The Perpetual NBA Thread

[theveed]

Rockets REALLY REALLY need a good PF next season, one that's a hustle player na ala Oakley dati or Jerome Williams type, kaya ang baba ng rebounding average ni Yao despite his height... Every offensive possesion pag rebound na, sya against 3 rebounders from another team...

Houston looks like it's ready to dominate since both of their core are young and strong.

I really like Chicago's chances next year as well...

As for Mia vs Was... Here's a pic that tells all about game 1 hehe



Is it just me or he looks like Paul Bearer of WWE

http://www.gerweck.net/williammoody.jpg

Kawawa naman Seattle injured Radman and Allen

[theveed]

Here compare

[ILuvDetailing]

What the Rockets need -> Althletic PF, who can play defense and block shots (Stromile Swift? ), a shooting 3 man, a young athletic point guard who can run a team, some more athletes of the bench...

[stinkaboy]

yes, ive read that NASH is this years MVP. I think he deserves it.

[H1Tman]

go Pacers!

[ILuvDetailing]

Buss Isn't the Heavy in Squabble With Shaq
T.J. Simers

Impt. Excerps

You think Buss is to blame for Shaq's departure and the demise of the Lakers. You've got Bryant pegged as the reason Shaq is no longer here. Anyone who says differently is a Kobe lover, which is about as low as you can go these days in name-calling for some people.

Some of you even think Mitch Kupchak can't do anything right, but then I'm not here to argue with you.

The Lakers are a mess, all right, and one person is to blame, but it's Shaq, who continues to take whiney potshots at Buss & Co., and the more he does, the smaller he appears. Right now I've got him standing neck and neck with Lil' Penny.

"[Shaq is] 60 pounds lighter in Miami than he was in Los Angeles," Buss said. "And as you've probably gathered recently, he seems to be having some [health] problems. My reaction was, if he was not willing to get in shape, which he had five, eight years, some number of times to do, and we urged him. It seems that the motivation for him to lose weight was to trade him."

Buss was the guy paying Shaq twenty-some-million dollars while getting less than the best from O'Neal, who still had two years remaining on his contract and who wanted a two-year, $60-million contract extension right then and now.

Shaq wanted to be traded because he wasn't getting his way.

It's easy to spend Buss' money, and hard to argue that Shaq isn't a dominating player when at his best, but how often did Buss get the best from him in the last few seasons? Shaq was due to be paid $27.6 million this season, according to published reports, and that still wasn't enough to make him happy?

And you remain sympathetic to his side — get over it.

When Shaq began the 2003 exhibition season running up the court in Hawaii and yelling at Buss, "Now you gonna pay me?" Shaq was a tub. Had he been 60 pounds lighter at the time, the Lakers might have gone on to easily win another title. And another. But he wasn't in shape, and he was getting older.

As a businessman, what would you have done? Why is this so hard to understand? I feel like I'm talking to the wife.

There is no evidence that suggests Shaq would have found the motivation to lose weight while remaining a Laker. He put off surgery on his foot one year to better enjoy his off-season at the expense of the team. And Bryant gets all the criticism for not being a team player.

Had Buss brought Shaq back, let's say for one more season, he would most likely have gotten an out-of-shape giant packing a serious bad mood, especially if the Lakers re-signed the free agent Bryant.

Shaq went to Miami and got into shape because he had to impress/persuade a new organization to give him a contract extension. He thought the Lakers owed him that contract extension. (He owed the Lakers to learn how to shoot free throws better.)

Miami still hasn't given him an extension. He's now working for his money, and future paydays. Just imagine how unstoppable he would have been here, doing the same thing.

"I suspect if I had known he was going to lose 60 pounds I probably would have made a different decision," Buss said.

Shaq's response was once again petty, telling the media in Florida, "I didn't need motivation, I needed a real owner, like [Miami's] Micky Arison. Not a guy who parties with girls that are three times [younger] … "

A real owner to Shaq is someone who will open his checkbook to him. It's all about Shaq.

"Jerry Buss needs to retire because his comments, like his decisions, are dumb as hell and make no sense," Shaq said, and so there.

And you're still defending the big baby who doesn't know when to shut up.

Full Article here -> http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...adlines-sports

Now if the Miami Heat wins the NBA Championship, and give Shaq a FAT extention... My bet is that he's gonna get fat and retire...

[aann]

i agree...if shaq stayed in shape i'm sure buss wouldn't have traded him...

[theveed]

Los Angeles... What a place to be in

The saga continues.

[aann]

para k shaq, dpt d guaranteed yng contract at may clause sa na dapat may i-maintain sya na certain weight kundi la sya sweldo...hehehehehe


pero seriously, dapat d guaranteed yng mga contract ng players sa NBA...para maiwasan yng mga ginawang tactics nina Mournig, Jim Jackson, Glenn Robinson etc...yng mga bigalng ayaw mag-laro for no valid reason...kng d sila maglaro, dpt la sila swelduhin...milyun-milyon pa man din kinikita ng mga yan!!!

[theveed]

I think a writer addressed that issue as well... Classic case yung sa Washington dati sina Webber, Howard at Strickland.... Sabay sabay tinamad.