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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Chamillitary Click on July 17, 2013, 07:33:12 AM
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Lakers report that they have interest in both and plan to pursue both following this seasons conclusion.
Ready to be pals NIK?
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If that happens Cham you'll be the most conflicted man in America. :laugh:
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Put down the LSD Laker fans, it ain't happening.
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I can only imagine the internal battle between NIK and Cham if a LeBron/Kobe Laker team won a championship.
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This shit would be great as far as this forum goes. The amount of confusion and conflict between Cham and NIKCC would be so entertaining to read.
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Lakers report that they have interest in both and plan to pursue both following this seasons conclusion.
Well, that would be something... and it's closer than Carmelo will get to a championship than the way things are now in NY.
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Here is Lebron's reaction:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrBqy-zg0R5kjGM8Jg3pcxxSLf7stOkytqup_pYPOPEldzNVihvA)
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Lakers report that they have interest in both and plan to pursue both following this seasons conclusion.
Well, that would be something... and it's closer than Carmelo will get to a championship than the way things are now in NY.
Lebron and Carmelo can't win together, they play the same position.
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Lakers report that they have interest in both and plan to pursue both following this seasons conclusion.
Well, that would be something... and it's closer than Carmelo will get to a championship than the way things are now in NY.
Lebron and Carmelo can't win together, they play the same position.
I meant Carmelo playing for LA, not Carmelo and LeBron necessarily being teammates.
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Lakers report that they have interest in both and plan to pursue both following this seasons conclusion.
Well, that would be something... and it's closer than Carmelo will get to a championship than the way things are now in NY.
Lebron and Carmelo can't win together, they play the same position.
I meant Carmelo playing for LA, not Carmelo and LeBron necessarily being teammates.
oh okay, gotcha. Melo won't win a title anywhere as the #1 star. He's just not that kind of player. He reminds me a lot of Barkley as an offensive player.
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Bron and Melo would win. Bron and Wade won and Melo can out score Wade easy. The only flaw would be if they have no other defenders around him.
Heat are looking into Oden though. If he could somehow, someway get and stay healthy, keeping Bosh, replenishing the shooters with younger legs and find an athletic, scoring 2 guard to fill Wade's shoes, I think he'll stay.
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Bron and Melo would win. Bron and Wade won and Melo can out score Wade easy. The only flaw would be if they have no other defenders around him.
Heat are looking into Oden though. If he could somehow, someway get and stay healthy, keeping Bosh, replenishing the shooters with younger legs and find an athletic, scoring 2 guard to fill Wade's shoes, I think he'll stay.
Wade plays better defense than Melo and Wade is a 2, not a 3/small 4 like Melo plays.
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Far more valuable on offense than Wade. Better jump shooter. Wade's is just better on defense and the break. Only assuming that Melo allows LeBron to dominate the ball & just find him when he needs him.
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I HOPE WE GET MELO 8)
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This shit would be great as far as this forum goes. The amount of confusion and conflict between Cham and NIKCC would be so entertaining to read.
LOL YALL ACT LIKE THE BOY IS REALLY ON MY LEVEL WHEN IT COMES 2 THIS BASKETBALL SHIET
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Lakers report that they have interest in both and plan to pursue both following this seasons conclusion.
Well, that would be something... and it's closer than Carmelo will get to a championship than the way things are now in NY.
Lebron and Carmelo can't win together, they play the same position.
I meant Carmelo playing for LA, not Carmelo and LeBron necessarily being teammates.
oh okay, gotcha. Melo won't win a title anywhere as the #1 star. He's just not that kind of player.
THATS WHY HE'LL BECOME KOBE'S 2ND OPTION 8)
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LOL @ Kobe still being a #1 option on a team with someone like Carmelo :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
We don't even know if Kobe is going to be a good player next season, he's 34 NOW with a torn achilles and Carmelo is 28 in his prime and healthy. and who the fuck wants to live in Kobe's shadow in LA anytime soon? Certainly not someone who gets dogged like Melo and DEFINITELY not Lebron.
Laker fans need to face it, nobody wants to replace a legend. My Yankees are going to go through hell when Mariano and Jeter are both gone. Shit happens in cycles and that's the one downside to having a championship team. It's just a good thing for us Laker haters that Kobe is coming close to retiring in a time where the west is laoded with 3-4 teams far better than the Lakers :D
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*waits for someone to bring up Steve Young or Aaron Rodgers*
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LOL @ Kobe still being a #1 option on a team with someone like Carmelo :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
We don't even know if Kobe is going to be a good player next season, he's 34 NOW with a torn achilles and Carmelo is 28 in his prime and healthy. and who the fuck wants to live in Kobe's shadow in LA anytime soon? Certainly not someone who gets dogged like Melo and DEFINITELY not Lebron.
Laker fans need to face it, nobody wants to replace a legend. My Yankees are going to go through hell when Mariano and Jeter are both gone. Shit happens in cycles and that's the one downside to having a championship team. It's just a good thing for us Laker haters that Kobe is coming close to retiring in a time where the west is laoded with 3-4 teams far better than the Lakers :D
KOBE WILL AVERAGE 23 WITH 9 ASSISTS WITH MELO AVERAGING 25 AND 7 REBOUNDS. KOBE GUNNA GET FINALS MVP...WATCH
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we don't care about your video game averages NIK
we're talking about how the Lakers won't even reach an NBA finals with Melo and Kobe on the same team. unless Durant, Howard, Cp3 and Harden all get abducted by aliens.
