Around the NBA 2012-2013

GrantHill · Post #941 » by **GrantHill** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:11 pm

You just broke my heart.

YouTube · Post #942 » by **Kerrsed** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:16 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnwWAULBTCY[/youtube]

EB2 · Post #943 » by **EB2** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:31 pm

Calvin Klein wrote:This depresses me...

I know this is just the sport of basketball, but I feel like crying. :cry:

Post #944 » by **ATTL** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:41 pm

Calvin Klein wrote:This depresses me...

Post #945 » by **ATTL** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:52 pm

boomann21 wrote:

"I was saying Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, for most of the four quarters. It's just too bad our guys didn't really get going until the fourth quarter. I thought if we took a few more three's then we could of had this game."

knicks fans really hate him :lol:

DRK · Post #946 » by **DRK** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:41 am

Calvin Klein wrote:This depresses me...

Game 4, Western Conference Semi-Finals, 2010.

Thats the first thing this reminded me of, funnily enough............

EB2 · Post #947 » by **EB2** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:12 am

ATTL wrote:
boomann21 wrote:

"I was saying Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, for most of the four quarters. It's just too bad our guys didn't really get going until the fourth quarter. I thought if we took a few more three's then we could of had this game."

knicks fans really hate him

Knicks fans are very dedicated. I'll give 'em that.

Calvin Klein · Post #948 » by **Calvin Klein** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:49 pm

So, Amare to the DLeague now??

Kind of...

http://www.nba.com/dleague/news/amare_e ... 12_18.html

Post #949 » by **batsmasher** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:07 am

Bobcats beating the Lakers haha.

Perfect situation for the Suns: Bobcats kill their losing streak and will go back to losing.

AND

THE LAKERS ARE LOSING. woooooooooo

Post #950 » by **ATTL** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:31 am

Awful defense from the Bobcats.

Saberestar · Post #951 » by **Saberestar** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:27 am

Lakers will make the playoffs, Kobe is playing for them, that is enough.

thamadkant · Post #952 » by **thamadkant** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:58 am

Lakers can go 60% from now on they can still miss it if Wolves, rockets, Nuggets win 50-55% of there's.

DRK · Post #953 » by **DRK** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:47 pm

I wish we had a player like Danilo Gallinari. He's such a dynamic scorer.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lJ7U6iMg_4[/youtube]

DRK · Post #954 » by **DRK** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:17 pm

Just found this gem of a post on the Knicks board.

drekwins wrote:Almost all of you have been influenced by D'Antoni and you don't even realize it. There's this preconceived notion that two big guys can't play together in a pick and roll offense. Some think that one of the guys (either the 4 or 5) has to be a knock down shooter. Karl Malone scored over 30,000 points playing with other big guys who couldn't catch (i.e. Ostertag), let alone stretch the floor. Amar'e is our best pick and roll big man. Yes, even better than Tyson. Not only can he set good screens and dunk, he can knock down the jumper and score in in tough situations. Please, before we go any further, get all of your Pringles influenced assumptions out of your brain immediately. The guy can't coach PF's. Never has been able to. That's why Marion posed as a 4 when D'Antoni was at his best. Chalk it up to a down year and injury, not a diminish in skills. Stat is going to let loose and prove you all wrong. Of course, he just has to show effort on D, which I expect given that this is the first time in his career that he is being doubted as a force in the NBA.

Post #955 » by **ATTL** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:59 pm

I really hope last year was just an off year for amare and he comes back strong. He's still one of my favorite players and the Knicks could really use him as an inside presence.

Saberestar · Post #956 » by **Saberestar** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:47 pm

Stoudemire shopped hard
"This past summer, the Knicks offered Stoudemire to nearly every team in the league — “available for free,” as one rival executive put it. But they found no takers because of his diminished production, his health and his contract, which has three years and $65 million remaining (counting this season) and which is uninsured against a career-ending knee injury.

In February, the Knicks wanted to send Stoudemire to Toronto in a deal for Andrea Bargnani, a person briefed on the discussion said. But the proposal was vetoed by James L. Dolan, the Garden chairman, before it ever reached the Raptors (who would not have made the deal anyway, team officials there said).

