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Lakers tell Metta " Peace Out "

The Los Angeles Lakers released Metta World Peace via the amnesty clause on Thursday

"It's tough to say goodbye to a player such as Metta, who has been a significant part of our team the past four seasons. For anyone who's had the opportunity to get to know him, it's impossible not to love him," Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said in a release. "He has made many contributions to this organization, both in his community work as well as in our games; perhaps no more so than in his clutch play in Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals in helping to lead us over the Celtics in one of the greatest playoff wins in Lakers history. We thank Metta for all his contributions and wish him the best of luck in the future."

Jose Morales, a longtime friend and confidant of World Peace, previously said the veteran forward would be "upset" if the Lakers used the amnesty clause on him, and that he even would consider retirement if any team with room to fit him under the salary cap claimed him off waivers. Those teams would have the first opportunity to claim him.

"If the Lakers do amnesty him, he might want to retire," Morales said. "If one of these small-market teams picks him up, he won't be happy with that. He doesn't want to play there."

Morales said World Peace would be open to playing for the Clippers, but if he can't stay in Los Angeles, he would want to play only in New York, his hometown.

"If the Lakers amnesty him, he's going to have a point to prove that he can still be that player in New York," Morales said.
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Ron-Ron should have been a Knick from jump street... :smh:

BUT DUMB ASS Ed Tapscott jr drafts Fred Weiss... :hmm: a muthafucka... THAT HE NEVER SAW PLAY BEFORE and who was TOO MUCH OF PUSSY TO COME TO THE STATES... :smh:

I hope Ron-Ron does come to the Knicks... He can use him in the Garden... :yes:
 
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cranrab said:
no he didn't.

steve nash and coach d'antoni got him paid.

dumb ass GMs didn't take the time to figure out how/why his production was inflated in phoenix.
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True the first time he got paid phat then after he played in Atlanta for a while, the GM should have known his production was inflated due to those guys in Phoenix like u said. For the life of me I don't understand while they fucked around and paid him 126mil the second time he was a free agent :confused:
Joe got em twice :lol:
 
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Epola said:
True the first time he got paid phat then after he played in Atlanta for a while, the GM should have known his production was inflated due to those guys in Phoenix like u said. For the life of me I don't understand while they fucked around and paid him 126mil the second time he was a free agent :confused:
Joe got em twice :lol:
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Fool me once... Shame on you

Fool me twice... Shame on me
 
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vandamation said:
Ron-Ron should have been a Knick from jump street... :smh:

BUT DUMB ASS Ed Tapscott jr drafts Fred Weiss... :hmm: a muthafucka... THAT HE NEVER SAW PLAY BEFORE and who was TOO MUCH OF PUSSY TO COME TO THE STATES... :smh:

I hope Ron-Ron does come to the Knicks... He can use him in the Garden... :yes:
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i'll never forget that too:smh:
 
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vandamation said:
Ron-Ron should have been a Knick from jump street... :smh:

BUT DUMB ASS Ed Tapscott jr drafts Fred Weiss... :hmm: a muthafucka... THAT HE NEVER SAW PLAY BEFORE and who was TOO MUCH OF PUSSY TO COME TO THE STATES... :smh:
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Blame Vince Carter for dunking on him in the Olympics. :lol:
 
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stretchwallz said:
Lakers are contacting Elden Campbell and Sedale Threat in the morning for workouts...back to the future
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spider705 said:
Two words:

Cedric Ceballos :yes::yes:

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
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D-TOWN REP said:
Nick Van Exel to back up Nash :yes:
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at this rate the Lakers need to go head and bring back Smush Parker :

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Rollie_Fingaz said:
Blame Vince Carter for dunking on him in the Olympics. :lol:
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Man Listen... Dude was a pussy WAY BEFORE THAT DUNK... :smh:

How in the FUCK.. do you turn down NBA money... to play in some PUNK ASS league in France... :smh:

... And then... Ed Tapscott jr gets on TV and says... ' Well... I've never seen him play BUT... I was intrigued by his size... ' :hmm:

To this day... I STILL want to put in my foot in his ass for that draft... :smh:
 
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BlackArsenic said:
How? They can bee a lottery team.
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We were a lottery team this year too fam

I don't want to be a lottery team with the least amount of ping pong balls

If we are gonna suck then we need to suck all the way not scrap for the 8th seed

At least a team like the 76ers is fully committed to sucking

We are not
 
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Conservative Mavs stuck on mediocrity treadmill

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By Tim MacMahon

Could this summer get any worse for the Mavericks? Well, Dirk Nowitzki could start having second thoughts about his intention to stay in Dallas for a drastically reduced salary when his deal expires after the 2013-14 season.

