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

Are they going into tank mode? Maybe getting ready to move zbo then?

you don't trade for a player with two years left on his contract if you're taking.

they think they can get some 3-point shooting from lee and evidently had no better ideas for using the trade exeption.

bayless is so much better than lee tho, none of it makes sense

they're taking the worse player AND the worse contract

probably figured bayless was peacing after the season

lakers give up 137 points to the nuggets, Kendall Marshall has 9-6-17. They are must-see TV!

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/832003835.gif?1388968631

i don't know what PEDs Shumpert has been takin' but keep doing it!

kendall marshall doing the jeremy lin thing in the new year except w/ losing

I wish Nate Rob could play every sport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_O0y85wDI

Asked if he'd spoken to Lakers management in support of the four-time All-Star, as he has in the past, Bryant laughed and said: "How much more am I supposed to support a guy? Besides making a Pau flag and riding in there on a horse with Spanish-colored paint on my face, looking like a Spanish William Wallace or something? I don't know what else to say."

juice it up nate!!

nattttte

one of the few players genuinely deserving of the overused phrase "can jump out of the building"

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/11/25/when-jews-dominated-professional-basketball/
neat images

This is kind of funny. I looked up the Knicks leading scorer for that year (46-47)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Hertzberg

After ending his basketball career at the age of 28, Hertzberg went on to become a managing director of Bear Stearns, an investment banking and brokerage firm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWO6o_cq6Ms

steph is my fav player

otm

shit. the first time I watched it I thought it got some kind of bizarre lucky bounce off the rim or the backboard, but he just shot it at an incredible angle

also i watched the suns/bucks the other night and watching gerald green play was a total treat, cutting off passing lanes and windmilling all over the place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYMQBKHc24g

5 steals

As soon as he steals the ball the Bucks players just give up and don't chase him at all

wau @ gerald green

indy was maybe a lil too formal for green to do his thing

yeah you have to give him some slack and let him make some mistakes but its paying off for the suns. maybe like lance stepehenson huh? guess you can't have TWO projects like that.

man that last steal where he just runs right between the two guys. granted they weren't really trying but he looked very fast.

always nice to see gerald play well.

juice it up nate!

Nate the Great™ -- GOAT.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/beasley-39-contract-cusp-guarantee-182505767--nba.html

Now it all makes sense. His production is about to take a dip, sorry jordan.

man the pacers only played plumlee 55mins last year, they fucked that one up bad, traded a legit nba center for an aging back up pf and threw in a usefull super athletic wing for laffs

a 25 y/o legit nba center on a rookie contract

wow how is plumlee so old

what AND THEY GOT A DRAFT PICK FROM INDY

this is insane

The suns were secretly working over some fools, got the best of LAC too sending DUDley over for Bledsoe

AND THEY HAVE FOUR 1st ROUND PICKS

Dude is only one year older than me!
http://www.bostonglobe.com/rf/image_r/Boston/2011-2020/2013/09/08/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/suns-big.r.jpg

oh cool the suns gm is the same age as me o_O omg xp

you beat me to the weirdest thing by 30 seconds, that was a legit xp

the suns gm is younger than me

someone let me gm i will do better than the knicks promise

otm let ILH be the GM we can split the salary tbf

The Knicks acquisition strategy seems to be worse than random, so I definitely think ILH could do a better job

been saying, the sun are the BEST

remember when gerald green was in the d league 2 years ago, amazing

j0rdan and MA getting heated as the draft clock counts down would be worth the cost of relocation

haha

indy was maybe a lil too formal for green to do his thing

― lag∞n, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:52 (1 hour ago) Permalink

Hornacek really seems to be the right coach for him.

man the pacers only played plumlee 55mins last year, they fucked that one up bad, traded a legit nba center for an aging back up pf and threw in a usefull super athletic wing for laffs

― lag∞n, Monday, January 6, 2014 11:03 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was a weird situation because he was a really bold gamble as a first round pick and then they give up so soon. Gotta give a freak like that some time.

Scola might get them over the hump in a couple playoff games with some up and unders though, who knows.

apparently the suns are thinking about parting with one or more of their first rounders for thad young, which sounds like a terrible idea