NBA Regular Season 2012/13

killwill

Dublin Red Devil wrote: »

[SIZE="4"]Dunk Contest[/SIZE]
Gerald Green, Terrence Ross, James White, Eric Bledsoe, Jeremy Evans, and Kenneth Faried

[SIZE="4"]3 Point Shoot-Out[/SIZE]

Paul George, Kyrie Irving and Steve Novak, Ryan Anderson, Matt Bonner and Stephen Curry

[SIZE="4"]Skills Challenge[/SIZE]
Jrue Holiday, Brandon Knight, Jeff Teague. West: Damian Lillard, Jeremy Lin, Tony Parker

Im gonna go with Faried, Curry and Teague!

Dublin Red Devil

killwill wrote: »

Im gonna go with Faried, Curry and Teague!

I' go with Green, Anderson, Holiday

Dublin Red Devil

Usain Bolt in the Celebrity All Star game, He's a good dunker

GoldFour4

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Rumours that Bulls and Raptors are discussing a Boozer-Bargnani trade

Love it personally. It's a fantastic trade for the Bulls. Bargnani is a good solid player who's 7ft and can shoot the 3. He just needs a change of scene. He gives them a lot more then Boozer.

Paully D

Boozer turns up for 5 games then goes missing for 15. He's also on a huge contract. Trading him is a no brainer for me.

ButtersSuki

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Rumours that Bulls and Raptors are discussing a Boozer-Bargnani trade

Looks good on paper for both teams actually. Toronto need more of an inside/low post game and the Bulls could do with losing Boozer's contract as much as anything else. Thibs will get the best out of pretty much any player he coaches so Bargnani's progress would be eagerly watched.

Dublin Red Devil

Dublin Red Devil wrote: »

[SIZE="4"]Dunk Contest[/SIZE]
Gerald Green, Terrence Ross, James White, Eric Bledsoe, Jeremy Evans, and Kenneth Faried

[SIZE="4"]3 Point Shoot-Out[/SIZE]

Paul George, Kyrie Irving and Steve Novak, Ryan Anderson, Matt Bonner and Stephen Curry

[SIZE="4"]Skills Challenge[/SIZE]
Jrue Holiday, Brandon Knight, Jeff Teague. West: Damian Lillard, Jeremy Lin, Tony Parker

"Flight" White ,Anderson , Parker

ButtersSuki

Is this on ESPN America or Sky?

Please be ESPN America..............

kmart6

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Is this on ESPN America or Sky?

Please be ESPN America..............

It's on regular ESPN, not America, none of the NBA is on America!

ButtersSuki

kmart6 wrote: »

It's on regular ESPN, not America, none of the NBA is on America!

Ta Kmart!

Really thought they flipped between the two? Have both so no worries either way.

Dublin Red Devil

Rough night for the Pacers, Lost 98 - 100 at home to the Raptors.

The big man Roy Hilbbert let the side down. Just 6 points, 3 Rebounds.

Nuri Sahin

Boozer being clutch for the Bulls down the stretch.

ButtersSuki

Hawks offering Josh Smith as trade bait. No surprise really considering his contract and the fact he considers himself a max contract player (and therefore due a rise!), but not sure too many teams will have enough to trade for him or the money to pay for him if they land him. I see him beng a Hawk until free agency in the summer.

Paul Gasol - you picked a good time to get injured dude!

buyer95

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Hawks offering Josh Smith as trade bait. No surprise really considering his contract and the fact he considers himself a max contract player (and therefore due a rise!), but not sure too many teams will have enough to trade for him or the money to pay for him if they land him. I see him beng a Hawk until free agency in the summer.

Paul Gasol - you picked a good time to get injured dude!

Hawks have done a nice job clearing salary, they will have a great chance of being a big player in free agency this summer. Both Bynum and Howard(maybe) will be free agents, Horford is more of a power forward anyway. He has all the tools to play PF, including a midrange jumper and quick feet, and doesn't possess the elite size to play centre imo. Trading Josh means giving up on this season, which is not a bad idea with Lou Williams done for the season anyway. If the Hawks can get a decent Point guard or shooting guard and some draft picks then they should do this trade

ButtersSuki

Yeah, they're doing a great job of clearing space but Howard has said he's not going to Atlanta, and they always seem to have problems attracting marquee players in trades.

Last time they lured a true superstar(s) was when they landed Moses Malone and Reggie Theus in the same year, but that didn't workout particularly well. For you young bucks out there - that was when Doc Rivers was a player for the Hawks!

manafana

well two live games on sky to look forward too full thoughts here

Sky sports stroke of genius picking up nba to cover for nfl season being over. CLippers might be bit hurt tonight, pity as matching up against knicks would be great, we get to enjoy the heat then after

stuchyg

watched the highlights of my Heat-Clips game earlier, LBJ is just a beast. Im nearly certain he could go for 40 a game if he really wanted

Nuri Sahin

Fantastic game.

