NBA 2012 Off-Season Thread
 

Merry Christmas. In a shortened season, what better way to celebrate with your loved ones than watching some basketball.

Games on tap for today:
Celtics @ Knicks
Heat @ Mavericks
Bulls @ Lakers
Magic@ Thunder
Clippers @ Warriors

Celtics-Knicks was pretty good but dear god Joey Crawford sucks as a ref.

Hate when he's reffing Celtic games although a lot of teams and fans hate him the most in the NBA for refs.

:lol: the spread got covered within the last seconds of the game.

What a game, that Celtics-Knicks.

Who the fuck is Norris Cole?

Incredibly impressive 1st quarter.

Jeff Van Gundy mad with Directv and Comcast and NBA League Pass

Lets go Chi-town

Shit, Heat up 53-30 at the 2nd Quarter.

Fucking A

Guys Chauncey Billups is washed up.

Im really gonna need the wizards to pull off an opening W. I think we can take NJ

Bron and Wade were BALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLN

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John Wall had more rebounds than Dwight Howard did tonight.

JIMMERMANIA RUNNING WILD ON THE LAKE SHOW

I need a bandwagon to jump on this year. Did the Trail Blazers last year which was pretty fun, but wanna do a new team this year.

Def not gonna be the Clippers because that's too obvious. Thinking about the Wiz cause of my n-word John Wall but they're probably gonna still be terrible.

Help me please.

Supreme, don't get on a bandwagon. Get on the fucking Chuck Wagon!

Knicks could be a fun run for you.

NUGGETS

My girlfriend watches one of those woman reality shows and I think one of the women on there owns the Kings. So maybe I'll go that route and we can "connect" through the garbage television she watches.

THE LAKE SHOW JUST GOT CANCELLED.

When is the Game 1 Championship banner being raised?

You're just bitter because we HOUSED your bitch asses.

Yeah ok I can roll with this. Kings it is. Also forgot that my secondary n-word D-Cuz was a King so even better! Get em Boogie!

But I reserve the right to revert to the John Wall bandwagon should the Wizards end up being good this year.

This is gonna be a fun season, y'all!

Think about what you're doing, Supreme

Please reconsider

Yes, clearly the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets are the club you should be supporting

I know what I'm doing. I'm showing love for my nigga Boogie

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Also the Kings did used to be the Cincinnati Royals. So there's that.

All aboard the Chuck Wagon!

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We're officially enemies, Supreme.

oh is that what you meant? i didnt get the reference sorry

speaking to my fanmate, Narcissus, btw

obviously not speaking to that rape loving Laker fan Juan

I don't know, son. Probably tomorrow. When are you raising your game 1 and game 2 championship banners?

JIMMERMANIA RUNNIN WILD. SUPREME GON GITCHA.

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TEACH ME HOW TO JIMMER

Marvelous post, fanmate.

TIME FOR THE SECRET SACRAMENTO KINGS HANDSHAKE THAT JUAN DOESN'T KNOW BECAUSE KOBE RAPES INNOCENT WHITE WOMEN. INITIATE!

That was out of line.

maybe a little, but it's one hell of a handshake!

Jerks

Guys, please keep all Los Angeles Lakers posts in The Official Los Angeles Lakers Thread

http://www.tpww.net/forums/showthread.php?t=96302

Thanks

God I should really bring that back

Wish I had more energy

Plus, SammyG and Alvarado barely post anymore

The Wizards are gonna be worse than they were last year. Lost to the Nets last night. Great..

Good too see you aren't overreacting to one loss.

They had a 21 point lead in the 2nd quarter and blew it.

I like how the official theme for the Wizards this year is "big things are coming"..maybe in 5 years or something..

I did forget they drafted Shelvin Mack out of Butler, but with Wall in there he wont see much time.

I still love the Lakers, but it's hard trying to keep up with them living on the east coast. Trying to find a secondary team to follow. Easiest would be the Sixers, but there isn't really anybody on their roster I particularly enjoy watching.

I thought "Big things are coming" was the slogan for the entire NBA this year?

Yeah but you need to remember that Droford's universe does not extend outside the greater Baltimore/Washington DC area.

Kinda like how the Lakers D doesn't extend past the free throw line AMIRITE?

GUTTED.

I smell an MVP in the making this year. Kobe Bryant had 29 points against Sacramento... and he only had to shoot it 28 times!

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Yes Narc

Heh, The Rapist Kobe and his piece of shit Lakers are about to run into the buzzsaw that is my Utah Jazz tonight.

An animated gif of Uncle Phil throwing Jazz out of his house could be appropriate here if not for two major flaws:

1) Phil Jackson is retired
2) The Lakers are a bunch of penisbutts

I guess Kris Humphries's haters are his motivators. 21 points and 16 rebounds last night.

Let's go Kings!

