Totes magotes.

You should've channeled your inner Vince Vaughn.

This is why I prefer to just kick someone in the balls (or the babymaker, if it's a woman).

man, lebron looks old as hell in those videos. looks like he is almost 40.

Roids will do that

he really does look old

Hasn't he looked old since he was 19?

Random Question: Anybody know what the longest odds for an eventual NBA Champion were on the first day of the season?

Would like to exclude situations like KG to Celtics where when odds were released they were probably like 50-70/1 but got narrower after an offseason move.

Gotta imagine the 2011 Mavs were the longest, they were 12/1 at the start of the playoffs but can't find an article for preseason odds.

for the modern era i would guess the pistons would also be up there, considering the Lakers had the Malone/Payton lineup that went south to start the season.

Well, he is Greg Oden's father after all.

I was going to say he still looks younger than Greg Oden's rookie year.

i had a friend that bet on the Mavs at 25/1 that year. I can't remember if that was before the season started or before the playoffs started.

That's a spicy meatball. Hopefully he bet a cool grand on it.

I'd think '04 Pistons would be up there. Got swept by the Nets the year before in ECF. Didn't get Sheed until midseason.

'14-15 GS is up there as well. They were a 6 seed that lost in rd 1 the year before.

Hmm, it's probably '14-15 GS unless you go back to the 70's or something but no clue if they even had futures then. Had SA, OKC, LAC, Houston and maybe even Portland all ranked ahead of them in that conf going into the '14-15 season.

What about Duncan's first?

It's the Warriors tho.

Terrence Jones signing with a Chinese team for 1 million per year. Bizarre. He must just be really uppity in practice or something to be blacklisted like this. Hes a good modern day 4.

Replying to a comment on YouTube, Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant had one word in response to a fan who said Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James is the better player: "Nah."

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jones had a lot of injuries and some fairly serious ones. maybe they took their toll

Maybe he ****ed LeBron's mom too?

swap the two players and the cavs get a lot worse. warriors def get better. its pretty clear who the better player is until lebron gets a bit older.

both teams get worse imo. cavs a lot, warriors slighty.

Warriors get worse mostly because Lebron would disrupt their system and culture. Durant deserves some credit for integrating seamlessly with Warriors, and the disease of me hasn't hit them at all yet, but Lebron was literally pantomiming shooting himself in the face and then took a 2 week vacation in the first few months of his 2nd return to the cavs. I think part of that is because middle america lauded his phony letter so much and hated on Durant's move so much, that it gave Lebron a ton of rope to be a jackass, and Durant had to deliver immediately, but Lebron is going to leave an organization as a flaming dumpster fire for the 3rd time in 8 years this summer, so I think there's a fundamental issue there.

If you live in a world where you have perfect strategy/coach and there's no relationships, obv just take the 2nd goat and best talent.

This is flawed logic. LeBron would be leaving the organization "as a flaming dumpster fire" bc the teams are only as good as LeBron takes them. Not like there were chemistry problems in Cleveland the first time around or Miami. In fact Miami kept Wade+Bosh, replaced Bron with Luol Deng, AND got half seasons out of Goran Dragic & Hassan Whiteside...and still couldn't make the playoffs. This is the first time there have been perceived chemistry issues, and they seem to mostly fall on the shoulders of Kyrie and his "Mamba mentality". You're basically punishing LeBron for being able to make meh teams look like title contenders which is silly imo.

lebron brought the team a title. lol at the rest of that bs.

Yeah pretty sure you trade a title and 3-4 straight finals appearances for what they will be in a couple years... esp when you have Kyrie and Love on good deals and netting assets.

They'll be in a perfect position to tank

i don't think it's a coincidence that miami was able to shine up 5 d league players into like 200 million in contracts right when lebron leaves since they're no longer getting a gun held to their head. with wade aging quickly, miami had a fundamentally flawed blueprint, and was a dumpster fire waiting to happen, but LBJ definitely added some kerosene on the way out since miami drafted shabazz napier with his intentions in mind and had to wait out free agency 10 days longer than durant or hayward made their teams wait, mostly so lee jenkins could write a letter. if and when lebron leaves cleveland in 2018, they'll be just as gutted.

my larger point was that curry and durant let the coaches coach, the GMs GM and other stars share part of the spotlight. if you're building a super team it's not just about having players who can pass, it's about having players who take other considerations into mind on and off the court. they're not passive aggressively tweeting teammates and signing 1 year contracts in perpetuity while asking their teammates to make 4 year commitments. lebron james is a great teammate if you're richard jefferson, not if you're a star.