Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

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NationalTruckerDave said:
LiCeNseD To BaLL said:
Man I swear you give Lakers basketball more love than most of our fans do just by bringing us up everyday.
Its actually quite flattering, appreciate the constant attention you bring our franchise even when we flat out suck Doo.
Thanks for keeping us relevant at all times. 8)

CP Beasley always has career games against us...its crazy. He looks like an all-star tonight, in a few days he'll have a 2-10 from the field game. :{
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Man, be quiet

"our franchise"

What position do you hold at the Lakers franchise

You're just another fan.. Stop acting like you 'King Laker' or something
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I think im King Laker because I pointed out he's always talking about "our" team?
I didn't know "our" was a selfish way of speaking.

Next time I'll say "Thanks for always talking about MY team"... better bro? :{ :lol
 
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It's just funny that we can be called out for "hiding" or being "ghost."

When we show up and post, then we need to shut up.

I mean... figure out what you want. That's all I'll say. Enjoy your evening fellas
 
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LiCeNseD To BaLL said:
NationalTruckerDave said:
LiCeNseD To BaLL said:
Man I swear you give Lakers basketball more love than most of our fans do just by bringing us up everyday.
Its actually quite flattering, appreciate the constant attention you bring our franchise even when we flat out suck Doo.
Thanks for keeping us relevant at all times. 8)

CP Beasley always has career games against us...its crazy. He looks like an all-star tonight, in a few days he'll have a 2-10 from the field game. :{
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Man, be quiet

"our franchise"

What position do you hold at the Lakers franchise

You're just another fan.. Stop acting like you 'King Laker' or something
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I think im King Laker because I pointed out he's always talking about "our" team?
I didn't know "our" was a selfish way of speaking.

Next time I'll say "Thanks for always talking about MY team"... better bro? :{ :lol
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Lakers suck bruh deal with it
 
Lakers fan gotta understand yall can be made fun of too.

All 29 teams get it. The lakers aint special.

Plus both the Magic and Suns winning vs LA this season. Nice. :smokin
 
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Yoooo the Lakers lost?!? I'm mad late. I didn't bother watching most of it thinking they had this in the bag when I saw the score and cuz the game was so boring.

I really gotta consider them the D'Antoni Knicks now.

It's crazy cuz I remember before the game on NBAtv Shaq and D.Scott are talking about the LAL schedule before the all star break and what they need to be at and what's most likely. They all said a PHX W was a given and at the least they should go 4-3 over the next 7 games :lol :{
 
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Woj bomb. :x
Rudy Gay trade shows LeBron James the future: Super team era ending

As a Western Conference contender disassembled out of frugality and panic on Wednesday, Miami Heat star LeBron James should've been recalibrating the realities of the free-agent frenzy awaiting him in 2014. For him, the economics of the sport keep reaffirming that three's a crowd now, that James will have to choose a partnership with one superstar teammate.

The Super Friends scenarios are gone, replaced with the NBA's vision of talent spreading out to the have-nots. James Harden leaves Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook for Houston. And months before it was necessary to do so, before the Memphis Grizzlies could make a run in the Western Conference playoffs, they moved Rudy Gay to Toronto and out of Zach Randolph's and Marc Gasol's lives.

James has helped to make it so profitable to be an NBA owner that Robert Pera bought the Grizzlies, hired a front office of novices, ran out a successful scouting staff and began to unload genuine assets for pennies on the dollar. Just recently, James tweeted, "What the hell we have lockout for?" upon learning of the $525 million selling price of the Sacramento Kings.

Why? Simple: The NBA's owners wanted to break up the super teams and create a system that'll assure Pera can mismanage the Grizzlies into oblivion and still make money on the enterprise. The max contract system makes James the most underpaid athlete on the planet, and soon it will do something else, too: It makes most precarious his future with the Miami Heat.

James' agent and childhood friend, Rich Paul, born and raised and still living in Cleveland, has been privately telling people for two years of his intrigue with bringing the prodigal son back as the conquering hero in Cleveland. James will ultimately make the call to return – just like he made it to leave – but rest assured that the most important voices in his ear will be partial to Cleveland again.

Klutch Sports – Paul's new agency – calls Cleveland home, and his client, Tristian Thompson, would assuredly benefit with an eventual rich contract extension should Paul deliver James back to the Cavaliers.

"Riley has never given them the run of the place in Miami," one high-level associate of James' inner-circle said, "and they could all be back in business together in Cleveland. For Rich and [business manager] Maverick [Carter], they all see the benefits of getting the credit for bringing LeBron home again."

As significant as sentiment could play into the possibility of James returning to the Cavaliers, there's an understanding that as Dwyane Wade pushes into his 30s, pushes past his prime, Cleveland's Kyrie Irving will emerge as the planet's preeminent point guard in two years.

The Brooklyn Nets' Reggie Evans disputed the legitimacy of the Heat's shortened lockout-season championship on Wednesday morning, declared James' a comparable talent to the Nets' Joe Johnson, and that didn't turn out too well for Brooklyn on Wednesday night. James marched into the Barclays Center and dismantled the Nets with 24 points, nine rebounds and seven assists in a 105-85 victory.

"No one knows what it takes until you've done it," James said. "He hasn't done it."

Indeed, James is a champion, and he could win two more titles before he has to make a choice on his opt-out in the summer of 2014.