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lol must suck to be a laker hater above a celtic fan
Any team with Kobe and Melo would make the finals and it's not even up for discussion
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Any team with Kobe and Melo would make the finals and it's not even up for discussion
It depends on the chemistry - I seriously doubt they could co-exist on the same team, cause the both like to take ton of shots, plus neither one of them would like to be a second option, specially Kobe.
There's no way LeBron or Melo will play in LA with Kobe - stop dreaming people, it's ridiculous.
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Any team with Kobe and Melo would make the finals and it's not even up for discussion
It depends on the chemistry - I seriously doubt they could co-exist on the same team, cause the both like to take ton of shots, plus neither one of them would like to be a second option, specially Kobe.
There's no way LeBron or Melo will play in LA with Kobe - stop dreaming people, it's ridiculous.
The thing is Kobe is very good at facilitating, he is not a score only player, so it could actually very well work.
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Carmelo with GOOD teams can't even make the conference finals (okay, once in nine years)
going to that horrible Lakers team with a 50 year old Kobe ain't doing shit in the playoffs unless another superstar comes with Melo (and we know it ain't gonna be Lebron)
i would be pretty shocked if Melo leaves the Knicks, he's beloved there and it's where he always wanted to play.
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DONT BE RETARDED
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plus Amare will be out of the way soon to free up cap space...more reason to stay with the Knicks.
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
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no way
havent they learned going the miami route and manufacturing a team aint gonna work with kobe there
melo aint gonna be option 2 and neither is lebron and thats what theyd have to be regardless of how good a faciliatator kobe is or not, look at howard nik, kobe told him get in line and do it my way, right? can u imagine lebron or melo saying "ok kobe, whatever you say"
hell no
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more espn propaganda
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
more espn propaganda
sometimes when talking sports with NIK i feel as if i'm debating with Skip Bayless about Tim Tebow
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After reading this thread, it made me remember just how great of a troll NIK really is. He invented trolling on dubcc, and he took back his crown. Well played.
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no way
havent they learned going the miami route and manufacturing a team aint gonna work with kobe there
melo aint gonna be option 2 and neither is lebron and thats what theyd have to be regardless of how good a faciliatator kobe is or not, look at howard nik, kobe told him get in line and do it my way, right? can u imagine lebron or melo saying "ok kobe, whatever you say"
hell no
Melo is way more of a G, by that point he'll realize it's his only choice if he wants a ring
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Melo isn't an idiot...he knows LA has no chance at a ring in the future
Charles Barkley on the Lakers "window": "not only is the window closed but it's boarded up like hurricane season"
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After reading this thread, it made me remember just how great of a troll NIK really is. He invented trolling on dubcc, and he took back his crown. Well played.
mdodge, whatchu think about ur boy saying that he is trayvon. i think he's race baiting. whatchu think hommie?
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Melo isn't an idiot...he knows LA has no chance at a ring in the future
Charles Barkley on the Lakers "window": "not only is the window closed but it's boarded up like hurricane season"
CHARLES BARKLEY BEEN HATING ON THE LAKESHOW SINCE DAY 1
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he's the best analyst in sports, hands down. dude is straight up about everything, including his beef with Charles Oakley
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i dont think charles is a hater by any means
he usually is pretty straight up about stuff
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Melo isn't an idiot...he knows LA has no chance at a ring in the future
Charles Barkley on the Lakers "window": "not only is the window closed but it's boarded up like hurricane season"
more like do the lakers really want to give a max to a 30 yr old, we all know how that ends up
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gotta love fantasy land aka the off season- where hope happens lol
melo is not coming to LA, he didn't get along with coach mike d'antoni
lebron's not coming to help kobe win another ring and play robin to his batman.
Clipper games are going to be sold out while your going to be finding more and more empty seats at over priced laker games. With no dwight back there, get ready to get ran out of the building once again by okc, warriors, nuggets, clippers
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he's the best analyst in sports, hands down. dude is straight up about everything, including his beef with Charles Oakley
HE'S ALSO THE DUMBEST AND MAKES THE MOST IDIOTIC PREDICTIONS
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i dont think charles is a hater by any means
he usually is pretty straight up about stuff
LOL IF U DONT THINK BARKLEY IS A LAKER/KOBE HATER, THEN U DONT KNOW HIM
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Kobe + Melo could be dangerous..
You get and athletic scoring guard that can play some defense (Eric Gordon maybe) and some young athletic role players, plus Pau wouldn't have have any pressure on him as the third option (only real option down low, so that would do him wonders). I could see Carmelo going to LA and with Kobe's career in the midst of his twilight years, I could see him defer to Melo a bit, not too much though.. we are talking about Kobe Bryant.
Melo + Bron would never work, nor would Kobe + Bron. As a true basketball fan, I dont want to see that, nor did I want to see MJ + Magic together. The basketball gods would be furious.
Oh, and Phil Jackson returns to the LAkers before Kobe retires, mark my words
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If the Lakers fire D'Antoni then I can see Carmelo coming to the Lakers. Even if they don't get LeBron, they could sign someone like Kevin love who wants out of Minnesota.
Imagine a starting lineup of:
Steve Nash
Kobe Bryant
Carmelo Anthony
Kevin Love
Pau Gasol
Yeah, the Lakers would definitely be contenders. The Lakers might need to play with 2 balls on offense to make it work, but they'd be contenders.
