G.A.C.O.L.B.

There is no link being muslim and the star stangled banner unless he hates america. If this is the case, get the **** out of the NBA and stop making american money

Major brain fart: dude in the 90's had the same deal, what was his name? He had some lame, forgettable, classic American name but changed it when he converted to Islam. I can't remember either of them. IIRC he played for the Nuggets. And I don't think he stayed in the locker room for the national anthem, I think he just refused to stand up for it (which is even more disrespectful in my opinion).

Wtf Melo. You taking fashion advice from Westbrook now?

Lmao.

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#Cavs G Dion Waiters informs @Clevelanddotcom that he's Muslim and plans to stay in locker room for national anthems http://t.co/H2t8dbztYN

There's nothing better than preseason favorites and circlejerks becoming cluster****s (the Seahawks are another example)

Lance BABY! What an ending to the game in double OT.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile. For those who missed it

Anyway, me thinks Demarcus is all grown up now

http://youtu.be/ulxxrs0a0uo

Great fallback plan if KD changes his mind about coming home

What's up with Nene's lack of scoring. Three consecutive games in the single digits. I don't think he had a run of low scoring that long all of last season.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hilarne01/gamelog/2014/

His first season here though he had a couple of instances with three consecutive single digit games

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hilarne01/gamelog/2013/

Of course he battled injuries throughout that season so that probably doesn't bode well for us now. I mean he's basically a 7 footer that weighs closer to 300lbs than 200 and he's 32 years old. So...yeah

This is just mental now. You know Toronto owned us last year. You know they're arguably our top competition. It just feels like it's time to step up and take control. You feel it so much you start playing outside yourself and you look like compete **** as a result. Basically the definition of choking.

The great thing about sports is that at the end of the day, there is a winner and a loser. We ultimately get an answer. The results speak for themselves. Pop is a champion. He is probably the greatest coach not named Phil or Red to ever live (and it can probably be legitimately argued he's greater than them). So yeah, Pop wins, /debate.

We'll never know what would have happened because more than likely the Spurs wouldn't have drafted them in the first place.

Exactly. Because Gil set the clown culture and made it possible for us to draft them.

You know I was as big of a Gil supporter and fan as anyone back when, but as time has passed, as I get further away emotionally from those teams, as I experience a legit contender with legit professionals on it, I've soured on Gil more and more.

I disagree with that.

You think Andray and Nick were these serious kids and once they met Gil they just became goofballs?

Nah. Not buying that.

So what happens to Baltche and Swaggy P if they had been drafted by, say, the Spurs?

That's the NBA Marketing team's problem, NOT Pop. Pop is the coach. His job is to have his team in the best possible form to win another championship. If that means resting guys, even if it's this early, then he has that right.

This. I was thinking how to phrase my reply (NBA, ESPN, TNT, etc = "marketing team") but you got there first. Thank you sir.

It's not his fault for the circus that Ernie put around him.

Oh I disagree with that. Ernie is definitely at fault for not taking charge of the situation but Gil is the one who set the tone for that team.

I love the NBA

I guess Barkley is going to start fasting on Sunday and has vowed not to eat until the Lakers win a game. That could get hilarious

Temple is the perfect example of a glue guy that contending and championship teams are filled with

I heard he got banned a little while back. I don't remember what he did, something in the MLB thread or elsewhere.

Ahhh ya, I actually vaguely remember that in the MLB thread. Damn. Hope it's not a permaban. I...actually...miss him. (I'm going to go puke now.)

As for twa, just looked him up.

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That's in 11 years. But you're right. I can't recall ever seeing one of his posts in the Stadium either.

Where is BS? He on some type of ban?

Sorry to be quoting myself. Just didn't see an answer. Does anybody know? I miss talking **** to him. And there's so much **** to talk right now.

Speaking of which did you see Trevor Booker's dunk? (frame rate sucks on this youtube but whatever)

Always appreciated Booker. Wish we could've kept him but not mad about it.

And is it just me or does he not look right in a Jazz uniform? Don't know, just seems off.

Washington Wizards guard John Wall recorded his first career triple-double with 19 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds in a win over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday. The Elias Sports Bureau tells us that at 20 years and 65 days, Wall is the third-youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double.

Only LeBron James (who had two at a younger age) and Lamar Odom had triple-doubles at a younger age than Wall. Here are some other notes, courtesy of Elias:

• The triple-double comes in Wall's sixth career NBA game; only four players needed fewer games to record their first career triple-double (Oscar Robertson, Hambone Williams, Magic Johnson and Connie Hawkins).

• Wall's 13 assists give him 61 in his first six NBA games, the most for a player in league history in his first six contests (Robertson had 60 in his first six NBA games).

http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=5790863&i=TOP&y=1a29q

Looks like I was wrong about Magic being one of the two that got a triple double at a younger age. Looks like I got it mixed up with number of games to get it.

