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News - nba.com
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World cups over so we shouldn’t fucking archive every other day anymore!
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lebron should make his announcement any minute now
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What does everyone think of the Dort trade? I was suprised Atlanta gave up on Risacher so quickly, yeah he's looking like a bust but he's only 21.
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>>157000915
Because Risacher is indeed a bust. He was getting DNPs in the playoffs. That should have been the clue
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>>157000915
The Mavs potentially starting three #1 picks (Irving, Cooper, Risacher) is pretty good.
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>>156999736
OKC just shed 224 million in cap space and no one seems to care
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>>157001647
I care
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the world cup is finally over QUICK somebody make a wnba thread
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>>157001278
irving will never play again he's stealth retired
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>>157001278
They should sign Ben Simmons.
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>>156999736
Why can't basketball organize an international event as big as the soccer World Cup?

Imagine giant crowds of international fans taking over cities like this summer, imagine the atmosphere of country vs country but it's a high scoring sport instead
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Thank you based Pete
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>>157002290
Basketball isn’t big enough for that. The summer Olympics is enough
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Gotta feel for the hawks. Got the bust #1 pick in between Wemby and Flagg.
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>>157001647
I think its $200+ million from 1st and 2nd apron tax, not cap? And who actually cares though. It's all play money to team owners.
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>>157003097
>It's all play money to team owners.
Yea but after a certain point they flat out can’t spend money anymore so it’s beyond the luxury tax
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petefag I hope you step on shit every time you leave your house
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>>157002290
because brown manlets cant compete at basketball. its a white and black sport almost exclusively
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>>157001647
Chet, SGA and Williams are going to take up 70% of the cap soon so roleplayers like Dort are too expensive to keep long term. The aprons fucked the league up badly
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>>157003464
So what, anyone can watch any sport. Also the NBA is like 88% black it's not a white sport
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I'm convinced Wemby choking in the Finals got Zaccharie Risacher traded. Teams finally woke up from the French spell they were under.
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>>157003894
It's a lightskin sport now chud
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>>157001647
This was always going to happen. Their window relies entirely on hitting their draft picks. That yuro dude getting testicular cancer might have closed their window. You can't miss on the 12th pick in their position.
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>>157001647
>OKC just shed 224 million in cap space
You're a fucking retard.
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>>157003994
The tragedy is the Hawks could have had Sarr instead of Risacher and they need a legit center like Sarr.
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Dort and Daniels is a pretty scary defensive duo. Good thing they'll never be able to get played together since neither of them can shoot.
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OKC went 0 - 8 in the summer league
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okc deciding to trade their depth instead of chet holmbitch after what happened in the conference finals is actually insane
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>>157004582
sarr isn't a real center. He's one of those big dudes who thinks he's KD
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>>156999736
why doesnt basketball have a once in every 4 years international tournament?
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>>157004988
He played a lot of legit C when I watched wizzie games, which was a lot last year because I lived in DC. The bigger issue is his struggle to stay healthy
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>>157004857
Chet is good against 90% of the teams in the league.
Cason is better than Dort at pretty much everything on the floor, and Cason wanted to start so getting rid of Dort was a no brainer.
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Dort, Dyson, and NAW looks like a scary perimeter defensive trio but they cant shoot
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>>157004857
I agree, but his value is at an all-time low, no one wants him.
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Thank you /nba/
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>>157005349
NAW can definitely shoot, and Dort can too if he gets hot but is generally feast of famine. Dyson on the other hand is one of the worst shooters ever, he's just fortunate he can make up for it was insane defense.
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>>157004857
Getting rid of a star young player over a single performance is a braindead move.
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>>157005671
Dort only got shots because Shai, Chet and Jaylin were getting doubled. I dont know anyone in this Hawks teams that will get doubled
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>>157004857
This is the exact same mentality that caused the Timberwolves to trade KAT for Julius Randle. After years of KAT disappearing and fouling out in playoff games they got rid of him only to watch him thrive on the Knicks. Trading away Chet when he's this young and after he already won them a championship a few years back is a bad idea
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>>157005349
Jalen Johnson can't shoot either.
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>>157005390
np
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mavs will unlock risacher
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Who would you bet wins between the spurs and thunder next year given the offseason changes?

>chet will play better
>jdub will not be hurt
>fox will not be hurt
>wemby will probably have better conditioning
>both teams developmental pipeline will advance
>mara is probably the rookie with most chance to impact
>harper will probably be considered more of an elite scorer by finals time next year
>thunder lost dort and didnt pick up anyone
>spurs got Tobias Harris

I kind of lean toward Jdub being healthy as cancelling out the spurs offseason being slightly better myself. Still no idea who will win if there is a rematch.
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>>157007116
true, especially considering how shit the hawks' development/front office has been. you gotta be real witless to give up on a #1 overall draft pick not even in his 3rd year.
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>>157007224
its not a given that he plays better. He will run when it come. Wemby put the fear in him
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>>157007539
now the question is can risacher be the starter in mavs, idk their current 5-man lineup aside flagg and kyrie if healthy
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>>157007224
>talk about injuries
>assumes Wemby will be healthy
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>>157007724
I assumed everyone will be healthy as you should unless they have a terrible injury history
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>>157007685
All he has to do is beat out Max Christy, Klay, and PJ Tucker...so no fucking way does he start without some major trades and injuries from the Mavs
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>>157007224
>Who would you bet wins between the spurs and thunder next year given the offseason changes?
The Knicks
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I’m already tired of “hurt durf the players get a fixed percentage of basketball related income so the 2nd apron isn’t a problem” takes which ignore why the new CBA is such a problem
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PG: Sosho
SG: Wiggins
SF: Lebron
PF: Jannis
C: Mr. 83

The prophecy has been foretold.
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>>157007938
eastern conference is irrelevant to be deadass with you
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>>157007938
nice try ya dumb shit casual. here's reality: the spurs will perform even more impressively in the regular go on to participate in the finals against a team that probably won't benefit from the following:

>tatum injured (twice)
>haliburton injured
>antetokounmpo injured
>cunningham having 0 significant offensive help
>a hawks front office that gutted its team before last season started and at the trade deadline, leaving no time to develop meaningful chemistry
>having to deal with the sixers aka the dallas cowboys of the nba
>mitchell being allergic to winning in the conference finals
>harden being the league's most notorious playoff shrinker
>the entire NBA front office being unable to hide their bias to encourage the "basketball mecca" whislte
>an absolute disregard for any arm pulls or reaching fouls or attempted trips against the league's MVP/DPOY, victor wembanyama
>all time good luck against a team hit with all time bad luck
>harper will/should be starting over f*x so no violent pants shitting over an entire series from a single pants shitter

it's a bummer it won't be the lucky charms knicks again because they simply are not that good, but only because the spurs would do even better than they did in 1999. so it's lookin good for the spurs aka the best team in the league going forward. be sure you enjoy that charity asterisk as much as you can, squirt. it took even more luck than the one the thunder got. won't be happening again any time soon.
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Whoever gets Lebron is winning the championship. Silver already admitted to rigging the schedule based on where he goes.
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>>157007224
I gotta see where Lebron lands. Him in Miami is gonna push them up
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>>157007224
Assuming everyone is healthy, it’s a bet on if Harper becomes the shooter the Spurs desperately need. I think it’s a year early.
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>>157008180
The top Eastern teams beat the top Western teams
>>157008456
Ok but when does Pop make Wemby not a choker?
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>>157008456
Not reading this essay, Miss Rice will though
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>>157007938
>kniggers win 1 (one) ring in 53 years and get this cocky

