[cLaY]

I really don't think Heat make it to the conference finals. They are so front loaded that come playoff time, when the bench really matters, they are gonna be fucked. I think Orlando is the team to beat in teh East next year. Not signing Turkegloo (Sp) was a major fuck up. They need to dump VC ASAP.

[WoolyGoat]

Jermaine O'Neal have anything left in him?

[cLaY]

Comparable to Sheed. Thing is Jermaine doesn't have the ability to step out and hit jumpers. I don't think Ainge is being very smart. He's pluggin' holes, not really building on youth. Losing Tony Allen may be a huge loss.

[WoolyGoat]

TA was a train wreck offensively, but did great work on the offensive end. he's overpaid now, though.


'sheed wasn't half bad in the playoffs, but it was a long regular season. not really loving how next year's squad is shaping up.

[Anhil8tor]

So Paul toasts Melo saying wait till our 3 gets going.. .sposedly in new york with amare...


?

[BIRD33]

This is the new thing, guys colluding on the side to play for a winning team.Why not if every team has the same cap and taking a few million less will be made up by raising your profile and endorsements.It will happen until the league stops it most likely during the next collective bargaining agreement


I just bet $25 the heat don't win next year with a customer.Ballsy.

[quint]

i never collect on customer bets

[Anhil8tor]

Hornets relieve Bower of his position...



I am not surprised.

[WoolyGoat]

Shelden Williams has left teh Cs!!


honestly i thought he was solid early on filling in for Baby, but the few minutes he played in the post season were disasters.

[BIRD33]

Lebron owns every major scoring record for the Cav's.

Do they retire his number?

[Anhil8tor]

nope.


They hate the guy.

[BIRD33]

Best Basketball team name ever.





New Zealand assistant coach Dillon Boucher said the NBA star(Kendrick Perkins) was on their radar as a prospective member of the national squad, although not for the upcoming world championships in Turkey.

Perkins’ estranged father Kenny Perkins lives in Christchurch and was a veteran of the New Zealand National Basketball League in the 1980s and 90s.

“I believe some contact has been made with his father,” Boucher told the Waikato Times.

“He’s out for about six months now with an injury but we’ll probably go down that avenue in the next year or so.

“We don’t know what his eligibility will be in terms of being able to play for us but it’s definitely something worth pursuing.

“It would be awesome to have him playing for the Tall Blacks.”

The “Tall Blacks” is a fairly clever play on the nickname for New Zealand’s rugby team, the All-Blacks. (Their uniforms are black from head to toe).

http://celticshub.com/2010/07/22/a-brief...ants-perk/

[BIRD33]

Also the Spurs giving big money to Richard Jefferson(4 years, 38 mil) is a joke.That franchise is now an old folks home.

[BIRD33]

Also the Hornets won't be in NO in 10 years.Thank Chris Paul and Lebron James.

[WoolyGoat]

Paul and 'melo possibly joining Amare in NY by next year?

[BIRD33]

I really believe the NBA will put a stop to anymore super teams coming together.Think about how bad the NBA's image is right now.Great product but you've got the inmates running the asylum.The Decision debacle,The Miami Cheats,Donaghy and the Refs and now players picking and choosing where they will and wont play after they sign a contract like Chris Paul is trying to do.

I read Pauls disappointed in how the hornets are being run.Did he just arrive in NO last week?Why did he sign that contract less then 6 months ago or whatever?

I see Stern in the next bargaining agreement clamping down on this.

I could see melo(he's a free agent after this year) and Amare but I dont see paul being set free like that.

[Anhil8tor]

Also the Hornets won't be in NO in 10 years.Thank Chris Paul and Lebron James.

I predicted that months ago silly