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[1Rose]

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Pretty sure Ive never said, nor have I seen any Bulls fans on here proclaim Rose was better than CP3. Maybe you were reading the ESPN boards.

The generalizations here don't work.

[King_B_Mack]

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Oh, I don't care about Chuck not getting a ring....ish happens..... I think it's whack to say that stops him from sharing his opinion, he did play with greats like you said.

At the same time, many of these former players take advantage of sports fans short memory's.....all we like to remember about Chuck is he was a beast...but he has no room to talk on certain ****. TMac was just an example.....imagine Amare 15 years from now giving a player the business because of his lack of defense.....or JR Smith questioning a young players character...

I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, what are they supposed to do, not talk about it? At that point you get the **** off the screen cause you're not contributing anything to the broadcast. It's like people have told me about Trent Dilfer over on the NFL broadcast. He sucked as a QB but he's criticizing QBs left and right. If he can't call people on what they're doing or not doing out there then we may as well just eliminate broadcast shows and analysts.

[bigeastbumrush]

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Yeah, I've seen them, it's usually preceeded with those same Bulls fans ranking Paul ahead of Rose on their PG lists. Like I said, GTFOH with that nonsense. Bulls fans on here myself included get a little ahead of ourselves with some things we say, but trying to say Bulls fans here are on some "my PG is the bestest in the world" **** when that clearly isn't the case is some bull****.

Okay.

I know Knicks fans are feeling themselves cause they finally get to show off that they know how to count all the way up to .500 and all, but baby steps. Pump the brakes a little. Don't finally get your water pistol after everybody else been shooting theirs for years and try to go at them with it when they got Super Soakers now.

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Random.as.hell.

[Drewski]

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My LOL story of the day.

(S)he also told us that LeBron liked to drink apple martinis, which comes as no surprise because apple martinis are delicious, and if you had a job where you could take a four-hour nap every day to sleep off the sugar hangover, you would drink them, too. Relatedly, LeBron would ask his servers to have his steak (well done) already cut up for him, which corroborates a report by a (former?) server at Johnny’s who once told Grzegorek that LeBron would order his spaghetti cut up as well, and also of course enhances the credibility of our source.

CBS Sports

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Favorite part from that link. Food poisoning statistics and eating efficiency though?

And listen, a bunch of stats-loving geeks are going to try and talk to you about food poisoning statistics and eating efficiency. But anyon who's ever actually eaten a steak at the professional level knows that's all nonsense. Real steak-eaters don't think of things like that. And they know that if you're ordering anything above medium-rare, you're essentially saying "please burn all the flavor out of this $35 piece of meat."

Having it cut up for you? What are you, Carlos Boozer? You worried about injury? Pick up your knife and cut your own steak like a man. The last time someone cut up a steak for me, I was six, and it was my mother. Part of the joy of eating a finely cooked steak is slicing into that meat. You know what having someone else do it is? It's the steak version of passing to someone else in the clutch with the clock running down. You're just trying to avoid the moment. I can understand if it's steak frites on the menu. That's like having Wade wide open under the basket screaming for the ball. But otherwise, he's just shrinking from the moment again.

See, this is why LeBron James can never win a championship.

Sure, he can appreciate fine foods and have great cakes delivered for his birthday partis. But when it's clutch time, when it's steak time, he's telling the chef to murder its taste and then having it cut up for him . Michael Jordan never had a steak cut up for him. Kobe probably kills and butchers his own cow. Derrick Rose may accidentally stab the waiter, his date, and the table sixteen times, but by God, he cuts his own and does it with style!This is what separates LeBron from everyone else. Just another example of why he'll never live up to the hype.

(If for some reason you cannot read through the blinding absurdity of this post, it is not meant to be serious. LeBron can eat his steak however he wants. )

(But for real, LeBron, you need to order that sucker medium-rare.)

[LionsFanNJ]

at Kobe probably butchers and kills his own cow. Y'all got me lookin like a fool here at work laughing like a mad man.

[Drewski]

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So what's worse? Well Done or Cut for him?

[Boltman]

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So what's worse? Well Done or Cut for him?

lmao I'd say that's a double technical.

