The Perpetual NBA Thread

[baiskee]

1 is enough....





























balik ulit sa west

[Gumusut_Amige]

I remember that

Mmm... did Pat Riley "guarantee" another championship next season? hehe I remember him doing that during a Laker championship parade (if am not mistaken it was 1987)

http://O'Neal guarantees another title at Heat parade...
Guess O'Neal has gone overboard... by guaranteeing another title at Heat parade. Though with Wade presence, a higher mountain to climb if he continues to do brick counting...

[tsupermario]

Gary Payton told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that he wants to come back for one more year and help Miami defend its championship. Is it too much to ask for G.P. to take the summer and think it over?

Gary Payton ...shessh he should retire. No word yet on Zo and Riles though..

[tsupermario]

Funny:

Presenting the first postseason Rosen Awards

Since the NBA names MVPs for both the regular season and the NBA Finals, I feel totally justified in presenting the first annual Rosen Awards for the recently completed playoffs.


Hot air
The award goes to Kobe Bryant for claiming that he can score off Raja Bell any time he wants. If that were true, why didn't Kobe score at least 100 points per game during the Lakers-Suns series?


Peter Pan
The award goes to Rasheed Wallace for refusing to grow up.


Cro-Magnon
The award to Chris Kaman's hair stylist.


Golden Globes
Appropriately enough, the award has two winners: Reggie Evans and Jason Terry.


Alice in Wonderland
The award goes to Isiah Thomas for saying, immediately after the Knicks' season was mercifully terminated, that, if he had to do everything all over again, he'd still hire Larry Brown and make the same player-deals as before.


Pinocchio
The award has two recipients. Larry Brown, for saying this about the recently-concluded Knicks' season: "I'm a better person for this experience;" And Stephon Marbury, for voicing a similar sentiment: "This season was the best year of my life, and Larry Brown has made me a better man."


Even a broken clock is on time twice a day
The award goes to Mark Cuban for proposing that only the best refs work the playoffs.


One noun fits all
The award goes to Marv Albert for blithely describing every move that Shaq makes with the ball as a "drop-step."


Sherlock Holmes' perfect crime
The award goes to Alonzo Mourning, whose warrior-like performance in the finals seems to have obliterated the fact that he stole millions of dollars from both the Nets and the Raptors.


Taking my ball and going home

The award goes to LeBron James. Before the Cavs' first playoff game, LBJ refused to talk to any and all of the gathered media because a sportswriter, who'd been traveling with Cleveland all season long, picked Washington to win the upcoming series.


Not quite Nostradamus
The award is shared by Rasheed Wallace and Ron Artest for publicly guaranteeing victories that never happened.


Kryptonite
The award goes to Shaq, who refused to talk to the media after his stinko performance in Game 2 of the championship series, but then, after the Heat won Game 3, boasted that he was Superman.


Gertrude Stein
The award goes to Mark Cuban and the Mavericks for their reaction to the penultimate play of Game 5. While it's true that Dirk Nowitzki didn't foul Dwyane Wade on that fatal play, Wade was indeed kneed and tripped by Devin Harris. To paraphrase Stein, "A foul is a foul is a foul is a foul is ..."


Pie in the face
This award goes to Moe Dolan, Curly Brown and Shep Thomas.

Dolan has only one qualification for ruining ... er, running the Knicks — with his daddy's money. This guy is naive, stubborn, paranoid and a continuing embarrassment to the NBA.

After all these years, Brown has finally been publicly revealed as a rampaging egomaniac. Not to mention his petulance, his penchant for pointing fingers in every direction but at his mirror and his ability to lie with a straight face. Up until now, only his players and fellow coaches have been aware of Brown's true persona. Since he's now out of the closet, Brown's days as an effective NBA coach are defunct. Given a team full of unquestioning, worshipful players, Brown's talent for teaching would be best employed in a college situation, high school or junior high.

Ever since Thomas has been a civilian, he has repeatedly demonstrated that he possesses a single but extremely valuable talent — getting highly paid jobs. The down side is that he's also been fired from each one. Now he's the coach/GM of the Knicks, and is out to prove that he can win with "his" players. And how will he go about trying to accomplish this? No doubt by imitating the Phoenix Suns' get-up-and-go game plan.

So look New York to run and run amok, take bad shots quickly and often and play a minimum of defense. For sure, the returning "Nix" (like last season's Pistons) will enjoy the absence of Larry Brown, and will play with more spirit — for a while. Hey, Thomas may even lead New York to six or seven more wins than Brown did.

Aside from Eddy Curry's severe limitations, Jerome James' big butt, Quentin Richardson's bad back, Nate Robinson's preposterously inflated ego, the mileage on Malik Rose's wheels, Channing Frye's lack of toughness, Maurice Taylor's uselessness without the ball in his hands, the best days of Jalen Rose's career rapidly vanishing in the rear-view mirror and Steve Francis' habit of choking in the clutch, Stephon Marbury remains the biggest obstacle to having the Knicks become the Eastern Conference's version of the Phoenix Suns. And that's because Marbury is to Steve Nash as Darth Vader is to Albert Schweitzer.

Oh, well.

For NBA fans everywhere (except in New York), the saddest prospect of all, however, is the diminished merriment and laughable low jinks resulting from there being only two stooges left in the greatest show on earth.

Charley Rosen is FOXSports.com's NBA analyst and author of 13 books about hoops, the current one being "The pivotal season, How the 1971-72 L.A. Lakers changed the NBA."

[kimpOy]

Trade Rumor na...

Marion to Sonics?
http://draftexpress.com/viewarticle.php?a=1369

[ILuvDetailing]

If that deal pushes thru, Marion will be fantasy beast up there in Seattle, with their running game. But why trade Barbosa?

[theveed]

Hope not, that would be a dumb move if Phoenix went with that...

[zidane21]

almost impossible... one of the franchise players na ng phoenix si marion para mong sinabi na ite-trade ng spurs si manu ginobili! pero because of the luxury tax bka nga possible mangyari, just like in new jersey (nung nag cost-cutting measure sila with the kenyon martin trade and end up having vince carter!)

pagka ganun bka ito ang maging possible new starting 5 nila:

C Amare Stoudemire
PF Boris Diaw
SF Rashard Lewis
SG Raja Bell
PG Steve Nash
6th Kurt Thomas
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[kimpOy]

max deal kasi si marion, nash and amare...
and boris diawcan do marion's job with a cheap price tag...

[theveed]

But Phoenix doesn't have the depth, and Rashard for Marion??? It's not like Rashard is cheap as well.