LaMarcus Aldridge wants out of San Antonio

[JohnnyMax]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCUI8MJfMnc

[LkrFan]

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[140]

:lma

[Chris]

Well yeah we put him on the block :lol this is like the surly employee insisting they quit after they have already been fired.

[Chris]

Glad that piece of garbage Screamin A Smith is covering this. Those two divas deserve each other.

[Killakobe81]

Spur fan mocked me while I was relieved we didnt get Lamarsha or Dwert ...
Not max players i told you this.
deeps said you have to pay max for top tier FA's but not all of them are created equally.
let me stipulate for the record that Hayward and Paul George getting the max though better than Aldridge are also mistakes. there are only about 10 guys worth the max ...
1. Da king
2. Durant
3. Leonard
4. Steph
5. Russ
6. Giannis
7. Anthony Davis
8. Wall
9. Harden
10. KAT/ CP3 are maybe ...outside of that none of these dudes are worth the max ... sure theyll get it ...but if my best player is not on this list and making the max my team aint winning shit that matters so I wont pay it if I were GM.
Not Blake
Not Lowry
Not Gobert
Not Conley (do like him)
Not Harrison Barnes
Not Milsap
Not Boogie
Not Dame
You wont win rings all you will do is fund mansions and yacht parties and come June you will be shining shoes just the same ...

[Chris]

Spur fan mocked me while I was relieved we didnt get Lamarsha or Dwert ...

Hindsight is always 20/20.

[LkrFan]

Spur fan mocked me while I was relieved we didnt get Lamarsha or Dwert ...
Not max players i told you this.
deeps said you have to pay max for top tier FA's but not all of them are created equally.
let me stipulate for the record that Hayward and Paul George getting the max though better than Aldridge are also mistakes. there are only about 10 guys worth the max ...
1. Da king
2. Durant
3. Leonard
4. Steph
5. Russ
6. Giannis
7. Anthony Davis
8. Wall
9. Harden
10. KAT/ CP3 are maybe ...outside of that none of these dudes are worth the max ... sure theyll get it ...but if my best player is not on this list and making the max my team aint winning shit that matters so I wont pay it if I were GM.
Not Blake
Not Lowry
Not Gobert
Not Conley (do like him)
Not Harrison Barnes
Not Milsap
Not Boogie
Not Dame
You wont win rings all you will do is fund mansions and yacht parties and come June you will be shining shoes just the same ...

Well said Killa :tu

[Killakobe81]

Hindsight is always 20/20.

check the archives ...deeps can confirm if his memory is good ... he said i was being ridiculous to compete you have to pay the going rate ...But lets go back further during lockout I sided with the players argued maxes should be changed because now instead of Lebron being the best player and getting what he really deserves ... greg monroe Parsons and other scrubs getting LeBron type $ ...because my argument has been was only way to stop this bullshit was for owners to police themselves and stop overpaying ...non franchise dudes franchise fucking money.
oh well fuck it ..its not my money. but a system that pays Conley a really good player same as a Goat level player like LeBron is bullshit .. and in 2 weeks team will do the same shit over and over.

[Chris]

Unibrow is a mental midget and doesn't deserve max anything. Gobert is one of the best centers in the league who will probably get better. Worth the max imo...

[sexinthatsx]

Spur fan mocked me while I was relieved we didnt get Lamarsha or Dwert ...
Not max players i told you this.
deeps said you have to pay max for top tier FA's but not all of them are created equally.
let me stipulate for the record that Hayward and Paul George getting the max though better than Aldridge are also mistakes. there are only about 10 guys worth the max ...
1. Da king
2. Durant
3. Leonard
4. Steph
5. Russ
6. Giannis
7. Anthony Davis
8. Wall
9. Harden
10. KAT/ CP3 are maybe ...outside of that none of these dudes are worth the max ... sure theyll get it ...but if my best player is not on this list and making the max my team aint winning shit that matters so I wont pay it if I were GM.
Not Blake
Not Lowry
Not Gobert
Not Conley (do like him)
Not Harrison Barnes
Not Milsap
Not Boogie
Not Dame
You wont win rings all you will do is fund mansions and yacht parties and come June you will be shining shoes just the same ...

