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

[don ramon]

 
Does Barkley ever know what he's talkin bout man?

he's awful. really bad

 

[MIKE LOWERY]

wtf is Lebron doing

 

[illmatic34]

At the end of the day...the Bulls wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They had more than one offer for him yet really tried to sell him on taking $64-70M over four years. They also offered the LeBron deal (two years w/ a "promise" of the max in 2016), but Melo had no interest in going through it again and taking that risk.

Like I said...if they really wanted to get him all they had to do was make it a lot closer than what they offered. The financial sacrifice was too much to give up and Melo knows firsthand gutting the team to get there is not ideal. It just wasn't meant to be, I guess. He was the finishing piece that would've put y'all over the top (I said back then it was the best move for him, basketball-wise)...y'all still did fine in the offseason though.

I just find the opinions from NT financial experts hilarious. ****** are liars man.

Of course, hard to turn down that money but I feel the Bulls right now with Melo (minus Gasol obviously) would be the best squad either the Knicks or Bulls would put out regardless of cap space.

 

[duba169]

Melo played a part in why the Knicks are so bad by not waiting until free agency.

Amare has played more games than rose the last two years. Melo wasn't taking that much less to go to Chicago. I'm not sure why people are shocked. It was a significant amount of money. Not anywhere near the money bosh wade and lebron gave up

 

[011781]

bruhs.... the Mavs O looks fake right now.. up THIRTY in the 2nd..

 

[grusumm18]

Spo>blatt

 

[julius wrek]

 

[antidope]

Like I said earlier these rotations are funny. This has to be at the top of David Blatts list cause this isn't working

 

[Air Pope]

 

 

[victor page]

Melo can always force a trade. He made sure he got his bread 1st

 

[illmatic34]

Melo played a part in why the Knicks are so bad by not waiting until free agency.

Amare has played more games than rose the last two years. Melo wasn't taking that much less to go to Chicago. I'm not sure why people are shocked. It was a significant amount of money. Not anywhere near the money bosh wade and lebron gave up

True, but being a Bulls homer I guess I have more faith in Rose staying healthy than you guys. Difference is Amare has had continuous problems in his knees for a while with a degenerative condition and Rose was literally in the wrong place wrong time twice with two horrible freak injuries, hence why I'm more optimistic.

 

[HNL HI]

 
6ers plan: Tank until something happens. 

Seems legit.

Not pretending to be competitive, signing terrible contracts to bubble "stars" to get an 8th seed while messing up your chances to get a potential franchise changing player. The league revolves around having a top 3-4 player, you're not winning anything without one and no one is going to Philly.

Not saying their strategy is guaranteed, but its interesting to see a team approach todays league differently than just hoping to sign free agents.

 

[illoquent aka dsk]

 

At the end of the day...the Bulls wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They had more than one offer for him yet really tried to sell him on taking $64-70M over four years. They also offered the LeBron deal (two years w/ a "promise" of the max in 2016), but Melo had no interest in going through it again and taking that risk.

Like I said...if they really wanted to get him all they had to do was make it a lot closer than what they offered. The financial sacrifice was too much to give up and Melo knows firsthand gutting the team to get there is not ideal. It just wasn't meant to be, I guess. He was the finishing piece that would've put y'all over the top (I said back then it was the best move for him, basketball-wise)...y'all still did fine in the offseason though.

I just find the opinions from NT financial experts hilarious. ****** are liars man.

Of course, hard to turn down that money but I feel the Bulls right now with Melo (minus Gasol obviously) would be the best squad either the Knicks or Bulls would put out regardless of cap space.

Yeah, without a doubt. But all these "HE ONLY CARES ABOUT MONEY, NOT WINNING!!!!" when speaking on that situation is so fraudulent. 

 

[Hahahaha]

Like I said earlier these rotations are funny. This has to be at the top of David Blatts list cause this isn't working

Foreign coach, a lot of new players and great talent on this team. It's gonna take weeks to figure out his rotations.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

LOL

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

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Wayne Washington weeps

 

[duba169]

Jason smith or rik smits?

 

[Air Pope]

Commentators are about to explode. They've been waiting for that all night.

 

[mrswagtastic]

spo must be coaching cuz MM ain't getting no burn

 

[maliz]

Uncle Drew

 

[awwsome]

Kyrie mixing.

 

[don ramon]

 

smh this doesn't even make sense. it's like something a little kid would say

 

[Deleted member 107398]

My intros my outro:

**** all you bandwagon Heat/Cavs fans talking about "I'm a fan of LeBron so I'm cheering for the team he's on"

FOH

 

[bravelude]

lol. fisher

 

[awwsome]

What does this even mean?


NBA rivalries back.