lakers tampering with ben simmons now.

the league really needs to step in and start taking away draft picks. fining these cunts $50,000 has no impact at all. the lakers do not have a god given right to collect every superstar in the NBA. adam silver, that fucking snake, didnt hesitate to get hinkie fired and have the colangelos installed in philly, but hes happy to allow the lakers to unsettle and tamper with any other team they want. fucking horseshit.

mdgoonah41 wrote:

lakers tampering with ben simmons now.

the league really needs to step in and start taking away draft picks. fining these cunts $50,000 has no impact at all. the lakers do not have a god given right to collect every superstar in the NBA. adam silver, that fucking snake, didnt hesitate to get hinkie fired and have the colangelos installed in philly, but hes happy to allow the lakers to unsettle and tamper with any other team they want. fucking horseshit.

you talk like this isn't the same league that stopped the lakers from picking up Chris Paul not long ago. 

Claudius wrote:

mdgoonah41 wrote:

lakers tampering with ben simmons now.

the league really needs to step in and start taking away draft picks. fining these cunts $50,000 has no impact at all. the lakers do not have a god given right to collect every superstar in the NBA. adam silver, that fucking snake, didnt hesitate to get hinkie fired and have the colangelos installed in philly, but hes happy to allow the lakers to unsettle and tamper with any other team they want. fucking horseshit.

you talk like this isn't the same league that stopped the lakers from picking up Chris Paul not long ago. 

thats not relevant in this situation. that happened 7 years ago, and the league vetoed that trade because they owned the hornets at the time. of course this was also pre-magic johnson joining the lakers. this bullshit started as soon as he came back to the team as the president/adviser.

The Lakers have responded back:

I think this is being a bit overblown. I don't like how Magic makes nearly everything public, but it's starting to look like Ben wanted to work with Magic and he initiated the contact first.

Ben Simmons reaching out to the Lakers to speak with Magic Johnson about his Hall of Fame career.
Pull the other one.
I bet he already knows more about Magic than Magic remembers about himself.
He wanted to speak with Magic.
Full stop.

10 straight triple dubs. Westbrook.

Legend.

Thunder Up!

flobaba wrote:

10 straight triple dubs. Westbrook.

Legend.

Thunder Up!

No love for Paul George? 

He put up 47/12/10!!!

I’ve been supporting OKC since the days of Harden KD & Westbrook. I know what we went through when Harden left and became a superstar in his own right. I know how things felt after KD left to the team we nearly beat and basically lost when KD missed what would have been a game winning shot. I heard all the criticism Westbrook got - he is too selfish, no one wants to play with him, he can’t lead the team. It was obvious to me that this young man had a competitive fire like none other before him, and just needed to be helped to channel it properly. I watched him singlehandedly will this team into the playoffs two seasons ago with no help whatsoever and win an MVP becoming the first player since Oscar to average the triple double throughout the season. Then I watched him do it again, and turn the triple double stat line into a “normal” thing. Despite a career threatening knee injury (Patrick Beverly, I haven’t forgiven you), and multiple knee surgeries. Westbrook is the heart and soul of OKC, and has always been. PG13 is nice, absolutely special player and those numbers, while sparkling have been put up before and will be put up again most likely.

But yesterday was for history. Took the record off Wilt Chamberlain. Yesterday was Westbrook’s day.

Yeah, Westbrook is a beast for sure. I do wonder how long his career will last though. He turns 31 later this year, and I've rarely seen a player whose game is so highly based on his physical ability. When physical decline hits Westbrook I reckon he is pretty much done as a player.

mr. steal your rebound's effective field goal percentage is 44. damn that's awful. now paul george is the man.

Rex wrote:

Yeah, Westbrook is a beast for sure. I do wonder how long his career will last though. He turns 31 later this year, and I've rarely seen a player whose game is so highly based on his physical ability. When physical decline hits Westbrook I reckon he is pretty much done as a player.

Funnily enough, was talking about this with a mate earlier, that he will deteriorate much faster than guys like Lebron. incredible athlete though. 3 years of triple doubling it when it wasn't even a consideration for half a century is remarkable. 

It's an amazing sport IMO. At the moment I enjoy basketball a lot more than football. Beal just got away with something because the refs failed to blow the whistle. Let's not pretend that doesn't happen in every sport.

Yes, but you have to hold your hand up sometimes and say we got it wrong. Instead they Donald Trumped on the call.

Rex wrote:

It's an amazing sport IMO. At the moment I enjoy basketball a lot more than football. Beal just got away with something because the refs failed to blow the whistle. Let's not pretend that doesn't happen in every sport.

Same.

arsedoc md wrote:

Just heard on TNT-- Shaq calling himself black steph curry in jest...it never struck me before until kenny corrected him--black steph curry? steph curry IS black. lol.

The black Steph Curry was terrible today with 2 chainz    even with cheating. 

Pretty embarrassing dunk contest today. Can't believe missed dunk got 35 points, that was ridiculous.

Only 1 good dunk from Diallo (the one over Shaq); congrats flobs.

I guess next year will be more hyped with Zion. Hope Terrance Ferguson competes as well.

Bryant wrote:

Pretty embarrassing dunk contest today. Can't believe missed dunk got 35 points, that was ridiculous.

