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[No. 16]

Owners hate paying players to stay home.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Warriors are apparently keeping Wallace.

oof. he has more been anything but terrible for like 2.5 years.

Maybe just keep trading for progressively cheaper dudes on expiring contracts?

 

[Capella]

Magic signed some white guy ??

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

Lee to Celtics for Gerald Wallace.

Good trade by Danny, Celtics looking at the #3 or #4 seed next season.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Let's not go nuts here.

 

[Jack White]

Bulls re-sign Aaron Brooks. For better or worse, they now have the same top 10 players as last year.

Were there any better options?

I like Brooks' ability to score for the second unit.

But he was dreadful in the playoffs.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

 

[thecatch]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

 

[Jack White]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Ending conferences is not realistic.

Even with the advent of luxury travel, potentially having teams criss-crossing the country multiple times for three straight series is not a great idea.

 

[Jack White]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

Not a lock at all, especially with the way Boston and Brooklyn finished strong.

 

[thecatch]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Ending conferences is not realistic.

Even with the advent of luxury travel, potentially having teams criss-crossing the country multiple times for three straight series is not a great idea.

It's not realistic because there's no incentive for franchises in the weaker conference to support that kind of change.

 

[Jack White]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Ending conferences is not realistic.

Even with the advent of luxury travel, potentially having teams criss-crossing the country multiple times for three straight series is not a great idea.

It's not realistic because there's no incentive for franchises in the weaker conference to support that kind of change.

Sure, that's true also.

Many reasons against it, and not many in favor of it.

 

[msudaisy26]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

Not a lock at all, especially with the way Boston and Brooklyn finished strong.

They would have made the playoffs and probably took the Cavs in 7 in the 1st round. 2016 Heat will probably win 55+games with the second best shooting guard and Heat legend D. Wade playing 70+ games and winning the mvp. Plus baby LeBron will be guarding 4 players at once, while Whiteside locks down the other player and grabs every rebound since baby Bron can't block every shot, but just so we don't get carried away the Heat lose to Kobe and the Lakers in the finals. Kobe shots 55 percent for the playoffs, while averaging 45 minutes a game with 11 assists per game, and only 1 turnover.

 

[SWC]

frankly brohans i do not know why we keep calling justice mini labron i think it is clear that we should be calling labron big winslow take that to the bank bromigos

 

[Bobcat10]

Harold Miner

 

[Capella]

Harold Miner

What about him

 

[Fariq]

Harold Miner

Todd Fuller

 

[Bobcat10]

Harold Miner

What about him

Baby Jordan played on the same team as Mini Lebron. That is all.

 

[Mister CIA]

GIFt

 

[Bobcat10]

Bill Simmons ‏@BillSimmons 17m17 minutes ago
The winning Lee/Olynyk/Zeller nickname is... Tres Leches. Runners-up: Vanilla Sky, White Walkers, The Vanilla Triangle, Boston Cream Pie.

 

[Mister CIA]

Bill Simmons ‏@BillSimmons 17m17 minutes ago
The winning Lee/Olynyk/Zeller nickname is... Tres Leches. Runners-up: Vanilla Sky, White Walkers, The Vanilla Triangle, Boston Cream Pie.

Lesquik

 

[Abraham]

The city jam slam dunk contest was on tonight from DC. These guys make the NBA dudes look like amateurs. Through the legs, over a car won the thing. And that wasn't even the best dunk of the day.

 

[simmonjm]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

 

[SWC]

i watched a little bit of highlights of okafor in summer league he looks pretty good scoring on nice turn around js and making good cuts through the lane taking pases and making a jam i think the lakers are probably going to regret that one brohans take that to the bank

 

[Insein]

i watched a little bit of highlights of okafor in summer league he looks pretty good scoring on nice turn around js and making good cuts through the lane taking pases and making a jam i think the lakers are probably going to regret that one brohans take that to the bank

It is summer league but damn if it's not exciting. Sixers will be improved this year with just Noel and Okafor down low.

 

[SWC]

i also went to church last night and we worshipped justice winslow for a while so that was nice bromigos

 

[Jack White]

i watched a little bit of highlights of okafor in summer league he looks pretty good scoring on nice turn around js and making good cuts through the lane taking pases and making a jam i think the lakers are probably going to regret that one brohans take that to the bank

It is summer league but damn if it's not exciting irrelevant. Sixers will be improved this year with just Noel and Okafor down low because how could they be any worse.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Reminds me of the 80's when the East had strong teams in Boston, Philly, Milwaukee, Atlanta, New York, Detriot... and the Lakers had a free pass to the WCF and all the fans of West teams were like OMG END the conferences this is so unfair oh wait..

