Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

[ex carrabba fan]

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Taking away age, why is this a problem? Teams in college play back to back to backs during their conference tournaments. Now a days some of the lower seeded teams could possibly play four or five games in a row. I dont think playing this much basketball one time this year will cause more injuries.

I don't think injuries is the problem at all, but I do think it's a bit much on two fronts:

1. Not every team has to do this
2. The quality of basketball will probably take a hit in the 4th or 5th game

[LionsFanNJ]

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Orlando T-Mac

I see more T-Mac in Austin Rivers personally.

[bigeastbumrush]

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Just heard on the radio here that according to David Aldridge Grant Hill has narrowed it down to Bulls, Clippers, Knicks and Suns.

Ugh. Don't want him.

[bigeastbumrush]

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(sorry)

Nets waiting to examine forward Travis Outlaw, who suffered a hand injury that could include a fracture, league sources tell Y!

Nets still strongly leaning toward using amnesty on Outlaw's deal, but what's unclear are league rules for players injured during lockout.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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Ugh. Don't want him.

Curious why you don't want Grant Hill?

[aholbert32]

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I don't think injuries is the problem at all, but I do think it's a bit much on two fronts:

1. Not every team has to do this
2. The quality of basketball will probably take a hit in the 4th or 5th game

Agree about both points. I'm not happy about #1 but there is nothing you can do with a short schedule and nhl games and other events having set dates around the calendar.

I promise you that the Lakers, Clippers, Bulls ands Spurs are 4 of the teams. The Lakers and Clippers have scheduling issues because of the Grammys, the Bulls have their yearly Circus road trip and the Spurs have the Rodeo taking about a week of its schedule.

[King_B_Mack]

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Agree about both points. I'm not happy about #1 but there is nothing you can do with a short schedule and nhl games and other events having set dates around the calendar.

I promise you that the Lakers, Clippers, Bulls ands Spurs are 4 of the teams. The Lakers and Clippers have scheduling issues because of the Grammys, the Bulls have their yearly Circus road trip and the Spurs have the Rodeo taking about a week of its schedule.

Circus trip is in November for the Bulls, we fortunately avoided that one this time. We have a long road trip for Disney on Ice coming though. Not near as long as the two week circus trip though.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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(sorry)

Only Travis OutLOL would report to camp out of shape after being ridiculous money.

And only Travis OutLOL would then follow that up by breaking his hand.

Dude is literally a walking punchline.

[ex carrabba fan]

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I see more T-Mac in Austin Rivers personally.

IDK bro, Austin Rivers goes what 6'4? That's sort of tough to compare Rivers, who is a point guard or an undersized two guard to a 6'8 wing player.

Austin Rivers reminds me of a little bit of a bigger Muhammed Abdul Rauf/Kevin Johnson. Explosive guard with range, who likes to get to the rack and can create off the dribble.

[DukeC]

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IDK bro, Austin Rivers goes what 6'4? That's sort of tough to compare Rivers, who is a point guard or an undersized two guard to a 6'8 wing player.

Austin Rivers reminds me of a little bit of a bigger Muhammed Abdul Rauf/Kevin Johnson. Explosive guard with range, who likes to get to the rack and can create off the dribble.

Is this based on his ability to switch gears while dribbling? Becuase I think that's what you're referring to. I could be wrong....

A more adept comparison would be Marcus Thornton. Same height. Same range. Same type of scorer (IMO). Rivers beats him in the handles department handily.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Some info on the Lakers' Schedule:

The Lakers won’t wait long for a dreaded back-to-back-to-back situation.
They are scheduled to play three games over the first three days of the season: Dec. 25 at home against Chicago, Dec. 26 at Sacramento and Dec. 27 at home against Utah.
Ho-ho-ho?
The NBA schedule has not been publicly released, but details have been obtained by The Times, including the Lakers’ frantic start.
Teams haven’t played three games in three nights since the last lockout-shortened season in 1999, but every team has at least one sequence in the upcoming 66-game season. Some teams will have two or three sets of terrible threes.
The Lakers have no other sets of back-to-back-to-backs as of now, though there might still be changes to the schedule, which will be finalized and released Tuesday by the NBA.
Adding to the Lakers’ early challenge: Andrew Bynum will serve a five-game suspension for body-slamming Dallas guard J.J. Barea in last season’s playoffs.
Christmas isn’t the only holiday on which the Lakers play. They are scheduled to travel to Denver on Jan. 1 and also play the afternoon of Dec. 31 against an unknown opponent.

The Lakers will not visit every NBA city because they play only 18 games against Eastern Conference teams this season. They will not play at Chicago, New Jersey, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Atlanta and one other team. The Lakers travel to Boston, Miami and Orlando but don’t play the Magic at Staples Center.
They face every West team three or four times.
The Lakers have two exhibition games against the Clippers, Dec. 19 and Dec. 21.
The regular season ends April 26 for most teams, but it is unclear if the Lakers finish that day as well.
Playoffs begin April 28, about a week later than usual, and the last possible day of the NBA Finals is June 26, also about a week later than past seasons.

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2011/12/lakers-begin-season-with-back-to-back-to-back-games.html

[DaTwolves21]

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Just got alert that bulls are sleeper for the services for Dwight Howard, the bulls would be shipping Noah, boozer, and deng for Howard and another bad contract.

[ex carrabba fan]

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That's not a horrible trade for Orlando, but I don't want Deng, he's the deal breaker.... And Boozer doesn't do much when the playoffs roll around...

Is this based on his ability to switch gears while dribbling? Becuase I think that's what you're referring to. I could be wrong....

A more adept comparison would be Marcus Thornton. Same height. Same range. Same type of scorer (IMO). Rivers beats him in the handles department handily.

Yeah and just in general, leaping ability, ability to absorb contact in the air/traffic still finish.

The only thing with Thornton, is that I don't think he is capable of playing point guard, while I think Rivers could easily make the transition to PG if a team needed it. That's a big difference between the two players IMO. Thornton is more of a wing while Rivers is more of a combo guard, just in skill sets.

Sorry to get off topic

Denver interested in Thad Young and Al Thornton
Sources are saying Grant Hill will return to PHX
Houston, NY, Miami all linked to Sam Dalembert, who says it would be tough for him to fit into Miami since they don't have any $$ to offer except the MLE
Wilson Chandler and JR Smith are indeed looking to get out of China

[ProfessaPackMan]

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This ***** OutLOL broke his hand hitting a ****ing punching bag!?!?!?!

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
New Jersey’s Travis Outlaw injured his right shooting hand — likely a fracture — punching a heavy bag in a gym, league sources tell Y!

It's bad enough that you come to camp overweight.

It's bad enough that you were stealing money last year because you were turrible.

But it's another that you break your hand hitting a ****ing punching bag. So on top of the fact that you're an awful shooter, much less Basketball Player....but you have NO HANDS HOMIE!!! YOUR HANDS ARE WEAK!!!!

***insert ROFLcopter, LOLcano gif here***

[bigeastbumrush]

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Curious why you don't want Grant Hill?

We have an All-Star penciled in at SF for the next 5 years. What do we need an aging Grant Hill for?