not gonna lie

dwight and nash joining the lake show kinda ruins the season for me

yeah it's exciting and all but it feels like I already know whos going to win it all this season

I already bet a few on the Lakers to win it all since the odds are not bad at all but I would be even happier to see Lebron beat the Lakeshow

yeah i'm weird

wtf lol, yeah fuck ur logic, look at the heats, didnt win shit first year

I personally don't want any of these new "superteams" to win, but if I had to pick one I would still take Lakers over Heat just because I want Steve Nash to get a ring. He deserves it.
Sick of these prima donna players trying to join up to win.
No loyalty, no respect.

Boston did :D

Doc Rivers > Erik Spoelstra by a looooooooooooong shot

so so true!

right, and

Eric Spoelstra > Mike Brown by a looooooooooooong shot

Lebron's mental breakdown

you guys aren't for parity in the NBA? or did I just get fail bombed by Laker fans?

I rather see 6 contenders than only 2

if the Lakers don't win this year..........

difference from the heats to the celtics was their bench, coach and defense.. boston back than was in their own league and everyone knew that

FUARK

^ god mode, best dunk I've seen since Blake's poster on Perk

dat air.

Jeremy "Pogo Stick" Evans livin up to his name bigtime


just made a noob mix of some of my 2K13 highlights, really diggin this game

turiaf trying to hit a mid range jumper :lawl:

anybody check out the war of words between former laker smush parker and kobe bryant?

Me and Smush - What happens when Rafe Bartholomew's childhood teammate becomes an NBA player who becomes Kobe Bryant's enemy - Grantland

Why talk shit about your past teammates from 6-7 years ago....That's complete garbage.....and you can say what you want and try to justify it by stating how bad Smush truly is, but we've all seen Kobe even publicly talking shit about Andrew Bynum to his fans as well....

Ronny Turiaf, why don't you have a seat at the end of the bench, please.

Another reason why Kobe will NEVER attain Jordan-esque status. :)

Smush is a scrub player but he still fought his way to the NBA, not everybody can say that. Kobe should at least respect him as a person. Kobe instructing Smush not to speak to him because he hasn't accomplished enough shows the type of person he is. Plus why would you isolate yourself during team dinners.

Kobe gave props to Kwame as a good defensive center at least

Rag on Kwame all you want but he is a serviceable defensive center, too bad his hands are always covered with butter. He's carved on a career longer than anyone has expected. You would think he would be in Europe after his contract expired each time.

Don't think he'll lose any sleep over that.

Allright boys don't think we've done this before, but I thought it would be neat if we all did a little pre-season analysis for our favorite teams and put down our opinions on what it is... so let's hear it from the rest of you...
I'm a Clippers guy (but don't dare call me a bandwagoner, lol, I was stuck cheering for the Hornets for years cuz CP3 is my dude, where he goes I GO) anyway this is my preview


I like the Clips roster this year, you got your vets offcourse, but the most important addition I thought was Jamal Crawford bringing to the table singlehandedly what both Mo and Foye did last year combined.

On offense, they are absolutely fine and will have no issues there...If they want to win games and go for a deep run in the playoffs, they will need their 3 defenders to put in some serious work and pick up Blake's slack....
Chris Paul is a ridiculously good defender, so now you got another two excellent all around defenders in Bledsoe and Barnes, and one of the top lockdown paint defenders in the league in DeAndre (if he could only learn to stay out of foul trouble)
IF by some chance they fail in stopping teams from scoring high numbers this year, I really hope they have a mutiny and Del Negro is sent packing, because with this amount of all around talent, it really is ALL on the Coach... I find it ridiculous that he hasn't been fired already


I think and really look at it here, for them to successful this year, they are going to need one thing that was missing last year, and that was DeAndre Jordan playing consistent minutes and giving them a solid double-double every single game day.
Everyone else will fill in their role nicely as they did last year, the only odd guy out was DeAndre, and it's a shame because it was just a mental thing, but hopefully he got it outta his system and is ready to ball.

My team: Lakers

Obviously a top heavy team. We are an offensive juggernaut that would run over anybody but questionable defense with Howard and new-look World Peace are the only willing and capable defender. That means defending the perimeter is going to be a real trouble. My hope is with much of the scoring burden taken away from Kobe's shoulder, he's gonna defend more instead of picking his spot. The bench is not worth-mentioning as we have a weak bench again (although much improved from last season): Hill, Ebanks, Jamison, Meeks, Goudelock.

The main thing for this team is to stay away from injuries and Mike Brown to do some star-managing. Remember Phil doesn't have many tricks in his coach book as his triangle system is pretty self-sustained. Phil was arguably the best star-manager and that what made him so successful.

My prediction is we will get pushed around a bit during the regular season, just like last year and end up a 3rd seed but will beat the Thunder to face Miami in the Finals.

Detroit Pistons

Brandon Knight has improved
Stuckey should have a more consistent season
We added Corey Mag and Johnny Flynn and Terence Williams - (unfortunately) I like Corey but I dont feel we need Johnny nor Terence
our rookies English and Middleton can shoot lights out so our bench has improved a little
Drummond should anchor our defense if Frank gives him the minutes

Cant wait to see Drummond and Monroe start together

Not expecting much but we can compete for the 8th seed but I have a feeling the Raptors will get it
we just need to start out strong and get Dre some good minutes and burn
last year we started off miserably and then had a pretty decent record considering our talent

lol