Around the NBA streets Vol. 4: YEPPIE!

[Bishop45]

Sucks for Lakers that Collison is staying retired. Luckily they have JR workout ready this week or something.

Mans took their free meals and texted them afterwards that he rather just stay friends; out of the Instagram model playbook

Mion, stay away! Let them sign IT

[IggieCC]

He went from mercurial to absolutely terrible from 3, and while he can still drive, getting to the line a lot less frequently. Free throw shot been off too. Idk

Don't op anymore threads and I'll believe yu

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[Bishop45]

With Gordon out, never a better time for Rockets to Mion

[IggieCC]

Just realized that Utah got 2 bullchit wins in a row. We gotta put a stop on that when we see em in Salt Lake City.

[IggieCC]

With Gordon out, never a better time for Rockets to Mion

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[Mos_Heat]

TBH, love his fit on the Lakers, Rox or Sixers

[al bondiga]

Looks like Dion is getting a chip.

[Mos_Heat]

Sucks for Lakers that Collison is staying retired. Luckily they have JR workout ready this week or something.

Do not understand the hype around this guy. Lakers fans so desperate, should be ashamed

[IggieCC]

Sucks for Lakers that Collison is staying retired. Luckily they have JR workout ready this week or something.

Spoiler:

Do not understand the hype around this guy. Lakers fans so desperate, should be ashamed

I saw Chalm Down rocking a Collison avi the other day. such a shameful person Mos

[County of Wade]

Pacers are 1-6 since Oladipo returned and have lost 5 straight after losing to the Nets tonight.

[Dr_Heat]

Lebron going to leave the lakers once they get eliminated in the playoffs. I could see them get shut out in the first round

[Mos_Heat]

^weird reaction after a blow out win

[RexBoyWonder]

^weird reaction after a blow out win

Like many Doctors, our Doc is also weird

[Bishop45]

GG Goph's, even with the L. T-minus 2 seasons before Book tries to form the Goofy boyz trio? U think Wolves FO would even be competent enough to facilitate that??

[AirP.]

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Huh... been saying this for a long time. Chicago started huge media campagnes to tarnish Butler and Thibodeau(and others) and since they went so big with them it created a national narrative for them. For instance, they said they were angry at Thibodeau for playing Butler so many minutes, after firing Thibodeau, their hand picked replacement Fred Hoiberg played Butler 37 minutes a night the next 2 years... NOT A PEEP FROM THE FRONT OFFICE OR MEDIA ABOUT THAT. They really sabotage the Bulls with Thibodeau, not taking players he and his staff wanted(yes they wanted D.Green for Thibodeau's system, the FO went with M.Teague, a project that couldn't help the team anytime soon, or ever). JVG on national TV went off on what the Chicago FO was doing to Thibodeau and all Thibodeau did was keep his mouth shut and leave. ** Thibodeau was hired by the owner, not the FO, they had to make the owner hate him to get rid of him and they did that, you can hear that on him trashing Thibodeau on the way out **.

Chicago is a bad franchise. Since Reinstorf bought the team in like 83-84, they've hired ONE head coach who had NBA head coaching experience outside of Chicago... ONE(Scott Skiles)! VDN had 0 years of coaching(head coach or assistant) at any level when he was hired. The players and the staff thought the FO bugged the offices and workout areas.

Wojnarowski painted a picture of disjointed, if not outright bizarre, life at Bulls headquarters. From management trying to get Rose to sell Thibodeau out to assistant coaches worried their offices are bugged, the Bulls’ offices are a place where, regardless of how this postseason plays out, Thibodeau is not long for.

The rift between management and coach is so apparent, Wojnarowski reported that even a visiting scout could see it while watching GM Gar Forman and Thibodeau interact. And that’s when the paranoia apparently showed itself:

And with all that Thibodeau wouldn't say anything bad about the organization, even when he left.

"Ahhhh, that’s all noise," Thibodeau told Wojnarowski. "In this league, it’s so easy to get sidetracked. There’s so much noise. Trades. Free agency. This. That. Whatever. To me, none of that is important. All that matters is what we think. Are we doing the right things every day? Are we putting the proper work in? Are we playing the right way? Practicing the right way? That’s how you play well in this league. All that other stuff is just noise, it doesn’t mean anything."

https://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/tom-thibodeau-chicago-bulls-will-not-return-team-wants-him-gone-regardless-playoff-success-050515

You could talk about the FO not renewing Ron Adam's contract(assistant) then watch him win assistant of the year 3 years in a row for Golden State.

He also told Butler he'd have Thibodeau bench him if he didn't take the ()#$) offer he was giving him, this is the famous Butler bet on himself and with Thibodeau not backing up Gar Forman's threat, another reason Chicago's FO wanted him out. This is another reason it seems all Thibodeau's exBulls are so loyal to him. In Minnesota it was different, the young players had ownership on their side which made Thibodeau's ability to coach them extremely hard.

"What I was told is — and I don’t know who it was in the front office; I don’t have a name — but that he was told, 'Well, if you don’t take this, we’re going to play Tony Snell your minutes. We’re going to play Tony Snell over you, and then good luck trying to get this kind of money when your number sare down. And that, if it’s true — and it’s what I was told, and I believe it, but it’s the same thing of any gossipy industry that you’re in — then it doesn’t make sense that Jimmy Butler can’t stand the front office and loves Thibs, because Thibs apparently went, 'No, I’m not playing Tony Snell over Jimmy Butler. Are you freaking kidding me?'"

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2717461-jimmy-butlers-trainer-travelle-gaines-rips-bulls-culture-gm-gar-forman

By the way, here's a story about Gar Forman(he does the dirty work for Chicago's FO) from a former player...
https://web.archive.org/web/20130715044258/http://chicagosidesports.com/gar-formans-questionable-call-ron-adams-is-a-class-act/

Miami fans are very lucky they have a good organization. When you look around, you see a lot of organizations that are perpetual losers except once in a while the stars align for a couple of season and makes them look ok to good then back to nothing. Phoenix is that way, Chicago without MJ has had little to no winning, the Clippers under Sterling while other franchises have had sustained success for the most part like Miami, San Antonio, Golden State, Toronto...

[DayofMourning]

Glad to see Jrue bunkering down with the Pelicans. He could be their lifer. Culture builder. That team is so interesting.

[AirP.]

Not sure why this is sad, Kobe's thinking was treat every day as the last, don't have any regrets.

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[somerandomdude]

Joel Embiid to Miami CONFIRMED

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[IggieCC]

^weird reaction after a blow out win

doc must have watched just parts of the game where they looked shaky.

LAL do look vulnerable at times. but so do many other teams including the Clippers (hello 26 3s by Minny???).

Bucks are the only team that looks statistically invincible but not many ppl believe in them (a lot of ppl are caught up in playoff narratives from last year and strongly believe in Clippers for that reason, it seems). it's kind of a strange szn

I guess it's significantly more wide open than previous GS/Cavs era so that's good

[AirP.]

It would seem they Memphis is confident that Justise Winslow will play at some point this season and that will be determined by how well he progresses from his back injury. So there's the reason he's no longer in Miami, he doesn't sound like anywhere close to being available to play.

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