/nba/ General

1st for clips4lyfe

letting emotions dictate the game is fucking stupid. the reason the spurs have been so successful is because they're cold blooded assassins, like kawhi. it's also the reason why the warriors are slightly similar to to the spurs, with klay being so devoid of emotion.

emotions are just a hindrance to humanity in general.

>>74121360
>DeMarcus Cousins picks up a 1-game suspension
>The second technical foul came with 1.1 seconds remaining in the game.
topkek, grow up boogie

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I don't know how this

NFL:49ers officially name Shanahan head coach

ended up in there

pls dont bully

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he's really gonna keep doing it huh

>>74121398
Westbrook and LeBron are different scenarios, different positions, different eras, and different players.

Quit with the fucking comparisons right now.

>embiid and KAT are unproven, they fall to real competition
Meanwhile Boogie falls to everyone, with his lone 30 win season in 5+ years.

>>74121414
individually faggot, not team match-ups.

>>74121424
Oh yeah Boogie falls to everyone since he fouls out of every single game with childish antics

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Post /ourguys/

Starting with this handsome devil

>>74121424
EmBiid is carrying a shit team on his own.

KAT has/had to rely on his other teammates.

>>74121449
>rings would neVER make him better or the same to jordan
because your opinion decides who's good or not. riiiight.

by that logic MJ is not the goat because i said so too.

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Reminder to report Larry's Reddit spam.

He was banned the last time he did this.

He's breaking the rules and we were having a good last two days without him.

>>74121480
This is him.

He uses this image a lot.
Check the image hash on the archives.

Reminder to report all spam of anykind.

Copying comments from Reddit and posting them in every thread is spam.

If we act together as a community shit like this won't happen and the mods will take care of us.

Do not ignore the spam.

Is Cousins seriously suspended for the game against Boston wednesday?

>>74121507

I sent in some feedback, he's posting it from this thread a few days ago

http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/73982099/#73983113

>>74121511
I can't see that technical getting rescinded, so probably

>>74121514
i thought only canadians posted this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzmTEaeuCc

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He's coming home.

this truly is the worst general on /sp/

i would rather go to the tripfag infested /nfl/ than read the vapid autism you all post

just ban everyone on here and start over

>>74121579
what does this even mean? you have people spamming posts and posting gay porn without being banned

>>74121570

literally what

>>74121570
what's ironic is that /nfl/ is full of tripfags but actually talk about the sport while /nba/ are full of anons who try to spot out boogeymans and assign names to posters they don't agree with.

this is a shook general.

>>74121620
>>74121634
no one wants to trip up, we need a hero. Clips4lyfe has forsaken us. Everyone talks about tripping up the general but no one trips up.

>>74121642

we had two pretty good trips but the autists ruined that

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>he thinks Embiid is hurt

>implying were not tanking for Ball, Fultz, Monk

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It's always darkest before dawn

>>74121730
As a Thunder fan we could strike a deal. I think Meyers Leonard is extremely promising and would fit with the culture of our great city. Could work a deal centered around Westbrook and him.

>>74121372
Can't wait for your team to shatter into a million pieces after they lose to The Jazz in the first round of playoffs. We getting Home Court baby.

>>74121730
To what? Put Dolla Dame at SG and Double PG cheese like the Suns are? Or put Westbrook on another team with no real help?

>>74121789
Besides the Refs being the worst I've ever seen them, YES! This Year Is Hype! Post All-Star break Schedule is gonna be some great Ball.

>>74121425
this is harsh and I started expecting to have to play doubles advocate but I mostly agree with everything.

You're forgetting players like Kawhi, Butler and Thomas who are grossly overacheiving but not quite in that range of Ewing-Malone types when it comes to best of an era but they outplay every one of the talented guys off of effort and heart.

>>74121799
>Besides the Refs being the worst I've ever seen them
explain

>>74121852
The refs were the worst he'd ever seen them.

Report him.

Don't ignore his spam.

>>74121745
Of all the players on this piece of shit team you chose quite possibly the shittiest. Who on earth would want Meyers Leonard?

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>>74121874

>>74121870
You're replying to the spammer. He's a troll.

>>74121852
1. In Big Games (GSW VS CLE, CLE VS WSH, BOST VS TOR, Games with some Hype*) I feel like there's a inconsistency on how the games are called going into certain periods of the game. Even a game like Boston vs Memphis earlier in the season, they let them play hard ball then second half of fourth slowed down and soft even questionable calls started being made. I felt the same with the Christmas Finals Rematch.

2. I feel like there are a lot more Hard fouls being missed and more Soft/Questionable calls are being made. Not just on Superstars or Allstars but through out all of the game.

>>74121889
>>74121898
be careful anon, Boston wins a Superbowl and they think they can win an /nba/-title. lele fucking delusional cucks. This is bron's sport, no one goes to the finals in the east unless they go through him, and lets be real, no one goes through him.

