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Happened.
Then
Was picked first overall.
Now we've witnessed
Has been offered a max contract????????????????????????
by this man
The NBA is the best thing and this is the best place for it!
Also, the 2012 Olympics (screw you non-America!) are soonish, and here is the finalists roster for the greatest country on Erf.
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I don't know about that. I mean, our 23-and-under squad would be pretty fucking competitive worldwide, but America doesn't really enjoy losing in the Olympics. We're used to uhm...not losing.
Yeah, I was talking more the college all-start team, not the under 23 team. If our "amateurs" (deserves quotation marks given that we live in a world with John Calipari and his ilk) went out and didn't win, we'd still be able to say they were competing against everyone elses' professionals.
You know what happened the last time two times collegiates and amateurs lost in the Olympics?
I don't think there's any chance of the USA not fielding a team of stars (that want to be there) ever again.
I'd be fine with alternating pro/Dream Teams with 23/under teams every other event.
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He's the veteran that everyone respected the most is my guess?
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Is that Tayshaun Prince who looks as tall as Dwight too? What
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88 was collegiates. They came in 3rd. Which wasn't good enough. Following that, in '89 FIBA allowed pros to play in the Olympics. And thusly the Dream Team was formed. When the 04 team was half NBA stars who didn't want to be there anyways and half scrubs that came away with the Bronze, the cycle started again. True to form in 08, they got the stars that cared about winning the Olympics in the mix.
The only other time the USA didn't win was 72 in the screw job heard round the world.
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That's all neck, though. The Bostrich towers over all.
Make future olympic gold medalist Kevin Love play minutes at the 5 on the theory that he's not actually just 6 ' 8" tall (even though he totally really is). Or maybe give legit center and Georgetown product Roy Hibbert a call. Team America: World Ballers needs frontcourt size with all the PF/C's out due to injury lack of patriotism.
At the very least, they'll have to cope with a double Gasol hassle in a more paced and possession-oriented half court international game, and Spain is looking to beat some ass anyway even with Rubio out. We need size. Tall people. Not short people. Tall people. Let this milquetoast, white man afro Randy Newman classic convince you of this.
Interesting.
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I guess the good news is they didn't give up anything valuable to get him? Aside from half a decade's worth of cap flexibility and a chance to sign Dwight Howard, that is. Wow.
Wow.
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No question. The Nets have some non-awful young wing talent, and they kept it all in the Joe Johnson trade. (They didn't even get Marshon Brooks? Yeah, Atlanta is scared to death of the luxury tax...). Anthony Morrow is sort of a loss, but Johnson is a big upgrade over him, overpaid or no.
I'm interested in the Johnson pickup because I think it kills all chances of Dwight going to Brooklyn this season, until more expiring contracts come off the table. Orlando won't even talk to the Nets' FO, so I assume Brooklyn is just trying to stay competitive with this move and keep fans energized for that first all-important year at a new locale, while they wait out Dwight's last year and try to sign him then.
I think it could work out in their favor. I'm interested to see what Atlanta will pull with the rest of free agency as well.
2 - Johnson
3 - Wallace
4 - Humphries
5 - Lopez
With Marshon Brooks and Gerald Green as bench wings. No credible bench big yet, but that's still at least a 7th seed in the East. It's decent even without Dwight.
Except they wont have any money left. If they resign Williams for between 14-18 million (which he will probably get) Then you have close to 50 million tied up in just Williams, Wallace, and Johnson. Even if they somehow managed to hold on to that last 8 million or so in cap space, no way Dwight signs for that little. It looks like this pretty much means no Dwight in Brooklyn. Maybe they could pull of a trade of Lopez + picks for Dwight, but Orlando shot that deal down last season, so I don't see them going for it now.
More importantly, how awesome would it be if Portland actually steals one of the best up and coming centers from the cheap ass pacers? I'd be pretty stoked about a starting lineup of Lillard/Mathews/Batum/Aldridge/Hibbert. If Lillard can become a Westbrook like player, that is a serious contender. On a more realistic note, how pissed are people going to be when we end up not getting Hibbert, resigning Batum for way more than he's worth, and then not having any cap space to do anything else?
Hard to say either way. I don't really buy into the whole "he played against shitty competition so he's probably not very good" theory. He dominated low level competition, has gotten better every year, and seems to be a hard worker. Given that portland apparently blows at evaluating talent for the pg position I am a little worried, but I think he's shown enough to at least put his ceiling as high as Curry. Which would still be enough to make Portland a deep playoff team.
And wow, for all the crap LeBron gets for The Decision, it's still a million times better than whatever the fuck Howard is doing.
A couple of considerations:
1.) Lopez can be extended to a max deal regardless of the Nets' cap situation, because they have his Bird rights, and then traded for Dwight outright. So while trying to retain the expensive Wallace and Johnson contracts may put the kibosh on a straight free agency signing of Howard, it in no way precludes him from getting traded to Brooklyn. It could theoretically happen tomorrow if all parties wanted to do it. There are no CBA / salary cap restrictions that prevent it at all.
2.) This is, as you astutely pointed out, pretty much exactly the package that the Magic just spent a year saying no to. I'm not so sure they have the luxury of choice any longer. Things are reportedly souring daily between Howard and Magic management, he's begging for a trade...the Magic may end up regretting that (one of the worst GMs the league has seen in) Otis Smith refused to pull the trigger on a trade much earlier, because all bets now seem to be on an even worse version of the Brook Lopez package if indeed Howard is able to force his way to Brooklyn.
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Cheap ass Pacers? Are you kidding? Roy Hibbert is in no way, shape or form anywhere close to be worthy of a max contract - but this is what Portland is signing him to. I congratulate the Pacers for not getting sucked into this and letting him walk.
anyway
My attitude about it was basically 'yeah, but who would I have drafted instead of him?' Neither barnes, ross or drummond particularly excites me. I guess maybe they could've taken barnes or ross and then marshall at eleven, but eh.
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