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Talk about a perfect freaking fit.
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There's no chance Chicago deals Gibson to us, and frankly I have no idea what we even have anymore asset-wise that could get that deal done in the first place.
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A fun read via Deadspin... DeJuan Blair part had me dying.
So, The Wizards Aren't Handling This Slump All That Well
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Shit's rough for the Wizards these days, man. After a few months of hanging steady near the top of the East and raking in national praise for their fun young backcourt duo of John Wall and Bradley Beal, they've dumped five in a row, seven of nine, and have been overtaken by the refurbished and newly wakeful Cavs. Marcin Gortat shaved off his mohawk. It's bad times in D.C.
So many things are going wrong all at once! Wall and Beal are banged up. Paul Pierce and Andre Miller, the two cagey old farts who've occasionally kept the low-wattage Wizards afloat with their sly Old Man Games, appear at last to have completed their mummifications; Miller's out of the rotation for the punishingly inept Garrett Temple, and Pierce couldn't drive past a mailbox these days if you spotted him a goddamn racecar. Rasual Butler, the 35-year-old NBA transient whose out-of-nowhere dead-eye marksmanship was one of the fun stories of the early season, has hit seven of his last 30 three-point attempts and can't stay on the court anymore; without him, the Wizards can't space the floor at all, and the offense grinds to a miserable halt.
(And: it's a weird, bad offense to begin with! Coach Randy Wittman's got them running hilariously Byzantine sets to produce an endless array of passive 18-footers, like he believes the formula for basketball success is ensuring his team wins the [average shot distance / average shot value] battle. Here's a fun cross-section of stats for Washington fans to recite while punching themselves in the face: the Wizards are the NBA's third most accurate three-shooting team, at 37.9 percent; 27 teams attempt more threes per game than they do, even though Washington is middle-of-the-pack in pace.)
The plunge reached new depths last night in Charlotte, when the desperate and pissed-off Wizards farted away a game they'd mostly controlled during the middle quarters and lost to the mediocre Hornets for the second time in three days. The game changed pretty much as soon as Temple shambled in for Wall with just over two minutes left in the third and the Wizards leading 70-61. By the time Wall checked back in with 8:42 to go in the fourth, the game was tied, the Hornets were playing like the goddamn Globetrotters, and his teammates were doing this:
That's little-used forward DeJuan Blair, whose game looks like someone abandoned a wheelbarrow full of wet sand on the court, losing his mind at teammate Kris Humphries, after the two of them paired up to doink an easy defensive rebound out of bounds. On one level, this is a competitive dude losing his grip for a moment at an inattentive teammate who failed to notice his rebounding services weren't needed on the play. On another level, it's the collective frustration and anxiety leaking out of a group of players who can sense that shit's gone badly awry, and have no real idea how to put it back in order.
And, on a third, more profound level, it is DeJuan fucking Blair—DeJuan Blair and not, say, Marcin Gortat, or, oh, a small lineup with Paul Pierce at the four, or a circus clown, or a Juggs machine with a photo of Wes Unseld taped to it—on the court during a crucial moment of an NBA game for a team whose promising season is stagnating before its eyes, which perhaps tells you a great deal about why the Wizards, friends, are in big trouble. DeJuan Blair lost his shit, sure—but he was only on the court in the first place because Randy Wittman did, too.
They've got home games against the terrible Nets and even more terrible Magic coming up next. That might look like a reprieve, a chance for the Wizards to halt the slide and regain their footing—but, so did two games against the Hornets in three days, a week ago. The stairs can hurt when you're falling down them.
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So, The Wizards Aren't Handling This Slump All That Well
Albert Burneko
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Shit's rough for the Wizards these days, man. After a few months of hanging steady near the top of the East and raking in national praise for their fun young backcourt duo of John Wall and Bradley Beal, they've dumped five in a row, seven of nine, and have been overtaken by the refurbished and newly wakeful Cavs. Marcin Gortat shaved off his mohawk. It's bad times in D.C.
