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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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03-06-2019, 10:12 PM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Amarillo, TX
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Oh, good. A Boston area sports team won a game. yay. |
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03-11-2019, 09:58 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Land O Lakes FL
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Serge showing some moxie tonight.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946 |
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03-12-2019, 09:15 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: calgary, AB
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I don't know what he says or does but man he gets punched alot. |
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03-12-2019, 11:35 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Pretends to be a fan at a Westbrook game?
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis |
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03-15-2019, 02:27 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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This is not easy for me to say, but I.... enjoy... watching the Sacramento Kings play basketball.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce |
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03-15-2019, 04:56 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I've seen this nuggets team several times over the past several weeks. I really like them but I don't think they have the superstar luster to make the finals. Jokic a joy to watch.
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03-24-2019, 02:30 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Jimmer is back
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03-24-2019, 06:21 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Trae Young has really turned it around. I still pick Luka if I've got the #1, but overall the top of this rookie class looks pretty darn good.
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03-24-2019, 06:33 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Minnesota
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I think hes in the mold of one of them point guards that can look great on a bad team with limited options but on a playoff team with better options might come out not looking so great. <---- Young |
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03-26-2019, 08:47 AM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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That Nurlic injury. Ugh
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03-27-2019, 01:40 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Top trending on Twitter tonight is #Lance
Thing is, he DID step on Green's foot.
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis |
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03-27-2019, 02:48 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Always nice that lottery teams can find something to play for.
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03-27-2019, 03:57 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Speaking of rookies, is Ayton the best example of the league's transition into an unabashed instagram highlight factory rather than a basketball league? Having a quietly solid rookie season but you'd be forgiven for forgetting he exists. Meanwhile, there's Lance stepping on a dude's foot, and Booker almost scoring 60 in a blowout loss.
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03-27-2019, 05:09 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Dunno if that's entirely the league's fault (though I'm sure they've encouraged it plenty of times). I mean I wondered what in the world #Lance was, so I clicked the term in Trending. (I was thinking something Armstrong related, and figured it being Storm was a long shot). Most everything I saw was pretty organic.
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03-27-2019, 05:17 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Well, I think the league has encouraged a style of play that caters perfectly to the insta generation. And it's worked, I have non-basketball people tagging me on basketball clips every day. I just find myself enjoying the NBA less and less in terms of the actual game experience, versus the highlights.
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03-27-2019, 12:10 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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 )I think bigs have always been less celebrated than others unless they have some ridiculous athletic feature (Shaq, Zion, Tacko Fall). Re Ayton's season I do think his offensive impact could be getting a little more talk but the questions were always on the defensive side of the ball (particularly if he's paired as a star with Booker), and whether you can really build a winning team in today's NBA centered around a center like him. (I'd say "offensive center", but Jokic with his elite vision and passing fits that mold.) Some of the smarter NBA analysts were saying his defense was at least improved from that atrocious first month where he looked completely lost, but he clearly still has a loooong way to go on that end. And while Phoenix's problems run much deeper their 17-58 record and league worst point differential doesn't give any indication his on court value remotely approaches his traditional counting stats/PER. Ayton is much more athletic, but Jah Okafor put up 18/7 on a terrible team his rookie year too... |
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03-27-2019, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Just scrolling my Twitter feed & this popped out at me as being kinda timely lol.
(was an RT from a kid my son graduated with or I'd never have seen it) Bleacher Report NBA on Twitter: ""NOBODY HAD THEy PHOnES OUT" J Cole was heated no one was recording his 45 PTS and game-winner 😂 (via @KingOfQueenz)… https://t.co/OxAwaLlWIe"
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis |
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03-30-2019, 02:05 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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The media will talk about the late calls in Warriors loss to the Timberwolves, but can we talk about the Andrew Wiggins shot at the end of regulation? Tie game, shot clock off, and he dribbles into a contested 20 footer with 8 seconds on the clock. The lack of situational awareness is mind boggling.
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03-30-2019, 05:20 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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I find the West playoff race to be pretty fascinating. Eight games separating the 8 seeds. No year in the last decade at least in either conference has had lower than a 12-game gap and it's usually about 15. There could be some crazy-competitive first-round series, and I have to think a real chance at whoever comes out of there being beat up. If so, Milwaukee's real young but …
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04-02-2019, 11:36 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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20-20-21 game for Westbrook today. Pretty ridiculous.
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04-07-2019, 08:14 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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Gordon Hayward... is good again? Playing well & very aggressively in the 8 games since his concussion scare. Hitting shots will always help anyone's confidence and the shooting percentage will regress, but he's been driving hard and creating contact near the rim instead of avoiding it.
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04-07-2019, 10:45 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Congrats to the Magic on their division title and being a game above .500 I guess?
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04-07-2019, 11:11 PM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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If the jazz win tonight I go 4-1 for my season win total bets. Pretty pleased with that.