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>this thread

yeah im going to bed

>there are people that think Barkley isn't a broke coward who is forced to work because of his debts

>>74121375
klay for danny green confirmed

>>74121905
Oh, so you're the butthurt Grizzlies hater who gets mad over physical basketball from the last thread.

Gotcha.

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LeBron ist playing way too many minutes. He will be fucking exhausted in the play-offs.

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Is there any hope for the suns? No way they can compete with golden state, or any top team but what about in a few years? Tj Warren, Chris, bender and booker a good enough core to expand around? Booker , Chris and bender aren't even 20 yet

>>74122093
Chriss looks like a 6th man at best and Bender looks like he's a few years away from even contributing. Also you'll probably trade Booker in a year or two and draft a player like Len or Bender.

>>74122088
He's on pace for a major injury for his age and minutes.

He's lucky he fouled out or he'd be one step closer to the cliff.

>>74122073
Nah. Wanted Memphis to lose. Jazz fan. There was a play where Isiah Thomas was fouled around 3min 4th Quarter where there was just daylight between the other player and him. It happened to Boston too. They called some weak fouls on some Conley drives.The first 3 1/2 quarters were great to watch, they let them play! You're right, it was a physical game. Just thought A LOT more fouls were called that game in the last half of the 4th quarter.

>>74122093
Yeah. I don't think you'll trade Devin Booker. You're low enough to get some trade bait in the draft or solid support guy. Brandon Knight can sweeten the deal. You already have Bledsoe, you can let him go. At best you guys make a shot at 8th next year.

>>74122176
maybe if they package Bledsoe, Knight and their first they can get Thomas from the Celtics.

>>74121413
You're right. LeBron in his 2nd year in the nba until the present day has been better than Westbrook ever can be. Why do Westfags find this so insulting? Is this what it was like being a Charles Barkley fan in the 90s and knowing that Jordan was just better and not wanting to admit it?

>>74122176
Yeah maybe. Depends on what they can get in the Draft. Might hold onto it. Maybe could even trade Knight + *Draft/Player (Not Booker) for Lillard. Rumors of Trade talk from Portland.

>>74122459
not that guy here

How can he say Westbrook and LeBron are from different eras?
They are contemporaries, this is Westbrook's 9th season, and LeBron's 14th.

>>74122517
/nba/ is delusional

looking at nba rule changes for fun
http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_history.html
>1974-75
>When there are punching fouls on both teams during the same play, the team last offended is awarded possession.
>punching fouls

Reminded me of this (which I posted in the last thread, it didn't get any traction so here it is again).

https://theringer.com/what-happened-to-the-nba-enforcer-2ea97992e534
>Dennis Awtrey
>“I guess I got my reputation,” he told Sports Illustrated in 1977, “when I punched Kareem in the face four years ago on national TV.”

Some off court hi-jinks:
>Charles Oakley
>He once slapped Charles Barkley during a players association meeting.
>Bulls beat writer Vince Goodwill witnessed Oakley take a child out of a player’s arms, hand the child to the player’s girlfriend, and slap the player in the face.

>Lebron called the reports of melo to the cavs for love "trash" along with the reporter who reported it

what the fuck is this guy's problem?

>>74122724
He is the SALT right now. I think if he is this mad going into the Playoffs we see the effect in the Finals. Especially if they have a harder road in the East this year.

>heat with 11 wins in a row
>my nigger dragić dropped 33 pts yesterday
man, what the hell is going on

>>74122724
Because he's alleging that LeBron himself is the one that wants Love traded and that's a personal attack on LeBron.

Love and LeBron are friends and he's backed up Love many times last year when people were saying he was unnecessary and what not.

So for a reporter to say something like just pushes it into the realm of tabloids and really makes him look like uncredible. This reporter also has a past of bad reporting and mixing words for headlines.

It's well within his right and it's most likely an attack against this particular source showing he's had enough with him personally.

>>74122724
What the fuck do you mean? A reporter lied about him and his teammates. That is trashy.

>>74122754
LeBron plays his best basketball when he's mad probably. Like against Boston in 2012 and Golden State after they all shit on him last year up 3-1.

>>74122527
>>74122459
No one has ever claimed Westbrook is better than LeBron you fucking retards.

Also you're replying to someone that is replying to a reddit post by Larry, which was deleted by the mods because it's against the rules.

>>74122792
I always hear about how LeBron didn't do more with less than Westbrook(he did), how Westbrooks usage rate is so high because no one could consistently win games with that team if their usage rate was higher (they have and they can considering he has the highest usage rate ever and people have done more with less). People don't want to admit that there are players who have had better seasons with Russell Westbrook, and in the case of LeBron it's largely because he knew how to share the ball more (and was a better scorer). No one wants to admit that Westbrook has flaws in his playstyle, like he literally couldn't be better no matter what he does. It's retarded and delusional.

