Man I would be shocked if they got rid of him that quickly. I mean it is kind of sad that he can't tailor his coaching to his players, he's trying to fit square blocks into round holes, but I think he will be given the chance to adjust his game plan and offensive scheme. Maybe an assistant coach gets canned, but I think Brown will be there for the year.

Sooo Kevin Martin has been looking good for the Thunder. He doesn't need the ball in his hands as much as Harden and gets to the line surprisingly often for a shooter. Dont expect OKC to have much of a fall of but still expect the Heat to win again.

Kevin Martin has been playing great. Unfortunately, the rest of the team seems to be going through the motions. At the end they will be in the playoffs and a major player again.

big shot by Durant up 4 now with 45 secs left

that was a nice shot

uh wow, beautiful shot by Durant

nice win for OKC

Sloppy, but it's a win. When KD and Russ start playing like they can we'll be aight.

Seems about right.

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Dumb ****tard was trying to play grabass or something. TRob is in the right here to punch that bundle of sticks in the throat.

DeAndre Jordan looks much improved offensively. The Clippers are going to be real good this year.

Sure. The league, officials, and fans totally agree.

I said from the onset they are the one of the deepest teams. Definitely, a contender.

I wasn't being serious.

Either way, it's funny you got a woody from a former Jayhawk doing a shitty thing in a pro game.

Yeah. Blew the shit out of the Blazers yesterday. I was expecting a good competitive game. Clippers made sure that all competitiveness was gone by the 5 minute mark.

Blazers actually made a spirited comeback, at one point cutting the lead to 4 in the fourth quarter. Clips did a nice job of cutting them off when it mattered; Crawford and Paul were money.

That said, if the Blazers can bottle up Nic Batum from that second half, they'll have an All-Star on their hands.

I stopped watching at halftime. I was let down coming off the OKC/CHI game.

I was working and the game was on in the background. Blazers impressed me with the will to come back. They put Batum on Paul and that changed things. 1st half was brutal to watch.

Timberwolves are 4-1 without Love, Rubio, OR Barea (this game).

So far they're doing what they have to do in this early part of their schedule with lots of easy teams. Playing good basketball. At the end of the month they'll have everybody back and healthy (hopefully).

They've been pretty surprising. If they are around .500 when they get those guys back then they could finally get back in the dance.

Anthony Davis is a stud lol

Lakers were on point on D.

Also, they are in contact with Phil and there is reports Phil is itching to take the job. This is gonna be interesting.

Love the Wolves. They are my "other" team, since I only live a few hours away.

The Warriors didn't stand a chance going into that game. Lakers played pretty good but Golden State laid down once the lead got out to double digits. Plus sloppy play, turnovers galore. Ohh and David Lee is a below average player.

Nuggets end the game on an 11-0 run. Looks like the Warriors are headed towards another lottery pick.

Tough for them without Bogut and Rush.

We knew Bogut was a no go for most of the season. Rush was a big loss... and having to depend on guys like Klay Thompson, Carl Landry, Jarrett Jack and some other guys with very little talent is a recipe for disaster.

Plus.. it's time to fire Mark Jackson, keeping Harrison Barnes out so he can keep his boy Landry on the court... sink with the ship Mark.

Landry has been playing pretty well and doesn't play the same position as Barnes.

I know. But Landry and Klay were the main reason the Warriors lost tonight. Landry played like total crap tonight.

Ohh and David Lee is one of the more overrated guys in the league.

Barnes just isn't very good. Thompson is the young guy they're grooming on the wing. Jackson has been given a flawed team; they're trying to keep their head above water until they can get Bogut back.

Eh, he is what he is. With a defensive center like Bogut, he'd be ok. But without a presence in the middle, he's terribly exposed on the defensive end.

Landry's stats look quite solid from that game.

Holy SHIT, Rudy Gay.

Miami got smacked like red headed step children.

Griz are balling this season. Starters are healthy and their bench is better. Very dangerous team.

The Cavs will likely lose to the Thunder, but they are playing tough. Good to see them match up with one of the best in the NBA and play a competitive game. Going to be a force in a few years.

Memphis has always scared me. They are definitely a bad matchup for the Thunder and the Heat with their size. Somehow we seem to eek out games against them, but it's almost always a five point game. They come here Wednesday. Should be fun.

I've said before the Cavs remind me of OKC 3 years ago. You should have some fun times ahead.

Marc Gasol is going to end up having a better long-term career than Pau. He's just fantastic in about every facet of the game. Plus defender, great rebounder, turning into a really good scorer.

I know the Kwame for Pau deal got flamed, but the Grizzles wouldn't be half the team they are without Marc. He was a vital piece of that deal.

Marc Gasol is actually a huge big body too lol where as the knock on Pau is soft

Sure. They're OKC with ZERO players at the caliber of Durant, Westbrook, or Harden.

Yes, I said that Irving isn't close to being Westbrook.

Irving and Waiters are both good, and are just going to get better. The problem is they don't have a presence in the front court to help them... or any depth behind them.

Irving could be every bit as good as Westbrook.

Think the best way to describe the Cavs is that with the cap space they have available, they can get a playmaker (won't be as good as Durant, but will be a playmaker nonetheless). And I believe they can get a terrific Center.

So the Cavs could end up having a deeper team than OKC with a better low post presence. Where OKC will always outmatch them is that they'll likely have better killer scorers than Cleveland will ever have.

Irving is emerging as a top 5 PG. He just needs a big man.

I bet that's their top priority with their cap space.

They've got good role players down low right now. Great defenders, rebounders. Zeller is a real nice guy to have to mismatch with his quickness and ability to work more of the outside (role player, as I can't see him handling real big guys). You get a versatile Center with big money who can score, defend, and rebound, and their rotation of bigs suddenly looks very good.