I would not expect anything else from people who elected a socialist mayor. NY is a hive of scum and no white people live there anymore.
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>>156999736
Meal.
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>>157008735
>no white people live there anymore.
>San Antonio
My haters look just like me
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>>157008735
I don’t trust anyone from the northeast. To many cocksucking liberals who willingly live in a frozen tundra
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>>157008735
>white people live there anymore.
Long Island, Staten Island, the rich areas of Manhattan.
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>>157006226
That’s not why the Wolves traded KAT and whitewashes KAT’s time on the Knicks
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>>157004857
Joe and Wiggins werent in the rotation.
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Meal.

go knicks btw
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why is GOATnathan kuminga still without a team
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>>157008025
it's the correct take. Stop overpaying bums. Nobody else in the league was giving a guy like Jamal Murray 50 mil a year
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>>157009153
Nigga is that shit on bread
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>>157009217
or giving a buckbroken Aaron Gordon who has missed half of the season for the last 2 games a new 3-year contract
or giving 21mpy contract for Braun
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>>157009561
last 2 *seasons
my bad
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>>157009217
>just stop overpaying bums

this is the exact same logic as saying like how men should not be giving onlyfans whores all this money or whatever. Its true but you are ignoring the collective action problem that makes your common sense advice impossible to implement
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Thinking about the 2000 - 01 76ers. And how they decided to just have one offensive player, and then literally every other player on the team be a defensive specialist.
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>>157009823
I think Larry Hughes was on that team but after AI and him it was just defensive guys
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>>157009217
That ignores the difference between the old CBA and new CBA contracts fucking over teams, the interaction between the salary floor and the cap effectively killing free agency, and that it’s shitty as a fan that teams can’t stay together because of the cap.

The winners are teams with players willing to take pay cuts, teams that hardball players, or teams that have hoarded assets to trade for hardball contracts. It’s a fucking weird set of incentives.

The problem is the NBAPA saw dollar signs and didn’t foresee the consequences of what they agreed.
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>>157009903
He was already in Golden State by Iverson's MVP season
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>>157009202
He'll be a Laker by the end of this coming week.
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>>157010025
The second apron is such a fascinating thing for the NBA to devise, because it's the one thing that fundamentally goes against their never-ending goal of homegrown continuity
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>>157002290
there's not that many people above 6'6 in the world outside us and europe
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>>157010025
the old cba contracts have only mattered in a few cases like Boston. The rest is just the league correcting itself or teams still giving out dumbass contracts. It is a scapegoat for bad gms
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>>157010163
The supermax and 2nd apron now contradict eachother, one of them has to go.
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>>157010163
Silver flipped from wanting what's best for the overall growth of the league to being an owner puppet only concerned with their short term profits somewhere along the road.
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this is gonna be one of those colabs that lasts less than 9 months isn't it, start pointing fingers when they get ko in the first round
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>>157009823
That 76ers team was a Larry Brown coaching masterclass, they had no business being in the Finals, let alone the ECF.
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>>157010163
The NBA is ultimately NBA team owners where 2/3rds of them are bitter the other third is richer than them and hate being called cheap by fans.
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Seeing Superstar players take less than the absolute maximum that they can get is the kind of thing that's going to result in a brutal CBA battle. It's the kind of thing that could result in a player strike down the line
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>>157010467
Allen Iverson not getting an actual ring is the ultimate Billy King travesty. You had what is often considered the pound-for-pound greatest player that ever lived fall into your lap, pair him with what might be the perfect coach for him, and the best you could do is trade theo Ratliff for dikembe mutombo
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>>157010519
it's not because that money necessarily has to go to other players who aren't superstars. It's good for the nba middle class once all these old bad contracts get off the books
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>>157010247
Not at all, it basically meant free agency didn’t exist at all last off season.

>>157010519
Doubt it as it felt inevitable that would happen once NBA contracts got stupid. There will likely be a lockout/strike for the next CBA as revenue stalls. The league got away with murder the last 2 CBAs because players were getting stupid money - that’s unlikely to continue,
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I’m an overpaid bum
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>>157008675
>i fear the truth and hereby immediately surrender in shame

concession accepted.
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>>157010924
Hey Tobias how’s San Antonio treating you
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lebren
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this is all the 2nd apron's fault
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>>157011199
it was just a decade ago when Mozgov's 16mpy salary was deemed grossly overpaid, i think the new CBA tried to make teams think twice before giving your random folk 50mpy each because squad building is more than just paying premium salary for 3 players but they decided to go overdrive
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>>157011199
Every change that destroyed team building and led to the 1970s tier parity we have now all traces back to the Golden State warriors and their record setting caps every year
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>>157011448
It’s a major reason. Other pieces include owners being scared of Ballmer and the players not agreeing to the 2nd apron without a harder floor which has created its own headaches . There’s a logic to every bit of the CBA but it’s fucking mess combined and almost insanely convoluted at this point.
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How many days until LeDecision now that the world cup is over
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>>157011798
end of july. 2 weeks of the whole world sucking him off before they start caring about football
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The thing that's changed with team building in the 2nd apron era is every team is running moneyball now. The ratio of contract money to player's value to winning matters the most now. The old system was just the few teams who were willing to spend and could attract players (because the cap was only a suggestion) fighting each other which is why championship runs lasted longer.
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>>157011798
Monday
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>>157011199
No, the 2nd apron so far only fucked the Celtics. Player salaries have been increasing steadily since the mid-2010s.

The NBPA will force Adam Silver to amend 2nd apron rules sparing the Thunder and the Spurs just in time.

In exchange the Celtics will get a 1st overall from either their 2028 or 2031 pick.
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>>157000099
This
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>>156999736
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>>157013467
are euros this retarded?
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>>157002290
there is but america usually doesnt send their best tyrones so it feels fake anyway
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It hurts to know my thunder don’t even want lebron he said he is willing to take a bet minimum. How the fuck do you not want him?
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Summer league kino
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lebron is being a pussy
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I for one am excited for the fiba World Cup. I plan to make an entirely new thread for my every retarded thought in the same way the third worlders just did to us with soccer.

It’s going to be top tier shitpoasting if nothing else
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>>157014564
Kek
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>>157014597
Lmao
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>>157002228
and ayton
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Meal.

Fuck LeBron
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>>157015233
Christ
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Okay, LeBron, the World Cup is over
You can be the center of attention in the sporting world now
Time to tell us where you'll be taking your talents.
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After watching "soccer" today, I can safely say I fell asleep after halftime. Can't wait till the NBA season starts.
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>>157015313
naw people still out partying and shit. wont be until monday at the very earliest.
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>>157007224
The spurs are young enough that you can expect a lot more natural development and improvements in team work and shit.