>>74122825
No one could consistently win games if their usage rate was lower***

>>74122825
You're coming off from a biased stant point I can already tell.

Obviously LeBron didn't need to do as much because that team was better than this one and worked better.

If you've even watched one OKC game you'd know how offensively deficiant their roster is with players like Grant, Roberson, even Steven Adams who's only recently developed a offensive game and after awhile every team in the league and their players now know the couple of moves he's going to pull. He's regularly hacked and because he doesn't flop players get away with it, so he's very TO prone.
If you even take a second to look over the stat line of LeBron's teammates you can obviously tell this wasn't the case. Their glaring weakness was defense and there was a different in "eras" although I think era implies a large time span. Back in those years the NBA was very devoid of defense and isoball was very popular post Iverson.
There was a very clear different in the team, circumstances, and comparing them in the way you're implying is just dumb to even begin to do.

>>74122778

They taking the East back

>>74122885
Mo averaged 18 a game. Big Z averaged 13, West averaged 12. Oladipo averages 16, Kanter 14.5, Adams 11. Slightly less, gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with Westbrook having the highest usage rate in NBA history?

We aren't talking Cleveland had 53 wins or something. They had 66. 66 fucking wins.

Put LeBron in his 9th year on the Thunder and take off Westbrook. If you don't think they are a better team, you are flat out wrong. If you don't think Westbrooks team would be better if he had a lower usage rate, you are also wrong. Why is it that every other player has flaws besides Russell Westbrook? Westbrook is the perfect NBA player right? He never does anything wrong?

Let me say this for the umpteenth time. Highest usage rate ever. Higher than Kobes when he averaged 35. Higher than Jordan's when he averaged 37. Higher than James Harden's right now.

Stop acting like this is a new fucking thing. He has had more shot attempts per game than KD in multiple seasons. HE IS SELFISH. Why will you guys not accept this? Jordan was selfish. Kobe was selfish. They have a combined 11 titles and one is the GOAT. They had to learn to share the ball more at some point. Westbrook hasn't learned it yet, he didn't share the ball when he had a top 5 team for 5 years and he isn't sharing it now.

Accept that Westbrook has things he can improve on and I'll never bring this up again. But you won't even say "westbrook has flaws" or "there are things he could do to make his teammates better" when you know it's true.

>>74123052
>looking at points only and completely disregarding averages and play style
Majority of Oladipo's points come from three pointers and free throws.
Adams and Kanter are severly limted to post play.
Everyone on LeBron's team's main rotation was a all around player.

Then you go into some dumb hypotheticals.
Then you go on some dumb emotional rant.

You need help, you're not even talking to me you're talking to yourself.

Seek help.

>>74123071
I just woke up and that guy is obviously a hater. Like really autistic too.

Like he's not even talking to you, he's a schizo.

Someone needs to talk to go wiz and get some meds.

>>74123071
When LeBron left the Cavs they went from multiple 60+ win seasons to 19 wins. Don't tell me he had all this help.

Do you think a LeBron lead team is better than a Westbrook lead team? You admitted LeBron is better but then won't admit that Westbrook has flaws. It makes no sense how delusional you guys are. Westbrook is selfish. Highest usage rate ever.

>>74123103
What? I used the word "you" multiple times. Are you faggots that obsessed with Westbrook that you can't even respond to an argument coherently?

>>74123136
Bruh, seek help.

You're suffering from debilitating autism and having rants of autistic rage.

Breath in and out of your milk bag to calm yourself down.

>>74123145
>burger knows they are wrong so they just resort to retarded insults
Like President, like resident.

>>74123145
Lmao

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>>74123145
>Breath in and out of your milk bag to calm yourself down.

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Did someone say GOAT and mention Kobe, MJ and Westgod?

>>74122791
>lied

bull fucking shit.

Lebron is always crying.

Porzingis is a poor mans jokic. Hes a bust.

>>74123466
Completely different skillsets between the two guys from what I've seen. Don't think he's a bust either, just going through a bad spell.

>>74123307
LeBron didn't push for a love for Melo trade. There's no evidence of it, the only report of it is from some shifty guy who lies all the time.

>>74123466
A bust? So if they offer porzingis for one of the Raptors starting bigs, you say..?

>>74123487
I would keep my rapties of course. If porzingis didnt have melo to take the pressure off of him he'd be getting exposed even more than he is currently. I might trade caboclo or sullinger for him tho

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>>74122778
Spo is a top 5 coach and Dion don't call me a waiter Waiters is channeling his inner Dwyane Wade

lamarcus aldridge has been playing like a bitch for all of 2017

any SA bros have any insider info on this? dude is a straight bitch

LBJ this season:
25.9 PPG
53.2 %
37.4 3PT%
8.8 APG
7.9 RPG

KD this season:
25.8 PPG
53.7%
36.9 3PT%
4.8 APG
8.4 RPG

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>>74123971
truly the goat

>>74123971
Crazy that Lebron is not declining at age 32. But I think this will be his last good year.

