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

birds are actually the closest relatives of the dinosaurs around today

yup. really gross how the current heat "big-3" have mimicked the great celtics' "big-3."

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/dfef4f922c583856fa371d04b3334d12bd5d856d/r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2012/10/23/xxx-7337-4_3.jpg

Farmar/Meeks/Wesley/Shawne/Hil

nobody would ever trade for xavier henry (i hope)
or nick young. maybe for jordan hill

manu was killin them bats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sy2FYt1HC4

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10188644/the-status-nba-western-conference-teams

lol

Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri sat in the press room at Air Canada Centre minutes before tipoff Saturday night, dining on pasta and pizza.

Ujiri may as well have been dining on the Knicks’ carcass.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/29/years-of-dolan-deals-produced-this-knicks-disaster

masai eating from the press buffet, thats low

hahahahaha

Ujiri’s club sent the hopeless Knicks careening into the new year with a 9-21 record, 12 games below .500, five games behind a first-place team trying to tank.

LeBro is 29 today!

hb brondawg

raps still got that landry fields contract hangin out tho

8.5 million next year!!

obv predates masai and he probably looks at that contract every day and stabs it with a pen

https://soundcloud.com/thunder-upper/whole-life-kevin-durant

KD sounds good on this

Now maybe Rubio needs to be cut some slack but the way people go out of their way to cop pleas for the guy...

I mean Goldsberry usually makes some kind of sense, but this?
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/87263/courtvision-whats-the-matter-with-ricky-rubio

Ricky Rubio is so cute, people automatically want to like his game. He's rather like Rudy Fernandez, but even more so. Even his name is super cute.

Looking like a cross between Bieber, a chibi doll and a dry gremlin probably helps but, these aren't exactly teenage girls were talking about. Are hard nosed (loosely speaking) basketball guys really foregoing thorough analysis for that shit? I mean word was, dudes camp were still talking about a max contract.

The critical issue here is player development. Unlike other young point guards like Damian Lillard or Steph Curry, Rubio is not getting better. At a critical stage, when you’re supposed to blossom, Rubio’s growth has stunted. That's on the organization as much as it's on the player.

Damn you, all the organizations that have failed to develop Ricky Rubio's jumper his entire life

I love the hypothetical of Rubio getting better looks. Where the fuck would he get better looks?

spurs

Chris Towers ‏@CTowersCBS 5m
Anthony Davis just blocked LaMarcus Aldridge's baseline turnaround in the post. I didn't think that was possible.

breaking

blocking

Packing

http://nba.si.com/2013/12/30/toronto-raptors-jerseys-drake-black-gold-ovo/

:0

amazing

might as well change their name to the Toronto Owls

brow is going rather ham atm

Toronto owls is kinda nice tbf

Pelicans are browbeating the blazers, eh?

I expect AD is still a bit miffed that Lillard was the unanimous choice as ROY last year. He didn't get a single vote.

loooooool raptors

he missed like half the season tho xp

its funny cause their name was a rip of a popular at the time movie now theyre thinking go w a popular rapper for a redesign

the owls would be like a million percent improvement over the raptors tho

warm ups could be leather jogging pants

toronto popular rappers

omg black and gold toronto owls
have u seen owls IRL
fucking scary as shit
raptors are fukkin cartoons, extinct motherfuckers
in favore of the toronoto drake owls

toronto popular rappers

― Clay, Monday, December 30, 2013 10:01 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

timeless

dude, marion

http://i.imgur.com/orIt8.gif

i am not really cool w/ the pelicans scoreboard shorthand: NOP

NOPE

the word our our moment: "nope"

also every team should get a popular rapper to rebrand them this offseason, there can be a draft and everything

http://i.imgur.com/orIt8.gif

― 乒乓, Monday, December 30, 2013 9:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gtfo w that shit

If they change their name to the Owls then we'll have the Owls the Pelicans the Hawks

Also if anybody asks why they changed from the Raptors to the Owls you can just say "Well everybody knows birds evolved from dinosaurs didn't you watch Jurassic Park duh"

there are birds called raptors tho so they could keep the name and just be the bird kind instead

gtfo w that shit

― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Monday, December 30, 2013 10:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

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