You can't hate Shannon Brown. You can hate Adam Morrison, Jordan Farmar, Kobe, Artest. You can't hate Bynum. Who else... Lamar is awesome. How can you hate Fish? You can kill Vujacic if you want, he is a piece of shit.

He's really good, but how can you like him?

He's not very likeable.

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wooo Celtics lose to the Clippers, giving the Lakers the best record in the NBA again

Hilarious. B-DIDDY!

pau is awsome

the only other laker i like is jordan farmar put him in a run n gun sytem like the warriors or the knicks and we would be great

everyone i either hate or are really overrated

Good. I want farmar, morrison, and vujabitch off this team. Take them, anyone.

nobody wants vaginachic

farmar and morrison more likely since they are expring contracts

All I know is that the Lakers need a competent/consistent back-up point guard. Mitch needs to make some moves.

Fox Sports on MSN homepage headline calls it a "major upset". It's DECEMBER!

There's been some speculation about trading Farmar/Morrison for Calderon..

:lol:

calderon plays horrible defense..worse then fisher

to fit the triangle you need a pg that can defend and hit some open 3's calderon can hit the 3's but he is a horrible defender

Yeah, Calderon isn't much of an improvement over Fish.

I'd like to see someone like Nate Robinson come in.

Anywho, this is isn't even a real rumor, it's a comment that Bill Simmons made in one of his articles.

ESPN:

The Houston Rockets have granted Tracy McGrady an indefinite leave from the team and will work with his representatives to find a new home for the seven-time All-Star via trade, according to sources close to the process.<!--NEW:-->



Sources told ESPN.com on Monday that phone discussions between Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, coach Rick Adelman and one of McGrady's agents, Arn Tellem, led to an agreement that both sides would work together in pursuit of a palatable trade before the league's annual trading deadline on Feb. 18.


The Rockets, sources said, are adamant about not buying out the remainder of McGrady's $23 million expiring contract and enabling him to become a free agent during the season. Yet, they also remain unprepared to promise the extended minutes McGrady has been seeking.


Sources said the sides agreed Monday that the best compromise is letting McGrady leave the team to work out on his own in hopes that a deal can be struck and so his teammates and coaches will be spared from the distraction of daily questions about McGrady's status.

:wave:

I really don't like Tony Allen

I have a sick feeling that the Sixers might be a playoff team with Iverson and everyone healthy.

That's not good.

Tony Allen comes out of the game Celtics start playing better, WEIRD

should garnett be embarrased after this game?

couldnt post up ellis,radman or maggatte

warriors win,with a healthy team we can finally start doing some damage in the laegue although after our bad start the playoffs don seem very likely

Everyone should be embarrassed, Celtics played awful defense all game. I mean I know he is good, but Monte Ellis looked like a first ballot Hall of Famer all game.

Jesus, Lakers get crushed in Phoenix, but the Celtics still give them the best record in the league still.

warriors will beat the lakers tommorow

At this point, I would not doubt that for one minute.

;)

