NBA Thread

[Lament]

Player A--The young superstar Paul George
Player B--The old, washed up, second option Dwyane Wade

It's always that way when people compare someone's ascent to someone's descent...

Player A
G FG% PPG RPG APG PER STL BLK TO
78 .451 22.9 4.0 6.9 21.3 1.5 0.1 2.9

Player B
G FG% PPG RPG APG PER STL BLK TO
82 .445 20.0 6.1 3.9 19.3 1.5 0.5 2.1

Spoiler: show

Player A - Steph Curry during his "breakout" 2012-2013 season that established him as one of the best young stars in the league and a player you could build a championship team around according to everyone you asked

Player B - Michael Jordan at age 39 when he was "embarrassing himself and the game of basketball and his legacy" and was (and continues to be) the butt of jokes

The idea that Wade is finished is so comical. He's not gonna be the 2006 transcendent player, but Christ, he's still an excellent player.

[verb_to_trust]

He's still very efficient. He only has maybe 2 good years left before he turns into a corpse like vet however....

[Lament]

I wouldn't throw a five year contract at him, but if you want to contend for a title in the two seasons following this one, he's a very viable piece.

[nyquillyn]

That's 10 straight, motherfuckers.

[Monkey_Driven]

[bada]

That play happens 10 times a night in my over 30 league. Of course the guy almost always misses the shot.

[Lament]

So I randomly noticed Miami and New York both have seven former lottery picks on their roster. Is that the most ever? I see Brooklyn has six.

Google isn't helping me figure this out (but to be fair, I'm not googling it too hard).

I figured this might be a random fact somewhere here knows. I'm curious now.

[bada]

Google is a fickle whore.

[verb_to_trust]

Could the psychological fallout from Paul George dick pic gate be the cause of his drop in form?

http://deadspin.com/paul-george-apparen ... 1549580993

[Lament]

Deadspin is where all of the closeted homoeroticism in sports comes to a head and bursts.

[verb_to_trust]

I'm not gonna lie, I clicked the link to see what those guys were packing.

Spoiler: show

+10 ego points

[bada]

Did they have pennies in the pics for scale?

[gems and rhinestones]

Stop posting basketball players dick pic links. Get a life.

[verb_to_trust]

Don't act like you wouldn't take a peep at Oden's schlong

[4/5]

I trust that verb_to_trust will send a copy of tonight's game to all the voters that are considering voting for Hibbert over Noah for any postseason award.

[verb_to_trust]

Not to mention Jimmy Butler as All NBA defender. Not that PG the superstar has been in great form, but Jimmy dogged him all night. If I'm the Pacers I'm worried. Stephenson and George have leveled off and the trade they made for what's his face from the Sixes hasn't really paid off what with him not being a good player in the first place, just a volume stat guy on a bad team.

The Bulls can absolutely take out this Pacers team in 6 or 7. They would still lose to Miami though, especially considering the recent lose games to psyche ourselves up thing the Heat are doing.

[4/5]

The Pacers are not the team in the east with the best chance of upsetting the Heat.

Oh, and Roy Hibbert is averaging 11 and 7 this season!!! 11 and 7!!! L-O-L!!!!

I tried to tell everybody that destroying the Heat last year was not indicative of anything except how undersized Miami was. Random tall Europeans routinely do the same thing, often better, to Miami and it doesn't mean they're great either.

[Iholdthepain]

Go Mavs

[gems and rhinestones]

The Pacers are not the team in the east with the best chance of upsetting the Heat.

Oh, and Roy Hibbert is averaging 11 and 7 this season!!! 11 and 7!!! L-O-L!!!!

I tried to tell everybody that destroying the Heat last year was not indicative of anything except how undersized Miami was. Random tall Europeans routinely do the same thing, often better, to Miami and it doesn't mean they're great either.

According to some on the Red Mosquito forum, Hibbert is in a very close race with Lebron and Durant for the MVP. They feel he's an unstoppable force!

I see a poor man's Rik Smits myself. But whatever. To each their own.

[verb_to_trust]

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