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Bruh, the NBA community has been wishing the "Jordan is the GOAT" stans go away for at least a decade.
When Bron has a bad game or gets down in a playoff series Im sure comparing eras will be OK again.
Bron comes to the West and becomes the league's best point guard within a season.
Dude wakes up and runs to Twitter to see if anyone is taking about Jordan. Obsession.
Kuzma trainer shoulda been doing a better job at "training" his regressing client instead of talking shit about a year 17 all NBA guy.
Uh oh @spider705 and @HotNixon36 , REAL Rockets no longer feel obligated to walk on egg shells for retro shoe buyers and boomer athletes that never played in Texas....
22 FT attempts that day. 
Every day im seeing more and more direct Harden vs. Mikey comparisons based on this season he's having. Only a matter of time before Spider starts dissing Harden and Harden fans.
Well, you bringing up pace also puts those crazy records of the 60s into question. What do Kobe, Jordan, Harden, James, etc, average at that pace? Sheeeeit.
Want a good laugh? This piece below is from 1994. Let some tell it, this was THE era for basketball. How soon folks forget all the shit talked during the 80s and 90s. Notice they talk about shots launched at the top of the key.
They could have never pictured what cats doing now.
NBA SHOULD PICK UP PACE-JUST LIKE IT DID IN THE ’60S
NBA officials enjoy promoting professional basketball as the perfect up-tempo entertainment for the fast-moving American sports fan of the 1990s. But while the NBA’s marketing techniques may …
www.chicagotribune.com
NBA SHOULD PICK UP PACE-JUST LIKE IT DID IN THE '60S
NBA officials enjoy promoting professional basketball as the perfect up-tempo entertainment for the fast-moving American sports fan of the 1990s.
But while the NBA's marketing techniques may be Clintonesque, the speed of its game has become more like Ike.
Going by shots attempted, the best indicator of tempo, NBA basketball currently is moving at its slowest pace since the dawn of the 24-second-clock era in the mid-1950s.
In 1993 the Portland Trail Blazers led the NBA with 7,343 shots for the season (89.5 per game), the lowest one-year total for a league leader since the 1957 Boston Celtics took 7,326 shots in a 72-game season. The Minnesota Timberwolves took only 6,529 shots for an NBA-record low of 79.6 shots per game.
In 1970 nine of the 14 NBA teams lofted more than 8,000 shots, led by an eye-popping 8,867 from the then-San Diego Rockets.
But other than the manic fast-break Denver Nuggets of coaches Doug Moe (1989, 1990) and Paul Westhead (1991), no NBA team has hit the 8,000-shot mark in a season since the 1980 Cleveland Cavaliers. No non-Denver team has reached 8,500 shots since the 1973 Celtics.
To find the NBA at its warp-speed entertaining best, a fan must go back to the era that longtime Boston Globe basketball observer Bob Ryan calls the "Rootin-Tootin 1960s."
Pro basketball in the early '60s, especially the world champion Boston Celtics, made today's teams look as if they are playing with a 45-second clock. In 1959, playing just a 72-game season, the Celtics became the first team to pass the 8,000-shot barrier (8,116).
One year later, with a 75-game campaign, Boston let loose with 8,971 attempts for an NBA record 119.6 shots per game. The Philadelphia Warriors, led by rookie Wilt Chamberlain, were nearly as offensive-minded, taking nearly 116 shots per game.
The 1961 Celtics ran and gunned like no team in NBA history. En route to its third straight NBA championship, Boston launched 9,295 shots in 79 games, an average of 117.7 per game. In 1962 the Celts were nearly as trigger-happy, letting loose 9,109 shots in 80 games.
No team since has reached 9,000.
The Celtics of this era were hardly marksmen. They shot less than 40 percent in both 1959 and 1961. No Boston team during the eight-straight championship run of 1959-66 shot better than .427 (in 1963).
The best shooter among the Celtics regulars was Sam Jones in 1963 at .476. No Celtic would reach 50 percent until Bailey Howell in 1967.
But the Celtics employed the right scheme. With center Bill Russell running the court as well as any big man in history, Boston had the perfect offensive rebounder to give its fast-break attack second and third shots. In addition to being the quickest shooting team in the NBA, the Celtics were also the top rebounders between 1959 and 1965.
Sadly, this wild chapter of the NBA only exists in the record book. While there is plenty of footage from major-league baseball and the National Football League in the early 1960s, only a few old newsreel-style films remain from the NBA of that period. If there is a film of a full game from that era it has been kept secret.