<table class="tablehead" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="11">NBA Scoring Leaders</td></tr> <tr class="colhead" align="right"> <td align="left">RK</td> <td align="left">NAME</td> <td>GP</td> <td>MPG</td> <td>PTS</td><td>FGM-FGA</td><td>FG%</td><td>3PM-3PA</td><td>3P%</td><td>FTM-FTA</td><td>FT%</td></tr> <tr class="oddrow" align="right"> <td align="left">1</td><td align="left">K. Bryant, LAL</td><td>31</td><td>38.5</td><td class="sortcell">30.4</td><td>11.3-23.2</td><td>.485</td><td>1.1-3.6</td><td>.295</td><td>6.8-7.9</td><td>.854</td></tr> <tr class="evenrow" align="right"> <td align="left">2</td><td align="left">C. Anthony, DEN</td><td>32</td><td>37.6</td><td class="sortcell">30.0</td><td>10.3-22.0</td><td>.470</td><td>0.8-2.4</td><td>.355</td><td>8.5-9.9</td><td>.861</td></tr> <tr class="oddrow" align="right"> <td align="left">3</td><td align="left">K. Durant, OKC</td><td>31</td><td>39.8</td><td class="sortcell">28.4</td><td>9.6-20.3</td><td>.471</td><td>1.4-4.3</td><td>.316</td><td>7.9-9.1</td><td>.865</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="tablehead" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="colhead" align="right"><td align="left" width="150">PACIFIC</td> <td width="50">W</td> <td width="50">L</td> <td width="50">PCT</td> <td width="50">GB</td> <td width="50">HM</td> <td width="50">RD</td> <td width="50">CONF</td> <td width="50">DIV</td> <td width="50">PF</td> <td width="50">PA</td> <td width="50">DIFF</td> <td width="50">STRK</td> <td width="50">L10</td> </tr> <!-- sortCol: gamesBehind gamesBehind sortOrder:false false --><tr class="oddrow" align="right"><td align="left">LA Lakers</td> <!--standing.playoffSeed = 1--> <td>25</td> <td>6</td> <td>.806</td> <td class="sortcell">-</td> <td><nobr>17-3</nobr></td> <td><nobr>8-3</nobr></td> <td><nobr>15-5</nobr></td> <td><nobr>6-1</nobr></td> <td>103.9</td> <td>97.0</td> <td class="greenfont">+6.9</td><td><nobr>Won 1</nobr></td> <td><nobr>7-3</nobr></td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="tablehead" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tbody> <tr class="colhead" align="right"><td align="left" width="150">ATLANTIC</td> <td width="50">W</td> <td width="50">L</td> <td width="50">PCT</td> <td width="50">GB</td> <td width="50">HM</td> <td width="50">RD</td> <td width="50">CONF</td> <td width="50">DIV</td> <td width="50">PF</td> <td width="50">PA</td> <td width="50">DIFF</td> <td width="50">STRK</td> <td width="50">L10</td> </tr> <!-- sortCol: gamesBehind gamesBehind sortOrder:false false --><tr class="oddrow" align="right"><td align="left">Boston</td> <!--standing.playoffSeed = 1--> <td>23</td> <td>7</td> <td>.767</td> <td class="sortcell">-</td> <td><nobr>10-4</nobr></td> <td><nobr>13-3</nobr></td> <td><nobr>15-4</nobr></td> <td><nobr>5-1</nobr></td> <td>100.5</td> <td>91.9</td> <td class="greenfont">+8.7</td><td><nobr>Lost 2</nobr></td> <td><nobr>7-3</nobr></td></tr></tbody></table>

ESPN.com reported Saturday that the Washington Wizards had reached out to the Rockets in an exploratory manner about a possible Gilbert Arenas-for-McGrady swap, but Houston has no interest in such a deal. Arenas ranks as one of the league's most difficult players to move with four seasons left after this one on a mammoth $111 million contract and a history of knee problems to rival McGrady's.

lakers got lucky with the bailout calls for kobe 16 ft?the worse ones were during the last 3 minutes of the game

anyways rockets are smart not to trade for arenas his contract is too big for a injury prone player

That would be one hell of a crappy trade in terms of how injury-prone and high cap/salary wise both players are right now. Both are very talented as players though.

At the same time, makes sense the only realistic trade for the Rockets would involve taking a big salary player.

lakers are pissing me off. playing awful. Thank god for Mamba last night.

http://usershare.net/2DopeBoyz/py0izrfuv73h

u gotta be kidding me. Artest wrote a song about drinking Hennesey at halftime.

Goddamn the Celts can't make shit right now. was 13-12 Suns now 24-12.

No Pierce, No KG, No complaints from me.

Only team in the NBA to have wins over the Celtics and Lakers whattttup.

If I was the Hornets GM I would try to send Peja/picks to Houston for t Mac and get the wing CP3 Never has had

i dont see why the rockets would do that

rockets need a temporary big for this year maybe for the future since yao is always getting hurt

if its temporary trading t-mac to the bulls of brad miller and some fillers would be great for the rockets

lol @ Anderson Varejao first career 3 pointer

THE CELTICS ARE FALLING APART!! THE WORLD IS OVER!!

I was at Pacers vs. Grizzlies tonight. Fuck, first the Pacers have a hard time closing out games where they do well and go on a huge losing streak. Now it's like they forget how to play basketball till the 3rd quarter and can't quite close the deficit.