>>74121395
Fucking kek

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Whats the most savage team/fanbase?

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Is Marcin gortat the best Center in the league?

>>74124738
the shittiest black player is better than the best white player

>>74124738
no top 10 tho

>>74123971
Post true shooting percentage and ppp, aka the only stats that actually matter

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>>74124767
>>74124773
I disagree

>>74124779
Stfu nerd

>>74124816
Hahahaha lebeta btfo yet again

>>74124790

How autistic do you have to be to make one of these?

>>74124845
Some people care way more about basketball than you do. Also, a computer does most of the work

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My Nets making a comeback
Eventually

Believe it

>>74124779
TS% doesn't matter, that's stupid. LeBron gets fouled more so it makes up for his poorer FT%. The difference between their TS% is only 4% anyway which doesn't make up for the difference in assists or lebrons wider impact on the team (cavs are 4-18 without him playing). Just admit that he's better bruh and he was better in 2014 too.

>>74124964
4% is a lot. Post ts% and ppp

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>>74124983
>4% is a lot. Post ts% and ppp

why the f*k are there only 3 games today, none of them good. is it a holiday or something?

>>74124983
65% vs 61%. Are you reading? I said 4% which isn't much for TS%, and it's entirely because of his FT% which again, isn't fair because LeBron gets fouled more so contributes more that way as well. If instead of fouls those were made field goals it'd inflate his stats more.

Besides that, obviously KD is a better scorer than LeBron. Everyone knows this. He is a better jumpshooter. But he's only a marginally better scorer, while LeBron is a way better passer, playmaker, leader, makes his team better and is significantly better at winning when up 3-1.

What the fuxk happened to my spurs yesterday? I fell asleep in the 3rd

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>>74125018
>thought you were overreacting
>mfw I checked out today's games

>>74125029
Post their hecking ppp right freaking now.

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>>74125032
>I fell asleep in the 3rd

me too familia, it was a shit game

LMA is playing scared and our offense is trash without kawhi.

pic related needs to play. parker is shit in 2017 and mills is pretty useless when he isn't hitting shots

>>74125051
I don't know what their fucking ppp is. Are you goddamn autistic? Google it yourself you faggot.

>>74125065
Welp lebeta btfo again

>>74125071
I don't even know what ppp means? Points per possession? Doesn't that heavily favour catch and shoot players?

Anyway it's obvious you're "trolling" so whatever

>>74125095
Ppp is my favorite advanced stat. Points per possession is a great metric
So post it, pussy

>>74124067
Last year was his last good year.

>>74125108
>autism

>>74125120
Not an argument

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last nights game was great and super refreshing to see that the east is starting to have some competition again. i hope the Wizards face the Cavs in the ECF this year. anyone but the Raps really

>>74125095
Isn't points per possession based on team possessions, not player possessions? Otherwise it would be wildly skewed like you say.

>>74125174
That's even stupider. That's a team stat.

>>74123971
Still crazy that LeBron's weakness is free throws.

>>74125421
only thing that prevents him from potentially being GOAT

>What is your team?
>If your team could acquire Cousins on a 5 year, 207 million contract, in return for two protected first round draft picks, would you want that?
>Why or why not?

>>74123971
KD getting a bunch of wide-open-as-fuck jumpers because of Curry and Thompson and Draymond's illegal screens, get your contextless shit stats the fuck out of my thread.

>>74125558
KD is probably having his best all around season since he became MVP.

>>74125628
So better than last season? He was hurt the year before

is Rudy Gobert really as good as his numbers say?

I don't understand why the Cavs are playing down to the level of their competition...

They were leagues above the eastern conference, but they really had to go to OT against the Wizards?

What the hell is happening?

>>74125716
>leshit
>good

lmao

the spurs are shit without kawaii-god

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>>74125716
>trying your hardest the entire game in the regular season

>>74123183
this nigga got cannibal tribesman teeth

keep him away from the bath salts

>>74125662
His defensive numbers suddenly went up. He must have been talked to alot in practice sessions in GSW. He rarely defends in OKC.

>>74125751
I know they weren't trying their hardest, and that's the problem.

The Cavs were capable of just breezing by teams with no issue, but now they are struggling against sub-par teams.

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My rapties will make the ECF again!

Believe it!

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>>74125781
have fun trying to get past this SOB

PG : Rondo
SG : Wade
SF : Carmelo
PF : Z-Bo
C : Dwight

Who could stop them

John Wall threw the sickest dimes last night

>>74125845
Why is his favorite number 5, and why do I have so much in common with him

>>74125981
the ball

Just saw that Sumpert literally got his ankles broken. Can't get anymore shook than that

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What happened to him

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>>74125772
>sub-par

>>74126091
>implying the wiz are anything but subpar

>>74126096
I don't think you know what sub-par means

>>74126108
I think you're overestimating the wizards

>>74126044
spurs

>>74126123
And I think you're underestimating them

>>74126136
Well next time you will estimate them

>>74126139
You can't make me estimate anything

>>74126044
Warriors turned him into a beta

LeBron's playmaking last night was the greatest display I have ever seen

>>74126252
Did you just start watching the NBA? LeBron does this regularly.

