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Random NBA Observations 2013 - 2014
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The War Report
NewNewYork
I hate that goddamn clown Stacey King.
josh smith cant be serious brehs. he has hoisted and bricked 3, maybe 4 long jumpers already in the 1st Q
drummond shook his head at the last one
so it begins
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Your TSC World Champion
I actually think a healthy warriors squad top four out west
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NewNewYork
The Wizards were fukking stupid for not to taking Noel. Noel/Wall/Beal would of made nice exciting trio. 
I don't hate him, but he's annoying af
They said they're cool with him doing that shyt going into the year.josh smith cant be serious brehs. he has hoisted and bricked 3, maybe 4 long jumpers already in the 1st Q
drummond shook his head at the last one
I don't even need to see much more to come to the conclusion that Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings shot selection is going to have a lot of Pistons fans furious beyond belief
The Wizards were fukking stupid for not to taking Noel. Noel/Wall/Beal would of made nice exciting trio.
when slawto porter watched his teammates get they ass whooped literally in china i knew he'd never amount to shyt
Looks like the east is gonna be hype....
Miami Heat will see green when it plays the Brooklyn Nets
JOSEPH GOODMAN
Frank Franklin II / AP
Brooklyn Nets' Paul Pierce, right, drives past Boston Celtics' Brandon Bass during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in New York.
It will be a little weird for Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh to see old adversaries Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett in Brooklyn black on Thursday rather than Celtics green. What will not be out place when Miami meets the new-look Nets for the first time is the same feeling of general contempt for Pierce, Garnett and Jason Terry.
The jerseys might be different this season, but Pierce, in the eyes of Udonis Haslem, is still a “studio gangster”; Garnett is still the same guy who can’t stop running his mouth on the court; and Terry is still the three-point specialist who twisted the dagger of defeat in the 2011 NBA Finals.
Wade said Wednesday that although Pierce, Garnett and Terry will be wearing “different-colored” jerseys, “you might see green when you see those guys.” He added that the Heat’s bad blood with the Celtics will “transfer well” to the Nets. With that as the backdrop, Miami plays the Nets three times in the next 16 days, although two of those dates are preseason games.
“Right now we’re still in preseason, we’re still in the mode of learning each other again and playing certain minutes,” said Wade, whose beautiful dunk in the second quarter against Washington on Tuesday was a sure sign that his return to form is coming along well. “It’s not Nov. 1. That will be a little different.”
In addition to the former Celtics’ trio, the Nets also added Andrei Kirilenko to go along with an already solid Nets core of Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson. Brooklyn owner Mikhail Prokhorov shattered the NBA’s salary cap in an attempt to put together a team that could challenge the Heat’s dynasty and bring Brooklyn its first major sports title since 1955.
Based on recent history, Indiana and Chicago are the Heat’s main Eastern Conference rivals heading into the season, and James is well aware of that fact. On Wednesday, he noted that “there’s a couple teams in the Eastern Conference that hate us, and we know who they are.”
The Nets could easily join that short list considering the long-simmering feud between Brooklyn’s former Celtics and the Heat. The most recent chapter of that saga is the divorce between Ray Allen and the Celtics. Had things worked out differently, Allen might be on the Nets’ roster now instead of Terry.
“Right now, the East is very top-heavy,” Bosh said. “With that said, there’s a lot of teams that feel they can really make a move, get into the playoff race. For the most part, it’s the New York teams, Indiana, Chicago and us, and we’re going to be duking it out all season.”
Oden healing
Greg Oden was sidelined for the second day in a row due to swelling in his left knee. Oden, who is attempting a comeback despite chronic knee problems, sat out the Heat’s shootaround on Tuesday at Georgetown due to slight swelling. Oden participated in five-on-five drills on Monday, and he rested Tuesday as a precaution.
On Tuesday night, Oden iced his left knee after the Heat’s exhibition against the Wizards despite not playing in the game.
Oden said Wednesday that he was “hoping” his knee wouldn’t swell, “but it did and what can I do about it? The next thing to do is to get it back down and get out there and figure out what I can do to get out there and not have it swell again.”
On the hunt
ESPN The Magazine will publish a 2013-14 NBA preview later this week dedicated to James, who the magazine writes on its cover is “the only player worthy of an entire NBA preview issue.” Among the more interesting things James offered up to ESPN in an interview with Chris Broussard was a quote about “killer instinct.” Before James won two championships in a row, one of the popular knocks against him was that he lacked it.