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They still would need to upgrade that PG though
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FARMAR IS GOOD TO GO
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They still would need to upgrade that PG though
Another option would be to release Nash or not resign Gasol and sign a third big name (Bosh, Rudy Gay or someone else) or sign 2 solid role players.
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RUDY GAY WOULD BE GREAT ON THE LAKERS
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You guys are making a wish list of allstars and fringe allstars, lol at rudy gay, dude can create his own shitty shot that's it. You'll end up with two scrub euros and a whitey.
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You guys are making a wish list of allstars and fringe allstars, lol at rudy gay, dude can create his own shitty shot that's it. You'll end up with two scrub euros and a whitey.
and those 2 scrub euro's will be whiteys
Petros of the Petros and Money show said it best: people are writing articles this week during downtime about Melo and Bron going to LA just to shut Laker fans up for a few weeks. it's never going to happen
:D
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lol petros, the notorious laker hater... Bottom line, ur an idiot if u don't think the Lakers will get some1
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You guys are making a wish list of allstars and fringe allstars, lol at rudy gay, dude can create his own shitty shot that's it. You'll end up with two scrub euros and a whitey.
and those 2 scrub euro's will be whiteys
Petros of the Petros and Money show said it best: people are writing articles this week during downtime about Melo and Bron going to LA just to shut Laker fans up for a few weeks. it's never going to happen
:D
lol,
EVERY team is going to make inquires, WHY? its not to keep fans "happy" its the business, any team that has space or can make space for them is going to inquire,
same thing as Celtics giving a courtesy call to dwight,
shit just gets blown up because we're the lakers.
LA is one of the prime destinations any player would love/be open to come here, especially one that envies bright lights and pressure.
we have THE best weather in the world, (and ive been to plenty of places, Europe, China, Korea Asia, Mexico, the East coast of united states)
its never humid here and always sunny and no rain. not to mention all the celebrities that will be wanting to business with said superstar player, hang out, etc etc.
and one of the things we have that ones up against NYC is the our franchise and the legacy, the legends.
lol with the roster cleared next year, you have to be an idiot if you dont think we can draw players here.
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LA was such the destination that Glen Rice bolted when he could. If someone wants to go to LA it's the Clippers, they have talent.
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As long as players grew up wanting to be Kobe, then players will want to go to the Lakers. I fully expect the Lakers to get players next year.
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Players coming into the league a few years ago wanted to be like Mike. Didn't see shitloads of players going to Chicago. Alot of players today idolized AI, where are all the 76ers free agents?
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BULLS ALREADY HAD THE PERFECT TEAMS SURROUNDING MIKE, LMAO@COMPARING KOBE AND LAKERS TO AI AND SIXERS. IF U AINT TROLLIN, GET HELP, BROBRO
AND WTF DO U MEAN "GLEN RICE BOLTED WHEN HE COULD"? WE TRADED HIM FOR HORACE GRANT AND GREG FOSTER BECAUSE PHIL DIDN'T WANT HIM ANYMORE. LOL SMH
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Difference is, the Lakers have a ton of banners, a ton of retired jerseys and the stars in the stands. This is what players dream of, playing in front of stars, on a glamor team and under championship banners.
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
more espn propaganda
sometimes when talking sports with NIK i feel as if i'm debating with Skip Bayless about Tim Tebow
It's worse lol.
Lol @ saying on paper Melo and Kobe would work. The two biggest ball hogs in basketball "no doubt would work".
The best part is Nash can't play D, Kobe isn't an elite defender anymore, Melo doesn't play D, Pau is a pussy and Kaman is a mediocre defender. That team would get TORCHED by a fully loaded OKC team.
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Difference is, the Lakers have a ton of banners, a ton of retired jerseys and the stars in the stands. This is what players dream of, playing in front of stars, on a glamor team and under championship banners.
Name the huge free agents not named Shaq that have come to LA. Ron Artest is about it.
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Gary Payton and Karl Malone came as free agents. Horace Grant was a signing, a TON of role players that actually contributed.
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Gary Payton and Karl Malone came as free agents. Horace Grant was a signing, a TON of role players that actually contributed.
Ahh, the corpses of Payton, Malone and Nash. Awesome stuff. Horace came over to a trade, I'll forgive you for that since I was in error of Glen Rice. There was a story on the old Lakers BBS that said that Glen was unhappy in LA.
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Doesn't matter about Glen Rice. Lakers still won 2 more titles without him, and Rick Fox was a better role player than Rice was. Foxy Baby played defense and hit shots when needed. Rice complained and even after winning the title, aired out that he felt out of place. The trade to get Rice was one of the worst trades in Laker history. I still wish we had Eddie Jones. Rice was the 2000 version of Dwight Howard, he just wasn't built for LA. He was main option player on a team where he was third option. He took points from Kobe and minutes from Rick Fox. Had the Lakers kept Jones, then you could have Jones on the 3 and had one of the best defensive wings in NBA history. Of course Jones best years were in Miami, so I guess it worked out okay for him too, since they won a title in 2005. Still, I don't put much into Rice.
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Rick Fox, star free agent signing.
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Nah, more like that role player who wanted to use the Lakers to boost his Hollywood career. And he did just that. To bad he couldn't get Ray Allen to join the Lakers.
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
more espn propaganda
sometimes when talking sports with NIK i feel as if i'm debating with Skip Bayless about Tim Tebow
It's worse lol.
Lol @ saying on paper Melo and Kobe would work. The two biggest ball hogs in basketball "no doubt would work".
