2009-2010 NBA Season, Lebron to Miami!

[Stee]

This series is making Amare Stoudemire look like a fool.

Carlos Boozer is shorter than him and he was able to grab 10+ rebounds a game vs the Lakers and there were alot less shots taken a game in the Jazz series.

I hope he isn't expecting a max contract next season.

[Headspace]

In his defense, Boozer can see the ball a lot better.

[Dimmauk]

I wish Dudley would have made Badgerface after he stole the ball.

I wonder why they never showed this highlight last night.

[GRT]

Probably because.. umm... his team lost the game? LOL

[Heavencloud]

AP source: 76ers agree to terms with Collins


Posted May 20 2010 9:31PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Philadelphia 76ers agreed to terms with TV analyst Doug Collins to become their new coach, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

The person spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not been made public. The person said the official announcement was likely to come Friday. Terms were not immediately available.

Turner Sports confirmed that Doug Collins has accepted the Philadelphia head coaching position.

Team president Ed Stefanski interviewed Collins on May 1, and he emerged as the leading candidate to replace the fired Eddie Jordan. The pool of candidates included former Dallas coach Avery Johnson and Toronto coach Sam Mitchell.

Collins is 332-287 in coaching stints with Chicago, Detroit and Washington. The 76ers made him the No. 1 overall pick in the 1973 draft, and he played eight seasons with the team.

The 58-year-old will need time to build a winner in Philadelphia that other coaches haven't been afforded. Since Larry Brown left in 2003, four others have failed to coach more than 82 games for the organization.

Jordan, Stefanski's first major coaching hire, flopped in his lone season. After first-round exits in the playoffs two straight seasons, the Sixers finished 27-55 and in the draft lottery.

This could turn out as the most pivotal offseason for the Sixers since they selected Allen Iverson with the No. 1 overall pick in 1996. The Sixers moved up from the sixth spot to grab the No. 2 pick in Tuesday's lottery.

Now they know who will coach whomever they draft.

Collins guided a young Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls from 1986-89, and the Detroit Pistons from 1995-98. He coached Jordan again with the Washington Wizards from 2001-03.

His two seasons with the Wizards were his only two full seasons in which he did not lead his team to the playoffs. He was fired shortly after Jordan was denied a return to the front office.

Stefanski and other members of Sixers management also interviewed Phoenix assistant coach Dan Majerle, Houston assistant Elston Turner, Portland assistant Monty Williams and former Detroit Pistons star Bill Laimbeer.

Collins has been with TNT since leaving the Wizards.

He was a four-time All-Star with the Sixers, and he averaged 17.9 points in a career marred by injuries. A knee injury forced him to retire in 1981, two years before the 76ers beat the Lakers for the 1983 NBA title.

Collins received the Curt Gowdy Media Award at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September for his work as a broadcaster.

Thank god, can't stand him as an announcer.

[Dimmauk]

Probably because.. umm... his team lost the game? LOL

They were losing, but hadnt lost yet.


Anyone think its funny how people thought that the playoffs and Finals were boring when the games were at 80 points a game, but the series were longer. Now people are bored with high scoring blowouts and sweeps.

[Moss]

haters gonna hate, etc. Most of these "blowouts" are still close late. It's not like a bunch of Magic-Hawks series.

[Dimmauk]

If its not Lakers and Celtics its boring?

If its Lakers and Celtics AGAIN its boring?

[Moss]

It isn't exciting unless it's multiple OT, ok? WHERE IS MY SEVEN OVERTIMES!

[Headspace]

I'd rather watch Bulls/Cavs, at least that trash talk was fun.

[GRT]

There's trash talk between the Lakers and the Suns...

[Headspace]

Nah, saying Odom got lucky or that Nash travels isn't trash talk.

Noah dissing the entire city of Cleveland, is trash talk.

[Moss]

Every series would be more interesting with Joakim Noah, but this isn't a perfect world.

[Headspace]

That's the only reason I want LeBron in Chicago. More chances to see Noah talk shit to players that are way better than he is.

[Akiyama]

Yeah. Amare, Phil Jackson, Nash, and Odom have been tossing softballs with their trash talk. Noah came out and said Cleveland sucks and never changed his stance

[Kibble]

Cleveland does suck, the best thing we have going for us is that we aren't Detroit.

[Headspace]

Fuck the NBA.

[Headspace]

However, these Celtics are gonna roll the Suns in the finals.

[Moss]

So technically the Hawks are the champs of the East since the Celts couldn't beat us in the regular season.

[Lordender]

Basketball = shitty, they have to drag out their playoff's because it's the "best" thing they have and even then it couldn't even beat out the NFL drafts ratings last month.