The 2013/2014 NBA Thread (LBJ is a Cav)

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So in recent NBA news...

The 76ers have hired former Spurs assistant coach Brett Brown as their new head coach.

Michael Beasley was recently pulled over and arrested in AZ for marijuana possession.

T-Wolves recent draft pick, Shabazz Muhammad, is in trouble again after getting sent home from the Rookie Transition program when he was caught with a female in his hotel room after being told no guests were allowed. This comes after the news of him lying about his age and receiving benefits that were deemed against NCAA rules. That same rule violation is why he's going to be suspended for the first 3 games of the NBA season as well.

Oh and even at 50, Michael Jordan can still dunk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VhscXd0D1A
 
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Ahh Shabazz. I remember scouting reports saying he's a #1 pick while he was in high school. Too bad he never got rid of that selfish attitude of his

 
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Get in here and enjoy that new thread smell while you still can.

So in recent NBA news...

The 76ers have hired former Spurs assistant coach Brett Brown as their new head coach.

Michael Beasley was recently pulled over and arrested in AZ for marijuana possession.

T-Wolves recent draft pick, Shabazz Muhammad, is in trouble again after getting sent home from the Rookie Transition program when he was caught with a female in his hotel room after being told no guests were allowed. This comes after the news of him lying about his age and receiving benefits that were deemed against NCAA rules. That same rule violation is why he's going to be suspended for the first 3 games of the NBA season as well.

Oh and even at 50, Michael Jordan can still dunk:
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What surprised me more on that vid was some of those kids just walk past by jordan like he is nobody lol. If I see jordan play even if its against a kid, i'm gonna sit there and watch till he leaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-OEXL_ZYg Heres Dr. J dunking at 63 y.o. He could probably still dunk once he reach 70.

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That dunk by Doc J at his age is ridiculous.

Funny new James Harden and Stephen Curry Footlocker commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eepUcyxw_XM

And Al Harrington has signed with the Wizards.

 
Greg Monroe shows off the Pistons' new alternative "Motor City" jersey:

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And the T-Wolves and Nikola Pekovic have agreed to a 5-year, $60 million deal.

 
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And the T-Wolves and Nikola Pekovic have agreed to a 5-year, $60 million deal.
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This right here is a nice signing. He has been sneaking up the big man charts the past couple years. Good on MIN for locking him up. We may be seeing MIN in the playoffs in the near future.

He's a bit overpaid but considering big men have been earning more than they are worth this summer (ie Tiago Splitter 9mil a year) this is a fair amount as he is significantly better than Splitter.

btw thanks for starting the new thread

 
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This right here is a nice signing. He has been sneaking up the big man charts the past couple years. Good on MIN for locking him up. We may be seeing MIN in the playoffs in the near future.

He's a bit overpaid but considering big men have been earning more than they are worth this summer (ie Tiago Splitter 9mil a year) this is a fair amount as he is significantly better than Splitter.

btw thanks for starting the new thread
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The T-Wolves success all hangs on Rubio and Love. I can see them potentially sneaking in as a lower seed in the Western Conference playoffs if they can stay healthy and get a chance to gel as a team.

Completely agree that Pekovic is being overpaid. But you're right, a lot of big men have been paid more than they're worth this summer and Pekovic is worth a little more based on his improvements and offensive potential.

And it's no problem. One of us had to stop being lazy and do it lol. I'll just be here impatiently waiting until the season starts.

And here are the Suns new jerseys for next season:

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Not a fan of sleeved jerseys, but those are the alternates.

 
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And it's no problem. One of us had to stop being lazy and do it lol. I'll just be here impatiently waiting until the season starts.
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I feel you on that waiting part. Especially since the Mavs had a decent offseason. I know, I know, not as good as your Rockets did but hey, we definitely won't be going 41-41 again. I'm expecting to be back in the postseason with our current team.

And I feel the Suns should've used these instead.



 
I was surprised to see bledsoe is now a suns. The white jersey is pretty nice. But somebody needs to stop these teams from making jerseys with sleeves on. 

^ those jerseys are even better. If they did a fan voting, that might have been picked over their new one.

 
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I feel you on that waiting part. Especially since the Mavs had a decent offseason. I know, I know, not as good as your Rockets did but hey, we definitely won't be going 41-41 again. I'm expecting to be back in the postseason with our current team.

And I feel the Suns should've used these instead.
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Hey while I might not like the other two Texas teams in the Southwest division, I definitely respect them. We've all won championships. And Dirk is probably the greatest European player to ever play in the NBA. Period. But Dirk staying health and how well Monta Ellis fits are the two major storylines I see playing out during the season.

Larry Sanders and the Bucks seem to have agreed to a 4-year, $44 million contract extension.

And I want this James Harden flash drive sooooo bad:

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Larry Sanders and the Bucks seem to have agreed to a 4-year, $44 million contract extension.
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Big time money for Larry Sanders...good for him. At first when you see this deal you think the Bucks overpaid him, but in today's market it's more than a fair deal. Milwaukee did the right thing not letting him test free agency next season and I'm sure Sanders didn't have to think about that too long. 11 mil a year? That's DeAndre Jordan money and I'm ok with that. 12.2 points, 11 rebounds & 2.5 blocks over his last 28 games.

