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"It's a recession"
NBA Off-Season News Thread: Roy extends 80/5, AI to Grizz, Chandler/Okafor swap, Marquis to C's.
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word be ready to hear that sentence a whole lot this season
nba gonna be giving out fines like candy
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NBA wants to save money they need to drop that WNBA crap
also this years trade deadline and next summer are gonna be fun to watch
(waits forknicks fans to try and trade away everyone to pay kobe and lebron and play 2 v 5
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so farmar, fisher, and morrison are all playing in contract years? hmmmmmmm.................. lol
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igummbobbles
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*fixed
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At least Ryan has two good feet.
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nikebasketball The complete NBA schedule for 2009 & 2010 comes out in 75 minutes. What matchups are you looking forward to the most?4 minutes ago from web
What matchups?
Prolly the same as every single one else.
Lakers v Cavs
Lakers v Celtics
Lakers v Magic
Lakers v Spurs
Cavs V Celtics
Cavs v Magic
Cavs v Spurs
Celtics v Magic
Celtics V Spurs
Mix in a D Wade game vs these opponents, and some Durant and Melo games, call this season a wrap.
Prolly the same as every single one else.
Lakers v Cavs
Lakers v Celtics
Lakers v Magic
Lakers v Spurs
Cavs V Celtics
Cavs v Magic
Cavs v Spurs
Celtics v Magic
Celtics V Spurs
Mix in a D Wade game vs these opponents, and some Durant and Melo games, call this season a wrap.
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http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nba-player-porn-star-get-cozy-with-twitter-bet-25427
DaJuan
A water park?
DaJuan
A water park?
im not you
Banned
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This dude...
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Was DeJuan the one who loved white girls or was that Jeff Green and Hibbert?Originally Posted by Al3xis
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nba-player-porn-star-get-cozy-with-twitter-bet-25427
DaJuan
A water park?
Either way
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Originally Posted by Al3xis
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nba-player-porn-star-get-cozy-with-twitter-bet-25427
DaJuan
A water park?
im not you
Banned
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Originally Posted by airmaxpenny1
Was DeJuan the one who loved white girls or was that Jeff Green and Hibbert?Originally Posted by Al3xis
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nba-player-porn-star-get-cozy-with-twitter-bet-25427
DaJuan
A water park?
Either way
It's Georgetown dog...you don't have a choice not to love white girls.
But Jeff and Roy were the only ones that actually held hands and dated them. Add Pat, Jon, and Tyler to that list as well. Them N's didn't even look atblack girls. Pat was dating a black chick who played on the girls team but he turned her gay
Originally Posted by Al3xis
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nba-player-porn-star-get-cozy-with-twitter-bet-25427
DaJuan
A water park?
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Can the season start already? I'm already sick of baseball, don't give a $+@! about football (although I do hate OSU and the Browns...you'rewelcome Chester), and the Bridgestone Invitational and the PGA Championship will be done within the next 2 weeks. After those golf tournaments it's sportspurgatory for me...
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From the 100 NBA dunks from SLAM, to the schedule coming out today, Its getting me more & more anxious for the season to start already.
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AI has a 2 year 10 million dollar deal from a greek team
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Why Olympiacos the only team overseas I hear about ALL the time?
Weren't they the same team that offered Nate Robinson? I know they got Childress already.
Weren't they the same team that offered Nate Robinson? I know they got Childress already.
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The NBA's biggest problem? Way too many overpaid players
Last week's big-man trade of Tyson Chandler for Emeka Okafor might have seemed random when it came to the players involved.
But the deal was built around salaries.
Chandler has two more years and $24.6 million left on the contract he originally signed with the Bulls in 2005.
Okafor has five years and $62.7 million remaining, which means Charlotte shaved nearly $40 million in future salary commitments by making the deal with New Orleans.
The Hornets, meanwhile, trimmed a few million off next year's luxury-tax bill, since Okafor will make less this season. So each side saved money in some way.
Like so many industries, economics are troubling the NBA, and many observers expect another lockout in 2011 when the current collective-bargaining agreement expires.