The best part is Nash can't play D, Kobe isn't an elite defender anymore, Melo doesn't play D, Pau is a pussy and Kaman is a mediocre defender. That team would get TORCHED by a fully loaded OKC team.
LOL THE NOTION OF KOBE BEING A BALL HOG IS RETARDED...HE LEADS THE LEAGUE IN ASSISTS FOR SHOOTING GUARDS, AND ONLY A DUMBASS CASUAL BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHT OBSERVER WHO DOESNT WATCH GAMES SUCH AS URSELF DOESN'T REALIZE HIS GREAT PASSING GAME.
KOBE + MELO >>>>> LEBRON + WADE ALL DAY.
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Difference is, the Lakers have a ton of banners, a ton of retired jerseys and the stars in the stands. This is what players dream of, playing in front of stars, on a glamor team and under championship banners.
Name the huge free agents not named Shaq that have come to LA. Ron Artest is about it.
NASH, JUST RECENTLY, WHO WAS COMIN OFF A GREAT SEASON...... GASOL AND ODOM WERE RETAINED WHEN THEY COULDA WENT ELSEWHERE. THEY WERE FIRST PRIORITY, SO WE DIDNT GO AFTER ANYONE ELSE SINCE '08. SAME WITH THE THREEPEAT YEAR, WE RETAINED THE SAME TEAM FOR YEARS WITH A BELIEF THAT WE COULD CONTEND WITH THAT CORE UNTIL WE WENT OUT AND GOT PAYTON + MALONE, WHO CAME HERE FOR ALMOST NOTHING. IF U THINK LA IS NOT AN ATTRACTIVE DESTINATION, SLAP YASELF RIGHT NOW.
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Rick Fox, star free agent signing.
DUNO IF UR JOKIN OR NOT, BUT FOX IS ONE OF THE GOAT ROLE PLAYERS EVER
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of course they'll get SOMEONE
just not someone GOOD like Lebron or Carmelo. no way would Lebron or Melo want to waste the primes of their careers with an old Kobe who still acts like he's the #1 option. who would?
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
more espn propaganda
sometimes when talking sports with NIK i feel as if i'm debating with Skip Bayless about Tim Tebow
It's worse lol.
Lol @ saying on paper Melo and Kobe would work. The two biggest ball hogs in basketball "no doubt would work".
The best part is Nash can't play D, Kobe isn't an elite defender anymore, Melo doesn't play D, Pau is a pussy and Kaman is a mediocre defender. That team would get TORCHED by a fully loaded OKC team.
LOL THE NOTION OF KOBE BEING A BALL HOG IS RETARDED...HE LEADS THE LEAGUE IN ASSISTS FOR SHOOTING GUARDS, AND ONLY A DUMBASS CASUAL BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHT OBSERVER WHO DOESNT WATCH GAMES SUCH AS URSELF DOESN'T REALIZE HIS GREAT PASSING GAME.
KOBE + MELO >>>>> LEBRON + WADE ALL DAY.
I've already explained this to you. Kobe touches the ball on 99% of the teams possessions. The shooting guard role, for the most part is strictly to "shoot" the ball. Get the role? The only shooting guard who HAD (doesnt currently) that type of possession control at that position was Wade. Outside of a few playmakers here and there, but who don't touch the ball in the same UNIVERSE as Kobe, everyone else catches and shoots. Also Kobe made it a point to pass more after statistics PROVED Kobe taking over 20 shots a game led to more Laker losses than wins. Finally, he had two of the best 7 footers in the league, who attempt the highest percentage shot in the league within five feet of the rim (before you inevitably, out of anger, bring up LeBron to compare him passing to players who take the lowest percent shot in the game of basketball, despite the fact Bron is completely irrelevant in this point). Kobe is a ballhog at the end of the day whose trying desperately hard to prove he was a passer all these years because the repeating, defending champion now gets absolute praise for his ball-vision and IQ as a passer.
You're in denial. He single handedly made the best center in the league run away for dear life lol.
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Difference is, the Lakers have a ton of banners, a ton of retired jerseys and the stars in the stands. This is what players dream of, playing in front of stars, on a glamor team and under championship banners.
Name the huge free agents not named Shaq that have come to LA. Ron Artest is about it.
NASH, JUST RECENTLY, WHO WAS COMIN OFF A GREAT SEASON...... GASOL AND ODOM WERE RETAINED WHEN THEY COULDA WENT ELSEWHERE. THEY WERE FIRST PRIORITY, SO WE DIDNT GO AFTER ANYONE ELSE SINCE '08. SAME WITH THE THREEPEAT YEAR, WE RETAINED THE SAME TEAM FOR YEARS WITH A BELIEF THAT WE COULD CONTEND WITH THAT CORE UNTIL WE WENT OUT AND GOT PAYTON + MALONE, WHO CAME HERE FOR ALMOST NOTHING. IF U THINK LA IS NOT AN ATTRACTIVE DESTINATION, SLAP YASELF RIGHT NOW.
They retained their bird rights, why the fuck wouldn't they stay?
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isn't steve nash 49 next year????
