Hittin' The Links: Potential Trading Partners, Expected Terrico White Deal, John Salley And Maybe Not Enough Lindsey Hunter

and with the exception of Stuckey, JJ, and BW nobody could really claim they “worked hard”.

I think its stupid to hate a player for knowing and understanding the game better than most and subsequently taking advantage of a shitty rule.

As Bill Bellamy (I think it was him anyway) once said, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Varejao is a solid defensive player even without the flopping, and if there is anyone you should hate for Varejao’s flopping, it should be Stern for not only investigating but deciding NOT to incorporate an anti-flopping rule of some kind.

So did Rodman, and they’re legends.

My roommate has four.

now you know three

have a superfluous third nipple.

I’m sure you just overlooked that. :D

Haven’t heard of many players demanding trades or making any splashes other than Lebron and Paul. Paul never claimed to be a Chosen One, or a King. Nor was he anointed the heir apparent to any of his predecessors. Not the case with LeBron. Yes he is a great player but he is also the self appointed Highness of all that has to do with basketball. so I take great issue when a player of his skill and douchery bows down to a rival. He clearly has the skill to earn the King and Chosen 1 label. But he doesn’t have the character. And in the words of Joe D. Character picks up where skill drops off. His character represents, in my eyes everything that I don’t want to see the NBA become.

There are bound to be one or two surprises that aren’t in that group too. If The Controversial One has a good year I could see Sacramento getting into the postseason too.

I just don’t think they’re the shoe-in that some seem to think … maybe two years of good drafting and savvy free agent signings later, they’re an unbeatable juggernaut. Maybe. But as it stands now, they are some other great teams who will give them all they can handle.

Is largely about match-ups and the talent of your top 7. “Depth” is much more important in the regular season, when coaches will go to 12 guys. In the playoffs, when you can play your top guys 40+ minutes each night and your scrubs never take off their sweats, things change. It’s easy to beat up on chumps in the regular season when you have LeBron and a deep cast of supporting guys, or you catch Boston on a back-to-back or without a KG for a night.

From what I saw, Cleveland’s failures in the playoffs were more about Mike Brown than anyone. He, like a one F. Saunders — wait, that’s too obvious…like a one Flip S. — failed to make adjustments in long playoff series and suffered the consequences. Boston shored up to their best players, and adjusted their line-ups as the games went on.

Not many teams can boast a crunch-time line-up that includes the talent of LeBron-Wade-Bosh-Miller. But yes…we’ll see.

if LBJ had quit playing games and said “Im staying in Cleveland” other guys would have came there and signed with him. Look at jamison, varejao and williams. they are all stuck there now after coming so close to winning it all with no hope of a title now. not that i feel bad for those schmucks.

AKA Notty Don

Or he was coming off of a catastrophic knee injury — one that required more than a season to for him to fully recover. Jefferson has never been a lazy player, and he was hitting his stride before getting injured. He has a history of playing hard for some horrific teams (every T-Wolves team he’s been on, the tankapalooza 06-07 Celtics), so I wouldn’t call his effort into question. In fact, it’s pretty amazing he managed to put up the numbers he did coming off an injury like that.

As for not taking Cousins, Kahn could’ve leveraged the demand for Cousins into assets of some sort, rather than standing pat and taking Johnson at 4. He could’ve turned the 4th pick into assets and still gotten Johnson or Aminu in the 6-10 range — for a lower salary — along with something else of value.

Darko is a bad player. That is not debatable. He has -2 offensive win shares for his career. His career WS/48 is utterly horrific (.051). He is not even close to average at this point. Sure, Darko has the TOOLS to be a good player, but he’s shown no indication that he’ll ever use them effectively.

Agreed on the Beaz, I guess. Getting him for 2 second rounders is pretty damn good value. My main problem with acquiring him was how hypocritical it makes Kahn look for getting rid of Jefferson — who is a superior player with a higher ceiling than Beasley. Still, Kahn took advantage of the Heat’s situation and made a very nice trade.

I need a way to waste time instead of writing/emailing my financial aid lady.