I'd say the biggest issues the league needs to solve are keeping the games affordable and evening the playing field for small-market teams.
But the fundamental problem in the NBA right now is simply too many players who are wildly overpaid and locked into guaranteed contracts.
That's why teams make so many personnel decisions based on money.
With that in mind, let's rank the worst NBA contracts currently on the books:
1. Gilbert Arenas, Wizards (5 years, $96.3 million): Washington forgot the Grant Hill Rule - never foist a massive contract on someone who can't walk. Arenas has played in 15 games the past two seasons.
2. Elton Brand, Sixers (4 years, $66 million): This seemed like a good idea at the time, but Brand has played in just 37 games the past two years because of injuries.
3. Eddy Curry, Knicks (2 years, $21.7 million): Thanks to this contract, the former Bulls center may prevent New York's dream of chasing two major free agents in 2010.
4. Marko Jaric, Grizzlies (2 years, $14.7 million): This guy averaged 2.6 points last season. And that was before he married supermodel Adriana Lima.
5. Tracy McGrady, Rockets (1 year, $23.3 million): He will be the league's highest-paid player this season. I still laugh at how ex-Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy congratulated McGrady on TV last spring for winning his first career playoff series. Of course, T-Mac was hurt and didn't play a second.
6. Andrei Kirilenko, Jazz (2 years, $33 million): Utah might not be so eager to unload Carlos Boozer if it hadn't rushed to give Kirilenko a ridiculous deal in 2004.
7. Peja Stojakovic, Hornets (2 years, $29.5 million): This is a classic NBA mistake, bidding wildly for a free agent when there is no serious competition. Ben Gordon and the Pistons might be Exhibit B.
8. DeSagana Diop, Bobcats (4 years, $26.8 million): Dallas has a history of overpaying for mediocre big men, but the Mavs managed to unload this deal. Diop averaged 2.3 points and 3.6 rebounds last season.
9. (tie) Mike Dunleavy (2 years, $20.2 million) and Troy Murphy (2 years, $23 million), Pacers: As they finish up huge contracts, this pair has combined to play 1,048 games without ever making the playoffs.
10. Beno Udrih, Kings (4 years, $27.8 million): Might have been the league's worst starting player last season.
11. Bobby Simmons, Nets (1 year, $10.6 million): Hopefully, the former DePaul star will spend some of this money in his hometown.
12. Corey Maggette, Warriors (4 years, $39.7 million): Golden State felt it had to do something last year after losing Baron Davis unexpectedly. Signing another shoot-first perimeter player wasn't it.
13. Michael Redd, Bucks (2 years, $35.3 million): Milwaukee realized too late this is too much for a one-dimensional player.
14. Jerome James, Bulls (1 year, $6.6 million): Signing the massive center to a five-year deal in 2005 wasn't even Isiah Thomas' worst move as Knicks GM.
15. Brian Cardinal, T-Wolves (1 year, $6.8 million): A source swears the league distributed a memo last year warning teams that signing players to a full-term midlevel exception usually turns out bad. It was titled The Cardinal Rule, I'm pretty sure.
Honorable mention: Dan Gadzuric, Bucks (2 years, $14 million); Jermaine O'Neal, Heat (1 year $22.9 million), Etan Thomas, Thunder (1 year, $7.4 million), Sam Dalembert, Sixers (2 years, $23.6 million), Jason Maxiell, Pistons (4 years, $20 million).
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=311098
Last week's big-man trade of Tyson Chandler for Emeka Okafor might have seemed random when it came to the players involved.
But the deal was built around salaries.
Chandler has two more years and $24.6 million left on the contract he originally signed with the Bulls in 2005.
Okafor has five years and $62.7 million remaining, which means Charlotte shaved nearly $40 million in future salary commitments by making the deal with New Orleans.
The Hornets, meanwhile, trimmed a few million off next year's luxury-tax bill, since Okafor will make less this season. So each side saved money in some way.
Like so many industries, economics are troubling the NBA, and many observers expect another lockout in 2011 when the current collective-bargaining agreement expires.
