Poor choice of words. I meant pleases solely in the fact that a division rival will be shorthanded. That is all. Thanks for hitting me in the feelings Jwags.
Well then you're just a jealous fucking idiot. He's the only guy to get the MVP for the last few years not named LeBron James. The next 2-3 years the top 4 best players were going to be LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul, Derrick Rose and not exactly sure what order. Now that's not true. We might be looking at a Brandon Roy situation and that is fucking depressing. Nothing is worse than talent hampered injuries.
What, no love for Love? RACIST. Jokes aside, who goes up on that list instead of Rose now? Too early for George?
You must be new here, I hate Tony Parker, and does Tony Parker make anyone around him better? Not sure. That's another debate.
Because he's over 30, his supporting cast is aging, and hasn't been quite on that level even in the past few years. He's good, but he's been more appropriately grouped with Harden, Curry, Gasol, Westbrook, Irving, and Love than LBJ, KD, and PC3. Those three are in another stratosphere. George's season is absolutely nuts, though. If continued, it would probably be the best season had by anyone outside of those three in recent memory (same could be said about Anthony Davis or Kevin Love this year).
Well its such a shame they shut down the NBA season this year. Everyone just randomly dying is so sad. Well, hopefully we can pull more players out of college, change some team names, move divisions around, get a working instant replay system, get Seattle another team, have a few more rule changes that prevent young players from blowing out their knees and maybe...just maybe we'll have professional basketball again.
Let's say next three seasons. Structuring it as top 4 doesn't quite make sense, since it implies that there's a logical grouping. Here's my list (with a healthy Rose), based on who I think will provide the most value to their teams: Note: this was off the top of my head, and doesn't include ppl like Wiggins, Parker, etc. Might have forgotten some folks. Lebron --big gap-- Durant --gap-- Chris Paul --big gap-- Rose Howard George Westbrook Harden Love Kyrie Parker Curry --gap-- Hibbert Noah Davis --gap-- Melo Aldridge Griffin Bosh Wade Gasol Gasol --gap-- Dirk Kobe --gap-- Williams, D. Lillard Lopez
At least right now, I would swap Melo and Irving on that list. The Knicks without Anthony are a lottery team. The Cavaliers without Irving are only a slightly worse lottery team than they are with him.
Right now, the Knicks and Cavaliers are equally lottery bound. In fact, the Cavs have a half a game on the Knicks. Talent wise, they should both be lower-half playoff teams.
Kinda surprised no one has mentioned Kobe's 2 year, $48.5 million contract extension. So basically the Lakers consciously threw away any hopes of building a competitive team for the news two years or so, in exchange for the ability to sell tickets. In LA, this doesn't surprise me. But as a basketball fan, it does disappoint me.
Yeah, it's a stupid amount of money. But he and Nash are also the only players under contract, and they might release Nash and use the stretch provision. So it's a bad contract, but they have a ton of flexibility.
Update: Paul George is now just below Chris Paul, in the same tier. Paul George fandom out of control. It's crazy that he's so good and LeBron is so much better, but it's not about that. It's about Paul George. PG
Lawrence Frank coulda had it much worse. Kidd coulda got loaded, hopped in his car, drove drunk over to Frank's house and slapped him around a little. What? Lawrence Frank isnt a woman? Nevermind then.
Why is this thread even open? The NBA season ended weeks ago. Everyone died, they have to start all over next year with clones they're currently cooking up in labs as we speak. It's going to be about next October until it is ready.
No team that had a chance to contend is injured. Although, Tyson is slowly but surely proving to the NBA that he - NOT Melo and his ballstopping ways - is the most important player to their success. Regardless, they're weak. 2 teams with a +differential in the eastern conference does not actually seem mathematically possible, but they have found a way. There is a very real chance that we have an Eastern Conference team obtain HCA with a losing record. And it could be something like 10 games under .500. Yikes. Abolish divisions at the very least? The disparity in conferences the past couple decades is getting pretty out of hand, but that's a much tougher issue to tackle than divisions.
Yall hear what Barkley had to say about NBA quality of play? <a class="postlink" href="http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10079241" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=10079241</a>