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Pessimist me says... 42-40 - I expect a hot start but I think injuries are going to be an issue this year. 1st round loss to the Celtics 7th seed 138 min Optimist me says... 55-27 - Consistent all year. Injuries are for other teams to worry about this year. Loss in Finals, we all really felt bad about Lebron being hurt but hey other teams have to deal with that stuff all the time. 1st seed 2200 min. Comeback player of the year. Realist me says... (my prediction on record for when we look back at this at the end of the year to see who was closest) 48-34- Hot start, hot finish, stinky mess of wtf in the middle. Loss in conference finals, but harder fought than last year. 4th seed 823 minutes

I'd only want him on the team if he isn't a distraction and if Dwight wants him on the team. He could provide some good minutes at center and pf.

If I paid money to go see UFC 200 live I'd probably boo everything I saw too. I don't think too many of the fans were happy about the Cormier/Jones fight cancellation.

Can confirm from multiple sources that workouts involved a round orange object. Rumor that, despite it being a "workout", the activity took place indoors still needs to be confirmed but is thought to be likely.

I disliked Gearon enough to vote for him 5 times. Is that cheating? He is the one person on the list that I felt did harm to the team knowingly. Everyone else was just inept. I would have voted once or twice for Belkin but now I believe that Gearon was the source of that whole mess as well.

I could be wrong but I believe if a player is "dismissed" from the league his contract can be voided which would make dropping him for fear of him being convicted mute.

My official guess will be 64 based on... Dwight's time in the NBA up to now has been his "baptism" of sorts. Now he returns home to start over as a better person and a better teammate.

I think it would take a 3 or 4 team trade to get Rudy to Atlanta. We basically have Splitter to offer and the Kings have no need for a center. Would probably need teams like the Suns and the 76ers moving pieces and or draft picks. Just doesn't sound realistic.

He mentioned something along the lines of the number being a surprise but it makes sense when he explains the meaning. I can't really think of any number being a surprise except a high digit number. My personal hope is that he picks 3 or 30 so we can corrupt it into a new nickname of D3P0.

Unlikely scenario but wouldn't mind if it happened. Who said projections had to be accurate. Trade Millsap for Brandon Knight - Suns still have Bledsoe and seem a bit weak at PF. Knight has had injury issues. If injury issues are behind him then he's signed for a few years at what will be a bargain price. Trade Schröder for Okafor - We all know this has been talked about. I prefer Okafor to Nerlens. Trade Thabo for Trey Burke - Change of scenery for Burke might do him good. Jazz would probably let him go without asking for too much. Allows for more playing time for Prince/Bembry. Sign Harrison Barnes - Above trades save about 4 million. Not sure what it takes to sign him but I think he has potential and is still really young. Resign Horford - Gets to play PF almost exclusively.. you know.. until Okafor gets hurt. Sign a bargain bin PF and PG.. Humphries/Leuer and Ty Lawson/Jennings? PG - Knight, Lawson, Burke SG - Korver, Hardaway, Bembry SF - Harrison, Prince PF - Horford, Scott (will he even be in the NBA next season?), Leuer, Moose C - Okafor, Splitter, Walter Would be some growing pains but I like the mix of youth and experience.

People don't hate Joe Johnson. They hated the fact that he'd be getting paid 23m and almost 25m his last two years. People expect Lebron for that amount of money and sadly Joe Johnson wasn't even in the same hemisphere. People always talk about how the Hawks NEED a super star player to come to Atlanta. When Joe signed that contract we knew he was it. We weren't going to be able to sign anyone better for 5 years and we knew he wasn't a super star. If Joe Johnson was making something closer to 16m per I think we'd be talking and thinking about him a little differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYSKRsJVrrE

He's got some "Leadership" in him, and I don't say that in a bad way other than he's a guy that will have post where its nice out front but if you go out back he's saying other things under other names and then patting himself on the back for no reason whatsoever.

Ferry trading away Bebe because he wants to move on is one thing. Trading him away for absolutely nothing is the first real issue I've had with anything Ferry has done so far. There is still some hype with Bebe and some potential. You have to try to get more for him. Edy has a long way to go. You can kind of see the gears turning in his head when he's out on the floor. The effort he puts out on the court seems solid and you can tell he's upset with himself when he does make mistakes so I think he's aware of what he should be doing out there. He just really needs a lot of good coaching and playing time to train himself to do things without thinking about it first.

That was the most amusing end to a basketball game I've ever seen.