Felexicon

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Fantastic game.

Not for a Laker fan.
Kobe needs to stop with the isolation offence, I mean the pick and roll was working beautifully.

Nuri Sahin

Felexicon wrote: »

Not for a Laker fan.
Kobe needs to stop with the isolation offence, I mean the pick and roll was working beautifully.

Okay.

Fantastic game... if you dislike the Lakers and had money on the Heat spread

decies

Watching celtics , Denver a good defence me thinks .

manafana

LBJ plays a different , everything went thru him for while, but he doesnt like to score all the pts, he is brillant and taking a double coverage and finding the open man.

manafana

manafana wrote: »

LBJ plays a different , everything went thru him for while, but he doesnt like to score all the pts, he is brillant and taking a double coverage and finding the open man.

It always bugged me that people didn't get that I remember an interview a few years back when he was still with the cavs. In was magic Johnson and he was giving out about lebron not putting up 40 a night and not single handedly winning a championship

What bugged me most was
1. Magic could score but he was the king of facilitators had some of the most insane looking assists in nba history so for him to dismiss lebron for not going all out scoring like Kobe does was maddening. Before mj people didn't expect a guard/sf to win a scoring title and a ring now people don't think you can do one without being close to the other.

2. I think magic is a top 5 player of all time but he was drafted in to a team with kareem Abdul-Jabar lebron had nobody on his cavs teams but dragged them to the playoffs every single year

Lebron could easily be top scorer every year but that's just not him he is a team player and people critacise him for it Id rather hav a guy like him than a guy like koby who alienates team mates because he demands 70% of the shots every game

Rant over

decies

Great Celtic win

Madcon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBpNm4W6aI

Awesome. Love the showmanship.

ButtersSuki

Madcon wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBpNm4W6aI

Awesome. Love the showmanship.

All part of LeBron's PR Rehab! :rolleyes:

I lost so much respect for the guy over the whole "Decision" BS, but he is playing at an unreal level this year. For him NOT to be MVP this year would be a farce; but as I've previously posted here on this subject, it could be voter-fatigue.

On could he score 40 a night? Not every game for the season. Only Jordan and Wilt have been anywhere near that mark. I think LeBron's natural game is more team-oriented than an out and out score first player like Jordan. Jordan's highest season average was 37.1.....which is pretty hard to do over 82 games. For LeBron to average 40 would throw everyone else on the team out of sync. LeBron is a different type of player to Jordan. Not to mention average team pts per game as a whole is declining in the NBA since those hey days. The game has changed.

Now could LeBrob score 40 on any given night? No problem.

ButtersSuki

ButtersSuki wrote: »

All part of LeBron's PR Rehab! :rolleyes:

I lost so much respect for the guy over the whole "Decision" BS, but he is playing at an unreal level this year. For him NOT to be MVP this year would be a farce; but as I've previously posted here on this subject, it could be voter-fatigue.

On could he score 40 a night? Not every game for the season. Only Jordan and Wilt have been anywhere near that mark. I think LeBron's natural game is more team-oriented than an out and out score first player like Jordan. Jordan's highest season average was 37.1.....which is pretty hard to do over 82 games. For LeBron to average 40 would throw everyone else on the team out of sync. LeBron is a different type of player to Jordan. Not to mention average team pts per game as a whole is declining in the NBA since those hey days. The game has changed.

Now could LeBrob score 40 on any given night? No problem.

I think he could average 40 a night everyone has off games so he wouldn't get it every night but if he stopped caring about his team mates I think he could average 40

I think mj would average 40 a game these days to pretty easily actually when he was doing what he did he was literally getting beat up every night

As a matter of fact swap the eras the two of them played in and I think both guys get better mj would be even more unstoppable if guys couldn't slap him around And lebron being the physical freak he is would destroy people in the late 80s early 90s

Dublin Red Devil

The Brooklyn Nets are aggressively pursuing a trade for Atlanta Hawks star forward Josh Smith, league sources told ESPN.
The two teams are engaged in discussions, but one source said while "there has been lots of talk, nothing is close yet." ESPN.com

ButtersSuki

Josh Smith is a pseudo-star seeking a big contract and Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has no problem handing out big contracts. Could this be a match made in heaven?

ESPN.com reports that the Nets are interested in trading for the Hawks forward, who is set to become an unrestricted free agent next summer, in advance of the Feb. 21 trade deadline.

The Brooklyn Nets are aggressively pursuing a trade for Atlanta Hawks star forward Josh Smith, league sources told ESPN.

As the NBA’s Feb. 21 trade deadline nears, Brooklyn is proving to be one of the most active teams in the league. As reported by ESPN.com on Friday, sources said the Nets also are talking with the Charlotte Bobcats about a Kris Humphries-for-Ben Gordon trade. While the Nets certainly want Gordon, sources said acquiring Smith is their higher priority. A trade for Smith would seemingly kill a deal for Gordon, because Humphries is one of the players being discussed with Atlanta.

