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We're not at Lakerstalk.com though, after b2b lottery appearances talking about the defending champ. If you cannot see the difference, you're beyond help.
What are you drinking old man? Tim wasn't leaving California, he was leaving Texas.
Senility is ugly when it rears its head on a public forum, recorded for posterity.
We're not at Lakerstalk.com though, after b2b lottery appearances talking about the defending champ. If you cannot see the difference, you're beyond help.
And you, he could say " buttermilk flies popcorn" and you'd say "Cub".
The Heat can have room for Wade, Bosh, Goran Dragic, Hassan Whiteside and Durant … but only if Wade opts in for this year and gives them that flexibility by being a free agent in 2016. This requires Wade to have a lot of trust, obviously, and the leap of faith that the team will take care of him in 2016.
It also requires some creativity and relationship-building with Whiteside, who will be tucked away in something called a “cap hold.”
And it ultimately involves — and this is a big ask — Wade being OK with newcomers who haven’t done much of anything for the organization, like Dragic and Whiteside, earning more than he does.
If Wade opts into his deal for next season, he’d carry a $20.6 million cap hold in 2016, according to ShamSports, which combined with Bosh’s $23.7 million in 2016-17 and Dragic’s expected max contract (an estimated $21.6 million that year) leaves roughly $23.1 million for Durant or whoever — and that’s before we account for Josh McRoberts’ $5.8 million paycheck in 2016-17, what could be an eight-figure price tag for Whiteside and the remaining cap holds.
In theory, Riley could dump McRoberts, keep Whiteside waiting in his cap hold and offer Durant an $18.3 million starting salary before settling up with Whiteside, but that would require the former MVP to accept less than a max contract (roughly $26.7 million) on the open market next summer. And why would a 27-year-old Durant want to team with a trio of 30-somethings in Miami when he could sign for more money alongside current teammates Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka or join his hometown team with John Wall and Bradley Beal, all of whom would still be in their prime entering the 2016-17 NBA season.
That theory also ignores the reality that Wade is closer to retirement than the start of his Heat career more than a decade ago — a notion that will only be reinforced when he joins ABC for the station’s studio coverage of the NBA Finals. It was Riley himself who reminded us in his annual all-too-honest exit interview with the Miami media of the injury issues that have cost Wade a combined 25 percent of his regular-season games over the past four seasons.
"He's got to change the narrative himself about his body and about his injuries and about his missing games," Riley said. "And we had a discussion about this. But he always has to answer those questions, and I know those questions are legitimate because they're real.
"So night in and night out, there's always the question of whether or not he can or he can't. And so I'd like to have him try to get past that first hurdle mentally and do whatever he has to do to get himself ready to practice and himself ready to play, each and every night."
So, maybe Riley’s better off letting Wade walk— or at least challenging him to find someone crazy enough to offer him three years and $60 million — and selling Durant and others on Bosh, Dragic, Whiteside and whoever else the Heat pull out of their you know what. However wild that may seem, the sun sure seems to shine on Riley’s behind more days than not.
Remember, this is Miami, where even Scarface achieved his wildest dreams, however briefly.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...132505632.html
Got nothing to do with the price of beans.
You guys engaged us at le level. "C'mon in, sit down I'm not going to beat you."---Heavy Irish brogue....We sat down, your kilt tilted and you slapped the living out of us.
A 2nd 5th ain't gonna cut it, dad. Not by a jugful.
WTF are you talking about? Game 5 was played in California. The series was tied 2-2. You won Game 5. That put you up 3-2. Game 6 was played Texas.
Where am I wrong?
tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.........
Old man, tippy toe tippy toe..
The thread is about Wade who plays for Miami. Spurs were up 3-2 in the Finals two years ago and lost in Miami. You need to stick to one approach, either it's Amy and 6 or it's the 1st round loss to the Clippers. Make up your mind. You like having the room to say you meant this or you meant that, hedging your bets along the way.
And don't pretend you're here to talk ball. All your ball takes could be put into one post about the size of the one above.
Up 3-2 heading for Texas.
Your regrets are your own.
You're talking to the current NBA Champion. Show some goddamned respect.
Typical, you list three things you consume and flies.
You are NBA Champion, but, you ain't in California, daddy.
You ed up. & I ain't the cat to let you live it down.
You were up 3-2, makin' a milk run to friendly pastures.
ha, ha,,,you lost yer .
Let us proceed
You should be opening up tomorrow nite in defense of a back-to-back,,,your triple a foregone conclusion.
Ya got that 2nd 5th though. You look like a hundred bucks. Look at ya.
Look, Kobe is the self proclaimed "second coming". There's no such nonsense coming from Timmys mouth. One of these egos is not like the other. The media spotlight in LA is simply kerosene on the bonfire that Kobe lit.
Again, you have no spotlight in San Antonio. You've committed the same mistakes, but, since no one is in the woods when the tree falls no one hears it. Christ, the in' judge went out there to their in' house so it would be kept private. It's nice not having your most intimate moments without the light being shown upon you. It's also softened ya's so in tight quarters (b2b) you're incapable of crossing that threshold.
Duncan has never owned anything. And Duncan has also never repeated.
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