2008-2009 NBA Season Thread

[SimpleS14]

Wasn't a bad all-star game. That dunk by Kobe going past Lebron was nasty.

[s13poop]

someone needs to gif shaq dancing with the jabbawockeez

[SimpleSexy180]

or as craig sager likes to say it..

the "wakka jobbies".

[ALTRNTV]

Rudy Fernandez was robbed in the Dunk Contest and deserved the finals spot over Howard.

Reggie Miller and Kenny Smith's comments about Fernandez and Gasol were fucking retarded. They talked so much shit about Spanish players.

[ANVIL]

^^ yeah that behind the back oop was pretty sick, best dunk of the 1st first attempt in the first round.

i hate the guys that miss the attempts, and keep trying the same dunk. its lame, even after u make it cuz everybody already knows what you are trying to do. not as dope as if you make it the first try. they need to change it to 3 attempts max.

[ro240sx]

Phil, Kobe, and Shaq make a great team. Would love to see them together again.

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by ro240sx

Phil, Kobe, and Shaq make a great team. Would love to see them together again.

Made
MADE
MADE
MADE
MADE
Past tense, that ship has sailed. Shaq is biding his time pre-retirement, Kobe is better than he was then. I do NOT want to see Shaq back in LA. Sure, he would fit just fine in a diminished role coming off of the bench, but something about me leaves me thinking that he would not accept that for too long.
Sure, I can almost see how his current role in Phoenix will dry up more if they go back to "fun and gun," but I do not see how he would fit in the Lakers' current situation and would hate to shake up the current paradise.

[s13poop]

^ cosign on that

kobe is at his top

shaq is on his way out

let the lakers be great with their new line up no need to bring shaq back to get us a title

[qwikspool]

Glenn James, Layne Murdoch & Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images
Hornets send Chandler to Thunder for Wilcox, veteran Smith

By NBA.com staff reports
Posted Feb 17 2009 3:25PM
The Oklahoma City Thunder have acquired center Tyson Chandler from New Orleans in a deal that sends veterans Joe Smith and Chris Wilcox to the Hornets.










After years of trying to draft and develop a front-line center, the move finally gives the Thunder a proven talent inside. The 7-foot-1 Chandler has averaged 8.8 points and 8.3 rebounds this season as the frequent recipient of All-Star point guard Chris Paul's alley-oop passes.
For the Hornets, the trade provides an opportunity to shed salary in an uncertain New Orleans economy by adding two contracts that expire at the end of the season. The Hornets also got the rights to DeVon Hardin, a second-round pick out of California in last year's draft.
Chandler led the Hornets with 1.4 blocks a game and is the team's second-leading rebounder behind All-Star forward David West. The center has struggled with injuries this season after appearing in 79 games last season for New Orleans.
Wilcox and Smith have played roughly the same amount of minutes this season. Smith, the former No. 1 overall pick of the 1995 NBA Draft, is averaging 19.2 minutes a game in Oklahoma City while Wilcox is at 19.4 minutes a game. The pair served as backups for second-year forward Jeff Green.
The trade likely leaves the Hornets with a large gap in their interior defense. While both Smith and Wilcox are adequate rebounders, neither is known as a shot-blocker. That likely puts the majority of New Orleans' shot-blocking duties on backup center Hilton Armstrong.
The Hornets (30-20) are currently sixth in the Western Conference and have lost two in a row.

[enkei2k]

chandler is going to be garbage now without CP3, i didn't know of this trade til i got to work.

PS - go knicks! even though i like the spurs, krypto-nate is intense. playing good ball on a contract year i think? correct me if i'm wrong. but shit, if i were to play in run-n-gun style, i would be scoring 20 pts a game too just like in NBA Live.

[OptionZero]

That's an awesome trade - Chandler is only 26 years old! He was a dominating rebounder, very good post defender, and mobile enough to cover ground as a help defender. No offensive game at all individually, but he's active and will clean up garbage stuff, just like a good big man should.

OKC also stole Krstic with a cheap contract, Jeff Green is developing, and they have another physical rebounder type in Collison. That's a pretty solid rotation of big men, better than lots of teams in the league. With Durant and Westbrook, all their bigs have to do is defend and rebound. If they take Harden, the Thunder are going to be real good, real quick.


The Hornets . . . well, it's easy to say they're being cheap, but really, it's a worse problem - they're stupid. They gave MoPete the FULL MLE a couple seasons ago to be a mediocre swing man; they then gave James Posey the FULL MLE do do the same things a little better. Oh, and they took Julian Wright, watched him blow up, then sent him to the end of the rotation. Gee, maybe you should spend money on a backup PG and some backup bigs better than Melvin Ely?

