i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

i have no idea what to make of that ibaka deal. just two years ago, ibaka was the third part of their core. adams improved play + acquiring kanter + injuries put him on a v minor slide.

Is it that minor? He gets worse every year. His TS% has declined 3 straight years and his blk% 4 straight. And by significant amounts.

If he had a better rookie season than Porzingis it would be totally shocking

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, June 24, 2016 7:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zingers season was... shocking...

Haha yes. And an even younger guy doing it would be wild. I'd get suns gear.

dont be surprised a decapitation in the coming season tho youve been warned

http://i.imgur.com/W8P8CEZ.png

--jaylen brown

--kevin durant

Dubs ended up busier than I expected last night:

They only had one first round pick but ended up with three other players, two of which went undrafted. that 8 footer from UC Irvine that isnt any good but also Robert Carter Jr

they got two of the five from this list which means they will obv be all stars within a couple years:
https://theringer.com/five-nba-draft-sleepers-to-get-excited-about-b667e182968e#.n4ijw2967

I feel like they're letting Ezeli walk

Yeah seems like a foregone conclusion at this point

ppl speculating ibakas secretly old on twitter

sick of that shit, hella racist

apparently the theory has a wide following in the league

and fwiw there has been a fair amount of sports age fraud in some of the areas of africa where birth certificates arent routinely issued, iirc a good chunk of the nigerian youth soccer team got busted not long ago

I'm usually skeptical of such things but when a guy begins a steep decline at 24 with no major injuries...

People used to say the same thing about Mutombo but he was a rock for 15 years.

i feel like i've heard that shit about every basketball player from africa

Yeah it's like Europeans being soft.

Reminder that an American player lied about his age very recently (Shabazz Muhammad) and people were skeptical of Lebron.

I still don't know wtf Greg Oden's deal is

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=20367

like here's a 2001 thread about how olajuwon was actually 43, not 38.

didn't we decide oden has gigantism or something

oden is lebrons dad

ilyasova and zhizhi both had age rumors iirc

did yao

not that i recall

Mutumbo was still pretty productive his last few years. My friend used to always be the rockets on nba2k6 and he would play him and Yao together and I swear I couldn't get a shot of inside

Curry is only 21 btw

illyasova and zhizhi and ibaka=same race; lebron and ibaka=different races

durant got meetings scheduled for july 1 with the dubs, spurs, thunder, clips, celtics and heat

http://blacksportsonline.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Kevin-Durant-Celtics.jpg

Terrible quality, I hope he rules out the C's just for that.

A fair number of Dominican Republic baseball players take years off their real ages too; one of our very own ilxors was convinced that Pujols was older than he stated.

pujols def millions of year old

A fair number of Dominican Republic baseball players take years off their real ages too; one of our very own ilxors was convinced that Pujols was older than he stated.
--Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee)

was it morbsitronics-5000?

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojVerticalNBA 9m9 minutes ago
Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes has made the Team USA roster for the Rio Olympics, league sources tell @TheVertical.

huh

yeah what the absolute hell is that about

the guy zhou qi the rockets drafted apparently may be anywhere between 20 and 24 years old

Lol this Olympic team is kinda lame

I think I'll root for france

F the Olympics, imho

eerie similarities to when the usa lost the olympics that one time

was it morbsitronics-5000?

Nah, the guy I'm talking about hasn't posted in several years AFAIK.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Dryu90/status/747157992039124992

I want to believe again...

the guy zhou qi the rockets drafted apparently may be anywhere between 20 and 24 years old

You know I don't doubt it but I have to say he's come a long way in the past year. I watched some footage from this spring today and I actually think he might make it into the league. When he played in the hoop summit he looked like a washout imho.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cl9gDMZVEAAQ9hG.jpg

kd shd drop out lol

lowry & barnes are pretty lame for end of bench guys but there will still be some super fun 5-man combos out of that group

deandre's gonna complete like 875,000 alley oops

it will be hilarious if they do hack a denadre in the olympics lol

not a bad team tbh

just hope there are no dumb injuries

its a p bad team

idgaf about anything other than #boogieforamerica and no one else should either, they did the important and right thing