Also his 9 steals in his third game, the home opener, tied a franchise record.

Damn just heard on 980 that LeBron and Irving got into in the locker room after the game the other night, "causing Irving to leave early and not talking to the media". I love it

This team has a better chance for true success with Wall than it ever did with Gilbert.

Absolutely. That was a clown team. Gil, Swaggy P, Baltche, Pierre. And you can't WIN, REALLY win, with clowns. Then Jamison was supposed to be the veteran presence, team leader, but he never ****ing talked, never showed any emotion. Not sure what the hell he was leading. Like I've said before, looking back on it now, that squad was utter bull****, the epitome of false hope. We've just been irrelevant for so long, so deprived of a legit team, that we lied to ourselves, saw what we wanted see.

Wall got his first triple double in November, but I think the home opener was one steal short of being a triple double with points, assists, and steals.

You're absolutely right. 9 steals.

Man...Kyrie really had no assists last night? Oy vey.

I believe the ENTIRE team had six.

And I was listening to some syndicated generic sports show a couple of nights ago on 980. Were talking about Waiters. He plays 27 minutes and passed the ball a total five times. Not five assists, five PASSES.

Yep...but he's clearly better than Wall just because--- Bubble Screen

Where is BS? He on some type of ban?

it was the stupidest fake debate ever. I was disgusted they tried hard to push this. Wall was clearly the choice. I remember the first time the Wizards played the Sixers that season (I was there, and we came back from a 20 point deficit). Wall lead the comeback and ****ted on them while Turner could barely dribble.

Dukes and Lavar know nothing about any other sport than their barely passing interest in the NFL.

Wasn't the first game against the Sixers the home opener? I was at that too. Actually won tickets from 106.7 lol. So yeah I was like 5 rows behind the Wizards bench. Cartier Martin hit a 3 at the buzzer to send the game into overtime and IIRC Wall had a triple double, the third fastest to ever record one. I know Magic was one of them, can't remember the other. And yeah, Evan Turner did absolutely nothing. Proved right then and there how dumb the debate was.

And yeah Chad and Lavar were the worst. All you gotta do is listen to Cooley talk football and you realize why Lavar was a bust. Night and day. Chad Flukes is still horrible. And he screwed me out of an internship at the station. Petty, insecure ****.

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The 2010 draft class is coming into its own. Cousins should have been an AS last year. Bledsoe might have been if he didn't get hurt. Wall and Paul George already established as studs. It's turning out to be a damn fine class. Last year I had some pretty intense arguments on RealGM with a certain few posters that claimed the 2011 was better. Hell no.

What a bust he's been. I remember leading up to the draft, 106.7 trying their hardest to push the idea that there was a debate on who we'd take #1, Wall or Tuner. Had a commercial spot where it was callers arguing for one or the other.

"Wall needs to be the pick. He's going to be a stud."

"Evan Turner all day. He's mature and knows the right way to play. We need a sure thing like him."

**** like that. I always assumed that the Turner call was the ONE guy who called in pushing Turner. God I hate 106.7 (this, listening to it leading to to the draft, was right after the antenna got broken off the car and it was the only station I could get. Went a full year like that. Hell, pure hell. No choice but to listen to Lavar and Chad Flukes. No lie, there was many a times I was stuck on 66 and I would turn the rafio off, roll down my windows and listen to bumper-to-bumper traffic. THAT beat the hell out of Lavar and Flukes)

Btw, last night, who watched the game on CSN and who watched the game on ESPN? Personally I went ESPN. Buck and Phil are gods to me (especially when you compare them to Larry Michaels and Bob Carpenter, though I thought Carpenter got better this past season) but I always love hearing the national media on our Wizards. Gives you a good sense of how we are viewed.

Like someone once told me never watch/read news from your country. (Think it was my bunky at the prison in California. Dutch they called him, because he was...Dutch. Got caught at LAX trying to fly back home with, IIRC, a bunch of coke. He was awesome And me and him were literally the only two white guys on the entire floor;like 100 to 200 people. It's why tbe guards bunked us together. He was big too, and I don't mean fat. Writing to him later on, told me that about a week after I left they had a riot. Always been kind of bitter I missed that. And that concludes GACOLB aka Colin's Story Time of the Week.) But yeah, said watch it from outside. It's the only way you'll get the true story (why BBC World News on PBS is the only news I watch). Same deal.

Yeah, the Pacers have our number. Hibbert wakes up and dominates when he plays us.

Next monkey we need to get off our back is Charlotte. We should not be losing to them like we have.

I thought Hibbert didn't make a single FG last night? And didn't he have multiple games in our series against us last postseason where he didn't score a single point? I know he had the one game where they focused on getting him the ball and he blew up, but I thought he sucked the rest of the time?

Anyway, as someone mentioned last page, Toronto is the one we really need to show up against. They absolutely owned us last year.