The 2014-2015 NBA Season Thread. Lock It Up Please: The Golden State Warriors Are The Champions

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DCAllAmerican said:
Pretty sure many NON-black people feel this way if they look up to black athletes as kids. Not surprising at all. But they only want to be that during the course of a game.
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Actually, you'd be surprised. I grew up with non-black kids who wanted to be black period, not just on the court or field. If you're a 10 or 11 year old kid and your favorite athletes, musicians and actors are all black, it kinds of makes sense you'd want to be like them. Pretty sure I remember one kid saying it straight out the way Rubio did.
 
Brandon3000 said:
On the lowest key... so is JR Smith.
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JR has looked really good too. Although be it against some lower quality teams. I think Mosgov is the piece that puts them over the top tho. I guess it's easy to look good when your playing alongside Lebron and Kyrie. That dude seems to have all the skills needed offensively and defensively for that matter. Dude is 7'1 with good athleticism, a good mid range, good finisher, runs the floor, plays hard, blocks shots, rotates well on defense. Scary with him and Lebron and Kyrie. The real Cavs big 3 :lol srs tho
 
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lawdog1 said:
Actually, you'd be surprised. I grew up with non-black kids who wanted to be black period, not just on the court or field. If you're a 10 or 11 year old kid and your favorite athletes, musicians and actors are all black, it kinds of makes sense you'd want to be like them. Pretty sure I remember one kid saying it straight out the way Rubio did.
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cue the "Do the Right Thing" Spike Lee vs. John Turturro scene
 
I am not at all happy that, the way things are looking right now, the Cavs are going to cake walk into the ECF, if not the Finals. The Hawks are the only team right now that seem capable of giving them a series - maybe Toronto.
 
wolves bruh...

LeBron: Stop recruiting LeBron Jr.





LeBron James is not thrilled that his son and young basketball standout, 10-year-old LeBron James Jr., has already received letters and even scholarship offers from college coaches.

"Yeah, he's already got some offers from colleges," James told CBS Detroit before the Cleveland Cavaliers' matchup against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday. "It's pretty crazy. It should be a violation. You shouldn't be recruiting 10-year-old kids."


His son is not alone.

Connecticut star Ryan Boatright committed to USC before he was in high school. Marquette's Matt Carlino reportedly received an offer from Arizona while he was in elementary school. Michael Avery accepted a scholarship offer from former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie in 2008, when he was an eighth-grader.

Per the NCAA handbook: "A prospective student-athlete is a student who has started classes for the ninth grade. In addition, a student who has not started classes for the ninth grade becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides such an individual (or the individual's relatives or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally."

College coaches are not prevented from monitoring young players like LeBron James Jr., per NCAA rules.

From the NCAA handbook: "In men's basketball, a coaching staff member may observe an individual who has not entered the seventh grade participating in an athletically related activity, provided such observation occurs during a period when it is permissible to evaluate prospective student-athletes."

Although the NCAA's bylaws attempt to curtail the recruitment of players prior to high school, the rules that the NCAA enforces through official channels have no impact on the recruitment pipeline's underground, which often employs AAU coaches and other liaisons as third parties who relay information to athletes. The latter is not something that the NCAA can efficiently and effectively monitor or stop.

James might rebuke some of the attention that his son has received, but he's also responsible for a portion of the hype. On Dec. 22, he tweeted an embedded video of LeBron James Jr. at an AAU tournament. The video features highlights of his son penetrating, scoring and passing just like his father.

"He plays just like I did," James told CBS Detroit. "He has great awareness, and he'd rather pass first and set guys up. Most kids nowadays just want to score."

Kentucky's John Calipari watched LeBron James Jr. play last summer during the AAU Fourth Grade National Championship in Lexington. Ohio State's Thad Matta mentioned that LeBron James Jr. was on his radar during a preseason news conference. Other Division I coaches will probably begin to track the youngster if they are not already monitoring his progress.

"He can ball," said one Division I assistant of a top-25 program who wasn't surprised that LeBron James Jr. has already received scholarship offers.

He might be a target of the Buckeyes, the top program in his home state, at some point. A source close to the program said the school has sent a questionnaire to LeBron James Jr. but has not extended an offer to him.

"To my knowledge, we haven't [offered]," he said. "We wouldn't offer him this early."
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is he really that good at that age? or are the colleges just gassin because bron is his pops so they think he could potentially be bron 2.0 and they want to get in early?

they better hope he doesn't get savannah's short stubby gene, like jordan kids got. his 2nd son def gonna be thicker and more solid. maybe the nfl should start scouting him now. -_-
 
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lawdog1 said:
I am not at all happy that, the way things are looking right now, the Cavs are going to cake walk into the ECF, if not the Finals. The Hawks are the only team right now that seem capable of giving them a series - maybe Toronto.
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Feel the same way... Hate this stacking ish lj did but we all kno dude likes the easy road...
Feels so cheap.
....east is pitiful....
 
Sasha didn't play for no ******* Spanish national team

Hell that fool got cut from the Slovenia national team one year 

edit: nothing wrong w/ ol boy comment either.....they're so in the closet about black people that they think we're super humans 

hell darren wilson even thought Mike brown "hulked up" after he got hit with a bullet ....w/e that means ....

go to Japan and they'll take pics of you like you're jesus christ......"oh my god a black man" 
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Mr Marcus said:
Sasha didn't play for no ******* Spanish national team


Hell that fool got cut from the Slovenia national team one year 


edit: nothing wrong w/ ol boy comment either.....they're so in the closet about black people that they think we're super humans 

hell darren wilson even thought Mike brown "hulked up" after he got hit with a bullet ....w/e that means ....


go to Japan and they'll take pics of you like you're jesus christ......"oh my god a black man" :|
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Who is "they"
 
Wiggins yanked the hell out of Butler last night. I agree with whoever in here he doesn't need to be some ball handling wizard to be prime scorer. All he needs is a few moves in his repertoire... Two or three dribbles and explode. He's too fast and too explosive.
 
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ChampCruThik said:
He may fight on the PBF/Manny undercard if you're interested in watching him fight. Very technically gifted.
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I just might, their was a guy on one of my junior olympic teams that had a similar tattoo... not that excited about that Floyd fight tho, but there is still a chance I might watch
 
Freeze said:
wolves bruh...is he really that good at that age? or are the colleges just gassin because bron is his pops so they think he could potentially be bron 2.0 and they want to get in early?

they better hope he doesn't get savannah's short stubby gene, like jordan kids got. his 2nd son def gonna be thicker and more solid. maybe the nfl should start scouting him now. -_-
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They are sicing it IMO. Its a ten year old, its annoying that people are even ranking ten year olds. He could just get up one day and say " I dont wanna play anymore" and no one would object, hes ten.
 
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