The Perpetual NBA Thread

[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)