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04-08-2019, 01:48 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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The long post-Dwight Howard era rebuild finally over!!!!!! Yay!
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04-08-2019, 09:08 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Paul Pierce is saying he had a better career than D Wade, and people are jumping on that like its crazy.
I don't think it's crazy, but I can see why people are acting that way. PP had the least . . . memorable great career of his generation. He was very very good for a long time. But he didn't have that one season where he peaked and made people think of Jordan. He didn't have a "we'll never see that again" style like Iverson. He didn't have a stretch where he tore down the rim like Vince Carter. He wasn't a physical freak like Shaq. He didn't have an outsized off-the-court personality like Rodman. And, unlike Wade, he wasn't teammates with the media magnets Shaq and LeBron. He looked like a basketball player should look. He played like a basketball player should play. He didn't date Kardashians in the offseason. He just did his job at an extremely high level for a very long time. And guys like that end up underrated. |
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04-08-2019, 09:18 AM
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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They had one job to do |
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04-08-2019, 10:26 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
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This is one thing I don't understand. They both had good careers. Why do we have to say one was better than the other? You are right about Pierce though. I just looked at his stats. I never would have guessed he would be 18th on the all time points list. I would have guessed he was outside the top 50.
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04-08-2019, 11:06 AM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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His most memorable moment was his getting stabbed 17 times.
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04-09-2019, 12:22 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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 Looking objectively yeah Wade was a little better, but they're in the same category, and I'm not sure why anyone is surprised ex-athletes are still cocky. Ask Larry Bird if he was better than Michael Jordan, and he'll probably be diplomatic, but I'm guessing he thinks he was before the back injury. I also thought his main point there (give him Shaq and LeBron in their prime and he'd have more championships/recognition) was 100% accurate. Even if Garnett stayed healthy & the Celtics won a 2nd that'd up his legacy. I'm also pretty out on the Dwyane Wade retirement tour. I hate retirement tours in general, but Wade was a dirty player, had the STD lawsuit, was a dick to Dirk when he was hurt, was a horrible teammate to younger players, etc, so idk why we're supposed to all pretend he was a beloved superstar (like for example Dirk is.) |
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04-09-2019, 01:46 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I saw wade and his second wife and his 3rd or 4th kid (a baby) trying to present themselves as "young and in love" the other day. Like we all don't know wade dogged his college sweetheart for another more famous woman...
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04-09-2019, 09:17 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Land O Lakes FL
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946 |
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04-09-2019, 10:09 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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That went well, don't you think?
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis |
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04-09-2019, 10:31 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
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I think the dumbest part about it is the stated reasons. You don't want the job anymore because tampering rules are too restrictive on your personality or whatever and you don't what the responsibility of firing people? What did he think the job of being the president of an NBA team involved?
Either way it'll be interesting to see who takes over next. Kobe? Last edited by Brian Swartz : 04-09-2019 at 10:31 PM. |
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04-09-2019, 10:44 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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1) Sign LeBron 2) 
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis |
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04-10-2019, 05:09 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” |
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04-10-2019, 05:25 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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I'm gonna miss him playing.
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04-10-2019, 08:41 AM
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04-10-2019, 08:46 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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The true story behind Michael Jordan's brief-but-promising baseball career
Interesting story on Jordan's flirtation with baseball. |
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04-10-2019, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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04-10-2019, 10:41 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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It's interesting to see an article that paints his baseball career as success, or at least a non-failure. However, if he ever made it to the majors it was going to be because his name was Michael Jordan. I do think his ability to step in to AA and not be completely awful was a hell of an accomplishment given the circumstances. |
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04-10-2019, 10:46 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Sounds like he had an incredible work ethic and desire to get better. I always rooted against the Bulls, but I having nothing but respect for his competitive fire.
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04-10-2019, 11:52 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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This is a guy who quit his NBA head coaching gig after 16 games. Maybe everything in life to Magic is a mysterious adventure filled with unexpected surprises. |
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04-10-2019, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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On the other hand, people act like Tim Tebow in baseball is joke even though he has been much better than Jordan in the minors (Tebow batted .273/.336/.399 in AA last year).
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04-10-2019, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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Magic might just not be interested in actual work. He's def earned a life of leisure.
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04-10-2019, 02:58 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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He also had 557 plate appearances in AFL and A leagues before going to AA. What numbers would Jordan have put up if he had come back for a second season?
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UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO |
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04-10-2019, 05:10 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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He may have even hit Tebow numbers! Why didn't Jordan start in A leagues? Because his name was Michael Jordan and it was always just a lark.
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"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" -Tennessee Williams Last edited by ISiddiqui : 04-10-2019 at 05:13 PM. |
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04-10-2019, 06:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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I don't think MJ is a good comp if you're looking for serious baseball prospects.
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04-11-2019, 09:37 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I wonder if lebron is going to force a trade after the Lakers come up empty this summer.
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04-11-2019, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Who would want him at this point?
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