Yep they are missing one piece there. Sign/draft a C and draft/sign a SF. The current "starters" aren't bad depth... especially at C/PF.

Irving is better than Westbrook was year 2. Westbrook really didn't blossom until midway though his second year.

I agree they don't have a Durant, but they are deeper than OKC.

Harden wasn't anything, but average his rookie year. He never went to the basket or handled the ball. Never went to the foul line. He was pretty horrible defensively. He played like shit away from home pretty consistently. No one saw Harden being the player he is now 3 years ago. In fact, many locally and nationally were crying that they should have taken Steph Curry.

OKC was an 8 seed 3 years ago. Sure it's easy to make the statement you do now, but you have no idea how their players will develop.

question is who is even a realistic versatile big man that they can justify spending money on or have a chance to get, those type of guys rarely hit FA and if they do they certainly arent going to Cleveland as a market

they have to hope one of them shows up in the draft (highly unlikely) and even then, they wont be anywhere near the pick to get him.

Remember that Harden never came into his own until after the Jeff Green trade. A lot of people seem to forget that. At the time the best thing about the trade to me was getting Harden and Ibaka Green's shots. When Harden became aggressive he was awesome. When Green was there he truly played like a bench player.

who is this playmaker and who is the terrific center that sign with the cavs?

Cleveland has 7 first rounds in the next 3 years, along with extra 2nds. They have the power to trade up and might be in the lottery at least this one more year.

that nutsack clown of an owner will end up pissing away those first rounders in trades because he can never sit still with his team, because its like he has add and is still butt hurt about Lebron so hes always trying to add parts

Your guess is as good as mine. All I know is that with the luxury tax kicking in, you can expect a LOT of teams to start dumping players. Maybe as soon as this year's trade deadline. And right now, the Cavs have an insane amount of picks and the second most cap space in the league to pick up some players.

Good timing, as you won't just see good players, you could see some really good players get shipped off than usual.

I don't know what you're talking about. They have done nothing but acquire assets since James left. If anything, they cut some dead weight, stayed the course and drafted well. I think Chris Grant has done a solid job.

I don't have a problem with him doing anything he could to put a team around LeBron. I think he did a good job, but Mike Brown just wasn't the right coach.

It's hard to question their strategy. They've rebuilt their team minus LeBron the right away. During the rebuild, they held tight and acquired a really good nucleus of young talent while acquiring a ton of picks and opening up a ton of cap space.

Now they are in a position where the team is 1 or 2 key players away from a very good team. They will be a very attractive trade partner. And they can afford the top free agents a lot of teams cannot.

I'm sure Laker fans agree. :p

I just saw Ellington had 7 3s for the Grizz tonight. Where the **** did that come from???

If he can be a threat from 3, along with Bayless, that bench is much better than last season. They had Mayo playing PG with the 2nd team last season, and he was ill equipped to handle that role. He killed them against the Clips. If they get Arthur back healthy, I love them as a dark horse in the West.

they match up well against the Heat because Memphis has a bunch of 6'9 to 7 foot guys that are like 250 lbs+ and the Heat just play Lebron or Bosh at the 5 pending the guy because they can match up with 90 percent of the league like that. Memphis is not one of those

For sure. If they get solid guard play they will be a really tough out.

Memphis will be a good team in the playoffs. Even when they lose a series, the team they play won't be fresh going into the next round.

yea I like Memphis too, it's a bummer a team make up like that in a smaller market still has no shot at a title. I'd like to see a market with a team composition like that actually win one

And they have a really solid PG and athletes on the wing in Rudy Gay and Tony Allen (defensively). If they get bench production and stay healthy, they're about as good as anyone.

Not sure what you mean? They have a shot at the title, and it doesn't really matter the size of their market.

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RT @Mike_Bresnahan: Source: Mike D'Antoni will be the next coach of the Lakers. Not Phil Jackson

And there goes the Lakers' defense. If they struggle even a little bit with D'Antoni, they'll be calling for Phil again before we know it.

Just goddamn

That dunk wasn't quite "on LeBron James" as its advertised in the title, but he did cross him over.

This is the truth. The hire puzzles me. Not that I'm complaining :)

I would have rather had Phil obviously but I'm not upset. We have enough defensive players that we should have an average/slightly below average defense at worst with D'Antoni. The offense should shine though. He will use Nash 200x better than Phil would have and his pick and roll with Dwight and Pau could be unstoppable.
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YES. Celtics beat the da Bulls in Chicago. Celtics win wire to wire

Wolves beat Dallas in D-town missing the following players:

Kevin Love
Ricky Rubio
JJ Barea
Brandon Roy
Nikola Pekovic (in the 3rd quarter)
Derrick Williams (who played like a ****ing pussy; may as well not been in the game)

I ****ing love Rick Adelman.

You played your black guys. :)

Was just going to ask about the wolves. Will they be for real once the talent gets back?

Malcom Lee and Dante Cunningham FTMFW

Right now the easy schedule is the only thing driving their success without any real shot creators available. It's been all Kirilenko and Pekovic. If Pek is out, I think we start losing a lot here.

If Pek just needs a few games off, though, we're going to be above 500 when Rubio and Love come back. After that point, look the **** out. We might challenge for a seed in the playoffs as high as 5.

Or... we could tank against the good teams on our schedule and miss the playoffs entirely. Lol. No clue with this Wolves squad.

There's no reason to have a slightly below average defense when you have Dwight Howard and Ron.

Pau might be the odd man out here. He went from being basically the most complete player in the Princeton to being a guy without a true defined role in the run and gun.

I think you'll see a much improved defensive effort from a D'Antoni team because of Howard.