>>74126096
Wiz have been one of the hottest teams recently. They had like a 17 home game winning streak

>>74125486
sixers
no
he is shook

>>74125710
Even better

Who's the best player in don't know about?

>>74126580
Marcin gortat

>>74126638
Yogi Ferrell

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Happy birthday to the goat. Reminder he old have won the title that year if Horry didn't do this to him and get amare suspended

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>>74126771
hey dumbfuck that's from game 1 when parker wrecked his shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSzjeA35jwQ

next time you post a picture try getting the context right

the jump is literally the worst sports commentary show ever

>>74126919
Horry still pushed him out game 4

>>74127103

Don't be talking shit about my waifu

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>mfw wizards upset the cavs

I bet next year people are still going to talk about the timberwolves bright future for the 4th season in a row. Fucking kek.

The only team that has a bright future is the 76ers with all those assets

>>74127350

Nobody thought the twolves had a bright future with Love because it hinged on Rubio actually getting better. Twolves are a playoff team next year, faggot. Nobody who actually looked at their roster this year should have thought they could make the playoffs this year, but even then they had a shot before Lavine got hurt. Enjoy your process full of injury prone, autistic shitters

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>>74127350
>The only team that has a bright future is the 76ers
we got a casual over here lads

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>Enjoy your process full of injury prone, autistic shitters

There's little to no proof that Jah is actually autistic delete this

>>74127453

that's where your wrong, kiddo

>>73634462
>Allegedly there were several warning flags in the Lakers workouts with Okafor, oddly most of them were not basketball related.
>Team psychologists determined that Okafor was still processing his mothers death and alluded to himself being responsible for it, at one point breaking down in front of a female staff member who's perfume reminded him of his mom's
>He scored a record low on the Lakers character assessment test, a variety of questions that former Bulls and Lakers guru Tex Winters developed to help determine a players mental toughness and ability to adapt to adversity. The highest scores? Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant at 92. Okafor had 7.
>There were also rumors that Okafor was at one point tested for autism in his early teens, Lakers officials refused to comment on this, citing health privacy laws in California (where Okafor worked out)

why do i come here, literally 0 /nba/ posters know anything about basketball.

>>74127517
shut the fuck up larrison

how would you feel if you met a really cool girl and hit it off with he really well and were having great vibes with her, but you find out her most recent ex is some blue chip kentucky basketball thug who obviously dominated her on the regular

>>74127739
i don't get anywhere near anything "college" sports related, im a fucking pro.

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>>74121433
does booky post here?

>>74127739

I wouldn't care because I'm not insecure

>>74127739
every 5/10 or above girl who is 20+ years old has had miles of dick. wouldnt care

>>74127793

No but Brodie and Hinkie do, and Embiid is at least aware of /nba/.... We should tweet him

the real question is........

You meet the girl of your dreams, perfect in every way imaginable, literally fall in love, she doesn't care that you're an autist who posts the same shit on /nba/ every day, she even tells you to shut up when you mention 4clam in person BUT, you find out she's a warriors fan or a fan of the team you hate the most. What do you do?

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>>74124911
Were you the autistic Nest poster earlier this season talking trash on my Celties? Hahahaha! Sad!

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I feel like the guy spamming off topic shit and the guy complaining about how this general is shit... Are one and the same.

i feel bad for klove everyone has been calling him shit for like 3 years now including me. I forget these guys are people sometimes.

>>74125845
>Wizards
>Fuzzy Blue Bird

>Bullets
>Anthropomorphic basketball.
What gives, Washington?

>>74128116

He was underachieving for 2 years when all he was asked to do was make open shots and rebound. Now he's doing that and everyone loves him. He was honestly just a bad fit but they just made it work

>>74128089
Stay obsessed

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>>74125845

>>74128615
kekzilla

Shitty schedule tonight to be honest fame

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think about when you first started posted in /nba/

are you the person now that you wanted to be then

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steph curry

>>74128837
is gay

GOTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM

1. LeBron
2. KD
3. Davis
4. Westbrook
5. Kawhi
6. Har_en
7. Cousins
8. Curry
9. Butler
10. Giannis
11. KAT
12. Embiid
13. Thomas
14. Griffin
15. Thompson


Fuck you

>>74128869
terrible list

>>74128815
Delete this

W-were all gunna make it am I right

>>74128904
>W-were all gunna make it am I right
no this is the real world, only the elite make it. Get in the gym ff.

>>74128869

>KAT
>Embiid
>griffin
>no wall
>no paul
>no pg13

>>74127418
>but even then they had a shot before Lavine got hurt.

