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"Is denver really this bad?"

They haven't been a very good road team in awhile

[Edited on November 5, 2014 at 11:51 PM. Reason : .]

11/5/2014 11:50:47 PM

warriors seem pretty awesome right now

11/6/2014 12:33:24 AM

TJ Warren got placed in the D- league today

Also the Mavs are up 45-10 on the Sixers with 10 minutes left in the second quarter

11/13/2014 9:24:12 PM

I really hope TJW is still playing for Bakersfield on Jan 3rd

in related news, I get to see Peyton Siva and Seth Curry this Saturday

11/13/2014 10:13:06 PM

Sixers scored 29 points in the first half

down by 47 points in the 4th

11/13/2014 10:47:47 PM

How many of you fucks are still really happy for tj? Cj? Zo?

11/13/2014 10:54:50 PM

I had a dream Iverson was picked up by the Rockets.

11/15/2014 11:25:23 AM

I had a dream that The Dream went back to the Rockets

11/15/2014 12:49:27 PM

CLE vs SAS represents top 2 teams of NBA, even the whole world.

11/19/2014 9:25:32 PM

Yeah right. Cleveland is hot garbage so far .500 and 6th in the east.

11/19/2014 9:39:16 PM

But everybody is so patient about them.
And they do play well this game. Fight till the last sec.

11/19/2014 10:01:46 PM

Yeah they just lost to the fucking nuggets before that.

[Edited on November 19, 2014 at 10:39 PM. Reason : you can't go from saying best team in the world to saying you're patient with them]

11/19/2014 10:38:46 PM

Elite team will choose games to lose and take a rest.
Anyway, they just have potential to become the best team.

11/19/2014 11:49:57 PM

Cavs lose again.

11/21/2014 10:31:53 PM

How much did they give up for Kevin Love?

11/21/2014 10:32:42 PM

Toronto, Milwaukee, Orlando are on the top 8 list in the East.

11/22/2014 4:00:26 PM

brooklyn is such an underachieving bunch of losers

11/25/2014 1:50:08 PM

if Harden wins MVP it should help in recruiting

11/25/2014 10:35:06 PM

He's the next Drexler.

11/25/2014 10:51:06 PM

yes, except totally different

11/25/2014 11:04:06 PM

this is awesome (couldn't find the NBA 92/93 Season thread)
http://rabbithole.deadspin.com/the-time-manute-bol-hit-six-three-pointers-in-a-half-1666189871/

12/3/2014 3:52:23 PM

Kobe is only 30 points behind Jordan in all-time scoring

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/pts_career.html

12/12/2014 6:52:45 PM

Well Duncan just passed Jerry West for 18th all time but it doesn't look like Kobe is gonna get it tonight (has 19, needs 11 more to tie).

Guess he'd rather do it @ Minnesota than at San Antonio...

12/12/2014 11:40:12 PM

too bad Jordan shot a significantly better percentage, averaged more points and played against better defense/competition

12/13/2014 12:57:51 PM

Too bad kobe took the same nber of classes in college.

12/13/2014 1:30:31 PM

yeah, Kobe wouldn't have scored hardly any points if he was going up against Craig Ehlo and Bryon Russell all the time

12/13/2014 1:40:11 PM

Wait, are you seriously going to argue that NBA defenses of the mid 90s were not significantly better and more physical than what Kobe faced in the 00s?

Even if you are, just set that aside and realize that Kobe isn't as good as MJ was on offense. He was also a shitty defender whereas Jordan was a very good defender.

Kobe scored a ton of points and he's going to pass MJ and maybe even Kareem eventually, but he's not a better player than Jordan, not even close really.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/michael-jordan-kobe-bryant/

[Edited on December 13, 2014 at 2:12 PM. Reason : sdsd]

12/13/2014 2:10:19 PM

Kobe has no chance in hell of ever passing Kareem. He will be lucky to pass Malone

12/13/2014 2:54:12 PM

^^Defenses were allowed to be more physical in Jordan's era, but there were a higher percentage of better athletes in the league during Kobe's playing time.

MJ is obviously better. But Kobe is arguably the 2nd best wing player of all time. face would probably say Kobe isn't a top 100 player of all time though.

12/13/2014 3:06:21 PM

^^Really? I think it's pretty much a lock that he passes Malone and a pretty decent chance he catches Kareem.

He's 4000 behind Karl and 6000 behind Kareem, at 20 ppg and 65 games per season that's only 3 more seasons to get to second and 5 more to get the record. If he averages 25 ppg it's a little under 4 years to break the record.

Bare minimum he plays out at least this contract, but more likely he's probably going to play until he's 40 now. I thought it unlikely that he ever regained even 75% of his old self following the Achilles injury, but now I think he'll probably keep on playing until he breaks the scoring record. He's never going to get another contract like the one the Lakers gave him but I can easily see him playing a couple more years with Phil in NY after this contract in the hopes of getting one more title or to grab more records.

[Edited on December 13, 2014 at 3:13 PM. Reason : sfsdf]

12/13/2014 3:10:24 PM

This has been kind of an odd season so far, as evidenced by PER leaders:

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/statistics

I know it's still early, but Brandan Wright and Marreese Speights?

