[NBA] Comments that don't warrant a thread (JAN)

[Tetsujin]

Michael Scotto‏
Sources: The Los Angeles Clippers proposed a blockbuster deal to the Minnesota Timberwolves involving forward Blake Griffin and center Karl-Anthony Towns. Full story coming on @BBallInsiders.

1:10 PM - 13 Jan 2018

I'd imagine it was a very short phone call.

 

[Iced Espresso]

Sessions about to be waived if not all ready in NY

 

[ESP47]

Michael Scotto‏
Sources: The Los Angeles Clippers proposed a blockbuster deal to the Minnesota Timberwolves involving forward Blake Griffin and center Karl-Anthony Towns. Full story coming on @BBallInsiders.

1:10 PM - 13 Jan 2018

I'd imagine it was a very short phone call.

Full story for paid subscription members only:

TWolves said no.

- BBallInsiders

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Full story for paid subscription members only:

TWolves said no.

- BBallInsiders

Probably more like:

TWolves said,

- BBallInsiders

 

[VF21]

I feel like a game in Barcelona or elsewhere in Spain would make more sense because we already have a heavy basketball presence there...meanwhile, no one in the UK cares about basketball. I guess the NBA is just trying to tap into an untapped market?

Actually, I think there is a bit of basketball interest in the UK. We've had a number of fans from across the pond over the years.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

One team's dramatic comeback is another team's back-breaking chokejob.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/953300776088166400

Life is funny as hell. One day you're the best player on a team with Tyson Chandler, JR Smith, David West and Birdman then you split ways and everyone gets a ring except you and you out here wearing the glasses with the nose and moustache to go fight your former coach's son

My only objection to this tweet: Chris Paul never played on a team with JR Smith and Tyson Chandler. Now, he did play on a team with JR Smith and PJ Brown, who also went on to win a ring after leaving New Orleans. And he played on a team with Tyson Chandler and Peja Stojakovic, whom many Kings Fans will remember (most probably more fondly than I) also went on to win a ring after leaving New Orleans.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

One team's dramatic comeback is another team's back-breaking chokejob.

 

[CelticsFan]

Per Wojo the Hornets are shopping Kemba Walker

 

[twslam07]

Per Wojo the Hornets are shopping Kemba Walker

I’d like to see the spurs get him while moving Aldridge. Then they would just have to move Gasol and Mills to make room for signing Lebron.

Walker/Green/Leonard/LeBron would be very formidable.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Cavs defense is all sorts of awful right now. 114 points to the Thunder......through 3 quarters!

 

[kingsboi]

Per Wojo the Hornets are shopping Kemba Walker

I suppose MJ is realizing you can't win with Kemba being your number one

 

[kingsboi]

Good lord, the Cavs defense allows 148 points in regulation to the Thunder....that's got to be some kind of record 0__0

 

[Iced Espresso]

Jason Kidd just walked the plank, fired mid season.

 

[Suicide King]

Jason Kidd just walked the plank, fired mid season.

I think it needed to be done. I know it was a popular opinion among a lot of Bucks fans that he needed to go.

 

[biltalent]

With Kidd gone, the number of coaches that refuse running a modern offensive and defensive scheme despite of personel is further decreasing. Currently I count Joerger with the Kings and maybe SVG in Detroit (although Drummond looked better than expected at the high post, at least to start the season). Also Thibs in Minnesota and Malone in Denver but it makes sense with their personel.

 

[LoungeLizard]

Boogie with one of the most insane stat lines you will see

44 pts 24 reb 10 ast 4 steals, 1 block

 

[SLAB]

That DeMarcus Cousins guy is pretty good.

...

Damn I miss him.

 

[VF21]

ESPN Stats & Info‏Verified account@ESPNStatsInfo


DeMarcus Cousins has the 10th 40-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist game in NBA history. Wilt Chamberlain (6), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1), Elgin Baylor (1), Oscar Robertson (1) are the others

 

[VF21]

Boogie with one of the most insane stat lines you will see

44 pts 24 reb 10 ast 4 steals, 1 block

And that's why some of us fought so hard against getting rid of him.

I'll be honest, however. He wouldn't have done it here. I wish him all the luck in the world ... and I'm incredibly glad I have his jersey.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

That DeMarcus Cousins guy is pretty good.

...

Damn I miss him.

 

[kingsboi]

good god I didn't believe those numbers when I first saw them....that's some NBA 2k stuff right there by the Boogie Monster.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Shifting gears slightly, I don't know who's in charge of supplying the Pelicans with orange slices and Gatorade at halftime, but whoever that is, they need to be fired. And, by fired, I mean fired out of a cannon: tonight was, like, the ninth time this month that New Orleans got outscored by double-digits in the third quarter.

Somebody needs to get @6th on the case.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

And, since I gotta stay #OnBrand:

One team's dramatic comeback is another team's back-breaking chokejob.

 

[Telemachus]

ESPN Stats & Info‏Verified account@ESPNStatsInfo


DeMarcus Cousins has the 10th 40-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist game in NBA history. Wilt Chamberlain (6), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1), Elgin Baylor (1), Oscar Robertson (1) are the others

That's some good company right there.

 

[Tetsujin]

And that's why some of us fought so hard against getting rid of him.

I'll be honest, however. He wouldn't have done it here. I wish him all the luck in the world ... and I'm incredibly glad I have his jersey.

Mostly because the Kings would've lost by so much that Boogie'd be sitting out most of the final quarter.

 

[KingsFanSince85]

The thing getting overlooked is that the Pels overcame a 17-pt deficit with 5 minutes to go. Eerily similar to the 18 pt comeback the Kings had last season against the Clips.

 

[KingsFanSince85]

One more stat: This was Boogie’s 3rd 40/20 game this season. Last to do that was Moses Malone in 1981/82.

 

[King in England]

Actually, I think there is a bit of basketball interest in the UK. We've had a number of fans from across the pond over the years.

I haven't been able to check in to this site as much in the past month so only just spotted this talk about basketball in the UK.

I'm obviously all for the yearly game in London. I don't know how logistically viable it will be to have NBA teams located in different continents but I know the one game a year here is really popular. The recent sixers/celtics game sold out in a matter of hours (20,000 tickets).

The British Basketball League (BBL) is growing in popularity also and I know for a fact my local team (Bristol Flyers) sell out their games months in advance. Admittedly they play in tiny gyms but still.

It also feels like the NBA is garnering much more media attention compared to when to a few years ago. If the idea is to expand the popularity of the sport I'd have to guess it's working here.

 

[kingsboi]

One more stat: This was Boogie’s 3rd 40/20 game this season. Last to do that was Moses Malone in 1981/82.

how many 40/20 games did Moses have that season?