Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

[mjshoefanatic]

Odom with 11 rebs

get well soon Chauncey |I

 

[mjshoefanatic]

oops

 

[Nawzlew]

three team trade between new orleans, utah, and charlotte.

new orleans receives jazz.

utah receives bobcats

charlotte receives hornets.

 

[Deleted member 38182]

^^^ I hope Tyreke does get traded. Best for him and the Kings at this point.

Agreed. But I don't really want Thornton being our starter...

Why does Thornton look mad at the world all the time? He has that 'I just stubbed my toe' look all the time

its either his eyebrows, mouth, or both

but yes ive noticed that. weird as hell

I think its his puffy cheeks that give him this angry face like this

 

[datznasty]

Rookie hazing taken a bit far perhaps, and initiated by Coach Scott

Cavs' rookies get baby dolls, strollers

By Nick Friedell | ESPNChicago.com


CLEVELAND -- Byron Scott has put a new spin on rookie hazing.

The Cleveland Cavaliers' coach presented each one of his rookies -- Dion Waiters, Tyler Zeller and Kevin Jones -- with baby dolls and pink strollers before Wednesday night's 95-85 loss to the Chicago Bulls.

“ Jones Apparently you've got to carry milk and Pampers in this little pink bag. You've got to make sure it's always full with that (stuff) and bring it in and out of the arena with you and you get in trouble if you don't have it with you.
” -- Cavs rookie Kevin Jones

Waiters and Zeller received their baby dolls at shootaround while Jones had a baby doll and a stroller waiting for him a couple hours before the game. The players are trying to take the baby dolls, and the jokes that come with them, in stride.

"Just rookie initiation, I guess," Jones said with a laugh. "Just trying to have fun with it. You're only a rookie once, so you just got to have fun with it."

Scott didn't offer an explanation regarding the baby dolls before the game, but each player realizes the hazing is just part of the game. Waiters' baby doll, Mary, and Zeller's baby doll, LaQuesha, sat quietly on the side of the Cavs' locker room while Jones' baby doll, Connie, sat in front of his locker.

"(Scott) didn't tell us (why)," Zeller said. "He just had them out there for us. It's just something you've got to do as a rookie. It's a rite of passage."

Jones, who was called up from the Cavs' D-League affiliate on Tuesday, isn't sure if the baby dolls will be around all season or will travel with the Cavs. He does know the rookies will have to carry the baby dolls' diaper bags on the road with them.

"Apparently you've got to carry milk and Pampers in this little pink bag," Jones said. "You've got to make sure it's always full with that (stuff) and bring it in and out of the arena with you, and you get in trouble if you don't have it with you."

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What will happen if they don't have the bag with them?

"I don't know," Jones said. "I don't want to find out."

This isn't the first time this season the Cavaliers' rookies have been hazed. They had to carry pink backpacks with them earlier in the year. While hazing might be common around the league, the babies have taken things to a new level.

"I didn't have to do the baby stuff, but we make our rookies do stuff like bring soap and make sure that guys have deodorant," Bulls guard Nate Robinson said. "He don't got to wear no pink backpack because at the end of the day he's a grown man like everybody else. It's just some things that rookies got to do that they got to (pay) homage, not just us but all the players that played in the league before us."

http://twitpic.com/bjg0am

 

[mjshoefanatic]

 

[Peep Game]

@ Cam basically having the inverse effect of RG3 at the Bobcats game

 

[Nawzlew]

the guy next to him

 

[Animal Thug]

 

[Maximus Meridius]

@ Cam basically having the inverse effect of RG3 at the Bobcats game

True

 

[mr marcus]

@ Cam basically having the inverse effect of RG3 at the Bobcats game

i was mad as hell when the announcers said he was at the game 

 

[you big dummy]

Toronto is gonna have the #1 pick in 2014.  I promise you

 

[fray salters]

@ Cuban

 

[rosegoldsluggs]

@ Cuban

Jus seen it on SC

 

[Ja's 2¢]

so is darren showing why he can't be the starting PG of a team?

 

[T0INE]

@ the Pelican vid and the Cuban gif.

 

[mjdalegend]

the guy next to him

Classic.

 

[mjshoefanatic]

Is Cuban drooling?

 

[mitchellicious]

Someone wanted me to make some jerseys to go with my logo from yesterday. Here ya go.

 

[mjshoefanatic]

Interesting in a Scrooge McDuck sort of way.

 

[pepperjackchees]

I would like to see New Orleans become the Jazz, but I doubt Utah wants to part with that name. Too much brand recognition and history associated with it. Anyway, it really seems N.O. is serious about becoming the Pelicans. 

 

[picknroll24]

Andrew Bynum cleared for practice...

 

[maddog345]

Mark Cuban

 

[airjordan jb23]

JR Swish :x :x

The Clippers were going to work last nigh :x

That Cuban .gif

 

[fray salters]

This ***** Bledsoe is Baby Bron forreal man