Around the NBA (And Oregon High Schools) - January 2018

His style is a little over the top, but he makes several good points.

What, exactly, has Isaiah Thomas accomplished in CLE that makes him think he has any right, or any reason, to call out someone else over missing a game or poor defense?

As an outside observer, the monumental lack of self-awareness is quite stunning.

Dear Isaiah Thomas,

Your team giving up 148 points had much more to do with you being on the floor than Kevin Love being off it.

Sincerely,
People with Clues

BNM

 

Kevin Love handled this much better than I would have. If it would have been me, the next time I saw Isaiah Thomas, I would have walked up to him, got down on my knees, and coughed right in his face.

BNM

 

Awwwwwww

 

that was great!

 

Gotta love Westbrook calling his own number with the game on the line. No wonder OKC sucks in close games.

BNM

 

No sure if this has been reported but Kyrie needs knee surgery:

According to sources, Kyrie Irving needs minor knee surgery as a follow to the procedure he underwent during the 2015 Finals to repair his broken knee cap. It’s not pressing — Irving is averaging 24.5 points and shooting a career-high .477 from the field — but the procedure would ease some of the swelling and day-to-day pain he feels. Such a procedure is typically done in the offseason; but he threatened to not come to training camp (first reported by ESPN) and then have the procedure during the season, leaving the Cavs without a point guard. The Cavs chose to move Irving rather than call his bluff, which upset LeBron James, sources said.

 

So, instead they traded him for an injured, undersized PG who missed the first 36 games of the season. Sure showed him, didn't they!

BNM

 

AOTTFY

 

Did any of you hear about this??? I knew about the "scuffle" but not the threatening to come to the locker room.

Salah Mejri threatened to come to Blazers locker room after Jusuf Nurkic tussle

The Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks had a game of many emotions on Saturday night at Moda Center. Of course, the game wasn’t that close — Portland led by 17 at the half and finished the game by beating Dallas, 117-108.

But as we’ve seen in the NBA recently, the propensity for NBA players to get into physical spats is high. So it was no surprise that we saw yet another scrum between NBA players on the east side of the Willamette on Saturday as Dallas’ Salah Mejri got tangled up with Jusuf Nurkic and Evan Turner.

The play began with Nurkic getting a clean block on Mejri. Because of the position of the two players, Nurkic’s arm was angled as such that after the block it came clean through to rest on Mejri’s shoulder. Mejri turned, and the whole thing became a tangle of arms and elbows.

Neither Mejri or Nurkic took kindly to that, so the two squared off. Nurkic gave Mejri an ineffectual little push, while Portland’s Evan Turner jumped in to hold Mejri back. The Mavericks center promptly flopped all the way to the ground, inexplicably grabbing his face. It was Premier League-level flopping from Mejri, just top notch stuff.





After the game, Turner told media that Mejri threatened to come get the Blazers.

“He’s like ‘I’ll come to the locker room!'” said Turner. “Out of a 225 lb. dude [Turner] a 275 lb. dude [Nurkic] and a 7-footer [Mejri] who hit the ground?”

Portland’s CJ McCollum didn’t seem too impressed with the threat.

“If they really want to fight, they know where to find people,” said McCollum.

Much like any arena, the visiting locker room is just down the hall from the home squad at Moda Center, so it would have been easy for Mejri to get to. Nothing happened, so it turned out as an empty threat.

Meanwhile, Turner was assessed a technical foul for the tussle — presumably for “pushing” Mejri. There was notable tension the rest of the game between Mejri, Nurkic, and the crowd at Moda Center, but nothing else of consequence happened.

 

I love how Turner frequently uses acceptable cusswords on camera!

Turner: Come to the locker room, and getcho ass whooped!

 

Yes, I knew about that. It should have been a jump ball.

 

Even his own coach thinks he's an idiot:



Get the fuck out of here!

BNM

 

Captain Booger Sugar is back!

 

Coach punked out tho...

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...vericks-apologizes-salah-mejri-angry-exchange

 

Only after the video went viral. I'm sure he still thinks Mejri is an idiot. He just can't say it with the cameras rolling.

BNM

 

ESPN just called Dame a 1st time all star. Can't make this shit up. http://es.pn/2ncNQVY

 

Anybody watching OKC vs. WAS? Good god, those OKC uniforms are hideous.

Shouldn't surprise me, everything about that organization offends me.

BNM

 

OKC ones? Love the old school Bullets look!

 

He's expiring.... Think we can swap Meyers for him (and then cut him)?