I'm right on this point. I would never in million years put on a cloak and pretend to be someone else. No way. Do I condemn others for doing it? No. I don't understand it, or, the effort that is involved, that's for sure.
Thread I respect you. But you are one stubborn .
I'm right on this point. I would never in million years put on a cloak and pretend to be someone else. No way. Do I condemn others for doing it? No. I don't understand it, or, the effort that is involved, that's for sure.
Cubby reminds me of a non-psychopathic John Kramer..
Rogue is a that keeps on stalking me in all my posts.
OP is the middle of a Sam and COLLINS sandwich tbh
13. David Stern (the real Laker GM) has now retired.
He did you right as well, Base. Tossing Amare and letting Duncan stay kept the Suns NBA Old Maid and provided you with the 4th.
The real Laker GM, David Stern, brought in Pau Gasol for Kwame Brown. Let's not forget...that Laker team had zero trade assets other than Bynum, yet Stern was able to gift them Pau Gasol, who was the 2nd best power forward in the league behind Tim Duncan. And that time, Chicago was talking about a massive package for Gasol which included Luol Deng. The Pau Gasol trade remains the most dirty Stern-tainted trade of all-time.
But Stern likes to out-do himself. So he nixed the Chris Paul trade and brought Dwight Howard to the Lakers instead. Stern's comment at the time was that it was better for New Orleans. Please. The only thing that mattered was making the Lakers as formidable as possible. And Howard was a way better fit than Chris Paul. After all, Paul has the ball in his hands 90% of the time - so he wouldn't mix with Bryant. Howard has the ball in his hands 5% of the time, so he's a perfect fit for the ball-dominating Bryant. So Stern brought the most dominant rim protector and rebounder in the league to a Laker team which desperately needed both. This was excellent GMing, to be sure. Why Stern didn't give himself the Executive of the Year Award is beyond me.
So Stern saw to it that the Lakers had Bryant, Howard, Gasol, and Nash - four all-stars - in his last year as Commish, and obviously a Laker le would allow him to go out on his terms. I'm sure he would have given himself a bonus, as dictators tend to do. Let's not forget that the Lakers obtained Howard by trading Andrew Bynum, who did not play a single minute in 2012-13. Again, this is just stellar GMing.
Yet after this silver spoon set-up, Bryant screws the pooch and can't make it work with Howard. Then, he proceeds to run Howard out of town. Really? Stern set up this fool K. Bryant to win two or three more rings with Howard on top of the two rings he delivered to Bryant in the dirty Gasol trade. Yet Bryant screws it up. The unthinkable happened...a media hound like Howard actually chose to leave LA, a city he loves, to go to Texas. Texas, people. And he did all this because he hated playing with K. Bryant that much. $30 million worth, to be exact. Howard effectually said, "I'll hand over $30 million just so I don't have to play with K. Bryant. Any more questions?"
Meanwhile in his plush New York office, David Stern was so incensed that he ripped off his Laker undershirt and threw it from his 36th story window. Then he killed himself.
Then, because he's the all-powerful David Stern, he brought himself back to life so we could see his face for two straight months before he retired - during the season - so as to create as much pomp and ballyhoo as he could possibly create.
This isn't even a troll topic because it's all 100% true.
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Fine, but, without David Stern you're light an NBA World le & I ain't got O & 45. We're both beholden, daddy.
10/10 Thread.
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Where do you crazy kids come up with this stuff...
Funniest Thread in Ages
13. A dead owner
You're not right. You're on your third user name on this forum and you're an admitted troll. You don't do basketball talk lest you reminisce about the old days and copy Mark Twain's writing style as if you're some forum laureate when in reality you're just regurgitating the same old schtick you've used for a decade or more. If you claim your other accounts were banned, then you got them banned by being an incessant parroting troll, and creating a new one is no different than anyone else creating one. It doesn't matter who everyone thinks you are IRL, all that matters is your intent when you post and yours is just to troll.
Stop trying to pretend your a more equal pig.
Yeah, I remember you. #15.
Danka.
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