The 2014-2015 NBA Season Thread. Lock It Up Please: The Golden State Warriors Are The Champions

[the 7th mile]

chris brown? bieber? ring a bell?

That's a whole different animal, they're entertainers, he's an athlete so he not gone be out here really ******* with drugs unless it's HGH. Add in the fact that he been with the same ***** since high school so she obviously playing her role..if he would have managed to **** up with all them things going for him then he'd be a true dummy. He still a scumbag though, he already told ****** they gotta wake up everyday and go on with their lives while he can do what he want [emoji]128514[/emoji]

 

[aepps20]

Don't forget about the Queen Lindsay Lohan.
Anyone who would chose Option A clearly was not a regular in the 2012 Olympic Village thread. Those of you who were in that thread know what I'm talking about.

KOB may play long enough to be on the next Olympic team. He loved the Olympics.

 

[rck3sactown]

yall sounding hella ignorant about Kobe and Vanessa's very progressive relationship 

 

[100027]

yall sounding hella ignorant about Kobe and Vanessa's very progressive relationship 

 

[flyerthandelta]

Kyrie loses out on 7.5 million if he's not named an all star starter



One of the more interesting features of the NBA labor deal struck in 2011 allowed the very best young players to make more money in their second contracts. The so-called Rose Rule, which I'm going to go ahead and take credit for naming, allows the second contracts of first-round picks to be worth up to 30 percent of the salary cap in lieu of the normal 25 percent, but only if certain conditions are met.

Those conditions? Before the contract begins, the player needs to have won an MVP award, been named an All-Star starter twice or been named to two All-NBA teams. Derrick Rose had won the 2011 MVP award, making him eligible. (Kevin Durant was actually the first player affected by it as his second contract didn't go into effect until the labor deal was reached. There was quite a bit of wrangling over this between the Thunder, Durant's reps and the league.)

Kyrie Irving signed a max early extension with the Cavaliers in the summer. He was voted as an All-Star starter last season. If Kyrie is voted as an All-Star this season or named NBA MVP, he'd be eligible for the fatter Rose Rule salary. According to Mark Deeks' ShamSports, the Cavaliers and Irving addressed this in his contract: he agreed to no more than 27.5 percent of the cap if he meets the Rose Rule criteria. If he doesn't, he'll make the 25 percent max.

If Irving doesn't get voted an All-Star starter, he'll make about $14.7 million next year, depending where the salary cap ends up. If he does get voted in, he'll make about $16.2 million. That's a $1.5 million difference. But the Rose Rule wouldn't just affect next season's salary: it'd apply to the life of the deal, which is five years. So there's $7.5 million on the line for Irving (and for the Cavaliers).

As of the most recent All-Star ballot release on Thursday, Irving trails Dwyane Wade by 88,030 votes for the second East guard spot. Last year both Wade and Irving were starters, but John Wall is leading them both this season. As Nate Jones noted Thursday, there's a lot of incentive for Irving's reps to drop some coin on an All-Star ballot campaign, especially considering there are basically no rules on how fans vote. (One assumes the NBA would frown upon technological workarounds like using bots to rack up votes.)

Spending $50,000 independently to get Irving more votes could produce a huge return on investment. Hell, spending $100,000 on it would still be an insane rate of return ... if it works.

Irving actually lost ground to Wade in the latest balloting, so it seems as if his management isn't doing anything yet. Balloting ends on Jan. 19. There is $7.5 million on the line.

Time is of the essence. Someone break out Uncle Drew

 

[freeze]

Don't forget about the Queen Lindsay Lohan.
Anyone who would chose Option A clearly was not a regular in the 2012 Olympic Village thread. Those of you who were in that thread know what I'm talking about.

KOB may play long enough to be on the next Olympic team. He loved the Olympics.

that australian shorty

 

[rck3sactown]

 

 

Don't forget about the Queen Lindsay Lohan.
Anyone who would chose Option A clearly was not a regular in the 2012 Olympic Village thread. Those of you who were in that thread know what I'm talking about.

