2014-2015 NBA regular season thread.

[Al Bundy]

I will update this when the schedule is announced in a couple of weeks, but I will open with the new uniforms for the Charlotte Hornets below.

Introducing the brand new Charlotte #HornetsUnis! http://t.co/MgHy2DcOTX pic.twitter.com/w59MlUvRgd

— Charlotte Hornets (@hornets) June 19, 2014

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

Looks like the Wolves are still stuck on getting Thompson from the Warriors.

If Golden State feels pressured, they might want to pull the trigger.

Otherwise, I can understand their trepidations.

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by SNR

If Golden State feels pressured, they might want to pull the trigger.

Otherwise, I can understand their trepidations.

Bosh going to Houston is THAT pressure.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Lin to Lakers a done deal. Houston also sends them their 2015 1st round pick

Lakers...

[KC native]

Originally Posted by SNR

Let me guess... he'll come off the bench to spell Tim Duncan until he retires?

YOU ARE A GENIUS SIR!

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Wiggins is in his rookie contract dumbass.

5/90
4/94.8
4/24+

You do see how that can get you close to $50m, right?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

Bosh going to Houston is THAT pressure.

Let's say they manage to somehow keep Thompson and Barnes.

Curry
Thompson
Barnes
Love
Bogut??

Holy no defense, Batman

[KC native]

Originally Posted by SNR

Let's say they manage to somehow keep Thompson and Barnes.

Curry
Thompson
Barnes
Love
Bogut??

Holy no defense, Batman

To be fair, they don't really play much defense with the roster they have now.

[ChiefsCountry]

If Cleveland is really offering Bennett/Waiters for Love and Golden State offered what Lee/Barnes for sure, that Golden State offer is 10 times better, if Golden State put Thompson in for Barnes it not even close.

[dirk digler]

Tim Kawakami @timkawakami 4 minutes ago
Second NBA source: The Warriors have no plans to offer Klay Thompson to Minnesota, even if CLE comes in aggressively for Kevin Love.

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Tim Kawakami @timkawakami 4 minutes ago
Second NBA source: The Warriors have no plans to offer Klay Thompson to Minnesota, even if CLE comes in aggressively for Kevin Love.

I saw that as well. No way are they trading Thompson at this point.

[DaKCMan AP]

Did not take long. Downtown Cleveland. pic.twitter.com/JwdesYtNJR

— PatMcManamon (@PatMcManamon) July 11, 2014

[RealSNR]

Yeah. The Warriors said as much when they rejected that trade offer over a week ago.

They believe Klay Thompson is a focal point to competing for a championship, so he's not on the table for any price.

I think they're overrating Klay Thompson, but that happens to all teams. ****, the Timberwolves are basically doing the same with Ricky Rubio, except Ricky Rubio is so bad that he can't fool anybody else into wanting him.

[dirk digler]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-leb...191445831.html

How LeBron James forgave Cavs owner Dan Gilbert and returned to Cleveland


For four years, the letter had come to define Dan Gilbert, and the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers wanted to wash away the shame and embarrassment and guilt of it all. So Sunday, Gilbert sat down with LeBron James and his inner-circle and tried to absolve himself of a most wretched moment in time.

"We had five great years together and one terrible night," Gilbert told James, and so started the process of reconciliation on Sunday night in Miami. "I told him how sorry I was, expressed regret for how that night went and how I let all the emotion and passion for situation carry me away. I told him I wish had never done it, that I wish I could take it back."

And soon, James told Gilbert that he wished he had never done "The Decision" on cable television and that they had made mistakes together, that they could move past it. From James and his agent Rich Paul and business manager Maverick Carter, the air of peace hung heavy in the South Florida air, the process of returning to Cleveland had begun in earnest. Soon, they had stopped talking about the past and talked about the possibility of a future together and for the first time – truly the first time – the possibility of reunification had become genuine.

"It was more comfortable than I actually thought it would be," Gilbert told Yahoo Sports on Friday afternoon. "They made it easy for me."

These had been Gilbert's first public words since agent Rich Paul called him moments before a public announcement, and said simply, "Dan, congratulations. LeBron's coming home."

Gilbert had flown down on his private jet on Sunday for the most important meeting of his billionaire business life. After obliterating James on the night of his departure for the Miami Heat four years ago, Gilbert had come back to make his pitch for the most improbable of partnerships: James and Gilbert, older and wiser, scarred in far different ways from sport's most spectacular falling-out.

James became branded by The Decision, and Gilbert became a hostage to his Letter. Only, James would win two titles in four years with the Heat, and winning washes everything away. Winning changes the story. The Cavaliers have lost a lot of games, made mistakes and then Gilbert started to understand something: For all his business genius, all his rebuilding of Detroit and charitable endeavors and everything he had done in his life, the letter had come to define him.

"Do a Google search on me, and it's the first thing that comes up," Gilbert told Yahoo Sports. "To a certain segment of society, it's like somebody killed somebody, like somebody killed their kid. I told LeBron, 'That letter didn't hurt anybody more than it hurt me.'

"For the first two months, I kept thousands of letters – not hundreds – thousands written to me. There were 90-year-old ladies and CEOs, and I realized that that letter had transcended the event, went far beyond LeBron. After a few months, I would re-read it and just be full of regret. That wasn't me, that wasn't who I am. I didn't mean most of the things I said in there. The venom it produced, from all sides … I wish … I wish I had never done it.

"I'm grateful that we all get another chance together now."

Three years ago, Gilbert says he "started to hear rumblings that this could be possible," that James had thoughts about someday making a return to the Cavaliers. "I went back and forth in my mind, thinking: Could this really happen? It was a volatile thing for years, and now that it's happened, I'm still in shock."

Gilbert couldn't stop talking about Paul and Carter, about how they were the conduits to make it all work again. "So professional with us through the whole process," Gilbert said. In the end, LeBron James wanted to come home, wanted to forgive, and there were these two figures, forever connected in history, sitting in Miami on Sunday and slowly, surely laying out a way it could all happen again.

LeBron James comes home a two-time champion, comes home with a chance to deliver something Dan Gilbert would've never imagined possible again: a chance for them to be champions together, a chance to wash away all the stain of a Scarlet Letter and The Decision, to get together older and wiser, and better understand how it can be made right again.

His cell phone buzzed on Friday afternoon, and Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, heard the words he could've never, ever imagined: LeBron's coming home.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by -King-

Jesus Christ Rust, how the **** did you manage to make everybody hate you when most of us agreed that the Cavs were his best landing spot?
Posted via Mobile Device

This. I like the Cavs and LOVE them getting Lebron. Rust makes me hate everything he likes just a little, though.

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by KevB

Wiggins may or may not be traded. But if you think Love gets you closer to a trophy, you pull the trigger. Love is flawed, but he's a damn good player. Wiggins could be an all star or he could be Ben McLemore. In Waiters first year, you proclaimed him to be a future star. He probably isn't ever going to become an all star. You just don't know when a guy has never played in the league. You know you're getting 25 and 13 from Love.

In terms of defining your team's future, Love is only 25. If he signs a long term deal, would he not also be part of the future?

Waiters will be an All-Star. He was in the worst possible situation. Him and Kyrie are happy together now as of a month or so before the season ended, and the wins with James and competent coaching will make it a lot better.

Teams have tried trading for Waiters too, so I'm not the only one who thinks he will be good. He's out played Irving several times, and is a better defender. Not saying he's better overall, but he can for sure be an All-Star.