 

[TobiasFunke]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

 

[SWC]

what is clippers doing brohans they let jordan go bring in lance stevens bring in paul pierce and still have chris paul who is basically about as good of a sportsmanship teammate as kobme i am hopeing for epic fireworks and meltdowns out there and maybe blake cheap shotting someone on his own team instead of another player on another team for a change but hey yay kia commercials doc is not making a very impressive picture as a gm is all i am saying take that to the bank

 

[Captain Quinoa]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

I'd give NY and Det better chance than that.. up around 30% maybe. Add Portland to the West list.

 

[thecatch]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Reminds me of the 80's when the East had strong teams in Boston, Philly, Milwaukee, Atlanta, New York, Detriot... and the Lakers had a free pass to the WCF and all the fans of West teams were like OMG END the conferences this is so unfair oh wait..

I wouldn't feel any differently if the West was the weak conference (my team isn't a threat to anyone anywhere), and the cyclical nature of this type of dominance just shows that the East's opposition to this kind of reform is shortsighted (though we are in the middle of a verrrry long cycle). Fans of the sport in general deserve better than the East bracket in the playoffs.

 

[TobiasFunke]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Reminds me of the 80's when the East had strong teams in Boston, Philly, Milwaukee, Atlanta, New York, Detriot... and the Lakers had a free pass to the WCF and all the fans of West teams were like OMG END the conferences this is so unfair oh wait..

I wouldn't feel any differently if the West was the weak conference (my team isn't a threat to anyone anywhere), and the cyclical nature of this type of dominance just shows that the East's opposition to this kind of reform is shortsighted (though we are in the middle of a verrrry long cycle). Fans of the sport in general deserve better than the East bracket in the playoffs.

The number is exciting, watchable first round playoff matchups would be basically the same. You'd lose the usually watchable 2 vs 7 and 3 vs 6 matchups in the West and replace them with blowout 2 v 15 and 3 v 14 series.

This sort of imbalance is common across all sports throughout the years. It has lasted longer in the NBA because there's less parity and because the Spurs have knocked everything out of whack (seriously, just move them to the East and the Bucks to the West and it basically evens out), but it'll come back around, maybe as soon as the 2016-17 season after a huge free agency summer.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Reminds me of the 80's when the East had strong teams in Boston, Philly, Milwaukee, Atlanta, New York, Detriot... and the Lakers had a free pass to the WCF and all the fans of West teams were like OMG END the conferences this is so unfair oh wait..

I wouldn't feel any differently if the West was the weak conference (my team isn't a threat to anyone anywhere), and the cyclical nature of this type of dominance just shows that the East's opposition to this kind of reform is shortsighted (though we are in the middle of a verrrry long cycle). Fans of the sport in general deserve better than the East bracket in the playoffs.

I'm sure the 1-16, 2-15, 3-14 and 4-13 matchups in the first round would be way better than watching the first round of the East bracket.

ETA: Or what he said above.

 

[msudaisy26]

i also went to church last night and we worshipped justice winslow for a while so that was nice bromigos

Winslow heard of your worship and demands a sacrifice, then he will be pleased.

 

[TobiasFunke]

Also, from a practical standpoint there's just no ####ing way they're gonna schedule road playoff games for East Coast teams for 10:40 PM starts, which is what would happen if they got matched up with a West Coast team. You can make it work for the Finals because there's no other games to schedule around so you just start at the optimal time for a national audience.

 

[msudaisy26]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

I'd give NY and Det better chance than that.. up around 30% maybe. Add Portland to the West list.

I give Detroit a good chance at getting the 7th or 8th seed. I believe they were right around .500 once Smith was cut.

 

[Capella]

i also went to church last night and we worshipped justice winslow for a while so that was nice bromigos

Winslow heard of your worship and demands a sacrifice, then he will be pleased.

Winslow guarded all 5 donation plates IMO

 

[thecatch]

Definitely do not stop piling on todem, but to be fair, weren't the heat definitely going to make the playoffs before bosh went down?