But if they don’t get better at just shooting the ball they are ngmi I don’t know why they didn’t just pick up someone who can shoot 3s at a high percentage. They don’t have a sniper at all
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all the bron glazers saying he wouldn't wait until the WC finished to announce the next team sure look stupid
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>>157014597
Honestly basketball needs to become racist like soccer if it wants to grow globally. Imagine basketball fans posting edits of Lebron getting his face ripped in half by Aryan Chads from Germany.
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>>157015777
Hell no
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>>157015886
Yes please rip that monkeys head off
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>>156999736
LETS GO
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>still 3 months until the regular season
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>>157015777
Basketball needs to become nothing like
Soccer.
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>>157015962
This
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>>157015951
What anime is we watching while we wait for the season?
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>>157016260
i dont watch anime, just reading manga
however i've spent the last year finishing around 20 atlus games so make of that what you will
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>>157015962
It needs to become more like soccer and the NBA commissioner agrees.
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We're really going to get another lockout during the next CBA negotiations
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>>157016399
the flopping/whining similarities are already disgustingly close
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>>157016467
Explain
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>>157016714
NO
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LeFaggot
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>>157017085
fucking kek always a classic
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No one talking about summer league finals mvp YAXEL?
Boozer has genuinely looked like shit throughout summer
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>>157017222
playing well in summer league doesn't matter. The only thing that has any kind of worthwhile indication is if you really suck
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>>157017222
Boozer is overrated and I do NOT trust offspring of NBA players unless that NBA player was mid to below mid.
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>>157017222
Yeah summer league can only show you who are bad. It never shows who is good
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>>157017285
at least GSW has a potential to look for with the absolute state of their roster
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>>157017330
Carlos Boozer was mid though
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>>157017568
i mean, he was the 2nd overall pick and pretty much started every game of his 13year career.
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>>157017737
>2nd overall pick
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>>157017222
>Boozer has genuinely looked like shit throughout summer
Dybantsa and Peterson also looked pretty mid after their first games
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I don't see the hype with Boozer.
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>>157017914
hes a modern day charles barkley
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>>157008456
Wemby choked and lost all his aura cope
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>>157009823
I think about AI a lot
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this guy is based. its like that one friend with diarrhea-of-the-mouth that never stops spewing nonsense and talking about bullshit. this nigga went and made a career of it
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>Bleach returns next sunday
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>>157018608
YES
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Raptors news?
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>>157018690
nope
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>>157019231
damn
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It would be nice if soccerfags stopped flooding the board.
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>hires future GOAT head coach
>drafts Bam Adebayo and Ricky Rubio regens
>trades nothing in exchange for a former 1st overall pick
MasaiGOD VVQN
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>>157020116
AVRA
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>>157001647
luxury tax penalites and cap space are different things.
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>>157008456
sperged out
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>>157008456
oh you mad mad
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>>157015626
>star is such a manlet that they had to pump him full of HGH as a kid to reach 5'7".
>runs around for 2 hours
>nothing happens
the tourists were fun, the chants and bants were fun, the sport is dogshit and I'm glad its done.
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Alright Lebron the world cup is over so now you can get all the attention you want.
Put an end to this farce today.
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>>157021255
i like how everyone saw right thru lebrons plan and is sick of him for it
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why do brown soccerfags feels the need to make an entire thread dedicated to the random thoughts they have? we should start doing that desu
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>>157021403
(You) wont get (You)s though
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>>157007224
Wemby, Kornet
Harris, Keldon, Bryant Carter
Champagnie, Vassel
Castle, new signing
Harper, Fox

that sounds scary
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>>157021627
They're going to be even better next year, that's for sure. But next year is their window, because once Castle and Harper get their big contracts and they move on from Fox, they'll be in cap hell.
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Said it before, said it again, Boozer needs to become a great shooter and play as an oversized guard to be a star in the NBA. Dude isn’t big enough to stunt over smaller players in the post like he did in college.
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>>157021403
kek
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>>157021790
I agree, it's somewhat encouraging that he shot pretty well from 3 in a few summer league games.
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i cant sleep
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>>156999736
nba players dont got this motion damn
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>>157022394
keep this foggy soccer shit out of /nba/ please.
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>>157022394
?
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>>157021790
I think he will be fine. He has tons of muscles and is still big. Think Barkley
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>>157021790
It was the same even in college. Watch the highlights of Duke vs Virginia and vs Uconn at the end of last season. He got blocked like 10 times in total over those two games. He’ll be a good shooter in a few years though
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>>157022466
It's a man
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>>157022394
who is this
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>>157022581
Me
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>>157021960
Yeah, you see flashes of it so it doesn’t seem crazy and we know how amateur coaches want bigs to play as they care more about winning than player development.
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First of all, none of you guys should care about where LeBron goes. But in case you do, or just want some betting advice, he’s going to Philadelphia. Word on the street is that LeBron and his boys are in deep with the Boule Foundation (Historic Black Fraternity) which was founded in Philadelphia over a century ago and where they still have their HQ today. members mostly consist of business elites, entertainers and athletes. I don’t know exactly what kind of dirt Boule have on LeBron but they want to keep him in proximity. I don’t know whether it’s to protect him, or because he’s being even further indoctrinated into the fraternity. Possibly both. Jaylen Brown is rumored to be a rising star within Boule and it’s very possible his handlers were able to maneuver his departure from the Celtics.

Anyways, go Lakers.
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LeBron James is more likely to be a Savannah Banana than a 76er
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>>157022394
that's a little boy
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Gentlemen

how do we beat the Philadelphia 76ers? They are too powerful
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>>157023450
that kinda doesn't make any sense why would they have waited so long to get to LeBron nigga been famous for 30 years
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>>157022394
She's had a lot surgeries, her face is completely different than when she was younger. How anyone coupd date someone knowing that is crazy
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Last two digit is the number of win of role player super team Hawks.
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>>157025594
even better
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>page 9
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>REPORT: LeBron James does NOT care about holding up the NBA’s 2026-27 schedule, & he will make the league wait as long as he needs to decide on his free-agency decision, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN.


who really thought we'd be getting Lebron James decisions into 2026 and it having an impact on this bullshit
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>lebron is more relevant player at 50!!!! He is holding up the league
Bronsexuals think this is some kind of flex. The truth is we are in the middle of the off-season and the only thing there is to talk about is an old man who cant make up his mind which team he will try to ride to another ring. This isnt a clever move or strategic silence. It's an old man trying to stay relevant in a league that has already moved on.
The only team he can go to that gives him a chance at winning is the 76ers as a 4th option. No team ever wins thanks to their 4th option, without lebron they can win. He doesn't improve their odds.
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>>157028598
Adam Silver skill issue, this wouldn't have worked when based David Stern was around.
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>>157028775
Does it matter? They are literally talking about a handful of games around Christmas and new years.
Lebrons decision will result in maybe 30 minutes of extra work to change the teams around. Silver should have stayed quiet but being a sneaky jew he released this info to create more drama and more attention.
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>>157028730
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Today's the day LeBron announces his intent to schedule a date in which he will begin preparation for organizing a reveal date for his services
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If Lebron ducks the west he's dropping ATLEAST 5 places in the GOAT conversation.
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>>157021403
We are going to do it for fiba. Every retarded thought will get a thread
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>>157021627
Why are we pretending vassel is not a way better player than champaignie
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>REPORT: San Antonio Spurs General Manager Brian Wright confirmed that guard Stephon Castle grew 2 inches during the offseason. Castle now officially stands 6'8" tall (up from his previous listed 6'5.5") and possesses a massive 7'1" wingspan, significantly increasing his defensive versatility and matchup advantages.