So many things are going wrong all at once! Wall and Beal are banged up. Paul Pierce and Andre Miller, the two cagey old farts who've occasionally kept the low-wattage Wizards afloat with their sly Old Man Games, appear at last to have completed their mummifications; Miller's out of the rotation for the punishingly inept Garrett Temple, and Pierce couldn't drive past a mailbox these days if you spotted him a goddamn racecar. Rasual Butler, the 35-year-old NBA transient whose out-of-nowhere dead-eye marksmanship was one of the fun stories of the early season, has hit seven of his last 30 three-point attempts and can't stay on the court anymore; without him, the Wizards can't space the floor at all, and the offense grinds to a miserable halt.
(And: it's a weird, bad offense to begin with! Coach Randy Wittman's got them running hilariously Byzantine sets to produce an endless array of passive 18-footers, like he believes the formula for basketball success is ensuring his team wins the [average shot distance / average shot value] battle. Here's a fun cross-section of stats for Washington fans to recite while punching themselves in the face: the Wizards are the NBA's third most accurate three-shooting team, at 37.9 percent; 27 teams attempt more threes per game than they do, even though Washington is middle-of-the-pack in pace.)
The plunge reached new depths last night in Charlotte, when the desperate and pissed-off Wizards farted away a game they'd mostly controlled during the middle quarters and lost to the mediocre Hornets for the second time in three days. The game changed pretty much as soon as Temple shambled in for Wall with just over two minutes left in the third and the Wizards leading 70-61. By the time Wall checked back in with 8:42 to go in the fourth, the game was tied, the Hornets were playing like the goddamn Globetrotters, and his teammates were doing this:
That's little-used forward DeJuan Blair, whose game looks like someone abandoned a wheelbarrow full of wet sand on the court, losing his mind at teammate Kris Humphries, after the two of them paired up to doink an easy defensive rebound out of bounds. On one level, this is a competitive dude losing his grip for a moment at an inattentive teammate who failed to notice his rebounding services weren't needed on the play. On another level, it's the collective frustration and anxiety leaking out of a group of players who can sense that shit's gone badly awry, and have no real idea how to put it back in order.
And, on a third, more profound level, it is DeJuan fucking Blair—DeJuan Blair and not, say, Marcin Gortat, or, oh, a small lineup with Paul Pierce at the four, or a circus clown, or a Juggs machine with a photo of Wes Unseld taped to it—on the court during a crucial moment of an NBA game for a team whose promising season is stagnating before its eyes, which perhaps tells you a great deal about why the Wizards, friends, are in big trouble. DeJuan Blair lost his shit, sure—but he was only on the court in the first place because Randy Wittman did, too.
They've got home games against the terrible Nets and even more terrible Magic coming up next. That might look like a reprieve, a chance for the Wizards to halt the slide and regain their footing—but, so did two games against the Hornets in three days, a week ago. The stairs can hurt when you're falling down them.
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Chris Paul fined $25K for criticism of official
by Joe Wolfond 2h ago
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A few thousand chickens have come home to roost for Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul.
The NBA announced Saturday that Paul has been fined $25,000 for publicly criticizing referee Lauren Holtkamp after his team's loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night.
Paul was incensed over Holtkamp's loose issuance of technical fouls, having received one of the five handed out to the Clippers in the game.
"The tech I got was ridiculous," Paul said. "That's terrible. There's no way that can be a technical. We try to get the ball out fast every time down the court. When we did that, she said, 'Uh-uh.' I said, 'Why uh-uh?' and she gave me a technical. That's ridiculous. If that's the case, this might not be for her."
The comments whipped up a media maelstrom, with Paul's parting words about Holtkamp's suitability to be an NBA referee provoking allegations of gender bias. Holtkamp is one of two female referees - along with Violet Palmer - in the NBA.
She's also in her first year as a full-time official, and Paul insinuated that her lack of experience, not gender, was at the root of his attack.
"Last night was about a bad call," he said in the aftermath, after the Referees Association went on the offensive.
Paul, the president of the NBA Players Association, also received the resounding support of NBPA executive director Michele Roberts, who said, "Any suggestion that Chris Paul would ever conduct himself in a disrespectful manner towards women is utterly ridiculous, outrageous and patently false."
The NBA effectively opted to give Paul the benefit of the doubt. $25,000 is the standard fine for public criticism of officiating, so, without any additional punitive measures, the league is treating this the way they would any disparagement of any referee.
by Joe Wolfond 2h ago
Brad Penner / USA Today Sports
A few thousand chickens have come home to roost for Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul.