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Players coming into the league a few years ago wanted to be like Mike. Didn't see shitloads of players going to Chicago. Alot of players today idolized AI, where are all the 76ers free agents?
lol you're comparing chicago and philly with LA,
dont think of me being an LA boy thinking that LA is the best, because thats where im from.
it literally does have the best weather in the world, if not among the best. and when people think of the US they think of LA and NYC, nobody gives a shit about philly, nobody gives a shit about chicago, maybe
they're not destination cities, LA and NYC are THE major cities of the US, im not saying i wouldnt go to chicago, or philly i want to eat a chicago style deep dish pizza pie, an real philly cheese steak, because im AMERICAN, and i know of these
but all the business, nationwide and international is in LA and NYC, you cant compare, like i've said before theres One Or 2 major cities in each country, LA and NYC is americas.
im an LA boy, and id live in NYC, but phily? jersey city (actually anywhere in jersey) , houston? hell no.
i need diversity, i need authentic ethnic foods of all sorts, chicago might be an exception, but miami is no to, its a great vacation city, not a city id live in
its not hard to grasp this concept of why LA and NYC are easier to attract anyone more than philly or chicago
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Players coming into the league a few years ago wanted to be like Mike. Didn't see shitloads of players going to Chicago. Alot of players today idolized AI, where are all the 76ers free agents?
lol you're comparing chicago and philly with LA,
dont think of me being an LA boy thinking that LA is the best, because thats where im from.
it literally does have the best weather in the world, if not among the best. and when people think of the US they think of LA and NYC, nobody gives a shit about philly, nobody gives a shit about chicago, maybe
they're not destination cities, LA and NYC are THE major cities of the US, im not saying i wouldnt go to chicago, or philly i want to eat a chicago style deep dish pizza pie, an real philly cheese steak, because im AMERICAN, and i know of these
but all the business, nationwide and international is in LA and NYC, you cant compare, like i've said before theres One Or 2 major cities in each country, LA and NYC is americas.
im an LA boy, and id live in NYC, but phily? jersey city (actually anywhere in jersey) , houston? hell no.
i need diversity, i need authentic ethnic foods of all sorts, chicago might be an exception, but miami is no to, its a great vacation city, not a city id live in
its not hard to grasp this concept of why LA and NYC are easier to attract anyone more than philly or chicago
I keep hearing destination city, but Shaq was the only huge free agent you guys can hang your hat on. The reason Payton and Malone came was due to Shaq and Kobe. Talent will go where talent is.
Have fun with the rebuild.
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Since 1996, the Lakers and Yankees have 1 thing in common, 5 world titles. Most in their sport. I'd say that's pretty damn successful. And the Lakers don't rebuild buddy.
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it literally does have the best weather in the world, if not among the best. and when people think of the US they think of LA and NYC, nobody gives a shit about philly, nobody gives a shit about chicago, maybe
they're not destination cities, LA and NYC are THE major cities of the US, im not saying i wouldnt go to chicago, or philly i want to eat a chicago style deep dish pizza pie, an real philly cheese steak, because im AMERICAN, and i know of these
but all the business, nationwide and international is in LA and NYC, you cant compare, like i've said before theres One Or 2 major cities in each country, LA and NYC is americas.
im an LA boy, and id live in NYC, but phily? jersey city (actually anywhere in jersey) , houston? hell no.
i need diversity, i need authentic ethnic foods of all sorts, chicago might be an exception, but miami is no to, its a great vacation city, not a city id live in
its not hard to grasp this concept of why LA and NYC are easier to attract anyone more than philly or chicago
Yup. Certain players who came from teams outside of LA end up picking up property here too... you don't think they'd have liked to have just lived here the whole time and had a better commute? I lived in Newport Beach for a number of years in my mid-20s, and I remember when Dennis Rodman used to live there... dude was notorious in his neighborhood for throwing crazy parties. Not that I lived in the same part (he was probably in the fancier parts, like how Kobe is in Newport Coast, but I knew people who lived in the same gated community), but it's not hard to run into them. I bartended for a year at a restaurant at the Irvine Spectrum in 2006, and Rodman came in. I had a work meeting at the Cheesecake Factory at Fashion Island in Newport (in either 2010 or 2011), and sure enough, Kobe and his family ended up eating right behind us. My girlfriend works retail at Fashion Island on the weekends, and she would see Kobe every now and then.
And like other people have mentioned, there are tons of celebrities around here. Who wouldn't want to be around that? Yes, everyone wants to win a trophy, but people also want to enjoy life a bit too. The weather is solid... so many of my friends in college would surf and snowboard all in the same day.
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I think it's pretty amusing that you guys keep talking about how players are so attracted to LA, but the Clippers have gone since Chris Paul without a star running to play there.
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Difference is, the Lakers have a ton of banners, a ton of retired jerseys and the stars in the stands. This is what players dream of, playing in front of stars, on a glamor team and under championship banners.
Name the huge free agents not named Shaq that have come to LA. Ron Artest is about it.
NASH, JUST RECENTLY, WHO WAS COMIN OFF A GREAT SEASON...... GASOL AND ODOM WERE RETAINED WHEN THEY COULDA WENT ELSEWHERE. THEY WERE FIRST PRIORITY, SO WE DIDNT GO AFTER ANYONE ELSE SINCE '08. SAME WITH THE THREEPEAT YEAR, WE RETAINED THE SAME TEAM FOR YEARS WITH A BELIEF THAT WE COULD CONTEND WITH THAT CORE UNTIL WE WENT OUT AND GOT PAYTON + MALONE, WHO CAME HERE FOR ALMOST NOTHING. IF U THINK LA IS NOT AN ATTRACTIVE DESTINATION, SLAP YASELF RIGHT NOW.
They retained their bird rights, why the fuck wouldn't they stay?
