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[hillow]

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.......

That was beautiful. T-mac is also my top3 favorite player and I started to follow and root for him during 2003 playoffs, second nba match I watched. Your story is much cooler then mine, your true fan. I don't have any jerseys but have always wanted to own one

Also I don't get all that hate on McGrady

[JODYE]

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http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba...shake-rituals/

They better not ban intros...

After this...

Spoiler

Championship celebrations are next.

[23]

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Meh

Its just for show

Stop showing the public how much you guys are friends and act like competitors

LOL!

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Can't have too much fun guys.

[23]

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This needs to happen

The Chicago Bulls allowed Omer Asik to sign with the Houston Rockets last offseason, which increased the odds of the team signing Taj Gibson to an extension.

Sources say the most likely outcome for the Bulls will be to sign Gibson to an extension and eventually using the amnesty clause on Carlos Boozer in the future.

[OfficalSwag_oS]

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Tyshawn Taylor is going to be a very good player in the future.

[JODYE]

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This needs to happen

The Chicago Bulls allowed Omer Asik to sign with the Houston Rockets last offseason, which increased the odds of the team signing Taj Gibson to an extension.

Sources say the most likely outcome for the Bulls will be to sign Gibson to an extension and eventually using the amnesty clause on Carlos Boozer in the future.

Please god, let it be TRUE!

[ScoobySnax]

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[Altimus]

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[Kashanova]

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drew gooden?

[Altimus]

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You got it... new hair style.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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You've all been warned:

No team reloads like the Los Angeles Lakers.
Their track record of leveraging their hometown appeal and history, plus applying shrewd management, over the past 30 years is virtually without peer.
With their latest coups -- the stunning Steve Nash sign-and-trade and a victory in the Dwight Howard sweepstakes -- just now coming together for the first time, could the Lakers already be plotting out the next one?
Opposing executives think so. As teams continue their long-range planning and work up opposition strategies, the Lakers remain just as much a threat in the transaction game as they are on the court.
Several teams' executives have told ESPN.com they believe the Lakers are positioning themselves to make a run at LeBron James in 2014, when the Miami Heat star can choose to become a free agent.

In the wake of the Howard trade, much as been made of the massive luxury-tax bill the Lakers are facing next season if they're able to re-sign the big man. ESPN.com salary cap expert Larry Coon has estimated the Lakers could be on the hook for as much as $85 million just in taxes in 2013-14.
But look a little further, to that 2014-15 season, and you'll see something else: The Lakers' projected payroll is almost completely clear. Only Nash is signed for that season, at $9.7 million, though the Lakers will also be paying about $20 million to Howard if they can re-sign him this coming summer.
In July 2013, Bryant's $30.4 million, Pau Gasol's $19.2 million, Metta World Peace's $7.7 million, Steve Blake's $4 million and Jordan Hill's $3.5 million will come off the books. There likely won't even be any first-round draft picks filling up the cap, either, as the Lakers have already traded their 2013 first-round pick to Phoenix in the Nash deal.
Opposing teams that are making their own long-range free agency plans think they see the Lakers' plan coming into focus. As it stands, L.A. will have enough cap space to add a superstar like James.

"It's not a mistake that all those deals end the same year Kobe's does. They have probably been planning for their next phase for a while," said one general manager. "The Busses and [Lakers GM] Mitch [Kupchak] are always thinking about the next big deal."
Whether or not James would be interested in listening to a Lakers offer in two years is impossible to predict now. Remember, in 2008, it was hard to see James ending up in Miami in 2010 even though Heat president Pat Riley, a product of the Lakers' way of thinking, was already preparing to make it happen.

At the moment, the Heat are loaded and poised to be title contenders for the next two seasons.
James is signed through 2016, but he can end his contract in either 2014 or 2015 if he wishes to. He has recently said that he's not thought about his contract decision in 2014, even though he recently switched agents. But observers around the league expect James to opt out of his contract in 2014, no matter what happens with the Heat over the next two seasons. That doesn't mean he won't stay in Miami, but it does mean he might be in play again.
"The agent part probably doesn't matter. LeBron is the best player in the league and he's making less than the max, so unless he's seriously hurt he's going to opt out in 2014, if only because I would assume he wants and deserves to get a true max," said one league executive. "Even if the Heat win the next two titles there's a feeling that LeBron is going to become a free agent in two years no matter what."

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8518360/nba-los-angeles-lakers-eying-lebron-james-2014

[ScoobySnax]

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Sounds about right to me. CP3 goes to the Lakers after this season, the LBJ joins him and Dwight after the next. SMDH.

[Blue]

Sounds about right to me. CP3 goes to the Lakers after this season, the LBJ joins him and Dwight after the next. SMDH.

How could the Lakers afford Paul? If he doesn't stay with the clippers he's gonna either be a mav or hawk IMO.

[SteelersFreak]

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http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/201211/jeremy-lin-gq-november-2012-cover-story?currentPage=1

Pretty interesting article about Jeremy Lin.