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NBA:LeBron James hands out career-high 17 dimes
NBA:Kevin Love scores 39 points vs. Wizards
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NBA:Anthony Davis scores 34 points w/ 5 blocks
NBA:DeMar DeRozan scores 31 in return
NBA:Griffin posts first triple-double since 2014
NBA:Jimmy Butler (heel) ruled out for Monday
NBA:Iman Shumpert (ankle) goes to locker room
NBA:Kawhi Leonard (quad) is a late scratch Monday
NFL:49ers officially name Shanahan head coach
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1st for clips4lyfe

letting emotions dictate the game is fucking stupid. the reason the spurs have been so successful is because they're cold blooded assassins, like kawhi. it's also the reason why the warriors are slightly similar to to the spurs, with klay being so devoid of emotion.

emotions are just a hindrance to humanity in general.

>DeMarcus Cousins picks up a 1-game suspension
>The second technical foul came with 1.1 seconds remaining in the game.
topkek, grow up boogie

I don't know how this

NFL:49ers officially name Shanahan head coach

ended up in there

pls dont bully

>had a better team
No he fucking didn't. They had 19 wins after he left you sack of shit. They worked well together because he was on the team.

Russell Westbrook is not an elite scorer. He is a very good scorer. He is not KD, he is not Steph, he is not even LeBron James at scoring, and the sooner he realizes this, the sooner he can became a championship contender.

People keep saying he's not selfish, because they are blind. He has a higher usage rate than Kobe Bryant, one of the most selfish players ever, in the season where he averaged 35ppg and had NOBODY around him. Highest usage rate in history. Say it with me. Highest. Usage. Rate. In. History.

He had more shot attempts than KEVIN DURANT in several seasons. He is selfish. It's okay. It's not that much of an insult. MJ was selfish, and he was the greatest player fucking EVER. But he had to have it drilled into him by phil to be less selfish, and he started winning titles after that happened. Westbrook has a lot of time to fix this problem, but right now, it is a very real problem.

Why do Westbrook fans refuse to admit this? Are you guys delusional? Is this what 76ers fans were like with AI?

he's really gonna keep doing it huh

Westbrook and LeBron are different scenarios, different positions, different eras, and different players.

Quit with the fucking comparisons right now.

>embiid and KAT are unproven, they fall to real competition
Meanwhile Boogie falls to everyone, with his lone 30 win season in 5+ years.

individually faggot, not team match-ups.

because pipper is michael jordan in a forwards body, go look at pipper highlights, dude is a fucking legend.
i've said it once and ill say it again
Scottie pipper > Lebron James. don't @ me.

listen thought, this league is fucking weak aside from lebron and Westbrook and maybe wade and kawhii, all the "stars" are lame, lets list a few shall we, and im not talking skill im talking mental toughness, shit that wins you titles in the right situation.

curry? go punked in the finals and choked
AD? lol can't even stay on the court
KD well we all know already
damian lillard? 100 - 0 real quick
clippers big 3? over rated
melo? pathetic

compared to the stars jordan went through, they're role players. so if these guys are the best of the best, them imagine what the guys not as good as them are, although im sure we can find some tough bench players in this era. i forgot where i was getting at but point is, lebron only had pippen and they won because he himself was jordan-tier, and they dominated other teams that would make this eras contenders a joke, and dont say spurs because they're nothing without pops.

Oh yeah Boogie falls to everyone since he fouls out of every single game with childish antics

Post /ourguys/

Starting with this handsome devil

EmBiid is carrying a shit team on his own.

KAT has/had to rely on his other teammates.

Lmao lebron and all his all stars in the world he could play with TO GEt cheap rings would neVER make him better or the same to jordan. Lebron is a ring chaser who couldnt handle one team so he left regardless if he carried them to the playoffs. Then came back and made another triple all star team n good role players to win. Now hes saying he needs help oh my gooooodness a cuadrouple all star team..... Thats sad I'm crying right now

>rings would neVER make him better or the same to jordan
because your opinion decides who's good or not. riiiight.

by that logic MJ is not the goat because i said so too.

are you serious right now?
he was never in a position to come back, desu if i checked i bet he always lead series, and im just saying that because its fucking Jordan.

