2016-2017 NBA Season Thread [ARCHIVED] Basketball • Page 175

tbh tom brady was a casualty before barkley but fair

 

Apparently Hinrich, Chalmers, and Stephenson are working out for Cleveland. And the team is also kicking tires on Josh Smith. I guess we are that point now.

 

Best IT call, shoutout Gus Johnson

 

Yay, Arizona lost! Then my Buffs did it to them again the next season whoop whoop.

 

i don't get where bron is coming from. When/if his team gets healthy they have Bron, Kyrie, Love, JR, and I suppose Korver. If he thinks he needs more than that to take on Warriors (Curry, Durant, Klay, Green, and I suppose they're saving Iggy for playoffs) then he needs better coaching or a team with more heart.

 

How real are these preliminary talks between the kings/suns for boogie? Suns would probably have to trade either Bledsoe/or knight, either Chriss/bender, and a pick or two, huh?

 

The Suns would be dumb as hell to trade for boogie unless they're just giving up guys they don't want

 

If boogie went to the suns I would be all for a core of him and Booker.

 

Unless he promises to resign, but knowing him no way.

 

Sacramento would probably be after the Suns 1st rounder this year.

 

I think the thinking is if you have a chance to get a stud you do it. Simple as that. Boogie's bird rights will go with him to Phoenix, so they would have signing leverage. Depending on the remaining core, you would then try to sell other free agents on joining as well. It's not a guarantee, but it probably gets them closer than they are now to being a factor. It would also buy the GM time.

 

I really don't want to play the bad Suns any closer than my blazers already do, we hardly beat them even when they suck for some reason

 

Cavs speaking to Mavs about possible D. Will trade. would be a good pick up.

 

sooo glad the bucks have him (gus, that is)

 

Nothing will come of it

 

It's real that the Kings/Suns did talk about it, but no other news since.

 

He's definitely breaking all those in a few years.

 

The block totals are interesting to me.

 

LeBron will likely pass Jordan in all those stats but it will have taken him many more minutes and years to do so. The age comparison with Jordan never made sense to me (At age 31, both had 3 rings, multiple mvps, etc)...LeBron started THREE YEARS before MJ did. LeBron at 18, MJ at 21.

 

That's forgetting MJ's 6 rings, 6x Finals MVP, 5x Season MVP, and lead role in Space Jam.

 

MJ was such a beast.

 

I honestly thought LeBron would have been leading by a hair in the blocks category.

 

By the way, the Cavs season is slowly becoming an absolute circus. You got LBJ calling out players on his team (felder, liggins and basically everyone else by his 'top heavy' comment), calling out management, calling out Barkley and now we're having a 'mega' free agent workout? Not a good look. The main issue with this team is their complete and utter lack of focus during this stretch. They just look like their on auto-pilot. You don't need additional playmakers to beat the Kings, Pelicans and Mavs.

It's boredom and lack of focus and effort. It's really that simple.

 

All of that and getting Love healthy would be nice. At least we got good news on the back situation.