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My thoughts and most heartfelt paryers (to whom? meh....the sun?)are with hima t this time of adveristy.....poor millionaire
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It's a bad injury. I don't see how he could have made a play on the ball in that situation.
Tim Tebow, tbh.
Technically, but I can't help but think that it's used in a racist way, considering many well-known racists in here throw that term around like it's a common phrase that everyone understands. I've hardly seen the phrase used about non-black players (Blake Griffin doesn't exactly count, he's mixed), and it only pops up here in a very xenophobic SpursTalk (especially the NBA Forum).
"Monkeyball" as a concept doesn't really make a ton of sense to me. Is it reckless? Is it low IQ? What is it, exactly? Ginobili 2005? Being athletic? Dunking? Shooting a lot? Cross-overs? Why wouldn't you want an athletic player or someone to do those things? That's clearly what is essential for being an athlete in a fast-moving game like professional basketball. There are hardly any "low IQ" players that are superstars in the league. To be a star you need to be very good at something, which usually translates to wins, which negates the idea of being called out in an insulting way.
Anyway, I hope for the best for Paul George. I can't even imagine how the Pacers community must feel, especially if the rumor about missing the whole year is true. What a bad break for them, especially with Stephenson leaving and having a narrow window open now that LeBron has left the Heat.
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Anyone heard anything about the extent of the damage and if he'll make a full recovery? or is it still too early to tell?
It really, really sucks for the Pacers, as I think they would have had a great chance to reach the ECF again and possibly would have had a great chance to make the NBA finals.
Broken tibia and fibula, but it was a clean break with no nerve damage. Sounds like an 8-12 month recovery time.
So that is pretty much the best possible outcome then? I assume it is? Did they say if he can/should make a full recovery?
The team just needs to do the best they can this year they will still make the playoffs. Just hope Paul can get himself strong and fit for the following season and return to form. It would be tragic and very sad if his career ended on this note or he never got back to where he was.
Full recovery is possible, but in every instance I've heard of the athlete has never been quite the same. Especially for someone like PG whose so dependent on his athleticism.
college players will now play in the olymics
mark cuban in 2009 said they should nab still could profit from it
market future nab stars they would represent the usa well
With PG out at least a season, the Cavs surely will have a leg up on the compe ion. As far as recovery goes, hopefully Paul can make it snappy. And of course, I'm sure the NBA will have a bone to pick with the Las Vegas arena.
Wow, a lot of puns there!
Send free agents instead eg Richard Hamilton, Jordan Crawford, Michael Beasley
Yeah mark im sure college stars who havent gotten paid yet will be more than willing to get paul george'd for free overseas, dumb .
Ya, but personally I would assume the Knicks will be a better team next season considering the change in management, coaching and some of the players - they could be in the playoffs next season. New Jersey would still be a playoff team they will have Brook Lopez back and they have enough talent. Maybe you are forgetting that Cleveland will be a new addition to the top 8. Charlotte have improved, Washington will grow and added Pierce, Atlanta will have Horford back, Toronto will stay up there. Chicago and Miami will of course be there. That's 10 teams: Miami, Cleveland, Indiana, Chicago, Charlotte, Toronto, New York, Brooklyn, Washington, Atlanta.
Right now I would assume Indiana + 1 other team do not make the playoffs, most likely Atlanta or New York, as the rest of the teams are good enough to make it. Of course anything can change throughout the season due to injuries etc, but this is how the East looks now to me.
Puzzled why you think Atlanta won't make it. They did last year, without Horford. They're getting him back, plus their #15 pick. I'd say Atlanta might even threaten for a top 4 seed, and the first round at home.
I know, too soon, too soon.
He landed RIGHT on it. He should have taken a different ANGLE on that block. PauL George takes defense to a whole new degree. He got back on the fast break. All ignored and/or frowned upon.
But, isn't this how we should come together and heal, as a community? It is the ST way. Why abandon tradition for all of this squeamish sentiment and well-wishes. I thought ST was "hard". Where are the Benefactors, etc. with a phobic slur for any well-wisher? ST unite!
Puns. Finally, something good has come out of this horrible tragedy. We have the 1.3 million lost in the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge, mass graves in Bosnia, Nazis, still active Janjaweed that hacked so many to death they had to do it in shifts to save bullets and sleep, and PauL George's leg. Hopefully, he can overcome this and he can find something to elevate it on for the next 9 months...like, I don't know, a huge pile of cash.
Hopefully this can go Slo-mo "slow" thread. Maybe we can wear black "L"s to honor the day it happened, a la pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness. Or a stanchion patch?
From one of his comments, it seemed like Mark Cuban was wanting to take over USA basketball and make it its own en y that has players that are neither college nor pro, but managed by the NBA. So maybe you use NBDL players. Either way, you use players that the teams have much less financial stake in. Cuban was right all along. The dream teams should have died in 1993.
Well I did initially say either them or New York. But again, there are three things to consider there: 1. The likelihood/possibility that Millsap is traded considering he is an expiring contract. 2. Again, I think NYK will be improved under Fisher and Pjax. 3. The East was so damn bad last season, it was simply awful.
Thinking it over, I would not be shocked to see a team like Toronto fall out of the playoffs. I see them dropping because they simply took advantage of a horrible East last season, I cannot see them doing too well as many East teams have improved.
Looking at the East I believe there are no championship caliber teams other than Chicago and Cleveland, which they will be once they acquire Kevin Love. I think those teams will be the top 2 seeds in the East. From there on, the East is not as horrible as it was last season and it should be much more compe ive. Last season only Indiana and Miami were considered great/good and even then Indiana went through a very rough patch, as did Miami a little bit. My rankings would be something like this:
1. Chicago - DRose back and additional of Gasol, Mirotic
2. Cleveland - needs no explanation, plus Kevin Love is almost surely joining
3. Washington - internal improvement and addition of Pierce
4. Miami - Bosh will put up numbers close to what he did in Toronto, Wade will be more of a focal point again if healthy, and Deng is a nice addition but the team could possibly struggle to get home court
5. Charlotte - internal improvement plus addition of Lance Stephenson
6. Brooklyn - loss of Pierce will hurt a bit, but Dwill, Lopez, and JJ will keep them up
7. Toronto/New York/Atlanta
8. Toronto/New York/Atlanta
9. Toronto/New York/Atlanta
10. Indiana - Starting 5: Hill, Stuckey?, CJ Miles?, West, Hibbert. Loss of George, Stephenson and even Turner. They are going to be bad.
Error, ignore. I guess there is no way to delete a message?
You can edit it to delete most of its content, at least.
Toronto and Atlanta have a better chance of making the playoffs than this years Knicks. Amare is a s of his former self and is making $23 mil, Bargnani has been terrible and can't play defense, Melo never has. That leaves Dalembert as their only frontcourt defender (ironically making only $4 mil while the other three will make a combined $56+ mil). Combine that with the lack of defense at pg (caledron), JR Smith is still on the team, and installing a completely different offensive system (and probably defensive system) on a Knicks team that couldn't make the playoffs last season in a historically weak east, its hard to see how they would leapfrog Toronto and Atlanta
If the US sends scrubs or college kids they'll get beaten by the likes of Brazil, Spain, Russia, Lithuania, France, etc, etc.
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