AROUND the NBA: ATL Jumps from #10 to #1 in Lotto| Pistons Mull Firing GM

[HoosierDaddyKid]

38 yr old Lebron had 48 pts, 8, rebs, 9 asts, 5-10 on 3's, in a 140-132 win over Houston. Just missed another 50 pt game this season. .This dude...

[Mavs2021]

No i am just saying Green impact might been underrated despite "the hype", despite avg only ~ 20 min a night. And being without Green in 4 out of the 5 no Luka games makes it even harder to win those.

I was just kidding, but I am not surprised that an athletic defensive presence like Green can make such a difference for this team. Similar to how Justin Anderson/Dwight Powell elevated an old a** Mavs team into the play-offs simply by playing hard (er than the old geezers could). I´m sure DFS/Bullock were back in the gym after a fairly short rest in the summer and have not had fully recovered from the physical and mental drain of the play-offs. Given that both are notoriously bad season starters to begin with, that is the likely problem. I don´t believe for one second that DFS got contract lazy. I expect a re-juvenated DFS on return. I´d actually consider giving Bullock a similar break once DFS and Green return.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

I thought this was a discuss Around the NBA thread?  It's turned into a Mavs one for some reason. You've got Mavs news and roster talk for that.

[Chicagojk]

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I'm gonna store this away as a reminder as to why RB should never be signed to a winning basketball team.

I will be really interested which teams are interested in Westbrook and what type of salary he will get this offseason.

[Kammrath]

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[Chicagojk]

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[omahen]

Imagine this team with one of those two (while keeping the core) and a high pick from Lakers. 

NBACentral on Twitter: "“If they wanna go and get serious with an OG Anunoby or a Pascal Siakam… they have all the picks in the world” ??? - @ShamsCharania on the Pelicans (Via @FanDuelTV ) https://t.co/1WfBSqnTgm" / Twitter

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

Imagine this team with one of those two (while keeping the core) and a high pick from Lakers. 

NBACentral on Twitter: "“If they wanna go and get serious with an OG Anunoby or a Pascal Siakam… they have all the picks in the world” ??? - @ShamsCharania on the Pelicans (Via @FanDuelTV ) https://t.co/1WfBSqnTgm" / Twitter

Would really prefer not dealing with that 4 times a year.

[SleepingHero]

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The kind of drugs Lebron is taking must be insane.

I wonder if we're gonna see in 10 years that Lebron took steroids, like Lance Armstrong.

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I will be really interested which teams are interested in Westbrook and what type of salary he will get this offseason.

He actually hasn't been THAT bad for the Lakers the last 2 months. In fact he's been one of their better players. He just doesn't work against good teams. He also has gaffs like driving 3 on 1 for a game winning shot and then bricking it (even if he was fouled).

I think he'll return to OKC for the MLE or something and call it a day. Can't see any good team throwing money at him.

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Imagine this team with one of those two (while keeping the core) and a high pick from Lakers. 

Please no....

If they pull that off they'd be the favorites in my eyes. They still need a point guard though.

[Kammrath]

I wonder if we're gonna see in 10 years that Lebron took steroids, like Lance Armstrong.

It is what I fully expect.

[Mavs2021]

It is what I fully expect.

That is never going to happen. Every sport has a massive doping problem, and they are all hiding it. Baseball, cycling and cross-country skiiing tried to clean up their act once and they got all vilified for it rather than commended. There are no benefits to American Football, Football, Basketball, Tennis, Track&Field being proactive about this. They just control the press and the narrative.

Simona Halep, one of the biggest names in tennis is missing the Australian Open due to a doping ban and the AP wrote: she misses it due to ineligibility. LMAO.

For every Ben Johnson or Maria Sharapova, there is a Carl Lewis or Serena Williams. Manny Pacquiao moving from 108 to 154 pounds without losing any speed or power, and half the growth being his head like Barry Bonds. Floyd Mayweather and the doping creme for his brittle hands. Some names are too big too fail, so their bans/offences gets swept under the rug. LeBron James is definitely in that too big too fail category.

Just like when the Spanish government burned all the documents of Doctor Fuentes and basically didn´t allow him to testify, cause he´d likely have thrown the whole Spanish World Cup winning national football team, Barcelona and Messi, Real Madrid and Ronaldo, and Rafa Nadal under the bus.


So the trial went something like:

Tell us about all the foreign cyclists that cheated.
Yes your honour. You also want to hear about the others.
Okay okay if you have to tell us. Who were the Spanish cyclists.
Yes your honour. So should I name the other sports now.
Wow wow wow. Slow your roll. We are good here. You may leave now.
but...
STFU.

Lance Armstrong´s downfall was that he was a gigantic asshole of truly epic proportions, who had to rub his cheating and getting away with it in the face of all the caught European dopers, he beat by twenty minutes. Even rubbed it in the face of former team mates that got caught later. If he was gracious about his accomplishments, he´d still live his life as the seven time TdF winner, cancer survivor, that just with his natural ability was able to overcome hundreds of doped riders and do it easily. LOL.

End of rant.

[SleepingHero]

End of rant.

I actually agree with you that probably most stars, if not all, are doping to some extent. I say if everyone is doing it, then the playing field is level and there is no inherent advantage. The way it's currently being policed is creating the unfair advantage thus the scandal. Just let them dope and be open and honest. 

You see it in gym culture too, where we have all these lifting influencers who claim they are 100% natural, meanwhile taking $10,000s of thousands of dollars worth of HGH and testosterone every month. Boggles my mind.

[Mavs2021]

I actually agree with you that probably most stars, if not all, are doping to some extent. I say if everyone is doing it, then the playing field is level and there is no inherent advantage. The way it's currently being policed is creating the unfair advantage thus the scandal. Just let them dope and be open and honest. 

You see it in gym culture too, where we have all these lifting influencers who claim they are 100% natural, meanwhile taking $10,000s of thousands of dollars worth of HGH and testosterone every month. Boggles my mind.

....but you can´t, because we have seen the physical and mental damage done by the excessive cold war doping. You simply cannot legalize PEDs. Making it illegal, despite a silent acceptance, at least guarantees some lid at the top. It drives up prices and carries some professional career risks for doctors. Imagine if poor parents had cheap and unlimited access to bad PEDs or even ambitious kids themselves. I know it´s the popular idea to legalize it, cause everybody does it anyway, but it´s not the answer. Doesn´t matter if you age restrict it either. How many kids wait till they are of legal drinking age? They´ll find a way.

[Kammrath]

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[dirkfansince1998]

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He has separated himself from the field. As of now the only thing standing between him and another MVP award is voter fatigue.

[SleepingHero]

He has separated himself from the field. As of now the only thing standing between him and another MVP award is voter fatigue.

He deserves it. Not sure why anyone else would get it at this point. Jokic is crazy.

[Kammrath]

Jokic is 100% the MVP, I hope he doesn't get robbed of it. 

His On/Off is an astonishing +21.6 (!). I have never seen anything like it (at least that I can remember).

[Kammrath]

His On/Off is an astonishing +21.6 (!). I have never seen anything like it (at least that I can remember).

So the over +20.0 crowd....

Draymond and Steph in 15-16....Lebron in 08-09....Dirk and KG in 02-03....JKidd in 98-99...Karl Malone in 96-97

[HoosierDaddyKid]

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[Kammrath]

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