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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:10am On Dec 13, 2022
Just saw a post about the greatest 2nd round picks of all time, and people are actually arguing for Rodman over Jokic shocked shocked shocked shocked.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 2:39am On Dec 12, 2022
austinceasar:


Any website to watch NBA matches??...Hesgoal wey man dey use has been locked down
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 2:56pm On Dec 07, 2022
steady986:


LeBron, AD, Russ, Schroder, Walker, Reaves, Wenyen, Troy Brown will see good minutes in the playoffs either as key players or as role players. That leaves us with Pat Bev and Nunn. Both have been outright useless on offense this season so far and there's been talks of trading them to get someone manageable. I don't know if Darvin Ham can rely on Beverley's defense alone to give him substantial playoff minutes.

But looking at how we fell short tonight against Cleveland, who knows whether Russ is still there to be traded.

Schroder has always been a playoffs liability wherever he goes. As for Reaves, walker, Wenyen and Brown, they have never been, so the jury is still out on them.
This still leaves a team with 2 top 15 players when healthy, who should be challenging for a title with a dodgy lineup beyond Westbrook.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 8:57pm On Dec 06, 2022
steady986:


Lol. See how you people are suggesting trading LeBron like LeBron is Kyle Kuzma or something grin
LeBron gets traded only if he asks to. And he's not even playing that badly for anyone to want to trade him. Much of AD's success has to do with him and Westbrook intentionally giving him the ball. That brings us to the delima of whether to trade Westbrook or not. The guy is taking fewer shots these days which is good. He's more interested in finding others. I'm sure even Darvin Ham is happy with this version of Russ. He still remains the top 1 or 2 facilitator on the team. There's a whole lot of decisions to be made over the coming days. I wouldn't be surprised if the team remains as it is come 15th

Agreed with all you said, but this Lakers roster is barely 5 deep when it comes to players who can play quality minutes in the playoffs. So unless they want to waste a great AD and Lebron year, they need to make serious moves to bolster their rotation
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 6:14am On Dec 06, 2022
birdman:


Do you have an example trade in mind? Sell Lebron while stock is high? Or package WB while stock is high?

The Lakers need at the very least one consistent shooter, if they want to make it far in the playoffs. Now if they don't believe they can win it this year, trading Lebron is not a bad idea, the right team will give up at the very least a 1st round pick + players to match salaries.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:28am On Dec 05, 2022
steady986:
Anthony Davis; that's the name.

If he continues with this form, the Lakers have to make some moves to maximize his exceptional play

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 9:31pm On Nov 18, 2022
A40:
We're here dearly beloved for the funeral rites of Green Bay Packers and Aaron Fraudgers. It was a good run but all good things come to an end

grin grin grin

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:26am On Nov 17, 2022
Roland17:


The Sacramento Kings.

Thanks baba
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:21pm On Nov 16, 2022
A40:
Lmaoo the Nets swallowed 153 in regulation grin

How do you give up 153pts to the kings in regulation
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:47am On Nov 15, 2022
Blueelf:
Last season before the playoffs, I told warriors fans that Klay's peak has long passed and he should be traded. Y'all thought my take was hilarious. GO to twitter and see fans saying same

Na only sentiments still dey keep the guy for GSW

I will even prefer draymond stays rather than klay. Klay is easily replaced. Virtually the whole league shoots threes these days. It wouldn't be hard to find a 6'6+ 3 and D combo guard or forward/guard

But you see a defensive and assit juggernaut like draymond would be hard to find

I don talk my own

But you also said, correct me if I'm mistaken that Poole is the next coming.
The thing is, history has shown that players with Klay's skillset tends to age well, and his erratic and underwhelming play can still be attributed to recovery from injuries. IMHO a better judgment of where Klay is, will come after the allstar break, if he doesn't iron out the inconsistencies by that time, then shipping him off becomesa conversation that conversation be had.
As for Draymond, his skillset is important to the GSW, but not at the price his Max contract computes out as. If he can accept something in the range of 4yr/100-110mil, then that might be tenable, but at 138mil, that is $34.5mil/yr in new more for a glorified role player who will be 37yrs at the last year of the contract.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:56am On Nov 13, 2022
birdman:


Wilbon is right, and his statements came before Kyrie apologized. Yes, Kyrie is being victimized. But the reason we got here was started by Kyrie. The last 4, 5? years, which one did Kyrie not have some drama around him. Bro needs to grow up. He got lucky the cavs didnt try to derail him the way he left the team. He got lucky the celtics kinda gave him a long leash. But when you constantly do these type of things, eventually you will run into the guys who want some revenge. Im hoping he comes out of this and keeps playing for the nets, but the brother has to do better.