Bro it has been like a month. Did this nigga find a genie? Kek at Trae young too
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>>157029542
>tfw 5’7
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>>157024368
Kek
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So who y'all got on LeDiddy'snext team? It's obviously going to be the Cavs, right? Golden State would be the dream. So much media drama they could milk from that.
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>>157029542
6'8 is the height of Paul George, LeBron and Tatum
I call this BS
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>>157018102
>i have no argument and will instead imagine something that didn't happen, sir

concession accepted.

>>157020843
>>157020908
>a pair of limp dick non arguments, each one more flaccid than the last

concessions accepted.
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>>157030218
Probably GS. He wants to stay in LA for his family and he can commute from SF to LA easily on off days.
I hope he breaks his ankle the first game of the season so we can be done with him forever.
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Just got the text from a friend of an athletic trainer. Except LeBron to go to the heat, announced within this week. Maybe even by the end of the day.
I’m fucking hype.
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>>157030766
Out of all the remaining teams in discussion, The Heat are the lowest to have a chance of winning anything.
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>ranjeet posting something that shows castle was the one not paying attention, immediately disproving his incorrect point while proving that LUCK was indeed the determining factor AND that wembanyama patently did not choke as he was the best overall player on the court

that's why i already accepted your concession, retard.
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>>157028598
>Windhorst
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>ranjeet's immediate response is to ask AI to give him a bunch of unrelated bullshit that i'm not gonna read anyway because in addition to already proving my point as well as being factually wrong anyway he has outed himself as an AI worshipping faggot

LOL he just solidified his status as the leafjeet. give it a rest ya stupid faggot.
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>>157030335
They really must have measured his hair lol
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>mavsfag is having a melty again
uohhhhhh
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>>157031261
where? you're the only one even mentioning them since an indonesian poster last did it over 100 posts you stupid faggot.
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>>157031328
100 posts ago* minor typo
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>>157030625
lmao who made this?
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is there a mutt mystery meat really arguing wemby isnt a choker in this thread? Shocked Juan from Guatemala is not a ball knower.
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Imagine being a Pacers fan having to watch your ringless star player getting humiliated infront of a packed crowd at MSG as part of a Champion Jalen Brunson coronation segment for WWE.
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>>157002290
Because the Olympics steal their thunder. It just doesn't feel as important.
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>>157030625
Delete this
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>>157030574
>imagine something that didn't happen
Here's something that did happen
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>>157030890
>wembanyama patently did not choke
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I dare lebron to ringchase with the heat lmfao not a single one of those niggas can shoot the ball
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>>157031859
for me its the wha wha face
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>>157029950
Ok
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>>157032116
He's going to off ball heaven
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even with Giannis the Heat still aren't contenders.
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>>157032342
You’re retarded
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>>157032512
LOL, ain't no one scared of this.
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>>157032559
You mean Bam "better than Kobe" Adebayo?
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It's Ben Simmons' 30th birthday today :D
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I gave divegrass (aka semen slurping) a genuine try during the wc and I still don't understand the appeal of this garbage "sport" where nothing happens for 100 minutes
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Lakers were the best possible situation for Lebron in retrospect. It let him be a large part of the offense but had 2 better players to take the ball out of his hands when he got tired. It had shooters to keep things wide open for him to stat pad. It kept him relevant in the media due to the huge Lakers fanbase. It paid him the max despite being washed. Now he's about to be paid the vet min to be the 2nd or 3rd option on a worse basketball fit in a smaller market.
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>>157031835
do not engage with leafjeet after he got thoroughly put in his place you easily tricked faggot.

>>157031859
>video clearly shows castle LOOKING DIRECTLY AT wembanyama, giving wembanyama every reason to think "okay, he knows i'm about to pass it to him"

yes, proof was already posted that castle was the one who messed up there. thanks for proving my point once again you retard; concession accepted.
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>>157033230
This has to be an all time melty
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women's team
>Aces
future men's team
>Jacks
Las Vegas is truly a blight on sports. If the worseing climate doesn't render it an uninhabitable hellscape, then the coming financial crisis will have to do. Either way, I hope it burns and sinks under the toxic mud over which it's built.
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>ITS NOT WEMBYS FAULT HE THREW THE BALL INTO THE GUYS BACK AAAAAAAAAAAA
>ITS NOT WEMBYS FAULT HE MISSED ALL THOSE FREE THROWS AAAAAAAAAAA
>ITS NOT WEMBYS FAULT HE MISSED THE GAME WINNING SHOT AAAAAAAAA
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>>157033385
Right now Vegas is just a playground for boomers and it's completely morphed its pricing and attractions to extract as much money as possible from them before they die. I doubt that is a recipe for long term NBA team success. It'll be interesting to see what happens to Vegas once the boomers are ded.
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it took one (1) month for the wembysexuals to recover from their depressive episodes and are again showering their special boy with excuses.

the stain will never wash away.
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>>157002290
what countries even care enough about basketball for that besides the USA and China
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>>157010592
Ah, the old "he just needed more help" meme.

Anon, Iverson shot 43% for his career. Nash shot 49%. Brunson's at 49%. Stockton shot 51%. Stephen Curry's THEE POINT percentage is 42%. Curry is as likely to make a 3 as Iverson was to make a 2, which is one guy is a mutli-time champion and the other never won shit. If the guy who takes by far the most shots on your team misses more than he makes you're basically operating at a deficit the entire time
>but if he had better teammates...
He was paired up with Carmelo Anthony for two years when Anthony was the league's scoring leader and Iverson was #2. The explosive combination of the league's top two scorers produced....two first-round exits.

He was on an olympic team with LeBron, Duncan and Wade that should have cruised to a gold medal as usual but instead they got the bronze because Iverson, as he always did, took the most shots and bricked the majority of them. He "led" the team in scoring and shot 38%. When he was surrounded with HOF players he actually played *worse*

He wasn't a great rebounder, he wasn't a great defender, he wasn't a great passer. All he did was shoot and he was wasn't a good shot. His numbers are all from volume but he was grossly inefficient and it's not a coincidence that his best season came with a team where all his teammates just played defense and let him hog the ball on offense. And even then they only made it to the finals because that corrupt faggot Stern made the call because LA vs Philly was a juicier matchup than LA vs. Milwaukee.

A 5'11, 160 pound point guard who had no three point shot and missed more than half of all his shots was never winning anything as a team's primary option. "Pound for pound" is just cope because you don't get graded on a curve in the real world. It *was* impressive that he was able to compete at his size but his teams had a ceiling and always would. The olympics debacle makes this irrefutable. We stacked the deck and he still blew it
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So is the OKC "dynasty" over?
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>>157030218
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Avengers trailer came out today so don’t expect lebron to makes his announcement today.
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>>157033653
lets keep it 1hunna, if OKC have everyone healthy they're wiping the Knicks and the Spurs.
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>insane.jpg
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>>157033230
Why did Castle do this?
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>>157033734
>t. retard who forgot that the only reason the thunder lucked out was because haliburton's leg exploded in game 7

3rd world brain to go along with that 3rd world hygiene lol.
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>>157033873
They would have won anyway.
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157033771
>retard still begging for a response after his concession

not how it works ya little faggot.
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>>157033920
wrong. only 3rd world shit brains like you even pretend to believe that. since you have no argument other than "nu uh" i'll just go ahead and accept your concession. now get out of my thread you unwashed faggot. go pretend that your faggot shit hole's 3rd place finish in the ultimate faggot tournament is worth a damn in another thread or something. you do not know ball in the slightest.
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>>157033716
I'm an enormous oldfag comic dork who was reading comics when Secret Wars was fresh off the press and the Fantastic Four were still a prestige title. I cannot express how few fucks I give about Doomsday.

