[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Lebron is a joke. I hope Durant wins a title before the Queen does.[/quote]
If Phoenix can’t pull out at least one title from their current generation of players, I would really like Durant to be the next guy to carry his team to multiple titles. That whole team has sort of won me over since the playoffs and this off-season.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Lebron is a joke. I hope Durant wins a title before the Queen does.[/quote]
If Phoenix can’t pull out at least one title from their current generation of players, I would really like Durant to be the next guy to carry his team to multiple titles. That whole team has sort of won me over since the playoffs and this off-season. [/quote]
Two things: 1-That chick in your av is fucking smoking. Dear Lord. 2- OKC is on pace to be the leagues next dynasty, or at least dominant team. The Lakers have 1, maybe 2 more years of being the clear favorites out West before the Thunder come rolling. If they can stay healthy the rest of the league is in trouble. And the best part is, they have done and will continue to do it the right way.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Lebron is a joke. I hope Durant wins a title before the Queen does.[/quote]
If Phoenix can’t pull out at least one title from their current generation of players, I would really like Durant to be the next guy to carry his team to multiple titles. That whole team has sort of won me over since the playoffs and this off-season. [/quote]
Two things: 1-That chick in your av is fucking smoking. Dear Lord. 2- OKC is on pace to be the leagues next dynasty, or at least dominant team. The Lakers have 1, maybe 2 more years of being the clear favorites out West before the Thunder come rolling. If they can stay healthy the rest of the league is in trouble. And the best part is, they have done and will continue to do it the right way.[/quote]
I still think that if LeBron takes the hit in his scoring [like scoring less than 20ppg] and assumes the role of Magic while Wade stays healthy, the Heat are due for a few rings, but hopefully you’re right.
Keri Hilson btw.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
Lebron is a joke. I hope Durant wins a title before the Queen does.[/quote]
If Phoenix can’t pull out at least one title from their current generation of players, I would really like Durant to be the next guy to carry his team to multiple titles. That whole team has sort of won me over since the playoffs and this off-season. [/quote]
Two things: 1-That chick in your av is fucking smoking. Dear Lord. 2- OKC is on pace to be the leagues next dynasty, or at least dominant team. The Lakers have 1, maybe 2 more years of being the clear favorites out West before the Thunder come rolling. If they can stay healthy the rest of the league is in trouble. And the best part is, they have done and will continue to do it the right way.[/quote]
Gonna sound like a homer, but the Thunder do have all the tools to be the next dynasty (similar to the Spurs). Superstar (Durant), solid PG (Westbrook) good supporting cast, (Green, Thabo, Harden, Daequan Cook, Mo P, etc), great coach (Brooks reigning coach of the year) and very very disciplined (11 T’s, 7 guys fouled out all of last year), great GM (Presti) and a bright future. Ric Bucher said a few weeks ago the Thunder are the second best team in the West behind LAL.
The team made mistakes last year (losing big leads, not closing games, TO’s, etc.) but that’s expected from a young squad. Nowhere to go but up.
And yes, LD: on behalf of the members of this thread, no more avatar changes please. This one will work just fine.
Anybody else feel like the championship was years ago and basketball season needs to start again already?
Basketball… You complete me! lol
Yes. Totally.
LeBron like Mike (Tyson, not Jordan)
SportsCenter ran a poll question linking James and Dwyane Wade to the NFLâ??s Man Tan and Sleep N Eat, Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens. Three months ago, no one would have connected James and Wade to footballâ??s Bojangle Brothers.
If David Stern is the cutting-edge, visionary commissioner he is hailed to be, heâ??ll recognize it is not in the best interest of his league to have its most electrifying player cast as Flavor Flav with a jump shot.
Weâ??re headed that direction with James.
An ESPNLosAngeles.com writer spent the weekend with The King and his Court at Las Vegas nightclubs and filed a well-written account that confirmed James is an attention whore surrounded by childhood sycophants.
You’re going overbaord Randman.
LeBron James, a 25 YO millionaire athlete, in Las Vegas.
Don’t tell me you wouldn’t be going butt wild in Vegas if you had his kind of cash. Face the facts, his tenure in Vegas this last week was TAME.
Eddie House just signed with Heat.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
You’re going overbaord Randman.
LeBron James, a 25 YO millionaire athlete, in Las Vegas.
Don’t tell me you wouldn’t be going butt wild in Vegas if you had his kind of cash. Face the facts, his tenure in Vegas this last week was TAME.[/quote]
I’m just forwarding articles first of all. Second of all I don’t really care that he’s in Vegas partying at all. It was tame to me to. If you read the article it’s his level of arrogance with the shit he does again that just continually floors me.
