The Perpetual NBA Thread

[tsupermario]

^ to quote shaq: just one of 'em days :puyat:

[theveed]

sobrang desperado na itong si ainge at this early stage...

McHale and Ainge... Ampusa hehehe...

[baiskee]

sino ba yung kaaway ni bynum....parang nag iinit ulo nung pinanood ko sa replay. oversize gary coleman talaga kahit init ulo. :lol:

[chain]

If the guy who got whacked doesn't think Kobe Bryant is a dirty player, maybe that should settle it, as far as the Wolves are concerned. Guard Marko Jaric, who got hit by Bryant's notorious flailing arm in the team's March 6 meeting at Target Center, waved off the claim. "There are a lot more players in this league that you have to be concerned about," Jaric said. "To be a dirty player, you're trying to hurt somebody and you're trying to make a dirty move when the referee doesn't look. ... There are at least five, six dirty players in the league that I know of.

Add an old teammate to the list of Kobe Bryant's defenders. Mark Madsen of the Minnesota Timberwolves got an up-close-and-personal look at one of the recent incidents that caused the NBA to take disciplinary action against the Lakers superstar. Madsen watched from courtside in Minneapolis as Bryant hit Minnesota's Marko Jaric in the face after releasing a shot. Jaric, who fell to the court holding his cheek, later said he didn't think Bryant had intentionally tried to hurt him.

I played with Kobe Bryant for three years. I know him on and off the court," said Madsen before Sunday's Lakers-Timberwolves game at Staples Center. "Kobe Bryant is not a dirty player. But what happens is that Kobe Bryant plays harder than 99% of the players in this league. That's what makes him so talented. Kobe plays clean. He plays hard.

in defense of Kobe. also, how come a league is fining him for something that the refs didn't even penalize?

[tsupermario]

here goes kobe again...

Word is Kobe Bryant has already called Kevin Durant on behalf of Nike and that a shoe deal ranging between $30 million and $50 million simply needs to be presented.

Last Thursday, Texas coach Rick Barnes was taunted by a friend in Spokane, Wash., who said during a shoot-around that there's no way Durant comes back for his sophomore year. Barnes replied, "I'll bet you a steak dinner he does come back."

But if Texas' 18-year-old prodigy turns down life in the NBA to take biology and travel to Manhattan, Kan., instead of taking leather-couch charters to Madison Square Garden and Staples Center next season, we will all be witnesses to a minor miracle.

Even Taras Brown, the man who sculpted Durant's game back in Seat Pleasant, Md., and the man Durant calls his godfather, said a potential shoe deal – not Durant's draft placement – would be what shoves Durant to the NBA.

"Kevin will go two or three years at Texas, if he could," Brown said before the season. "It won't be because Kevin Durant or [Ohio State's] Greg Oden want to go. The shoe companies will make them an offer where it's impossible not to go."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....2b36bc5.html#

[empy]

if i were Durant, i would jump to the NBA. besides the 50 million or so obvious reasons in guaranteed top 3 rookie contract money and a shoe/apparel/whatever deal, there are a few other reasons:

1. what else do i have to prove in the NCAA? he is going to win the most lopsided player-of-the-year race in decades
2. he's kidding if he thinks he can win an NCAA title. Texas doesn't have the horses to put around him, and Rick Barnes is not a good recruiter
3. Rick Barnes again. he is a terrible coach. have you seen the Texas games? the guy has the most dominant NCAA player since Allen Iverson and he deliberately runs plays to take the ball OUT of his hands for many minutes at a time

and if all those reasons are not enough, i have four more words for Mr. Durant:

guaranteed money

and

Shaun Livingston


you never know what might happen :pope:

[baiskee]

Shaun Livingston


you never know what might happen :pope:

tsk...tsk...eeeewwwwwww!

[tsupermario]

hmm i do not recall reading about people going the extra mile and getting penalized in persuading lebron or carmelo to join the draft back then. on durant, there's ainge and mj.

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[kimpOy]

ilan ang picks ng Boston sa 1st round? pwede bang makuha niya 1st and 2nd pic? he..he

[theveed]

m54: I'll give a reason... a degree... hehe