SpongeWorthy
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Utah gets the Knicks pick. The Bucks can swap first rounders with the Bulls if they end up with a better record, which I am expecting at this point.
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If how good the team is doesn't make a difference then I don't see how money does either. The Bulls can differentiate themselves on record, negatively or positively, not on dollars. Well they can differentiate themselves on dollars if they want to give David Lee a max deal. I suppose there's that. So excepting that the biggest selling point is Rose, which is fine. But even Rose doesn't exist in some universe where how good he is perceived is totally divorced from how well the team plays. He's the point guard after all.
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Also why is N&G still peddling the theory that the Bulls have some money advantage. I mean they have a money advantage over other teams that can't offer a max deal. Big deal. There is no money advantage. There is a fairly hard salary cap and to the extent that the salary cap can be exceeded it doesn't favor the Bulls. It favors the FA's current team.
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The Nets won't be in Brooklyn for a while, and nobody really knows how great that market is going to be if/when it opens. The Nets are playing in the Prudential Center next year, a nice hockey arena, but a hockey arena first and foremost in a completely dead Newark. There's a dream of some idyllic Brooklyn situation, but that's a long way off, and it could be a big risk to sign with a team with zero fans, zero media interest that is going to play in a hockey arena in Newark, NJ. They are a lesser "little brother" than the Clippers. There's no way that's accurate. The Clippers don't have any fans. The Nets have a Russian oligarch worth $17 billion willing to throw tons of money around without any consideration for profits. The Clips have Donald Sterling. And my understanding is that the Prudential Center agreement is only until the arena in Brooklyn opens up.
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That appears to be some squiggly brown people language. Ron Artest should be investigated by Homeland Security.
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It's not unreasonable to expect Illinois, with all of its resources, to field a powerhouse program in either football or basketball.
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Seemed like from my newbie eyes that some of the Hawks top line guys waited for the perfect shot rather than the good shot right in front of them. On that last mad scramble in front of the net Hossa had the puck on his backhand and decided to wield it some more to get a better look.
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Maybe the powers that be subscribe to the sulley theory of everything that goes badly is a nefarious cosmic conspiracy rather than holding anyone accountable.
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ONLY MY TEAMS GET RAINED OUT
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Green seems like he has to be the odd man out in OKC. He's a decent player but you never contend with those tweener forwards.
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You're not breaking any news. There isn't a single person in the universe, including imb, who would honestly take Westbrook over Rose. Westbrook's a piece, a very nice one, but not a franchise guy and he's in situation where he won't ever have to be that. Plus his jumper is defective. Basically the only guy in league history that was a legitimate franchise player (excluding bigs) that had a broken jumper is Jason Kidd for a few years in a terrible Eastern Conference.
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Your troll is almost as obvious as your drunk posting.
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Kudos for the top notch smack talk snoodmonger.
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Dallas sporting a cool 31/4 assist-to-turnover ratio.
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And who is this French [expletive] on the Mavs tearing us up?
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Bulls have no chance against good teams, or bad ones for that matter, when Deng plays this badly.
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I'll give Forte the benefit of the doubt because he had his knee scoped right after the season was over. He had been playing on a sprained MCL almost the entire year. But yeah, even if he is 100% going into the season I would expect a fairly even workload for him and Taylor.
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lol ebanks
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That should be one of the better front 7s in the league if we can stay healthy.
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Cutler targeted Olsen a LOT last year. I'm sure he felt a rapport with him but it's not like he put up huge numbers ala Gates or Clark. Either way, the receivers need to step up big time because they're going to see a much bigger percentage of the balls.
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If we can get two motivated years out of Peppers and Tommie simultaneously I will consider it a victory.
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Done deal? http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story?id=4969071
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Who said far past? You people are ridiculous. I never said he was done or should be retired. I said it was a lot of money for an old backup RB. He is an old backup RB. I didn't say he's worthless. I said he's an old backup RB, and is an old backup RB. I also said he's a nice complementary back for Forte and that I like that they are going away from the one back situation. But there is a significant difference between 25 and 31 in the world of professional sports. It's not enough to make all 31 year olds obsolete, but there isn't a physically demanding sport where being 31 instead of 25 isn't meaningful. You said earlier in this thread that you would "never" spend money on running back in free agency. Perhaps we're not the ones being ridiculous with the absolutist statements. In fact, all we're saying is that you can't conflate all 30 year old running backs. It's a perfectly reasonable position. And if Forte doesn't play WAY better than he did last year, Taylor will be a backup in name only.
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30 only seems old because the only running backs who even stay in the league long enough to play into their 30s have taken a lot of hits so those are the only ones you see. From a pure biological standpoint, there's no way a well conditioned athlete is far past their athletic prime at 30.
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They're at a money disadvantage because the max deal to reup with your own team is bigger than it is if you leave. Or if anyone wants to sign in Texas or Miami they don't have to pay a state income tax--which is a big, big chunk of money over the life of a contract. Chicago is a great market but so are Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Bulls have a better team than the Nets and Knicks but the Knicks can sign two max guys and maybe you get to play with Wall and Lopez in NJ. Miami is a really nice market too and they no state income tax AND they can sign a max guy alongside Wade. Cleveland is clearly on the precipice of a championship. The Bulls have a leg up on Toronto which should give us some confidence. They probably have a leg up in the non-money issues over Utah and Phoenix as well but I'm not crazy about Boozer or Amare anyway. They're nice but not going to put this team over the top, IMO. I understand the Bulls sales pitch, and it is attractive but it doesn't exist in a vacuum either. If this team starts to slide badly there will be a lot of negativity surrounding the team from the front office on down. It certainly won't look good. If you don't think that sort of negative image matters just look at how the league wide disdain for Jerry Krause torpedoed our last real efforts in a loaded FA class. It won't be THAT bad for the Bulls, fortunately, but you'd like to avoid anything comparable.