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2010 NBA offseason draft, FA, etc etc...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Starman, Jun 18, 2010.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    That's kind of what I figured.

    It's happened in baseball with the Wold Championship, but it's obviously not as prestigious as the Olympics and, because it happens during spring training, anyone coming off of an injury, or joining a new team has an excuse to beg off.
     
  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Besides, any such effort might lead to FIBA making it harder for players from outside the U.S. to join the NBA.
     
  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    It's been demonstrated by and large the public is indifferent at best (if not actively hostile to) about Olympic basketball specifically and the Olympics in general. I don't think the NBA would lose much public popularity if they said, "that's it, no more NBA players in the Olympics."

    Then the people who get a big charge out of seeing the U.S. lose in basketball could REALLY enjoy the show.
     
  4. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    If you do drugs or beat your wife or cheat on your wife with a dozen whores or somehow are involved in a shooting or a dogfighting operation or do something else criminal or immoral that LEGITIMATELY and TANGIBLY hurts someone . . . I will be more than happy to drag your name through the muck.

    But to drag it through the muck for (gasp!) changing teams . . . a tsunami we knew was coming and have been writing about for 2 years?

    Not worth it. The ESPN spectacle and welcome party spectacle are simply a sign of our times, enabled by the fanbois who WILL NOT CHANGE THE CHANNEL and who buy the jerseys, plaster the Fathead images on their walls and attend these silly parties. You create the stupid monster, then cry when the monster is a monster.
     
  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I think it would be helpful in assessing what athletes do if we distinguished between "doing something I don't like" and "doing something actually wrong." James is fair game for plenty of criticism on the first count, but not on the second.
     
  6. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    I heard a good point by the sports guy on Tavis Smiley's radio show, of all places, that this free-agent season belies the owners' (and David Stern's) poor-mouthing abot how much money they're losing. It's not the money spent on James and Wade. It's $80 million on Rudy Gay, and a max deal for Joe Johnson, and $20 mil for fucking Darko. (The NPR guy didn't say "fucking.")
     
  7. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    There's a finite amount of money to spend and most teams spend close to the max. The cap keeps them from going crazy. Miami will be sold out for the next few years for each game.
     
  8. ucacm

    ucacm Active Member

    Suns Close to acquiring Josh Childress for a 2nd rounder and Turkoglu for Barbosa.

    http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/2010/07/11/20100711phoenix-suns-acquire-hedo-turkoglu-josh-childress.html
     
  9. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    Spread that floor.

    I like the moves.
     
  10. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    Neither of those softie finesse forwards come close to replacing what they lose in Amare.

    Softness in the middle was already the Suns biggest weakness, and they just lost their only strength down low. An over the hill Hedo and back from Europe Childress are the best they can do to replace him?
     
  11. mb

    mb Active Member

    Amare strong down low? I'm guessing/assuming you mean on offense. Because he's always struck me as the classic score 30/give up 30 to the guy he's "guarding" guy.
     
  12. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    What the Suns need is a young Bill Laimbeer. Tough on D, good rebounder and will destroy you from 18-20 feet away with a hair-trigger jumper.

    It's just tough to find one of those.
     
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