THEY BOTH COULDA BOLTED LIKE DWIGHT INSTEAD OF SIGNING EXTENSIONS IN '09
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of course they'll get SOMEONE
just not someone GOOD like Lebron or Carmelo. no way would Lebron or Melo want to waste the primes of their careers with an old Kobe who still acts like he's the #1 option. who would?
LOL@"ACTS LIKE THE FIRST OPTION"...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3118
SMFH
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
more espn propaganda
sometimes when talking sports with NIK i feel as if i'm debating with Skip Bayless about Tim Tebow
It's worse lol.
Lol @ saying on paper Melo and Kobe would work. The two biggest ball hogs in basketball "no doubt would work".
The best part is Nash can't play D, Kobe isn't an elite defender anymore, Melo doesn't play D, Pau is a pussy and Kaman is a mediocre defender. That team would get TORCHED by a fully loaded OKC team.
LOL THE NOTION OF KOBE BEING A BALL HOG IS RETARDED...HE LEADS THE LEAGUE IN ASSISTS FOR SHOOTING GUARDS, AND ONLY A DUMBASS CASUAL BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHT OBSERVER WHO DOESNT WATCH GAMES SUCH AS URSELF DOESN'T REALIZE HIS GREAT PASSING GAME.
KOBE + MELO >>>>> LEBRON + WADE ALL DAY.
I've already explained this to you. Kobe touches the ball on 99% of the teams possessions. The shooting guard role, for the most part is strictly to "shoot" the ball. Get the role? The only shooting guard who HAD (doesnt currently) that type of possession control at that position was Wade. Outside of a few playmakers here and there, but who don't touch the ball in the same UNIVERSE as Kobe, everyone else catches and shoots. Also Kobe made it a point to pass more after statistics PROVED Kobe taking over 20 shots a game led to more Laker losses than wins. Finally, he had two of the best 7 footers in the league, who attempt the highest percentage shot in the league within five feet of the rim (before you inevitably, out of anger, bring up LeBron to compare him passing to players who take the lowest percent shot in the game of basketball, despite the fact Bron is completely irrelevant in this point). Kobe is a ballhog at the end of the day whose trying desperately hard to prove he was a passer all these years because the repeating, defending champion now gets absolute praise for his ball-vision and IQ as a passer.
You're in denial. He single handedly made the best center in the league run away for dear life lol.
AND WHAT IS THAT "BEST CENTER" UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AS NOW? A COWARD...LOL. LIKE I SAID, ONLY A FRUIT LIKE U WOULD DEFEND HIS ANTICS. BUT THATS BESIDES THE POINT. KOBE GETTING 5+ ASSISTS AT THE SHOOTING GUARD POSITION THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER IS AMAZING...PLAYERS LIKE CARMELO, DURANT, ETC DOMINATE THE BALL JUST AS MUCH AS KOBE AND DONT GET NEARLY AS MANY ASSISTS....AND LMFAO@YOUR RETARDED EXPLANATION "HE GETS ASSISTS BECAUSE LEBRON IS PRAISED FOR HIS PASSING GAME AND HE WANTS TO PROVE HE CAN PASS TOO" :stupid: KOBE AVERAGED 6 ASSISTS PER GAME BEFORE LEBRON WAS EVEN IN THE LEAGUE.......ADMIT IT. U DONT REALLY FOLLOW BASKETBALL. JUST LEBRON.
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Players coming into the league a few years ago wanted to be like Mike. Didn't see shitloads of players going to Chicago. Alot of players today idolized AI, where are all the 76ers free agents?
lol you're comparing chicago and philly with LA,
dont think of me being an LA boy thinking that LA is the best, because thats where im from.
it literally does have the best weather in the world, if not among the best. and when people think of the US they think of LA and NYC, nobody gives a shit about philly, nobody gives a shit about chicago, maybe
they're not destination cities, LA and NYC are THE major cities of the US, im not saying i wouldnt go to chicago, or philly i want to eat a chicago style deep dish pizza pie, an real philly cheese steak, because im AMERICAN, and i know of these
but all the business, nationwide and international is in LA and NYC, you cant compare, like i've said before theres One Or 2 major cities in each country, LA and NYC is americas.
im an LA boy, and id live in NYC, but phily? jersey city (actually anywhere in jersey) , houston? hell no.
i need diversity, i need authentic ethnic foods of all sorts, chicago might be an exception, but miami is no to, its a great vacation city, not a city id live in
its not hard to grasp this concept of why LA and NYC are easier to attract anyone more than philly or chicago
I keep hearing destination city, but Shaq was the only huge free agent you guys can hang your hat on. The reason Payton and Malone came was due to Shaq and Kobe. Talent will go where talent is.
Have fun with the rebuild.
THIS WAS ALREADY EXPLAINED, IN A POINT THAT U DODGED
LAKERS HAVENT EVEN BEEN PURSUING ANY FREE AGENTS SINCE 1996, CUZ OUR MAIN GOAL WAS TO RETAIN THE PLAYERS WE HAD, DUE TO ALREADY BEING STACKED. WE NEVER WENT AFTER DIFFERENT PLAYERS, WE WERE CONTENT WITH KEEPING KOBE AND SHAQ AND SIGNING ROLE PLAYERS UNTIL 2003 WHEN WE SIGNED PAYTON AND MALONE....SINCE THE GASOL TRADE, WE'VE BEEN CONTENT WITH KEEPING GASOL AND ODOM UNTIL WE GOT DWIGHT AND NASH......THERE HAVENT REALLY BEEN ANY BIG FREE AGENTS WE WENT AFTER AND MISSED OUT ON......FOLLOW ME
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U STILL A KNICK FAN?
more espn propaganda
sometimes when talking sports with NIK i feel as if i'm debating with Skip Bayless about Tim Tebow
It's worse lol.
