Team USA and FIBA 2014 World Cup

[KilgoreTrout]

Brian "The Customer Service Representative" Cardinal. Ha! That's good!

 

[Tlyons]

Sky Jordan

L- Car

Mo Capone

Moses Shuttlesworth

Kenny Atmosphere Walker

 

[TyGuy]

If they're lucky, they'll pull a Spurs when the General went out, and they won the lottery.

The spurs didn't skip a beat when they lost Avery Johnson. He wasn't nearly as good as Gary "the catchers mitt" Payton.

I'll tell you though, those spurs have had some legendary players. My favorite possibly being George "The Methamphetamine Man" Gervin.

 

[Surge]

I was going to say this thread had run its course, but TyGuy just saved it with that George Gervin one above.

Bravo sir. I lol'd.

 

[#1 in the world]

Clyde "the slide" Drexler
Shawn"Bill and Ted's excellent adventure"Marion

 

[kevinoc0]

I was always fond of Brian "Larger Than Your Average Territorial Unit" Reeves, as well as Nick "Saggy P" Young

 

[#1 in the world]

Anybody remember the time when Jordan climbed Mutombo hill?

 

[Walter White]

Kenny "The Cargo Airliner" Smith

James Worthy as "Big Dick James"

Robert "Combine Harvester" Traylor

"Red Ryder" Maravich

Wilt "Protective Leg Splint" Chamberlain

Earl "Pearl Necklace" Monroe

Julius "Working my way through med school to become a certified physician" Erving

Clyde "The Parachute" Drexler

Dominque "The Human Centipede" Wilkins

Hakeem "Not sure I'm in a state of consciousness, I just took a pretty heavy dose of prescription drugs" Olajuwon

Kevin "I actually do have a Ticket Oak, so suck on that" Garnett


Alright I'm done.

 

[Los216]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>USA Basketball cut Washington's John Wall, Bradley Beal and Atlanta's Paul Millsap today, sources told Yahoo Sports.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/496437458549342209">August 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Randolphkeys]

Wall is just a poor man's Rose. Beal seemed to be in a race to be a shooting specialist and I guess Korver beat him out; I was surprised he wasn't a select team member. Millsap was in a battle to be the last bigman and he isn't all that big.

 

[s1ced]

Paul "lying ass" pierce
Andrei "9mm" kirilenko
Caron "expired oj" Butler
Rafer "ring around the rosie" Austin

 

[blivv]

Glad to see Irving still in the team and beating out Wall. But i really don't want him to get injured...

 

[Tornicade]

Glad to see Irving still in the team and beating out Wall. But i really don't want him to get injured...

basketball players play basketball in the offseason. basketball players are more likely to get injured with their trainers than playing olympic basketball.

can we give this stuff a rest.

 

[The Voice]

Glad to see Irving still in the team and beating out Wall. But i really don't want him to get injured...

Team USA probably made LeBron a better player then he was at the time. I'm hoping the same happens to Irving. He's young and hopefully he will learn during this experience.

 

[Just Checkin]

If Irving makes the final team it will be really nice for Kyrie to get some experience playing in games with actual pressure akin to a playoff game in the later medal rounds, assuming everything goes as expected of course.