OFFICIAL 2014 Around the NBA thread - January edition

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    Soccer jerseys.
     
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    such a shit logo design! wtf
     
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    laclippersBreaking News: #Clippers sign Hedo Turkoglu | Exclusive video interview and comments with Hedo are now on clippers.com. | #ItsTim
     
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    More wasted money.
     
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    LA has a sizeable and vibrant Turkish community:
     
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    Marc Stein @ESPNSteinLine
    OKC Thunder, according to Elias, will have their first losing record over 10-game span (4-6) since Dec. 4-23, 2009, if beaten tonight at HOU
     
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    That's what happens when you turn a Big 3 into a Big 2 and one of them goes down. If they still had Harden, they'd be cruising.
     
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    Such a horrible, horrible trade for them. If that were the Blazers, this place would have gone nuclear.
     
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    While I hate to see anyone injured, I'm so glad Clay and Aubrey were too damn cheap to keep Harden. That team was a dynasty in the making. All they really had to do to keep Harden was to amnesty Perkins and eat his $8.5 million/year contract. But, they didn't want to eat Perkins contract and pay him not to play, so they kept him (and his 6.1 PER, 3 PTS/G and 4 REB/G) and sent Harden packing. I said it was a stupid move at the time. They could have easily replaced Perkins' "production" with any D-League stiff on a min contract and resigned Harden. I do love the fact that their own cheapness cost them a dynasty.

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    I still think they should have traded Westbrook instead of Harden. At the time he was by far the bigger star, and they could have fetched a better trade for him. Plus, if he continues to have knee problems, it will quickly rob him of the athleticism that makes him the player that he is. Not sure if he'll be all that good if he can't drive.
     
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    Yep. You replace Westbrook with a PG like Beverley, and OKC is just fine.
     
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    The thing is, they didn't have to trade either of them (but yeah, given the choice I would have moved Westbrook over Harden) . It was strictly a cost saving maneuver. They overpaid Ibaka, but their steadfast refusal to amnesty Perkins was what really forced them to move Harden.

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    Can you imagine if they would have traded Westbrook for Chris Paul?
     
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    Westbrooks first injury was in the playoffs last year long after the trade; he had pristine injury history at that point.

    I think they overreacted to Harden chocking in the finals and decided to send him packing. I also think they were very arrogant from their success in drafting those three and Ibaka. They just assumed they could find more players like them on rookie contracts.
     
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    Westbrook is one of the top couple PG's in this league. His individual shooting stats suck, but kind of like LaMarcus it causes a defense to be so out of place the rest of the players can be extremely efficient. Think of it as the "Lopez" effect for rebounding except his is for scoring. In the playoffs and again this year we're seeing without Westbrook all the other players on that roster are struggling to create efficient offense.
     
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    Any fool could see that Westbrook is a problem though. He genuinely thinks he's the best player on the team. If they dealt him for someone like Paul when the Hornets were looking to move him, they could have added a point guard that actually makes everyone around him better.
     
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    Thankfully, we can only imagine this.
     
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