KOB may play long enough to be on the next Olympic team. He loved the Olympics.

that australian shorty

Australians (aka Asians) 

 

[do work son]

You didn't ask "what have they accomplished in regards of winning where they shouldn't respect a HC?"


You said: "What the hell have Kyrie, Love, Waiters accomplished to "only respect NBA accomplishments"? and I said they made it to the NBA, meaning they don't have to necessarily respect a rookie head coach who has never proven himself in the NBA.


Stop trying to pain this God-awful picture with your pessimistic paint brush, b. You're making this way too hard for yourself to understand, so I'll break it down for you and mr afriend:


-Blatt sucks

-Players know that

-He lacks the ability to command

-No one respects him


and that's how we got here.

It's funny how everyone besides your dense *** could read the statement and completely understand what I meant, but that's not surprising. Cleveland is gonna be Cleveland. 

Let LeBron push Blatt out and bring in Mark Jackson. That'll be great.

Now we didn't have to go name calling now, did we?

Adios.

typical AT. be condescending towards a poster, and when they shoot back suspend them.

worst part is, he was making a good point too. just because you've made it to the NBA doesn't give you the right to blow off a head coach. it's easy to say blatt sucks without mentioning lebron is out there sabotaging the offense, undermining the coach, and doing whatever he wants.

kyrie, love, and waiters haven't accomplished **** relative to the league. they don't get the excuse of "the coach doesn't have enough accomplishments to respect him".

inb4 "my life is better than yours" or "you're a virgin". bet you didn't get suspended for little comments like that, but he calls you dense (which most would agree you tend to be) and you suspend. you're a joke of a mod.

 

[aepps20]

Has it been confirmed that AT banned dude?

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Really Animal Thug, really?

 

[Animal Thug]

You didn't ask "what have they accomplished in regards of winning where they shouldn't respect a HC?"


You said: "What the hell have Kyrie, Love, Waiters accomplished to "only respect NBA accomplishments"? and I said they made it to the NBA, meaning they don't have to necessarily respect a rookie head coach who has never proven himself in the NBA.


Stop trying to pain this God-awful picture with your pessimistic paint brush, b. You're making this way too hard for yourself to understand, so I'll break it down for you and mr afriend:


-Blatt sucks

-Players know that

-He lacks the ability to command

-No one respects him


and that's how we got here.

It's funny how everyone besides your dense *** could read the statement and completely understand what I meant, but that's not surprising. Cleveland is gonna be Cleveland. 

Let LeBron push Blatt out and bring in Mark Jackson. That'll be great.

Now we didn't have to go name calling now, did we?

Adios.

typical AT. be condescending towards a poster, and when they shoot back suspend them.

worst part is, he was making a good point too. just because you've made it to the NBA doesn't give you the right to blow off a head coach. it's easy to say blatt sucks without mentioning lebron is out there sabotaging the offense, undermining the coach, and doing whatever he wants.

kyrie, love, and waiters haven't accomplished **** relative to the league. they don't get the excuse of "the coach doesn't have enough accomplishments to respect him".

inb4 "my life is better than yours" or "you're a virgin". bet you didn't get suspended for little comments like that, but he calls you dense (which most would agree you tend to be) and you suspend. you're a joke of a mod.

Cry me a river, b.

No one was disrespecting anybody until the "your densed ***" comment was dropped.

typical AT. be condescending towards a poster, and when they shoot back suspend them.

This is the first time I've had to suspend anyone for personally disrespecting me. Don't try to make this a thing that happens on the regular. I don't care how you feel about me as a mod. I'm doing my due diligence here.

 

[rck3sactown]

@do work son  

Peter Vescey is scum btw

Aladdin Ranadive better start increasing the irritation of his questions to Mullin and Pete D...
— Peter Vecsey (@PeterVecsey1) January 2, 2015

 

[lawdog1]

yall sounding hella ignorant about Kobe and Vanessa's very progressive relationship 

@ "progressive." Pretty sure that's how a lot of nba marriages work. But the dynamic is screwed up a bit when the player is, uh, unlucky enough to catch a case.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

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[kal-el-8]

How is dense a personal attack though? Yikes.

