Dolfan in NYC Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Someone on reddit got served an ad that accidentally leaked the new Minnesota logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Love it! It's like they improved the original logo in every way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Orlando has fired their GM, Rob Hennigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 The Knicks and Phil Jackson have agreed to pick up the 2 year option Jackson had because of course they did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Hahahahahahahahahhahahaha ..... Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ... Aha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 The Lakers don't seem to want Metta World Peace to come back as a player (according to MWP), but if he retires, there's a spot on the team (according to Pelinka). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Dirk saying that he might come back for ANOTHER season after next year if he's feeling healthy. Fuck it, give me 30 years of Dirk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 To both Dirk and Carlisle's enormous credit, they figured out how to make what's left of Nowitzki useful for yet another year. I'm not upset the Pistons fired Carlisle way back when (I mean a title and damn close to a second makes the Brown mini-era way better) but damn he was good here, good in Indy, and found a perfect fit in Dallas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 To be fair, I don't think anyone at the time realized how much of a mid-game mastermind he was(or did they? Early 2000's is my NBA dark period). We didn't see Rick make something out of literally nothing back then, the way he has the last 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 He turned the Pistons around and into a contender pretty much instantly and was coach of the year in 2002. We knew he was good. Only reason he was fired was Larry Brown becoming available and Brown pushed it over the finish line after Carlisle got swept in the ECF. He may very well have won a title if they hadn't fired him (and almost certainly he wouldn't have been flirting with the Knicks job during the fucking finals) and he also might have won one in Indy if not for the Malice at the Palace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I'm waiting for MWP to end up on the Pistons. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted April 14, 2017 Author Share Posted April 14, 2017 Carmelo is probably not going to be a Knick for much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Dion Waiters is my favorite* player now. *non-Diaw division 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 2 hours ago, Zimbra said: Dion Waiters is my favorite* player now. *non-Diaw division I want him on the Heat forever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I told you all last off season it was crazy nobody paid him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 So OKC. This season gets a pass because obviously they were still built around Durant being their main superstar. But if they want to focus on Westbrook and want him to put up Harden-like MVP numbers, they need shooters and spacing and a sure-handed pick and roll big man. So, basically, they need to get rid of everyone. But imagine a world where an unselfish Westbrook driving the lane and kicking it out to 4 solid shooters on the perimeter, or running a pick and roll with lobs into alley oops. Unstoppable. I don't know if it's ever gonna happen in OKC, but maybe when Westbrook and Paul George end up in LA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted April 27, 2017 Author Share Posted April 27, 2017 148(!) underclassmen have declared for the NBA Draft. I'm not saying something needs to be done about 120 kids, who will never sniff the NBA, throwing away their future, but... Something needs to be done about 120 kids, who will never sniff the NBA, throwing away their future 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 56 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said: 148(!) underclassmen have declared for the NBA Draft. I'm not saying something needs to be done about 120 kids, who will never sniff the NBA, throwing away their future, but... Something needs to be done about 120 kids, who will never sniff the NBA, throwing away their future There are 60 or so draft spots total (I'm blanking on if the NBA has 30 or 32 teams. If 32 there are 64 spots). There are 148 underclassmen declaring for the draft. If so many of them are that bad at math I question the college education they have received to this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatling Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 The NCAA changed their rules last year so now kids can declare for the draft and have until 10 days after the draft combine to withdraw and retain eligibility, provided they don't sign with an agent(they can do this twice, a third declaration and their eligibility is gone apparently). By the list on CBS Sports from yesterday, they have 137 underclassmen declaring(plus another 45 international players), I counted 43 that have signed with an agent. Most of the ones that haven't signed with an agent will go back to school. Take the kids from IU for example, four declared but only OG Anunoby signed with an agent. I guess there is an outside chance someone makes a promise to James Blackmon or Thomas Bryant, but most likely they end up back in Bloomington along with Robert Johnson next fall. The reason the kids do it is to get feedback from NBA teams on what they need to work on to get drafted in the future. Sure, sometimes a kid declares like this and gets great feedback and/or even a promise from a team so they go ahead and sign with an agent, but most of them do it to learn what part of their game needs improvement to get drafted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour have all passed on signing projected high lottery pick, Lonzo Ball. This is apparently because his father/agent (Red Flag!), LaVar, has told them he wants them to instantly give his son an entire brand and wants to be "Co-branded" rather than signed. They also were presented with shoe prototypes, created by Lonzo's father to make as his first shoe. Quote Last week, Nike consultant George Raveling, at SportsBusiness Journal's World Congress of Sports, called LaVar "the worst thing to happen to basketball in the last hundred years." I wonder if L'Coq Sportif has any interest in making basketball shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 I can't wait for the BBB for Starbury line of shoes. Lonzo seems like a good enough dude despite all this, I hope he has the sense to sideline his dad as soon as possible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 I'd argue that Nike is the worst thing to happen to basketball in the past 100 years but that's another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 They're both two sides of an ugly coin that don't like looking at eachother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 You think Luke Walton is looking at Kerr being out again, and reports that he might not be able to keep coaching, and starts thinking "why the fuck did I take this Lakers job?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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