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PostPosted: Oct 31, 2014 8:48 am    Post subject: NBA 14/15 Reply with quote

I am sure this will be a popular thread Rolling Eyes

Anyone else puke in there mouth when they see the Lebron Return propaganda filling the airwaves? Shameless.

Blazers 1-0 beat a KDless Thunder Wed. Woot.

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PostPosted: Oct 31, 2014 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm pretty stoked for this season. Can't wait to see the Cavs hit their stride. That team is so stacked it's pretty unreal. KLove was looking great yesterday and should have no problem playing with anyone. Kyrie and LeBron could be a bigger challenge.

Also excited for a healthy Bulls team, resurgent Charlotte HORNETS, and John Wall lighting it up in DC.

Really hopeful that a team other than LAL or SA comes out of the West. The Lakers suck but the Spurs are always good with Pop coaching.
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PostPosted: Mar 27, 2015 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Think the Cavs feel like they made a HUGE MISTAKE on the Love for Wiggins + deal?
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PostPosted: Mar 30, 2015 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure if you folks read Bill Simmons at all, but from his latest Trade Value Column RE: why he wanted Kevin Love:

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What happens next? The 30-year-old budding mogul has already logged more than 42,000 career minutes and played more than 1,050 games (including playoffs). You know what that really means? Apex LeBron is gone. Here, look.

Seasons 1 through 4 (316 games)
41.3 mpg, 26.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 6.4 apg, 46-33-73%, 8.3 FTA, 3.3 TO, 24.2 PER, .181 WS/48

Seasons 5 through 11 (526 games)
38.4 mpg, 28.0 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 7.1 apg, 52-35-76%, 8.7 FTA, 3.3 TO, 30.1 PER, .283 WS/48

Playoff Career (158 games)
42.5 mpg, 28.0 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 6.4 apg, 48-33-76%, 9.7 FTA, 3.4 TO, 27.7 PER, .242 WS/48

Season 12 (57 games)
36.2 mpg, 26.0 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 7.4 apg, 49-35-72%, 8.0 FTA, 4.2 TO, 26.2 PER, .196 WS/48.

The good news: He’s still 85-90 percent as good as that seven-year apex, keeping LeBron’s “best player in the league” ceiling the highest of anyone. I just don’t know where this goes. How long can LeBron stay great or even close to great?

In NBA history, only 35 guys have played more than 875 games and logged more than 34,000 minutes while averaging 35 minutes per game in their first 13 seasons. (Even though LeBron did it in 12, I added an extra year for everyone else because, you know, LeBron is superhuman.) Only 22 guys played more than 120 playoff games in their first 13 seasons while logging more than 5,000 playoff minutes and averaging 35 minutes per game. And only 12 guys cracked both lists: LeBron, Jordan, Wilt, Duncan, Russell, West, Bird, Pippen, Kobe, Hakeem, Malone and Havlicek.

Wait a second … that’s a great list! We just ripped off 12 of the 25 best players ever. Just so I can sleep tonight, let’s include Dirk, Magic, Shaq, and Kareem as well, giving us 16 guys who passed 40,000 minutes (regular season and playoffs combined) in 13 years or less. That’s an insane day-to-day burden for anyone’s body, no matter how great you are. You’re talking about three-plus presidential terms of grinding out 80-100 games in eight to nine months (and carrying a huge burden, no less). After passing that benchmark, Kobe (four more first-team All-NBAs and a Finals MVP), Havlicek (second-team All-NBA and a ’76 Finals win), Duncan (two more Finals), Malone (1999’s MVP and two top-15 years after that), Shaq (first-team All-NBA and one more title in his 14th season), Dirk (third-team All-NBA in 2012, relevant even now) and Kareem (who doesn’t count because he was an alien) thrived for at least a little while. Nobody else did.

But 50,000 combined minutes? That’s the danger number. Kareem passed 50,000 during the 1983-84 season, won the 1985 Finals MVP and remained relevant through ’88 (back-to-back titles), but again, he wasn’t human. Duncan passed that mark last season, then helped San Antonio win 2014’s title. (Of course, he’s also an alien.) No non-center remained a star after 50,000 minutes except for Kobe; he passed that mark during the 2012 playoffs, then thrived offensively the following season right until his Achilles snapped in half. These things don’t end well. I think Kobe knew it too. That last season, he could feel his body breaking down and turned into Quint from Jaws: He started revving his boat’s engine until smoke began pouring out. He knew. He had to know.

Here’s the point: History says LeBron has two elite seasons left after this one, maybe three. That’s it. And you wondered why he didn’t want to wait around for Andrew Wiggins.


http://grantland.com/features/2015-nba-trade-value-part-3-the-final-countdown/

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PostPosted: Mar 31, 2015 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's assuming Wiggins is going to take time(looks pretty stinking good already) and Love was going to mesh well & resign.

I thought it was a mistake then and even more so now.
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PostPosted: Apr 15, 2015 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blazers locked up 4 seed.

Hoping for a decent playoff run, but am realistic.

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