What did John Daly do when the original Dream Team wasn’t playing up to his standards? He brought in a select team to challenge them and get after it.
Same principle applies here. You replace the rising stars game with a “Next 24”. They are the AS snubs and the next best players by conference...
I've just seen the game was postponed due to the Nuggets not having enough players to suit up.
I then saw Draymond make an interesting point on twitter and wanted to see how others felt about it.
From a competitive advantage standpoint, doesn't the postponement of the game favor a team in this...
Since this was brought in another thread, I thought I'd pose the question to the board. What is it that YOU consider to be defining characterstics of an MVP season?
For me in no order:
1) Team Success/Record
2) Level of Dominance as a lead player
3) Statistical output, obviously
Outlier...
So easy enough game. For just THIS season coming up, who is the better player? We can discount salary, age and previous history. For just this upcoming season, who will be the better player:
1) Devin Booker, Bradley Beal or Klay Thompson
2) Donovan Mitchell or Trae Young
3) KD or Kawhi
4) Luka...
The FA list will be pretty thin at the top, but there are lots of quality role players and possible starters to be had. Who would your teams target this upcoming offseason?
For the Warriors my list would be:
Mid Level Guys
Serge Ibaka
Joe Harris (probably going to be out of reach tho)
Less...
I haven't turned on any of the circus media for like First Take or whatever that show Skip Bayless is on, but I wanted to get a gauge around here.
Has your view of Kawhi Leonard as a premier talent in this league been altered due to this loss? I mean realistically blowing a 3-1 lead is not new...
Don't even know if the season will resume, but I'm going to go ahead and give my player rankings for next year:
1) Giannis Antetokounmpo - Best player in the NBA right now.
2) Lebron James - Will be up here until he starts to decline
3) Kawhi Leonard - load management
4) Kevin Durant - see...
You can use any reasoning you'd like but I wanted to see some opinions around here on some guys who were supremely talented/productive but could potentially miss the cut. I tried to go for guys near 30 and over (so no Giannis, Kyrie, etc.). If they're not quite there, what would you need to see...
Who would be your 12 to go to Tokyo? Here is the list of players to choose from that was recently released:
Point Guards:
Steph Curry
Kyrie Irving
Kyle Lowry
Chris Paul
Russell Westbrook
Damian Lillard
Mike Conley
Kemba Walker
Derrick White
Wings
Lebron James
Kevin Durant
Klay Thompson
Jimmy...
Here goes nothing....
Point Guard
1. Magic Johnson
2. Oscar Robertson
3. Jerry West
4. Steph Curry
5. John Stockton
6. Isiah Thomas
7. Gary Payton
8. Steve Nash
9. Jason Kidd
10. Chris Paul
11. Walt Frazier
12. Russell Westbrook
13. Bob Cousy
14. Tiny Archibald
15. Dennis Johnson
Shooting...
Fight me....
1) Michael Jordan
2) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
3) Lebron James
4) Magic Johnson
5) Wilt Chamberlain
6) Shaq O'Neal
7) Larry Bird
8) Hakeem Olajuwon
9) Tim Duncan
10) Kobe Bryant
11) Oscar Robertson
12) Bill Russell
13) Jerry West
14) Kevin Durant
15) David Robinson
16) Karl Malone
17)...
If someone completely new to the sport wanted to know about the history of the league (inception to today's game) and you could only explain to them by listing 15 players for them to research, who would they be? Again this isn't necessarily a list of all-time greats or 15 best players of all...
Can we have a serious discussion about Draymond Green around here for a minute?
I know there are tons of people who hate his demeanor. No argument there. I want to toss out personal preference of the guy in trying to evaluate his actual impact and value to a team.
In my opinion, there are not...
I just did a draft, head to head, for foreign born players. That was the only stipulation. I'd like to get your thoughts on who would win this matchup between these two teams:
Team A:
PG - Tony Parker, Belgium
SG - Drazen Petrovic, Crostia
SF - Dominique Wilkins, France
PF - Tim Duncan, St...
Holy shit this is a stacked card. Please don't let this card fall apart. Here are the fights so far:
Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith
Tyron Woodley vs. Kamaru Usman
Robbie Lawler vs. Ben Askren
Holly Holm vs. Aspen Ladd
Zabit Magomedshapirov vs. Jeremy Stephens
Cody Garbrant vs. Pedro Munhoz
Ovince...
Sources: UFC, ONE close to major MMA trade
This is crazy if this happens. I'd absolutely love this. Ben Askren needs to be in the UFC right now. DJ's had a great career, but the UFC doesn't seem interested in the flyweight division anymore and it makes sense to let him walk.
Couple fights...
They finally have a headliner:
Shaping up to be a great card with Poirier/Diaz as the Co-main.
Other fights will be:
Luke Rockhold vs. Chris Weidman
Jacare Souza vs David Branch
Derek Brunson vs. Israel Adesanya
Gonna be a good one.
He's free to resume his career as of October 28th, 2018. Speculation all along that the UFC has left their headliner open for UFC 230 for a reason, the Madison Square Garden card November 3rd.
I'm thinking there's a 100% chance now that he's on this card. Only question is who he'll face. I'm...
He just moved into 4th place on the all-time rushing list yesterday.
Who do you rank comparable to him? Just curious to see where he stands in your eyes as an all time RB.
Saw this on twitter and thought it would be cool to get some opinions on the board since it's relatively slow.
My few choices:
Kevin Durant - Would be almost 7'3". Think about having to deal with that.
Klay Thompson - 6'10", second best shooter ever and could guard 5 positions, possibly being...
Not a lot of big names, but seems like an actually decent card. Till and Woodley is gonna be a great one. I really have no idea who's gonna win. If I had to guess, I'd go Woodley by decision. I think he's gonna try to wrestle Till, get him up against the cage and do work. Woodley's fought some...
Here's what an FS1 reporter is saying about an alleged incident between Draymond and Tristan. After reading it, I know many of you hate Draymond, but seriously do any of you believe this could even remotely be true? LOL, no way in hell Draymond is doing any of this...
Who's better between the following guys:
Jason Kidd
Steve Nash
Charles Barkley
Karl Malone
Moses Malone
Tim Duncan
Clyde Drexler
Dwyane Wade
Discuss....