His season numbers as a whole did more than match up with DeAndre Jordan as well:

Jordan - 8.8 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 1.4 bpg

Sanders - 9.8 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 2.8 bpg

And to go in a bit deeper, Serge Ibaka is a 4yr/49mil player and has a line of 13.2 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 3.0 bpg.

Bottom line...If you can rebound and block in this league, you can expect a good amount of dollars.

 
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CaseyRyback said:
If the Lakers knew that Odom was a fucking crack head I hope they are go through a 1990s Celtics period of sucking.
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Is that what he's been supposedly doing? Smoking crack? I read something about him being addicted to "recreational drugs" but I didn't know crack fell into that category lol.

In other NBA news, Tracy McGrady has finally retired. Something he probably should have done a couple seasons ago IMO.

And the Clippers have signed Antawn Jamison to a 1-year, vet minimum deal.

 
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I would have smoked crack too if I knew I married the ugliest kardashasian.

Gonna miss tmac. I remember always using rockets in NBA 2k(or was it live) as Tmac+Yao was beast. If Orlando just found a way to have him and carter play together, that would have been something.

And if rockets got space, I wouldn't mind bringing tmac for a min. Fans would LOVE that shit. All he really needs to do is loose weight. Maybe he can help parsons/harden/lin develop.

 
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The T-Wolves success all hangs on Rubio and Love. I can see them potentially sneaking in as a lower seed in the Western Conference playoffs if they can stay healthy and get a chance to gel as a team.

Completely agree that Pekovic is being overpaid. But you're right, a lot of big men have been paid more than they're worth this summer and Pekovic is worth a little more based on his improvements and offensive potential.

And it's no problem. One of us had to stop being lazy and do it lol. I'll just be here impatiently waiting until the season starts.

And here are the Suns new jerseys for next season:

new-phoenix-suns-jerseys.jpg


Not a fan of sleeved jerseys, but those are the alternates.
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Butler looks like he lost a fair amount of weight, and Bledsoe almost looks like a running back.

 
panzerfaust said:
I want to give sleeves a chance, but I can't. If they weren't tucked in...
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Unfortunately it's a trend in the NBA that's spreading and so far they all have the tucked in look.

The Lakers will be rocking sleeved jerseys similar to these for several games next season:

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It was also announced that 5 teams have added sleeved jersey alternates for next season, but I'm assuming the Lakers are one of the five (but the Suns aren't included in that 5 though.) And 20 NBA teams will wear sleeved jerseys at least once next season as well.

 
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I don't know if it's going to be with/without sleeves, but the Lakers teased on their Instagram account that they'll be wearing another alternate jersey next season that looks extremely similar to the old black one.

 
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Caron Butler has been traded to the Bucks for some role players.

And the new Hawks head coach was arrested for DUI.

 
^That's my boy! When that came out, I watched it as many times as I could back to back until my wife got annoyed. Dirk is the man.

 
Can't believe they managed to pick up him and Oden, as if they weren't locked for a Finals appearance already.

 
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Paul George and the Pacers have agreed to a 5-year, $90 million contract extension.

And it's getting to be about that time again. The season starts a month from this Sunday.

 
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Paul George and the Pacers have agreed to a 5-year, $90 million contract extension.

And it's getting to be about that time again. The season starts a month from this Sunday.
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That's too much money for him. At least not yet. But I can't blame the pacers that much as if they don't overpay him, somebody else will. It's going to be really interesting what they would do to Granger. Granger might ask for same or more money if he comes back and plays like he never got injured at all.

 
In regards to the Paul George max contract... a little voice in my head keeps screaming "RASHARD LEWIS!!" who the Orlando Magic gave the max contract as well. I hope I'm wrong though.

 
I didn't see this coming, but it looks like the Kings have given DeMarcus Cousins a 4-year, $62 million contract extension.

 
Kinda expected. Pretty much any young RFA with all-star potential is going to get near max. Cousins has the potential to be the best big in the league, but his attitude will never get him there.

 
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I just thought they might have waited to let the season play out. But I guess he's unarguably their franchise player now. And now that Shaq owns a part of the team, I'm sure they're hoping he can impart some wisdom.

The Clippers have also picked up Lou Amundson.

 
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I didn't see this coming, but it looks like the Kings have given DeMarcus Cousins a 4-year, $62 million contract extension.
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The guy has so much skill I am not sure about the money given to him. His attitude and immaturity has lacked so far and would hate to see money wasted in a once competitive franchise.
 
Well the Thunder may be out to a slow start this season. The team announced that Russell Westbrook had arthroscopic knee surgery today and will be out the first 4-6 weeks of the season.

 
The new alternate jerseys for the Lakers are terrible. Black jerseys, sleeved jersey. That's the shit that shitty, irrelevant franchises do.

 
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DT778 said:
The new alternate jerseys for the Lakers are terrible. Black jerseys, sleeved jersey. That's the shit that shitty, irrelevant franchises do.
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I think the lakers black alternate jerseys is the best jersey in the nba. Especially the ones made by nike that nba is not using anymore.

Good thing 2-3-2 format is gone.. The 3 straight home games is just awful.

 
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