to spur his team to victory.

There was an awkward discomfort about the off days in San Antonio and a sense that an ashen Mike D’Antoni was coaching the team for a final time.

Who knew just how much he was handling?

It turns out O’Neal and Gordan Giricek, who had been with the Suns for all of six weeks, mixed it up verbally during a closed practice to the point that O’Neal auditioned for his WWE future. He put Giricek in a sleeper hold, except it was no fake. Giricek passed out.

Giricek played in the remainder of the season, but it was his last NBA season.

Link

 

[sea manup]

Woodson said J.R. was "wide open. The bottom line is you look at his shot but did Beno have to throw him the ball? You gotta look at that"

Beno 

 

[dt43]

^Cotdamn.. When Grant was a guest on Inside the NBA he alluded to a teammate choking incident, but Shaq changed the subject with the quickness..

 

[jdiddy701]

Suns fans: You may know about Leandro Barbosa signing 10 day contract with Phoenix.

Got news I can't release.. It's not good news. You should know now why Suns signed him.

 

[AEA18]

Shaq putting dudes to sleep

 

[T0INE]

Shaq.

 

[gothmog]

Is it me or this season a massive bummer?

-All these Injuries to elite players (Rose again, Westbrook again, Kobe again, Marc Gasol, Chris Paul, Rondo still out)
-Massive disappointments in the Bulls, the Nets, smaller disappointments in teams like the Wolves, Pistons and the Cavs
-everyone scared to make any trades
-Tanking is in full effect across the league ahead of the coming stacked draft

Hopefully Silver changes the winning incentives, right now losing is incentivized and it's resulted in a crappy overall product.

couldnt say it better

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Suns fans: You may know about Leandro Barbosa signing 10 day contract with Phoenix.

Got news I can't release.. It's not good news. You should know now why Suns signed him.

Is it Bledsoe or Dragic?

Edit: I'm assuming Bledsoe's injury is worse than anticipated

 

[julius wrek]

Royce Young ‏@royceyoung 6m
Russell Westbrook doing some light pregame shooting: http://twitpic.com/drchwr

Uniform shorts

Julius F. Wrek

 

[bhzmafia14]

“@ESPNSteinLine: Boston Celtics, I'm told, are in advanced discussions on a trade to acquire Jerryd Bayles from Memphis in a deal involving Courtney Lee”

*birdman voice*

Yes Lawd

 

[champcruthik]

Free Bayless. I know Hollins is gone. BHZ, how has my dude looked under another HC?

 

[kevin cleveland]

Bayless is horrible.

Seth Curry cut again.

 

[JD617]

This would be the 5th team in 6 years for Future All-Star Courtney Lee.

 

[bhzmafia14]

Free Bayless. I know Hollins is gone. BHZ, how has my dude looked under another HC?

Free Bayless. I know Hollins is gone. BHZ, how has my dude looked under another HC?

He looked better under Hollins "post Rudy trade". This season he's been terrible

Grizz plan to pick Curry back up on a 10-day contract if he clears waivers. They didn't want his deal to be guaranteed.

 

[T0INE]

This would be the 5th team in 6 years for Future All-Star Hall of Famer   Courtney Lee.

Fixed.

 

[pmatic]

Good trade for the Grizzlies as long as Lee maintains his shooting.

Last season's shooting numbers are looking like an outlier compared to his previous seasons.