Luther Head went off like crazy tonight, which had me very happy. I have no clue why we started Solomon Jones, though. Roy Hibbert is so much better. Despite coming off the bench, Hibbert had 25 points 13 rebounds. Yet it seemed like whenever he'd get on fire, O'Brien would bring in Jones to suck some dicks.

Hopefully we can make a strong run when we get everyone healthy. Granger, Murphy, Hansborough, and Foster were all hurt for tonight.

But I'm still psyched, got free courtside tickets for Pacer vs. Suns on the 13th.

I really can't stand Dahntay Jones. I watch tons of Kings game since I live in the area, and something about him just bugged the shit out of me.

Some guy from the insidehoops forums is claiming that he saw a Lakers/Hornets trade rumor discussed on NBA TV...

Reason #1 why the Cavaliers wont be winning a championship any time soon...

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/1230...onvert_288.jpg

Are you serious right now? This is the strongest run they've ever made. We have a shot at John Frigging Wall. A legit shot! Ofcourse Bird will fuck it up and pick that white guy from USC or something lol.

I hope we lost 20 straight. I mean, if we become one of the worst 3 teams, we have a major shot at John Wall. I'll buy season tickets if we get John Wall. I'll let him impregnate my mother also.

We're talking about the best player to come out since Lebron. Imagine AI going to a Philly team with a Scottie Pippen type player on it.

I mean, this only happens once. We need to lose baby. JUST LOSE BABY!!!! MORE HEAD!!!! MORE LUTHER HEAD!

Please give us John Wall. Please. Please lord. Pleaseeeeeeeeee!

Bynum/Farmar/ 1st rounder for CP3? Do it. Well, I dunno actually. Bynum might be a bit much. Can we make it Walton/Morrison/Farmar/Mbenga and a 1st rounder?

lol Blazers lose Aldridge but still beat the clips. Juwan Howard played 37 minutes lol

Only way NO does this is if they get an exciting player in return. Luke Walton is not that player.

New Orleans is also a good team still fighting for a playoff spot. They are not like Memphis with the Gasol trade or Seattle/Minnesota in the Boston trades where the main issue was salary dumps to rebuild the team.

Making that trade would end up hurting the Hornets contender chances for a few years while Lakers keep locking away the West for a few more years (historically they own about 1/2 the West appearances in NBA Finals).

NO is desperately trying to shed salary, and there is no chance they make the playoffs this year, so I wouldn't put it past them to try and get rid of at least David West, if not CP3.

That said, there is zero chance CP3 goes to LA (not like Kobe could handle having somebody else dominate the ball anyway)

Yeah if they were to trade, it would be dumb to trade him to a dominate team in the West since it would be most likely New Orleans would face that team if they were to make the playoffs in the 1st round.

others have chosen to be nice to your proposed trade idea

however i will choose a different path you are a fucking retard why the fuck would N.O give up the best point gaurd in the league for a bunch of scrubs?

take your stupid idea and shove it up your ass right fucking now

lol assman this season just turned epic for you guys

It appears that Agent Zero is not afraid to flash some cold steel.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4787825

they could easily void arenas contract or heavily fine him

gil is a idiot he whent from being cool with his blogs and stuff to being a dumbass carrying guns around

This just reinforces the fact that they need to re-name the team the Bullets.

He's ending up just like Sean Alexander was with Seattle in the NFL. Once he got the big money contract, his quality/determination dropped by a lot. Although unlike Alexander, Arenas was becoming injury prone before the new deal so its more of the owner's fault for giving him $100 million to begin with.

I wont live in Indiana by the time the draft goes down, so it doesn't much matter to me if John Wall goes to Indiana. I'm rooting for a good season this year.

Wowwwwwwwwwwwww this Crittenton/Arenas shit is nuts

lol blazers lose steve blake to pneumonia :(

8 of our 9 top scorers from last year are out with injury.

Nate Robinson drops 41 after sitting out the previous 14 games, hahaha.

Also, TYREKE! tonight! against LA though :(

how is it that everybody but andre miller is getting injured :'(

Jesus Christ, Lakers. getting destroyed, with no tyreke.

Fucking Fisher sucks. Retire already! 1-11 in the first half. Why he would even take 11 shots in a game is beyond me.

He is never injured. I think he has the longest active players consecutive games streak or however you say it.

If the Lakers lose to the Kings without Evans, then they are not going to the Finals. Sorry.

