THE 2015 NBA PRE SEASON THREAD: BEST WISHES TO LAMAR ODOM

[dmvisrnb]

Props to Bron for sure. Love to see people give back to the community!

 

[rolaholic]

 

 
I dont get what DeAngelo Hall has anything to do with this.

 

[QU!K]

Austin's gonna average double digits next season. 

Turnovers? Minutes played? Points allowed?

 

[Chester McFloppy]

Austin's gonna average double digits next season. 

Nah

 

[nelson999]

Austin Rivers ‏@AustinRivers25
Straight up better than a lot of those dudes playing last night.....
Have to prove that this year. M.o.a.M
MIP.....why not

 

 

[bhzmafia14]

So, let's take a look at the guards from last night...


Demar Derozan
Bradley Beeal
Elfrid Payton
Victor Oladipo
Arron Afflalo
Michael Carter-Williams
Klay Thompson
CJ Watson

He's not eem better than CJ Watson He's the 5th best guard on his own team behind Paul, JJ, Lance and Crawful. :x

 

[MVP]

Yea Bean is definitely getting a spot

 

[pums]

I got team usa as

Irving Harden        Durant   Anthony Davis

Curry WestBrook  James                  Cousins

Paul                      George                 Dwight/Blake/Love

 

[sea manup]

Lebron offering 4 year scholarships to 1,100 students at the University of Akron. ($9,500 per yr)

The NBA star has partnered with the University of Akron to provide a guaranteed four-year scholarship to the school for students in James' ''I Promise'' program who qualify. The scholarship will cover tuition and the university's general service fee - currently $9,500 per year. [...]

''It's the reason I do what I do,'' said James, who announced the program Thursday while hosting an event for students at Cedar Point Amusement Park. ''These students have big dreams, and I'm happy to do everything I can to help them get there. They're going to have to earn it, but I'm excited to see what these kids can accomplish knowing that college is in their futures.''

The school and the LeBron James Family Foundation are still finalizing the criteria for the scholarships. The students will have to graduate high school within Akron's public school system and achieve standard testing requirements as well as fulfill a community service obligation. [...]

''It means so much because, as a kid growing up in the inner city and a lot of African-American kids, you don't really think past high school,'' said James, who bypassed college to jump to the NBA. ''You don't really know your future. You hear high school all the time, and you graduate high school and then you never think past that because either it's not possible or your family's not financially stable to even be able to support a kid going to college.'' [...]

The university is renaming its education department the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education. The first class eligible for the scholarships will graduate in 2021.

@HayleyByrnes 1100 kids x $9500 x 4 years = $41.8million #math

very cool by bron. gets a lot of hate, but doing something that i don't see many athletes do, especially that type of money.

good for him but the wording seems misleading 

offering 4 year scholarships to 1,100 students =/= offering 1,100 4 year scholarships to students

if i go to a school of 2,000 students and offer two scholarships then I am "offering 4 year scholarships to 2,000 students"

charities use this wording all the time to make it seem like they are doing way more than they actually are

 

[moneylicious]

Victor did MCW dirty last night 

 

[flyerthandelta]

Austin Rivers ‏@AustinRivers25
Straight up better than a lot of those dudes playing last night.....
Have to prove that this year. M.o.a.M
MIP.....why not

FOH

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Ice Cube roasting Dwight Howard on Highly Questionable "I'm kinda glad he isn't here anymore so I don't have to sit and scream from the rafters about how he's playing" 

Lol

 

[hood17]

Austin Rivers ‏@AustinRivers25
Straight up better than a lot of those dudes playing last night.....
Have to prove that this year. M.o.a.M
MIP.....why not

FOH

 

[flyerthandelta]

Kevin Durant used controversial bone-graft material that is not FDA approved to heal foot http://ble.ac/1DSJLfh
10:31 AM - 14 Aug 2015
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[sea manup]

If the treatment worked then who cares?

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

If the treatment worked then who cares?

Seriously. I just wanna see these dudes healthy and flourishing, especially when it was his own team that screwed him by rushing him back

 

[onetrust]

good for him but the wording seems misleading 

offering 4 year scholarships to 1,100 students =/= offering 1,100 4 year scholarships to students


if i go to a school of 2,000 students and offer two scholarships then I am "offering 4 year scholarships to 2,000 students"


charities use this wording all the time to make it seem like they are doing way more than they actually are

The link I read is saying he's offering it to 1,100 students not just offering one or two scholarships to a population of 2,000 students.

 

[atransta]

Kevin Durant used controversial bone-graft material that is not FDA approved to heal foot http://ble.ac/1DSJLfh
10:31 AM - 14 Aug 2015
450 450 Retweets 804 804 favorites

first we have cyborg Russ cuz of his knees and his face and now we have cyborg KD foot

 

[reboot24]

great gesture by LeBron

he didnt shake hands

 

[MVP]

Adamantium

 

[reboot24]

If the treatment worked then who cares?

then midas whale shoot em up with shoulder growing hormones. maybe lebrons six toes can be a new norm. its controversial for plenty of reasons. there could be long term side effects that we have yet to know.

 

[sea manup]

 

good for him but the wording seems misleading 

offering 4 year scholarships to 1,100 students =/= offering 1,100 4 year scholarships to students


if i go to a school of 2,000 students and offer two scholarships then I am "offering 4 year scholarships to 2,000 students"


charities use this wording all the time to make it seem like they are doing way more than they actually are

The link I read is saying he's offering it to 1,100 students not just offering one or two scholarships to a population of 2,000 students.

that's my point though, he is not going to hand out 1,100 students

1,100 students have an chance at getting a scholarship 

out of the 1,100 students only those who pass the criteria will get the scholarship 

out of those who qualify, only those that choose to go to the specific university get the scholarship

so from 1,100 students you can easily go down to 150 students that actually get scholarships

still a great thing on lebrons part but there's no need to over hype it with misleading headlines.

its like saying a player who shoots 20 shots in a game has a chance at scoring 60 points

 

[reboot24]

no one cares about lebron giving out scholarships. jeez. come on.

plenty of nba dudes give back. lebrons pr game catching up. no one talks bout kobes foundation, or gasol visiting children hospital and all that. but people will. glorify lebron like he some statue erecting candidate.

 

[onetrust]

that's my point though, he is not going to hand out 1,100 students

1,100 students have an chance at getting a scholarship 


out of the 1,100 students only those who pass the criteria will get the scholarship 

out of those who qualify, only those that choose to go to the specific university get the scholarship

so from 1,100 students you can easily go down to 150 students that actually get scholarships


still a great thing on lebrons part but there's no need to over hype it with misleading headlines.


its like saying a player who shoots 20 shots in a game has a chance at scoring 60 points

Ooooh okay, I see what you saying. I was thinking initially they were saying everyone of those 1,100 kids in his program would get it but yeah, they actually have to pass a certain criteria and choose to go to the University of Akron.

 

[mister friendly]

Talk about screaming out your failures but whispering your accomplishments

What Lebron is doing is a great deal but instead we make it an contest...damn