Lol @ saying on paper Melo and Kobe would work. The two biggest ball hogs in basketball "no doubt would work".
The best part is Nash can't play D, Kobe isn't an elite defender anymore, Melo doesn't play D, Pau is a pussy and Kaman is a mediocre defender. That team would get TORCHED by a fully loaded OKC team.
LOL THE NOTION OF KOBE BEING A BALL HOG IS RETARDED...HE LEADS THE LEAGUE IN ASSISTS FOR SHOOTING GUARDS, AND ONLY A DUMBASS CASUAL BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHT OBSERVER WHO DOESNT WATCH GAMES SUCH AS URSELF DOESN'T REALIZE HIS GREAT PASSING GAME.
KOBE + MELO >>>>> LEBRON + WADE ALL DAY.
I've already explained this to you. Kobe touches the ball on 99% of the teams possessions. The shooting guard role, for the most part is strictly to "shoot" the ball. Get the role? The only shooting guard who HAD (doesnt currently) that type of possession control at that position was Wade. Outside of a few playmakers here and there, but who don't touch the ball in the same UNIVERSE as Kobe, everyone else catches and shoots. Also Kobe made it a point to pass more after statistics PROVED Kobe taking over 20 shots a game led to more Laker losses than wins. Finally, he had two of the best 7 footers in the league, who attempt the highest percentage shot in the league within five feet of the rim (before you inevitably, out of anger, bring up LeBron to compare him passing to players who take the lowest percent shot in the game of basketball, despite the fact Bron is completely irrelevant in this point). Kobe is a ballhog at the end of the day whose trying desperately hard to prove he was a passer all these years because the repeating, defending champion now gets absolute praise for his ball-vision and IQ as a passer.
You're in denial. He single handedly made the best center in the league run away for dear life lol.
AND WHAT IS THAT "BEST CENTER" UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AS NOW? A COWARD...LOL. LIKE I SAID, ONLY A FRUIT LIKE U WOULD DEFEND HIS ANTICS. BUT THATS BESIDES THE POINT. KOBE GETTING 5+ ASSISTS AT THE SHOOTING GUARD POSITION THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER IS AMAZING...PLAYERS LIKE CARMELO, DURANT, ETC DOMINATE THE BALL JUST AS MUCH AS KOBE AND DONT GET NEARLY AS MANY ASSISTS....AND LMFAO@YOUR RETARDED EXPLANATION "HE GETS ASSISTS BECAUSE LEBRON IS PRAISED FOR HIS PASSING GAME AND HE WANTS TO PROVE HE CAN PASS TOO" :stupid: KOBE AVERAGED 6 ASSISTS PER GAME BEFORE LEBRON WAS EVEN IN THE LEAGUE.......ADMIT IT. U DONT REALLY FOLLOW BASKETBALL. JUST LEBRON.
Where am I defending his antics? I'm just defending reality that pound for pound, he's the best center in basketball. Only a jealous ex-girlfriend like you would cry this long about it.
And I already said Melo is a ballhog too. The different between Melo and Kobe is Kobe always had so much more to work with. If I was the Lakers PG, I could average four assists a game dumping the ball into two of the top five 7 footers in the game.
I'm not saying if Kobe tried he can't pass the basketball. Not on the IQ level as Bron, but yeah, I guess if he really said "alright, I'm the PG, he could average nine assists", but his points would take a hit.
But you so ignorant to ignore that outside of the two years he was LeBron in Cleveland status, for the past decade+ he's had HANDS DOWN, the best roster on paper in the entire league. LeBron took Birdman and made him look like a border line allstar, if a guy like Greg Oden signs and can play like 70% of what he was supposed to be coming out of college, his assists will go up. Kobe's always had a big man to feed the ball too and you have to figure he'll get his all-star big men 3-4 assists a game and the other 1-2 just casually during the course of a game.
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LMAO THIS FAGGOT JUST SAID KOBE IS NOT ON THE IQ LEVEL OF LEBRON...AND KOBE AVERAGES MORE ASSISTS THAN MELO CUZ HE HAS MORE TO WORK WITH? ROFLMAO. KOBE'S NEVER PLAYED WITH SHOOTERS LIKE LEBRON, WHO ARE ACTUALLY EASIER TO ASSIST THAN BIGS, WHO TYPICALLY CREATE FOR THEMSELVES...... LIKE I SAID, U DONT WATCH BASKETBALL. STOP IT.
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Considering you criticize Dwight for not being able to create for himself, that's a pretty contracting argument.
It's all percentages man. It's math. You can't fight it.
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Considering you criticize Dwight for not being able to create for himself, that's a pretty contracting argument.
It's all percentages man. It's math. You can't fight it.
LOL, AND HOW LONG HAS DWIGHT PLAYED WITH KOBE? NOT EVEN A YEAR.
