2019 NBA Trade Deadline

[KilgoreTrout]

It's the oldest arena in the Association, built on the world's worst major train station & with a grand total of TWO NBA titles, both over 45 years ago. The seminal MSG basketball moment was Willis Reed scoring 4 points in Game 7 in 1970. MSG also hosts the NIT which has been utterly irrelevant for at least 50 years.

Basketball in NYC is an utter disaster on all levels. It's the only place that still has a ton of gyms with a running track above the basketball floor which prevents shooting corner threes.

NYC has a tremendous basketball legacy that's now nothing but a source of sadness to the many old basketball fans in the area. It's not unlike the Browns, who made their league's championship game 15 of their first 24 years (through 1969) and 0 for the past 50 years (although there was no team for 3 years). Success was SO long ago.

It's so bad for Knicks fans that BROOKLYN is actually having a fine season under the circumstances. The Nets were long famous for having an even worse ownership / GM / coaching disaster than the Knicks, and now even that is gone.

@ACisKING

Have you seen the train station in Bratislava? It’s pretty horrendous.

 

[MediumBaller]

If players want flexibility to go wherever they want they should sign 1 year deals like LeBron would. There are ways to gain leverage, they just aren't willing to risk getting hurt and losing the guaranteed money of a long contract.

 

[inliner311]

Stefan Bondy

✔@SBondyNYDN
Kyrie Irving has shifted from his commitment to re-signing with the Celtics: “I don’t owe anybody shit.”

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11:07 AM - Feb 1, 2019


Ian Begley

✔@IanBegley
Kyrie Irving asked if his mindset has changed regarding re-signing with Boston: “Ask me July 1.” He says he’s going to do what’s best for his career.

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11:02 AM - Feb 1, 2019

I wouldn't want to be Danny Ainge right now. Kyrie is really talking like LeBron right now. They do have alot of options but everything seems really risky at this point.

Keep Kyrie and he can walk then they are left with nothing to show. They aren't good enough to win a championship right now. Hayward doesn't seem like a good asset right now. Rozier will most likely get a big offer in the summer.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Have you seen the train station in Bratislava? It’s pretty horrendous.

Actually I was in Bratislava in December (no shit). The train station is above grade which is more than I can say for the hellhole under MSG.

 

[cavsfever]

I wouldn't want to be Danny Ainge right now. Kyrie is really talking like LeBron right now. They do have alot of options but everything seems really risky at this point.

Keep Kyrie and he can walk then they are left with nothing to show. They aren't good enough to win a championship right now. Hayward doesn't seem like a good asset right now. Rozier will most likely get a big offer in the summer.

I would love it so much if the Celtics do a big belly flop and end up a mid-level playoff team, like Tatum turns out to be good but not great, they lose Kyrie, and Hayward never really comes back. My hatred for them is second only to the Warriors. A distant second but I still hate them.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Actually I was in Bratislava in December (no shit). The train station is above grade which is more than I can say for the hellhole under MSG.

I love Bratislava, the city. But that train station is the most depressing piece of socialist architecture you will ever come across.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

I would love it so much if the Celtics do a big belly flop and end up a mid-level playoff team, like Tatum turns out to be good but not great, they lose Kyrie, and Hayward never really comes back. My hatred for them is second only to the Warriors. A distant second but I still hate them.

I am with you, brother.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I love Bratislava, the city. But that train station is the most depressing piece of socialist architecture you will ever come across.

Is this all some kind of code for saying that you guys double-teamed Luka's mom, and she turned out to be not that great?

 

[2 For The Brew]

I love Bratislava, the city. But that train station is the most depressing piece of socialist architecture you will ever come across.

The Pennsylvania Railroad built a very impressive piece of capitalist architecture with private money and the philistines in NYC tore it down:

Here's what they put there instead (train station is under

Here's Bratislava:

Bratislava is above ground, has some glass in the building, and there are a bunch or reasonably attractive Slovakian women in evidence.

I agree that the Bratislava train station is depressing socialist architecture. Penn Station (New York) is just a shithole. Don't take my word for it; ask anyone who uses that station.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

The Pennsylvania Railroad built a very impressive piece of capitalist architecture with private money and the philistines in NYC tore it down:

Here's what they put there instead (train station is under

Here's Bratislava:

Bratislava is above ground, has some glass in the building, and there are a bunch or reasonably attractive Slovakian women in evidence.

I agree that the Bratislava train station is depressing socialist architecture. Penn Station (New York) is just a shithole. Don't take my word for it; ask anyone who uses that station.

Ok, I concede.

And I think the smoking-hot Slovak women win the day.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Is this all some kind of code for saying that you guys double-teamed Luka's mom, and she turned out to be not that great?

Kilgore is all about the Slovenes, too. And I doubt Mrs. Doncic would disappoint, in the slightest.

 

[cavsfever]

Penn Station is awful all right, the underground parts look like a setting for a horror movie, the above ground parts are like if you put a shopping mall in a prison.

But the MSG arena itself is good and feels special somehow. The Knicks might really do something this summer too. I feel like it was a smart move for them to dump Porzingis, who gets injured too much. Dallas taking a chance, they could lose Porzingis in free agency after just a year and still be stuck with Lee/Hardaway contracts from the trade.

 

[Futuredome]

The Pennsylvania Railroad built a very impressive piece of capitalist architecture with private money and the philistines in NYC tore it down:

Here's what they put there instead (train station is under

Here's Bratislava:

Bratislava is above ground, has some glass in the building, and there are a bunch or reasonably attractive Slovakian women in evidence.

I agree that the Bratislava train station is depressing socialist architecture. Penn Station (New York) is just a shithole. Don't take my word for it; ask anyone who uses that station.

It was dead by 1960. A impressive piece of architecture, it never was. Which was why nobody ever wanted to fix it.

 

[iMoeJoe]

Philly going all on.

 

[Sebastian]

Hmmm. This may effect the AD sweepstakes: