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View Poll Results: who rang?

Los Angeles Lakers

17 35.42%

Brooklyn Nets

6 12.50%

Milwaukee Bucks

3 6.25%

Los Angeles Clippers

4 8.33%

Boston Celtics

2 4.17%

Philadelphia 76ers

0 0%

Miami Heat

0 0%

Denver Nuggets

4 8.33%

Dallas Mavericks

6 12.50%

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08-01-2021 , 02:37 PM

#10676

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,608

Glad Goran is getting extra $ and that the heat have a trade lined up. Just don't give up too much for the honor to pay Lowry's fatass 30 mega

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08-01-2021 , 03:41 PM

#10677

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,608

Spoiler:

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08-01-2021 , 10:38 PM

#10678

All-inMcLovin

Wholesome Mod

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 49,560

Luka and Slovenia BEAT Spain 95-87! Luka is STILL UNDEFEATED playing with Team Slovenia!

Spain swarmed the F out of Luka so he only got 7 fg up (2-7) and scored only 12 pts but he had a near wholesome triple double with 14 reb and 9 ast.

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08-02-2021 , 02:53 AM

#10679

nucleardonkey

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2020 Posts: 1,252

Luka played very smart. Amazing how he trusted his teammates, who mostly suck, and never took dumb shots that weren't there. Best 12 point Game I've seen from a big star. Their center is Mike Tobey ...

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08-02-2021 , 04:33 AM

#10680

Banzai-

veteran

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,712

Luka is just so damn good lol.

Live for finals next season, the West sucks. Completely don't believe in this RWB Lakers idea, Kawhi won't be back, Murray (probably?) won't be back, CP3 is a year older and leaving apparently anyway? So who else is there to stop LUKA? GWS and Jazz I suppose. (Also obviously Lakers are still very live, but man I reeeeally don't like this move haha)

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08-02-2021 , 01:54 PM

#10681

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,608

Wow Russ is so loyal to the great people in OKC.

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Originally Posted by Momo

RUSSELL WESTBROOK IS many things as a basketball player -- aggressive, explosive, inefficient -- but most of all he is decisive. A man of action, the saying goes. When there is no shot, he will create one. When there is no path to the basket, he will find one -- through sheer force of will or chutzpah.

So in the summer of 2019, while the rest of the NBA world fretted over who reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard would choose between the Toronto Raptors and his hometown Los Angeles Lakers or LA Clippers, Westbrook was coming up with a plan to collaborate with him on a homecoming.

Westbrook had become a father of three the previous November, and while he'd made a home and carved a Hall of Fame legacy in Oklahoma City, the chance to live and play in Los Angeles, where grandparents and his large extended family and friends could visit every day, held deep appeal.

Teaming up with Leonard would be the fastest way there, so he placed the call, according to multiple sources. But Leonard didn't just take the call as one native son of Los Angeles to another, ponder it and file it away.

He used it.

According to multiple sources, Leonard then called Westbrook's teammate in Oklahoma City, Paul George, and told him he'd rather team up with him on a homecoming.

George had always longed to play in front of his family as well but had formed a close bond with Westbrook in their two seasons together in Oklahoma City and was content to stay.

Leonard's call upended all of that, though. And within a week, Leonard was teaming up with George -- not Westbrook -- for their hometown LA Clippers.

While Westbrook began a journey that would take him to three new teams over the next two seasons, each time moving farther from both the NBA championship he'd been chasing his whole career -- and his hometown of Los Angeles. But he never gave up hope of fulfilling those goals.

His longtime agent Thad Foucher helped guide him through each of those massive trades, which seemed independent of each other until you consider the previously unknown prologue between Leonard and Westbrook, which began the entire chain of events and now looms as a delicious subplot to all future Lakers-Clippers games.

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08-02-2021 , 02:13 PM

#10682

tarheels2222

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Lol Kawhi is such a *****.

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08-02-2021 , 02:47 PM

#10683

GTO2.0

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 3,784

Kawhi clearly does not understand human interactions. On the other hand he’s smart enough to know George >>> Westbrook, which I feel like most NBA players would flip.

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08-02-2021 , 03:24 PM

#10684

All-inMcLovin

Wholesome Mod

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 49,560

**** a Kawhi, he's like Papa Doc in 8 Mile.

These Paper Champions got you gassed up!
Now, who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
One, two, three, and to the four
One Jordan, two Jordan, three Jordan, four
Four Jordan, three Jordan, two Jordan, one
You’re Jordan, he’s Jordan, no Jordan, none

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08-02-2021 , 03:54 PM

#10685

tchaz

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Originally Posted by GTO2.0

Kawhi clearly does not understand human interactions. On the other hand he’s smart enough to know George >>> Westbrook, which I feel like most NBA players would flip.

This is what makes us all

Kawhi.

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08-02-2021 , 06:10 PM

#10686

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,608

how it started

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Originally Posted by Dubnjoy000

I mean, as much Florida is a shythole and whatnot, I did take great pleasure witnessing the Raps proving that they are BY FAR the best team in that state. And quite honestly, especially those scrubs Miami Heat who continue to reflect how the bubble was a joke. Of course, this is only a one season thing of playing down there, but I still take immense pleasure in this fact

how its going

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08-02-2021 , 06:14 PM

#10687

THAY3R

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haha

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08-02-2021 , 06:14 PM

#10688

Seadood228

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Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 30,345

vin had that queued up for a while now methinks.

Great signing though.

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08-02-2021 , 06:15 PM

#10689

THAY3R

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 36,550

da bulls

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08-02-2021 , 06:17 PM

#10690

jh12547

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 5,328

Damn Cavs are giving Allen 100 mil

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08-02-2021 , 06:53 PM

#10691

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,191

2/32 for Barton seems like a good deal for Denver. 3 years and I would've felt a tad differently.

4/74 for THJ is yuck but understandable with the spot they're in.

Conley on a 3/72.5 I don't know how I feel about but it validates the initial trade I guess.

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08-02-2021 , 06:54 PM

#10692

Dubnjoy000

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Hummmm, not sure how I feel about Lowry joining the Heat... On the one hand, I don't think I will be taking any pleasure in him actually making that squad half-arse decent, a team (this is worth repeating) that is the historically worst ever to win the Chip to then go on and lol hilariously surpass themselves in terms of humiliation levels by becoming the God forsaken worst finals team ever

On the other hand, I will always be rooting for Lowry, despite the lol team that he finds himself on.

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08-02-2021 , 06:55 PM

#10693

that_pope

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Suns!

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08-02-2021 , 06:57 PM

#10694

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,191

Lonzo with Zach is a great fitting pairing. Lonzo next to a creating two is his best situation (as he's a one who gives up the ball or a two himself).

4/85 seems really, really nice for Chicago.

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08-02-2021 , 06:57 PM

#10695

72off

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vini pretending like he didn't spend years slandering lowry if he plays well down there is gonna be ugly to see

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08-02-2021 , 06:59 PM

#10696

DodgerIrish

Fraudulent Zodiac

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,191

Lowry on the Heat speaks to the new NBA: aim to be one of the top six to ten teams and hope to bink in the 'offs.

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08-02-2021 , 07:03 PM

#10697

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,608

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Originally Posted by 72off

vini pretending like he didn't spend years slandering lowry if he plays well down there is gonna be ugly to see

El Rat has laid the template for hating on your team into a championship. I might follow

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Originally Posted by DodgerIrish

Lowry on the Heat speaks to the new NBA: aim to be one of the top six to ten teams and hope to bink in the 'offs.

Also the new NBA of paying olds that play smart

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08-02-2021 , 07:12 PM

#10698

TimM846

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,725

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Originally Posted by that_pope

Suns!

Obv good signings, but they're not getting past the 2nd round again.

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08-02-2021 , 07:16 PM

#10699

vinivici9586

Breakfast?

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11,608

Seadood and the Nugs gonna get As for their offseason due to signing J Mike and Green for value deals, while heat will get a C- for signing the top* FA. calling it now.

*fraudulent title, and technically Kawhi/CP3 is top