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Latrell Spreewell turning down 3 years and 21 million dollars, all because he needed more to "feed his family". Absolutley ridiculous.
What do you think were the stupidest moves in the league this year? I'll give you a few to get things started, no doubt there are plenty more where these came from:
1. Anything involving Isiah Thomas (this could be a whole thread by itself)
2. Nate McMillan leaves the Sonics for the Jail...TrailBlazers head job
3. Sonics hire Bob "Why" Weiss
4. Sonics replace Weiss with Bob "Still bitter after all these years" Hill [replacing Weiss, smart. Replacing him with Hill? well ...]
Latrell Spreewell turning down 3 years and 21 million dollars, all because he needed more to "feed his family". Absolutley ridiculous.
Not counting the Isiah Thomas stuff because that is just too easy I would say (in no particular order):
1) The Hawks drafting yet another 2-3 in Marvin Williams and passing up on a solid PG like Chris Paul.
2) The Heat trading or not signing their best three point shooters (Eddie Jones and Damon Jones, respectively) and adding a chucker like Antoine Walker. IMO, this lessens the effectiveness of Wades drives and Shaqs down low play.
3) Nate McMillan leaving Seattle to coach Portland (as someone else already mentioned.)
- Isiah Thomas has the top-three blunders of this season, but it boils down to this: he didn't give Larry Brown the players to execute his gameplan, and he mortgaged the long-term future of the franchise for some overrated players.
- In ten years, we are going to wonder why Chris Paul wasn't drafted over Andrew Bogut, Marvin Williams, and Deron Williams. The team we will come down hardest on resides in Atlanta.
- Atlanta had a bad offseason. Their considerable cap room would be better served if the Hawks hadn't soaked so much into Joe Johnson, and just let Boris Diaw play basketball.
- Trading Ricky Davis for Wally Szcerbiak - this is an overall problem with the 2005 offseason and mid-season moves: everyone seems to just be shuffling the deck, not improving their team.
Nate didn't make a stupid move - the Sonics new owners were going to lowball him. He just needs to get rid of Miles and he should be fine. Zeke should help out there.
Bob Hill is doing pretty well. The star and the kids like him.
After the Hawks' getting another tweener, Utah's choice of Deron Williams over Paul or Ray Felton was ridiculous.
Stupidest move in the NBA 2005-06: the NBA and press not recognizing and promoting the iron-clad and oiled machine that is the Spurs. I'm sick of that . The Spurs could singlehandedly "save" the NBA from all the BS Stern is trying to move away from, i.e. ghetto-licious ballas, and [/I]playas; horrible basketball games, lack of fundamentals and character in "stars"; guns on planes; fights with fans.....All of that bull that is the NBA. At least we realize what we have down her in south-central Texas.
We realize it in Michigan too... Selfless stars all sacrificing for one common goal. Why is it that only two teams in the league, who are the most sucessful BTW, realize that this is how you win championships? When will they learn...At least we realize what we have down her in south-central Texas.
Also, that poor kidnapped herself.
The NBA should have been promoting the good things about the Pistons and the Spurs all this season. A rematch in the Finals is going to be dismal on the ratings again, no matter how good the series turned out to be.
The sad part is that it doesn't have to be. Vote Obstructed View for Commish. (I call President!)
1. Players wearing tights as a fashion statement.
2. The NBA prospectively banning said tights as a power move over the players.
3. The dress code ... it's a complete joke, and is not followed a lot of the times by many players, but I have yet to hear a player to be reprimanded for it.
4. Ron Artest saying he wanted to stay in Indiana after he publicly asked for a trade.
5. Trading Caron Butler for Kwame Brown ... ooooops!
6. Trading Mike James for Rafer Alston ... ooooooooooops!
7. Kobe elbowing Mike Miller in the throat ... anyone who didn't believe that Kobe had the anger and power mentality to sexually assault someone, look at Kobe's eyes after getting hit hard by Miller and look at how he reacted.