Actually, sad as it is to say, that might be in the franchise’s best interest long term.

Owner Mark Cuban’s biggest fear has been for the Mavs to get stuck on the mediocrity treadmill. That drove his decision to strip down the 2011 title team, ensuring that the aging Mavs wouldn’t decay into an expensive team incapable of contending or making necessary upgrades.

Instead, the decline in Dallas was steep. The Mavs have a grand total of zero playoff wins in the past two seasons and zero big-fish free agents hooked in the past two offseasons.

Cuban, as stubborn as he is smart, is trying to pull off the most difficult task in pro sports: rebuilding without hitting rock bottom. To pull that off, the Mavs' front office must be willing to gamble -- and have a bet or two pay off big.

Yet the Mavs refused to take a risk on Andrew Bynum, the one potential home run left on the market this summer after Dwight Howard headed to Houston.

Here they are, stuck in the middle again.

This isn’t a case of another name-brand free agent turning down the Mavs. The Mavs didn’t make an offer to Bynum because they were scared away by the bad knees that kept him sidelined all of last season. All Dallas had to do to get the 7-footer, who was an All-Star in 2012, was trump Cleveland’s offer that included only $6 million in guaranteed money. The Mavs weren’t willing to take that chance.

That’s an awfully conservative approach for a franchise that rolled the dice so boldly after the lockout.

There’s a good chance the Mavs are right about Bynum’s knees and he’ll spend big chunks of this season sporting wild hairstyles while watching from the bench. But this would have been the time for a boom-or-bust swing for the fences.

The potential reward if Bynum worked out: a foundation piece. The risk if he didn’t: money down the drain and a ticket to a loaded lottery.

It’s not as if the Mavs were going to be on the hook long term if Bynum was a bust. After all, he went to Cleveland for a two-year deal that has a team option on the second season. And the Mavs, with $35 million of expiring contracts on the roster, are guaranteed to have salary leeway next summer anyway.

But the Mavs decided not to make a bold move after missing out on Howard. They played it safe. They’ll plug in Samuel Dalembert or someone of that unimpressive ilk at center and try to make a blockbuster trade despite lacking attractive assets.

The reality is that the Mavs will have to scrap to have a shot at one of the last couple of playoff seeds in the loaded West next season. Dallas seems destined to finish around .500 again with a draft pick that isn’t high enough to get one of the can’t-miss prospects and isn’t low enough to unload to Oklahoma City, which owns a Mavs pick that is top-20 protected through 2017.

(On a related note, Cuban’s two biggest mistakes since stripping down the title team: 1. Pulling off what seemed like a steal for Lamar Odom, giving away only that protected pick, which has since bounced from L.A. to Houston to OKC, helping the Rockets land James Harden to make them an appealing team to Howard; 2. Not going all-in on recruiting Deron Williams, skipping the face-to-face meetings while filming "Shark Tank," when Cuban really preferred to make a run for Chris Paul or Howard this summer.)

The Mavs’ biggest splash so far this offseason has been signing a soon-to-be 32-year-old point guard who has never won a playoff series. Cuban has acknowledged that it’d take a two-year process to put the Mavs in position to contend again, but the strides this summer haven’t been nearly big enough to provide any optimism that the plan will come to fruition.

Cuban’s biggest fear is coming true. The Mavs might not have a bloated payroll, as the Boston Celtics did before realizing their run was over, but they’re still a noncontender that can’t find a way to get better, handcuffed by a lack of assets and a sudden aversion to risk-taking.

Dirk, as loyal a solider as you’ll see in this NBA generation, can’t put a so-so supporting cast on his back and make the Mavs a legitimate threat in his mid-30s. Hard as he might sprint, the Mavs aren’t moving forward, at least not enough to matter.

They can’t compete with the Spurs and Thunder and Rockets and Clippers and Warriors and Grizzlies. Given that reality, with Dirk, they’ll probably be too good for their own good.

The Mavs are stuck on the mediocrity treadmill. Does Dirk really want to stick around for that?
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/mave...vative-mavs-stuck-on-the-mediocrity-treadmill
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Well at least the Mavs won one title, they won't be winning another one anytime soon
 
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BlackArsenic said:
How? They can bee a lottery team.
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right now Dallas is looking like a team that will be stuck in 8-12 in the draft. That is death in the NBA.

