in these, the waning days of stern: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 1)

its funny too cause theyre trying to trade their only good defender

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wow thats actually a good and necessary play

best all season i think. maybe jeff green

"all season" lol

nba is awesome

lol for reals at amar'e and shumpert for rondo, who do the knicks think they are

sick oop

celtics prob think if they talk to the knicks long enough they can swap rondo out for gerald wallace in that deal

lol knicks swear to god these motherfuckers

if i were a nyer i would just die for so many reasons, mostly bc of economic inequality and high rents and shit but also bc both of the hoops teams are embarrassing

i dont know how u city slickers manage

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i kinda like the idea of shumpert for asik

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i kinda like the idea of shumpert for asik

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 18, 2013 4:28 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shumpert had secret offseason knee surgery tho

asik is worth like a billion shumps

especially since he had his high top removed in secret offseason surgery

Knicks make Shumpert available in trade talks, 2 days later we find out he had his knee scoped. Only the Knicks.

Jimmy Butler cut his hair too, what's going on

shumpert for asik is stupid for both teams imo!!

I think trading Asik for a nice pick is fine

asik is twice the player shump is, and the knicks iirc don't have any other players or picks to sweeten the deal. rockets need a 3 or a 4, not another small. asik doesn't work on the knicks for the same spacing reasons he hasn't worked on the rockets. i'm sure they'd love to stagger his and chandler's minutes to protect melo/bargs on D but asik is too good a player to be getting less than 30 mins a night

asik doesn't *really* make sense for the knicks but i mean beggars can't be choosers!

houston could use another 4 but they seem content to play small and considering how consistently horrifying their perimeter defense is, i feel like they could use shumpert

but the salaries don't match up anyhow. i don't see how the knicks are gonna be able to make any trade whatsoever.

shump could take some of patrick beverley's minutes and it would be a slight upgrade but asik is worth more than that. i agree they shld just get a pick for asik.

i dunno i feel like they have room for a real good player if they could find a match. they're still giving major minutes to francisco garcia and omri casspi. (and terrence jones)

true, i think i'm struggling to find a team that can use asik and give up a rotation player in return (have not looked that hard tbh).

i also think it would make sense if they kept him, but if so they should prob not have him just rot on the bench

shump and amare for rondo loooooool

here's some actual garbage for your all-star

Knicks don't have a tradeable pick until 2018 iirc

2018!!!

i mean, if the celtics want to go into super tankmode (like, be the worst team in the nba which essentially guarantees you a top 3 pick and a superstar in this year's draft) they could do worse than just selling rondo off to the knicks. but obviously they're not taking amare back, that's insane.

the underplayed part of that deal imo is how worthless it would be for the knicks unless they totally remade their offense

knicks on flail as always

knicks are back to standard super depressing form this year

i think people overrate shump, give me beverly over him imo

in my mind they live in the same range

prob both borderline starters, one of them will maybe improve to solid starter status

http://instagram.com/p/g3Tvh8yjR2/

wow all the collages i send him and he acknowledges THIS amateur work, smh

sick outsider art kev

kobe medically cleared

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these teams should just do the Asik/Pek/Anderson megatrade. Would miss the idea of Pekovic ice fishing though.

lol, kg just went 6/6 to start the game

omg shaun livingston

who is livingston's knee surgeon

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It's really just awesome that he's playing at all but he's been getting steadily better every year it seems.

nuggs...

lawson has looked so amazing

ha so bizarrely this is probably my favorite blazers team of my adult life?