Just another movie with Dr. Doom where he isn't actually Doom. Roger Corman is the only guy who even tried to get it right and unfortunately his move had a $5 budget and was never released.
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>>157033646
Just letting you know that I did NOT read a single word of your post. So I'm happy for you, or sorry. Whichever is more accurate.
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>>157031859
>but I did eat breakfast

This fag is proud of being retarded lol
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>>157033716
Kek
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>>157034076
>some faggot capeslop geezer trudges into the thread to talk about his bullshit comic books from last century
>t.

wrong thread and wrong board, faggot.
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>>157033873
Thunder don’t have any 3 point shooting. It’s a miracle they won a ring with that roster in the modern nba. I predict they are not going to do shit unless they get SHOOTING on that squad
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>>157034191
>read my entire post
>realize all of it is factually correct and you can't refute it
>resort to "didn't read" copium to avoid having to admit I was right about everything
Pathetic but not unexpected
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>>157034076
Doom requires long form storytelling to set him up. Live action TV isn't going to have the budget for FF now that it's not a popular IP. And now that the beeg capeshit fad it over, things are about to shrink down to just Batman, Xmen, Spiderman, and Avengers with the occasional experimental flick. The muh proper Doom live action depiction ship has sailed.
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>>157033646
based anime poster
no lies detected
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>>157034279
Right, I forgot this board has a strict on-topic policy. I'm sorry I shit up this catalog by talking about movies instead of posting pictures of food or webms of whores like I'm apparently supposed to
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>>157034327
>a whole league just doing middies
I'd watch it. It would completely change the flow of offenses.
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>>157034327
Terrible idea
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>>157034327
>MJ still the GOAT
>KG, Melo, SGAY are on the Mt. Rushmore of GOATs
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>>157034327
This would probably lead to more meme-chucking, not less. Defenses would put all their effort into not letting ball-handlers into the 4-point zone, so they can just bomb uncontested 30-footers.
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>>157034481
>MJ still the GOAT
Never was
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>>157034505
Instead of step back 3s, players are taking step in long 2s
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>>157034506
YDKB
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>>157034349
Hey man that's great. I think.
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>>157034450
>I'm sorry I shit up this catalog

apology accepted. be careful with all that capeslop going forward because it can give you brainrot.
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>>157034450
Fried his ass
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>>157034327
4 points = shooting from inside the center circle
3 points = dunks and layups
2 points = everywhere else
free throws = only one shot for either 2, 3 or 4 points
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>The current state of inceltroon discordfags
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>Mavsfag having ANOTHER melty because people know Risacher is ass at basketball.
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>Free agent forward Matisse Thybulle has agreed on one-year, $3.3 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell ESPN.
'uka got his stopper
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>>157033646
>muh shooting %
Huh, I wonder if he would have had an easier time getting high-percentage shots if he had better teammates and didn't have to hero-ball every possession.
>paired up with Carmelo Anthony
When Iverson was 31 and fully declining from his peak.
>olympic meme
Not relevant at all
>muh rigged for LA-Philly
lel how can anyone take your post seriously if you say shit like this
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I just watched soccerfags shit up this board for months with porn and this faggot has the audacity to complain about a bit of avengers discussion.
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>>157034813
>soccerfags shit up this board
posted it again award
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>>157034813
kys
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>>157034810
I loved Thybulle and honestly believed he could have been a real star if he just learned to shoot 3's a little better. Kind of a shame, honestly.
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>>157034803
once again you are the ONLY one talking about the mavericks. you haven't even addressed your last bout of schizophrenia:

>>157031328
>where? you're the only one even mentioning them since an indonesian poster last did it over 100 posts you stupid faggot.

he clearly broke you if he's got you shitting yourself about a team that NOBODY but you has mentioned in damn near 150 posts now. 3rd world retards just shitting up the place now that soccer is over.
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>>157007224
Chet is not guaranteed at all to play better. That being said, even if he doesn't, if OKC and SA are both healthy, J-Dub being fully healthy will make enough of a difference to tip the scales in OKCs favor. San Antonio is really just banking on Wemby carrying the team on his back. Fox was supposed to be the big veteran PG presence but that was a bad signing in hindsight. I don't see SA getting too much better unless Wemby just goes absolutely fucking insane.
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>>157034810
Yes. We. Did.
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NGL I'm not impressed that MJ played with a 'flu.' Magic probably had AIDS for the last 3 years of his career.
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>>157009823
He wanted to to take all the shots so they got rid of the other shooters.
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LakeGODS got a real team rn. Be afraid.
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>>157034813
>I just watched soccerfags shit up this board for months with porn and this faggot has the audacity to complain about a bit of avengers discussion.
>t.
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>>157035021
Wait until WE get KVMINGA
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>>157034995
HIV/AIDs doesn't on it's own affect you if you don't get sick with something else. So if he had the flu he'd have been fucked but otherwise he'd be fine.
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>>157034908
He finally shot the meme well last year but had injury problems.
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>>157033716
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>>157034908
I saw him in a bagel shop near my apartment in Philly once when he was playing here. I didn't bother him though.
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>>157034813
‘cord hated this one
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>>157007938
>faced the shitty hawks
>faced the shitty 76ers coming off a 7 game series
>faced the shitty Cavs coming off a 7 game series
>faced the exhausted and young Spurs coming off a 7 game series
The Knicks remind me of the 2022 Warriors. A good team playing their best, but very, very fortunate with how the bracket played out/injuries. A ring is a ring, but I'm not going to bet on their sustained success. Only recency bias retards think the Knicks are at the beginning of a dynasty.
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anybody like the Live games? I've been playing 07 on PS2 and having fun with it
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>‘cord hated this one
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Söyjacking is an immediate concession btw.
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>>157035175
>the shitty 76ers coming off a 7 game series
Yeah, >we put all our energy into finally beating the Cs, and I'm ok with that
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>>157033716
He'll create some ugly looking graphic saying LeDoom is coming to play off the LeThanos meme from 2018
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>Klay Thompson when asked about going back to GS: "Never say never"
Imagone if this nigga actually crawls back 2 years later, after all that drama and trash talking. Ultimate KWAB.
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>>157035347
2026 Klay is doodoo
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>>157035390
Perfect fit for LeWashed and the Meme Team
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>>157035432
If LeBron goes to the Warriors, the Warriors might as well release a statement that says "We don't care about winning anymore. We had our run, and all of the staff and players here no longer care about striving for a championship. We got our 4, we got nothing left to prove, now all we want to do is sell tickets like a circus act."
Green, Curry, and Kerr are at the point where they've rounded the bases and they know the only way they compete for a ring is to either leave the team in Curry/Green's case, or blow up the team and rebuild in Kerr's case. Curry can still win on another team, but he probably just doesn't want to leave unless the situation is ideal.
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>>157034327
>>157034712
>introduce more gimmicks to try and mitigate a problem caused by a different gimmick
the redpill is realising the 3 point line was a mistake to begin with. the ABA introduced it to try and boost player stats against the NBA so they could claim they had better players, that was all. the NBA introduced it on a "trial basis" and just forgot to get rid of it. the experiment has failed, and until we admit that basketball will not start to heal. it's time to abolish the 3 entirely.
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But more importantly where will bronny play next season?
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how long will it take for wemby to lose the choker label? If OKC beats him next year would it be over for him?
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>>157035226
mockery =/= concession. using a word incorrectly like you just did, however, IS a concession, and i accept the one you just offered in full you capeslop worshipping faggot.
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>>157035594
Besiktas
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we got him
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>>157036167
AVRA
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>>157036167
>another random journeyman from a small market that lakers faggots everywhere will pretend is a big deal because the LA rehab center will work this time for sure

