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Hornets will win because Duncan will be too distracted by Anthony Davis flaunting his gold medal.
One week away from regular season basketball.
Hornets will win because Duncan will be too distracted by Anthony Davis flaunting his gold medal.
Or maybe the Spurs will win when Duncan distracts Davis by flaunting his 4 rings, 3 Finals MVP trophies, and 2 MVP trophies
Spurs will win because Davis will his pants when he realizes he's going up against 4-time champ and back-to-back MVP Timothy Theodore Duncan, sons
lol at the pic up top, Tim looks like he's thinking "the is wrong with this s eyebrows"
I hope Austin Rivers isn't a bust. It should be an interesting year for the Pelicans.
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Hopefully the Spurs can win without Eddy Curry.
The over/under on a season ending Eric Gordon injury: +/- 8 games.
just noticed timvp changed to the fleurnets logo tbqh
lol Spursfans instantly butthurt.
The Pelicans will be on of those scrappy teams that tries really hard but isn't that good. Robin Lopez and Anthony Davis while an awkward pairing on offense, seem to be a damn talented defensive pairing so far. If Gordon can stay healthy, they will be scrappy, but I anticipate them being a very below average team naturally due to talent, injuries and age.
I am not high on Rivers but we will have to see how he progresses.
It's gonna be fun when they become the Pelicans and this is their logo
Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if they stay the exact same as last year but with Unibrow in place of Okafor/Kaman... they'll lose a lot of close games.
Okafor missed most of last year and Kaman was/is terrible. Losing Kaman is addition by subtraction. Mavs fans will learn the hard way.
Gordon needs to stay healthy for this team to compete. Ryan Anderson needs him alot since no one else can create shots.
I hate Austin Rivers and hate the pick even more. He was really overrated. He's a ty shooter and shoots whenever he can. He doesn't defend, doesn't pass well. But the team wanted a PG long-term I guess and he felt he was the best candidate at that spot even though better prospects were available.
Davis should be hands down the rookie of the year. If he doesn't win, it will be a disappointment. Most of the other rookies out there have flaws. He has the least flaws and most upside.
Team needs more shooters and a SF. Hopefully Darius Miller will step up and took over the SF job from Aminu who's a really good defender/rebounder, but is a ty offensive player.
Spurs should tap that ass, tbh
Spurs will start the 3rd year of their Fool's Gold Campaign with a W. timvp will make grades, spur fans will chug his seed like it's the fountain of youth, and new spurs scrubs will be unjustly glorified.
no new spurs scrubs this season yet, tbh
i can already see they tryna pass Leonard off as elite
That's not what I meant. They'll find somebody else to hype up more than the plug-and-play expendable player that they are a la Green and Neal.
well his grades are pretty good tbqh
Exactly...he's more talented than the aforementioned two, but spur fan will make him out to be something he's not.
He's the best 2nd year player!!
but I heard it makes your skin look younger
Someone already started a De Colo All-Star? Thread upstairs.
New Orleans Hornets guard Eric Gordon says 'no guarantees' he'll play Wednesday night
By Jimmy Smith, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune
on October 30, 2012 at 12:45 PM, updated October 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM
After three days of the most strenuous practices he has experienced in the days leading up to the New Orleans Hornets regular-season opener Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs, shooting guard Eric Gordon says "there are no guarantees" his sore right knee will allow him to play.
"I'm just trying to do the best I can every day," Gordon said following Tuesday's practice at the Alario Center. "It has been feeling better throughout the process of a few weeks. It's just really tough right now to really say right now that I'm guaranteed to play."
Gordon says he is still not pain-free, although he just began full contact work on Sunday, after doing mostly walk-through work to that point.
His right knee was cleaned out by arthroscopic surgery on Feb. 14 last season, limiting him to only nine games a year ago. On the team's media day Oct. 1, the Hornets announced Gordon's training camp preparation would be limited.
He said it was hard to say when a determination would be made whether he could play against the Spurs.
"It feels good; it takes me a long time to warm up but I'm here two hours before practice," Gordon said, "trying to get it warm and get it ready. It's tough. I feel pain when I play and of course it looks good to the coaches and everybody here that the past few days I've been playing well and looking well. But it's hard to deal with, especially over an 82-game season.
"It's always going to be an overall (decision). You never want to leave the organization out of what's going on. I tell them how I feel every day. That's just going to be the process, and then we'll develop a process within that."
Gordon insisted he'd be able to play with pain, if necessary, though he expects some minute restrictions early on.
"It's just seeing how much I can handle. This is the start of the season. And it's going to be a long one," he said. "Probably when I get back playing, definitely there's going to be limited minutes whenever I get back. But it's all about me just getting better and rehabbing. As far as limitations, that will be something between me and the coach and definitely how I feel."
Hornets Coach Monty Williams said he'd seen nothing over the last few days from Gordon's on-court activity that would lead him to believe Gordon would not be ready to play against the Spurs, though Williams indicated if Gordon were ready, he'd likely start.
"Eric, if he's ready to play and he feels strong, will probably command that position," Williams said. "But we've got to wait. He's been practicing two, three days. We'll see how his knee feels (Wednesday). That's something, as usual, we'll find out in the morning.
"I certainly won't play him his full tilt. Eric is the kind of guy you'd like to play 35 to 38 minutes. That won't happen. He's not in that kind of shape. And the last thing you want to do is have a guy who's coming off a surgery go out there and play heavy minutes and hurt himself because of fatigue or something like that."
Rookie Austin Rivers, who suffered two right ankle sprains in the course of five days last week, is physically ready to play against San Antonio, Williams said.
Rivers started ever all seven exhibition games in which he appeared this month.
"Austin is ready to go," Williams said.
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