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123456lokoAdam Morrison and Al Thornton, two former lottery picks who played overseas this season, are among the 20+ free agents who will participate in the Nets' first free agent camp later this month, league sources tell NetsDaily. The camp, runs from May 21 to 23. It will include several former NBA draft picks, international players and D-Leaguers.
Morrison, 27, split his time between Serbia and Turkey this season. He hasn't played in the NBA since 2010 when he was cut by the Wizards in training camp following two seasons --and two rings-- with the Lakers. A 6'9" small forward, he was almost signed to a 10-day contract by the Nets in 2011 but severely sprained his ankle. He was taken by the Bobcats at #3 in 2006.#RespectTheCultureComment
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Hope is lost. Faith is broken. A fire will rise.Comment
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The first round of the N.B.A. playoffs has not yet wrapped up but the regular season has long been rendered irrelevant. Remember when the Bulls were the hottest thing going, stamped the sure kings of the Eastern Conference, and it appeared the Heat had learned nothing from last year’s playoffs? That was about the same time the Lakers were officially old, too Kobe-centric, and doomed. The Celtics were just old. The 76ers were boring and irrelevant. Remember all that?
Sure, it happens every spring: the playoffs rewrite the script. But this year seems to have taken an especially large eraser to the regular season, which now seems like 66 reasons to extract money from fans’ pockets and eliminate the Nets. One round into the playoffs and the Bulls are holding up about well as Derrick Rose’s knee did — which is to say, not at all — and are about to be shoved out the playoff door by the 76ers, which might be most surprising to their own fans, writes Bob Ford in The Philadelphia Inquirer, after many years of training themselves in the art of disappointment.
So it seems the Heat have only their own wandering attention span to fear in the Eastern Conference. Almost no one believes the Knicks’ victory in Game 4 was anything more than a blip in that series, as Greg Cote writes in The Miami Herald. Yes, it created quite a celebratory atmosphere in Madison Square Garden, where they had to go back in geologic time to recall the last playoff victory, as Mitch Lawrence writes in The Daily News, and might prove Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony have a future in the same lineup, writes Mike Vaccaro in The New York Post, but that’s about it.
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.com believes the Celtics — yes, the N.B.A.’s version of “The Golden Girls” — are a legitimate threat to the Heat in the East if Rajon Rondo keeps playing like he means it. But even as they have pushed Atlanta to the brink of elimination, the Celtics are counting their bruises and stiff-arming Father Time, writes Steve Bulpett in The Boston Herald.
In other words, they are taking a page from the Lakers’ playbook. In the West, Kobe Bryant & Co. are making quicker than expected work of the Nuggets — although as Billy Witz writes on Foxsports.com, close followers of Denver Coach George Karl have come to expect quick exits — in taking a 3-1 lead. That came courtesy of a supporting cast that has earned Bryant’s trust, writes Dave McMenamin on ESPN.com, and a timely arrival of Pau Gasol’s toughness, writes Bill Plaschke in The Los Angeles Times.#RespectTheCultureComment
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Of course the regular season has long been irrelevant. Any actual NBA has known that forever. The many reasons have been covered over and over again.
As for the comments in there about the Heat, the circus known as the Knicks and the other injuries to stars in the conference has most people ignoring that the Heat have looked like dog**** outside of Game 1 against a really blah Knicks team. Of course people will say, "How does a team look like crap with wins of 33, 17 and 10 in the first three games?"
Their defense has been very good but no team they face going forward will have the awful back court the Knicks have nor the iso-heavy offense with no scoring balance. The Knicks have had a lot of unforced, really poor turnovers. They are a perfect match up for Miami since they don't move the ball at all, have no scoring balance and can't penetrate for crap.
Their offense has looked pretty poor against a Knicks team without Shumpert and despite regular season numbers aren't that great of a defensive team. They're getting nothing from their bench.
Outside of Jon Barry, who likes nothing about no one, very few people have expressed concerns about the Heat. The Pacers won't beat them but it'll be interesting to see what an average point guard and balanced scoring will do against the Heat with the way they've been playing lately.
And their coaching...well it's been debated in enough in this thread. Let's just say I'm looking forward to a Boston/Miami ECF way more than I expected. Miami will probably make it out of the East but I'm not ready to hand it to them yet, IMO they have more to worry about than their "wandering attention span"."You make your name in the regular season, and your fame in the postseason." - Clyde Frazier
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Comment on espn.com about the Mavs not giving Odom his playoff share.
"Khloe taught me about getting payed to do nothing, so I tried it"
-Odom
That's about all ESPN is good for these days.
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Shouldn't hand anything to MIA, but these "lapses" were supposed to keep them out of the Finals last year as well...it was said just about every round....I'll play the opposite and say that their showing against the Knicks shouldn't really worry anyone about the offense....I just think they have another gear...Comment
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Hope is lost. Faith is broken. A fire will rise.Comment
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Somebody needs to get that pic of Barkley in drag eating the kfc bucket they just put on TNT lol my godComment
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Please tell me there's an Uruguayan player in that 20 man roster
Chances are that there isn't one but I'd like to see one of our players in the NBA again (Batista maybe), I didn't have the chance of watching any of the games our first and only player in the league played.Comment
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You gotta listen to Larry Legend...
I think he can be better and more rounded than Danny Granger. He's full of potential.
Paul George is averaging just 9.8 points per game during the Pacers’ first round series against Orlando.
"He's got to pick it up," Pacers president Larry Bird said after Monday's practice. "This isn't the time to feel sorry for yourself. Sometimes players lose their shot, and they lose all their confidence. As he gets along in his career, we think he can be a pretty good scorer. But just because you're not making shots doesn't mean you can't do the other things.
"Disappointed? No. I mean, he's so young (just turned 22). Last year he was in five playoff games, and it's just the first round this year. These young guys, they're going to learn, each playoff game gets harder as you go along. Not each series, each game. These guys don't understand that yet."
George has missed all 13 of his three-point attempts against the Magic.
"He's got no confidence (in his shot)," Bird said. "I can see that. And he's going to stay in slumps if he keeps doing what he's doing. As he grows, he's got to get to the basket more. He relies too much shooting the 3s. He needs to get to the basket, learn how to post people up, and even if he doesn't score, draw the double team and get other people open. I'm not disappointed in any of that; only time I'm disappointed is when he turns down shots, and I've told him that. That's what he can't do, because then you're basically playing four-on-five."
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