how does deandre ayton feel about his new teammate?
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My team is officially OUT of the LeBron sweepstakes and the fags who cover the team on YouTube are still all just gooning over the 0.01% chance of getting him
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Cant find my favorite jeans. Tips for not having a melty? they also dont make them anymore. They are from the denizen line. Spandex jeans that have a lot of stretch to them but they still look like normal jeans.
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>>157036625
>tfw no bloo jeen tha fit juss rye
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>>157036341
My Lakies did great with the Marcus Smart signing last season. You are just jealous lakie fans have more passion for ball than you
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>>157036665
>Marcus Smart

i see what you did there
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>>157036625
Levi Strauss has a similar jean I picked up recently.
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>>157035735
he has to make a buzzer beater every game for the next two years and then people might forget he choked a 30 point lead in the finals
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>>157036802
Daily reminder he did not choke
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wembitch has 18 months before the career ending back to back ACL tears
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>BREAKING: Mario Hezonja has informed Real Madrid that he is leaving for the #NBA.
Hezonjabros we're still here
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>the return
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>kuminga still not signed
Reminder that his agent is a dumb retard, if that wasnt already apparent from last year.
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>>157037165
Lebitch will probably retire after hearing the news
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>>157037181
Imagine being Jalen Duren's "agent"
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>>157037181
So is he. It takes two to tango.
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>>157037135
oh no...
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>>157037350
avra...
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>>157036167
>this puts the Lakers at 16 players, 1 over the max of 15
Bronny sisters....
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>>157035021
I unironically hope the Lakers have a better season than LeBron's new team. I want that egotistical faggot's farewell tour to be one prolonged humiliation ritual
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>>157037608
They will be and it will be. Also the Jaylen Brown Sixers will fail miserably.
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>>157035021
Luka, Reeves and Walker Kessler aren't a good big 3.
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>>157035175
The Knicks got incredibly lucky, particularly in lucking into favourable matchups for KAT.

But it’s hard to hate on that, they won fair and square with very little bs which is quite refreshing.
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Lakers honestly should see what they could get for Luka
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>>157037771
Some donuts would be nice for LuGOD
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>>157037771
>ynr the Wolves and Bucks weren't willing to give up ANT or Giannis for him when Nico was shopping him originally
kek
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Can someone explain what the deal is with Yaxel?
>he’s old so he should be polished
But he’s played like 3 years of actual basketball. He’s a huge late bloomer. Wheres this “polished” narrative coming from?
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>>157037889
>the bucks could've gotten luka instead of literally no ROI whatsoever
ya they were smart not to make that trade
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>>157037771
a gallon of sweet tea
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>>157037771
bout tree fiddy
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>>157037947
He's 6'9, 23 years old and played 6 years in college like a scrub. He's not good and he's not going to be good. He's being hyped up by the Warriors media machine to get fans to believe in the teams chances next season.
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>>157037947
>polished” narrative
What's the narrative
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>>157037995
I actually went to california once and they straight up do not drink sweet tea down there. faggot liberals
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>>157038102
drinking anything sweet makes you a faggot. quite ironic coming from you, sissy twink.
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>>157037947
old players typically come on strong and then get surpassed after a few years. I dont know how their history of playing basketball plays into it.
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>>157038134
sweet tea is for nigs so ur a racist for makin fun of them for liking it
welcome to the club!
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>yaxel
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>>157037947
He's this year's Obi Toppin. Older, late bloomer, good size, very effective player
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>>157038175
Not true. I hate when you retards mistake southern culture for nigger culture. The most based and racist people in america use the word y'all and drink sweet tea.
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>>157038134
>>157038102
drinking cum makes you a faggot. that's the whole list. you fuckin losers are spending way too much time associating refreshment with getting gaped.
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chances of lebron going to the spurs? it really only makes sense going to back to miami if he wants to have a decent role or cleveland if he wants to relax
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>>157038263
San Antonio day cares
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>>157031859
here's something that did happen
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>>157038263
0
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>>157038263
0. They said naw we good
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>>157038245
bad news ur black
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>>157038263
It has to be extremely low. But there is some logic to it just because I think lebron wants to become a coach or GM and there is no better place to go to learn how things are done right. And its also the most clear and obvious place he could go to get a ring because he can be the exact small/power forward whatever the spurs need so its a perfect fit from a basketball perspective.

The boomers in charge of the spurs are simply not going to let the camera crews and LeDocumentary happen. So I think its a no go.
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>>157038259
what if its my own cum. Thats not gay.
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>>157038263
0
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>>157038457
It's only gay if you like it
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>>157038102
they looked at me like I had three eyes. All we drink in canada is sweet tea
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>>157038385
Lebron wants to be an owner but waited too long to retire and now he's been priced out of team ownership since prices went up so much only billionaire jews can afford it now
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>>157038549
bad news, lebron is an actual billionaire
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>>157038690
even worse news, he is a jew
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>>157038690
its levels to this shit lil bro. you can be a billionare on paper but that dont mean you got it cash money fr
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>>157038690
>billonaire
You don't understand, bro. A billion in the NBA isn't actually a billion.
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>>157038770
according to the strict law of the torah..
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>>157038690
He's barely a billionaire. That's brokie status in the world of modern NBA owners. He'd have to team up with an entire ownership group and wouldn't have any actual control of the team
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>>157034812
>I wonder if he would have had an easier time getting high-percentage shots if he had better teammates and didn't have to hero-ball every possession
Anon, we already know the answer to this is no. He was surrounded by all-stars and hall of famers in the olympics (which absolutely do matter, stop pretending like they don't) and his percentages got worse. He played on an all-star team and still lost to international squads that had maybe one or two NBA starters at best, and it was entirely his fault. He was the team's leading scorer. His guy Larry Brown was the coach. And it's the only time since pros were allowed that the US *didn't* win. He didn't get better with better teammates. He just made those better teammates worse.