BTW. I've adopted the Kings as me 2010 favorite team now. I'll be rooting for them. I love Tyreke Evans. I wish Indiana had him, but I really hope we get John Wall.

Hey Rectal Pertruder are you excited at the prospect of the indiana pacers getting john wall

Yes, my pants are getting smaller as I type about it.

Another Kobe Bryant buzzer beater!!!

lol wow kobe. I hate you but damn

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Greatest of all time.

It really blows my mind how often defenses blow their coverage on Kobe in that situation. Put 2 guys on him at minimum. Deny him the ball and seal him off. Make someone else take that shot.

Doesnt help that Kobe almost gave that defender a free safety style tackle or that the refs didnt see that his left heel was just barely out of bounds.

Watched that game last night, i dunno how Kobe does it. Was looking forward to seeing the lakers lose for once. (not sure how many they have lost but i'm yet to see it happen) Can't deny his brilliance though.

Wadding, you are retarded. That is a flop. Watch the replay, then tell me that he honestly pushed him away, come on now. Plus, it was not out of bounds at all.

1) why would you flop when you are guarding one of the best buzzer beating shotmakers in the game? Please logically explain this to me.

2) Kobe CLEARLY pushes off Casspi with his elbow.

3) His right foot (the one you see) is just in front of the line, his left is obscured but definitely further back. Any further back than where his right foot is is definitely out of bounds. You tell me.

PS I watched the video about 6 times.

Watched the video again, and still think you are retarded.

Dave Wadding hating on the Lakers and Kobe??? This is shocking

SammyG you are naming Kobe the greatest of all time and you're calling DaveWadding retarded?

Also, Blazers just layethed the smackdown on the Warriors with

No Oden
No Aldridge
No Przybilla
No Outlaw
No Batum
No Rudy
No Blake

NO PROBLEM

It really does look like he is out of bounds though.

Good shot though.

The refs reviewed the play to see if the shot was off on time and to see if he stepped out of bounds.

Kobe's heel was over the out of bounds line, but it was not touching the hardwood.

Ok, that's fine. To be fair I really couldnt see his left foot and he might have had it at just the right angle. If they can't see it, they can't see it.


IT is still ridiculous to say he didn't push Casspi or that Casspi would "flop" in that situation though.

After watching again, his left foot might be right on the line. Calling it out would have been a ticky tack call.

I thought he shoved him but I didn't think he was out of bounds. I haven't seen the replay though. Honestly it doesn't really matter if it was a shove or not because they aren't gonna make that call anyway. It was just a good shot, not much you can do about that. I mean the Kings forced Kobe to take a 3 pointer as he falling out of bounds, it's not like they let him get to the rack or something.

It was Rodriguez, and the Kings TV crew even admitted it was a flop. They said Rodriguez couldn't have picked a worse time to flop.

True. A shove is a shove though.

Look, I give Kobe credit, and I have before on these buzzer beaters (i.e. the one vs Milwaukee) but the shove cheapens it. He bailed Paussy out on that pass nicely though.

why do the Kings have so many white guys?

Not sure but its been that way for a while...

Think about it, back in '02 they were rockin

Jason Williams
Hedo Turkoglu
Vlade Divac,
Peja Stojacavich
Mike Bibby (mostly white)
Doug Chrisite (mostly white)
Scott Pollard

Crazy

watching them beat the Nuggets the other day was like a 5 person hate crime

lol @ that girl in the red

Pau goes down in the first quarter with a left strained hamstring :(

Malik Allen and Joey Graham were playing for the Nuggets today

I naturally assume something has gone horribly horribly wrong

OMG they are gonna win Skippord

Got lucky there.

Lol

I fucking LOVEd the early 2000s kings. Fucking A man, they were sweet.

Lakers up by 37 points right now against the Mavs

Great win but... Pau gets hurt again :(

rafeer alston and the nets agree to a buyout

front runner for alston is the heat

also the warriors waived mikki moore

favorite team this year: Portland Trailblazers. Proof that rebuilding and being patient works. I LOVE the fact that their major stars have been in and out of action but they have enough depth to still be a massive threat in the division.

Easily the most fun to watch underdog team to watch.





Still think Bulls vs Celtics last year was the best series of the decade.