SpongeWorthy

This is hilarious especially the part about the draft 2003: 1 (7) Kirk Hinrich 2004: 1 (3) Ben Gordon 2004: 1 (9) Traded essentially cash for the rights to Luol Deng 2004: 2 (8) Chris Duhon 2006: 1 (2) Tyrus Thomas (essentially) 2006: 1 (16) Thabo Sefolosha (essentially) 2007: 1 (9) Joakim Noah 2007: 2 (21) JamesOn Curry 2008: 1 (1) Derrick Rose 2008: 2 (?) Omer Asik 2009: 1 (16) James Johnson 2009: 1 (26) Taj Gibson 2011: 1 (21) Nikola Mirotic 2011: 1 (30) Jimmy Butler 2012: 1 (29) Marquis Teague I mean jeez, relative to pick in the draft, how can anyone look at that drafting history and say Pax has done a poor job drafting? Being able to get a border line All-Star in Deng for nothing. Finding a servicable backup PG in Duhon in the middle of the 2nd round. Getting a top 5 NBA Center in Noah at 9. Getting an excellent defensive guard who starts for the current WC champs at 16. Having the foresight to draft Asik in the late 2nd round and waiting for him to develop and come over to become one of the best defensive big men in the NBA? Drafting a 6th man of the year candidate in Taj Gibson 26th. Turning a situation where they didn't have room on the roster for a second 1st round pick into one of the Bulls best assets currently in Mirotic. Yes he missed big time on Tyrus, James Johnson is ok but disappointing and JamesOn Curry was nothing (but was a late 2nd round pick). Other than that, they have drafted nothing but solid players since 2003. You are looking at 1 superstar, 3 minor stars (Noah, Deng, Gordon), 3 more solid starters (Hinrich, Gibson, Thabo), and 4 solid rotation players on winning teams. I'm not putting Mirotic, Butler and Teague on this list but Butler already looks like he's earned enough trust to replace Brewer in the rotation, Mirotic looks like a potential star in the making or at least a solid starter, and most people gave the Bulls high marks for Teague. So yeah once again, you make a statement that is so far from the truth, you look completely silly. Can we somehow ban virus from the Bulls and Bears threads? Yet again, I see a lot of 'solid' mediocre players. He's done very little in terms of first round picks and you're omitting the blunder of trading Aldridge for TT among others. In almost 10 years hes drafted 1 superstar with the first pick of the draft and drafted a 1 time borderline all star in Deng who is a nice complementary piece, third option. His free agent gets (and lack of) are below average and I'm not sure he's learned to utilize the 'trade' option in the league. The Bulls also bungled the Skiles situation which leaves me curious to see what they do with Thibs. Drafting a true, game changing superstar is more about being fortunate enough to be terrible in the right draft year (or lucking into the #1 pick in said year) than it is about being a good drafter.

haw haw djok

Well according to reports that came out this morning, which I put next to zero stock into, the Lakers intend to keep the Kobe/Nash/Gasol/Bynum core together.

SSR has his panties in a wad because I had the temerity to suggest that the Bulls should kick the tires on Nash

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/07/02/nets-very-close-to-acquiring-joe-johnson/

So according to twitter chatter Joe Johnson is getting traded to the Nets which should effectively scuttle any chances they have of trading for Dwight

okc is gonna take jones [expletive]

lol @ rece davis telling the fat pasty heat,fan to put a shirt on underneath his jersey

He's 18. I wouldn't close the book on him being able to develop that

I would't want to be a black guy in England right now

Pretty feeble by England here in extra time

Nice defense OKC good lord [expletive] guard somebody

If you had the money to start you could easily make lots of money each season. Don't bet the line but rather just the who will win. If you bet 50 bucks each and every game against the Nets you will have won 59 times and only lost 7. Say you only get 50% return on wins that makes the profit equation (59x$25) - (7x$50). That would be $1,125 profit this season. Obviously the Nets are having one of the worst seasons ever but you could each year wait a month to see who are the worst 2-4 teams and then do this. You would make 3-4 grand a year doing this but you would need the starting capital. Oh and you could do this for each sport, although I wouldn't do it with football (too unpredictable and too few games). That post was amazing. Get that man one of those weekend slots on AM sports talk radio plugging the 800 number for LOCKS OF THE MILLENNIUM

Yup. Except we couldnt score and OKC cant stop scrubs

http://deadspin.com/5919118/?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Durant black holed a few possessions down the stretch. Make correct basketball plays like Lebron!

Why did the ref feel compelled to call a block there?

chooooke

lol Russia

Lebron fouled two different people on the same play

I'm just amused that there are a lot of people out there who think Rome is/was a wife beater because they aren't familiar with the phrase.

Haha, this is great. http://deadspin.com/5918141/david-stern-asked-jim-rome-have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife-yet-as-todays-interview-turned-ugly

Oh yeah I remember being wowed by that Cutler to Javon Walker bomb. One of the best pure throws ever.

http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/201207/dream-team-20th-anniversary-1992-olympics-usa-basketball?currentPage=1