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Showing posts with label NBA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NBA. Show all posts
(Video) Been waiting to see the @KingJames workout with Hakeem The Dream .. here it is ..
First of all, lets discuss how GOOD HAKEEM WAS at what is CLEARLY 6'9ISH to 6'10. "Cause when he is standing next to Lebron, he isn't towering over him. At all.
Anyway, this shit is unfair man.. For real. @ if he unveils this post game at the right time.
(Video) I'll make you weak at the knees..Make you feel alright- @TherealJoeJohnson7 crosses up @PaulPierce34
I mean..it happens. I don't wanna make it sound like PAUL has caught a cat or two in his days. Just his turn last night. That's all.
(Video) @MrVinceCarter15 baptizes Bismack Biyombo X Dunk
Yeah.. still something in the tank... He almost had one on Friday I believe... @ dunk on someone..
(Videos) P.J. Hairston Goes OFF for 49 Points/dunks on Jerry Stackhouse; Top Plays from NC Pro-Am Playoffs!
We all know PJ is known to mash it on a cat...
Here is PJ's performance solo...
Jerry Stackhouse.. I commend you. "Cause you used to be the young boy doing this to cats and now you are out here giving some young boys the chance to do their thing..
(Videos) Speaking of Charles Barkley...
..the disrespect for his game is laughable.
I know it is hard for some of you 'youngsters' to fathom how good he was because..well...there is NO PLAYER in the NBA like him. No one playing now or in the past, was a TRUE POWER FORWARD at 6'4ish. Dunking on 7 footers OFF A TWO FOOT POST AND PLANT MOVE ON THE REG. Or spinning off a baseline, landing on two feet and STILL DUNKING ON CATS. That doesn't happen like that from your POWER FORWARD now. Even when you play Lebron at the 4, he doesn't DO THAT 'cause his post work is in progress. Charles ALWAYS PLAYED IN THE POST so he had an ALL AROUND POST GAME.
I love how everyone loves to 'dismiss' his game due to his lack of chips. He was one of my favorite players ever. Ever. Everyone likes to talk about Pip dunking on Ewing..There is one in here of Chuck doing him in...David Robinson gets some too.. remember...Chuck was MAYBE 6'4.. Definitely not 6'6 as listed and even if he was 6'6..HE PLAYED POWER FORWARD against cats who were 6'10 and up on the reg... Foot work was immaculate.
I also think folks forgot that Chuck had a 'handle'. Peep the highlights. He was not just some big dude lumbering up the court.
Him elbowing Mike.....lmao
The 'Charles Barkley' many of you know now...
(Videos) Original Dream Team X Full Games (Well a few of them anyway)
Since the highlights are always shown...lets take a look at a few of the Original Dream Team's games... Well some of them. In their entirety. Naw, I don't expect you to watch them ALL. Some interesting ones though.
Finally.. NBA Players Forced to Save Toward Retirement for First Time - Bloomberg
National Basketball Association players, who were paid an average of about $5 million last season, will be forced for the first time to save money for retirement.
Players in the league this past season will receive $34 million, or 1 percent of what the league and union call basketball-related income, to be invested in an annuity, union attorney Ron Klempner said.
Scottie Pippen #33 of the Chicago Bulls drives against the Seattle SuperSonics in this file photo. Photographer: Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images
“We know that it’ll deliver good, fair returns,” he said in a telephone interview.
The program is part of the 10-year collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and the players union that ended a lockout in November.
Former NBA players Scottie Pippen, Latrell Sprewell and Antoine Walker are among retired professional athletes who have experienced financial difficulty after careers in which they earned tens of millions of dollars. Walker filed for bankruptcy after being paid more than $100 million over 12 years in the NBA.
“It’s a start,” player agent Keith Glass said in a telephone interview. “It does force you to save something, and that’s a good idea.”
Retired players can access the money before their pensions begin at age 50. Players can take an early pension at 45, Klempner said.
Basketball-related income in the NBA will top $4 billion next season, meaning the amount of forced savings also will rise.
Beginning next season, players also will surrender 5 percent to 10 percent of their salary for retirement. They automatically will be enrolled in the program and would have to opt-out to keep from participating in the plan, Klempner said.
Investment details for that plan aren’t complete, Klempner said.
NBA Players Forced to Save Toward Retirement for First Time - Bloomberg
*real life tears* X Video X Kyrie Irving challenges Kobe Bryant to a one on one game.
I'm not laughing because he challenged him btw. Just LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION. The shit talking is at a all time high in this joint..
Would love to see it by the way...
Video after the jump aka click the post and you can see the video..
