The Perpetual NBA Thread

**glenngj** · March 4th, 2008 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by pia_nini

yao ming= out
tmac-in......,,he dont want to be in the allstar line up coz he knows he saks,,
but hes my 2nd option to take the last shot after kobe,,if hes one of the best players he can handle this

Houston Rockets tied a franchise record with their 15th straight win and It was Houston's third straight win since losing Yao Ming for the season with a stress fracture in his foot and its 19th win in the last 20 games.

**kimpOy** · March 5th, 2008 08:40 AM

ET sa celtics na... reunion with ray ray

si glenn robinson na lang ang kulang...

**theveed** · March 5th, 2008 10:25 AM

and KG reunion...

**pia_nini** · March 5th, 2008 09:33 PM

kobe vs. lebron mvp poll at yahoo nba
i voted kobe,,

**kimpOy** · March 5th, 2008 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by theveed

and KG reunion...

oo nga ano.. where's spree....

**theveed** · March 6th, 2008 08:02 AM

Questionable Dwight and Korver Defensive Styles

http://f3.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports...OsEB_CAuBrVvrE

**mazdamazda** · March 6th, 2008 08:29 AM

Hehehehe... that's funny. Pang girley-men na si Korver ha.

**fourtheboys96** · March 6th, 2008 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by pia_nini

kobe vs. lebron mvp poll at yahoo nba
i voted kobe,,

chris paul? wala? hmmmm

**theveed** · March 6th, 2008 07:31 PM

This is hilarious... Fake emails...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...simmons/080305

Q: Why does everyone keep saying I'm definitely coming back next month, and why does everyone keep assuming I'll be the same rebounding/shotblocking force I was in November and December? Do you realize I'm only 21 and coming off a dislocated kneecap? Do you realize the only exercise I've gotten in the past seven weeks has been lightly jogging in a therapeutic pool? Also, how do you know I'm not 320 pounds right now? How do you know I'm not spending more time at Roscoe's Chicken N' Waffles than Roscoe does? What makes you think I'll be good right away when I have to play myself back into shape? What makes you think I'll have 100 percent confidence in my knee right away?

Remember, I already tore an ACL back in high school, making this my second serious knee injury and until this season, everyone thought I was an underachieving wuss (including the best guy on my team). Sorry to sound like I'm complaining, but all this "And when they get Bynum back, they'll be even better!" talk is starting to make me legitimately uncomfortable. I don't want to be blamed if we fall short in the playoffs. Honestly, I don't even care about the playoffs -- I'll just be excited if I can run up and down a basketball floor without limping. No offense. Whoops, I have to go, the guy just rang the doorbell with my Pizza Hut delivery.
--Andrew B., Los Angeles

SG: All great points. If I'm a Lakers fan, I'm terrified by three things right now:
1. Bynum's knee injury happened on Jan. 13 and the Lakers claimed he would return within two months. Um, it's March 5. Where is he? Here's the last public quote we've heard from him, courtesy of an L.A. Times story on Feb. 29: "If I'm able to run in the pool with no pain, then we'll start building my leg up more and more. I'm making progress and I'm excited to actually run in the pool, but I'm still not back." Does that sounds encouraging? I say no.

2. The Lakers can't beat San Antonio in a series with Pau Gasol, Ronnie Turiaf and D.J. Mbenga defending Tim Duncan. It's not happening. They need Bynum -- a healthy Bynum.

3. Removing Bynum from the picture makes Lamar Odom their third-best guy. He's a wonderfully talented forward and a nice guy by all accounts, but if you're counting on him in a big moment, he's going to let you down. He will. I remember attending a Clippers-Lakers game three years ago when Odom came to the line in a big moment, and the guy sitting next to me (a season-ticket holder since '84) muttered confidently something like, "Watch this, he'll miss the first one, we watched him do this for years." And he did. And the guy giggled happily. (Every Clippers fan thinks Odom is a choke artist. Warrants mentioning.) Then he signed with Miami, and if you remember, they made the second round in Wade's rookie season and had the Pacers tied at 2-2 before Odom went 11-for-32 in Games 5 and 6 (both losses). In the first round in 2006, when Kobe and the Lakers dragged Phoenix to a seventh game, Odom and Smush Parker stunk out the joint so badly that Kobe infamously refused to shoot in the second half.

Now he's the third-best guy on a team that's favored to win the 2008 title. Can he step up when he's never shown that ability over the course of his career? In Sunday's ABC game against Dallas, Odom (who only scored six points in 48 minutes) was fouled with a one-point lead and six seconds to play in regulation ... and promptly bricked both free throws. It's not that he missed the free throws as much as anyone who's followed his career even a little knew that he'd miss the first free throw and possibly both. As it turned out, L.A. needed a superhuman performance from Kobe (52 points, 22 in the fourth quarter) to hold off Dallas in overtime. That's the thing everyone seems to be missing about the Lakers -- yeah, they have Kobe and Gasol, but they still need Odom to come through on a big stage, they need their young guards to come through for three straight series (in that Dallas game, Jordan Farmar and Sasha Vujacic shot 4-for-18), and they need Bynum to return to form. Anything less and they're not making the Finals unless Kobe has a neverending supply of 22-point fourth quarters in reserve.

(And by the way, I'm not necessarily ruling that out. Kobe can smell a title now. You can see it. He knows better than anyone that a championship would push him up a level historically and put him alongside the all-time great NBA guards: Oscar, Cousy, West, Magic and MJ. Those are the stakes. Ever since he heard the words, "We got Gasol," he took it to another level. More on this in a little bit.)

**theveed** · March 6th, 2008 07:32 PM

Q: You made fun of my appearance on ESPN's "Trade Deadline" show -- did you know that I'm appearing regularly on NBA TV now? Say what you want, but I like being a media person, it just feels right. Hey, how do you launch a blog? I think that's my next step.
--Billy K., Philly

SG: Billy, I say you dump the NBA and become a Hollywood executive. I'd love to be reading Variety and see news stories like, "New Line executive Billy King announced today that he's signed Wilmer Valderrama to a four-movie deal worth $65 million" or "Disney's Billy King announced today that he sold the Hannah Montana franchise to Fox for the rights to 'American Dad' and cash."

(best one yet....)

Q: I just spent the last few years standing at the 3-point line watching Iverson and Iguodala dribble into three guys while 8,500 fans looked on. Now I'm playing for a title contender in the loudest arena in the league, I have a great point guard who gets me the ball every time I'm open, and we even have a big guy who commands a double team and knows how to kick it out. All I do is shoot wide-open jumpers, which is ironic because that's the No. 1 reason I'm in the league. And if that's not enough, every girl in Utah loves me because I look like Ashton Kutcher. Could you pinch me? I just want to make sure I'm awake right now.
--K. Korver, Salt Lake City

SG: You're awake. In the words of Penny Lane, it's all happening.