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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 6, 2012 -> 04:46 PM)
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QUOTE (fathom @ May 6, 2012 -> 05:37 PM)
<!--quotec-->Baron just suffered one of the worst knee injuries you'll ever see

You are happier not watching this video.

 

Good thing you posted it then...:)

 

What exactly do you call that? Did he dislocate his kneecap?

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QUOTE (fathom @ May 6, 2012 -> 04:37 PM)
Baron just suffered one of the worst knee injuries you'll ever see

I haven't seen the video (and I don't want to) but a dislocated kneecap isn't nearly as severe as a torn ACL or something along those lines. I've dislocated both my kneecaps on each knee four times. And while it is really gruesome looking (and pretty damn painful), you should be good to go in a month or so.

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J4l,

 

You must not read the college hoops thread a lot because of the 40 or so Wisconsin games, I probably point out reffing maybe 1-2 games. Even in this series games 1 and 2 no real comments, it was only in games 3-4 when the ft disparity went crazy that comments are going to be made.

 

What else can you do? I wish the refs would call the games even, but sometimes they dont, but if I dont like the way is going, I think its up to the coach to change the direction. I doubt you can find even 3 times where I said "Bo Ryan should get a t", so I dont know how the comments are even comparable.

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So apparently the woman who went onto the court during the Laker/Denver game is a Kenyon Martin stalker and was calling for him?

 

Sources tell @YahooSports say they believe the girl that ran on floor in Denver was the same one that stalked Kenyon Martin in his DEN days.

 

 

 

Sources also tell also tell @YahooSports the woman was screaming: "Where is Kenyon?" to @denvernuggets bench before running on floor.

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 6, 2012 -> 11:28 PM)
So apparently the woman who went onto the court during the Laker/Denver game is a Kenyon Martin stalker and was calling for him?

 

Sources tell @YahooSports say they believe the girl that ran on floor in Denver was the same one that stalked Kenyon Martin in his DEN days.

 

 

 

Sources also tell also tell @YahooSports the woman was screaming: "Where is Kenyon?" to @denvernuggets bench before running on floor.

 

They got to her pretty quickly. Always wondered what security was like for courtside seats.

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QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ May 6, 2012 -> 10:29 PM)
According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, Noah's ankle sprain is severe enough that it will force him to miss Game 5 Tuesday night in Chicago.

 

It bent at a 90 degree angle. I was amazed that they let him come back out on the court after it happened

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 7, 2012 -> 05:28 AM)
So apparently the woman who went onto the court during the Laker/Denver game is a Kenyon Martin stalker and was calling for him?

 

Sources tell @YahooSports say they believe the girl that ran on floor in Denver was the same one that stalked Kenyon Martin in his DEN days.

 

 

 

Sources also tell also tell @YahooSports the woman was screaming: "Where is Kenyon?" to @denvernuggets bench before running on floor.

 

Shouldn't she know what team he's on?

 

STALKER FAIL

 

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 7, 2012 -> 09:43 AM)
Nah, he turned it down and traded himself to the Knicks for their next ten years worth of draft picks.

 

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

 

 

Zeke is such a sucker

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QUOTE (iamshack @ May 7, 2012 -> 09:20 AM)
I always thought Fratello looked even more ridiculous.

Still my favorite broadcast tandem, Marv and the Czar of the telestrater, their voices remind me of the early Bulls Dynasty :headbang

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A truly interesting read by Steve Kerr - http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/788354...s-age-limit-nba

 

Some highlights:

 

True story: I once had an extremely young teammate ask me when our Christmas break was. He then became visibly shocked and saddened after learning that we didn't get to go home for a week or so. Another time, a different young player asked me how the NBA's playoff format worked. We entered the first round of the postseason and he had no idea what "best of 5" meant. These were players who were ready to be professional athletes?

 

Think about the 1980s, when the best college players usually played at least two or three years before entering the draft. Stars like Michael Jordan (three years in college), Larry Bird (four years), and Magic Johnson (two years) used their college time to hone their leadership skills, improve their games, and deal with real pressure (all three played for national championships). They learned how to deal with media scrutiny, how to handle game pressure, even how to handle success and failure under a pretty sizable spotlight. By the time they were drafted, they were ready to succeed at the highest level and compete for titles immediately. Bird and Magic won eight of the league's next nine championships after they entered the league in 1979; Jordan won seven scoring titles and three NBA titles in his first nine seasons. All three thrived immediately as rookies.

 

Larry Bird, 1979-80: 38.0 MPG, 21.3 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 4.5 apg, 47% FG, 20.5 PER, 11.2 win shares, 61 Celtic wins (lost in Eastern Finals).

 

Magic Johnson, 1979-80: 18 ppg, 36.3 MPG, 7.7 rpg, 7.3 apg, 2.4 spg, 53% FG, 20.6 PER, 10.5 win shares, 60 Laker wins (Finals MVP).

 

Michael Jordan, 1984-85: 38.3 MPG, 28 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 5.9 apg, 2.4 spg, 52% FG, 25.8 PER, 14 win shares, 38 Chicago wins (lost in Round 1).

 

Compare those numbers to the rookie stats/records of four of today's best players (all of whom arrived straight from high school):

 

Kevin Garnett, 1995-96: 28.7 MPG, 10.4 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 49% FG, 15.8 PER, 4.4 win shares, 26 wins (Minnesota missed playoffs).

 

Kobe Bryant, 1996-97: 15.5 MPG, 7.6 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 1.3 apg, 42% FG, 14.4 PER, 1.8 win shares, 56 wins (Lakers lost in second round, with Kobe famously firing two air balls in the last minute of the final loss).2

 

Dwight Howard, 2004-05: 32.6 MPG, 12 ppg, 10 rpg, 52% FG, 17.2 PER, 7.3 win shares, 36 wins (Orlando missed playoffs).

 

LeBron James, 2003-04: 39.5 MPG, 20.9 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 5.9 apg, 42% FG, 18.3 PER, 5.1 win shares, 35 wins (Cleveland missed playoffs).

 

Other than lost salaries, what would have been the downside of those last four guys playing two years in college? Garnett and Bryant needed the extra playing time (and added responsibility of carrying a college contender); meanwhile, LeBron and Howard were thrust into unfair positions as saviors of lottery teams, and after seeing how their careers have unfolded, maybe those burdens affected them more than we realized.

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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 8, 2012 -> 08:12 AM)
A truly interesting read by Steve Kerr - http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/788354...s-age-limit-nba

 

Some highlights:

 

Great write up. I totally agree. Without a true farm system to grow really young players in (such as NHL and MLB have) there is such a wide margin for error. Many of these kids aren't ready for life, let alone NBA basketball.

 

Also I am curious who the teammate was. The most interesting person I could find was Zach Randolph was a teammate of Kerr's as a rookie, and I know he isn't too bright. I couldn't find any straight from HS kids that were rookies on teams that Kerr played with.

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