Also, Anthony Davis is having one of the all-time great seasons (24ppg, 10rpg and 2 steals, 3 blocks per game) and his team still might miss the playoffs which is just a testament to how bad a job they've done constructing that roster.

12/13/2014 3:17:10 PM

More of a testament of how amazingly strong the Western conference is and how historically awful the East is.

Also back to Kobe, the word is he will retire after next season. I'd be shocked if he played 4 more years including this one. He is likely to get hurt or play less games each season even if he plays 3-4 more years and no way he stays at 24 ppg. History is not kind to players in their late 30s.

[Edited on December 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM. Reason : ppg]

12/13/2014 7:00:00 PM

Why? I think he'd love to be the 6th man on a title contender. And the Lakers could easily be on in two years.

With two more top draft picksthe next two years and $100 million Iin cap space they could easily trade into title contention.


West playoffs will be epic this year. I think it's between GS, Dallas, and SAS

but good lord okc getting the 8 seed? That has to be the most interesting playoff bracket ever

[Edited on December 14, 2014 at 6:16 PM. Reason : a]

12/14/2014 6:15:06 PM

kings just fired their coach

theyre only half of a game out of 8th and their best player has missed nine games

lolwut

[Edited on December 15, 2014 at 1:35 AM. Reason : .]

12/15/2014 1:34:11 AM

^ the only explanation is that the front office hated the man


I think Golden State can beat the 33 game win streak record. The Baby Face assassin dont play around

12/16/2014 7:24:44 PM

oh I rolled my eyes at that letter Michael Jordan to Kobe on the passing him in points

in reality he gave a letter to Kobe with just the number 6 on it in large front. LOL




[Edited on December 16, 2014 at 7:31 PM. Reason : ff]

12/16/2014 7:31:09 PM

Quote :

"I think Golden State can beat the 33 game win streak record. The Baby Face assassin dont play around"

annnnnnnd I jinxed of course

12/16/2014 10:34:04 PM

Mavs are going to win it all now. Lets just put the other 5 good players into the west while we, re at it.

12/18/2014 6:37:34 PM

west just got even more interesting (has a conference ever been this loaded?), east didn't really lose much since celtics sucked anyway but still shitty

[Edited on December 19, 2014 at 11:41 AM. Reason : k]

12/19/2014 11:40:36 AM

Mavs are still going to lose 2nd round in playoffs. good trade but lets be real the Chris Pauls and the Russell Westbrooks of the world aren't losing any sleep on this. Steph Baby face assassin Curry is still gonna drop 99 pts in a shoot out.

12/19/2014 5:10:32 PM

Yeah, he's a bit overrated as a defender and I'm not sure how much he really helps them on offense. Zac Lowe talked about this a bit on his last podcast.

On a completely unrelated note, the Cavs are infuriating to watch. They are just atrocious on defense and so inconsistent on offense. Flashes of absolute brilliance coupled with stretches of zero effort and cohesion.

12/21/2014 5:02:17 PM

interesting I thought of houston immediately when smith got waived, yet another piece could fall, barring injuries the west may be the best playoff basketball in a decade this year

12/23/2014 6:34:07 PM

maybe Houston will make it out of the first round this year

12/23/2014 7:58:07 PM

maybe they will, maybe they won't whats awesome is prob teams 1-8 in the west could win it all probably

12/24/2014 10:14:53 PM

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-nbas-western-conference-power-rankings/


good article sums up my views, and about kobe too

12/24/2014 11:10:58 PM

Pretty massive blow to Cleveland to lose varejao.


Lakers beating golden state without kobe says it all. Hes completely finished as an effective player.

12/25/2014 1:11:18 AM

Yup, sucks that Andy is done for the season, but the Cavs knew they were going to be playing some portion of the season without him. He's one of the most injury prone guys in the league. I'm guessing they were planning on 55-60 starts max from him. He played 76 games last year, before that was 31, 25, 25. You can't count on a guy like that to be in your rotation the whole year. Everyone with half a brain knew he was going to miss a chunk of time at some point this year.

Now they need to make damn sure they go out an get someone who can play 10-15 minutes a game for them at center, because they damn sure can't afford to put Brendan Hayward in as a regular rotation player and they can't ask Tristan Thompson to play for than 28-30 minutes a game and bang with other bigs like Andy could. Playing Lou Amundson. It would be nice if they could get Brandan Wright or Mozgov, but that's going to be a lot to ask given how little they have to trade away.

12/25/2014 6:22:31 AM

Acy pick on somebody your own size.

12/25/2014 2:10:03 PM

Anybody watching Christmas games? OKC vs SAS now.

12/25/2014 4:33:48 PM

Yup, and that was an excellent game. Westbrook is so damned good. He and Curry are not your traditional pass first PGs, and it's a loaded position, but I think they're by far the 2 best in the NBA and along with Harden are the best 3 guards period right now.

I think the evolution of the PG position has done more to kill the SG than anything else.

12/25/2014 6:50:53 PM