Popovich pops off on Grizzlies' controversial swap

[ChumpDumper]

Spurs en tanked and they landed the number one pick. Why aren't they investigated?

Because they didn't tank.

Robert Horry plays dirty against the Suns and the Spurs get rewarded.

So that is what this is all about. Still butthurt about that one, eh?

[AFBlue]

I feel dumber for having read all eight pages of this thread....

I took one look at this article and the first and only thing that popped into my mind was how the Spurs were definitely out of the running for Mike Miller, if he were to be put on the market.

I'd be happy with Kurt Thomas for Barry/Elson.

It's no damn all-star Pau for unproven prospect and picks deal...but I'd take it.

[MajicMan]

No, it was actually just payback for stupid asses like Obstructed View and a few other ass hats. My recent threads have been obviously trolling. You guys are just too stupid to pick up on it.

[ChumpDumper]

No, it was actually just payback for stupid asses like Obstructed View and a few other ass hats. My recent threads have been obviously trolling. You guys are just too stupid to pick up on it.

So the internets is very serious business to you.

[DazedAndConfused]

Why do you guys care so much about this?

I thought Gasol was a weak soft Euro-trash pussy, Kobe was a ball hog who couldn't lead a team, Phil Jackson was an overpaid coach who couldn't win without HOF talent, and Bynum was a weak teenager?

[MajicMan]

Why would it be serious business for me? I was playing a Phoenix Suns fan for crying out loud. Nothing serious about being a Suns fan.

[ChumpDumper]

Why do you guys care so much about this?

Why did you dig up a ten year old Barkley clip on YouTube?

I thought Gasol was a weak soft Euro-trash pussy, Kobe was a ball hog who couldn't lead a team, Phil Jackson was an overpaid coach who couldn't win without HOF talent, and Bynum was a weak teenager?

All true.

And they're cheaters.

[ChumpDumper]

Why would it be serious business for me? I was playing a Phoenix Suns fan for crying out loud. Nothing serious about being a Suns fan.

So trolling the internets for payback is serious business.

[TwoHandJam]

I remember THJ. I remember brother!

Thanks, man. Preach it.

[slayermin]

So, Memphis is looking to clear salary to sign a big named FA this offseason. The facts are that Kwame has the highest expiring K of any player available.

Acutally, isn't that Antawn Jamison?

[703 Spurz]

@ Pop.

Dude is venting about the business side of basketball.

It lost him Scola and it gave Gasol to the Lakers.

It's understandable, but don't read too much into it.

An extra at TazedAnd d and his chemically induced analysis of basketball history. Let's just say you're wrong and you can avoid further embarrassment.

DazedAnd bag

[703 Spurz]

Right Pop... ing Bill Belichick of basketball. If that's the case Spurs should be investigated for tanking, cheating, and insider trading. First they tank for Timmy, beat up Steve Nash to get half the Suns team suspended, and they also give away Scola to the Rockets in some type of hand shake deal.

you Pop. Look in the mirror!

Have you ever had intercourse with a woman pube-chin?

[TwoHandJam]

happens all the time just like when Minne was dealing under the table with Joe Smith and the Pats filming other teams except for the fact that these two teams got caught. Spurs en tanked and they landed the number one pick. Why aren't they investigated? Not giving your all is a major sin in sports. Robert Horry plays dirty against the Suns and the Spurs get rewarded. If Pop wants to talk about a basketball committee the committee would have en vetoed the Shaq for Grant, Lamar, and Butler trade and also the Butler for Kwame trade and also the Scola for peanuts trade so he should shut his ugly face. All these recent trades for the Lakers that went down have been in their favor just like his "thank god they tore down the Berlin Wall or broke up the Soviet Union" or some like that comment about when the Lakers traded Shaq. Hypocritical two face whiny Pop should shut his trap. en Bill Belichick of basketball.

