2010-2011 NBA Season Thread

[Correction]

Do y'all think that the guys that just got drafted should be able to go back to school if there is no season?

Agents and recruiters will sue for their money back.

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lol

[Eticket]

Hilarious.

http://deadspin.com/5817436/lebron-j...me-of-knockout

[Rhinox]

Surprise he didn't confiscate all cameras

[Eticket]

Video reminded me of this.

[Rhinox]

http://wtfismikewearing.tumblr.com/

lol

[Demosthenes11]

http://wtfismikewearing.tumblr.com/

lol

amazing. love the charles oakley sighting too

[Ishido]

Yao Ming is retiring. Suddenly 1.3 billion people are uninterested in Basketball once again.

[tyven]

YAO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Demosthenes11]

Yao Ming is retiring. Suddenly 1.3 billion people are uninterested in Basketball once again.

I saw more kobe jerseys in china than I did yao jerseys by a LARGE margin

[Demosthenes11]

actually, I remember a chinese kid yelling KOrBE when he tried to fade over at the park in Nanjing. slanteyes got that shit stuffed

[Valisk]

actually, I remember a chinese kid yelling KOrBE when he tried to fade over at the park in Nanjing. slanteyes got that shit stuffed

Did you mean fade away? Proving Rhinox right =/

[Azull]

As a Rockets fan this news is bitter sweet...

On one hand he was, at worst, the 2nd best center in the NBA when he could play. On the other hand he was hurt so often the last few years it was hard to improve as a team while still building around who was still your best player.

This will at least allow the team to move on and build knowing he wont be there.

[Demosthenes11]

Did you mean fade away? Proving Rhinox right =/

oops, meant fade over me

[Dimmauk]

Yao Ming is retiring. Suddenly 1.3 billion people are uninterested in Basketball once again.

[Byrd]

As a Rockets fan this news is bitter sweet...

On one hand he was, at worst, the 2nd best center in the NBA when he could play. On the other hand he was hurt so often the last few years it was hard to improve as a team while still building around who was still your best player.

This will at least allow the team to move on and build knowing he wont be there.

I feel similarly about Greg Oden. Parts of me hopes he will come back and play up to his potential. Part of me just wants him to go away so the team can move on. Of course, Greg Oden was never the second best center in the NBA.

[Heavencloud]

I feel similarly about Greg Oden. Parts of me hopes he will come back and play up to his potential. Part of me just wants him to go away so the team can move on. Of course, Greg Oden was never the second best center in the NBA.

POTENTIAL AMIRITE? Ugh, lol.

[Moss]

POTENTIAL AMIRITE? Ugh, lol.

It's not really a question of potential though because he has put up strong numbers when healthy. It's not like he has played like Hasheem Thabeet. You guys are probably sick of him but he is still worth the risk of the tender imo.

[Eticket]

This is it though. If he gets signed and doesn't come through next year, they're going to let him go. It's tough to be objective in Portland about it. One of the local radio guys brought up a good point that if OKC had him and this was going on, we'd be laughing our asses off at them.

At this point it's a 50/50 mix of holding on to him for potential and the fear that they'll let him go only to get healthy and contribute elsewhere.

[Byrd]

It's not really a question of potential though because he has put up strong numbers when healthy. It's not like he has played like Hasheem Thabeet. You guys are probably sick of him but he is still worth the risk of the tender imo.

Yeah, he's been a good player when healthy. Hopefully he can put together a solid enough year that it's worth it for both him and the team to put something together resembling a real contract. But I don't think the NBA can have the heavy incentive contracts in the same way that MLB and the NFL can do for oft-injured players, so it's not like they can say "We'll pay you $5 million base salary and $100,000 for every game you play on top of that." If considerable time or even a full season is lost to the lockout, I'm hoping that it helps the knees of both Brandon Roy and Greg Oden.

One of the local radio guys brought up a good point that if OKC had him and this was going on, we'd be laughing our asses off at them.

I was listening to Isaac and Suke the other day when Suke (or was it Isaac?) said that and thought, "Damn, that's a good point." Back to the old "Damn, I wish the Blazers had landed the #2 pick in the 2007 draft rather than the #1. Odds are we get Durant, or at least we have Oden and never had the possibility of taking Durant."

[GRT]

And if Oden made the new Sonics ownership sad, they might have stayed in Seattle.