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

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

JPB being a douche.. something I have never seen before.

Read the thread. Seriously.


Oh, and then **** off.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Probably not good enough for you, but I've gotten good information here several times.

Your claim on this is from some guy posting on a forum? Is this the correct link?

http://www.mnsportsfans.com/forum/sh...Love-deal-done

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Read the thread. Seriously.


Oh, and then **** off.

I've read the thread, and you're still a shithead

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Your claim on this is from some guy posting on a forum? Is this the correct link?

http://www.mnsportsfans.com/forum/sh...Love-deal-done

Never been to that site. And there were multiple sources with the same basic information, I just posted one. Have you ever read anything here before you seen it on ESPN?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Probably not good enough for you, but I've gotten good information here several times.

I'd like to see more people saying this, but it's a start.

And I don't doubt that's the case for Wiggins, where he'd want to create a "brand," and Minnesota isn't exactly the place to do that.

But that's just really too bad. What if Milwaukee had the 1st pick and he went there? There's not much he can ****ing do. There's not much Anthony Davis can do when he got drafted by New Orleans. Or hell, there's not much Kevin Love has been able to do when he became a Timberwolf.

You can become a star and grow out your product that way. That's what you can do. You can be a stellar basketball player and get on TV by making people want to see you.

If the environment isn't right for creating your brand, then MAKE it right. And I highly doubt if the Cavs get the right deal agreed upon and Wiggins' ass is on the way out, they're not going to re-think the deal just because he tells them he won't be able to sell as many jerseys if he goes to the Wolves.

[BigCatDaddy]

Hey Guise! I'm know a guy that post on a message board that has all the inside information on every NBA team that they don't want anyone else to know!

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

I've read the thread, and you're still a shithead

If you're calling me the names, based on the posts in this thread, that just demonstrates that I was right about you being a complete moron.

But, hey, it was great to see you following me around and posting about me completely off topic. It's great to have fans, even if their I.Q. is probably lower than a Budweiser's alcohol percentage.

[RustShack]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

If you're calling me the names, based on the posts in this thread, that just demonstrates that I was right about you being a complete moron.

But, hey, it was great to see you following me around and posting about me completely off topic. It's great to have fans, even if their I.Q. is probably lower than a Budweiser's alcohol percentage.

I know it'd probably a first, and there's just left over butt hurt... But maybe you're in the wrong?

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Never been to that site. And there were multiple sources with the same basic information, I just posted one. Have you ever read anything here before you seen it on ESPN?

Again, I don't watch ESPN, and that post you offered reportedly just comes from some random guy who supposedly knows someone.

You're mocking ESPN, but you're using sources that are far more suspect.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by SNR

I'd like to see more people saying this, but it's a start.

And I don't doubt that's the case for Wiggins, where he'd want to create a "brand," and Minnesota isn't exactly the place to do that.

But that's just really too bad. What if Milwaukee had the 1st pick and he went there? There's not much he can ****ing do. There's not much Anthony Davis can do when he got drafted by New Orleans. Or hell, there's not much Kevin Love has been able to do when he became a Timberwolf.

You can become a star and grow out your product that way. That's what you can do. You can be a stellar basketball player and get on TV by making people want to see you.

If the environment isn't right for creating your brand, then MAKE it right. And I highly doubt if the Cavs get the right deal agreed upon and Wiggins' ass is on the way out, they're not going to re-think the deal just because he tells them he won't be able to sell as many jerseys if he goes to the Wolves.

Just talking out loud. Is it possible that there's truth to the idea that Wiggins wants to play in a big market, and that Philly is in play so Minnesota can get Embiid and Philly gets Wiggins?

I'm not crazy about that scenario as a Cavs fan. But what if the trade worked like this:

Cleveland receives:
Love
Dieng

Minnesota receives:
Embiid
Bennett
Young
Lucas
Malcolm Thomas
Erik Murphy
Cleveland pick

Philadelphia receives:
Wiggins
Martin
Barrea

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Just talking out loud. Is it possible that there's truth to the idea that Wiggins wants to play in a big market, and that Philly is in play so Minnesota can get Embiid and Philly gets Wiggins?

I'm not crazy about that scenario as a Cavs fan. But what if the trade worked like this:

Cleveland receives:
Love
Dieng

Minnesota receives:
Embiid
Bennett
Young
Lucas
Malcolm Thomas
Erik Murphy
Cleveland pick

Philadelphia receives:
Wiggins
Martin
Barrea

I know that's not ideal for the Wolves or the Cavs, because it's a better situation if Wiggins ends up in Minnesota, and Noel or Embiid in Cleveland. But if Wiggins doesn't want to go to Minnesota, it still gets them an elite prospect and the Wolves still get a really strong haul.

[mcaj22]

Sixers will never trade Noel to the Cavs. That shit team had a clear chance at Noel and your blockhead owner was too impatient to wait for an injury and went for a guy who is a laughable joke.

[RealSNR]

Not comparing the two organizations at ALL, but you know another team where brand identity is hard to come by?

The San Antonio Spurs.

Take a stellar and exciting player like Tony Parker. After all these years, does he have a "brand" that people genuinely like and flock to outside of the base of Spurs fans?

Kawhi Leonard is another example. One of the most underrated players in the game today. What does he have for a brand?

If Andrew Wiggins somehow found himself on the Spurs, would he give a flying **** about his brand? Probably not, I would say. Or maybe actually would. I don't know.

If he wants to change that, however, he only needs to look to a wet fart town like Oklahoma City and what they've turned into. Why? Because they've got star players who win shit. There's no reason why with all the young talent Minnesota would acquire in a Love deal that they couldn't create an OKC-like atmosphere if Wiggins is a legit superstar.

But whatever. I'm not in the position to make millions and millions of dollars for a professional sports team. I'm probably just projecting my ho-hum life onto that of a superstar similar to the people who bitched a day ago about Jamaal Charles owning up to the contract he signed because people in average jobs have to do that.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

Sixers will never trade Noel to the Cavs. That shit team had a clear chance at Noel and your blockhead owner was too impatient to wait for an injury and went for a guy who is a laughable joke.

First of all, it was a blockhead GM who's now gone.

Second of all, Bennett was a terrible pick. It should have been Noel. So what? The point is a trade that makes all 3 sides happy and that's the scenario that seems to make the most sense.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RustShack

Never been to that site. And there were multiple sources with the same basic information, I just posted one. Have you ever read anything here before you seen it on ESPN?

I'm so torn between wanting to see LeBron succeed and wanting to see the Cavs fail now because of you.