The Perpetual NBA Thread

[baiskee]

hayuf! naka pag high five si aljeff and gomes...at naka tignin pa si farmar. :lol:

[empy]

saw this on the front page of espn.com :lovers:

[baiskee]

cha-cha? tanggo? :lol:

[theveed]

What's with the Bulls??? Dang...

[theveed]

Duh...

""It's one game,'' said Richard Jefferson, who led the Nets for the sixth straight game with 28 points. "We're not going to play our best ball now. Right now, they are on a roll. They are not going to go undefeated. I will stand by that.''"

Wow, that's a prediction...

[theveed]

Nate: OMG! A GHOST??? AN ALIEN??
David: *GASP*
Allen: Screw you, I'm playin ball!

[ssaloon]

the chicago fans were chanting KOBE in that blowout loss to the raps...

[theveed]

Hehe why can't they get rid of Thomas and Marbury??? hehehe

Not every Knick happy with Marbury's return
By Johnny Ludden, Yahoo! Sports
November 15, 2007


LOS ANGELES – The New York Knicks began to rise from their locker-room seats Wednesday evening, stretching their legs one last time before running onto the Staples Center court to face the Los Angeles Clippers, when a voice came from the back corner of the room.
“I want you guys to know I’m sorry,” Stephon Marbury said, “for everything you’ve had to go through the past couple days.”


The players turned to look at Marbury, waiting to hear if the Knicks’ prodigal point guard had anything to add. Over the previous 48 hours, Marbury had threatened to “bury” his coach; left the team in Phoenix to fly home to New York; reportedly incurred a team-issued fine worth just under $200,000; and, finally, jetted back across the country to Los Angeles to rejoin his teammates.
Marbury, however, stayed quiet. He hadn’t even bothered to stand up to issue his brief apology.

This is what the Knicks had come to expect from their $20 million star. The size of the gesture didn’t matter as much as its lack of sincerity.


And that’s why, less than 24 hours earlier, when Isiah Thomas dispatched Jamal Crawford to find out how the players would react if and when Marbury rejoined the team, all of them voted against allowing him to play.



Thomas, according to one person who spoke with Crawford, had pledged to hold out Marbury if even a single Knick didn’t want him on the court.


So how did Thomas react to the team’s unanimous vote?
He sat Marbury until late in the first quarter then played him nearly 34 of the game’s remaining 39 minutes.


The Knicks lost, of course, falling 84-81 to an injury-riddled Clippers team that many in the league expected to be anchoring the bottom of the Western Conference. Marbury clanged a late 3-pointer, then was powerless to stop Cuttino Mobley from backing him down for the clinching turnaround bank shot.


Afterward, Thomas said his personal feelings toward Marbury wouldn’t keep him from putting the team in the best position to win.


“I’ve played with people I don’t like. I’ve won with people I don’t like,” Thomas said.



“We’re a professional basketball team. My job is to try and win the basketball game.
“However I feel about a person, that doesn’t matter. We’re tying to win. Whatever happened in the past is in the past.”


That’s doubtful. Marbury said after the game that he’s “cool” and can “walk with my head up” and that “going forward, I’m fine.” The problem is that many of his teammates aren’t fine. They’re fed up with him.


The Knicks lived with his bizarre television appearance. They listened as he admitted to having *** with a team intern in the back of a truck. And when Thomas let Marbury know Monday that he was planning to bring him off the bench against the Phoenix Suns, they even weathered the resulting firestorm. One person on the plane, confirming a report in the New York Daily News, said Marbury threatened to “bury (Thomas) and the Knicks” with unseemly information about the coach.


But when Marbury left his teammates high and dry in the desert? That was too much.


The Knicks let out a collective sigh of relief when told Marbury had left. For one night, at least, they didn’t have to stomach his selfishness. But as soon as Marbury walked into the visitors’ locker room Wednesday, smiling as if he had just crisscrossed 9,000 miles in 48 hours for the sheer pleasure of pumping up his frequent-flier account, the team was once again on edge.


