Real life has (unfortunately) interrupted my ability to track all the insane trade deadline action this year. (Boston's moves alone would have required four hours of typing I think) I'll let you guys talk about it in the comments. But in the meantime, I WILL share this with you: an amazing letter Dr. Dre wrote to his then-girlfriend/now-wife back in 1995. (Via Jamie Mottram) All I know is that I wish I was bad enough to end a letter "Wish I was up in that ass."
Oh, and congratulations Memphis. You have managed to be even more bawful than I ever could have dreamed. Way to miss the trade deadline while updating your Facebook and Twitter feeds, guys.
Worst of the Night in Pictures:
Nationally Televised Games:
Heat at Bulls, TNT, 8pm: Hey Bulls players, please play some defense before Tom Thibodeau pops a blood vessel and/or his voice gets any more hoarse.
Celtics at Nuggets, TNT, 10:30pm: Watch out, Celtics. The Nuggets are finally ready to play -- they've acquired Kosta Koufos!!!
Also, trading away Kendrick Perkins means two or three fewer moving pick violations per game. So that's nice. Too bad the rest of their money-saving trades are like getting a Tiger Electronics handheld game instead of a Gameboy.
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I think you have to be on the phone before 3pm to call in the trade details, sounds like Heisley was reachimg for excuses to back out last second. Or he doesn't know what time zones are.
wtf are the celtics doing
lol.
Forgot to mention 2 of those players (Shaq and Jermaine O'Neal) are out for a month.
Congrats Danny Ainge, you have 8 healthy bodies for tonight against Denver you insane bastard. (Unless of course Green and Krstic are playing tonight)
Though Howard is going to leave to either NJ, Boston or LA in the next few years.
I...I don't get it.
Also, where are these "Dwight Howard to Boston in 2012" rumors coming from? Sounds to me like a Celtics fan made up that particular rumor. Would Dwight really want to go there to play alongside a 37 year old Ray Allen, a 36 year old Kevin Garnett and a 35 year old Paul Pierce? (this is of course assuming Ray and KG resign for minimum-type deals to make room under whatever the cap would be for Dwight).
IMO I think if Dwight has his heart set on moving from Orlando then he won't make it to free agency. Orlando will want to get something in return for him the way Utah and Denver did for D-Will and Melo, rather than get nothing the way Cleveland and Toronto did with LeBron and Bosh. If the rumors that Dwight has told the Magic he wants to go to the Lakers are true, then there will probably be something of a repeat like we saw this year with Melo and his demand to go to the Knicks happen next year. In the end if those rumors are true, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Bynum for Howard trade, plus either some other sweetners from LA or some stiffs with albatross contracts from Orlando thrown in. Either that or Dwight probably stays in Orlando. That's my guess.
Celtics lost to the Lakers last year because Kendrick Perkins got hurt and the C's couldn't rebound.
How do the Celtics respond? Trading Perkins for a poor man's Gasol (Noodnik Krstic), a big white european stiff who can't rebound and play defense.
I like Jeff Green though, the kid can play. I don't mind him coming off the bench in place of Marquis Daniels.
Rasheed Wallace doesn't want to rebound or play D either so getting him is also puzzling.
Danny Ainge basically just blew up both the Lakers and Celtics seasons like a suicide bomber.
If, not...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9O9FjX5ewM
1. Who is going to score for them? Durant always has problems scoring against Artest, and now OKC is left with only two other players on the roster who score in double figures (and one of them, James Harden, only scores 10.6 per game this season). In trading away Green and Kristic the Thunder are giving up around 22 ppg in scoring and are getting back a guy who will get you somewhere between 7-10 ppg.
2. The Thunder now have an extremely thin bench. Along with Durant, Westbrook & Perkins, the Thunder also start Ibaka and Harden. But here is their bench: Nazr Mohammed, Thabo Sefolosha, and...?
3. The Thunder still don't have anyone who can be expected to guard Kobe or Gasol. Do the defensive stylings of James Harden and Serge Ibaka strike fear into the hearts of Laker fans? No.
So as a Laker fan, why exactly am I supposed to be extra worried that the Thunder can beat my team again? I'm not seeing it.
This move probably makes Boston better against Miami, San Antonio and Chicago, but it probably makes them worse against the Lakers, the Mavs and the Magic. That's how I see it.
Artest this year is nothing like Artest last year and you know this. Durant and Russ can shoulder the scoring. Green was a liability at PF even though he did score a bit. Ibaka could become a double figure guy and now they have sparkplug Nate and Harden has been coming on.
I REALLY disagree with 2. Thunder are deep. Their Bench? Maynor, Nate Rob, Collison, Nazr, and Harden. That is a good bench if you ask me. You have a solid overall backup PG with upside, Nate's socirng, Collison's rebounding and hustle, Nazr's offense and rebounding.
3....yeah you're right about that. But how many teams go into games thinking we will stop Kobe and Gasol
I think you are being a bit too optimistic. Thunder were weak at Center for years. Now they are legit there. And now they can start a REAL PF in Ibaka.
8 wins out of the last 10 (including playoffs) seems to prove they're doing something right. Howard was gonna get his monster games whether Kendrick Perkins was guarding him or Anthony Perkins from Psycho. However, with Orlando still relying on the 3 point shot the other Celtics just have to put their hands up to stop that.
They'll have trouble with tall frontcourts such as San Antonio and LA, but Orlando and the benchless Heat will be the same as it ever was.
The Association: FANNNNNNNNTASSSSSSTIIIIICCCCCCCCCC.