WHY do you guys always forget that no matter what, jordan is the ALL TIME GOAT FOR A REASON.

he had titles, mvps, all nba's, all stars, and the fucknig most beautiful individual game in the history of mankind, kobe is the clsest we ever got to nother jordan, we all should all understand this by now, wtf.

/nba/ should bring backto posting Jordan youtube clips, theo nly people that hated on that is curry dick riders. and thats becuase that manlet cant dunk so he will NEVER

NEVER

NEVER

EVERRRRR

be in the same breath as jordan.

you cucks need jesus, and jordan.

Reminder to report Larry's Reddit spam.

He was banned the last time he did this.

He's breaking the rules and we were having a good last two days without him.

This is him.

He uses this image a lot.
Check the image hash on the archives.

you started this! you don't join the 73 win team you had down 3-1 in the WCF but choked. You buckle up strap em up and go back to work the next season to beat them. If you have to join another team to do it so be it but don't join that team it's that simple. Did Lebron join the Celtics when they beat him? Did Duncan join Kobe and the lakers when they beat him? Did Jordan join the pistons when they humiliated him? The answer is no to all of them. They either formed a formidable team to compete like Lebron or put their heads down and got them and their teams better like Jordan and Duncan. Now if Durant would excuse himself from being put in the same convo as any of those players forever fine. It was a weak move simple and plain and I would bet my entire life savings any other superstar in the league would jump at the oppurtunity to play with a top 5 player in westbrook. Jordan wouldn't have won in 2014 with injured d wade. Jordan wouldn't have gone 6 games imo against warriors w no Kyrie or k love. Jordan wouldn't have beaten the 73 win warriors, he never had a series like LeBron did the last 2 finals (arguably two greatest finals performances ever). He would have won in 2011 because he was a model of consistency but on individual talent it's extremely close. I think Jordan with Brons teams against Brons opponents has 3 rings. Jordan played against garbage in the 90s compared to LeBron playing a dynastic Spurs team 3 times, and one of the greatest teams ever in the Warriors twice. The 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 finals were more than anything Jordan faced in the finals.

Don't get me wrong, Jordan is the greatest ever and he has a lot to prove it but he's also a beneficiary of circumstances.

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Is Cousins seriously suspended for the game against Boston wednesday?

I sent in some feedback, he's posting it from this thread a few days ago

archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/73982099/#73983113

Please take a moment to admire the great LeBron for the special talent he is. It never gets old looking at the King's history. So many accomplishments Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan will never achieve:

1.Only player in NBA history to quit because of Air Conditioner.
2.Quit on his team the year after he promises a championship.
3.Dunked on by a high school kid then confiscates the tape.
4.Bail on the dunk contest 9 times.
5.Only able to win a ring with 2 superstars.
6.Play on same team as his moms boyfriend.
7.Average 1.8 pts in the 4th quarter of NBA finals.
8.Lose not 1, not 2, but 4 times in the Finals.
9.Host a national televised TV show to leave his team.
10.Go 2 for 18 in an NBA playoff game.
11.Get stuffed by a player under 6 feet. (Nate Robinson)
12.Flop every single game in the playoff 5 out of 6 finals games by dropping FG% by 18.
13. voted for hillary
14.0 Rings if not for refs calling early fouls on Durant and Westbrook it threw them out of rhythm, made them play soft, and sit for big parts of the game which changed the flow and momentum of the finals.
15. First person to show his dick and lose in a Finals game.
16. got shut down by a bench player who ended up getting finals MVP
17. could not post up jj barea
18.got outscored by Jason Terry in an entire finals series

I can't see that technical getting rescinded, so probably

i thought only canadians posted this

youtube.com/watch?v=vdzmTEaeuCc

He's coming home.