8. Bill Walton switching boyfriends from Jason Kidd to Dwyane Wade and drooling all over his mic.
9. The birdman ... so was it heroine or PCP? I just don't buy that it was just marijuana.
10. Not only trading Sam Cassell for Marko Jaric, but giving the Clippers a first round draft pick on top of it.
11. Nate Robinson taking 3,481 tries to finish one dunk in the dunk contest.
12. Rasheed getting a technical foul for laughing at a player ... now a lot of his technical fouls are deserved, but for LAUGHING? He wasn't even laughing at the officials. He was laughing at Zydrunas Ilgauskas' attempt at a hard foul.
13. One of the first games of the seasons in Boston, Mark Blount hits a jumper to put the Celtics up by one point over the Pistons with 0.3 seconds left in the game. The crowd goes crazy. Celtics players pile on each other with elated smiles on their faces. Detroit calls time-out, sets up a play with those 0.3 seconds left, diagrams NOT A LOB AT THE RIM but a curl play for a jumpshot. Ricky Davis gaffs on a soft pick and Rip Hamilton scores the winning 17-footer. The Boston crowd is speechless, silent, with their collective jaw on the floor. 0.3 seconds. I'm sure there are other games this season with similar endings, but being a Pistons fan, I thought this was funny. Boston's defense and early celebration was rather stupid to me.
14. Grant Hill's doctors, trainers, medical staff ...
15. Shaquille O'Neal still being fat and injury proned.
Tony Parker's desperate girlfriend completely takes away the idea that any promotion of the Spurs could be done without sensationalizing it with Hollywood gossip like non-basketball stories.
the dress code
Me passing the ball to the scrubs on my team. I got mad love for my boy LO
You should learn not to pass man. It hurts your team.
The Mavs know all about Kobe NOT passing the ball, as evidence by the 62 points KB dropped on them in three quarters of work.
Than he plays his worst game of the season against the mavs the next time they played. 5-22.
LOL ... dammm Kobe should have passed it more that game.
Araujo+Darko for Kato+1st is quite a bad trade for Detroit.
It's not Dumars' fault but the Darko story has been a fiasco and there isn't a good solution available to end it.
Bad move? Sure, that's arguable.
One of the "stupidest" moves? Hardly. Joe Dumars realized that Darko would not develop as a Detroit Piston with the limited to no playing time. He made the trade to not only help clear cap space for the team to re-sign Ben and Chauncey, but Dumars did it for Darko so he could get playing time and have the opportunity to play through mistakes. It was actually a considerate move.
Dumars still believed that Darko could be a very good player in this league, but just not as a Piston. Either way, if Darko started putting up good numbers or if he still was very bad in Orlando, it would be perceived as a bad move on Joe Dumars' part because he either should have kept him or he was still a bust. I personally think that Larry Brown probably hurt Darko's development. But, whatever the reason, trading Darko was not a "stupid" move because Dumars did it in order to help the team keep Ben Wallace and Chauncey Billups.
And, by the way, his name is "Arroyo" not "Araujo." Araujo is the Brazilian center in Toronto.
Yes, it was stupid.
The trade isn't stupid but waiting two years and a half (when his stock was at an all time low) before trading him was stupid.
At the end of his rookie year, there were WallaceČ and McDyess in Detroit : keeping him was stupid. You can't develop your play when you don't have any playtime.
Sorry for Arroyo, Araujo is a real scrub, Arooyo can be quite good.
Joe believed that Darko could earn at least 10 "meaningful" minutes a game of playing time during this season. Had Darko not sulked and worked hard enough to earn those minutes, then Darko would still be on the team. He didn't. Joe waited because he believed Darko could do it. It's only a stupid move in retrospect because Darko did not earn his minutes. Hardly a stupid move to give Darko (20 years old) yet another chance to earn his salary.
what was the score after 3rd Q when i went off for 62 points?
Dumb
Are you sure it was 0.3? I thought it was 0.7. Its not even possible to shoot a jumper with 0.3 left.
I agree with everything there, except, I think Bogut will be the best player out of the draft. Followed by Paul.
And? He still dropped 62 and 43 on the mavs. He embarassed you're franchise in staples and in Dallas.Than he plays his worst game of the season against the mavs the next time they played. 5-22.
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