And I think it's hilarious that your excuse for the Nuggets thing going nowhere is that he was washed by 31. Is that supposed to be an argument in his favor? Steve Nash won his 2nd consecutive MVP at 31. Curry won titles in his mid-30's. Stockton played in back-to-back finals in his late 30's. But Iverson was in decline by 31? That just proves he wasn't in their league. Thanks for making my argument for me, retard.
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>>157037701
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>>157038134
Bodied that fat fuck
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>>157039085
holy retard take. AI being done when he was with Denver is well known. It's because he did drugs and drank a lot. It's nothing to even talk about in terms of that shit. I'm sorry AI is too hood for you.
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Anybody know what Wemby shot from the line with 5 minutes or less to go in the finals? It must be really really high percentage as he is so clutch.
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If LeBron goes to the Heat your three best players are ideal at the same position
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>>157040006
Yes
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>okc traded 3 players from their rotation for 7 second round picks

kwab
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>>157040052
unironically smart, because in the apron era 2nd round picks are going to be the best way to acquire valuable role players for cheap.

even if you get your salaries under control, other teams will be desperate for those picks. there's a reason 29 of the 30 2nd round picks were traded this past draft
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>>157040052
Those picks are the lube that Presti uses to fuck other GMs
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>>157040052
all of those dudes were dropping out of their rotation and they have immediate replacements for. They're literally doing the smart and correct thing, ridiculous jdub and chet contracts aside
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>>157040216
>>157040292
>>157040310
they are an injury prone team, they need as many players as possible and the ones they got rid of were playing 20 minutes at least each game

I mean maybe the rookies will end up being god tier again who knows
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>>157040617
>and the ones they got rid of were playing 20 minutes at least each game
Wiggins and Joe were both unplayable in the playoffs last season, and Dort heavily regressed. The minutes will be better off going to Mccain, Stirtz, and Topic.
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>>157040052
You don’t know ball
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>>157039866
>AI being done when he was with Denver is well known
I'm not saying it's not known, I'm saying it reflects badly on his status as an "all-time great" to be in noticeable decline at an age when his peers had some of their best seasons And as for.
>It's because he did drugs and drank a lot
Again, how it that an argument in his favor? So he might have had a longer prime if he wasn't a debauched alcoholic...whose fault was that? You want to give him hypothetical credit for shit he didn't accomplish because of his own bad habits?

And it's not that he's too hood for me, it's that his fake gangsta attitude makes him appeal to posers like you. If he was a white dude named Allen Templeton with the exact same stats you "ball knowers" would shit all over him and laugh at his bricklaying. I'm rating him correctly, you're the one judging on aesthetics
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>>157040617
>they are an injury prone team
don't worry, if they get injured some seething flyover cocksuckers will be in here declaring them the real headcanon champions if not for objective reality
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NGL I'm gonna miss seeing BBC on OKC. He was pretty fly for a white guy
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Anytime I see a frogpost in this general, it’s followed by the worst, most wrong bullshit you’ve ever seen.
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>>157040768
‘fraid so
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>>157040768
Frogposters in general are just retarded
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>>157040768
he's right about AI though
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>>157040768
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>>157040768
yea they’re just loud and wrong. many such cases
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>>157040768
This
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Is Yaxel any good?
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you've seen tingus pingus, now we give you yaxel waxel
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>>157040768
>mentioning frogposts is, in fact, making a frogpost (it's the subject of your post after all)
>it’s followed by the worst, most wrong bullshit you’ve ever seen

>>157040801
>>157040830
>>157040934
>>157040947
>>157041112
>an absolute FLOOD of butthurt faggots show up to agree with the frogposter, making them all totally wrong

looks like you were right retard
lol
lmao
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>>157040688
>Mccain, Stirtz, and Topic

Damn. OKC might not even win 60 games next season
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>>157041300
If he was any good then why did he play 6 years in college?
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>>157041752
you gotta understand: leafjeets are very delusional about the thunder because they heard the one bitch boy was from canada and now they have to pretend he's like wayne gretzky so they can fit in or something.
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wheres LeTeenageGirl going
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>>157041752
SGA + one of Chet or Jdub is 50+ wins by itself. You obviously don't watch the team, but Dort, Wiggins, and Joe were not some particularly special, they just thrived in the OKC system. Replacing Dort with Cason alone in the starting lineup will be huge.

>>157041833
More like you're a braindamaged retard who can't stop thinking about invisible indians taking over your brain every other second of your life. Touch grass.
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>>157041961
>but Dort, Wiggins, and Joe were not some particularly special
*roleplayers
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>>157041961
>SGA + one of Chet or Jdub is 50+ wins by itself.

holy shit...

3...

2...

1...

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>>157041833
Did the league patch SGA's flopping exploit? No? Then the Thunder will walk to the WCF again
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>>157042055
3 50+ win seasons and 2 60+ in a row with Chet breaking his hip and Jdub being out 40 games with hamstring and wrist injuries btw. SYBAU
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>>157042055
Not a fan of OKCbut wasnt JDubb injured most of this year
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>>157042157
>depth does not do the needful, sir

a second J Σ Σ T N V K Σ has been dropped... oh, the humanity!
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>>157042249
Nobody is saying OKC has no depth but you. Grown ass adult writing cringy shit like this, did a jeet take your creative writing job kek?
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>Nobody is saying OKC has no depth but you. Grown ass adult writing cringy shit like this, did a jeet take your creative writing job kek?
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>xhe's bringing out the wojaks
KWAB
BODIED that kid
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Another morning of Lebum taking his talents to South Beach again.
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>KWAB
>BODIED that kid
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Micheal Jordan never won a real championship all his rings came in a era of 3 and 5 game playoff series. So that's a whole 3 games of No crowds, no road traveling , no pressure. Just like y'all claim the bubble was. And sorry to Kobe fans he only got 1.5 rings
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>>157041961
Look if we assume everyone on the team plays around 70 games then yes this team will win over 60 games easily. The problem is that Caruso and Hartenstein struggle to play 50 games each season and both Jdub and Chet have both missed big parts of the regular season with major injuries one in 2025 and the other in 2026. That's why having players like Joe and Wiggins during the regular season is a big deal. The three players the thunder traded had played the 4th, 5th and 7th most minutes in the regular season for the team. And yeah they didn't play a lot in the playoffs or they weren't particularly good but they played a lot of minutes in the regular season to keep everyone fresh and not rush anyone back so the important players could all be available in the playoffs.

If OKC struggles again with injuries it's gonna be a rough year for them. But that can also be luck, although the Jdub situation with his hamstrings is concerning
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>>157042441
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I don’t give a piss bout nothing but my mavs
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>>157042921
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We are just about 15 minutes away from LeBron James announcing his intent to sign with the Sacramento Kings
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>>157042469
The part you're missing is that Hartenstein and Caruso get rest to recover from even the most minor injuries BECAUSE OKC has so much depth. They won 60 games WITH Hartenstein, Caruso, and Ajay missing 20 games each, Shai missing around 14, and Jdub missing 35. Wiggins and Joe's MPG have been heavily padded the past 2 years from them staying in the 4th quarters due to blow outs. Daignault is a maniac that would go 10-12 deep in regular season games just for data, and would spend about 1/3rd of the season letting second round rookie Brooks Barnhizer and 2 way Brandon Carlson stink up the floor in the first quarter of games just for the hell of it.

