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Re: Around the NBA 4.0 

Post#1741 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 2:20 am

Instead of "unreliable" the OKC local newspaper better make a headline called "unguardable". Good way to run a player out of town when his contract expires.
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Re: Around the NBA 4.0 

Post#1742 » by JDR720 » Fri May 2, 2014 2:22 am

when/if the Lakers fire Mitch Kupchak we should hire him as GM and promote Cho to President of B-Ball Ops. and fire Higgins, he went to UNC im sure he'd like to work with/for fellow UNC player MJ
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Post#1743 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 2:24 am

JDR720 wrote:when/if the Lakers fire Mitch Kupchak we should hire him as GM and promote Cho to President of B-Ball Ops. and fire Higgins, he went to UNC im sure he'd like to work with/for fellow UNC player MJ


Jordan will never fire Higgins. The way the franchise has trended since Cho was hired im fine with Higgins taking a back seat to more of an analytics approach. Cho has missed on a couple picks, but hes overall done a nice job.
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Re: Around the NBA 4.0 

Post#1744 » by JDR720 » Fri May 2, 2014 2:26 am

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JDR720 wrote:when/if the Lakers fire Mitch Kupchak we should hire him as GM and promote Cho to President of B-Ball Ops. and fire Higgins, he went to UNC im sure he'd like to work with/for fellow UNC player MJ


Jordan will never fire Higgins. The way the franchise has trended since Cho was hired im fine with Higgins taking a back seat to more of an analytics approach. Cho has missed on a couple picks, but hes overall done a nice job.

let Higgins do something else then....im sure there is a director of something something he can do
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Post#1745 » by mattcampbell » Fri May 2, 2014 2:38 am

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Liver_Pooty wrote:
JDR720 wrote:when/if the Lakers fire Mitch Kupchak we should hire him as GM and promote Cho to President of B-Ball Ops. and fire Higgins, he went to UNC im sure he'd like to work with/for fellow UNC player MJ


Jordan will never fire Higgins. The way the franchise has trended since Cho was hired im fine with Higgins taking a back seat to more of an analytics approach. Cho has missed on a couple picks, but hes overall done a nice job.

let Higgins do something else then....im sure there is a director of something something he can do
director of janitorial staff?
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Post#1746 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 2:46 am

mattcampbell wrote:
JDR720 wrote:
Liver_Pooty wrote:
Jordan will never fire Higgins. The way the franchise has trended since Cho was hired im fine with Higgins taking a back seat to more of an analytics approach. Cho has missed on a couple picks, but hes overall done a nice job.

let Higgins do something else then....im sure there is a director of something something he can do
director of janitorial staff?


Doesn't Jordans brother do something? He has some kind of fancy ass name that would look incredible on a resume. I just can't pinpoint it.

Edit: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--micha ... 42278.html

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Re: Around the NBA 4.0 

Post#1747 » by JDR720 » Fri May 2, 2014 2:49 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:
mattcampbell wrote:
JDR720 wrote:let Higgins do something else then....im sure there is a director of something something he can do
director of janitorial staff?


Doesn't Jordans brother do something? He has some kind of fancy ass name that would look incredible on a resume. I just can't pinpoint it.

Edit: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--micha ... 42278.html

Basically you wake up take a sh*t and get paid.

Larry Jordan Team director of player personnel....Rod Higgins Team Director of Maintenance where he makes sure the facilities are in tip top shape
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Post#1748 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 2:52 am

JDR720 wrote:
Liver_Pooty wrote:
mattcampbell wrote:director of janitorial staff?


Doesn't Jordans brother do something? He has some kind of fancy ass name that would look incredible on a resume. I just can't pinpoint it.

Edit: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--micha ... 42278.html

Basically you wake up take a sh*t and get paid.

Larry Jordan Team director of player personnel....Rod Higgins Team Director of Maintenance where he makes sure the facilities are in tip top shape


Higgins did make a couple of good trades. The Jackson trade was excellent. The Chandler trade.. Not so much.
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Post#1749 » by HornetJail » Fri May 2, 2014 3:49 am

Liver_Pooty wrote:
JDR720 wrote:
Liver_Pooty wrote:
Doesn't Jordans brother do something? He has some kind of fancy ass name that would look incredible on a resume. I just can't pinpoint it.

Edit: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--micha ... 42278.html

Basically you wake up take a sh*t and get paid.