[The 24th Letter]

Gregg Popovich: Cheating the NBA
Posted by Berry Tramel on February 22, 2012M at 3:30 pm

The San Antonio Spurs tanked a game Tuesday night. There is no better way to say it. The Spurs played a game and didn’t try to win.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich rested his stars, Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, in a game at Portland. San Antonio already was missing injured starters Manu Ginobili and Tiago Splitter. So the Spurs started Danny Green, Cory Joseph, DeJuan Blair, Kawhi Leonard and Richard Jefferson. Popovich still had a couple of handy guys off the bench, Gary Neal and Matt Bonner. Neal played 18 minutes, Bonner six. James Anderson played 35 minutes; Eric Dawson played 32.

Portland led 41-23 after one quarter, 66-43 at halftime and 103-63 after three periods. The Blazers eventually won 137-97. No way could San Antonio win in Portland without Duncan, Parker, Splitter and Ginobili.

Popovich had justifiable reasons for tossing a game. In this high-density season, 66 games played over 132 days, fatigue sets in. Wear and tear affects even the hearty, much less ancients like Duncan. Coaches have to watch the minutes of their players. Coaches have to be careful with nagging injuries. Popovich, one of the NBA’s greatest coaches ever, long has compromised regular-season results to make sure his team is playoff-ready.

But Popovich cheated the game Tuesday night. Not cheated as in rigged the game clock or bugged the Blazer locker room. Cheated the game as in didn’t give a variety of elements their money’s worth. Cheated the game as in didn’t respect the competitive side of a league that long has battled the perception that regular-season games don’t matter much.

* The Spurs cheated the ticket-buyers. Portland’s ticket prices are like Oklahoma City’s and everyone else’s. Unbelievably high. A mid-court ticket, 11 rows up, for the Thursday Portland-Miami game: $866. You pay $866, or $466, or $166, or $66, and you deserve the best show the teams can provide.

* The Spurs cheated the national fans. San Antonio-Portland was the back end of an NBATV doubleheader. Spurs-Blazers isn’t like Knicks-Heat, or Celtics-Lakers. NBA fans across the nation don’t get to see San Antonio a ton and don’t get to see Portland much. And yet, here on a reasonably-high stage, we get a total mismatch, totally blown off by one of the teams.

* The Spurs cheated the networks. I know, NBATV isn’t quite like TNT or ESPN. But these networks pay huge money for these television rights, and when we have a bogus game like Portland-San Antonio, it lessens the quality of the overall product. The viewer is sufficiently told that the regular season has its hole. The regular season can be shaky. The regular season, feeding the stereotype, can be irrelevant. And that hurts the ratings. Not to mention the eventual rights fees.

* The Spurs cheated the Blazers’ chief competitors. San Antonio played at Utah on Monday night, at Portland on Tuesday night and goes to Denver on Thursday night. The Jazz, Nuggets and Blazers are all wrangling for playoff positioning, perhaps even the eighth spot in the West, which is the last seat on the lifeboat. Popovich made the decision to play his stars against Utah on Monday, and the Spurs won. We assume the stars will play Thursday night at Denver. But Pop gave Portland a game. If the Blazers reach the playoffs by a game over Denver and/or Utah, Portland should send Popovich a bottle of wine.

Lol, I actually don't blame some for feeling like this...

[SidVish]

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The OSers who come on here with that "my PG is the bestest PG in the world" talk (mostly Bulls fans about DRose) have some sort of inferiority complex or something. The guy won MVP for goodness sakes.

DWill never gets mentioned frankly because his team sucks. If he made the playoffs...he'd get more mention. But to do it in the regular season on a losing team isn't gonna get much talk.

I simply questioned DWill's motivation. He got himself "up" for Jeremy Freaking Lin but I don't hear him having career nights against the better teams in the league...unless I missed it of course.

[SidVish]

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My LOL story of the day.



CBS Sports

You know what? For some reason this doesn't surprise me in the least.

[BlueNGold]

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This line right here just might replace my current sig which has been going strong for a long time:

Part of the joy of eating a finely cooked steak is slicing into that meat. You know what having someone else do it is? It's the steak version of passing to someone else in the clutch with the clock running down.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Like a mother******' boss:

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[Boltman]

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Like a mother******' boss:

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Like a Boss indeed lol.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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A year ago today


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