13th in the west and 4.5 back on the 8th seed. Yeah they really had a great shot

>>74128869
curry
durant
lebron
kawhi
westbrook
klay
davis
cousins
green
thomas
george
wall
carmelo
harden
butler

Young core rankings

Lakers
Bucks
Suns
76ers
Mavericks
Nuggets
Timberwolves (shot down because of lavine, would be 2nd)

John Wall status?

>>74128944

4.5 back a little over halfway through the seas is striking distance

>>74128996

>shiposting this hard

>>74129041
when i wrote young core, i meant to say young players on a team, but the guys the teams that made the rankings are teams mostly of young lads. go ahead, make a better list, Veteran tip: you can't yong buck.

>>74126044
Banished to San Antonio to learn how to make crisp passes and play fundamental defense.

Why did Cousins push that assistant?

>>74129095
pussy niggas get no respect

>>74129080

KAT alone is worth more than all of the lakers' young players. Giannis even moreso. The lakers don't even have a young player even close to the likes of Parker/Wiggins. A bunch of young role players at best isn't better than 2-3 guaranteed allstars like the bucks, twolves, or philly has

>>74129148
wiggins is fucking trash foh retard

>>74129148
>KAT alone is worth more than all of the lakers' young players
this fucking meme needs to die like lavine did haha. Thibbs is a secret agent, you really think he cares for that shit team? he's going to kill them all to the ground all ill be here, laughing, laughing at the wolves fans.

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>"Outside of Boston, (Toronto) is my favorite place to play," Pierce told theScore in Air Canada Centre's visiting locker room

the plot thickens....

>>74129173

Literally melo 2.0 and even if you think he's trash he's still better than all of the lakers' young players

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>>74129192
RMMT

#StephGonnaSteph

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>>74128869
Davis is too high, move him to 6 and move Westbrook, Kawhi, Harden up 1 spot each and I agree.

>>74128996

You think Jabari Parker has hit his peak already? How much more can he improve?

>>74129095

He deserved it, Boogie did the right thing

>>74129173

Shit opinion

>>74128815

oddly enough just went to pickup my nephew from school and there was this thick pear shaped milf with a nice ass walking in front of me and had to stop myself from dry humping her right then and there. small tits + big ass is the best senpai

>>74129191

It's true though the lakers young core is fucking awful.

They have Russel who is probably the best there.
Clarkson who is reverse monta ellis.
Randle who is dogshit
Ingram who is roleplayer tier
Tarik Black who can't get better because he gets dogshit minutes

That's their young core
and it's fucking ass.

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RUH ROH

https://twitter.com/PhilJackson11/status/829062793802420224

Phil is talking about this article by Ding

http://pastebin.com/aQutBCWg

>>74129250
>You think Jabari Parker has hit his peak already?
idk i haven't seen him play too much this year, all i know is that he can dunk. Can he defend? if he can get a small post game maybe mayb become an elite pnR forward he could be better. i have no idea.

>>74129285
>Richard Bertin @richardbertin 2h2 hours ago

>@PhilJackson11 Glad you woke up from your nap before the trade deadline. While you were sleeping the franchise was set on fire

ahahhahhahahaha

LeBron is averaging 26 8 9 on 61% true shooting #GOAT

>>74129332
I really hope he retires with a 27/7/7 statline. That's such a sexy statline

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>>74129296
I'm liking the original content you've provided.

>3 games today

for what purpose

>hey guys the game is changing in a way that 3's are more important and it's a good thing cause it's relying on a fine skill rather than just barreling through everybody and dunking/hitting a layup cause nobody can defend anymore
>NO IT'S RUINING THE GAME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'd rather see more impressive 3's than a big guy sink another layup

Anyone using a 4chan pass here? Im considering buying one cause i post mostly from my tablet nowadays and captchas are annoying. Worth it?

Lance Stephenson signed a 10 day contract with the T-Wolves.

That's all.

All the games on today are god awful and there's only 3.

Goodnight /nba/

/hotniggas/ still gettin that money.

>>74129294
Hes an improving defender. In all honesty his offensive game is really coming together. He can shoot and is aggressive. He's also the clutchest person on the team. Give him a few years and he will be upper tier

>Lakeys Laked
>Ingram not a bust
>Zubeast is a future star
>new Samurai Jack season
>The Challenge premieres tonight making reality TV great again
>Walking Pleb about to be back too for new memes
>Trump making everyone mad
What a 24 hours.

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Kris Middleton is coming back Wednesday. Yall ready?

>>74129828
if you have a job and disposable incoming its worth it, otherwise id just feel bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4z46h3h9k

Which of the 3 games are you guys watching?

