OFFICIAL Around The NBA Thread- December 2020

Nico got picked up by the Clippers....I wish him well...he's an ex Blazer I really liked as a person.

 

Ya, I was a fan of Batum's as well and he often got unfairly chastised at times as well. Would have been nice to get him on a vet min contract, but not sure how the Blazers feel as Batum's agent was kind of an asshat so may not have wanted to deal with him.

 

If you listen closely, you can just hear those kids whispering into Roy's ear: "please adopt us!"

 

Those are my kids bro! You have gone TOO far this time! DENNNNNY!!!!!!!!

 

BRoy was cracking up because as my daughter is walking away, he sees that she is rocking a MILES jersey. Reason we got it, was because my son's name is Miles, not for Darius.

 

Still doesn't add up. If that's their reasoning, the lost revenue should be figured over the regular 41 home games, not the shortened 36 game schedule.

 

That makes me want to start a "CJ 'Love'" thread. I hope CJ plays to the best of his capabilities, I hope the team plays fantastic D and I hope Dame takes this to heart and rips the heart out of the rest of the league for it.

 

You posted this because you know this tweet is dumb right? Jones was in their rotation playing really well for them when he got injured (neck). Then the Heat went on a tear. When Jones was back healthy the Heat's rotation was set and Jones was left out. That's not too surprising for a guy who went undrafted, couldn't get in the game his first two seasons and took on a bench role with the Heat the last two seasons. Those kind of guys, if they go out of sight they go out of mind. That's all that happened. Our team and almost every NBA analyst thinks this will be a break out year for him here getting starter's minutes, I agree with them but we'll have to wait and see. I like how this tweet fails to mention that he had a steal per game in the regular season in just 23 minutes a game. It also fails to mention that Jones' field goal percentage at 52.7% last season would be great for a big man and that he's a wing.

If we wanted to use that tweet's logic then we just hit the lotto because Jones shot 44% from three and had 2.2 steals and 1.6 blocks per 36 minutes in the playoffs, talk about the ideal 3 and D forward.

 

You takin videos of Jason Quick on the down low?

 

He looks like that televangelist, laughing maniacally

 

Lungs may never fully recover, but the Ohio State head sports doctor said, this is the average recovery timeline. Basically if a player gets Covid, after two weeks, they won't be much better than a G league player.

 

So... Kawhi is an entitled dick:

Before every Clippers game last season, the team’s training staff would honor Kawhi Leonard’s request and create a private space for his pregame routine.

The staffers would enter and take over that space for roughly 20 to 45 minutes, according to multiple team and league sources. On the road, there were occasions when the space they occupied was the female staffers’ locker room. That also happened sometimes before a doubleheader at Staples Center when the changing of the court limited the availability of the Los Angeles Kings’ locker room, where Leonard normally warmed up privately.

Various Clippers players, coaches and staffers were aware of the arrangement and some felt uneasy about it. While there appeared to be no sexist intent, the visual of women staffers being unable to use their locker room to use the bathroom, to change clothes or to access their personal belongings while Leonard stretched did not go unnoticed. At least one player mentioned it to a confidant and at least one staffer complained about it to coworkers. It was an awkward arrangement, but drawing too much attention to it risked being seen as going against Leonard, the team’s unquestioned star, in the eyes of the organization.

“What were they going to do about it?” one league source said. “It’s Kawhi.”
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On and off the court, the players never established the requisite chemistry, continuity or trust to win a championship in their first year together. The organization estimated it could layer superstars on top of the core group of returning role players to win a title, but it awfully misjudged the internal blowback over everything from playing time to preferential treatment to personality differences.

“How do you ever build a strong team with that shit going on?” one team source said. “I thought from the beginning, ‘We’re doomed. Kawhi wants too much special treatment.’”
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But according to multiple league sources, the perks the Clippers gave Leonard and George began to compromise the standard of the culture they had built over the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons — the very culture that the Clippers used, in part, to attract Leonard and George to Los Angeles.

Some of those perks included:

• Leonard and George were the only players to have their own personal security guards and trainers.

• Leonard and George had power over the team’s practice and travel schedule, leading teammates to believe Leonard canceled multiple practices.

• Leonard was allowed to live in San Diego and commute from there, which often made him late for team flights.

• Leonard and George typically didn’t speak to the media until at least 45 minutes after games concluded, under the guise of postgame treatment or workouts. This usually resulted in their teammates speaking with the media first, and for longer, essentially becoming the public voices of the team.

• Teammates also believed that Leonard and George were able to pick and choose when they played. Not only did they sit out games entirely, but also at times they accepted or declined playing timein the moment.

Starting to think maybe Tony Parker et. al. had a point...

 

Really, it took this for people to question whether it was Kawhi or the Spurs -- the most professional franchise of the past two decades -- who was the abrasive element? If Toronto hadn't won the championship, I'm sure they'd be feeling the scorn more than the warm memories, too.

 

The hilarious aspect of this was all their crowing at Dame.

Yet again, we get reminded of how lucky we are to have Dame here.

 

yeah, the number is wrong based upon their assumptions. It should read 41M in lost revenue, not 36M

 

Only if you assume that there won’t be fans at games for the entire season.