It’s hard not being arrogant when people treated you like royalty since you were a teenager.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
It’s hard not being arrogant when people treated you like royalty since you were a teenager. [/quote]
This is the only reason I have any sort of sympathy [for lack of a better term] for his actions, but it would be great if he gained some perspective. As it is he is completely in his own world and doesn’t understand or even appear to care how the way he behaves comes off to and affects people.
His idiotic posse led by Maverick Carter, aka The Idiot, is not helping matters much. This guy has no clue what he’s doing as a head of his own marketing agency and he was the one that organized and pushed “The Decision” which ended up being catastrophic. And then decides to invite sports reporters to a Vegas party event. Also a huge mistake. I have nothing against Bron getting his groove on in Vegas. It’s his level of arrogance and his stupid posse inviting the media to witness it which is just wrong on so many levels. It’s the blind leading the blind.
25 year olds have no clue what they are doing when they are 25 years old but they think they do. I know. I was one once. ;0
[quote]tmoney1 wrote:
And yes, LD: on behalf of the members of this thread, no more avatar changes please. This one will work just fine.[/quote]
lol yeah the avy will be staying for a while.
[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
Anybody else feel like the championship was years ago and basketball season needs to start again already?
Basketball… You complete me! lol[/quote]
It just sucks right now since the only Big 4 Sport on right now is Baseball. And we’ve come right off the NHL and NBA Playoffs both of which were two of the most exciting in years IMO, and of course the World Cup.
I think I’ll recover when the NFL season starts.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Eddie House just signed with Heat. [/quote]
Yeah I think it was for the minimum salary, 2 years and $2.8 million total.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Eddie House just signed with Heat. [/quote]
Yeah I think it was for the minimum salary, 2 years and $2.8 million total.[/quote]
The Heat are stockpiling snipers.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Eddie House just signed with Heat. [/quote]
Yeah I think it was for the minimum salary, 2 years and $2.8 million total.[/quote]
The Heat are stockpiling snipers.[/quote]
What’s crazy is that the Heat are not spending close to what they will be next year and the year after, when they are allowed to go over the cap by more. Right now they’ll probably end up going only a bit over the 50-something million dollar cap. In a couple of years they’ll be able to get close to 100 mill, like the Celtics, Lakers, and Magic have. Granted, the Trio will see their 14 mill a year rise to something bigger, but there will still be room for more. That’s why I can see them winning multiple rings even if they don’t next year.
People are underestimating what the limits on player salaries have done. There is NO reason to stay on a team where you’re the only superstar when any team can now afford to have at least two as long as they have cap space. The NBA is on it’s way to becoming like MLB, when they should really try to be more like the NFL. It’s crazy, they actually did it by limiting salaries, too–the opposite of what MLB does.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
Keri Hilson btw.[/quote]
pretty sure that’s from that video with Neyo and Yeezy
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
People are underestimating what the limits on player salaries have done. There is NO reason to stay on a team where you’re the only superstar when any team can now afford to have at least two as long as they have cap space. The NBA is on it’s way to becoming like MLB, when they should really try to be more like the NFL. It’s crazy, they actually did it by limiting salaries, too–the opposite of what MLB does.[/quote]
It’s funny because the major sports have long viewed the NFL’s labor terms as the gold standard – no guaranteed contracts, inflexible cap (I think), all roads leading to parity, etc – but have been unable to bargain for anything even remotely similar. And despite all their recent success, the NFL is still headed for CBA problems next offseason. Remember now kids, greed is good.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
People are underestimating what the limits on player salaries have done. There is NO reason to stay on a team where you’re the only superstar when any team can now afford to have at least two as long as they have cap space. The NBA is on it’s way to becoming like MLB, when they should really try to be more like the NFL. It’s crazy, they actually did it by limiting salaries, too–the opposite of what MLB does.[/quote]
What are you talking about? Joe Johnson got 100 m + to be the sole superstar on an NBA team while LeBron, Wade and Bosh aren’t getting as much.
[quote]chillain wrote:
It’s funny because the major sports have long viewed the NFL’s labor terms as the gold standard – no guaranteed contracts, inflexible cap (I think), all roads leading to parity, etc – but have been unable to bargain for anything even remotely similar. And despite all their recent success, the NFL is still headed for CBA problems next offseason. Remember now kids, greed is good.
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You can’t compare the other leagues with the NFL. An NFL team has a large, god-knows-how many-man roster. The other leagues obviously don’t have that many players on a single team.
You also have to consider the difference in business between the NFL and the other leagues. The NFL generates more revenue than the other leagues.
~Chillain