Only 1 good dunk from Diallo (the one over Shaq); congrats flobs.

I guess next year will be more hyped with Zion. Hope Terrance Ferguson competes as well.

Cheers buddy. It was quite impressive. The boy has got some hops - he deserved it.

Russ gon be so mad to be on the all star reserves.

arsedoc md wrote:

That Gordon-levine contest may have ruined dunk contests for a long time.

i've watched this after the last 2, now 3 dunk contests.

Hope Zion isn't hurt badly, I've never seen a shoe explode like that. Bad look for Nike.

i've seen it multiple times with Nikes, never caused an injury before though. funniest one was tony wroten when he was with the sixers, one second everything is fine and you blink and he was in his socks.

Not a good look at all. Adidas and other shoe companies are going to be on a full court press trying to get him to leave Nike and sign with them now. He’ll get paid for this. Nike shares dropped 1.5% in pre market trading over this

He's not signed with anyone, Duke is signed to Nike. He's an amateur, only other people are allowed to make money off him.

How is this guy 285 pounds at his height? He looks mobile, but shouldn't he try to lose some of that mass?

i see knee problems in his future. he's too fast and can jump too high at that weight.

flobaba wrote:

Not a good look at all. Adidas and other shoe companies are going to be on a full court press trying to get him to leave Nike and sign with them now. He’ll get paid for this. Nike shares dropped 1.5% in pre market trading over this

finally beat the thunder tonight, even without embiid

tobias harris has fit in better, in like 7 games, than butler, who has been here since november

In hindsight, I think the 6ers would have been better off without the Butler trade. Adding Harris with Saric and Covington still there would make for a stronger and more balanced team.

Celtics beating Golden State by 33 points in Oakland. Their biggest home loss in Steve Kerr era. Hayward with 30 points. Really happy for him.

Man Celtics are such a frustrating team. Hopefully they can get over their problems in time for the playoffs.

Really looking forward to the post-season. A lot of really strong teams in both conferences, even at the lower seeds. Makes for some mouthwatering first round match-ups.

A long long way to go for the Celts; not biting on this win for the team or Hayward. Lets see how the road trip goes. Having said that if the Celts and Warriors reach the final, they produce evenly contested entertaining matches and it would be a good series.

Smart, Irving, and Horford are play-off ready. Everyone else has been lackadaisical, within themselves more often then not.

I think Brown(or Baynes) are ready to be back in the starting line up but not sure about Hayward who's still a bench wildcard. It might turn out to be a good move to give him Rozier's minutes at point guard if he continues to impress. Rozier seems like the first sacrificial lamb for change.

rockets are ramping up at the right time.

est wrote:

In hindsight, I think the 6ers would have been better off without the Butler trade. Adding Harris with Saric and Covington still there would make for a stronger and more balanced team.

ive been thinking more deeply about butler and how he fits in the last 2 weeks, and i think actually im glad he is on this team right now. basically, he has changed his offensive game. for 3 quarters, he plays within the flow of the offense, hes happy to serve as a facilitator and passer and focus on playing defense. in the 4th quarter when the game slows down, the team is running more plays for him (middle pnr, iso) specifically, and hes hitting those shots. last night he said that was his role, and hes happy with it. in the playoffs, when the games get tight, that is the kind of player you want. saric and covington are both very limited players. covington can't dribble with the basketball and attack closeouts. butler is a 1 man offense at times when he needs to be. cov is a slightly better defender, especially off ball, but butler is a great one on one defender. he seems to be playing at 75% right now, conserving his energy, and after what thibs did to him for his pre-sixers career, im fine with that approach. saric would have been targeted heavily in the playoffs because hes a bad athlete and struggles defending consistently without help.

the bigger question is, do you pay someone $35m a year for 5 years as a free agent, as a 29 soon to be 30 year old free agent, when hes at best the 3rd most important part of the team. i was leaning towards no, but the sixers really have limited options. if they wait to sign harris to a max (which i think they will, and he will be okay with it), they can renounce all their FA rights (redick, scott, boban, etc) including butler and they can still sign a 7-9 year FA to a max. however, they'd need to know which guy that should be, and that guy would need to offer more than butler will. of the FA options, really only klay and kawhi fit that mold, and neither of them are coming to philly. so, the question then is, are you better off spending the $35m butler would command on bringing back redick and a few bench guys instead of butler? im less certain that is a good idea. if the owners are willing to pay the luxury tax, then i think you just max out butler and tobias, you pray that butler's lower workloads in philly, where he doesnt have to iso 40 times a game, mean that he will age more gracefully and only the last year of his 5 year deal is problematic. harris, embiid and simmons are all 26 or younger. the core is there. then you use redick's bird rights and give him a reasonable 2 year deal, you bring back mike scott with bird rights, and you have the full mid level exception to bring in one more impactful bench guy who is hopefully willing to take a bit less for a shot at a ring.

this summer is going to be absolutely bonkers with all the moving pieces around the league. durant, kyrie, kawhi, butler. its going to be insane.

josh okogie of the t-wolves had a better one. it's always when the shot clock is running down because he has no choice but to shoot it at that moment. sixers still got that work though.