2016 Official NBA Off-Season Thread: Former Greatness

[...So]

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[rolaholic]

Who remembers all the dudes arguing in favor of the Harden trade?

 

[casper90403]

West hasn't looked this bad in years

 

[the collector]

Trade Russ to DC. Let him play the 2. Russ will be more respected in DC then KD. It's only right.

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Who remembers all the dudes arguing in favor of the Harden trade?

this okc  squad the past year > the harden okc team. 

 

[dmbrhs]

Ben Simmons on right now, btw.

 

[Lovetohate3000]

West hasn't looked this bad in years

east dont look much better. nba aside from golden state and the cavs is washed. 

 

[...So]

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[ltizzil]

Opinions on where Russ will end up?

nobody knows

 

[oldhotdogwater]

One subpar Finals and people forgetting how crazy dominant this cat was.

All his finals been crap. He got lucky last year. Kyrie wouldn't cooked him last year too

 

[oldhotdogwater]

Early Predictions --

West:

Warriors
Spurs
Clippers
Grizzlies
Blazers
Jazz
Thunder
Rockets

East:

Cavs
Raptors
Heat
Celtics
Knicks
Hawks
Pacers
Pistons

Heat not making to the playoffs

 

[ballinsam23]

WEST:

GS
Spurs
Clippers
Grizzlies
Blazers
Rockets
Mavs
Jazz


EAST:

Cavs
Knicks
Celtics
Pacers
Raptors
Pistons
Hawks
Bucks

 

[oldhotdogwater]

WEST:

GS
Spurs
Clippers
Grizzlies
Blazers
Rockets
Mavs
Jazz


EAST:

Cavs
Knicks
Celtics
Pacers
Raptors
Pistons
Hawks
Bucks

Jazz not making the playoffs....

 

[ltizzil]

Apparantly, if you're trash, you can still get to the finals...

 

[pmatic]

Draymond Green opens up on Durant: How he recruited KD and more

http://www.si.com/nba/2016/07/04/draymond-green-kevin-durant-warriors-nba-free-agency-thunder

 

[casper90403]

Apparantly, if you're trash, you can still get to the finals...

thats life

 

[Arthur Shelby]

On NBA TV CELTICS vs 76ERS

Ben Simmons & Jaylen Brown + NT favorite James Young

 

[g0lden]

Early Predictions --

West:

Warriors
Spurs
Clippers
Grizzlies
Blazers
Jazz
Thunder
Rockets

East:

Cavs
Raptors
Heat
Celtics
Knicks
Hawks
Pacers
Pistons

I'd rank the Clippers as the 2nd best team in the west.

Knicks too high.  They will be the 8-10th best East team, imo...

 

[Tony $now]

All this does is prove how much better Lebron is than everyone else in the league...so good that KD and GS knows their only chance of beating him is building a super squad.

You mean the same dude that got his coach fired after a 30 point loss to Dubs? And who loss last year to the Dubs?

God, this championship really got y'all ****** up.

Lets not pretend like Kobe didn't demand to get traded and then took it back that when the Lakers made moves...if they didn't he would have left too.

All of this ^
Also teams trade players for various reasons every day b. These guys have honored their contract and can play wherever they feel like it. You think millionaires care how we in social media or message boards feel or respect them?

 

[hand2handking]

jimmy butler for rw? 

 

[nick.]

Vertical Sources: Free agent center Zaza Pachulia has agreed to a one-year, $2.9M deal to sign with the Golden State Warriors.

 

[rook]

Vertical Sources: Free agent center Zaza Pachulia has agreed to a one-year, $2.9M deal to sign with the Golden State Warriors.

What a great deal. Wtf

 

[...So]

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[dmbrhs]

What a great deal. Wtf

Yeah, that's really good.

 

[mgrand15]

Lacob is apparently light years ahead of everyone with recruiting.