“There are different ways to hunt,” James said. “I watch the Discovery Channel all the time, and you look at all these animals in the wild. And they all hunt a different way to feed their families. They all kill a different way. Lions do it strategically — two females will lead, and then everybody else will come in. Hyenas will just go for it. There are different ways to kill, and I don’t think people understand that.”
• While in Washington, Shane Battier noted on the government shutdown: “There needs to be a conciliation; there has to be compromise — the way that our forefathers drew it up in the Constitution. It might be a good time just to read the Constitution and just remember what America was founded on. It might be a good refresher course for all of us.”
Miami Heat will see green when it plays the Brooklyn Nets
JOSEPH GOODMAN
Frank Franklin II / AP
Brooklyn Nets' Paul Pierce, right, drives past Boston Celtics' Brandon Bass during the first half of a preseason NBA basketball game Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in New York.
It will be a little weird for Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh to see old adversaries Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett in Brooklyn black on Thursday rather than Celtics green. What will not be out place when Miami meets the new-look Nets for the first time is the same feeling of general contempt for Pierce, Garnett and Jason Terry.
The jerseys might be different this season, but Pierce, in the eyes of Udonis Haslem, is still a “studio gangster”; Garnett is still the same guy who can’t stop running his mouth on the court; and Terry is still the three-point specialist who twisted the dagger of defeat in the 2011 NBA Finals.
Wade said Wednesday that although Pierce, Garnett and Terry will be wearing “different-colored” jerseys, “you might see green when you see those guys.” He added that the Heat’s bad blood with the Celtics will “transfer well” to the Nets. With that as the backdrop, Miami plays the Nets three times in the next 16 days, although two of those dates are preseason games.
“Right now we’re still in preseason, we’re still in the mode of learning each other again and playing certain minutes,” said Wade, whose beautiful dunk in the second quarter against Washington on Tuesday was a sure sign that his return to form is coming along well. “It’s not Nov. 1. That will be a little different.”
In addition to the former Celtics’ trio, the Nets also added Andrei Kirilenko to go along with an already solid Nets core of Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson. Brooklyn owner Mikhail Prokhorov shattered the NBA’s salary cap in an attempt to put together a team that could challenge the Heat’s dynasty and bring Brooklyn its first major sports title since 1955.
Based on recent history, Indiana and Chicago are the Heat’s main Eastern Conference rivals heading into the season, and James is well aware of that fact. On Wednesday, he noted that “there’s a couple teams in the Eastern Conference that hate us, and we know who they are.”
The Nets could easily join that short list considering the long-simmering feud between Brooklyn’s former Celtics and the Heat. The most recent chapter of that saga is the divorce between Ray Allen and the Celtics. Had things worked out differently, Allen might be on the Nets’ roster now instead of Terry.
“Right now, the East is very top-heavy,” Bosh said. “With that said, there’s a lot of teams that feel they can really make a move, get into the playoff race. For the most part, it’s the New York teams, Indiana, Chicago and us, and we’re going to be duking it out all season.”
Oden healing
Greg Oden was sidelined for the second day in a row due to swelling in his left knee. Oden, who is attempting a comeback despite chronic knee problems, sat out the Heat’s shootaround on Tuesday at Georgetown due to slight swelling. Oden participated in five-on-five drills on Monday, and he rested Tuesday as a precaution.
On Tuesday night, Oden iced his left knee after the Heat’s exhibition against the Wizards despite not playing in the game.
Oden said Wednesday that he was “hoping” his knee wouldn’t swell, “but it did and what can I do about it? The next thing to do is to get it back down and get out there and figure out what I can do to get out there and not have it swell again.”
On the hunt
ESPN The Magazine will publish a 2013-14 NBA preview later this week dedicated to James, who the magazine writes on its cover is “the only player worthy of an entire NBA preview issue.” Among the more interesting things James offered up to ESPN in an interview with Chris Broussard was a quote about “killer instinct.” Before James won two championships in a row, one of the popular knocks against him was that he lacked it.
“There are different ways to hunt,” James said. “I watch the Discovery Channel all the time, and you look at all these animals in the wild. And they all hunt a different way to feed their families. They all kill a different way. Lions do it strategically — two females will lead, and then everybody else will come in. Hyenas will just go for it. There are different ways to kill, and I don’t think people understand that.”