IT AINT MATH...IT'S BASKETBALL KNOWLEDGE. WHICH U DONT HAVE. SHOOTERS ON UR TEAM=MORE ASSISTS. LEBRON HAS PLAYED WITH WAY MORE SHOOTERS ON HIS TEAMS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER AND IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE. CATCH AND SHOOT SPECIALISTS GALORE.....KOBE IS A BETTER PASSER THAN LEBRON...LEBRON IS SIMPLY A MORE WILLING PASSER WITH BETTER OPTIONS TO PASS TO. IF KOBE DUMPS IT IN TO GASOL, HE'S NOT USUALLY GOING STRAIGHT UP. GASOL COMES WIT A SERIES OF MOVES, NEGATING POTENTIAL ASSISTS U'D GET FROM A CHRIS ANDERSON, JJ HICKSON TYPE. SAME WITH BYNUM, ODOM, AND ARTEST (OPTIONS 3,4,5 IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP YEARS). THEY ARE NOT THE IDEAL PLAYERS TO BE COLLECTING ASSISTS WITH, AND THATS WHAT KOBE'S BEEN PLAYIN WITH. LOL RASHARD LEWIS AND JAMES JONES WOULDA BEEN STARTERS ON ANY OF THE LAKER TEAMS IN THE POST-SHAQ ERA THE BEST SHOOTERS KOBE HAS PLAYED WITH IN THAT SPAN....IN MIAMI, THEYRE AFTERTHOUGHT BENCH WARMERS. GO FIGURE.
IT'S ACTUALLY QUITE SAD THAT LEBRON, A PASS-FIRST PLAYER, ONLY AVERAGES 1 MORE ASSIST THAN KOBE BRYANT ON A TEAM SO STACKED WHEN KOBE IS A SHOOT-FIRST PLAYER. BUT GO AHEAD AND SPIN IT FOR ANOTHER LEBRON JAMES JERK SESSION.
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I've never see someone in more denial who made up more things in one rant to defend his lover.
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Kobe played with Shaq...all you had to do was lob the ball in a 5 foot radius of the guy and he would catch it and dunk on the poor guy defending him
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I just don't understand how he doesn't understand that.
I mean, I do to a degree due to his homerism. But it's like sad because sometimes I feel like he's convinced himself his biased thoughts are beyond just clearly trying to hold it down for some childhood hero.
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Let's not act like Antwan Jamison and Jodie Meeks weren't bench warmers in the past Laker season.
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Kobe played with Shaq...all you had to do was lob the ball in a 5 foot radius of the guy and he would catch it and dunk on the poor guy defending him
No he wouldn't. Shaq was too slow and heavy to catch and dunk all the time. He'd usually catch the ball, dribble while knocking his man out of posisiton then do a layup/dunk. No assists for that.
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http://www.tmz.com/2013/07/24/carmelo-anthony-lakers-lebron-james/
Dear Los Angeles Lakers fans,
We're sorry to inform you ... it doesn't seem very likely Carmelo Anthony will be dishing to Kobe Bryant any time soon, despite reports to the contrary.
Anthony was leaving Craig's in Hollywood this week when we asked straight up if he could see himself in purple and gold after his contract with the Knicks runs out.
CA's response? "Ummmmm, I doubt it."
Carmelo teased us a little bit ... saying he owns purple and gold shoes -- but made it pretty clear he has no plans to wear them on the hardwood.
Anthony also told TMZ ... he's NOT secretly plotting with LeBron James to join the same NBA squad ... though he admits, they're pretty damn good when they play together.
Still, don't count out the Lakers entirely ... 'cause when the time comes, you can bet L.A. will bust out the checkbook -- and nothing changes a mind like a couple of zeros.
Stay tuned ...
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Lol @ the Melo pitch for Bron to go to NY.
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Let's not act like Antwan Jamison and Jodie Meeks weren't bench warmers in the past Laker season.
LOL 20+ MINUTES IS A ROTATION PLAYER, NOT BENCH WARMER
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20 minutes of awful basketball does not make them valuable
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Kobe played with Shaq...all you had to do was lob the ball in a 5 foot radius of the guy and he would catch it and dunk on the poor guy defending him
No he wouldn't. Shaq was too slow and heavy to catch and dunk all the time. He'd usually catch the ball, dribble while knocking his man out of posisiton then do a layup/dunk. No assists for that.
AGAIN, THESE CATS DONT WATCH BASKETBALL. THEY WATCH ESPN AND POST FOR TROLLIN PURPOSES. IT AINT EVEN THAT THEIR OPINION IS DUMB, THEY JUST FLAT OUT DONT KNOWN THEIR SHIT.
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i love being told i "don't know my shit" from someone who genuinely believes Lebron James was not the MVP last year :laugh:
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i love being told i "don't know my shit" from someone who genuinely believes Lebron James was not the MVP last year :laugh:
THATS OPINION- IM SPEAKIN U DONT KNOW UR SHIT IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY NOT KNOWIN UR SHIT...ACTIN LIKE SHAQ WAS A SPOON-FED PLAYER AS OPPOSED TO A DUDE WHO TYPICALLY OPPERATED ON HIS OWN IN THE POST. THATS NOT KNOWIN UR SHIT...LEBRON BEIN OVERRATED AND SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS BY THE MEDIA COMES DOWN TO OPINION, NOT WHETHER SOME1 KNOWS THEIR SHIT OR NOT.
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i love being told i "don't know my shit" from someone who genuinely believes Lebron James was not the MVP last year :laugh:
I've been saying it for a while now, admins need to be giving people five day bans to sit and think about the shit they post.
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just watched a Magic-Knicks game from 1994 the other night on tv
boy, it was hard to get the ball to that Shaq guy, look at how Penny Hardaway's assist numbers went up so much after Shaq left ;D ::)
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Ewing owned the game in the 4th btw...finished with 26 and 19 with 3 blocks while Shaq had 26 and 5 and 1 block.
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lolz