Memphis had already moved under the tax threshold with last week's trade and could've waited until the summer to move Gay, could've made one more run in the Western Conference, but winning isn't a priority for Pera. Owners are virtually guaranteed profit in this changing economic setup, and small-market owners can play the NBA's corporate welfare game off the profits that the LeBron Jameses, Kobe Bryants and Chris Pauls produce for the sport.

These Grizzlies aren't the Lakers, and they don't get a lot of chances at making a deep playoff run. They could've hung in there for this season, but instead bailed on it. Across the NBA, front offices were incredulous with the way that Memphis unloaded Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington and Josh Selby, along with a future first-round pick, in a salary dump to Cleveland last week.

Several league executives insisted Memphis could've waited until closer to the deadline, traded the parts individually and, minimally, received returns on Speights and Ellington.
"Beyond a panic move," one Eastern Conference GM said. "Cleveland would always be there with that deal."

To return to the Cavaliers, James has to believe that general manager Chris Grant can construct a champion around him. Irving is fabulous, but that wouldn't be enough. As much as anything, that's the biggest thing that Heat will have going for them. In the end, Riley and Miami owner Micky Arison will make it hard to walk away, because there will forever be a commitment, a competency, out of them. How long Riley will stay on the job is a different matter, and that uncertainty will play a part, too.

James has been thinking about a return to Cleveland for most of his time with the Heat, including the night of his cable TV special. He had second-guessed himself that night, but once Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert released that vitriolic letter, James understood: There was no turning back.

Rich Paul has stayed back in Cleveland to run his business, and now represents Thompson, the Cavaliers' young forward. As Yahoo! Sports reported last February, James' associates had been feeling out members of the Cavaliers organization on a possible return in 2014.

or now, though, James understands that he'll get two more chances at a championship with Wade and Bosh, and that's precious in this evolving NBA landscape. These Heat aren't perfect, but they're well-constructed, well-coached, and there's never mixed messages from their ownership and management. It's all about winning, all the time.

Whatever James does in 2014, he'll make a decision with the highest of basketball IQs on what will work and what won't. Once again, the breaking down of this Grizzlies roster is a reminder that every NBA star had better make sure he understands the track records of the owners and executives with whom they're turning over their futures.

The Grizzlies issued a statement on the trade late Wednesday, and embarrassingly had "general manager Chris Wallace" throwing out the obligatory organizational quotes on the deal. Only, Wallace had nothing to do with the trade. Nothing. He isn't making calls to teams. He isn't consulted by the new regime. He's waiting until they agree on the terms of his inevitable parting. So, Pera and new CEO Jason Levien take an unpopular trade and assign it to Wallace in the news release.

Levien is making these deals based largely on the recommendations of John Hollinger, a statistician who worked for a cable sports company. The San Antonio Spurs once used him as a consultant and regretfully took his advice to sign a free agent named Jackie Butler. It was such a disaster, the Spurs had to attach Luis Scola to a trade to get Butler out of town.

This wasn't the '86 Celtics broken up in Memphis today, but, still, a contender became something far less over the past week. All of this didn't need to happen so fast. Between an owner guaranteed to make a profit and a front office guaranteed to believe it's smarter than everyone else, the Western Conference has one less contender to come chasing the defending champion Heat in the NBA Finals.

The Super Friends NBA is going, going and will soon be gone, and James will be left to choose one partner in 2014. Three's a crowd in the new NBA, and that'll be an immense part of James' decision about returning home and making everything right again.

Pera bought into a great time in the NBA, where the genius talents of the sport's biggest stars can fund his revenue-sharing checks in Memphis. Why did they have a lockout? Well, LeBron, this is why: Two stars per team and guaranteed profits for the owners. Make no mistake, James has everything to do with those transformations of the modern NBA.

For now, it won't be long until James makes a choice in 2014 that will leave him with far less assurances on his future than arriving in Miami did in 2010. Whatever LeBron James does, wherever he goes, just understand he makes it easy for the freeloading Robert Peras of the NBA.
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Just read this too. I didn't know that the possibility of LBJ coming back to Cleveland was as legit as he claimed it to be. I don't know who else are FA in 2014, but LBJ + Kyrie + another piece from FA will make Cleveland an immediate contender. Probably a pipe dream though. :p
 
If Tris and Waiters continue to develop... 8o

It's a huge if though.

I wouldn't mind seeing LBJ back in Cleveland in 2014. He has to win though. HAS to. Can't go back and lose.

Also, a lot of NBA owners are taking notice with the new CBA. You can sit here and say it's the specific owner Pera, but the man with the friendliest wallet in the NBA, Mark Cuban, has been very stingy with his money ever since the lockout.

Part waiting for a superstar, part not wanting to hand out absurd amounts of money with no real true investment.
 
So can someone fill me in on tonights game?

I know Dwight got hurt, but it seemed like the game was so far out of reach for Phoenix. What happened?

And the refs messed up AGAIN tonight on a call. That's three games in two nights they've messed up. Dwayne Casey went OFF.

If it's a last-second decision that decides the game, gotta be able to do something, right?

I mean they replayed a game between the Hawks and Heat a few years ago because someone had fouled out but was still on the court... If you mess up a call, then isn't that just as important?
 
Beasley caught fire and killed us. Dwight getting hurt cost us, but we flat blew the game. One of those kinda games.
 
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Beasley caught fire and killed us. Dwight getting hurt cost us, but we flat blew the game. One of those kinda games.
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I know the feels. Happened just the same last night. :(

I still feel like it's possible for Utah, Houston, and Portland to flame out. It is for both the Lakers and Mavericks too, but I just have a weird optimism about both teams making it.
 
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