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2015 NBA Offseason + Draft
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Marc Stein ✔@ESPNSteinLine
The Josh Smith-to-the-Clippers chatter is indeed true. They will be formally signing him shortly
10:18 PM - 16 Jul 2015
Wow, the Clippers will have the biggest collection of tools in league history.
The question for me is who is the bigger tool on that team right now? Given his level of talent v toolness I'm going with Austin Rivers.
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Some alternate jerseys for next season leaked, wouldn't normally care too much about this, but I notice at the bottom a throwback Bulls fans have been clamouring for for years:
Don't think it's been used since the 80s, but you still see fans wearing it, people love that jersey.0 -
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http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13303349&ex_cid=sportscenterTW&sf11246658=1
"Any of you guys heard from Kobe? " "....................." hahahahaha. oh the tears. so awkward :P
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Cool look back at LeBron's debut:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/25257483/watch-looking-back-at-lebron-james-2003-25-point-debut•You see a lot of the same mannerisms. He still does the blowing into his hands one at a time thing. The way he dunks is the way he dunks now. It's cool to see how he's still the same guy, even 12 years later.
•His gait seems much longer. Part of that is how much muscle he seems to have added, but here's he's like a gazelle, bounding up court, vs. just a few years later when he looks like the freight train we've come to know him as. Some notes on this video, time log for the video itself, not game-time.
•0:24 seconds: He peels off the curl and gets a spot-up jumper. He no longer gets those, hardly ever, because the defense is going to jump every time to close that off. You'll notice a lot of differences in the way the Kings guard him as a rookie vs. the kind of respect he draws now.
•00:32 seconds: Again, the defense gets hung up and dares him to make them pay. You can tell Vlade Divac was like "I'm not chasing this 18-year-old out for a fadeaway jumper." It's also really crazy how wet James' jumper was in this game, considering that would be his biggest limitation for almost a decade. He shot 4-of-9 on mid-range shots in this game. Set the bar kind of high on multiple levels.
•1:11: You see how the Kings don't step up to meet him coming up the floor? Nowadays he gets tagged at the arc and if he gets to the free throw line, the big is always looking to take the charge on him. Ironically, Vlade didn't do enough in this game to try and flop and draw calls on him.
•1:30: Yup, that looks like LeBron James.
•1:40: Everyone's amazed at James... and the Cavs trail by eight. Man those early Cavs teams were rough, despite Ricky Davis and Carlos Boozer. No really, those guys were considered among his better teammates, along with Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Darius Miles started, for crying out loud. Kings lead
•2:05: Oh, hey, Jim Gray! You spoke to LeBron James one-on-one, huh? Guess what? Won't be your most famous conversation it turns out!
•3:02: Yeah, one might say LeBron's fashion sense has evolved somewhat since he was 19.
•3:27: Oh, the 3-pointer falls, which is cruel since he'll go on to shoot 29 percent from the arc that season and it will be a liability really until 2009.
•3:37: He's so awkward in his first halftime interview! You watch him now and he just runs through the bullet-points in his head. It's like he's reading off a prompter. He's an expert interview subject at this point, but here he's just an awkward teenager trying to sound confident.
•5:02: I understand he's done it a million times but still, that pass! What is that pass?!
•5:45: Interestingly, he goes middle off that left-side ISO. Nowadays, he usually goes left.
Overall, you can see the greatness coming. It's also fun listening to the announcers freak out about him.0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYaF_qs-_mc
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