They were 22-30 in mid February when Bosh went down but they were tied for the seventh seed. #EndConferences

Reminds me of the 80's when the East had strong teams in Boston, Philly, Milwaukee, Atlanta, New York, Detriot... and the Lakers had a free pass to the WCF and all the fans of West teams were like OMG END the conferences this is so unfair oh wait..

I wouldn't feel any differently if the West was the weak conference (my team isn't a threat to anyone anywhere), and the cyclical nature of this type of dominance just shows that the East's opposition to this kind of reform is shortsighted (though we are in the middle of a verrrry long cycle). Fans of the sport in general deserve better than the East bracket in the playoffs.

The number is exciting, watchable first round playoff matchups would be basically the same. You'd lose the usually watchable 2 vs 7 and 3 vs 6 matchups in the West and replace them with blowout 2 v 15 and 3 v 14 series.

This sort of imbalance is common across all sports throughout the years. It has lasted longer in the NBA because there's less parity and because the Spurs have knocked everything out of whack (seriously, just move them to the East and the Bucks to the West and it basically evens out), but it'll come back around, maybe as soon as the 2016-17 season after a huge free agency summer.

The fact that a matchup between two superior teams in a conference-less system might be as imbalanced as a matchup involving inferior teams in a weak conference isn't a compelling argument, in my view. You do make a good point about the tip off times and there isn't an easy way around that.

 

[matuski]

How cute.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

How cute.

Ugh.

 

[matuski]

How cute.

Ugh.

My favorite part is Chris Paul wearing a CP3 shirt.

 

[Instinctive]

I think there are a lot of teams that conceivably make the playoffs in the East.

I'm only counting out Philly and Orlando. Any of the others I could see running to the bottom 2-3 seeds.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

How dare you...

 

[Frostillicus]

i watched a little bit of highlights of okafor in summer league he looks pretty good scoring on nice turn around js and making good cuts through the lane taking pases and making a jam i think the lakers are probably going to regret that one brohans take that to the bank

Russel has more superstar potential, IMO. Less than Towns, of course, but a lot.

 

[Frostillicus]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

How dare you...

He must not even watch basketball.

 

[TobiasFunke]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

How dare you...

It's all for the best. Next year you'll grab the PF you need in the mid/late lottery and be poised to take over the West in 2016-2017.

 

[hxperson]

i watched a little bit of highlights of okafor in summer league he looks pretty good scoring on nice turn around js and making good cuts through the lane taking pases and making a jam i think the lakers are probably going to regret that one brohans take that to the bank

Russel has more superstar potential, IMO. Less than Towns, of course, but a lot.

Everyone knows Okafor can be a dominant scorer in the post, especially against non-NBA level competition. That's why he's a top 3 pick. But I doubt we'll see anything out of summer league that will give us any indication that he can overcome his sizable deficiencies (poor help defense, limited range, and awful FT shooting) at the NBA level and justify being taken over the D'Angelo Russel we saw at Ohio State.

Of course, Russel could struggle badly in summer league, which would change things.

 

[tommyGunZ]

i watched a little bit of highlights of okafor in summer league he looks pretty good scoring on nice turn around js and making good cuts through the lane taking pases and making a jam i think the lakers are probably going to regret that one brohans take that to the bank

Russel has more superstar potential, IMO. Less than Towns, of course, but a lot.

Everyone knows Okafor can be a dominant scorer in the post, especially against non-NBA level competition. That's why he's a top 3 pick. But I doubt we'll see anything out of summer league that will give us any indication that he can overcome his sizable deficiencies (poor help defense, limited range, and awful FT shooting) at the NBA level and justify being taken over the D'Angelo Russel we saw at Ohio State.Of course, Russel could struggle badly in summer league, which would change things.

Russell debuts Friday at 5:30. Set your DVRs.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

The East was so bad last year that you can make a legitimate argument that pretty much any eastern conference team is a playoff contender except the 76ers.

I count about four teams in each conference I'd feel pretty safe eliminating from next year's playoff race right now. Maybe I'd be wrong about one of them but I'd put their chances at less than 10% or so. Philly, NY, Detroit, Charlotte, Sacramento, Lakers, Minnesota, Denver

How dare you...

It's all for the best. Next year you'll grab the PF you need in the mid/late lottery and be poised to take over the West in 2016-2017.

To start over Towns?