#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

before the Memphis Grizzlies could make a run in the Western Conference playoffs, they moved Rudy Gay to Toronto and out of Zach Randolph's and Marc Gasol's lives.

Robert Pera bought the Grizzlies, hired a front office of novices, ran out a successful scouting staff and began to unload genuine assets for pennies on the dollar.

:)

The NBA's owners wanted to break up the super teams and create a system that'll assure Pera can mismanage the Grizzlies into oblivion and still make money on the enterprise.

greg dickerson ‏@gdickerson_csn 3m
Talked to some close to Paul, they are certain he's played his last game as a Celtic. Their quote, all good things must come to an end

pierce too???

Before trading Gay, Memphis had already moved under the tax threshold with a trade last week. It could've waited until the summer to move its star and made one more run in the Western Conference.

But winning isn't a priority for Pera.

These Grizzlies aren't the Lakers, and they don't get a lot of chances at making a deep playoff run. They could've hung in there for this season, but instead bailed on it.

Across the NBA, front offices were incredulous with the way that Memphis unloaded Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington and Josh Selby, along with a future first-round pick, in a salary dump to Cleveland last week.

"Beyond a panic move," one Eastern Conference GM said. "Cleveland would always be there with that deal."

Once again, the breaking down of this Grizzlies roster is a reminder that every NBA star had better make sure he understands the track records of the owners and executives with whom he's turning over his future.

This wasn't the '86 Celtics broken up in Memphis today, but, still, a contender became something far less over the past week.

All of this didn't need to happen so fast.

Between an owner guaranteed to make a profit and a front office guaranteed to believe it's smarter than everyone else, the Western Conference has one less contender to come chasing the defending champion Heat in the NBA Finals.

Whatever LeBron James does, wherever he goes, just understand he makes it easy for the freeloading Robert Peras of the NBA.

so. crawford HAS to be disciplined after this, right? just saw the highlights again and dude is just a rabid animal. the other ref looked stunned too

also it looked like he tossed barnes the first time but barnes kept playing?

no i think barnes was just confused

crawford has had moments worse than this, at least this game was already over when the shenanigans kicked in

he made 2 "yer outta here" motions tho

crawford has had moments worse than this, at least this game was already over when the shenanigans kicked in

― J0rdan S., Saturday, May 4, 2013 12:45 AM (25 seconds ago)

it was a 13 point game with like 2:45 left. it wasnt over

oh i forgot cp3 already had a tech before that, i thought crawford hit him with the 1-2 right there

gifs within

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/5/4/4299084/chris-paul-zach-randolph-ejections-grizzlies-clippers

that was an insane play by CP3, whether it was T worthy or not

yeah it was just bizarre and dirty. definitely warranted a T, like i said i forgot he already had one

annual playoff reminder that kevin pritchard opted for Channing Frye and Greg Oden over Durant and Zach Randolph and was widely hailed as one of the best GMs in the NBA

Really need a courtside camera angle to really enjoy that Zbo toss twirl.

Heh, one of the ongoing lols for the Pacers this season has been Lance Stephenson hanging out in/around opposing teams' huddles

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/229/files/2013/05/7315186.jpg

NOT going to discuss that celtics monstrosity right now but as for the second game i wasnt watching closely but everytime i looked up durant was making a perfect pass

why is lance stevenson pretending he has a ball when he does not

story of the playoffs so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73pOPF-YfE

Jared Wade ‏@Jared_Wade 8m
The Clippers have a Tribe Called Bench and Vinny Del Negro produced an LP full of Consequence songs.

burn

four RIPs tonight

blake totally locks his leg into zbo to take him down, that was just as dirty as the grinding elbow

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timmy and tony otm

how does that guy still have a job its unfathomable

even if he was the best ref in the world you should fire him for being famous

so otm, exactly. you shouldnt constantly hear commentators "everyone KNOWS you dont mess with Joey Crawford"

I too really want to know what was said to the clips bench by zbo. i watched it back a bunch of times and it looked like it was directly at blake and/or deandre. VDN didnt look too happy about it. What did he do to get tossed even?

My co-worker that sits 4 feet away from me looks exactly like joey Crawford and I dont have the heart to tell him. He's almost as annoying as JC so maybe I will save that for the right moment.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2574499/pointgod_medium.gif

so i hit record on the joey crawford techs-n-ejects show last night and got a clippers-grizzlies game instead, wtf dvr

vinnie rolling out cp3 plus every bench guard and forward in the fourth was kind of hilarious

memphis seemed really impressive on the break last night

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2573163/shumpertjet.gif

so pleased

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/excited-memphis-grizzlies-kid-fan.gif

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2574499/pointgod_medium.gif

― lag∞n, Saturday, May 4, 2013 7:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jordan saying this wasn't a shooting foul smh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm7irrWaHTQ

thank u zbo

well at least i still have the grizz

you never know with cp3 if he got hit or not xp