>“I’m not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, ‘I’m not a role model.’ I never showed up to All-Star Weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying. “All I’ve done for my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. Fourteen years, never got in trouble. Respected the game. Print that.”
>“Go watch the ’93 Finals when John Paxson hit the shot,” James said. “Barkley and Jordan were laughing and joking with each other during one of the games while somebody’s shooting a free throw. In the Finals. But, oh, nobody were friends back then.” […] “I know [Barkley] wanted to retire a long time ago, but he can’t,” James said. “He’s stuck up on that stage every week.” James then issued a challenge, of sorts. “And if this makes him want to talk to me, the schedule’s out there,” James said. “He knows every road arena I’ll be in. Don’t just come up to me at All-Star and shake my hand and smile.”
Barkley was absolutely BTFO
Damn he got sonned

this truly is the worst general on Sup Forums

i would rather go to the tripfag infested /nfl/ than read the vapid autism you all post

just ban everyone on here and start over

interesting pattern

what does this even mean? you have people spamming posts and posting gay porn without being banned

literally what

and this bothers you? tell me more friend

what's ironic is that /nfl/ is full of tripfags but actually talk about the sport while /nba/ are full of anons who try to spot out boogeymans and assign names to posters they don't agree with.

this is a shook general.

this

no one wants to trip up, we need a hero. Clips4lyfe has forsaken us. Everyone talks about tripping up the general but no one trips up.

When Curry threepeats this season does that make him top 5 all time or is he already better than Jordan?

better

food4lyfe is the problem

we had two pretty good trips but the autists ruined that

you're welcome

>he thinks Embiid is hurt

>implying were not tanking for Ball, Fultz, Monk

It's always darkest before dawn

As a Thunder fan we could strike a deal. I think Meyers Leonard is extremely promising and would fit with the culture of our great city. Could work a deal centered around Westbrook and him.

Can't wait for your team to shatter into a million pieces after they lose to The Jazz in the first round of playoffs. We getting Home Court baby.

>trips are gone
>Sup Forums crew stalkers got BTFO
>engaging basketball discussion
>mods are gods
>weststats benchriding the ASG
>Lebron is scared out of his mind he can't beat the warriors so he's begging for mello playmaker
>Chuck called out Lebron for being a total pussy ass nigga
>Yogi is /our guy/
>trump won

is this the best /nba/ has ever been or will ever be?

To what? Put Dolla Dame at SG and Double PG cheese like the Suns are? Or put Westbrook on another team with no real help?

Besides the Refs being the worst I've ever seen them, YES! This Year Is Hype! Post All-Star break Schedule is gonna be some great Ball.

blame lebron senpai did you see the game today. he's reached levels of retardation never seen before. that shit won't be cute once he fades and chimps out on every play

this is harsh and I started expecting to have to play doubles advocate but I mostly agree with everything.

You're forgetting players like Kawhi, Butler and Thomas who are grossly overacheiving but not quite in that range of Ewing-Malone types when it comes to best of an era but they outplay every one of the talented guys off of effort and heart.

>Besides the Refs being the worst I've ever seen them
explain

The refs were the worst he'd ever seen them.

lebron exists

Report him.

Don't ignore his spam.

Of all the players on this piece of shit team you chose quite possibly the shittiest. Who on earth would want Meyers Leonard?

>Who on earth would want Meyers Leonard?
your mom

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You're replying to the spammer. He's a troll.

why are you trying to derail the thread? some of us actually like basketball discussion

1. In Big Games (GSW VS CLE, CLE VS WSH, BOST VS TOR, Games with some Hype*) I feel like there's a inconsistency on how the games are called going into certain periods of the game. Even a game like Boston vs Memphis earlier in the season, they let them play hard ball then second half of fourth slowed down and soft even questionable calls started being made. I felt the same with the Christmas Finals Rematch.

2. I feel like there are a lot more Hard fouls being missed and more Soft/Questionable calls are being made. Not just on Superstars or Allstars but through out all of the game.

be careful user, Boston wins a Superbowl and they think they can win an /nba/-title. lele fucking delusional cucks. This is bron's sport, no one goes to the finals in the east unless they go through him, and lets be real, no one goes through him.