Forty-eight minutes of Bill Sharman and Bob Cousy pushing the ball up the court on every possession, Sam Jones and Tommy Heinsohn launching jump shots as soon as they neared the key, and Bill Russell getting position under the boards is a memory that lives only in the minds of longtime Celtics fans.
Yes, today's NBA has better shooters, quicker defenders and higher leapers.
But if the league thinks today's sedate product is "fan-tastic" it probably lacks the vocabulary to describe the unbridled brand of basketball that was played three decades ago.
Fuck Embiid to the locker room with something wrong with his hand. 
Guess Joel is ok he's back in.
Had me googling "Jenny-woman" lol. Ok this some New Orleans slang(right?)
I think so, because my peeps told me that a few weeks back....
He said a usher at the arena said, “Mannnn
i don’t know why they tripping already, we only six games outta 8th place and we don’t have everyone. They should wait until the roster is healthy to see what can happen”.
The one thing that makes me feel a Lakers package with the likes of Kuz would be the best is because, now even tho they have the lakers picks, they could tell LA put some protections on the unprotected ones then we can deal.
plus dude is from LA,
His buddy AD is there, Rondo is there, the need for his pg skills would be greatly welcomed....
Along with the chance to compete at the highest level should have him bright eyed
Dude been wasting his time in Nola....
I feel dude is a fucking beast(just my opinion)
I think the Celtics, Sixers, Mavs and Heat called also
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Miami Heat News: Derrick Jones Jr. to Participate in 2020 Slam Dunk Contest - Heat Nation
Miami Heat forward Derrick Jones Jr. will be participating in the 2020 Slam Dunk Contest as part of the next month’s All-Star Weekend.
Jrue has really endeared himself to the community here and is probably the most beloved Pelican but at the same time even if this team makes a miracle run at the 8th seed, it's only going to mean that the Pelicans play two more weeks of basketball before the Lakers send us home in 4 to 5 games. I don't see the point in that. I'm not saying totally tank the season but the "win-now" mentally sunk us during the Anthony Davis-era. I'm more open to slower development for better results down the road.
Give Jrue a video tribute, some billboards and send him off to get on with the rest of his basketball life.
You are right, that is what hate about shit now, every Tom, Dick, and Harry has a voice, even if they make no sense. I think Lebron is a great athlete, and a great player for this era. They did the same thing to Kobe, ruined shit for him, instead of enjoying what he is doing by trying to compare him to Jordan. It's an unfair comparison, I am glad I got to see Lebron's high school and peak NBA years. No matter what Lebron does from this point on, Kobe and Jordan fans will not change their perception of who they feel is the best player.
Harden is a phenom offensively, gets it done in a different way. Its not the most beautiful shit to watch, but he is productive in today's NBA. I enjoy watching Greek Freak too, without comparing him to other players in other eras.
If I never witnessed somebody play in live, I can't compare them to players in different eras. Anything before the merger, or early 80's, I will not speak on.
There are several players that played with or against Jordan, Kobe, and Lebron. They all said, with no hesitation, that Mike was on another level as a player and competitor. Jordan spoiled it for Kobe and Lebron, if Jordan never played and there was no tape/video for proof, Kobe and Lebron would be viewed completely different by older basketball fans.
I watched almost 3 and half decades of basketball, religiously. Out of those three decades, for just 3 seasons, Shaq is the most dominant player I have ever seen.
I was about to post this. I've never seen bullshit reporting in my life. They're acting like he's been scoring alot of points for most of the season. This dude will have one good game and then have six or seven bad games in a row. And,half of those games, he wouldn't even score double digit points.
Don't let me talking about,how he turnover the ball way too much. This dude will throw the ball out of bounds on the other side of the court and then want to throw his arms in the air. On,why nobody didnt catch it.
He then wants to take his time when the opponent is on a fastbreak but want to look at the young guys on why they didn't stop the opponent from scoring.
I will say this again, why people want to act like he was winning in Minnesota. Are we just going to ignore those years.
Then,there was a report here in Cleveland today about him being angry at the young guys not showing progression..really.The Cavs drafted four players the last two years. Collin Sexton(21), Darius Garland(19), Dylan Windler(23)and Kevin Porter Jr(19) and one of them haven't played the season yet due to injury.
Let me, get this straight you signed a deal that nobody would have given you and then you were out for 90% of that same season due to injury. Then,you want yo bitch and complain about the young guys making mistakes and not progressing fast enough but you been invisible for most of this season.
I've seen Clarkson,Porter, Sexton, Tristan, Garland having more good games than this piece of shit. Hell,Exum might have more when it's all said and done after that game against OKC yesterday.
It's truly fucked up that people is sticking out their neck for this piece of shit.. *looking at you Channing Frye *Let,a black player do this shit. The media would be crucifying him.