Meanwhile, in Sacramento, our mayor (former baller Kevin Johnson) has to beg the Maloofs to stay, basically. Because the sunny shores of suburban Orange County are beckoning Carls Jr.'s favorite bling-laden customers.
Ugh.
Just once, I'd like to see a suspension for something like that. Call it "violating the integrity of the game", or some such.
//stops dreaming
That off balance three with 10 on the clock by Lebron was how ball was meant to be played.
This is more anger for tonight. If Bosh EVER performs remotely as bad as this in the playoffs, I will personally run him out of town and beg Beasley for forgiveness
1. You think Artest is so much different this year than last year, and yet in the one LA-OKC meeting here is what Durant's stat line looked like: 8-24 shooting for 24 points, with 8 boards, 1 assist, 2 turnovers and 4 fouls. Looks like the same ownership Artest showed against Durant all of last year to me. And Westbrook will probably continue to put up a lot of points against the Lakers, but I don't see anyone else on that team that's gonna score. Also, this year (unlike last year), Kobe can guard Westbrook and not have to get his knee drained between games, so that could make a difference...
2. OKC has a deep bench? Have you looked at the team stats for this season? Maynor's putting up a whopping 4.6 points and 2.4 assists. Collison's putting up 4.1 points and 4.3 boards. James Harden is a bench player like Manu Ginobili is (Sefolosha starts but isn't playing anywhere near as good as Harden is). Look at it this way: between the starting and backup shooting guards the Thunder only get 15 points combined. Nazr Mohammed's averaging 7.3 points and 4.9 boards. And Nate Robinson's averaging 7.1 ppg and 1.9 apg. I'm sorry, but that's a weak bench. Although, I guess from a Heat fan's perspective, I can understand why you'd think it was good :)
So LA has Artest and Kobe to put on Durant and Westbrook, the only two guys who can score for OKC. But how exactly will the Thunder be able to slow down the Lakers outside of Perkins being able to put a body on Bynum? Hell, LA could just play Gasol and Odom a lot and probably force OKC to sit Perkins. I have a feeling Perkins' ability to shut down post players may be limited now that he doesn't have KG to help cover his ass.
KHayes666 - That is the whole point though. How can the Celtics expect to single cover Dwight Howard now that they don't have Perkins? Who is going to do it? Jermaine O'Neal? Shaq? Nenad Kristic? None of those guys is up to the task, not for 7 games.
Also, IMO San Antonio does not have a tall frontcourt. Nobody on their roster is 7 feet tall, and the two frontcourt guys who get most of the minutes are Tim Duncan (6'11) and DeJuan Blair (6'7). Little used Tiago Splitter and outside shooter Matt Bonner aren't going to tear up anyone's interior defense.
And I'd venture college teams have better benches than us. Mike Miller is the Bob Sanders of the NBA and he's the only one that matters. Eddie House is feces. James Jones suffered the Daequan Cook post 3 pt champion curse. We're doomed
Like I'm convincing myself Eddy Curry and Mike Bibby would help this team.
Anyway, you've made me feel better, hopefully we'll hold on to the third seed and it'll be a moot point unless they meet in the WCF.
BTW, the next time Doc Rivers says, "we've never lost without that starting five" is going to be sweet.
Kristic isn't a great player by any means, but he's a decent enough defender and smart on offense, and should fit right in with the Celtics. On the flip side, they also get Jeff Green, who presumably can spell for Paul Pierce at times and provide an awesome small-ball lineup. also, I don't think he's had any major surgeries, which is a pretty big plus for the Celtics.
Some of the other trades they did I have no idea what's going on, except maybe their owner is in some financial crisis or some shit. I don't know. but I like the OKC/BOS trade for both teams.
then again, I'm a Timberwolves fan so what the fuck do I know about competent basketball?
p.s. Beasley needs to keep the 'fro, it is so fucking awesome.
It is so fucking hard for me to defend Bosh when it comes to his sexuality man.
He has a hot fiance....but man.
TransINSANO - To be fair to Doc Rivers, the Celtics haven't lost a playoff series with Nenad Kristic at center either. Man, can somebody pinch me? The Celtics didn't really give away Kendrick Perkins today did they?! I've got to be dreaming! Thank you, Danny Ainge. My birthday was in December, but better late than never with the gift :)
World, thank you.
http://www.terezowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/chris-bosh-and-girlfriend.jpg
that's about as hot as Bosh's shooting tonight.
However, I could be wrong. I'm still looking for my eyeballs after they popped outta my head after seeing Larsa Pippen during the All Star Weekend.
And my WV is evabing. :) I haven't seen what a perfect name for Eva Longoria. Gotta miss her at Spurs games.
wv: tuaim, it's hard tuaim that ball into the hoop.
Learn how to read.
Wild Yams - Again, that's the point. Howard can score 30 points a game on Krstic in a 7 game series but if his counterparts continue to jack up 3's and miss it'll be no different than last year.
On tonight's game, the Celtics bench was D-Leaguer Chris Johnson, Null-Star Von Wafer, raw rookie Avery Bradley and Delonte West who's got a broken wrist.....did anyone expect them to actually beat the full 12 man roster of the Nuggets?
WV: tayst- we got just a tayst of how bawful Bosh can be.
We are like the 4 time defending cheerleading NBA champs. Can't really compare
I swear, some of you guys play too much NBA 2k11.
The Lakers will ram-rod the Thunder if they meet up in the playoffs.
For a second I thought the Celtics had traded Bill Russell the way some of you guys are talking.
http://tinyurl.com/47vnodu
Bosh is that soft