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Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread
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D-Will laughing that scrub Price off of him
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John Wall sighting at the end of the vid......
Good to see the Wizards playing with some passion/fight at least. Last year a Wizards guard would have lifted up Deron by his waist and pirouetted to the hoop for an easy lay in.
Good to see the Wizards playing with some passion/fight at least. Last year a Wizards guard would have lifted up Deron by his waist and pirouetted to the hoop for an easy lay in.
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He was every bit as good in New Orleans as he was in Dallas. He did an excellent job on Duncan in that '08 2nd round.
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Good for Deron Williams to put AJ Price, of all people, in his place. He showed him.
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ya i was going to say, he was coming with NO before he got hurt in his 3rd season.
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still crazy that he was traded to OKC, then i think he failed the physical. they woulda easily been champs instead of the Mavs
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Nets looked pretty good last night.
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Derek Fisher may be back on the Lakers shortly as a loophole means he can join now... And I think I speak for most Lakers fan :x
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so the rule has been in place for years and the lakers are the only team that just find this so called loophole?
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Marc Stein
Important update to our weekend report regarding the prospect of a return to the Los Angeles Lakers for veteran guard Derek Fisher.
Sources briefed on the discussions told ESPN.com on Monday that Fisher has, indeed, been verified by the league office as eligible to re-sign with the Lakers since July 1, which runs counter to the widely held assumption that Fisher had to wait at least one year from the date that the Lakers dealt him to Houston in March before a reunion with Kobe Bryant would be permissible.
The NBA’s new labor agreement stipulates that a player traded and then waived by the team that acquired him can’t re-sign with his original team for one year or until the traded contract runs out -- whichever comes first. But in Fisher’s case, confusion surrounding his player option for the 2012-13 season led to the belief in some league circles that he had picked up the option before the Houston Rockets bought him out. In reality, sources confirm, Fisher was bought out by Houston before he was eligible to invoke the 2012-13 option, which means that his contract was deemed to have ended June 30, sending Fisher to full-fledged free agency on July 1.
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Plenty of dominoes still have to fall before Fisher, who finished last season with Oklahoma City, actually winds up back at Staples Center in purple and gold. Fisher, for starters, will have to decide how long he’s willing to wait for the Lakers to open up a slot in their backcourt rotation for him. They currently have too many point guards and too high a payroll to sign him now, which account for two of the reasons that L.A. -- as ESPN.com reported Friday -- is shopping Steve Blake and Chris Duhon.
Yet now we know that there are no roadblocks in the rule book blocking Fisher’s return.
He might ultimately decide to jump on the next palatable offer that presents itself, but I’m told that both Fisher and the Lakers have a level of interest in reuniting down the road if the circumstances are right, suggesting that the tension stemming from L.A.’s decision to discard the 38-year-old last spring is fading.
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wow ... if he goes back
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Man, Minnesota giving Kevin Love an opt out after the third year in his extension was such a dumb move.
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Elton Brand's corpse
Derek Fisher possibly back in a Lakers uniform??? My body is ready
do be doo
Banned
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40 year old nash and 43 year old fisher on the same team?
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What does that matter? He sucks now
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thats the only way he was signing the extension tho right?
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He wanted the maximum five year extension.
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He did? I could have sworn he had to be talked into that extension. Would not be surprised to be wrong, though.
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Nets court and arena look damn good on TV :x 
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