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nervous about what?
ââ 2012 NBA Finals ââ The King has been crowned; Heat win 2012 NBA Finals! Bron Finals MVP.
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nervous about what?
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I'd be awesome to see Durant & Lebron go at it for 6-7 games on the league's biggest stage.
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i just find it funny that stern blocks a trade to one of the best owners and then gives a superstar to the worst owner in sports
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Same Clippers
What's good with the all red joints with the home jersey though? *%%*'s weak.
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Originally Posted by presequel
if you blur the bg and only focus on the jersey...and sit far away it sort of looks like a knicks jerseyOriginally Posted by you big dummy
You thirsty.
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Stern is doing this because he knows LA is too big for the Clippers NOT to take advantage of. LA lakers have reigned supreme forever. The Lakers franchise is coveted, so it'll always be a popular destination. When you have two teams playing in one arena, it allows you to dominate the market twice as hard. So it's been too long to not intervene.
The Clippers are in the 2nd biggest city in America, but who was the last big name you remember before BG? Right. No one. The best thing to ever happen to the Clippers was Blake Griffin. You get a PG who can serve him up, and boom now you have a main event. In LA. Like you're supposed to. Just like they have one in NY. Like their supposed to. Soon to be two. Chi got one.
I went to a Staples game in LA last year and watched them play the Kings. 1 thing that stands out to me from that game was seeing how much a fan-base they had. Like, they actually had legit fans. So that franchise is ready for lift off...if he can manage to kick Sterling off the boat, they'll control the sea.
Sadly, we thought the lockout was to prevent this..It's all $++!*$%$ but I guess it is what it is..
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Stephen A. has been really obnoxious lately.
Not to mention his hair is a distraction.
Not to mention his hair is a distraction.
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Oh.
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DeAndre Jordan is already better than Tyson Chandler. Unless you mean in terms of the lobs that he's going to throw him.
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Originally Posted by LDJ
What is really crazy is they just showed cp3 twitter on nba gametime and basically he sees clippers as a potential contender......Originally Posted by Durden7
Why'd Chris have to go there?Originally Posted by Peep Game
Why u gotta go there?
uhh...they are now.
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Am I missing something?
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For the curious...
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Originally Posted by venom lyrix
Originally Posted by LDJ
What is really crazy is they just showed cp3 twitter on nba gametime and basically he sees clippers as a potential contender......Originally Posted by Durden7
Why'd Chris have to go there?
uhh...they are now.
Um i cant see that considering thet have 5 guards no 1 s/f with no backup. And 3 bigs with no backups. Not to mention lack of experience, an unproven coach and from a franchise standpoint owned by one of the worst and mismanaged teams in all of professional sports. Playoffs maybe 4-6 seed possible at best.
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Chandler is a Knicks now so he's garbage
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orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/os-dwight-howard-magic-trade-1216-20111215,0,813752.story
[h1]OrlandoSentinel.com[/h1][h2]Dwight Howard: My trade request 'still stands'[/h2]
By Josh Robbins
Orlando Sentinel
9:06 PM EST, December 15, 2011
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Dwight Howard could not have been more clear Thursday about his long-term intentions.
He is sticking by his request to be traded from the Orlando Magic.
"It still stands," Howard said.
Asked whether he fluctuates day to day, he answered, "There is no back-and-forth."
Howard's statements, responses to specific questions from the media after practice, came one day after Magic General Manager Otis Smith, in consultation with Magic CEO Alex Martins, turned down a blockbuster trade.
That deal would have sent Howard to the New Jersey Nets and brought, among others, center Brook Lopez from the Nets and swingman Gerald Wallace from the Portland Trail Blazers to Central Florida.
Magic officials say they hope they can change Howard's mind before the March 15 trade deadline.
But what remains unclear is whether the Magic front office actually believes there is a reasonable chance of a Howard change of heart.
Now that Chris Paul has been dealt â his trade from the New Orleans Hornets to the Los Angeles Clippers is official now â the focus of league officials and league analysts has shifted squarely on to the Magic's soap opera.
One of those analysts is Shaquille O'Neal, the previous franchise-cornerstone player to leave Orlando.
Now working for TNT, O'Neal signed a free-agent contract with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996, leaving the Magic without any players in return.
"I'm going to be keeping my eye out on the Orlando situation," O'Neal told reporters during a TNT conference call Thursday.
"I'm anxious to see if they make the same mistake twice. They just built an arena for $550 million [actually $480 million], and I know there's trade talks about trading him or keeping him. But I think they should keep him. I don't really think management has been doing a good job with that situation."
Of course, keeping Howard is anything but simple for the Magic.
"They have tried to make trades to make that team better," TNT analyst Charles Barkley said. "Did they work? No, they didn't always work.
"They haven't worked out perfectly," Barkley added later. "I give Otis Smith credit. He's made a bunch of trades. They didn't work out now, but they're trying. I mean, everybody wants to go out and get a great player. But they don't grow on trees."
Acquiring Paul is not a option, obviously. And neither is acquiring Nets point guard Deron Williams, who seems perfectly content to hope that Howard is traded to New Jersey.
Smith has made some bold moves during the past week, and two of those moves boost the Magic's payroll after the team cut its salary-cap and luxury-tax figures by waiving Gilbert Arenas via the amnesty provision.
Glen Davis and Jason Richardson have been signed for four years apiece at a total of about $51 million.
Earl Clark re-signed Thursday, but his two-year deal is inexpensive. The contract is thought to be worth a bit more than $1 million per year and include a player option in the second year.
The Magic's key deadline for trading Howard is the March 15 NBA trade deadline.
If they don't trade him by then, they would risk losing him in free agency and receiving no one in return.
"Otis is going to be famous for making the Rashard Lewis deal and letting Dwight Howard go," O'Neal said. "So, hopefully, he doesn't let him go."
Right now, though, Howard sounds intent on leaving.
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The lakers gotta makenthat trade. I don't seevanythingelse that big coming there way
But I doubt you do. Jim buss will run the franchise into the ground for a while
But I doubt you do. Jim buss will run the franchise into the ground for a while
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False.
MVP
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This. QFT, QFE, and why the Lakers brief demise may have already started.
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hey! ijust thought about something. isnt Bynum suspended for the first 5 games? i TOTALLY forgot about that
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I'm a Clippers fan and this.
Leave it to the Clippers to finally become a contender during the same year for which the Mayans predicted an apocalypse.
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How is Chauncey Billups going to factor in in LA?