That's the thing with Kyrie, if it is not one thing it is another, when will it end with the guy. This will be the 4th season since KD and him chose Brooklyn, and the team has not had a real chance of having a real go at winning the championship, mainly because he Kyrie is always causing one issue or the other. He can either grow up or retire, nobody is forcing him to play in the nba, heck Dwight just signed for a foreign team.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:50pm On Nov 07, 2022
Kwahi just finesse the Clippers for all that money. The dude knees are gone judging by what is going on

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 12:34pm On Oct 25, 2022
Okay, the Blazers have something, I don't know what it is but they definitely have some good pieces that have the potential to become great
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:13am On Oct 23, 2022
Roland17:


These young teams are not getting the Wemby memo.. Their owners and GMs need to have meetings with them..

With that being said, it is still too early. Garri wen rise go still settle down. With injuries and a lack of talent and deep bench, these teams will get back on the Wemby track.

Kobe and a lot of players have always said it that players don't tank, but owners and management do. What will happen as time goes is that you will start seeing bizarre substitutions from coaches if these teams keep winning.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 3:34am On Oct 22, 2022
steady986:
Man, the Pelicans are good

As long they keep their egos in check and listen to their coach, they will be a problem. They have the personnel to win in a variety of ways.
You can see how Jonas was a focal point of the offense today because the hornets have no one to match-up with him in the front court

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 2:01pm On Oct 21, 2022
birdman:
I kept saying it, John Wall is still legit. Houston held him out (they came to an agreement) just to give rookies playing time. I was hoping he would end up with Lakers. Maybe they can pick up Eric Gordon and get some shooting

Wall had no choice but to seat out, the only agreement that was his personal own, was the agreement to leave, where the Rockets agreed to pay the majority of his contract this year.

PS: I still believe the Bucks should have gone all in for John Wall. They really need another iso scorer

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 3:04am On Oct 21, 2022
For the 6ers it seems it's always something sha. We all thought Harden was going to be the question mark, but Embiid has been lackluster in the 2 games played thus far
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:31am On Sep 24, 2022
A40:
If it was not consensual he would have been fired for sure. Since protocol has been broken whether it was consensual or not would not help Udoka's case

Celtics don't need to confirm or deny that. They have been dropping half baked information from the start instead of giving complete information.

That is the real source of the problem. Like we said earlier. You either fire the man. Make everyone sign NDA and wash your hands off of him. Or come clean with everything that has happened.

But don't act shocked and brand new that media and sources are throwing as much shxt on the wall to see which one sticks and blame people for just you know doing their jobs and trying to investigate what really happened or make it up as they go in whatever order

I am not shocked and if you've read all my thread on the matter you will find that I have put the blame on how the issue was handled on the Celtics brass.
It is always better to give the media one clear cut, complete, truthful and concise scenario, so as to satisfy their appetite and remove their need for uncessary speculations, especially when all their sources testify to its truthfulness.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:23am On Sep 24, 2022
steady986:


This is truly on them. Why have a press conference if you're not going to give us details? And there's no smoke without fire. If he's been suspended then it means the investigation has been completed or there's enough evidence suggesting he broke the code of conduct. With all the rumours flying around about who the women involved are (whether there truly were women involved), they could have debunked it and said no women were involved. It saves the female staff of the organization a whole lot if embarrassment. Bit they didn't, which means women truly were involved.

That is why organizations who are in the public domain should either have a PR risk management section in house or have one on retainer. The fact that a team president is saying publicly that he made this decision based on his conscience is just juvenile.
They did the hard part in keeping it quiet from the time it was reported to when they decided to deal with it, but the bungled the execution. All they needed to do was investigate it properly and have conclusive answers that kills any iota of speculation, by the time they were ready to make it public.
Their approach just allows for speculation that might come to bite them in the ass if they are not careful, unless it was their desire to dominate the news cycle for more than necessary.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 12:56am On Sep 24, 2022
steady986:


Women and accountability are two things that just never go together. So Ime Udoka takes responsibility for his actions but the other women shouldn't? The way these people go over the edge in trying to protect women is absurd. The Celtics have said that it was a consensual relationship, what other investigation from a law firm are you waiting for again? I love Kendrick Perkins for this. I missed today's show for some reason and I going to YouTube to search for the snippets.