I'd say the biggest issues the league needs to solve are keeping the games affordable and evening the playing field for small-market teams.
But the fundamental problem in the NBA right now is simply too many players who are wildly overpaid and locked into guaranteed contracts.
That's why teams make so many personnel decisions based on money.
With that in mind, let's rank the worst NBA contracts currently on the books:
1. Gilbert Arenas, Wizards (5 years, $96.3 million): Washington forgot the Grant Hill Rule - never foist a massive contract on someone who can't walk. Arenas has played in 15 games the past two seasons.
2. Elton Brand, Sixers (4 years, $66 million): This seemed like a good idea at the time, but Brand has played in just 37 games the past two years because of injuries.
3. Eddy Curry, Knicks (2 years, $21.7 million): Thanks to this contract, the former Bulls center may prevent New York's dream of chasing two major free agents in 2010.
4. Marko Jaric, Grizzlies (2 years, $14.7 million): This guy averaged 2.6 points last season. And that was before he married supermodel Adriana Lima.
5. Tracy McGrady, Rockets (1 year, $23.3 million): He will be the league's highest-paid player this season. I still laugh at how ex-Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy congratulated McGrady on TV last spring for winning his first career playoff series. Of course, T-Mac was hurt and didn't play a second.
6. Andrei Kirilenko, Jazz (2 years, $33 million): Utah might not be so eager to unload Carlos Boozer if it hadn't rushed to give Kirilenko a ridiculous deal in 2004.
7. Peja Stojakovic, Hornets (2 years, $29.5 million): This is a classic NBA mistake, bidding wildly for a free agent when there is no serious competition. Ben Gordon and the Pistons might be Exhibit B.
8. DeSagana Diop, Bobcats (4 years, $26.8 million): Dallas has a history of overpaying for mediocre big men, but the Mavs managed to unload this deal. Diop averaged 2.3 points and 3.6 rebounds last season.
9. (tie) Mike Dunleavy (2 years, $20.2 million) and Troy Murphy (2 years, $23 million), Pacers: As they finish up huge contracts, this pair has combined to play 1,048 games without ever making the playoffs.
10. Beno Udrih, Kings (4 years, $27.8 million): Might have been the league's worst starting player last season.
11. Bobby Simmons, Nets (1 year, $10.6 million): Hopefully, the former DePaul star will spend some of this money in his hometown.
12. Corey Maggette, Warriors (4 years, $39.7 million): Golden State felt it had to do something last year after losing Baron Davis unexpectedly. Signing another shoot-first perimeter player wasn't it.
13. Michael Redd, Bucks (2 years, $35.3 million): Milwaukee realized too late this is too much for a one-dimensional player.
14. Jerome James, Bulls (1 year, $6.6 million): Signing the massive center to a five-year deal in 2005 wasn't even Isiah Thomas' worst move as Knicks GM.
15. Brian Cardinal, T-Wolves (1 year, $6.8 million): A source swears the league distributed a memo last year warning teams that signing players to a full-term midlevel exception usually turns out bad. It was titled The Cardinal Rule, I'm pretty sure.
Honorable mention: Dan Gadzuric, Bucks (2 years, $14 million); Jermaine O'Neal, Heat (1 year $22.9 million), Etan Thomas, Thunder (1 year, $7.4 million), Sam Dalembert, Sixers (2 years, $23.6 million), Jason Maxiell, Pistons (4 years, $20 million).
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=311098
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Hindsight is 20/20.
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Originally Posted by Im Not You
Originally Posted by airmaxpenny1
Was DeJuan the one who loved white girls or was that Jeff Green and Hibbert?Originally Posted by Al3xis
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/nba-player-porn-star-get-cozy-with-twitter-bet-25427
DaJuan
A water park?
Either way
It's Georgetown dog...you don't have a choice not to love white girls.
But Jeff and Roy were the only ones that actually held hands and dated them. Add Pat, Jon, and Tyler to that list as well. Them N's didn't even look at black girls. Pat was dating a black chick who played on the girls team but he turned her gay
He wasn't stroking it right.
