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NBA Off-Season News Thread: Roy extends 80/5, AI to Grizz, Chandler/Okafor swap, Marquis to C's.
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10 games.
For 72 games, he will be starting.
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Oh, damn
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Thus why I said how they'll start the season.
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Yup just saw the news
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Shots fired at Rick Adelman from China.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWPWzS7raA7zPqN07eOSYel15n5A
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWPWzS7raA7zPqN07eOSYel15n5A
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Unheard of until now
I agree 100000%
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Mark Jackson is a better fit for Minnesota especially with rookie point guard(s)...
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I read somewhere that Minnesota's new coach was another factor of whether or not rubio will play for them this year. When you potentially have 2 great PGs,signing Mark Jackson would have been a great fit. David Kahn ***%@@ up once again smh
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Agreed with the Mark Jackson comments. He would've been a real good choice for that position.
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I don't know, everyone always chooses the coach who was a good PG when they were in the NBA, dudes like Patrick and Rambis seem to get the cold shouldermost of the time.
Jackson's never coached a minute in his life, Rambis has a resume.
Jackson's never coached a minute in his life, Rambis has a resume.
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Can someone with insider please hook it up? http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insi...olumnist=hollinger_john&page=LuxuryTax-090806
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http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop...rd-Lewis-and-Performance-Enhancing-Drugs.html
Three Thoughts About Rashard Lewis and Performance Enhancing Drugs
August 6, 2009 6:19 PM
Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis has been suspended for violating the NBA's policy banning performance enhancing drugs. Three immediate reactions:
Heinous Excuse
For no good reason, I'm inclined to believe Rashard Lewis when he says his use of DHEA was unintentional, and that he had no idea it was part of an over-the-counter supplement.
However: How many athletes have used that excuse? At this point, I think it's up to 1.2 zillion.
Even just in the NBA, Darius Miles was similarly mystified last fall.
It's about to stop being an OK excuse.
Memo to all athletes: If you go down to the place where all the muscle heads buy supplements, and you buy anything, and you take it, you're putting yourself in a high-risk category to fail one of these tests. At some point, not knowing is not good enough. Therefore, if it's important to you not to take performance enhancing drugs, either don't take those supplements, or do some serious research first, and stand by your decisions.
No Small Penalty
Rashard Lewis will be suspended for ten games to start the season, which will cost him slightly more than $1.6 million in salary. This must be one of the most expensive drug tests in history.
But that's not all. The Collective Bargaining Agreement calls for a first positive test for performance enhancing drugs (SPEDS or "Steroids or Performance Enhancing Drugs" in NBA parlance) to be accompanied by a ten-game suspension and treatment in the league's SPED program. (A second failed test means a 25-game suspension, a third a year suspension, and a fourth banishment from the league.) I'm curious to know what that program entails.
Will Lewis endure the treatment program if we believe he only took this supplement by accident? And if we don't believe him ... what does that say? Are the Sixers going to want a do-over after Lewis killed them in Game 6 of last year's playoffs? How about the Celtics (Lewis was tremendous in Game 3) or Cavaliers (he was nine of 13 from the floor as the Magic stole game 1)?
Big Questions
Football, baseball, cycling, track and field, swimming, weightlifting ... all kinds of sports have faced brutal questioning about performance enhancing drugs. But not so much basketball.
I have been asking NBA people for a decade. They all say the same things: That they haven't seen it, and that the kinds of muscles people get from steroids wouldn't help in basketball.
Even if we accept all that as once true, performance enhancing drugs have evolved at a more advanced pace than these blanket denials. Especially as the list of violators grows: Matt Geiger, Don McLean, Soumalia Samake, Lindsey Hunter, Darius Miles and now Rashard Lewis.
Not to mention, athletes in all sports have been getting bigger, stronger and faster. In many of the other sports, some of that has been attributed to cheating. But not in basketball.
Is that because basketball has been cleaner, or less scrutinized?
When Miles tested positive, Dave from BlazersEdge captured the sentiment nicely:
No, we don't have cause to cast suspicion all around the NBA. But surely we're also losing our ability to laugh these kinds of things off as aberrations.
Google terms like "genetic enhancement" and "human growth hormone." It is undeniable that in 2009 there are myriad ways NBA athletes could get ahead by cheating. Running faster and jumping higher is only the beginning. Recovering faster -- from surgery or a grueling schedule -- building muscle ... elite basketball players can benefit from such things. And with that reality, it seems inevitable that the NBA will not stay above the drugs fray for too long.
http://myespn.go.com/blog...nce-Enhancing-Drugs.html
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at that SI article. Cleveland lost it's 'A' gradewhen they gave Varejao all that money.
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Chris Cohan is a joke of an owner. He's just as bad as Donald Sterling, Jim Dolan, to name a few.
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I hate Michael Heisley as an owner, but from hoopsworld and CA they're talking about how the Grizz are in the top third of making money in the league dueto smartly spending. The article is messing up when I post it. Stern was also saying how his concerns are far greater than the actual business of basketball inMemphis.
So, we can say anything about Heisley, but at least he's not losing money in a small market. It's amazing how he's doing it though. The teamwon't be going anywhere like I've been saying for the longest, but this will be an important season in terms of building a fan base along with makingsure the young players develop.
If its another failed 22-win season, it could be very bad.
So, we can say anything about Heisley, but at least he's not losing money in a small market. It's amazing how he's doing it though. The teamwon't be going anywhere like I've been saying for the longest, but this will be an important season in terms of building a fan base along with makingsure the young players develop.
If its another failed 22-win season, it could be very bad.
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He deserves all this nonsense for leaving Vancouver.
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I agree Osh Bosh. Vancouver was a great city that could've worked. They used the "hockey town" to the maximum. Players loved playing, andvisiting Vancouver. The fans just got fed up with the inept front office.
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Originally Posted by JapanAir21
I'm from Nor Cal, my entire fam/friends been W's fans my whole life, I haven't had League Pass for 20 years, so all I got to watch was the W's.Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest
why would someone even put faith on a team like the warriors...one playoff appearance in 13 years
c'mon give up on these clowns
ive always wondered with u being a dallas fan and u support the warriors too?
i live in the bay too but that doesnt mean i'll support those douchebags wearing thunderbolts
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Originally Posted by CP1708
Originally Posted by JapanAir21
I'm from Nor Cal, my entire fam/friends been W's fans my whole life, I haven't had League Pass for 20 years, so all I got to watch was the W's.Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest
why would someone even put faith on a team like the warriors...one playoff appearance in 13 yearsc'mon give up on these clowns
ive always wondered with u being a dallas fan and u support the warriors too?
How do you go on living?