The Nets are willing to give up Humphries and second-year shooting guard MarShon Brooks for Smith. But it almost certainly will take more than a Humphries-Brooks combination to pry Smith away from Atlanta, and one source said the Hawks want Brooklyn’s first-round pick.

Earlier, The Point Forward looked at the reported Humphries-for-Gordon trade proposal in detail.

Smith, 27, is averaging 16.9 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 2.2 blocks and 1.3 steals per game this season. He’s seeking a five-year contract worth $90+ million, a price the Hawks are reportedly unwilling to play.

Humphries, 28, has been seen his playing time cut this season. He’s averaging 5.9 points and 6.4 rebounds in 19.6 minutes after having a career year in 2011-12.

The deep-pocketed Prokhorov showed that he plays by his own rules last summer when he doled massive contracts for Deron Williams, Gerald Wallace, Brook Lopez and Humphries, and agreed to trade for Joe Johnson, who brought with him a gigantic price tag. Offering Smith a max contract would (and should) make many owners blink. Prokhorov is almost assuredly not one of them.

There are two obvious questions raised by this scenario. First: Does Hawks GM Danny Ferry want to compromise his salary cap space this summer by taking back Humphries, who will make $12 million next year? Second: Are Smith and Wallace the ideal complements for each other at the forward positions given that both will expect to play major minutes?

The primary goals of a Smith trade for Atlanta should be maximum asset acquisition and total flexibility. By those standards, this wouldn’t be a disaster. If the Hawks can scrape off enough minor assets — whether it’s Brooks and/or picks — getting stuck with Humphries isn’t the worst thing in the world. Humphries becomes an expiring contract next season, making him a trade chip, and he showed last season that he will produce if given minutes. He’s not worth $12 million a year, but the Hawks, who have very clean books heading into the summer, will have room to pay him and a need at power forward if they move Smith. This is an offer worth keeping in their back pocket as they explore Smith’s market value over the next 10 days. It doesn’t offer a long-term resolution but it could net them some assets and a hole-plugging fix.

Brooklyn’s plan seems to be winning at any cost and Smith would fit that plan perfectly, for good and bad. Adding Smith to the fray — and then re-signing him near his max-level demands — would ensure the Nets will pay enormous luxury taxes for the foreseeable future. There will be cascading costs, too, as the new elements of the luxury tax system kick in next year. But acquiring him would solidify a starting lineup full of name players — Williams, Johnson, Wallace, Smith and Lopez — and should help Brooklyn’s defensive numbers. Going forward, it would give the Nets one more star-type player to offer in future trades, which could be the bigger goal here. Assemble enough quasi-stars and perhaps you eventually combine some combination of them to land a truly elite talent? If not, you simply pay out the nose for a talent-rich team that’s a lock to make the playoffs every year.

The Smith/Wallace fit is questionable. Their skillsets overlap a lot — good two-way players, good motors, limited range on offense, some questions with consistency — and neither is a traditional three or a traditional four, which will lead to some mismatches. Still, it would qualify as a major success if the Nets are able to flip Humphries before the deadline for a player who fits better in the short-term and going forward, as both Gordon and Smith would. Finding a way to make things work between Smith and Wallace would be a better problem to have than letting Humphries continue to languish in a reduced role where he’s unable to deliver on his contract. Brooklyn should continue its reported pursuit full steam ahead.

ButtersSuki

Crazy stuff if this happens - but you can't deny the Nets have ambition and are willing to spend......


Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Brooklyn Nets are preparing to make a run at Dwight Howard, again.

Nets general manager Billy King is reportedly searching for a third team with a piece attractive enough to facilitate the trade, according to Jarrod Rudolph of RealGM, and feels like now is the time to once again ramp up efforts because of continuous struggles out of Los Angeles for the Lakers to live up to expectations, much less a .500 record. The general sentiment out of Brooklyn of course is that Howard would still listen to opportunities to sign long-term with Brooklyn.

According to sources, King was planning to contact the Minnesota Timberwolves in order to gauge their interest in a three-team trade that would send Kevin Love to the Lakers, Brook Lopez to the Timberwolves and Dwight Howard to the Nets.

The proposed trade is less probable now with Love currently rehabbing a broken hand that is expected to keep him out until mid-March.

But King is still interested in making it work, though he reportedly won’t make it a focal point to the extent that he did last summer when the Nets spending much of their time courting former Orlando Magic center.

King still has some time though; the NBA trade deadline is Feb. 21. Howard is in the middle of a 1-year, $19.2 million contract with the Lakers this season, so If he’s not traded by the deadline, expect these talks to surface again with regularity as several teams will no doubt enter the conversation to sign Howard as a free-agent this coming summer. His Staples Center neighbor, Chris Paul, also enters the market after the Los Angeles Clippers pay him $17.2 million this season.

In July, ESPN reported via RealGM that Howard would be interested in re-signing with the Lakers, but the real possibility that the team could miss the playoffs this season could change his course.