>no one goes through him

>this thread

yeah im going to bed

>there are people that think Barkley isn't a broke coward who is forced to work because of his debts

funny how /nba/ sucked barkley off until it didn't fit their agendas. cuckolds all of you

klay for danny green confirmed

Oh, so you're the butthurt Grizzlies hater who gets mad over physical basketball from the last thread.

Gotcha.

LeBron ist playing way too many minutes. He will be fucking exhausted in the play-offs.

Is there any hope for the suns? No way they can compete with golden state, or any top team but what about in a few years? Tj Warren, Chris, bender and booker a good enough core to expand around? Booker , Chris and bender aren't even 20 yet

Chriss looks like a 6th man at best and Bender looks like he's a few years away from even contributing. Also you'll probably trade Booker in a year or two and draft a player like Len or Bender.

He's on pace for a major injury for his age and minutes.

He's lucky he fouled out or he'd be one step closer to the cliff.

Nah. Wanted Memphis to lose. Jazz fan. There was a play where Isiah Thomas was fouled around 3min 4th Quarter where there was just daylight between the other player and him. It happened to Boston too. They called some weak fouls on some Conley drives.The first 3 1/2 quarters were great to watch, they let them play! You're right, it was a physical game. Just thought A LOT more fouls were called that game in the last half of the 4th quarter.

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Yeah. I don't think you'll trade Devin Booker. You're low enough to get some trade bait in the draft or solid support guy. Brandon Knight can sweeten the deal. You already have Bledsoe, you can let him go. At best you guys make a shot at 8th next year.

maybe if they package Bledsoe, Knight and their first they can get Thomas from the Celtics.

You're right. LeBron in his 2nd year in the nba until the present day has been better than Westbrook ever can be. Why do Westfags find this so insulting? Is this what it was like being a Charles Barkley fan in the 90s and knowing that Jordan was just better and not wanting to admit it?

Yeah maybe. Depends on what they can get in the Draft. Might hold onto it. Maybe could even trade Knight + *Draft/Player (Not Booker) for Lillard. Rumors of Trade talk from Portland.

not that guy here

How can he say Westbrook and LeBron are from different eras?
They are contemporaries, this is Westbrook's 9th season, and LeBron's 14th.

/nba/ is delusional

looking at nba rule changes for fun
nba.com/analysis/rules_history.html
>1974-75
>When there are punching fouls on both teams during the same play, the team last offended is awarded possession.
>punching fouls

Reminded me of this (which I posted in the last thread, it didn't get any traction so here it is again).

theringer.com/what-happened-to-the-nba-enforcer-2ea97992e534
>Dennis Awtrey
>“I guess I got my reputation,” he told Sports Illustrated in 1977, “when I punched Kareem in the face four years ago on national TV.”

Some off court hi-jinks:
>Charles Oakley
>He once slapped Charles Barkley during a players association meeting.
>Bulls beat writer Vince Goodwill witnessed Oakley take a child out of a player’s arms, hand the child to the player’s girlfriend, and slap the player in the face.

>Lebron called the reports of melo to the cavs for love "trash" along with the reporter who reported it

what the fuck is this guy's problem?

He is the SALT right now. I think if he is this mad going into the Playoffs we see the effect in the Finals. Especially if they have a harder road in the East this year.

>heat with 11 wins in a row
>my nigger dragić dropped 33 pts yesterday
man, what the hell is going on

Because he's alleging that LeBron himself is the one that wants Love traded and that's a personal attack on LeBron.

Love and LeBron are friends and he's backed up Love many times last year when people were saying he was unnecessary and what not.

So for a reporter to say something like just pushes it into the realm of tabloids and really makes him look like uncredible. This reporter also has a past of bad reporting and mixing words for headlines.

It's well within his right and it's most likely an attack against this particular source showing he's had enough with him personally.

What the fuck do you mean? A reporter lied about him and his teammates. That is trashy.

LeBron plays his best basketball when he's mad probably. Like against Boston in 2012 and Golden State after they all shit on him last year up 3-1.

No one has ever claimed Westbrook is better than LeBron you fucking retards.

Also you're replying to someone that is replying to a reddit post by Larry, which was deleted by the mods because it's against the rules.

