Jason Quick @jwquick LaMarcus Aldridge's $250,000 bonus for making the 2013 All-Star Game is actually low by NBA standards. Many bonuses are in the $500K range
Speaking of people we wouldn't want picking our team, hi Nate. Out of curiousity did Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Ben Gordon make the all-star team?
Congratulations to LMA! And he just might know what the fans say, Mags. Since I emailed Stotts and HCP the treatise investigating if/why he was playing so inefficiently, here's the result: His orb% went from 4.9% in his first 15 games to 7.8% in his last 25. His "close and dunk" shots went from 18% of his shots in his first 15 to 30% of his shots in his last 25--still below his LaMonster years, but a huge jump in efficiency. Coincidentally? His true shooting% went from 47% in his first 15 games to 55% in his last 25. His ppg went from 18.8 in his first 15 to 21.8 in his last 25. His outside/inside/FT ppg splits went from 10.9/4.1/3.8 to 10.8/6.7/4.3. (LaMonster 2011 was 10.3/7.8/4.3, by comparison) IMHO, I think that if LMA was still shooting 82% of his shots as jumpers, making 42% of them for a 18.8/7.8 average, he wouldn't be an All-Star. Awesome to see him step up his game!
Mags, were you here during the summer where half this board was smarter on the CBA than GM David Kahn?
David khan is a joke. He's not even a good beat writer. I don't know what drugs he slipped in their drink to land the job.
so what you're saying is that you can't possibly use the "he's got the job and therefore more qualified for it than everyone on this board" tripe you just trotted out?
But weren't you essentially saying that the mere fact that guys like Isiah Thomas and Kahn have those jobs makes them more knowledgeable than us lowly internet posters?
Pretty well since I said the coaches and not gms. Nate just used Thomas, which I clearly pointed out would probably be a better coach and gm than anyone in here. Last time I checked, gms don't vote for all stars.
No I said coaches, not gms. You said gms by mentioning Thomas, which is better than anyone in this forum. Am I wrong? I mean you were swinging on lees jock too. I guess he got something right? Also, he got Zach for shit too.
