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

[011781]

Can't. Barred from returning to a team that traded you for like a year or the next summer I think.

oh ****.... didn't even know that 

NT dropping knowledge 

 

[essential1]

i need the cavs to pick up Andrew Bynum now. I need this to happen. The Lolz would overload the mainframe bruh.

Drew on the bench

But JaVale McGee to the Cavs ASAP.. The level of frustration would be at an all time high

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

Somewhere Kevin Love is saying "screw it, I give up"

 

[freeze]

Love gon feel uncomfortable as hell in that lockerroom lmaooo

 

[rck3sactown]

 
This trade is so stupid and hilarious, that i am SHOCKED the Kings aren't involved

Pete probably punching himself.... 

 

[captainsneakerhead23]

Just saw Nurkic who's 7'0 270 get a rebound, go coast to coast and give a no look pass.



What?

Son got game, bout time he's getting some consistent PT

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Just saw Nurkic who's 7'0 270 get a rebound, go coast to coast and give a no look pass.



What?

Bosnian Demarcus Cousins?

 

[pmatic]

Can't. Barred from returning to a team that traded you for like a year or the next summer I think.

oh ****.... didn't even know that 

NT dropping knowledge 

Yep.

League closed that loophole after Ilgauskas got traded to the Wizards, got waived and returned to the Cavs, among other examples.

 

[finallyfamous]

Love leaving now??

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[japanair21]

Can't. Barred from returning to a team that traded you for like a year or the next summer I think.

Ah right. The Jerry Stackhouse rule. Should've known better.

 

[MIKE LOWERY]

Drew on the bench

But JaVale McGee to the Cavs ASAP.. The level of frustration would be at an all time high

That would actually be awesome.

 

[kal-el-8]

Love leaving now??

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You goin be cryin when it happens. 

 

[trynafeelmink]

I PRAY Love doesn't leave bcuz im almost positive L.A would throw the house at him... and he's Overated as all hell

 

[keel252]

Dalembert to Cleveland too

 

[freeze]

bruh.....bruhhhh jimmy butler just sonned the **** outta james harden. and just walked out. george jefferson strolled on em

 

[301216baller]

This **** is unreal!!!!!

 

[arstyle27]

Yo at that block by Jimmy on Harden!!!!

This game is highly entertaining. 34-33 Bulls after 1.

 

[011781]

ugly first half.... but only down 6 

aiight.... no problem

 

[ballinsam23]

Can someone explain what exactly a trade exception is? How can a team use one to its advantage?

 

[kal-el-8]

I PRAY Love doesn't leave bcuz im almost positive L.A would throw the house at him... and he's Overated as all hell

Unfortunately. Don't want Love at all. 

 

[CJMcfly26]

Love coming down to the Spurs to fit in Pop system in the offseason.

 

[011781]

Sam bringing his mid-range game to Cleveland? 

 

[japanair21]

Source: Stackhouse can be in Kidd trade, but can't go back

The chances of Jason Kidd wearing a Dallas Mavericks uniform this season are shrinking by the day.

First, Devean George refused to consent to the trade to New Jersey. Now, according to a league source, the league will not allow the Mavericks to bring back Jerry Stackhouse if he is traded and subsequently waived by the New Jersey Nets.

According to one league source, the NBA has already made one of the teams aware of its position.

"The league has taken Stackhouse out of the deal," the source said. "They said, 'He can be in the trade, but he can't go back to Dallas after that.' "

But the league denied involvement, claiming that any issue regarding Stackhouse was moot because George blocked the trade to begin with.
"We are not investigating whether there was a prearranged deal between the Nets, Mavs and Stackhouse at this point,'' NBA spokesman Brian McIntyre said.

The willingness of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to include Stackhouse in the trade was based on his knowledge that New Jersey would immediately buy him out of his contract, which would allow Stackhouse to re-sign with Dallas after 30 days.
It was Stackhouse's brazen response to the potential trade on Wednesday that first put the league on notice.

"I get 30 days to rest, then I'll be right back,'' Stackhouse told The Associated Press on Wednesday in response to the proposed trade. "I ain't going nowhere."

Neither apparently is George. Mark Bartelstein, George's agent, said this afternoon that his client is no longer thinking of rescinding his decision. George's refusal is based on the fact that a trade would cost him his "early Bird rights" and therefore the bulk of his leverage as a free agent this summer.

"Anything is possible, but as of now, it's not something Devean's considering," Bartelstein said.

The Mavericks, whose locker room could be in shambles if the Kidd deal doesn't go through, are desperately seeking other alternatives. They are looking at replacing Stackhouse and George in the trade with Trenton Hassell and Keith Van Horn.

But a person with knowledge of the talks said the Nets are leery of taking Hassell because he has two seasons, worth a total of $8.6 million, remaining on his contract after this season.

The source added that while other teams, most notably Cleveland and Denver, are pursuing Kidd, there is no other "realistic" destination out there, and that Kidd would most likely remain with the Nets if nothing can be worked out with Dallas.

The 30-day rule was added to the league's collective bargaining agreement as a response to a trade between Boston and Atlanta in 2005. In that deal, Boston sent Gary Payton to Atlanta to reacquire Antoine Walker with the understanding that the Hawks would immediately waive Payton, who then re-signed with Boston three days later.

The league frowned on this move, and instituted the 30-day rule. By flouting the rule so publicly, Stackhouse may have given the league no choice but to eliminate him from the deal or prevent the Mavericks from re-signing him.

"If Stackhouse had kept quiet, the league would not have been able to prove anything," a Western Conference executive said.

 

[essential1]

Dalembert to Cleveland too

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Can someone explain what exactly a trade exception is? How can a team use one to its advantage?

if the exception is 5 mill i could bring in a player making 5 mill or less without giving anything up