*The Official 2011-12 NBA Thread*

Guessing you mean Toronto.


If the Wolves get Batum, I wonder what they end up doing with D. Williams.

 

Or maybe LA? Oh Sam what do you think bro??

 

Lebron does nothing wrong with the way he leaves Cleveland, and he gets villified.
Howard does everything wrong and no one one *****es.

 

Yeah, but LeBron raised a bunch of money for underprivileged kids. That duschebag.

 

Howard still gets hate. Not as much as Lebron but it's there.

 

Same, I don't see the Cavs making that offer.

 

I'm sure Miami offered for the lulz.

 

Hibbert looks to be going to Portland on a 4 year $58m contract.

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...ers_restricted_free_agent_center_roy_hib.html

 

Talk about overpayed.

 

Batum only going to get $8M less over 4 years. I'd rather pay the $8M extra to have Hibbert (assuming I'm not talking about the Cavs).

 

nah. nothing to worry about. The Heat is about to sign one of the most lucrative cable TV contracts in the NBA, and they are getting very high end sponsorships with Chinese companies.

The team will be poised to bathe in cash.

 

Thats just not true, Dwight is coming out of this looking like a turd. I do agree the LeBron criticism was just stupid, but lets not pretend we aren't criticizing D12 right now.

 

Let's also not pretend that the Howard criticism is anywhere near the levels of LeBron criticism, which rose to actual hate. No one is going to burn Howard's jersey.

 

LeBron is a bigger player, he is going to get more pub....good or bad. Comes with the territory.

 

I think Magic fans will burn his jersey.

 

*****ing would showed I cared. At this point, I just want him to go away.

 

That's not what's happening here.

 

This guy is a beauty......

 

In pro athletics, success makes everything right.

This is one of the reasons I do not like the way BSPN has basically turned the NCAA into their *****es.

 

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Andre Miller won't die

 

Man the Nets better not trade Brooks in a Joe Johnson deal....trade Morrow instead.....

 

LOL at the Knicks going for Steve Nash.
How many of the big names has a NY team actually signed?
Manning? Nope. Lebron? Nope? Wade? Nope? Bosh? Nope.
Pujols? LOL.

 

Other than the Yankees not many.....

 

I know...I was throwing it out there...

 

Fail of a post. NY teams sign a ton of big name players. Want me to go down the list?

You wanted to take a shot at NY and it failed miserably.

 

They signed Tebow!!!!

/end thread

 

Trust me there's plenty of pissed Magic fans in this area. We're all tired of his drama b.s. up here. He's made it known for quite a while that he doesn't want to play here.

 

which makes them really stupid considering the path the league is taking, toward speed and athleticism.

 

This.

In the modern NBA, an elite 2 will help you more than an elite 5.

 

NY teams also have a habit of striking out, as I just mentioned.
U MAD?

 

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How is this so?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48047319

 

While I like Hibbert, I think the era of needing an elite big is passing or passed. Once upon a time it was a requirement, but when one of it's biggest proponents (Riley) says that's not the present NBA, you know it's over. Years ago there's no way Riley wouldn't have at least been looking into acquiring Dwight Howard (over the past two or three years). That would have been his priority. Nowadays it's clear that elite perimeter players provide more impact than premier interior guys.

 

I think you need bigs that can space the floor. That was what Dallas did. Hibbert is too easy to negate. And if you pay him so much that you can't afford good perimeter scorers then it ends your rebuild.

 

Yea, knowing they were going to offer Hibbert the max makes me question the Leonard pick a little bit. If they had him as the best player though, then I can certainly understand the pick.