• While in Washington, Shane Battier noted on the government shutdown: “There needs to be a conciliation; there has to be compromise — the way that our forefathers drew it up in the Constitution. It might be a good time just to read the Constitution and just remember what America was founded on. It might be a good refresher course for all of us.”
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Stephon Marbury's Bromance W/ Puffy's Ex-Chef Rob Exposed!
“He’s swinging from both sides of the fence.” ~Brendan Haywood, Charlotte Bobcats
Tasha Marbury: Basketball Beard!
HSK Exclusive - We’ve learned the identity of the REAL Chef Stephon and Tasha Marbury don’t want you to know about, which could mean the four-years gone overseas “Basketball Husband” payed off chef Thurayyah Mitchell to help him cover-up his tracks. Know why? Sources say when the REAL chef — who Stephon Marbury was bromancing — left Puffy’s umbrella, his NBA associates started to talk. That’s said to have been the reason why a 32-year-old Marbury decided to flee to China. Don’t believe me.. Just ask Brendan Hayward.
“There’s no way any other professional athletes would wanna get dressed around this guy, because you gotta think something is a little, he’s swinging from both sides of the fence.” ~Brendan Haywood
A source exclusively tells HSK, during his five-years playing for the New York Knicks (2004-2009), Stephon Marbury began courting Robert ‘Chef Rob’ Gayle. That’s after the pair first connected at Puffy’s then popular Big Apple hot spot ‘Justin’s Restaurant’ — which closed in 2007.
Here’s the drop:
“Stephon would show up at Justin’s all the time to surprise Chef Rob. He would secretly enter and leave the building through the back door.
He gave Chef Rob all kinds of expensive gifts … $20,000 pieces of jewelery, a Rolex watch with a diamond bezel. Now what dude goes around doing shyt like that for another random dude … unless they’re smashing? The pair were inseparable, and they’d leave the spot without being seen leaving together!”
Though we can’t confirm exactly how long the Marbury-Gayle bromance lasted — or if it has even ended — we can tell you this… Chef Thurayyah Mitchell Came Up Over The Cover-Up … and so did Chef Rob!!!
“He’s swinging from both sides of the fence.” ~Brendan Haywood, Charlotte Bobcats
Tasha Marbury: Basketball Beard!
HSK Exclusive - We’ve learned the identity of the REAL Chef Stephon and Tasha Marbury don’t want you to know about, which could mean the four-years gone overseas “Basketball Husband” payed off chef Thurayyah Mitchell to help him cover-up his tracks. Know why? Sources say when the REAL chef — who Stephon Marbury was bromancing — left Puffy’s umbrella, his NBA associates started to talk. That’s said to have been the reason why a 32-year-old Marbury decided to flee to China. Don’t believe me.. Just ask Brendan Hayward.
“There’s no way any other professional athletes would wanna get dressed around this guy, because you gotta think something is a little, he’s swinging from both sides of the fence.” ~Brendan Haywood
A source exclusively tells HSK, during his five-years playing for the New York Knicks (2004-2009), Stephon Marbury began courting Robert ‘Chef Rob’ Gayle. That’s after the pair first connected at Puffy’s then popular Big Apple hot spot ‘Justin’s Restaurant’ — which closed in 2007.
Here’s the drop:
“Stephon would show up at Justin’s all the time to surprise Chef Rob. He would secretly enter and leave the building through the back door.
He gave Chef Rob all kinds of expensive gifts … $20,000 pieces of jewelery, a Rolex watch with a diamond bezel. Now what dude goes around doing shyt like that for another random dude … unless they’re smashing? The pair were inseparable, and they’d leave the spot without being seen leaving together!”
Though we can’t confirm exactly how long the Marbury-Gayle bromance lasted — or if it has even ended — we can tell you this… Chef Thurayyah Mitchell Came Up Over The Cover-Up … and so did Chef Rob!!!
VegetasHairline
Veteran
gonna give
a challenge for MVP this season.
I Got Werk
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rose looking
here got d up and beat to the spot by siva and threw some bull shyt up, super bail out callFukkaPaidEmail
Retired Hoodrat whisperer
This will be Greg Monroes last season as a piston.I'm 75% sure of it.
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