 

[aepps20]

[emoji]128514[/emoji] [emoji]128514[/emoji] [emoji]128514[/emoji]

I guess I have confirmation.

 

[do work son]

nah FOH with that. due diligence my ***. due dilligence would have been giving him a warning via PM and deleting the post. i've said much worse about dudes than calling them dense, and meth showed up in my PMs not to long later to give me that warning. you got hurt, which you have a strong tendency to do, and then banned him.

you are a joke of a mod.

Free @DaComeUP

 

[kal-el-8]

M

nah FOH with that. due diligence my ***. due dilligence would have been giving him a warning via PM and deleting the post. i've said much worse about dudes than calling them dense, and meth showed up in my PMs not to long later to give me that warning. you got hurt, which you have a strong tendency to do, and then banned him.

you are a joke of a mod.

Free @DaComeUP

Rock clap gif.

 

[a-friend]

Kyrie loses out on 7.5 million if he's not named an all star starter


 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

One of the more interesting features of the NBA labor deal struck in 2011 allowed the very best young players to make more money in their second contracts. The so-called Rose Rule, which I'm going to go ahead and take credit for naming, allows the second contracts of first-round picks to be worth up to 30 percent of the salary cap in lieu of the normal 25 percent, but only if certain conditions are met.

Those conditions? Before the contract begins, the player needs to have won an MVP award, been named an All-Star starter twice or been named to two All-NBA teams. Derrick Rose had won the 2011 MVP award, making him eligible. (Kevin Durant was actually the first player affected by it as his second contract didn't go into effect until the labor deal was reached. There was quite a bit of wrangling over this between the Thunder, Durant's reps and the league.)

Kyrie Irving signed a max early extension with the Cavaliers in the summer. He was voted as an All-Star starter last season. If Kyrie is voted as an All-Star this season or named NBA MVP, he'd be eligible for the fatter Rose Rule salary. According to Mark Deeks' ShamSports, the Cavaliers and Irving addressed this in his contract: he agreed to no more than 27.5 percent of the cap if he meets the Rose Rule criteria. If he doesn't, he'll make the 25 percent max.

If Irving doesn't get voted an All-Star starter, he'll make about $14.7 million next year, depending where the salary cap ends up. If he does get voted in, he'll make about $16.2 million. That's a $1.5 million difference. But the Rose Rule wouldn't just affect next season's salary: it'd apply to the life of the deal, which is five years. So there's $7.5 million on the line for Irving (and for the Cavaliers).

As of the most recent All-Star ballot release on Thursday, Irving trails Dwyane Wade by 88,030 votes for the second East guard spot. Last year both Wade and Irving were starters, but John Wall is leading them both this season. As Nate Jones noted Thursday, there's a lot of incentive for Irving's reps to drop some coin on an All-Star ballot campaign, especially considering there are basically no rules on how fans vote. (One assumes the NBA would frown upon technological workarounds like using bots to rack up votes.)

Spending $50,000 independently to get Irving more votes could produce a huge return on investment. Hell, spending $100,000 on it would still be an insane rate of return ... if it works.

Irving actually lost ground to Wade in the latest balloting, so it seems as if his management isn't doing anything yet. Balloting ends on Jan. 19. There is $7.5 million on the line.

Time is of the essence. Someone break out Uncle Drew

Brutal

 

[blastercombo]

Da feels

 

[dchozn1]

 

[bowb4me]

Meth dropped a note in my locker the other day. I've been to the principals office so many times on NT. Smh. Meth did let me back in the LeBron thread after a month though. Ha ha ha

 

[do work son]

You banned someone over hurt feelings.

smh.

a good poster too. not some run of the mill troll.

 

[keel252]

Thug in his feelings

 

[Animal Thug]

He got suspended for a week from an internet forum. Calm down. He'll be alright...