portland is getting cp3. i have no doubt. the question is if roy can play with paul better than he did miller. he struggled playing off ball, paul will dominate it more than miller did. roy wanted to blake to start so he would be his ***** and sit in the corner and shoot 3's lol.
if you do..and keep the core of aldrige/Roy/CP3/Oden...then the lakers are no longer a lock for the West.
too much adds up IMO...new gm saying one or two moves to be a contender. monty williams being the new coach there. larry miller knowing chris paul really well, and his family. nike being right here. cheap young talent. i'm just afraid that he walks in 2 years. that mofo better sign an extension!
IMO, Oden has to prove he can stay healthy, and play a full season, before he can be considered a "core" player.
Not. Even. Close. The Lakers are actually deeper coming in to this season than last (Barnes, Blake and even old man Ratliff > than Farmar, Powell and Brown). I am more concerned about the Thunder out west than just about anyone else. Perhaps the Suns and Nuggets, but I honestly feel that the Thunder are on the verge of something special with that group. I give them two years before being a perennial contender.
agreed. Lakers #1, Heat #2 but whats going down in Oklahoma City is very exciting. Within two or three years I think Durant will bag an MVP. Maybe even this year though my gut tells me it will be Kobe
LeBron and Wade essentially took themselves out of the running, unless one of them averages a triple double. Durant and Kobe are the front runners in my opinion. Everything about Durant pretty much impresses me right now. Someone asked me the other day if I would trade Kobe for Durant straight up, right now, and I hesitated for a second. The kid is going to be great and is a great guy on top of it from all accounts. My top 5 for MVP honors in 2010-2011 are as follows: 1. Kevin Durant 2. Kobe Bryant 3. LeBron James 4. Wade 5. Dwight Howard As a Lakers fan, the smart money is on Durant who could be riding high after the World Championships in Turkey (if you haven't yet, read the ESPN article on him and how KOBE was the only member of the last squad to practice on his time off and how it changed Durant's approach). I expect him to blow up this year, to be honest.
Me too. And the way he's marketing himself is brilliant. He's building a persona of a humble, loyal, hard working athlete that Madison Ave is going to eat up
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5405528 Suck on that. He's coming to Orlando, I can feel it.
When Broussard reports anything, its because he needs to feel relevant. Guy is more self absorbed then any other journalist I have ever seen.
Broussard broke Bosh and Wade to the Heat, and "broke" LeBron to Miami on the day of the TV special. Guy has credibility for now.
In the article, it states Chris Paul himself wants to come to Orlando. Florida is getting everyone now!
Dude, he said the knicks, bulls, heat, cavs, and nets all at one time would be getting bosh and Lebron. He HAD no option but to be right. He switched teams at least 5x in a week! And the whole basis for this report, that CP3 has hired LRMR, which is Mav Carter's agency is not true. He has hired Leon Rose, James agent, but Rose's agency is separate from LRMR which is Lebron/Mav Carter. Octagon was Paul's old agency which was fired earlier this month. http://offthedribble.blogs.nytimes....asnt-yet-done-the-full-lebron/?ref=basketball
Derrick rose wants t-glass in Chicago...looks like he is done as a knick. Not sorry to see him go. He tried but he's done or nearing the very end. He could help a team like LA or the spurs as a secondary scoring option who can handle the ball and distribute but he no longer has the burst necessary to really create much for himself. At least last season he didn't.
Edit: Nevermind. Now I'm getting my talking heads confused. Broussard still gets points from me because he was the only person on ESPN who actually reported anything accurate in the end.
no one on ESPN had any clue. They took darts, construction paper, a thick piece of cardboard, crazy glue, and markers. Then they cut some construction paper, crazy glued it to the cardboard, labeled the five realistic teams and the clippers and threw some darts every day to see where lebron would land. They knew as much as you or I.
Stugotz on Le Batard: CP3 has met with the Hornets' new GM and coach and has rescinded his trade offer. Le Batard: "The Knicks fan continues to lead the league in unearned arrogance." New York: welcome to another decade of irrelevance.
the last time a knicks fan was arrogant was in the 20th century. maybe he's mistaken them for yankees fans
The last time a Knicks fan was arrogant was about five seconds after the Knicks were announced as part of CP3's ideal trade destinations. Before that, about five seconds before LeBron said "I'm going to take my talents to South Beach."
Boik's been pretty humble. are there more knicks fans here. i think isiah thomas beat all the arrogance out of knicks fans, though the patrick ewing era started it. (lol, i still see charles smith missing 58 tip ins)
I realize that Boik's been humble, but for every Boik, there's 50 Fin-Omenals. Described as a group, Knicks fans do indeed lead the league in unearned arrogance. Le Batard is exactly right. Knicks fans as a group think that it's perfectly reasonable to expect every sports player in the world to want to play in New York, where the fans will castigate you for one minor misstep and the media will haunt you for the rest of your career. Perfectly reasonable to subject yourself to all that for the great honor of playing for a losing team that just happens to be in a big market. Absolutely. Unearned arrogance.
unlike ted ginn who was loved by the media and fans and instantly forgiven for not catching that pass against Indy. dude miami has some of the most backstabbing reporters i have ever seen. they love to tear down miami's teams and miami's fans are pretty brutal on their own
The Knick fan in general is exactly like the Jets Fan. Delusional, arrogant, and angry. Boik is absolutely the exception to the rule. There have been guys..(plural) that called every damn show in town for 2 years bragging aobut getting Lebron and then if they "don;t get lebron.." they will "settle" for Dwyane Wade...blah blah..Mecca..mecca...NEW YAWK....da Mecca Bro...da Mecca of Basketbawwwll. Madisawn Squaey Gahden,..etc...
ahh gotcha. amazed they are still doing it. i would think after the isiah years they would have calmed down. i mean how many times can you get kiccked in the nuts and still want to **** with people
and they all started their calls "explaining" to us simpleton Miami Heat fans WHY it was a Lock that Lebron was going there and that the line was forming to sign there..and to pray that Lebron accepts their offer or Wade will. and they ALL say "Mecca" at least 4 or 5 times in each call.
Are you actually saying that Ted Ginn committed a minor misstep? A single minor problem? No, Ted Ginn was castigated because he systematically sucked over a three year span. Let's not start rewriting history, okay, ap? And since you opened the door to other sports, Alex Rodriguez wishes he got as fair a shake as Ted Ginn did. Ginn started off with a fairly blank slate, Cameron's ridiculous "we need that thumb to go THIS way!" introduction aside. A-Rod was instantly excoriated simply because he wasn't Derek Jeter. Still is. Contrast the reception of Alex Rodriguez in New York with the reception of Chris Bosh and LeBron James in Miami. Unearned arrogance.
what are you talking about with arod? when you play for the yankees its all about how you do in the postseason. the guy sucked in the postseason for us. he was the reincarnation of dave winfield for us. mr may. it was the same exact scenario as ginn. one the highest paid player in the game bats a sub .200 in the postseason in 2005 and 2006 vs a 1st rounder who performs like a fourth rounder. now that Arod has performed well in the postseason yankees fans and media have embraced him. the fact you say still is proves you dont know what the new yorkers feel about the guy. as for ginn, its laughable to say he was given a clean slate. he was trashed from the moment he was picked by the miami media. he was a joke to them,. at least new york allowed arod to bury himself before trashing him. the miami media isd far more brutal than the new york media is
