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I think a bunch of folks are waiting on the outskirts to see how these Lin-only dudes work out.

In other news, I just wiped my arse with paper of equal importance as that "degree".

Haha .. keep your head up. You do have the record at least. Heh, he must not know you're willing to hunt him down like that dude from Taken.

You mean, as in, why is he there? Yeah, same as JColl. "World" aka USA team member. Now the greater, existential, question of why is he there. I have no answer for that.

Let's be honest. Your real beef is with there being no Okogie on the Africa squad. I know, it's borderline criminal. They'd rather wheel out corpses like Mahinmi and Diallo? And Fournier? Well, we know why he's on the team ...... for shooting, of course. What other reason were you thinking? I think it should be reiterated that he's on the World squad, not the Africa squad. He's listed as a US player. A bunch of folks think he's on the Africa side, it seems. IOW, they picked him instead of Lebron. Obv.

Haha .... feel that burn, @Spud2nique These are pretty good, btw. When I start my Hawk-centric t-shirt design empire,you'll be my first hire. Well, my second "hire". First, you always gotta hire that unnecessarily hawt young assistant chick who has no real job description, always rocks the short 'n tite skirts and is always happy to work under me. Paging Taylor Rooks ....

... never side with anyone against the realgm family. Where's the Godfather theme music when you need it?

I dunno. I heard Mama Lin got a wicked crossover.

Wat?

Heh, DAL is tanking for us this year and they don't realize it yet. Ya know, at first I was upset about us passing on Doncic. Now I'm like, when was the last time the DAL organization made a good personnel decision? Starting the day after they won that title, basically every decision they made has been a bad one. So folks can either (a) believe their decision to pay us to take Doncic will be the exception to the rule or (b) they can acknowledge the Mavericks have pretty much f'd up everything for the last 10 years so the Doncic-move is likely to be an epic fail for DAL. .. boom.

Well the premise of the thread was simply .. or at least appeared to be simply about total turnovers none-a that ratio nonsense so .. take it up with SupesKing. ... and get off my lawn. Yup. And Isola is on in the mornings. This time of year is tough since there are no games going on but it's still pretty funny as they discuss the offseason happenings.

Noooo. Stockton is like #2 all-time. Nash is 13 all-time, I think. Jason Kidd is top 5. Great pg's all have high t/o nimbers.

Wait, aren't all great pg's gonna have high turnover nimbers? Basically the nature of the position, no? Whatchu talkin' 'bout, @NBASupes?

No worries. We don't read your posts anyways. Heigh-ohhh!!! I'm here all week folks.

Didn't you see the CLP interview, we're now Heat North. Why are you whispering? Holy small font, batman.

No, Jordan Brand allegedly didn't loke the fact that he wouldn't wear their wacky shoe designs. Like Kyrie's lobster shoes, off-color models, etc. He apparently just wanted to wear the colorways they made for him. Not saying he was in the right/wrong. I just think it's wrong to lump it all in together and go, "See, see even Jordan wants no part of the guy!!!" I think it's unfair to leave these hairs unsplit.

Wait, what would be great? Seeing my nekkeds?

Again, we don't know if any of that is true. Unless you choose to blindly believe what SAS has put out. I simply don't believe the version of events they've put out. I mean, really? Isn't it odd that each and every 'sourced' story paints the Spurs as the victim and Kawhii as some diva and his uncle as some crazed evil genius? That doesn't strike you as odd? They know, good and well, that their tripe will go unopposed and they're taking full advantage of it. Do we know the degree to which he cutoff comms? Nope, we just know he didn't do what SAS wanted him to do. Do we know he gave them return dates? Nope. To me, it seems more like they gave him return dates which weren't met ... because he was still in pain ... which they doubted, incorrectly. Do we know he refused to go out on 'injury status'? Nope. Since they were the one expecting him to return, doesn't it stand to reason that they'd want him not on any type of 'injury status' which would've precluded his return? Do we know that fabled secret escape mission where he avoided management in NY actually happened the way it was reported? Nope. In fact, another guy reported after the fact that the story was false and that the idea that they spirited him away like this was the friggin underground railroad or something was just ridiculous. Before all this happened, Leonard was seen as the 'perfect' Spur. Hard working, tough as nails, well-behaved. A dream on and off the court. Now, after defying the Spur Empire one time, he's a diva, he's unable to deal with the media, he's unwilling to accept responsibility, he's a 'system player', he ran afoul of the 'real' Spur greats. On and on and on. This is 2018 character assassination, mayne, and I'll not stand for it.

Former GM, David Griffin, brought up a fantastic point which alluded to something we've discussed in this and, exhaustively, other threads. An added bonus with the emoLove deal is the fact that they've set their team up such that their draft pick (Sexton) will be able to show the degree to which he can contribute to winning prior to the point where they have to pay him max dollars. By comparison, ORL had to (over)pay Gordon before he ever had to show that he can win a game. That's ... not ideal. Hopefully, in keeping Dedm, Baze and others, we'll be doing some of the same that CLE's doing. Despite vocal, incessant commentary to the contrary, I don't expect us to participate in actual in-game tanking with guys developing poor habits. Acquiring Len seems in line with that approach. We could've easily just plugged in some totally inexperienced guy. I'm expecting Huerter and Spellman to spend a lot of time in the GL. We kinda have to work Young into the rotation. Anyways, I'm Bart Scott right now (cain't wait).

I lol'd. Also, on topic, Love's deal is a lot more movable than many of these other extensions. He won't get up to the high $40mil per numbers like Wall's deal.

Forsooth?

That's a myth but it's poetic justice when a guy who was a turd to women ends up with a daughter.

There was an exterior door to the bathroom or to the bedroom? Exterior bathroom door seems weird AF. And shame on you, spud. Shame! I hope you have a daughter. Then you'll really feel guilty about what you've done.

But is this true though? Only quotes on the matter I've seen have been from media people citing "sources", nothing direct. I've heard people who've spoken to folks close to him who suggest the notion that he's a puppet of his uncle is ludicrous and the fact that the Spurs turned on him is why he's chosen not to set the record straight. Figuring, why bother at this point. The dye has been cast. All he wants to do is play so .. just play. It looks to me like the Spurs got miffed at the 2nd-opinion request then Kawhii didn't fully communicate with them. Then the organization went over the top on the guy. Screw the Spurs, mayne. What were they before Timmay? Something tells me that's what they'll be now that he's gone.

Count me in. Nah. I'd be a great big brother. It'd be like a Starkville-based reboot of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.