The Official 2013-2014 NBA Offseason Thread
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if there was ever a season to get nba league pass, its this season!!!!!!
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You learn new things about people everyday.
Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem married his longtime girlfriend and finacee, Faith Rein, last weekend in Miami, and the New York Times was there to document it, and give an amazing story of the relationship Haslem and Rein share.
Haslem who is one of the true tough guys of the NBA, has been with Rein for 14 years, and felt it was finally the right time to make Faith an honest women.
It was an amazing wedding, and according to reports, Rein gave Haslem the ultimate wedding gift, she allowed him to walk down the aisle to 2Pac’? song, “Amerikaz Most Wanted.”
Carrying a bouquet of garden roses and white hydrangeas, the bride wowed the crowd in a strapless lace mermaid-style Vera ? gown. After she and Mr. Haslem kissed four times as man and wife, they walked along a rose-strewn path to the strains of Tupac Shakur’s “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted.”
We can assume the song has some sort of meaning for Both Haslem and his beautiful bride.
Lol UD keeping it hood. -
Jr smith guarantees the knicks will win the title this year
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Ratchet Weddings 2013
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iTommy bilfiger wrote: »Jr smith guarantees the knicks will win the title this year
He and Melo must've made that deal with the darkside if he 100% believes that -
iTommy bilfiger wrote: »Jr smith guarantees the knicks will win the title this year
He and Melo must've made that deal with the darkside if he 100% believes that
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WhoisDonG??? wrote: »Ratchet Weddings 2013
A broad will let you walk down the isle to "? Ain't ? but Hoes and Tricks" if it means she can legally have access to your millions of dollars.
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The Goodman
Greg Monroe, Super Coo Beas, Victor Home-Depot, and....
...Kevin.
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Just had to post this.....
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Is that deandre jordan dressed as captain planet? ? is that
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I like how Artest got punked by Big Ben. That ? was shook.
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Heard da basketball hall of fame is Sunday at 2 cant wait to hear Gary Payton speech
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That deandre pic up there with the wade dressed as justin timberlake and paul pierce as buzz lightyear
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Bron's mom smashing no name Miami rappers now smh
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Lol I knew someone would bring up this Lebron's mom story when I saw it on my twitter feed. Dude is a Lebron stan from his instagram pics...never heard of him in my life.
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Lebron's mom ugly as ?
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"I'm the NBA's next great shooting guard"-Dion Waiters
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goodlookinout wrote: »Bron's mom smashing no name Miami rappers now smh
Is this photo somehow distorted? Both these motherfuckas look crazy. -
Man they didn't even have the greatest story Artest ever told in that montage
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goodlookinout wrote: »Bron's mom smashing no name Miami rappers now smh
this....is a disgusting ass pic. Im flaggin you for abuse B no hard feelings -
BlackAX410 wrote: »Heard da basketball hall of fame is Sunday at 2 cant wait to hear Gary Payton speech
Oh lord, please let their be grammar enlightenment by then.
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I don't know if this was posted already but Bill Simmons wrote an interesting article about Tracy McGrady's career.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9616069/the-unfortunate-tale-t-mac -
s the summer passed, everything I witnessed during the 2013 NBA Finals blurred into one colorful, eclectic memory. Tony Parker chewing up 23.999997 seconds of the shot clock before clinching Game 1 with an outrageous leaner. Spurs fans clogging downtown San Antonio after Game 5, relentlessly honking their horns and creating a festive gridlock. LeBron's headband getting symbolically knocked off in the second half of Game 6, right before he summoned his immense powers to save Miami's season. Ray Allen making the single greatest shot I've ever seen in person to steal San Antonio's championship away. Tim Duncan bent over in the last minute of Game 7, his hands pushing against his knees, totally distressed, unable to fathom how he missed a game-saving bunny that he's probably made a million times.
Somewhere in that Finals memory morass sits Tracy McGrady, once considered the de facto equal of Kobe Bryant … only now, he was toiling away as an overqualified benchwarmer for San Antonio. The role was so far beneath him, nobody even knew how to fully process it. This was like Gene Hackman slumming it as an uncredited policeman in Lincoln. Poor McGrady had no impact on the series, but one T-Mac moment stood out for me. About 75 minutes before Game 4 in San Antonio, I was standing on the court waiting for Duncan to warm up — one of my favorite Finals moments, if only because everything that has happened in Duncan's extraordinary career makes sense after you've seen him warm up. It's like what Glenn Frey revealed about the secret of Jackson Browne's brilliance in the Eagles documentary. -
Elbow grease. Time. Thought. Persistence.
Duncan only takes shots that he plans on using in games. No joking around, no casual conversing, no stopping, no smiling. Just an aging artist honing his craft. It's beautiful to watch. On this night, Duncan hadn't emerged from the locker room yet. So I started watching McGrady — a future Hall of Famer like Duncan, only someone who had never even won a playoff series until he joined San Antonio in April. I was standing there wearing a suit and tie, my face covered in makeup. McGrady was wearing practice clothes, halfheartedly hoisting 3s with a half-smile spread across on his face. I knew he wasn't playing that night unless they were up 20 or down 20. So did he. I knew his career had been over for a while. So did he. Only he kept jacking up those 3s, and he kept kind of smiling, and the moment meant nothing and everything.
So I wasn't shocked when McGrady retired this week. He hadn't resonated with NBA fans since the 2007-08 season, when a good-but-not-great Rockets team stunned everybody by ripping off 22 straight victories. If you want to remember that astonishing winning streak as T-Mac's Last Stand, that's fine. He bounced around like a McGrady impostor for these past five years — first in New York, then Detroit, then Atlanta, then China, and finally San Antonio. The final third of his career meant absolutely nothing, for what happened on the court, anyway.
In Hollywood, movie stars keep working after their careers cool off. They reinvent themselves as character actors, join television shows, find Off Broadway roles, maybe even release excruciatingly awful movies like The Killing Season. (Note to John Travolta and Robert De Niro: You still owe me $4.99.) It always feels worse when it happens in sports, particularly basketball, when only eight or nine guys truly matter on every team. Once you can't ? that group, you're confined to cheerleading and garbage time. But you're still there. We see you during every timeout and every layup line. Almost always, you're somewhere in your thirties, so you don't look dramatically different than you did when you mattered. It's almost like you threw on a Halloween costume of yourself. -
We don't care if this happens to the Juwan Howards and Richard Jeffersons of the world. When it's someone like McGrady? That's when we care. That's when we wish they could see what we're seeing. That it's over, basically. "Show some dignity," we want to tell them. We always feel relieved when they retire, allowing their memories to prevail on YouTube and NBA TV's Hardwood Classics. We don't want to remember someone of McGrady's caliber arriving out of shape for the 2008-09 season, holding the Rockets hostage for a few months, then ? them by getting microfracture surgery right before the trade deadline. We don't want to remember him participating in a mutiny against his coach in Detroit, backing up the immortal Marvin Williams in Atlanta, or slumming it in China for a few extra million bucks.
We want to remember 22 straight and 32.1 points per game. We want to remember seven All-Star Games in a row. We want to remember McGrady dropping 62 on the Wizards, trash-talking his way to a 42-10-8 in Game 3 against the 2001 Bucks (his superstar audition tape), nearly beating the '03 Pistons in the playoffs by himself, combining with Dirk Nowitzki to score 103 points in 2005, or exploding for 36 points in 27 minutes at the 2006 All-Star Game in Houston. We want to remember him in may-they-endure-forever videos with titles like "Tracy McGrady's Top 10 Posterizations" …