The NBA announced Saturday that Paul has been fined $25,000 for publicly criticizing referee Lauren Holtkamp after his team's loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night.
Paul was incensed over Holtkamp's loose issuance of technical fouls, having received one of the five handed out to the Clippers in the game.
"The tech I got was ridiculous," Paul said. "That's terrible. There's no way that can be a technical. We try to get the ball out fast every time down the court. When we did that, she said, 'Uh-uh.' I said, 'Why uh-uh?' and she gave me a technical. That's ridiculous. If that's the case, this might not be for her."
The comments whipped up a media maelstrom, with Paul's parting words about Holtkamp's suitability to be an NBA referee provoking allegations of gender bias. Holtkamp is one of two female referees - along with Violet Palmer - in the NBA.
She's also in her first year as a full-time official, and Paul insinuated that her lack of experience, not gender, was at the root of his attack.
"Last night was about a bad call," he said in the aftermath, after the Referees Association went on the offensive.
Paul, the president of the NBA Players Association, also received the resounding support of NBPA executive director Michele Roberts, who said, "Any suggestion that Chris Paul would ever conduct himself in a disrespectful manner towards women is utterly ridiculous, outrageous and patently false."
The NBA effectively opted to give Paul the benefit of the doubt. $25,000 is the standard fine for public criticism of officiating, so, without any additional punitive measures, the league is treating this the way they would any disparagement of any referee.
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I wonder if Griffin stopped by the Browns facility in Berea while he was in town.
I wonder if Griffin stopped by the Browns facility in Berea while he was in town.
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Blake Griffin going down is a big hit to my fantasy team. 
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Havent see this posted anywhere yet.
http://deadspin.com/dolan-start-rooting-for-the-nets-because-the-knicks-d-1684489469
http://deadspin.com/dolan-start-rooting-for-the-nets-because-the-knicks-d-1684489469
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James Dolan is worth around 1.5 billion dollars. $1500000000 Read his response again. The guy writes like a sixth-grader. Unreal.
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Enes Kanter wants the Jazz to trade him, per report
By Mark Sandritter
@MarkSandritter on Feb 12, 2015, 12:48a 3
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The Utah big man is frustrated over playing time.
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If Enes Kanter gets his way, he played the final game of his Utah Jazz career on Wednesday. The big man is reportedly frustrated by his role on the team and said he hopes to be traded before the Feb. 19 trade deadline, according to Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune.
Kanter played just 18 minutes on Wednesday, and while he said he was too "frustrated" to talk after the game, he did say an eye injury wasn't the reason for the limited playing time.
"It was not my eye at all. I don't know what it was, but it was not my eye at all. So we'll see what's going to happen," Kanter said, via The Salt Lake Tribune.
According to Jody Genessy of the Deseret News, Kanter's agent has asked for a trade out of Utah and "turned up the heat on Jazz management" recently. The Jazz played their final game before the extended All Star break and Kanter was one of several players who opted not to return to Utah on the team charter flight. While that may not be notable with the All Star break upcoming, Kanter's actions with his teammates before leaving may have been of note.
By Mark Sandritter
@MarkSandritter on Feb 12, 2015, 12:48a 3
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The Utah big man is frustrated over playing time.
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If Enes Kanter gets his way, he played the final game of his Utah Jazz career on Wednesday. The big man is reportedly frustrated by his role on the team and said he hopes to be traded before the Feb. 19 trade deadline, according to Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune.
Kanter played just 18 minutes on Wednesday, and while he said he was too "frustrated" to talk after the game, he did say an eye injury wasn't the reason for the limited playing time.
"It was not my eye at all. I don't know what it was, but it was not my eye at all. So we'll see what's going to happen," Kanter said, via The Salt Lake Tribune.
According to Jody Genessy of the Deseret News, Kanter's agent has asked for a trade out of Utah and "turned up the heat on Jazz management" recently. The Jazz played their final game before the extended All Star break and Kanter was one of several players who opted not to return to Utah on the team charter flight. While that may not be notable with the All Star break upcoming, Kanter's actions with his teammates before leaving may have been of note.
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Only Rubio could make this pass:
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/2/...n-amazing-behind-the-back-pass-lunging-out-of
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/2/...n-amazing-behind-the-back-pass-lunging-out-of