You can't get any of players to sniff your team if you don't already have an established contending team. I just really wished Aldridge was serious about signing with the Phoenix Suns and did so instead of wasting two of Kawhi's years.

[Killakobe81]

Unibrow is a mental midget and doesn't deserve max anything. Gobert is one of the best centers in the league who will probably get better. Worth the max imo...

sure and if he is your BEST player you aint winning shit ...but regular season games and one playoff series at best ...

[Chris]

check the archives ...deeps can confirm if his memory is good ... he said i was being ridiculous to compete you have to pay the going rate ...But lets go back further during lockout I sided with the players argued maxes should be changed because now instead of Lebron being the best player and getting what he really deserves ... greg monroe Parsons and other scrubs getting LeBron type $ ...because my argument has been was only way to stop this bullshit was for owners to police themselves and stop overpaying ...non franchise dudes franchise fucking money.
oh well fuck it ..its not my money. but a system that pays Conley a really good player same as a Goat level player like LeBron is bullshit .. and in 2 weeks team will do the same shit over and over.

I'm curious what you were saying when the Lakers were trying him out not once, but twice with Kobe doing the selling. Before the tweet about LMA 'not liking the basketball side of things' or whatever.

[Mitch]

Hindsight is always 20/20.

It's not hindsight when you knew beforehand

[Chris]

sure and if he is your BEST player you aint winning shit ...but tegular sradin games and one playoff series at best ...

I agree: he is a sidekick

[Killakobe81]

You can't get any of players to sniff your team if you don't already have an established contending team. I just really wished Aldridge was serious about signing with the Phoenix Suns and did so instead of wasting two of Kawhi's years.

but you have a legit franchise guy and now he is underpaid
i freely admit i thought Leonard wasnt one before last season (2016) now he is top 5 ...
Maybe Porzy cracks this list or Booker ...down the road. but right now that is my list if you have one of those guys you straight just dont surround them with dudes like Lamarsha Dwight etc.
if conley was a #2 with Leonard he would be a boss but he cant lead a champion but i do think he could ride shotgun for one and should get the salary of an elite #2 just below max

[Killakobe81]

I'm curious what you were saying when the Lakers were trying him out not once, but twice with Kobe doing the selling. Before the tweet about LMA 'not liking the basketball side of things' or whatever.

liked him not at max look it up ...said the same about Melo and Dwight even though i knew we would suck.
then mitch panicked and overpaid Deng and Mozgof because those overpaid dudes turned us down ...smh

[Killakobe81]

btw Kobe didbt warrant that last extension basketball wise
that was dumb too

[whitemamba]

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[sexinthatsx]

but you have a legit franchise guy and now he is underpaid
i freely admit i thought Leonard wasnt one before last season (2016) now he is top 5 ...
Maybe Porzy cracks this list or Booker ...down the road. but right now that is my list if you have one of those guys you straight just dont surround them with dudes like Lamarsha Dwight etc.
if conley was a #2 with Leonard he would be a boss but he cant lead a champion but i do think he could ride shotgun for one and should get the salary of an elite #2 just below max

I'm one to think that rings speak volumes over stats and playoff experience. Aldridge was always known as a second-round exit player and as long as he was with the Spurs, Spurs were never going to get to the promised land. I would love Conley with the Spurs though.

[Killakobe81]

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reminds me of the cuck Adam Levine wearing a Lakers Aldridge jersey and posting that shit on Twitter ...smh

[Killakobe81]

I'm one to think that rings speak volumes over stats and playoff experience. Aldridge was always known as a second-round exit player and as long as he was with the Spurs, Spurs were never going to get to the promised land. I would love Conley with the Spurs though.

conley and kiwi with Pop would be a serious threat tbh

[whitemamba]

reminds me of the cuck Adam Levine wearing a Lakers Aldridge jersey and posting that shit on Twitter ...smh

we dodged another one tbh

[Chris]

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Pop dressed up like Gandalf the White courting LaMarsha :lol

[Killakobe81]

trade Aldridge for oak!
raven is happy
you save like 15 million
embid when he gets hurt you have Aldridge ..