>>74129877
i dont think thats him

>>74130150
blazers vs. mavs

>>74130150
>>74130150
None. They are all absolute trash matchups and Lakeys aren't playing.

reddit's getting much much better lately

rockets vs magic

>>74130270
>>74130270
>>74130270

>>74121570
who hurt you

>>74130941
he's rigth tho

>arguing with friends on who's a better player
>can't tell them "go kill yourself fucking faggot" like I do here

I thinks that's why I still come here

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>>74130286

Nope. Just the opposite.

>>74130986

No, you are not

>>74131015

I mentally call my friends faggots, but I'm afraid to show my power level irl

>>74130150

Rockets Magic, hate how Hardens plays but two of the best jerseys in the league, game looks aesthetic af

>it's a yogi shits on dame "overrated" lillard episode
love these

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>>74131015
>tfw all my friends are curryposters

>>74131134
All your friends are anonymous people online? Lmao how pathetic

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>watching Portland game
>2 liter of dr pepper and carne asada fries
>full night of nba games tommorow

I'm so comfy right now it should be illegal

>>74131216
kek exposed

damn i wonder if the nets regret cutting yogi

>Per Tim Kawakami of The Mercury News, some people close to West say he’d be “intrigued” by a return to the Lakers if the right deal came along.

holy shit we just can't stop winning

>>74121395
it's the dumbest nba move of the year

>>74131377
reminder that manu ginobili is a better white SG than west ever was

I still can't believe Cousins, Gay, and Rondo were on the same team. Will anything ever top it?

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>apedribble

Nope .

>>74131557
>manu ginobili
>white

>>74131895
Butler, Wade and Rondo

>>74131557
MJ, Wade, Kobe, manu

>>74131895

Love, Gay, Black, Willie

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>tfw you have to watch all these pleb teams squabble for playoff seeds

why can't it be the playoffs already bros

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>>74131960
>this is not a white man

>>74131979
this

>>74131948
>ApeCrash

Nope

Dallas needs to trade d will. He's not part of their long term plans and they've got a pretty good pg combo in curry and yogi

>>74132111
It would have to be a solid backup big with years left on his contract or a draft pick from a team with cap room.

So that rules out Cleveland :^)

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Who will stop the streak?

lmao

EVAN TURNER

70 MILLION DOLLARS

BROKEN RIGHT HAND

>>74132190

Bucks. Middleton gives the Bucks a moral boost

Evan turner broke his hand

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Lebron on the media and trading Love for Carmelo: "It's just outside. Something something gotta ignore the media"

Also Lebron: "FUCK YOU CHUCK AAAAH"

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what did he mean by this

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>>74131295
Carne asada fries are good n all, but those look dry and bland as fuck.

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>>74132274
it don't mean a thing without the ring

>>74132325
it's not fanfic hour yet

>>74132343

I deleted it for you but ill update later

>>74132356
was just messing around. if true gl have fun, keep us updated

talk to her about evan turner's injury if she doesn't know anything she isn't about /nba/ life

anyone think lediva is just trying to piss people off and cause drama to fire himself and his team up? he knows they are playing like shit and on a championship hangover and he needs to get his slaves to help him get 6 rings

is demarcus cousins the biggest crybaby the league has ever seen? glad he will never be on my wizzies.

>>74132274
Still the GOAT

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>>74132274
MJ the god of trash talk strikes again.

>>74132374

Why do people do this? Lakeys, wizzies, bookie, hinkie..

Why do you add - ey or ie to everything

>>74132369
lebron isn't that smart. there's nothing calculating about him

lebron is the result of single crackhead parenting and no dad. all his behavior can be traced to that

>>74125029
>defending being a shitty ft shooting
>implying that a 4% difference isn't statistically signficant

The only reason I am not greentexting the better leader is because you're comparing him to Durant. Overall, Lebron has poor leadership and has given up mid-game multiple times in his career, or passed the buck multiple times in his career, or jumped ship breaking his promises to the fans multiple times a year.

Lebron is lucky that he plays in the current iteration of the NBA. The talent is the thinnest it has been in a long ass time, evidence enough being that James "cumcatcher" Harden is unironically considered the best SG in the league because he flops and literally piggy-backs his way to the free throw line. Such FT and foul drawing antics apply to all top players and even fucking tards that never learn to hit their shots benefit from it because it is still a charity stripe for easy buckets and it makes defenses more reluctant to actually try and stop you for fear of picking up a weak ass foul. Add to that the preeminence of the 3 point shot, stretching defenses like my cock stretched your dumb, Canadian, mothers vagina last night and you have the easiest league for slashers to be effective. You also have the easiest league to get assists in if you are a slasher because as you cut in, the defense has to collapse as the only means of trying to stop a bucket without picking up a foul because man on man defense would give that foul up 9/10 times, and you have at the very least two dudes camped in fixed position on the arch, wide open, who drop at least 37% of their shots. It doesn't take court vision, it doesn't take good passing, it takes exploiting the weak ass rules of the NBA in its current stage and its ugly, boring basketball.