You either change things to be a top 4 team or a bottom 4 team.

you are not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to get a worth while draft pick.

My cousin up in Dallas is pissed. Knowing they should have Brandon Jennings right now.
 
Re: ~**~2013 NBA Offseason Thread - Free Agency begin July 1~**~

cranrab said:
sigh.

joe johnson's contract paid him how much per year? don't average it out. go annual dollars.

even after the bloated extension in 2010, joe johnson's contract paid him how much per year? don't average it out. go annual dollars.

joe johnson has YET to have reached the $20M mark in ANY season he has played to date.

the fact that the hawks got the nets to absorb the worst part (back end) of the deal doesn't mean shit.

joe johnson ate (and continues to eat) off of his suns days.
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Your numbers were wrong on the first contract. It wasn't 7 years, approx $102M. It was $70 million over five years. No way to argue that.
 
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killa kadafi191 said:
right now Dallas is looking like a team that will be stuck in 8-12 in the draft. That is death in the NBA.

You either change things to be a top 4 team or a bottom 4 team.

you are not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to get a worth while draft pick.

My cousin up in Dallas is pissed. Knowing they should have Brandon Jennings right now.
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We played it all wrong bruh

All wrong
 
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Man I want the nets owner to have his cousin but the bulls

Just buy these niggas out

He stacking like a FIFA team in Europe
 
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Dont thin Ron wil retire. I wonder if the Bulls could get Artest some sort of way. They need a defensive man to finish the bench. He would fit in perfectly.
 
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Chitownheadbusa said:
Dont thin Ron wil retire. I wonder if the Bulls could get Artest some sort of way. They need a defensive man to finish the bench. He would fit in perfectly.
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They should try to get Ron then trade Deng for LaMarcus Aldridge.
 
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Epola said:
True the first time he got paid phat then after he played in Atlanta for a while, the GM should have known his production was inflated due to those guys in Phoenix like u said. For the life of me I don't understand while they fucked around and paid him 126mil the second time he was a free agent :confused:
Joe got em twice :lol:
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:yes:

you definitely got it right.

dudes on BGOL like to pretend and talk out they ass a lot because they don't remember how shit went down.

after phoenix, joe johnson jumped from $2.36M to $12M (expired rookie deal to base year). an increase of $9.64M

dudes wanna point to some bullshit bringing up the 2010 extension. so what? as a year-over-year salary increase it was $1.35M more than the prior season.

:lol:

steve nash and the suns got joe johnson paid.

brooklyn eating the back end of a bad hawks contract doesn't change anything.
 
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Mack1052 said:
Solid pickup
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cool article...to be taken w/ a grain of salt...should be a fun season for us in any event

If the Brooklyn Nets don’t win the NBA title in the next two seasons, blame LeBron.

Don’t blame Nets GM Billy King or billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov.

Going into the offseason, it didn’t look like the cap-strapped Nets could do much.

But King, as he’s known to do, stunned everyone, orchestrating a blockbuster trade with the Boston Celtics to obtain future Hall of Fame forwards Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, along with veteran reserve Jason Terry.

And Thursday, King capped off a brilliant summer, getting Andrei Kirilenko, who opted out of a $10 million contract, to take the mini mid-level exception.

To summarize:

In: KG, Pierce, Terry, Shaun Livingston, AK47, Mason Plumlee

Out: Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, C.J. Watson, Keith Bogans, Kris Joseph, three future first-round picks

Looks like a massive upgrade, doesn’t it?

The Nets will now head into the season with an NBA-record $80 million luxury-tax bill and a projected starting lineup -- Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez, KG and Pierce -- that has made a combined 35 All-Star games.

Clearly Prokhorov, who has said he’ll get married if the Nets don’t win a championship by 2015, doesn’t want to get hitched. So he opened up his pockets and allowed King to build him an Eastern Conference contender.

While Miami is still the obvious favorite -- and LeBron James may have four titles and five NBA Finals appearances by the time Prokhorov’s five-year plan expires -- the Nets, at least on paper, look like a top-four team in the East, right up there with the likes of Indiana, plus a healthy Danny Granger, and Chicago, plus a healthy Derrick Rose.