[whitemamba]

Pop dressed up like Gandalf the White courting LaMarsha :lol
Pop shit the bed on this one. Poopavich :lol

[spurraider21]

he didnt get over himself tbh

[baseline bum]

he didnt get over himself tbh

I wanted some nasty

[Killakobe81]

he didnt get over himself tbh

:lol

[UZER]

we dodged another one tbh

Another one? Other than that one, you ain't dodged shit.

[whitemamba]

Another one? Other than that one, you ain't dodged shit.

:lol kawhis ankle
:lol lamarsha
:lol spurs

[UZER]

:lol kawhis ankle
:lol lamarsha
:lol spurs

:lol Lakers still not in the playoffs

[whitemamba]

:lol Lakers still not in the playoffs

:cry

[DAF86]

The feeling is mutual.

[Thread]

Wow, an uppity negro by the Alamo.

Overseer Popovich will have to run as fast as he can now. Don't fret though,,,before long it will all be a BIG misunderstanding & Media will get it ALL straightened out for ya's.

[StrengthAndHonor]

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Those shoes man lol

[140]

Wow, an uppity negro by the Alamo.
:lol

[Thread]

Those shoes man lol

& that restaurant, they couldn't take him somewhere beside Hometown Buffet?

[Seventyniner]

Spur fan mocked me while I was relieved we didnt get Lamarsha or Dwert ...
Not max players i told you this.
deeps said you have to pay max for top tier FA's but not all of them are created equally.
let me stipulate for the record that Hayward and Paul George getting the max though better than Aldridge are also mistakes. there are only about 10 guys worth the max ...
1. Da king
2. Durant
3. Leonard
4. Steph
5. Russ
6. Giannis
7. Anthony Davis
8. Wall
9. Harden
10. KAT/ CP3 are maybe ...outside of that none of these dudes are worth the max ... sure theyll get it ...but if my best player is not on this list and making the max my team aint winning shit that matters so I wont pay it if I were GM.
Not Blake
Not Lowry
Not Gobert
Not Conley (do like him)
Not Harrison Barnes
Not Milsap
Not Boogie
Not Dame
You wont win rings all you will do is fund mansions and yacht parties and come June you will be shining shoes just the same ...

I'd still rather have Aldridge at his current 2015 max and a low-salary bench player instead of two overpaid role players. Cap space will get spent, and Aldridge was a borderline All-Star in 2015-2016 which is good enough imo.

Aldridge was the 27th-highest paid player this past season, behind such luminaries as Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Harrison Barnes, Chandler Parsons, Derrick Rose, and Nic Batum. Only one of those players is a FA so Aldridge will drop down the list once new contracts are signed.

It's easy for a Lakers fan to claim that any season that doesn't result in a championship is a failure; when was the last time the Lakers had an extended stretch of being early-round playoff fodder? But that is an uncommon view among sports fans. With the Warriors as dominant as they are, I can't see 61 wins and a WCF exit as a disappointment. The real disappointment was not being able to see what the Spurs were truly capable of against the Warriors.

[Killakobe81]

I'd still rather have Aldridge at his current 2015 max and a low-salary bench player instead of two overpaid role players. Cap space will get spent, and Aldridge was a borderline All-Star in 2015-2016 which is good enough imo.

Aldridge was the 27th-highest paid player this past season, behind such luminaries as Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Harrison Barnes, Chandler Parsons, Derrick Rose, and Nic Batum. Only one of those players is a FA so Aldridge will drop down the list once new contracts are signed.

It's easy for a Lakers fan to claim that any season that doesn't result in a championship is a failure; when was the last time the Lakers had an extended stretch of being early-round playoff fodder? But that is an uncommon view among sports fans. With the Warriors as dominant as they are, I can't see 61 wins and a WCF exit as a disappointment. The real disappointment was not being able to see what the Spurs were truly capable of against the Warriors.

the Spurs team/season was not a disappointment ...
Aldridge was. Not paying him big money this year and my guess is Spurs are the frontrunners for Blake and or maybe CP3
And dont tell me Spurs couldbt have won 50 plus games without Lamarsha ...becsuse we know he doesnt swing the needle that much ...
no sin in going all in especially in Tim's final year ...they just bet on the wrong horse to be franchise pillar. It happens even to the Spurs ...remember Dick Jefferson? Spurs strength is in scouting and development ...when they go big $ FA it doesnt work as well ...