If LeBron played in the late 80's and throughout the 90's he would have been a marginally better Dominique Wilkins, an athletic freak that is a pretty limited scorer and someone who relies on their athleticism for defense

>>74132412
it's amazing, all the lakers "legends" are being exposed, kobe, shaq, phil, walton the whole lot! its like that franchise is a bust like deangelo russell and ingram

>>74132369
since he signed the 3 year contract the media was the only ploy he had left to get the front office to make the moves he wanted. once it goes through they'l be back to the good old cavs

>>74132428
I am NOT reading all of that. Adios.

>>74132437
why exactly did he do that? he gets way more leverage with one year contracts

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>>74132434

My memory is hazy, how many points did Ingram score last night? Was it 13 or 15? I feel like it was somewhere around there, so tell me, how much did he score?

>>74132434
>exposed

Everyone and their mom knew he wouldn't be a good GM because as a GM you have to be distant and calculated.

Phil is a very in depth and emotional coach that made sure he "enlightened" his players and made them think deeply about what they want as a player and to achieve championships.

He tries to do that with the players now but that's stepping over the boundaries and going against the current coach.

Phil was meant to coach not make personnel and team decisions.

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>>74132483
Let's refresh his memory lmao

>>74132420
basketball IQ =/= booksmart

If you want a good example of that look at Festus Ezeli. Dude is smart enough to be a doctor but plays like a retard on the basketball court.

>>74132428
And before you say

>muh from behind blocks

Those are purely athleticism and happen only because Lebron has deluded himself to believe he is an elite ball handler (he isn't) and has to make those plays to save face every time he sloppily gives up the ball. Still, he is a great player, and like the human highlight reel, he would lead a team and be a franchise legend. That said, he would never make the finals if he played in the east those years.

You put Jordan in today's league and he scores 40ppg at least and is DPOY. He would have won just as many, if not more, rings as he did in the harder era. He would have also handled all these stories way better. He never would have left for Miami. It would insult him to even consider it. He never would say his team needs other players. Again, it would be insulting. And if Chuck ever said anything about his desire to compete, Jordan would wait for the next time Chuck was broadcasting at one of his games, would drop 60+ points, and would stare Chuck down every time he scored a point.

>>74132477
cause he ain't no bitch nigga like durant

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>>74132483
>>74132483

He scored 14 lmao hater btfo

>>74132492

Ironic posting Canadian is my new favorite persona here

>>74132494
our points aren't mutually exclusive, we're saying the same thing. lebron is dumb as rocks

>>74132494
Lebron does not have good basketball iq. His assists are all driving to the lane, waiting for the defense to collapse, and then heaving the ball to one of 3 predetermined spots where he knows his 3 point shooting specialist teammate will be waiting.

Moreover, if he had good basketball iq he would have developed a post game to speak of so he could be serviceable 2 years from now

>>74132533
>post game

LMAO, postgame is UTTERLY worthless nowadays. Name a contender that has players that run lots of post games?

>>74132533
he's been to the finals 7 straight years on teams built around his skills

if he has low basketball iq, everyone else must have none

also

>2017
>needing a post game

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All-time great season 43+
Hands-down MVP 33-42
Strong MVP candidate 29.9-32.9
Long-shot MVP candidate 25-27.5
Definite All-Star 22.5-25
Borderline All-Star 20-22.5
Second offensive option 18-20
Third offensive option 16.5-18
Slightly above-average player 15-16.5
Rotation player 13-15
Non-rotation player 11-13
Fringe roster player 9-11
Player who won't stick in the league 0-8.7

YuGiOh > yogi

>>74132542
I know livingston from the Warriors posts up quiet often. Then again, he's not starter.

>mfw i come to these threads once every few months and it's the same people writing the same specific opinions with the same mannerisms meaning they actually are just repeating the same shit over and over because they are insecure

>>74132552
In the east, that is just about right. It is a garbage conference and has been for over a decade now

>>74132571
The West is just as bad as the East. The warriors will 12-0 into the finals. Cap this post.

>>74132563
Fuck off you dumb, moose fucking ice nigger. Yogi is already his fucking nickname, he doesn't need a nickname for his nickname

And he has been amazing since college

t. IUgrad and fan

>>74132566

/nba/ is basically four main players (spammer, gowiz, sam, canada) and 64 benchriders.

>>74132566
You finally figured us out....

>>74132563
It's sad most of /nba/ probably doesn't even know who Yogi bear is because they are too young

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What's his peak

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>>74132590
6 meme shots faggot

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>>74132533

Dirk

>>74132589
OK? Basketball in general is in a garbage place. Shoot first point guards are the rage, center has effectively died as a useful position, teams no longer have a consistent character, there is no more intense rivalry between the superstars and instead they fucking post instagram selfies together. It literally hurts watching the NBA sometimes

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>The Bulls will never trade Butler for the no 1 pick, fall into the lottery themselves to get a top 10 pick, and rebuild