(Picture) @KingJames X @Slamonline X Cover X "Hi Hater"
Almost makes me wish I had went ahead and published the post I did on this. Hell, I might give you a couple of pieces of what I was going to write...Keep scrolling down.. This cover is about what I had in mind though... Doesn't guarantee him a ring but...this probably won't hurt...
Funny how folks were mad at Ray like he was DRAFTED by the Celtics or something. He had to sign off to come to Boston last I checked.. Crazy listening to fans that have had teams with 4-5 HOF a pop on the SAME TEAM. Very interesting to hear the 'manufactured' team bullshit.
Rashard's contract has made him the butt of jokes but lets not get it twisted, he can be key.
You don't respect it? Oh well... You better do like Rik Flair ...learn to live with it....This is one of my followers agreeing with Pistol Water Pete....
The picture speaks for itself but I guess I have to remind you folks that unless you have won a chip with ALL PLAYERS that your team has drafted, I probably don't respect much of what you are talking about when you say stupid shit like this. Let me say it for you REAL SLOW...
Any move..made by any team/player is done for the BETTERMENT OF THEIR SITUATION. What that 'betterment' is depends on the person. If you would have went for the money, good for your greedy ass. He wanted the chip. The same way any GM WHO BRINGS IN TALENT WANTS THE CHIP. You don't frown on that do you? If you do, you are an idiot.
But it wasn't done the 'traditional' way....- You
Folks couldn't drink at certain water fountains a long time ago either. You suggesting we go back to that? Women couldn't work nor vote...I guess you support 'tradition in that sense' too huh? Traditional my ass. Players had no leverage before so....DUH...this didn't happen before. No shit Sherlock. In some cases, SOME DID HAVE IT and messing around with their pride, they had to leave the game without the one thing that all of them wish they had. A ring. Some folks DID TRY AND PLAY WITH THEIR 'RIVALS'/FRIENDS and DIDN'T GET THE JOB DONE. I shouldn't have to holler their names. You should know them.
I've heard all types of bullshit about folks not 'jumping at the chance to play with their friends' on a high level from the SAME FOLKS WHO DON'T LIKE PLAYING 5-5 AT THE DAMM PARK without their '5'. So miss me with that 'I don't respect it..." Some of you won't even PLAY BASKETBALL WITHOUT YOUR 'BOYS' or I have seen you switch teams and SIT OUT GAMES so you could play with your friends...lol*
He signed a contract. He fulfilled said contract. That's it.
The other issue that I've had with 'the criticism' is the fence straddling idea that 'they didn't have a team' and they would never win ANYTHING when they would lose a game to the OTHER POLAR OPPOSITE VIEW CARRIED BY THE SAME FOLKS OF 'They have the three best players so they should win'....Which. One. Is. It? Make. Up. Your. Mind. Stop moving the goal posts folks. **
The idea that this sews up chips for him for YEARS TO COME is pretty wild (not ABSOLUTELY CRAZY THOUGH) but EQUALLY WILD is the 'he has only won one' meme that you guys keep going with like the cat can win 'more than one at a time'. That's laughable and pretty outlandish. He can only play for one chip at a time folks. I mean IF THEY DO WIN NEXT YEAR (They are my favorites), what are you gonna do? Come back to the same meme again? *tears* You sound like a four year old and shit. Stop. Same way that him 'only winning one' doesn't mean he is going to win more is the same way that you can't count him out in games that HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN PLAYED YET. Lets just wait and see shall we? I mean I know y'all like to 'be right and shit' so making such an outlandish statement is the norm but damm. smh
It was nice to hear that Wade was actually hurt too. Lets go on ahead and act like that had 'no bearing' on things at all though like y'all tend to do. @ his knee. I mean I was critical of Wade (Even took to calling him Tyrone on Twitter..it is in the archives somewhere..) but I also said I would give him a pass if it was because of that balky knee. It was. So here is his pass. Not like he NEEDS IT THOUGH CAUSE IT WASN'T LIKE HE DIDN'T DO SQUAT. He gutted it out and turned in some stellar performances. You could tell they weren't typical performances of his though. That's all. For those of you who follow me on Twitter, there is your explanation for the 'Tyrone' thing. lol All in good fun. I am a Wade fan actually. Have been since Marquette. (He won me a lot of money that year!)
Anyway...I hope TEAM USA wins the chip so that EVERYONE on the team gets to feel like a Champ this year...I won't hope that Lebron 'gets a break' 'cause I know some of you hate him like he stole something from you or something..smh
*I'm sure SOMEBODY IS READING THIS RIGHT NOW SAYING.."I know someone like that....OH shit..it is ME..."
** I'd say by the addition, the 'whole team' thing probably isn't going to be used as much... @ all the belly aching.