Before that, the Knicks tried to package Stoudemire and Chandler in a bid to land Dwight Howard."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/sport ... hare&_r=1&

RunDogGun · Post #957 » by **RunDogGun** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:31 pm

DRK, from that video, Galli would hate the PHX crowd. He would spend all game trying to get them involved, only to find most of them sitting, and on sitting on their hands. We have to have one of the worst home crowds. I don't think I've seen or been to a game in PHX where the crowd was roudy, since the Madhouse. Oh, those were the good old days, where the crowd actually got into the game. Now, it is only playoff games, where the crowd gets into it.

GrantHill · Post #958 » by **GrantHill** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:11 pm

Does anyone know when Amar'e will return? Heard some news that it might happen around christmas day. Would love to see him in Phoenix the day after their game against the Lakers.

WallabyPie · Post #959 » by **WallabyPie** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:38 pm

Good read about Eric Gordon's injury:

New Orleans more than ready to see Eric Gordon on the court

[...] Last season, Gordon was injured in the Hornets’ first game Dec. 26 at Phoenix, though he made the game-winning shot in the final seconds. He’d bumped his knee in the fourth quarter and there was soreness before the second game of the season, two nights later at home against the Boston Celtics, though at the time Gordon said he arrived from Los Angeles after the trade with a sore knee.

This game against the Phildelphia 76ers on Jan. 4, 2012 was the last game Gordon played until April of last season. He had knee surgery in February. Rusty Costanza, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Gordon sat out four games, returning Jan. 4 against the Philadelphia 76ers, leading the team with 22 points.

He wouldn’t play again until April.

“This has been a mystery from the beginning,” the source said. “When he injured it (at Phoenix), he came back and he was checked out. (Hornets) doctors looked at him, and they got an opinion and (one of the doctors said), it wasn’t just a small tear in the meniscus, ‘I think he needs microfracture surgery.’ Just the word microfracture freaked Eric out.”

Gordon sought additional opinions in New York and Indianapolis.

“None of them said he needed microfracture surgery,” the source said. “At that point, he didn’t trust (the Hornets) medical team. So he started doing his own thing and what he felt was right. The whole time, every doctor he went to said, ‘He just needs rest.’ The best of the best doctors were saying he just needed rest. It was always week to week. I can’t believe it’s been this long.”

Ultimately, Gordon underwent an arthroscopic procedure Feb. 14 that, he said, cleaned out loose cartilage particles, enabling him to return to play seven games in the final two weeks of the season.

Before the surgery, however, the Hornets attempted to sign Gordon to a contract extension, offering him a five-year contract at an average, a source said, of $13 million despite the fact that Gordon had played in only two games.

The deadline to sign was 11 p.m. central time Jan. 25.

“He wanted $13.5,” said the source.

According to someone with knowledge of the negotiations, the Hornets offered a $500,000 bonus each year of the five-year deal if Gordon played 62 of the 82 regular-season games.

Gordon declined, meaning he would become a restricted free agent and solicit offers on the open market.

The Suns stepped up, though the Hornets had made it clear before the process began they would match any offer Gordon received.

Gordon’s four-year, $58 million contract pays him an average of $14.5 million per season.

“Part of his reasoning for turning it down,” the source said, “was he thought (the team) was jerking him around on the medical opinions so they could negotiate him down. The timing couldn’t have been worse. It created risks for everyone.”

Gordon’s offseason brought him to the U.S. Olympic Team trials in Las Vegas, though he did not make the team. He practiced twice before the cut.

When he reported to the Hornets’ media day Oct. 1, he and the team informed reporters he would not participate in camp because of knee soreness.

Four weeks later, just before the regular-season opener and following his first contact work of camp, the team said Gordon would miss four to six weeks while he continued to rest and rehab the knee.

Gordon sought another opinion in Chicago from a still unidentified doctor, who said there was no structural damage in the knee; that rest and rehab was required.

On Nov. 7, the team announced Gordon would continue his rehabilitation in Los Angeles where, according to a press release, “the club, along with the Hornets medical staff and Eric have arranged for a more personalized and intensive rehab regimen that will take place. . . . and allow him to work with specialists and provide a more focused attention on rehabbing his injured right knee. The prognosis is still in the 4-6 week range for his return to the court.”

Gordon is now at the end of week seven.

Nonetheless, Hornets Coach Monty Williams and Gordon’s teammates look forward to Gordon’s return, though it has been painfully evident that the Hornets miss Gordon’s scoring potential though no one seems willing to judge the circumstances surrounding his continued absence.

Gordon has recently focused on strengthening the quad muscle in his right knee, which, over time, had diminished. [...]