Without those 3 that were traded, you still have a team of

SGA - Ajay - Topic
Cason - Mccain - Stirtz- Oweh
Jdub - Caruso - KRich
Chet - JWill -Sorber
Hartenstein - Mara

Every single one of those players but the 3 rookies and maybe Sorber and Topic are serviceable roleplayers. A 10 player deep roster is more than enough for the regular season, and everyone else is the cake on top. You literally just need the core of SGA and either Chet or Jdub and the team can win games against 3/4th of the league, the rest of the roster are just plug and play pieces that fit into the system seemlessly. The second last game they played against the Nuggets last season is probably the best example of this.
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>>157041300
Dray gon punch him out
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>>157041690
You just proved them right
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Jakobe Walter gonna be 6moty this season
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Why do we continue to allow Canada to exist.
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>>157043086
If the King wins one for the Kings, then he's the GOAT
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>>157000099
Why does this 42 year old mam talking like a 13 year old teenager?
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>>156999736
Meal.
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>Baron Davis
>Stephon Marbury
>Steve Francis
Who are you taking?
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>>157043659
Is there a reason why you’ve posted these meals for years, and your alone every single time? Last time I asked you, you ignored me, like every other time I asked you something. Touched a nerve didn’t I?
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>>157043429
I have no idea. They clearly have no will to fight back. They are already genociding themselves via jeets and have no military. It would be morally wrong to not conquer them at this point.
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>>157043808
You’re retarded. There’s zero reason to attack Canada.
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>>157043835
Don’t give trumps minions any attention
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>>157043835
canada attacked first with their jeetsmoke
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>>157043113
>The part you're missing is that Hartenstein and Caruso get rest to recover from even the most minor injuries BECAUSE OKC has so much depth.

How am I missing that? I just said that having Wiggins and Joe was good for the team because it can keep the important players fresh and not rush them back from injuries and now they won't be able to do that since they lost 3 players from their depth.

Anyway this team obviously is still really good but everyone will have to play more minutes and won't have the luxury to sit out games or just rest more on the bench while still winning games which was the big positive about this team the last years. I mean a big part of why they were winning a lot is their defense and their defense was so good mostly bcause they kept having fresh legs coming after you again and again and now that won't be so easy to do with 3 of them gone. Maybe the rookies will be able to do it as good but I wouldn't count on it much. But if they can play games and stay healthy they will be fine probably
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LeBron can wait until one minute before the deadline if he wants to. He’s earned that right.

And please don’t tell me what you would do.

You’ve never built or defined an industry.

LeBron isn’t just another player-he’s a category.

And let’s not forget: this is his place of employment. The same NBA that gives players virtually no courtesy when it’s time to trade them. Many of them find out online at the same time the fans do.

So spare me the lectures about professionalism.
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>>157043835
I just explained. The people are being genocided by their own leftoid politics. They should be liberated from their own democracy.
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>>157043324
nah, he proved himself right which opened the door for me to dunk on butthurt faggots like him and you.
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>76ers GM Mike Gansey said during the Summer League game today Tyrese Maxey has grown 3 inches.

>"He (Maxey) has had a little growth spurt, now stands at around 6’5 1/2. We’re going to experiment this upcoming season. He will take it up another level." Mike Gansey states.
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>>157044363
>giving players HGH
signal that lebum is going to philly
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>>157044363
This has to be bullshit lol. I’m thinking these guys are doing special stretches and super hydrating prior to getting measured. Which is understandable because it means real money for them. But I don’t think it’s real. For example NFL players can get like half an inch on hand measurements by doing stretches. That’s half an inch on a hand. If we are talking about wingspan I would think you could make tremendous gains using some torture device from the Middle ages.

Inb4 growth hormone. That shit does not make you grow taller after puberty
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I'm glad lefraud is finally off my lakies. Dealing with this nigga drama every off season is exhausting.
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>NYC fags boo Wemby at NBA shootout
>Wemby hits 5 for 5 and silences the crowd

Holy aura holy aura holy aura
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>>157044725
Couldn't hit them when it mattered tho
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>>157034450
kek
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>>157037181
he wanted 20mpy while lakers can only offer 10mpy for 2 years apparently
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>>157045040
The interest from the Lakers seems fake. He seems like a player JJ wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole. No BBIQ, can't shoot, bad hands, doesn't rebound. Just a fraud hyped up by the Warriors who were trying to trade scam another team. Not surprised he's still jobless.
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>>157044725
if you can't hit practice shots you shouldn't be in the league calm the fuck down this doesn't help
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>>157045170
Thybulle on the other hand is a JJ guy and I expect him to have a good season if he can stay healthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvEJCD_nIdw
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nuggets' news? is aaron gordon finally gone?
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>>157045170
Kum to lakers is mutually beneficial, so he's basically proved what Kerr and the entire league thought. He's a good for nothing retard.
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Bro don't listen to leafjeet. He was bragging a couple weeks ago about how Can'tnada is better than USA because he doesn't see any black people where he lives... only in the next comment to brag about SGAy. I can't make this shit up
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>>157044725
Lol
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>>157045325
>Kum to lakers is mutually beneficial
huh?
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>Haitian
Yeah alright that actually makes sense lmao
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>>157045485
Is that SGA? That nigga has been on my mind. No cap, I been thinking about that time when I barebacked him raw in a Toronto Air BnB. That shit had to be the tightest, blackest, wettest boy pussy I've ever laid pipe into. I swear to God, the most heavenly high is gargling that wonderboy's nuts while going fist deep into his shitter. I had SGA screaming in the sheets with head too ridiculous to ignore. That nigga frotted my cock until he busted on my mouth, I had to return the favor. That nigga SGA and I been fucking non-stop ever since, but keep that shit on the DL. He does that shit for free. If you're gonna ask me how to "long" SGA, I'll be deadass. All you gotta do is ask, be straight up, and get physical real quick. Touch his nuts, get on ya knees, talk your shit. He doesn't play around with no pansy-ass niggas either. He likes his men manly, and his dick thick. Dark skin, 6'5 is the minimum and I ain't talking about height boy.

That nigga SGA stole my heart and drank my seed.
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>>157043659
my nigga heard about the cyclospora in the lettuce and said LEMME GET SUMMA DAT
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>>157045612
kek
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>>157045485
she knows
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>>157045485
No more locking up Puka 4 games a season :(
Oh well, Cason does it ever better so tubby still stays losing
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>>157046152
what are you implying?
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>>157043659
do you keep up with the news? why would you ADD lettuce?
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>>157045485
90% of blacks in Montreal are Haitians
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>>157043659
youve got to be the most retarded person on the planet
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lets go mavs
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>>156999736
Vsevolod Ishchenko, im high on him.
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>>157047191
nice
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>>157046152
knows what?
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>>157047191
I watched him play in summer league, looked ok. usally guys like him stay in europe. suprised he stayed with the mavs
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>>157047556
masai was cooking
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HOW MANY PESOS DID YOU PAY FOR THAT
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>>157047602
5
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>>156999736
avra
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>>157047602
wrong thread?
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What do you mean lebron still hasn’t signed with a team yet?
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>>157047637
he wanted to do it today but the avengers trailer got in the way. its gonna be tmmrw (tuesday)
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>>157047637
bro there's a like 2 weeks until the attention window closes with football starting again. You think Lediva would waste a moment of that
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>>157047648
What does capeslop have to do with this?
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>>157047637
atteintonwhore
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>>157047675
well at least spell it right lol
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Why did some retard make an early thread during the off season? Did he think the NBA general was busy ?
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>>157047688
kek
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>>157047673
everything
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yall niggas gone learn
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>>157047768
Learn what?
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duncan the GOAT btw
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>>157047637
No one wants him, not even the South Florida Sails. Klutch media has been trying to spin it like it's his decision to make, but Lebron's been desperately trying to sign for any team for the vet min.
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I would like lebron
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>>157047778
facts
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>>157047778
carried by a yuro allstar team
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NEW
>>157047846
>>157047846
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>>157047853
Dumb fag can't bother getting this to bump limit first
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>>156999736
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>>156999736
I'll do it, I'll bump the thread to get it out of the catalog



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