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UpperWestside

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  1. There’s guys you can say this about with certainty. James Harden will never win a title. Embiid’s postgame comments were ill-advised, especially when neither guy up there did anything remotely well. Embiid at this point is still not a leader and with Glenn Rivers as his coach you can bet he isn’t going to change. Tyrese Maxey should run from this franchise as soon as he possibly can. Playing 3rd banana on this roster is a waste of his skill set. Put him in a free flowing offensive system where his abilities are a much better fit than his current situation. If I were Golden State I would at least put in a call and see if they want to move a bad contract like the one Harris has if it meant landing him. You have to at least kick the tires with a player like Maxey.
  2. If the 92 Dream Team wore Clippers jerseys in the Olympics, Angola would have beaten them by 20. The JV team in LA is just a cursed/comically run franchise.
  3. https://andscape.com/features/its-ok-to-be-different-spurs-forward-keldon-johnson-feels-at-home-outdoors/amp/ That seems to be an acceptable way to show what you enjoying doing in your free time.
  4. I mean I understand this and it’s a bit of a mind-bender thinking about how the same thing is celebrated by a different segment of the populace. Anyone that needs to use a gun to show some level of toughness is the exact opposite of that. The NBA just cannot send a message to their fans, many of which are really young, that this is an acceptable way to conduct yourself. Personally I would give him or any other player the Roy Tarpley treatment for repeat stupidity like this.
  5. If your boss tells you to change your personal behavior because you are setting a bad example and you fail to do so then you deserve the finding out part of the messing around chart. He’s about to be cosplaying with water guns after his giant payday is withheld for an entire season.
  6. Watching this play out I feel pretty confident saying that none of this is related to any kind of mental illness. Well at least not until a psychiatrist decides to label messing around and finding out a syndrome. Morant is just your average clownfraud trying to emulate a lifestyle he does not know the first thing about. Morant is getting a year off without pay and maybe more than that. If Stern were still alive and running the show he’d be banished permanently. Silver gives him a year away I think, but his actions deserve at least two years worth of being told to kick rocks and ply your trade in Europe or China.
  7. This should move into the suspended for the entire 2023-24 season territory now. That kid he beat up and threatened with a gun should get himself a good lawyer and sue the mess out of this horrific clownshow and his friends.
  8. Are you saying LeBron did not write a letter before the bubble WCF? Yes he did. Matter of fact it was a short one and said this. Dear Adam, Get me more free throws or else. Sincerely, Shadow Commissioner Bron.
  9. I get it. You need a conspiracy. Just don’t watch and go outside and do something productive during the games if you believe things are rigged for the Lakers. The negativity is just way, way too strong about this with you. Denver wins I’m cool with it. This isn’t life and death stuff. It’s sports and nothing more.
  10. Again I do not believe in conspiracies that are solely designed to help one team win. I am sure someone has a picture of Tim Donaghy they’d like to post though. Giving Denver a built-in excuse if they don’t win is, I mean, it’s just silly. The Purple and Gold win that’s awesome for myself @Sbbruin and a few others. If Denver wins then most of this board will be happy. Whatever team wins it won’t be because of some vast referee and league office conspiracy. Save stuff like that for Abovetopsecret or some website of that nature.
  11. Schroeder is who I would count on more in this series. Russell has his work cut out for him to keep his head above water in this series, especially if the shots aren’t falling.
  12. It 100 percent comes down to the refs. If they call it straight up (unlikely), Nuggets win in 5 or 6. Calls will have very little to do with it. I find stances like that to be crutches for why a team comes up short. If the Nuggets win it’ll be because they are the better team. The Lakers like to pound it into the paint, and are able to do it with really good players. Teams that generally play that style will add up the calls on their opponent. That’s the old Carolina philosophy that has been around since forever.
  13. I feel good about the series against Denver. Jokic is going to be his usual amazing self, but if AD can stay on the court and play the way he is playing the Purple and Gold win the series. It really just comes down to what AD does. It is going six or seven games I think and should be pretty entertaining.
  14. Such an amazingly beautiful area run by absolutely insane people on that school board.
  15. I think this is probably the best and clearest explanation you will ever get as to why the cult members are the way they are.