[Mark Celibate]

Wow, an uppity negro by the Alamo.

Overseer Popovich will have to run as fast as he can now. Don't fret though,,,before long it will all be a BIG misunderstanding & Media will get it ALL straightened out for ya's.

Sorry, 'eppe.

This one's on Aldridge. If you can't succeed in San Antonio where there's no limelight, constantly getting good looks on offense, etc you won't make it anywhere.

[Thread]

Sorry, 'eppe.

This one's on Aldridge. If you can't succeed in San Antonio where there's no limelight, constantly getting good looks on offense, etc you won't make it anywhere.

You knew going in he was sensitive & fragile. + he was no Duncan. You knew that and you applied the same oversight that you do comprehensively. You can't do that, especially with an outsider like he is. You needed to handle him with kid gloves. He was going to need his hand held at all times. And you have nobody to hold it. Even Leonard is not capable of holding anyone's hand. He's learning how to hold hands, but, he ain't there yet.

You fucked up. You should have shut your mouths & remained still in the aftermath of that playoff loss. Instead you did what everyone does:::you showed your ass. It's not the length & breath of the Odom tragedy in California, but, it's a distant kin. Pop should swallow his vanity and initiate a sit, get it settled and go on. Perhaps by April Leonard will be capable of taking other's hands and proceeding.

[Mark Celibate]

You knew going in he was sensitive & fragile. + he was no Duncan. You knew that and you applied the same oversight that you do comprehensively. You can't do that, especially with an outsider like he is. You needed to handle him with kid gloves. He was going to need his hand held at all times. And you have nobody to hold it. Even Leonard is not capable of holding anyone's hand. He's learning how to hold hands, but, he ain't there yet.

You fucked up. You should have shut your mouths & remained still in the aftermath of that playoff loss. Instead you did what everyone does:::you showed your ass. It's not the length & breath of the Odom tragedy in California, but, it's a distant kin. Pop should swallow his vanity and initiate a sit, get it settled and go on. Perhaps by April Leonard will be capable of taking other's hands and proceeding.

It's a two way street. Aldridge chose to sign with the biggest asshole coach in sports. He knew what he was getting into.

I'm glad you pointed out the Leonard lack of leadership though. I've been saying it for awhile. I like his humbleness on the court but not the autism off of it. Social retards ruin company cultures in the corporate world and I imagine it's the same in the basketball world especially when you're looked to be a leader. Laying aside the amount of money that Leonard will never see in endorsement deals, he needs to figure out a way to have that alpha personality to pick his teammates up when they're struggling. That, I agree with.

[FkLA]

LMA is more socially retarded than Kawhichael. Dude sat on the last seat of the bench his whole time in SA, was always in the background on team pictures, and was a terrible interview. Couple that with how sensitive he is and you have a basket case on your hands. I doubt any amount of vocal leadership from Kawhichael would've prevented this, tbh.

[Thread]

LMA is more socially retarded than Kawhichael. Dude sat on the last seat of the bench his whole time in SA, was always in the background on team pictures, and was a terrible interview. Couple that with how sensitive he is and you have a basket case on your hands. I doubt any amount of vocal leadership from Kawhichael would've prevented this, tbh.

But, you knew all that. Your hierarchy has let this loss to State get the better of you. With age Pop's patience has been weathered. The better part of my nature hates to see this because (your way) is impressive. No one else has been able to live it, to emulate it. It's always driven me to distraction that you never air your dirty laundry. It's squalid & tawdry to see it now.

[DMC]

He can get on IH 35 North and keep on trucking until he hits OKC. They need him. He'd love nothing more than to avoid getting rebounds or points in OKC.

[DMC]

But, you knew all that. Your hierarchy has let this loss to State get the better of you. With age Pop's patience has been weathered. The better part of my nature hates to see this because (your way) is impressive. No one else has been able to live it, to emulate it. It's always driven me to distraction that you never air your dirty laundry. It's squalid & tawdry to see it now.

You expect to see "Stay 12" in SA? Ain't happening.

[Thread]

You expect to see "Stay 12" in SA? Ain't happening.

Vanity is a cruel master, D.

Pop must know better.

[DMC]

Those shoes man lol

Pop looking like he just finished shooting Hunger Games.