Teams are fuckin stupid man. I need to be a GM.

[Phlip]

Looks like Fun & Gun is back in Phoenix since Steve Nash got Terry Porter fired.
Yes, I know it was the clippers and that one of the top 5 NCAA teams might be able to take them, but still it is an odd coincidence.


Also, T-mac out for the season, and likely a chunk of the next... Anyone surprised, or is this a case of the chickens coming to roost?

[ANVIL]

so whose the suns new head coach now?

[enkei2k]

Originally Posted by ANVIL

so whose the suns new head coach now?

Alvin Gentry...oh man, i gotta see that randolph KO he did to that suns player. supposedly it was a full on swing. gotta check youtube.

[ro240sx]

That Laker vs Warriors game was very close until the 4th quarter. Kobe had 2 sick blocks.

[BOROSUN]

lol not happening. they stopped the chandler trade.

also... the knicks declined the marbury trade to the kings for miller and thomas. good thing because that shit was a trap. even though, i want marbury to play.

can't wait to see more trades. hoping to get rid of curry or jeffries or rose.

AND FREE MARBURY!

[qwikspool]

chandler is not going to thunder after all.

[ANVIL]

hopefully suns can keep up the awesome play vs other teams than the clips. 140+pts in both of the last 2 games

can someone post up like the leauge records/standings? like top 10 for W and 10 for E?

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by ANVIL

hopefully suns can keep up the awesome play vs other teams than the clips. 140+pts in both of the last 2 games

can someone post up like the leauge records/standings? like top 10 for W and 10 for E?

East:
TEAM
Celtics 44-11
Cavaliers 41-11
Magic 39-14
Hawks 32-22
Heat 28-25
Pistons 27-25
76ers 27-26
Bucks 27-30
Bulls 24-30
Nets 24-31

West:
Lakers 44-10
Nuggets 37-17
Spurs 35-17
Trail Blazers 33-20
Hornets 32-20
Rockets 33-21
Mavericks 32-21
Jazz 31-23
Suns 30-23
Warriors 19-36

[enkei2k]

Originally Posted by PHLIP

West:

Suns 30-23
Warriors 19-36

That's a crazy drop off from 9th seed to 10th seed lol. Over .500 to way under .500. Big difference from last year. It makes the East look half way decent.

[ANVIL]

hopefully suns can make a decent run the 2nd half of the season and maybe make 5th or 6th seed or better

[enkei2k]

Report: Bulls send Hughes to Knicks - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

good move by the knicks i think. finally getting rid of that other piece of garbage not called starbury, jerome james. for larry hughes though? haven't they heard of the website,

Hey Larry Hughes, Please Stop Taking So Many Bad Shots

oh well...i still like these trades though. wilcox is better than malik rose any day regardless.

[qwikspool]

rafer alston goes to the orlando magic.

[s14kings]

Lets see if he could fill Jameer Nelson's spot.

[BOROSUN]

i can't believe it, that bum james is gone.still two more major bums to get rid curry & jeffries.

total 12 on the roster but, knicks only have 11 active players with starbury in the inactive . knicks might pick up some D league players. i'm hoping for ewing jr.


AND FREE MARBURY!!!

[Phlip]

FOX Sports on MSN - NBA - Suns star Stoudemire out after eye surgery

and to think, they COULD have traded him and had SOMETHING in return for not having him there.
Nope, looks like they're done now.

[ANVIL]

wtf. lame. how long is he out for?

[ALTRNTV]

Cleveland could have been the best team in the East, but said no to a Wally Sczerbiak/Pavlocic trade to Phoenix for Shaq. Instead, they offered Ben Wallace and Pavlocic. I think that right there will even further make LBJ to resign elsewhere in 2010. Cleveland could have freed cap space to resign James by giving up Sczerbiak and gaining Shaq.

I feel bad for Phoenix. Just when they got back into their run-n-gun style, Amare suffers an eye-injury. He had surgery the day after the trade deadline. He could be out for the season. Eye injury is no joke. He suffered a retinal tear. He should have kept the goggles on, because if he gets hit there one more time, the retina could completely detach from his eye and he'll go blind in one eye, and that's the end of his NBA career.

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by ANVIL

wtf. lame. how long is he out for?

8 weeks, ironically the same amount of time remaining in the season.

[bboyt3nsk]

Cavs almost got Shaq...I dont think it would have worked, honestly. Def, fun to speculate and Im sure the media would have took that and just ran if the trade was actually real and went through,

Gotta shut down powe and Big Baby down and get some distance while garnett is out. Cleveland needs home court advantage!

Ive never heard of a detached retina before. I thought it was attached or useless!