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Official NBA Off-Season Thread. New 2012-2013 Thread Has Been Made. Please Post In There
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shoeking2101
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Classic lol
quik1987
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Put your username on it
lets just sit back and watch, im confident in what i said.
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woah u going too far with that. nobody else inthe east is getting there. they have a strong chance of repeating but i think the 3 peat is impossible especially with wade being a year older...
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I didn't see cj play at all last year, but I'm still going to disagree.
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That .gif 
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Might just be me, but the glasses make the gif 10 tines better
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Bulls are not going to be good at all, they moved the whole team around and we're shopping Deng, Rose should take the year off and just rehab, as it stands I can see the Bulls being a 4th / 5th seed, the pacers are not going to do anything until they move granger / get a star, knicks are well the Knicks, another season of "figuring things out" , Shumpert needs to come back healthy and they need very good PG play, Celtics are another year older and they need to mesh with all this new talent, Nets need to mesh also. Sixers might have an advantage considering they can run 5 SF at the same Damm time, but with their leading scorer leaving off the bench I might add :x it's gonna be interesting, Orlando has dwightmare going on and that's gonna drag their season, I can see Bucks pushing for a playoff for a playoff spot considering its contract year for Monte / Jennings , hawks are a wash, I can see the wiz pushing for that 8th seed.
Right now the heat are clear cut number 1 in the east with a significant drop to number 2
Right now the heat are clear cut number 1 in the east with a significant drop to number 2
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Everything he said. Only thing it means is that the Knicks, Nets, Celts, should finish 2-4 in some order
solarius49
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So the team with the 4th best record in the NBA last year isnt going to fit into the equation?
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Honestly if Roy progresses more offensively and #33 steps up and understands he needs to be the leader / go to guy of that team and their PG understands they need to feed Hibbert in the post there's no reason the pacers can't be the number 2 seed, but thats alot of ifs.
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Put your username on it
lets just sit back and watch, im confident in what i said.
ummm, ill think about it
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ok bro i already screen shot this one
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DJ Augustin to the Pacers was a real underrated move.
da r entertainment
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I agree with this completely. I have the Bulls at 5/6 with Heat, Celts, Knicks, Nets, Pacers in front of them.
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"People can use all the Rondo stuff – and it was there, no doubt about that – but it was me more than Rondo," said Rivers, who is working as an NBC analyst during the Olympics. "I'm the guy who gave Rondo the ball. I'm the guy who decided that Rondo needed to be more of the leader of the team. That doesn't mean guys liked that – and Ray did not love that – because Rondo now had the ball all the time.
"Think about everything [Allen] said when he left, 'I want to be more of a part of the offense.' Everything was back at Rondo. And I look at that, and say, 'That's not Rondo's fault.' That's what I wanted Rondo to do, and that's what Rondo should've done. Because that's Rondo's ability. He's the best passer in the league. He has the best feel in the league. He's not a great shooter, so he needs the ball in his hands to be effective. And that bothered Ray.
"And not starting [games] bothered Ray. I did examine it, and the conclusion I came back to was this: By doing the right things, we may have lost Ray. If I hadn't done that, I would've been a hypocrite. In the opening speech I make every year, I tell the team: 'Every decision I make is going to be what's good for the team, and it may not be what's good for the individual.' "
Rivers said he had mediated issues between Allen and Rondo for most of the five years that they played together, but that it became a dramatically worse issue in the 2010-11 season. Beyond the issues on the floor, Allen and Rondo had developed a deep disdain for each other, multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports. Allen had problems with how he was compensated and that his name was constantly included in trades talks, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
"Think about everything [Allen] said when he left, 'I want to be more of a part of the offense.' Everything was back at Rondo. And I look at that, and say, 'That's not Rondo's fault.' That's what I wanted Rondo to do, and that's what Rondo should've done. Because that's Rondo's ability. He's the best passer in the league. He has the best feel in the league. He's not a great shooter, so he needs the ball in his hands to be effective. And that bothered Ray.
"And not starting [games] bothered Ray. I did examine it, and the conclusion I came back to was this: By doing the right things, we may have lost Ray. If I hadn't done that, I would've been a hypocrite. In the opening speech I make every year, I tell the team: 'Every decision I make is going to be what's good for the team, and it may not be what's good for the individual.' "
Rivers said he had mediated issues between Allen and Rondo for most of the five years that they played together, but that it became a dramatically worse issue in the 2010-11 season. Beyond the issues on the floor, Allen and Rondo had developed a deep disdain for each other, multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports. Allen had problems with how he was compensated and that his name was constantly included in trades talks, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
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Doc 
my man keeping it 100
my man keeping it 100
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so brandon roy said he did have the same surgery kobe did. i have read a few times in this thread that he DIDN'T and did something else.
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Until the Pacers have a guy capable of playing at an All-NBA level, they won't be good enough to win a championship. The same goes for the Grizzlies if ZBO doesn't get back to that level he was at before his injury.
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So the Bulls playing hard ball with Teague like the Grizz did with Henry/Vasquez a few years back.
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????
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i assume he means trying to get him for cheap?
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Pretty much messing with the details of his rookie contract.
Looks like they are not being frowned upon about it as much as Memphis was.
Looks like they are not being frowned upon about it as much as Memphis was.
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Bulls are not going to be good at all but you can still see them getting home court advantage?
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