The Celtics never said it was consensual, reports without a source said that, and other reports also without sources, have emanated pointing to possible misconduct/missteps on Ime's part.
So the hiring of a law firm is the right call albeit a bit late IMHO. The Celtics dropped the ball big time on this one, they should have gotten it properly investigated as soon as they were made aware of it in June, if they had done that they would have come out with a more complete picture, and all this speculation would have been largely unnecessary.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:56pm On Sep 23, 2022
A40:


100% Celtics fault

Absolutely, as soon as you as an organization decided not to keep it in house, they should have come clean in full, so as to protect their other female employees from unnecessary vulgar speculations, especially from the toxic section of social media.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:43pm On Sep 23, 2022
A40:
It was clearly a punitive and vindictive measure. The question now is whether it was justified or not. Did Ime do more or not. Since you said it's consensual why make the identity of the woman a secret?

This is the problem with gynocentric society. Why are they pretending like the man cheated with himself.

Maybe he didn't just knack he probably impregnated somebody grin

Rumored offenses

If this is true they should fire him immediately. A clean break is better for them in the long run
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:16pm On Sep 23, 2022
The people I pity are the women who are not involved in this shit, who will either have their names or pictures associated with this due to speculation from the public.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 10:58pm On Sep 23, 2022
Matt Barnes just said this is 100x deeper than what is out
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 10:38pm On Sep 23, 2022
afrodoc2:


Both.

She is the Celtics Team Services Manager while her husband is VP Finance.

Wow, on one hand Ime get mind ohh.
Why did he and the Celtics not just agree for him to resign. he and the Celtics are just wasting a whole year on something if it was consensual, should have been handled internally. SAS surprising got it right, as far as I know situations like this is either a firing/resignation offense or an internally handled matter
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 10:19pm On Sep 23, 2022
felix00:


I actually bought this till I found out the lady walked away with no penalty. It's not assault na, it was consensual. They should both be equally punished na

Can anyone confirm if the woman is just a staff or also the wife of a staff of the Celtics?
News on this is kind of hard to get, cause I'm already seeing that he was accused of unwanted advances or words. Which kind of brings the whole consensual aspect of it to the fore.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:24am On Sep 02, 2022
Sexton got 4yr/72mil as part of the deal
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:26pm On Sep 01, 2022
Called the Cleveland trade but totally whiffed on the compensation. A backcourt of Garland and Donovan is not that bad especially with Mobley and Allen cleaning up things on the inside.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:58am On Aug 28, 2022
birdman:


They have a reason to tank every season. I felt like Chet was going to be a bust anyhow. Perhaps this is just karma? aliondo should just suit up if he feels so aggrieved grin

Tanking with Chet, I seriously doubt that, just for the fact they already have too many young players who need minutes to show if they have it or not. Also SGA is on a Max and, will they seriously continue to pay him just to tank.
IMHO if Chet was not hurt and they ended up not fighting for a play in spot, then something had to give.

PS: IMHO there can be such a thing, as too much young talent on a team and OKC is heading there.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:12am On Aug 27, 2022
Roland17:
The OKC have to be gutted by Chet’s injury. Man is out for the entire season..If I am a GM, I am sorry, my top picks are not playing these semi-pro/ pick up games.. absolutely not!

Take heart @aliondo

The thing is, his injury just put them back into the Victor Wayembama sweep stakes, because I think they now have a good excuse to tank again this upcoming season.
Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:31pm On Aug 23, 2022
The tables are set for a great season. Nets, Celtics, GSW, Clippers, Bucks and the Sixers if Harden gets back to all-nba form, all have a legitimate case for winning it all next season.

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Sports / Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 9:32pm On Aug 18, 2022
The real issue with the WNBA is one of time. The league is about 25years old and on paper it is built for a demographic that as at the time of its inception had other things to entertain them. If you look at the nba, nfl even European football ball leagues in their 1st 25 yrs of existence one thing that is noticeable is that the players were not as well off as their peers today, most of the early pioneers in sports had to have 2nd jobs.
Women leagues of every kind has to go through the growing pains that the men's leagues also went through. They need to first get the sports to the young kids, who if they fall in love with the sport will help create the bed rock of the fan base that can make it a commercial success in the future, just as the men's league all did.
Most of the fans of all men's league fall into three categories, people who played when young, or people who got introduced to the game by either their father or the father figure in their life, or guys who got introduced to the sport by a friend or friends who fall into one of the 1st two categories.
The fact is historically there was a time men were not watching the sports we all enjoy today in the numbers that enabled players to become rich from playing them.

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