As for the Knicks? Well, they did acquire Andrea Bargnani, a move that appeared to be reactionary following the KG-Pierce deal, so there’s that.

But when you stack New York’s basketball teams against each other -- regardless of how you do it -- one would be hard-pressed to say that the Knicks are superior.

Going into this season, it appears that the Nets have three big question marks: First-year coach Jason Kidd, health and chemistry.

But the Nets are hopeful Kidd, surrounded by a staff that includes Lawrence Frank and John Welch, can learn fast; they have enough depth to overcome injuries; and their veteran-laden roster will learn fast and be willing to sacrifice numbers for wins.

Back in 2010, it was easy to dismiss Prokhorov’s five-year plan. It isn’t now.

Prokhorov gave King free rein to spend and spend King did, putting together a roster that has championship experience, toughness, leadership, depth, talent and versatility.

Only one major problem: It doesn’t include LeBron.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/brooklyn-nets/post/_/id/11707/brooklyn-nets-a-summer-blockuster-hit
 
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gotta give up to King. Nets have improved despite being over the cap
 
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I still can't get over what Joe Johnson will be gettin' paid the next three seasons. :smh: :lol: :smh: :lol:

I'm shocked, and somewhat envious.

Fuck that nigga.

I don't mind superstars gettin' paid like that.

JJ?

The fuck?

That's fucking crazy.

On the flip. eat young man, eat.

Nigga hit the genetic lottery, and lucked out again and found a team willing to pay him likely twice what he was actually worth.
 
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vandamation said:
Ron-Ron should have been a Knick from jump street... :smh:

BUT DUMB ASS Ed Tapscott jr drafts Fred Weiss... :hmm: a muthafucka... THAT HE NEVER SAW PLAY BEFORE and who was TOO MUCH OF PUSSY TO COME TO THE STATES... :smh:

I hope Ron-Ron does come to the Knicks... He can use him in the Garden... :yes:
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vandamation said:
Man Listen... Dude was a pussy WAY BEFORE THAT DUNK... :smh:

How in the FUCK.. do you turn down NBA money... to play in some PUNK ASS league in France... :smh:

... And then... Ed Tapscott jr gets on TV and says... ' Well... I've never seen him play BUT... I was intrigued by his size... ' :hmm:

To this day... I STILL want to put in my foot in his ass for that draft... :smh:
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Van I'm telling you... That Fred Weis thing must really have you pissed!!! This is like the 100th time I've seen you reference that shit! I take it Tapscott isn't one of your favorite people huh?
:lol:
 
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Chitownheadbusa said:
Dont thin Ron wil retire. I wonder if the Bulls could get Artest some sort of way. They need a defensive man to finish the bench. He would fit in perfectly.
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If nobody claims Artest off of waivers, we could sign him for the vet minimum. They say his top two picks would be the Clippers or the Knicks, though.

We also still got a shot at bringing Nate back for vet min.
 
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ScottyPiffen745 said:
If nobody claims Artest off of waivers, we could sign him for the vet minimum. They say his top two picks would be the Clippers or the Knicks, though.

We also still got a shot at bringing Nate back for vet min.
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damn nate hasn't been signed yet?
 
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killa kadafi191 said:
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gotta give up to King. Nets have improved despite being over the cap
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:yes:

As long as your owner doesn't care about the tax y'all will always be able to improve via trade

These scared money ass teams will be ready to dump good players they don't want to pay every season

Dont concede to the Heat bro, y'all stay relatively healthy you can beat them

LSN said:
damn nate hasn't been signed yet?
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Crazy

He is a better player than the contracts he always has to settle for
 
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IT IS WHAT IT IS said:
Van I'm telling you... That Fred Weis thing must really have you pissed!!! This is like the 100th time I've seen you reference that shit! I take it Tapscott isn't one of your favorite people huh?
:lol:
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.. and I'll reference that shit 1000 more times too... :smh:

I mean... how do you pass over a guy that you've actually seen play... IN MSG for someone you've NEVER seen play... :smh:

... and then... we get rid of him... hire Scott Layden... And he does the EXACT SAME THING... :smh:

STAT is tearing through the pre draft workouts but Scott Layden is in Europe scouting Maciej Lampe... :hmm:

A reporter asks him about Stoudemire and Layden goes,'WHO??? I've NEVER HEARD OF HIM.':hmm:

... but the media turned a blind eye at these cocksuckas and want to talk shit about Zeke... :smh:
 

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