Thomas said Marbury needs to provide leadership and defense to win back his starting job, and that should be good for a few more laughs. Leadership? From the guy who deserted his team? Even if Marbury left with Thomas’ permission, as Marbury claims, he still left.


In spite of their frustration, the Knicks don’t have anyone willing to challenge Marbury, and they’re quickly losing faith in their coach doing so. Thomas, perhaps weighed down by his role in the team’s recent ***ual harassment lawsuit, has seen his own leadership erode. Some nights he’s miserable after a loss; on others he almost doesn’t seem to care. The players don’t know what to make of the mixed message.


As a result, even Marbury’s harshest critics in the locker room don’t think he deserves full blame for the team’s 2-5 start. Too many players have played too poorly for it to be the fault of one.


Still, the Knicks are tired of being the league’s longest running joke, and Marbury has been their clown prince. From Larry Brown’s settlement to Anucha Browne Sanders’ lawsuit to Marbury’s current feud with Thomas, the circus has stayed too long in New York, even if the rest of the NBA continues to find it entertaining.


“I could have taken LSD, hallucinated AND been a great writer and I still couldn’t have made this stuff up,” said one rival team executive.


So, for now, the Knicks’ runaway train continues to careen off the tracks with Marbury and Thomas sharing the engineer’s chair. Everybody seems to be enjoying the ride except those actually on board.

[ILuvDetailing]

Reports coming out from Cleveland say that King James doesn't want Marbury coming to the Cavs.

Come to think of it, who wants a cancer on their team even for the veteran minimum? I don't think the Marbury even cares about winning, every team he's been on hasn't had playoff success or didn't make the playoffs.

[kimpOy]

2008 all stars
http://www.nba.com/allstar2008/
my vote

EAST

Dho
KG
LBJ
Chauncey
KIDD

WEST

cambyman
dirk
boozer
bdiddy
deron

[baiskee]

my all stars

WEST
C - YMing
PF - TDuncan
SF - SMarion
SG - KBryant
PG - BDavis

EAST
C - DHoward
PF - KGarnett
SF - LJames
SG - DWade
PG - JKidd

[ssaloon]

D12 halimaw, 30 pts, 23 rebs! a 30-30 game looks like a distinct possibility for the manchild!

[theveed]

Talk about delusional Knicks....

Despite blowout, Quentin Richardson still not impressed by Celtics

BY FRANK ISOLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Saturday, December 1st 2007, 4:00 AM

Quentin Richardson was not backing down from his remarks that he was not in "awe" of the Celtics' Big Three, one day after Boston beat the Knicks by 45 points.
"I don't really care if a big deal was made," Richardson said Friday. "I still believe the same thing that I believed before the game."

Kevin Garnett revealed after Thursday's game that Celtics coach Doc Rivers posted Richardson's comments in the team's locker room. Garnett said he and his teammates were motivated by Richardson's quotes.


"I'm a competitive athlete," Richardson added. "I'm not about to be afraid of anyone because they have three great players. Because they have Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce, are we supposed to crawl into a corner and say we're afraid to play them? Go ask the other 29 teams and you show me a player that says he's afraid to go play them. I've never heard of that."

YOU COULD SAY THAT: Isiah Thomas gave a non-answer when asked about Garnett's comments that Stephon Marbury had quit during Thursday's loss. After the game, Garnett told TNT, "Steph's different from how he was in Minnesota. You just don't come out and quit. You got to have a reason or someone has to make you quit."


Asked about Garnett's quotes, Thomas told reporters: "I think what happened to us (Thursday) night, it's safe to say that you could say a lot of things. And that's where we were (Thursday) night. But I'm hoping that won't be the case (last night)."

STUNNER: Thomas continued to say he was "shocked" by his club's performance in Boston, especially after it had played so well in beating Utah on Monday.
"I sat watching my team, and everything that we talk about strategically we didn't execute," he said. "The players that normally make shots or do things, I was totally shocked and I think our players are shocked and I think people that have watched us play over the last couple of games were shocked. If (Utah coach) Jerry Sloan watched that game, I'm sure he was shocked. But it happens, and unfortunately it happened to us."