Beat the fuck out of these FAIL Blazers

Thar game is more than all the Kardassians ever have done to become famous unless you count Robert, Bruce Jenner and Lamar Odom.

On Ricky Rubio:

“I’ve been hearing about him for six years and I saw him for the first time 30 minutes (ago) and it was like he is real,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said before the game, with only a hint of sarcasm. “Like a folk hero.”

Yeah, no doubt

Lol jazz...

Lol Rajah:


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this guy

Impressive season so far here's my take:

best game so far : thunder vs timberwolves 12/26/2011 - debut of rubio and it was just a fast paced back and forth game until the end.

Carmelo Anthony
Kevin Durant
Andris Biedrins giving effort
the spin move Joakim Noah pulled on GSW
The fact the Lakers lost to the Kings
Mavericks puking
Celtics looking old......need Pierce but even he may be to slow to keep up with the seasons fast pace.
Indiana Pacers need dribbling practice. They won but 1st quarter was pathetic by both teams in their season opener.
Dwight Howard wants traded to Nets...shoe endorsements.
Clippers are a team to watch for the first time in a long time but they won't go anywhere this year IMO.

well, the Jazz are terrible. Hmm, Lakers shot 20 more free throws than Utah, which is odd, because that NEVER happens when the Lakers play at home.

I concur with Gertner.

Yeah, Gertner, refs were the reason Utah lost that bad, lol. Having said that, I still don't know about this Laker team. WAY better defensively, searching for continuity on offense though... Need Bynum back bad.

The refs were exactly the reason. That and nobody in Utah's starting 5 breaking double digits in points. I know that Favors is young and all, but he shouldn't be starting over Millsap.

Oh, and it'd be nice if Al Jefferson at least pretended to care about playing defense.

I honestly thought by this point Al Jefferson would be battling Howard for the best of the bigs title. Instead he has fallen off the least 3 year. I know he has a bad injury and thats tough, but Kevin Love has surpassed him.

I thought Minne was going to be the shit with Love and Jefferson. Then they trade Jefferson for fuck all.

He's very good offensively, he's just doesn't bother playing defense at all, and on Utah it kills them.

I fucking love David West

Jesus Christ Utah can't play defense to save their lives.

3rd straight game the Celtics trailed by 10+ at the half and the defense gave up too much to start the game. Shooting-wise, it was the first game the offense was bad considering they shot well against the Heat and Knicks.

Loosing Pierce and Jeff Green really hurts the Celtics but besides 2008, Ainge has done more to hurt the team than anything long term until he had no choice for this season. Knowing Ainge, he'll trade away all the youth on the bench for nothing long term like he does every year.

I think the Pacers can win the east.

I hate to say it, but I think Bron gets a ring this year :(

Horrendous game by the Knicks. Don't even crack 80 points.

<font color=goldenrod>Awful. The difference between the first half and second half in that game was like night and day.</font>

Wow the Suns got really bad fast.

Gotta agree with Sammy. This is Miami's year. They are better and deeper than last year.

But the Suns signed Shannon Brown!

Demarcus and the Chuck Wagon must vanquish the Bulls.

Dwight Howard has a pulse! 24 boards tonight. Damn.

C'mon Kings! Let's take a dump on these Chicago FOOLS

<font color=goldenrod>lol Mavericks</font>

Sad to see that the Chicago TOOLS need to cheat to defeat my beloved Kings. Of course what do you expect from a guy who got someone to take his ACTs for him.

Lakers shooting 72% for the first half. Glad the Knicks are playing that defense they've been preaching about.

Shouldn't be that surprising considering D'Antoni stinks when coaching defense nor does Melo play any of it consistently enough to be good.

Kobe :love:

ok the mavs vs thunder game is easily now the best game of the season thus far. Did anyone else catch that last second (literally) chance shot by Durant? It was an awesome 4th quarter and a back and forth game.

Nice to see Mavs pick up the pace a bit but I'm glad the Thunder keeps on rollin'

oh and the knicks are looking shitty which kinda hurts :(

Agree about D'Antoni. Carmelo plays better defense than a lot of people give him credit for though.

Team just has no gameplan right now. Some new players and not a lot of training camp so not surprising although I'm not confident in D'Antoni's coaching at all. Amare's playing like he's a shooting guard instead of a 6'11 PF. Needs to at least try and get in the paint.

Crazy they are only down by 8 with how bad they've looked though.

Free throws. Lakers have missed a bunch, but the Knicks have been knocking them down

Hope JUANs night gets ruined

Amare is kinda embarrassing himself out there right now.

Had the worst series of plays he possibly could. Offensive foul-Defensive foul-Blocked by McRoberts-Another Offensive Foul. Can't make a basket for the life of him right now.

Game's getting kind of ugly here down the stretch

Hope NERFs face gets ruined

lol Amare

Knicks might not score more than 5 points this quarter.