Go back and look at the players on that Spur team without Robinson and tell me if they could have won more games being in the western conference back then. Timvp already posted the box score of a controversial game where Barkley claimed they weren't trying. They didn't even have the best odds to land Duncan, Boston did.

Scola (totally unproven NBA rookie) for nothing
declining/expensive Shaq for Lamar, Butler, Grant

is nowhere near the utter lunacy of a 19 and 9 franchise player who is young and in his prime traded within the same conference for some cap space and draft picks. If I'm a memphis season ticket holder, I'm pissed as .

The Gasol trade is more in line with, as you mentioned, the Minny/Joe Smith fiasco and the Pats filming other teams' signals.

[703 Spurz]

Why do you guys care so much about this?

I thought Gasol was a weak soft Euro-trash pussy, Kobe was a ball hog who couldn't lead a team, Phil Jackson was an overpaid coach who couldn't win without HOF talent, and Bynum was a weak teenager?

Aren't you the one doing all the ing research just to make a point that no one cares about?

[ChumpDumper]

nowhere near the utter lunacy of a 19 and 9 franchase player who is young and in his prime traded within the same conference for some cap space and draft picks. If I'm a memphis season ticket holder, I'm pissed as .

Screwing over a couple thousand people is totally worth the money to be made from the sale of an NBA team.

[MajicMan]

Go back and look at the players on that Spur team without Robinson and tell me if they could have won more games being in the western conference back then. Timvp already posted the box score of a controversial game where Barkley claimed they weren't trying. They didn't even have the best odds to land Duncan, Boston did.

Scola (totally unproven NBA rookie) for nothing
declining/expensive Shaq for Lamar, Butler, Grant

is nowhere near the utter lunacy of a 19 and 9 franchase player who is young and in his prime traded within the same conference for some cap space and draft picks. If I'm a memphis season ticket holder, I'm pissed as .

So Barkley says on t.v. you guys are the best team in the West and you believe it but he actually played against you guys and called you guys tankers and you don't believe it? The guy is a loudmouth fool but I don't think he's a liar. You guys tanked. It's no secret. Don't insult people's intelligence by denying it so off about the Pau Gasol trade.

[ChumpDumper]

So Barkley says on t.v. you guys are the best team in the West and you believe it but he actually played against you guys and called you guys tankers and you don't believe it? The guy is a loudmouth fool but I don't think he's a liar. You guys tanked. It's no secret. Don't insult people's intelligence by denying it so off about the Pau Gasol trade.

Barkley is a cheater.

[TwoHandJam]

So Barkley says on t.v. you guys are the best team in the West and you believe it but he actually played against you guys and called you guys tankers and you don't believe it? The guy is a loudmouth fool but I don't think he's a liar. You guys tanked. It's no secret. Don't insult people's intelligence by denying it so off about the Pau Gasol trade.

Look at the boxscore of the game where he claimed that. Numbers don't lie.

[DazedAndConfused]

Memphis wanted to clear cap space. They are selling the team and want to give the new owners flexibility to sign the players they want.

[MajicMan]

Look at the boxscore of the game where he claimed that. Number don't lie.

It's called not making it obvious.

[T Park]

I Give up.

[slayermin]

Memphis is targeting a free agent this off season? Who?

Seattle has Kurt Thomas with an expiring contract and Miami has Jason Williams and Ricky Davis with expiring contracts. They could package way better picks to Memphis, from what I can tell. Help from Spurs capalogists?

[DazedAndConfused]

I misquote people because I have nothing to backup my arguments

[ChumpDumper]

Memphis is targeting a free agent this off season?

Not under this ownership.

[TwoHandJam]

Memphis wanted to clear cap space. They are selling the team and want to give the new owners flexibility to sign the players they want.

Right. Young franchise players averaging almost 20/10 are often traded within their own conference for the allure of sheer, unbridled potential. Happens all the time.

Trading for potential is how you end up like the Knicks. With all that cap space, I'm sure franchise player level FAs will be knocking the door down to play in Memphis with ... no one of consequence.