Arena The NBA Thread

Yeah I knew they had a Popovich underling on their team.
They are fun to watch. Way better than the Lakers.
Am I right?

 

It's almost as if this team needed some depth and a rim protector when the season started, and then Andy went down, doubling the need for both. And then flipping a draft pick and Waiters for Shumpert, Mozgov, and Smith took care of the depth issue and provided some rim protection, allowing this team to function as it was designed.

Plus, you know, not having Dion as the starting 2. Or realizing that failed, and now not having either Mike Miller or Shawn Marion as the starting 2.

Yeah. This team is much better. Enough to get my hopes up for the most crushing loss ever in the playoffs.

 

Also LeBron James looking like LEBRON JAMES again.

 

Yes, I covered that:

 

but did you all-caps his name you didn't all-caps his name god inty

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/lakers/post/_/id/41055/with-kobe-out-make-way-for-swaggy-p]It's[/url] okay, Swaggy P's got this.

 

Any man who must say "I am the king" is no true king.

 

He doesn't need to be a "true king". Just needs to be a champion. Again.

 

I mean you're not exactly gonna get a lot of pushback from me for ripping on LeBron James.

 

he definitely deserves all the ripping, but is there even a debate that he's still currently the best basketball player in the world?

 

Anthony Davis is making it a debate.

 

that's fair. he's definitely the first guy that comes to mind when i try to think of players you wouldn't trade straight up for lebron. but that's because he's 21, i don't think he's better yet.

 

GET BUCKETS

 

GET BUCKETS

 

I think it's the case of

If you want to win this year, you want LeBron
If you want to build for the next decade, you want Davis

 

Well, Kyrie was insane today. Ouch.

 

chicago usually struggles to attract free agent talent, and obviously he's more likely to re-sign with the Pelicans, but it'd be all kinds of awesome if they could bring the local boy home in 2016.

 

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The Minnesota Timberwolves don't win at much, but this most definitely wins:

 

LMAAAAAAOOOOOOO YES

 

Good game between Lakers and Bulls. Going to 2nd OT.

 

Surprise wins are always the best; of course it was Gasol that got the put-in to tie the game in regulation. Jordan Hill better still be on the Lakers next year.




And of course...








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bit of a theme for the Bulls. beat the Warriors, lose to the Lakers. inconsistency.

 

Atlanta and Golden State with the best records in their respective conferences-- that's a new one.