ROLE MODEL: Queens product Charlie Villanueva met prior to last night's game with a group of children who suffer from Alopecia, a rare disease that causes no hair to grow on the body and affects an estimated five million people in the U.S., including Villanueva. The Bucks forward says he feels fortunate that he can serve as a role model to kids who suffer from this disease and get them to talk openly about the effect it has on their confidence and self-esteem.


SUN TIME: The schedule doesn't get any easier for the Knicks, who play host to Phoenix Sunday and head to New Jersey on Wednesday.

[tsupermario]

Marko Jaric is dating Adriana Lima :shocked2: lucky bastard :swear:
:heart:
http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/news...el_071129.html

[baiskee]

swerte naman ni adriana. :bwahaha:

:gayfight:

[wren]

why don't they ever learn?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3147811

[theveed]

Binaril nanaman tinsley hehe

[baiskee]

i-drop na si tinsley.

[zidane21]

go brandon roy!!
9-game winning streak ngayon portland!

[zidane21]

Heat center Alonzo Mourning has surgery on torn knee ligament
By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer
December 20, 2007

MIAMI (AP) -- The notion of not seeing Alonzo Mourning play basketball again is a difficult one for the Miami Heat to accept.

Mourning had surgery Thursday to repair a torn patellar tendon in his right knee and a quadriceps tear in the same leg. The injury, which he suffered Wednesday night in Miami's overtime loss at the Atlanta Hawks, will almost certainly keep Mourning sidelined for the remainder of the season.

And since Mourning insists this season is his last, that would mean his career is likely finished as well.

"I lost a brother," Heat center Shaquille O'Neal said Thursday night before Miami hosted the New Jersey Nets. "I lost a partner. I've lost a bodyguard."

Heat coach Pat Riley said Mourning would be in a hard cast for a month, then a soft cast for another month, followed by a period of rehabilitation that could last six more months.

Riley -- who often says he and Mourning are joined at the hip -- isn't counting the 15-year veteran out yet.

"My dream: That he will make the remarkable comeback and he will block Tim Duncan's dunk in the seventh game of the finals," Riley said. "If you keep that image in your mind and if it ever came true, then you'll know this is meant to be."

The 37-year-old Mourning is Miami's franchise leader in several categories, including games played, points scored, rebounds, blocked shots and minutes played.

"Zo defies the odds," Riley said. "We're very concerned about it. This man has a spirit that can never flatline. It just can't. It's always erupting. We're going to miss that, big-time."

Mourning's injury was tinged by irony: It came on the fourth anniversary of the kidney transplant that saved his life.

He was diagnosed in October 2000 with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a disease that keeps kidneys from properly filtering waste from blood and necessitated the transplant.

Most people thought he'd never play again.

Mourning proved them all wrong. But now, even his biggest fans believe this is the end.

"I don't want to speak for him, but I think he is probably done," O'Neal said. "He's definitely a Hall of Famer and he is definitely going to have his jersey retired and I'll be there for that ceremony and I'll give a great speech that day."

Mourning was hurt when attempting to do what he does best -- defend the basket.

He was backtracking and getting ready to contest a layup by Atlanta's Mario West, when his knee buckled as he was about to leap.

He immediately grabbed the knee, pounded the floor in disbelief, and told teammates, "It's over."

"He's one of the fiercest competitors," said New Jersey forward Richard Jefferson, a former Mourning teammate with the Nets.

Mourning was once the team's biggest star, and although his role has changed over the years, his status as a fan favorite never wavered. Mourning still got perhaps the warmest reception of any Heat player when he entered games at home.

In 838 career regular-season games, Mourning has averaged 17.1 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.8 blocks. He is a seven-time All-Star selection and two-time NBA defensive player of the year.

you will be remembered 'zo!

sayang nag-end career nya just like Karl Malone (season-ending injury)