I always hear about how LeBron didn't do more with less than Westbrook(he did), how Westbrooks usage rate is so high because no one could consistently win games with that team if their usage rate was higher (they have and they can considering he has the highest usage rate ever and people have done more with less). People don't want to admit that there are players who have had better seasons with Russell Westbrook, and in the case of LeBron it's largely because he knew how to share the ball more (and was a better scorer). No one wants to admit that Westbrook has flaws in his playstyle, like he literally couldn't be better no matter what he does. It's retarded and delusional.

No one could consistently win games if their usage rate was lower***

You're coming off from a biased stant point I can already tell.

Obviously LeBron didn't need to do as much because that team was better than this one and worked better.

If you've even watched one OKC game you'd know how offensively deficiant their roster is with players like Grant, Roberson, even Steven Adams who's only recently developed a offensive game and after awhile every team in the league and their players now know the couple of moves he's going to pull. He's regularly hacked and because he doesn't flop players get away with it, so he's very TO prone.
If you even take a second to look over the stat line of LeBron's teammates you can obviously tell this wasn't the case. Their glaring weakness was defense and there was a different in "eras" although I think era implies a large time span. Back in those years the NBA was very devoid of defense and isoball was very popular post Iverson.
There was a very clear different in the team, circumstances, and comparing them in the way you're implying is just dumb to even begin to do.

They taking the East back

Mo averaged 18 a game. Big Z averaged 13, West averaged 12. Oladipo averages 16, Kanter 14.5, Adams 11. Slightly less, gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with Westbrook having the highest usage rate in NBA history?

We aren't talking Cleveland had 53 wins or something. They had 66. 66 fucking wins.

Put LeBron in his 9th year on the Thunder and take off Westbrook. If you don't think they are a better team, you are flat out wrong. If you don't think Westbrooks team would be better if he had a lower usage rate, you are also wrong. Why is it that every other player has flaws besides Russell Westbrook? Westbrook is the perfect NBA player right? He never does anything wrong?

Let me say this for the umpteenth time. Highest usage rate ever. Higher than Kobes when he averaged 35. Higher than Jordan's when he averaged 37. Higher than James Harden's right now.

Stop acting like this is a new fucking thing. He has had more shot attempts per game than KD in multiple seasons. HE IS SELFISH. Why will you guys not accept this? Jordan was selfish. Kobe was selfish. They have a combined 11 titles and one is the GOAT. They had to learn to share the ball more at some point. Westbrook hasn't learned it yet, he didn't share the ball when he had a top 5 team for 5 years and he isn't sharing it now.

Accept that Westbrook has things he can improve on and I'll never bring this up again. But you won't even say "westbrook has flaws" or "there are things he could do to make his teammates better" when you know it's true.

>looking at points only and completely disregarding averages and play style
Majority of Oladipo's points come from three pointers and free throws.
Adams and Kanter are severly limted to post play.
Everyone on LeBron's team's main rotation was a all around player.

Then you go into some dumb hypotheticals.
Then you go on some dumb emotional rant.

You need help, you're not even talking to me you're talking to yourself.

Seek help.

I just woke up and that guy is obviously a hater. Like really autistic too.

Like he's not even talking to you, he's a schizo.

Someone needs to talk to go wiz and get some meds.

When LeBron left the Cavs they went from multiple 60+ win seasons to 19 wins. Don't tell me he had all this help.

Do you think a LeBron lead team is better than a Westbrook lead team? You admitted LeBron is better but then won't admit that Westbrook has flaws. It makes no sense how delusional you guys are. Westbrook is selfish. Highest usage rate ever.

What? I used the word "you" multiple times. Are you faggots that obsessed with Westbrook that you can't even respond to an argument coherently?

Bruh, seek help.

You're suffering from debilitating autism and having rants of autistic rage.

Breath in and out of your milk bag to calm yourself down.

>burger knows they are wrong so they just resort to retarded insults
Like President, like resident.

Lmao

>Breath in and out of your milk bag to calm yourself down.

Did someone say GOAT and mention Kobe, MJ and Westgod?

>lied

bull fucking shit.

Lebron is always crying.