All Purpose NBA Thread I

Mavs-Lakers tip: 8:49 p.m.

One minute ahead of schedule.

 

I hope the Mavs don't revert to blowing big leads against the Fakers tonight.

Mavs up by 26 in the third!

 

They blew a 31-point one in the fourth quarter at LA a few years ago.

They're not blowing this one, though. Avery won't let them.

 

That is what I was referring to. I watched that game, painful.

They blew a 31-point one in the fourth quarter at LA a few years ago.

 

Pistons and T-Wolves starts off a double header on TNT. The Pistons put Webber in their starting lineup tonight so it'll be interesting to see what he can do.

 

On Wednesday night, Webber's debut with the Pistons, when Rasheed Wallace stalked away from a time-out huddle to go sit on the other end of the scorer's table, Webber walked over and tried to get Sheed to rejoin the huddle, and got a healthy hearty bellow of "go fuck yourself," audible all the way up to the rafters, for his trouble.

Oooooooohhhh, it's gonna be good.

 

Why don't you ask the 1995-96 Bullets (ne' Wizards) how 'Sheed and C-Webb worked out. Hmmm, took about six weeks for the Boulez to trade 'Sheed to the Blazers.

 

Rasheed ALWAYS does that. Webber just needs to get used to it.

 

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

 

Did I really just see Kevin Garnett do his best Carmelo imitation? Disappointing.

 

Yep. That punk. I like the mock punches being thrown. Nothing says hunk like a man who can punch.

 

Glanced up to see everyone standing around like there like something had just gone down. I then proceed to talk about how Garnett is a time bomb waiting to go off and kill somebody. As soon as I finish, they cut to a highlight where I see ...
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Garnett shove somebody (OK, this is promising)
Garnett throw the ball at McDyess (getting better, here comes the beatdown)
Garnett throw three or four alligator-arm not-punches, all while doing his best Carmelo backpedal.

I weeped.