  16. You live here you see this every single day on the subway. It has never crossed my mind to put someone in a chokehold that slowly drained the life right out of them. There is no defending this. I have not been in a situation where anything like this has happened, but I would like to think I would have done something besides stand back and watch a man die. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/jordan-neelys-death-what-we-know-about-subway-choke-hold.html
  17. A Knock on a giant redwood for Davis for him to actually remain healthy means the Lakers win this series. This is asking something that seems impossible given his injury history. I took the Shaq-Kobe years for granted in the playoffs. I never worried about those kinds of things once mid-April rolled around. This is a six or seven game series. As a fan of the Purple and Gold though I will take Curry and Thompson shooting it 49 times for 52 points. Anyone that complains about a free throw disparity can point it directly at them not attacking the paint often enough. The Lakers can get to the rim regularly because their attack starts and ends with Davis and James. The Warriors are not built to defend a duo like that when both are on their game. When those two are going downhill at Looney it is going to be a good night at the line for everyone because the floor opens up for cutters. The Dubs have to pick up the pace and make LA run with them. I would expect a far more concerted effort to attack the rim in Game 2 from them. This version of the Lakers is an actual team. I loved the additions at the deadline, especially Vanderbilt and Hachimura. It also allowed Reaves to have the ball in his hands more once Westbrook was traded. That dude can just flat out get it and he is not scared to attack which is cool to see. I am also a big Schroeder guy on this current roster. This is his chance to show that his showing last summer at the Euros was not flash in the pan stuff. For the Tech fans, I was glad we hired Ham. I always liked him going back to the Sweet 16 run. Ham is the kind of coach James and Davis will respect. Whether my guys win this series or not I like how much more cohesive they are on the floor now.
  18. It’ll take some creative maneuvering to add talent with where they stand cap-wise. It will be two years before they can overhaul the roster if this incarnation does not get them over the hump.
  19. Good on Embiid on winning the MVP. There really wasn’t a wrong choice.
  20. I would want Harlan on the marquee game in San Francisco.
  21. I have a friend in Dallas that is a Knicks lifer going back to Bernard. The early 90’s Knicks really helped to make the game unwatchable.
  22. I think this is almost a universal trait shared by every fanbase outside of Utah. He was and is still a horrible human being. How he treated his son when he was drafted by Buffalo was ridiculous. That he raped a 13 year old is an even bigger reason to completely dislike him. Just a completely unrepentant person.
  23. My bet is on Brooks either transitioning out of the NBA entirely for 2-3 years and winding up playing in China or Europe. If he stays stateside the team that takes him on has to have a strong culture with a veteran presence that will keep him in line. Miami could do that if Butler is willing to give him a shot. There won’t be much of a bidding war for a clown that just helped destroy his team’s season. Well he was a distant second to Ja and his family and friends horror show, but he was on the medal stand of reasons why things went south in Memphis. Chris Paul is, well, I cannot help but LOL at him. I mean who would have thought that gutting your role players mid-season would have meant things would go sideways for Phoenix? Not that they were going well at the time, but teams with that little on the bench are just begging to be eliminated. Phoenix now has an aging scorer, albeit one of the best to ever do it, whatever people want to label Booker as and Ayton. Booker should never be more than your 2nd best player. With Durant a sure bet to miss 15-20 games a season going forward you can’t put the franchise on Booker’s shoulders. Ayton is what he is and that’s perfectly fine, but not at that salary.
  24. Well his own words over the years have told that story before. His actions on the defensive end of the floor do as well. No one confuses him with a basketball-lifer or someone that remotely cares about the game. He puts in enough work to excel offensively and that allows him to keep strip clubs from coast-to-coast swimming in cash.
  25. Glad to see the school booted out a sexual predator in Deuce Roberson. I’m reading the story on Defector and man did Palmer Ridge HS and the community let a whole bunch of young women down because he was good at football. Good luck dealing with the El Paso County courts to Roberson because he’s going to get a whole bunch of decades behind bars and deservedly so. https://defector.com/he-was-a-colorado-recruit-then-dozens-of-women-came-forward
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