Larry Jordan Team director of player personnel....Rod Higgins Team Director of Maintenance where he makes sure the facilities are in tip top shape


Higgins did make a couple of good trades. The Jackson trade was excellent. The Chandler trade.. Not so much.
The Jackson trade was the only good one he ever made. I thought Okafor/Chandler would be great at the time, and it would've been had Chandler been healthy, but we traded him for negative value and he went on to be the 2nd most important player on the championship Mavericks the very next season then won DPOY the next.
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Post#1750 » by HornetJail » Fri May 2, 2014 4:18 am

Been seeing on twitter that Donald Sterling has prostate cancer.

Dude's seen better weeks.
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Post#1751 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 4:19 am

Biz Gilwalker wrote:Been seeing on twitter that Donald Sterling has prostate cancer.

Dude's seen better weeks.


Im kind of conflicted about his ordeal. Did what he say was wrong and stupid? Uh hell yeah, but if all of my ex girlfriends randomly taped me saying stuff I would probably be in jail. That was completely wrong and that woman is a bitch.
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Post#1752 » by Logander » Fri May 2, 2014 4:43 am

And I love how no one is talking about what Larry Johnson said about taking all the black people and forming their own league. The same people who always cry racism only do so when it's a white person being racist unfortunately. It would be nice for that double standard to end.
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Post#1753 » by Chuck Everett » Fri May 2, 2014 4:55 am

Sure tell white people in power to stop discriminating against minorities. Larry Johnson is an idiot and sounds like one and has no power. Duh.
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Post#1754 » by Logander » Fri May 2, 2014 5:02 am

Chuck Everett wrote:Sure tell white people in power to stop discriminating against minorities. Larry Johnson is an idiot and sounds like one and has no power. Duh.


I think you're missing the point. There shouldn't be a double standard about racism whether it's against a minority or a majority, it should be punished equally. Also Johnson is in the Front Office at the Knicks so he does have some sort of power. Not that having power is really an issue when you're talking about racism, the racism is.
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Post#1755 » by Chuck Everett » Fri May 2, 2014 5:11 am

Racism without power is just bigotry. It's meaningless. If you can withhold opportunities, than it means something.

Larry Johnson doesn't have a real position. He's just one of those old players teams keep around for team functions, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to begin the outrage to get out him, be my guest.

Don't be mad because black people will vocalize their outrage when people discriminate against them.
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Post#1756 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 5:14 am

Chuck Everett wrote:Racism without power is just bigotry. It's meaningless. If you can withhold opportunities, than it means something.


Yeah, Sterling definitely withheld an opportunity with Elgin Baylor being one of the worst GMs in history.
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Post#1757 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 5:17 am

Chuck Everett wrote:Racism without power is just bigotry. It's meaningless. If you can withhold opportunities, than it means something.

Larry Johnson doesn't have a real position. He's just one of those old players teams keep around for team functions, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to begin the outrage to get out him, be my guest.

Don't be mad because black people will vocalize their outrage when people discriminate against them.


Im not racist by any means, but African Americans make me nauseous at times over their belief that they still believe they are owed something in life. They get just as many opportunity rights if not more in the everyday workplace.

That being said Sterling was wrong and dumb in what he said and im glad hes going to sell his team.
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Post#1758 » by Logander » Fri May 2, 2014 5:19 am

Chuck Everett wrote:Racism without power is just bigotry. It's meaningless. If you can withhold opportunities, than it means something.

Larry Johnson doesn't have a real position. He's just one of those old players teams keep around for team functions, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to begin the outrage to get out him, be my guest.

Don't be mad because black people will vocalize their outrage when people discriminate against them.


No I'm not mad I have better things to
Do with my time. You are totally right though, if I tried to call Johnson out I would just get called a racist because that's just how this country is now unfortunately.
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Post#1759 » by Logander » Fri May 2, 2014 5:20 am

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Chuck Everett wrote:Racism without power is just bigotry. It's meaningless. If you can withhold opportunities, than it means something.

Larry Johnson doesn't have a real position. He's just one of those old players teams keep around for team functions, nothing more, nothing less. If you want to begin the outrage to get out him, be my guest.

Don't be mad because black people will vocalize their outrage when people discriminate against them.


Im not racist by any means, but African Americans make me nauseous at times over their belief that they still believe they are owed something in life. They get just as many opportunity rights if not more in the everyday workplace.

That being said Sterling was wrong and dumb in what he said and im glad hes going to sell his team.


Don't even get me started bro. Something my parents told me long ago and being the age I am now I'm seeing it in every day situations. It's really quite disheartening.
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Post#1760 » by Liver_Pooty » Fri May 2, 2014 5:21 am

I Listen to Stephen A Smith or Jamele Hill talk about African Americans every single day on ESPN. Its getting ridiculous.
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