Around the NBA, 2014-15 Season Thread

[Paradise]

Jason Kidd would have literally ruined this franchise more than Billy King has if we listened to him and traded Brook for this clown and his gigantic contract.

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[Antti22]

How about that, the Spurs losing to the Pistons in the way Nets usually lose games they are supposed to win.

[Lamak]

Knicks tank is serious. I feel like I can enjoy JR Smith again since he is no longer on the Knicks.

[NyCeEvO]

Utah beats the Bulls by 20 in Chicago.
Detroit beat the Mavs in Dallas.

Maybe they're contenders too lol. It just goes to show that mediocre teams are always capable of beating good teams in the regular season. This is why I never took the win in Chicago or the loss to Dallas at Barclays that seriously, especially when you prove my doubts to be correct by (having the highest payroll in the league and) laying an egg at home against a team that's clearly tanking.

[CalamityX12]

Beating a dead horse here...

But ATL sits on top of the East where as BKN is around the middle for now...

if projections are like ATL finishes top 3 and BKN is out of playoffs contention.... we lost a really good lotto pick...AGAIN...

Fire Billy King then terminate his employment status

[MrDollarBills]

King paved the way for Atlanta to build the team that they have in place now with all of that cap room and if by some horrible turn of events we end up in the lottery they will be in even better shape.

King has done a great job of helping every other team but the one that pays his salary.

[JudBuchler]

Can't believe Billy king hasn't been terminated yet

[NyCeEvO]

Can't believe Billy king hasn't been terminated yet

I've been saying that since 2011.

[therealbig3]

Raptors are about to lose their 4th straight and fall to 24-11. Imagine if we actually took care of business against two teams we should have beaten (Miami and Boston)? We'd be 18-17, and 6 games back. And even better if we hadn't choked against Dallas...19-16, and 5 games back. Instead, we made up zero ground on their chokehold on the division, and we're still going to be 8 games back.

[NyCeEvO]

Raptors are about to lose their 4th straight and fall to 24-11. Imagine if we actually took care of business against two teams we should have beaten (Miami and Boston)? We'd be 18-17, and 6 games back. And even better if we hadn't choked against Dallas...19-16, and 5 games back. Instead, we made up zero ground on their chokehold on the division, and we're still going to be 8 games back.

Still doesn't change the fact that our schedule is about to get real tough.

It'd be a miracle if we cut into that lead after the next 15 or so games. Things don't look good now or in the near future for us.

[MrDollarBills]

Raptors are about to lose their 4th straight and fall to 24-11. Imagine if we actually took care of business against two teams we should have beaten (Miami and Boston)? We'd be 18-17, and 6 games back. And even better if we hadn't choked against Dallas...19-16, and 5 games back. Instead, we made up zero ground on their chokehold on the division, and we're still going to be 8 games back.

You know what your problem is?

You care more about the team winning games than the **** ing team does itself.

That's the problem and has been the problem with the Nets ever since they built this core of players who don't give a ****.

[kerry kittles]

Caught up in watching football, but saw the Hawks beat the Wizards by 31. my daily **** you Billy King

[MrDollarBills]

Honestly, its not the fact that we gave them the cap space to build a good team, its the pick swaps!!!

[Paradise]

Love wants to enter the 2016 sweepstakes.

Love is unlikely to sign long term this summer because of the salary cap. He is expected to opt out of his current contract at the end of the season for cap purposes, but he might only sign a one-year deal to line up for what is expected to be a significant cap spike in the summer of 2016.

Love has said all the right things about re-signing with the Cavs this summer and the Cavs continue to insist he’s here long term. Executives around the league, however, continue to believe Love could leave Cleveland.

http://www.ohio.com/sports/cavs/cavs-ma ... fI.twitter

[NyCeEvO]

We need talent on this team and at this point I don't care how we get it.

We should try to sign Nate Robinson and hope he can perform as well as he used to against us.

[Prokorov]

We need talent on this team and at this point I don't care how we get it.

We should try to sign Nate Robinson and hope he can perform as well as he used to against us.

Have you seen him though? he isnt the same guy. the injury has really limited him. he isnt the same isnane athlete he was prior. his distance shooting has completely gone, he gets no lift on his jumper and that quick pull up doesnt happen any more.

he isnt better then anyone we currently play. look im with you, give me talent anyway i can get it. but nate doesnt belong on an playoff nba roster at this point

[NyCeEvO]

We need talent on this team and at this point I don't care how we get it.

We should try to sign Nate Robinson and hope he can perform as well as he used to against us.

Have you seen him though? he isnt the same guy. the injury has really limited him. he isnt the same isnane athlete he was prior. his distance shooting has completely gone, he gets no lift on his jumper and that quick pull up doesnt happen any more.

he isnt better then anyone we currently play. look im with you, give me talent anyway i can get it. but nate doesnt belong on an playoff nba roster at this point

I haven't watched him at all. Didn't know his athleticism is gone. That was the only thing that made him capable of being a spark plug. What a shame...

[NyCeEvO]

That LAL-CLE game was a good exhibition game lol.

Never seen Kobe and LBJ so friendly and jovial.

[NyCeEvO]

Ty Lawson is putting CP3 to work in this DEN-LAC game.

I wonder if CP3 is just having a harder time with quicker guards as he's getting older or if Lawson has just improved again.

[MrDollarBills]

Kidd just made the Bucks pick up Jose GUTZ. I bet Gutz will thrive in an atmosphere where you have actual talent and the focus is on winning games instead of marketing.