I can't believe they sat on their fat asses defending Love...It's like they just ignore the press conference that Beilein made after the OKC game saying he told Sexton to hold the ball and apologize saying he should have told gove the ball to Love on the switch..
And,Lebron's dickrider needs to sit his fat ass down and shut the fuck up....
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And,it's funny in Lebron's last year in Cleveland people where saying the roster was old and slow,which was true.Now,people want to say we got holdovers from championship.
I dont know,what team Bomani is looking at but the Cavs only have three players from that team(Dellvadova, Mr. Talc and Tristan).
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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28436528/brett-brown-ben-simmons-lack-3-pointers-failed
Brett Brown on Ben Simmons' lack of 3-pointers: 'I have failed'
PHILADELPHIA -- One month ago, Ben Simmonstook -- and made -- his second 3-pointer of the season in a blowout win over the Cleveland Cavaliersat Wells Fargo Center. After the game, Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown declared that he wanted his point guard to take at least one triple per game the rest of the season.
Simmons hasn't attempted one since.
When Brown was asked about that fact before Monday night's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, he admitted that his message had failed to materialize on the court.
"And this is true," he said with a smile. "Evidently I have failed, and it's something that we're all mindful of, and this is one of these things that is never going to go away. The attention this has received is remarkable. But I guess I helped fuel it, and I own it, and I've got to help him find this, and most importantly, he has to find himself."
Simmons has gone 2-for-5 from 3-point range this season, but all three misses were heaves from half court or beyond at the end of a quarter. The two makes were exactly the kind of attempt Philadelphia wants him to take: Simmons caught the ball in the corner, rose up and buried a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer.
The lack of 3-point shooting on Simmons' part is just one of many issues Philadelphia, which came into Monday night's game ranked 16th in the NBA in offensive efficiency, per NBA.com, has dealt with on the offensive end this season.
But while the focus has understandably been on Simmons and his lack of a jump shot -- a consistent theme in his two-plus seasons in the NBA -- Brown said the Sixers as a whole need to shoot more triples and pointed to the players next to Simmons and Joel Embiid in Philadelphia's starting lineup -- Al Horford, Tobias Harris and Josh Richardson -- as the ones who need to do it.
"Of course," Brown said, when asked if he wants his team to make more 3-pointers. "This is where my problem is. This team needs to find more 3-point opportunities. We do. We need to hunt 3s in a more definitive way than we currently are.
"I think the 3-point shot is not about, 'Oh, we need to make more.' We need to take more."
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28436528/brett-brown-ben-simmons-lack-3-pointers-failed
Brett Brown on Ben Simmons' lack of 3-pointers: 'I have failed'
PHILADELPHIA -- One month ago, Ben Simmonstook -- and made -- his second 3-pointer of the season in a blowout win over the Cleveland Cavaliersat Wells Fargo Center. After the game, Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown declared that he wanted his point guard to take at least one triple per game the rest of the season.
Simmons hasn't attempted one since.
When Brown was asked about that fact before Monday night's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, he admitted that his message had failed to materialize on the court.
"And this is true," he said with a smile. "Evidently I have failed, and it's something that we're all mindful of, and this is one of these things that is never going to go away. The attention this has received is remarkable. But I guess I helped fuel it, and I own it, and I've got to help him find this, and most importantly, he has to find himself."
Simmons has gone 2-for-5 from 3-point range this season, but all three misses were heaves from half court or beyond at the end of a quarter. The two makes were exactly the kind of attempt Philadelphia wants him to take: Simmons caught the ball in the corner, rose up and buried a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer.
The lack of 3-point shooting on Simmons' part is just one of many issues Philadelphia, which came into Monday night's game ranked 16th in the NBA in offensive efficiency, per NBA.com, has dealt with on the offensive end this season.
But while the focus has understandably been on Simmons and his lack of a jump shot -- a consistent theme in his two-plus seasons in the NBA -- Brown said the Sixers as a whole need to shoot more triples and pointed to the players next to Simmons and Joel Embiid in Philadelphia's starting lineup -- Al Horford, Tobias Harris and Josh Richardson -- as the ones who need to do it.
"Of course," Brown said, when asked if he wants his team to make more 3-pointers. "This is where my problem is. This team needs to find more 3-point opportunities. We do. We need to hunt 3s in a more definitive way than we currently are.
"I think the 3-point shot is not about, 'Oh, we need to make more.' We need to take more."
Dwight contract now guaranteed and hes back at All Star Weekend this year for the first time since 2012. Props to the "Comeback Player Of The Year"
Harden's bitch >>>> Mikey's bitch
He a better scorer on and off the court I see.
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