The Official NBA Thread: NBA Draft Tonight | Giannis to the Miami Heat

[toneboi76]

 

[art vandelay]

H-Tine couldn’t get no one, as in anybody…..

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[steebie j]

If Durant ain’t on the floor this, team is clueless offensively

It’s terrible to watch

 

[pmatic]

Rockets look like a group that knows this ain't it but no help is coming.

 

[DripNick]

Bron won.

 

[Arthur Shelby]

 

[8pm at msg]

Sheeeeeesh @ that OKC staff member

 

[art vandelay]

Rockets look like a group that knows this ain't it but no help is coming.

Please see my post from earlier, like they didn’t get anyone, KD is KD, but KD ain’t enough

 

[lynchpin33]

Durant is out there playing 1 vs 9. My goodness.

 

[MVP]

 

[Methodical Management]

It’s not. Nor is it unprecedented. Gretzky’s number is retired for all teams, Jackie Robinson and now Bill Russell. It will probably happen at some point but three sports have honored their very best with league-wide number retirement. I think most wouldn’t argue MJ’s achievements are up there with those guys

No one is calling for the Basketball Hall of Fame to induct Jordan a second time as an executive, like Jerry West. If you believe that his achievements as a player warrant retiring his number for every team in the league, that includes franchises for which he played only two subpar seasons as well as franchises for which he didn’t play at all. Minimizing his contributions to those in the former category, in this context, makes no sense.


The idea that Jordan didn’t “do the Wizards any favors” by divesting his shares, playing for the league minimum, and donating that amount to 9/11 victims relief in 2001, is likewise silly on its face.

Retiring 23 for the Wizards is not an accolade that Michael Jordan needs or even wants, but it would give closure to fans who watched their trash tier franchise shamelessly exploit the final encore performance from one of basketball’s greatest legends.

I won’t belabor the point further. Anyone who believes that MJ was an ordinary player or “DeMar DeRozan with a good agent” is either a child or trolling in service to some silly intergenerational fan battle regarding players who all respected each other, and I’ve no interest in wasting words on either.

 

[HIM]

Amen might be "sick" for a while.

 

[akajae]

I thought ESPN packed out Doris?

 

[dmbrhs]

I thought ESPN packed out Doris?

Breen/Legler/Jefferson are probably on the night game.

 

[dmbrhs]

Just take the L and move on.

 

[B Sox]

Mavs gotta get this Martin twin off the team. Feel like he’s always doing something dumb.

 

[HOU$TON]

Good win. Rockets really brought that toughness

 

[trappedintime]

No one is calling for the Basketball Hall of Fame to induct Jordan a second time as an executive, like Jerry West. If you believe that his achievements as a player warrant retiring his number for every team in the league, that includes franchises for which he played only two subpar seasons as well as franchises for which he didn’t play at all. Minimizing his contributions to those in the former category, in this context, makes no sense.


The idea that Jordan didn’t “do the Wizards any favors” by divesting his shares, playing for the league minimum, and donating that amount to 9/11 victims relief in 2001, is likewise silly on its face.

Retiring 23 for the Wizards is not an accolade that Michael Jordan needs or even wants, but it would give closure to fans who watched their trash tier franchise shamelessly exploit the final encore performance from one of basketball’s greatest legends.

I won’t belabor the point further. Anyone who believes that MJ was an ordinary player or “DeMar DeRozan with a good agent” is either a child or trolling in service to some silly intergenerational fan battle regarding players who all respected each other, and I’ve no interest in wasting words on either.

Haha you’re suggesting a league wide retirement that never happened should have covered a team his mgmt decisions wrecked. Newsflash: no one is retiring the number of the guy who blew up the org and never got his ownership or management roles back.

You ignore all of that. His ideas sucked, the organization didn’t get better, his #1 pick was the biggest bust in history. By all accounts he was a nightmare to try to reason with. And you can’t grasp why your team didn’t throw him a ceremony for average numbers and many missed games on his way out of town? It’s strange.

 

[WASHED KING]

It’s not. Nor is it unprecedented. Gretzky’s number is retired for all teams, Jackie Robinson and now Bill Russell. It will probably happen at some point but three sports have honored their very best with league-wide number retirement. I think most wouldn’t argue MJ’s achievements are up there with those guys

Jordan wasn’t good enough to warrant that.

His shoes weren’t that important

 

[bonafide101]

 

[tay1]

The hell is a Warrioite? AI gotta do better.

 

[JD617]

I won’t belabor the point further. Anyone who believes that MJ was an ordinary player or “DeMar DeRozan with a good agent” is either a child or trolling in service to some silly intergenerational fan battle regarding players who all respected each other, and I’ve no interest in wasting words on either.

This is such a strawman, Meth. Who has been doing anything like that on the past handful of pages? The guy you just quoted is a Bulls/Jordan fan. The only one I've seen do the DeRozan thing was Washed King a while ago when he was posting in character.

 

[Chopsticks]

 

[lawdog1]

#1 pick was the biggest bust in history.

This is absolutely false. Andrea Bargnani, Anthony Bennett, Michael Olowokandi, just off the top my head, were number 1 picks who had demonstrably worse NBA careers than Kwame Brown.