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  1. 17 Seconds
    Nothing Rose said would have ever gotten LeBron here. So with that in consideration... do you want our franchise player to be a guy begging for the services of an ego-maniac, or do you want him to be a guy saying "[expletive] that, I'm the man and I'm gonna show everybody by doing it myself" Rose has the attitude of a real competitor, just like Durant. They want to beat the best, not join them. Now, can Rose be that guy? I don't know, but I'm really glad he thinks he can be.
  2. 17 Seconds
    i'm glad derrick didn't want to wash lebron's nuts. that's the guy i want on my team.
  3. 17 Seconds
    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/os-penny-hardaway-miami-heat-20100715,0,893417.story HAHAHAHAHA
  4. 17 Seconds
    So with all this money to spend and all the guys available this offseason, we're going to end up having Ronnie Brewer as our starting SG? l o l And we still have no 3 point shooting. Korver hoisting up 2 or 3 a game doesn't fix that
  5. 17 Seconds
    Bulls are goin to be strugggglin at the 2
  6. 17 Seconds
    yup, im still dumb about hockey free agency
  7. 17 Seconds
    well, that's gotta all but seal it that the hawks will fit under the cap and probably be able to bring back niemi. unless someone signs him to a nice offer sheet. i'd still be shocked if we could end up getting niemi at around 2 mil
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    Isn't that last part redundant? Which of the other cities were ones where he WOULDN'T be "running" them in terms of being a celebrity? lebron being in new york or chicago is not even close to what it's going to be like with the "superteam" in miami. different types of city, different team situation. seriously, if you're young and rich, miami is probably about as good as it gets.
  9. 17 Seconds
    yep, lebron is getting exactly what he wanted. everybody is talking about him, and he';ll get a few easy titles. plus those 3 guys are going to absolutely run that city. he was never jordan. for better or worse, he's different. like i read in some article, he definitely is the king of "something"
  10. 17 Seconds
    i just looked at capgeek, and we're ALREADY over the cap if you leave huet in there, and that's 6 players short of a full roster. so, yeah..
  11. 17 Seconds
    I thought that was out of question anyway. Aren't all the salary cap projections already figuring that Huet will be sent to the minors or elsewhere, thereby removing him from the cap picture? yeah, i don't know why he keeps talking about huet like it's a possibility. seriously wilson, go look at our roster on capgeek. there is no chance whatsoever they can keep huet. none.
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    He might be the biggest star on the planet, but that stardom could diminish if you aren't even the biggest star on your team. LeBron has got a ton of press, but a lot of it has been bad. all press is good press for lebron. i don't really think he minds being the villain, at all. and i do think he'll have the reputation of not even being the man on his own team and that might hurt him when talking about he where he ranks with the greats, but he is still the biggest star. he'll get talked about the most, just like he is right now.
  13. 17 Seconds
    another thing with hjalmarsson is that i don't think people realize how much he masked campbell's deficiencies last season. if you take away hjalmarsson, our defense would have been a complete mess for the 30 minutes a game that Keith/Seabrook are off the ice. I mean, I think it would be REALLY bad, and Niemi isn't the type of goalie that is going to mask poor defense either. he gives up a lot of rebounds and is out of position a lot. the great defense we had last year (well, for most of the year) really made niemi look better than he was. hjalmarsson was just solid, solid, solid. i may be overrating him a tad, but that's only because i think he didn't get enough credit last season. keith/seabrook got all the love, but in reality i think hjalmarsson was almost as good as seabrook last year. he doesn't add much offensively, but he was our most consistent defensive player last year in my opinion. always in position, never caught too deep, great on the PK, excellent shot blocker, and he laid people out when the opportunity presented itself. he wouldn't go looking for hits, but he would devastate you if the timing was right.
  14. 17 Seconds
    has this been posted yet? this video actually makes me kind of like them
  15. 17 Seconds
    yeah, lebron just wants to pad his resume. he doesn't care how it happens. we all keep comparing him to MJ/Kobe and saying he doesn't have that killer instinct to be like those guys, but i don't really think he wants to be like those guys. he doesn't want the challenge. he just wants to be "the king". he wants to me the most famous athlete in the world. he doesn't care if people are saying he's not jordan, he's happy that they're talking about him. the more and more i think about it, the more i think this is a good decision for what he wants. i really don't think he cares about the people saying he's not like jordan. he just wants to be the biggest star on the planet, and really this will work out well. he gets to play in a glamorous city (well, parts of it), gets to probably win some championships, and gets to play on a team that will be the most talked about NBA franchise over the next half decade. look at how much press this whole thing has gotten. he loves it.
  16. 17 Seconds
    going by points and GAA is like going by RBIs and batting average in baseball umfan's post was really good
  17. 17 Seconds
    never gonna happen, especially considering what amare has already signed for. the miami thing was just a perfect storm of contracts ending at the same time and miami having the massive cap space.
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    stupid? you know, i could have easily called the stuff you said stupid, but i didn't. HUET IS BEING SENT DOWN AND WONT BE OUR GOALIE NEXT YEAR. seriously, go on capgeek and take 2 minutes to look at the roster and it's completely obvious he's being sent down. this is njot an issue. oh, and Niemi didn't have the 4th best save percentage in the NHL. he wasn't even close. he was tied for 19th, right behind MARTY TURCO http://espn.go.com/nhl/statistics/player/_/stat/goaltending/sort/savePct/year/2010/seasontype/2 edit: and btw, hjalmarsson is not our 4th best d-man. he's third, and would be second on most teams.
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    I really don't understand why people think the Hawks can choose to trade Campbell if they want to. Nobody wants his contract, AND he has a NTC. If they were able to move Campbell instead of doing all this other stuff, you don't think they would have? Of course they would have.
  20. 17 Seconds
    Why? Hjalmarsson is a well above average d-man, and Niemi is an average goalie. Choosing him over Hjlmarsson because of a good few rounds in the playoffs would have been dumb. We don't compete next season without Hjalmarsson on the second pairing with Campbell. Lol what? Yeah, it's not like they have had a forward on the cover of the NHL games for 2 straight years. And that's not even mentioning Hossa. This is just a ridiculous thing to say. If they weren't going to do that, we wouldn't have even been able to keep Hjalmarsson, soooo
  21. 17 Seconds
    new SI cover. guess who is in the front of the picture? i love it. lebron better get used to this http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/64561/tx_cover_bigthree.jpg
  22. 17 Seconds
    One think I think the Heat and their fans are underestimating is the fact that teams are going to be gunning for them every night. It didn't help when LeBron said the games would be easy, either.
  23. 17 Seconds
    I'm still very interested to hear how they plan on handling Dwight Howard or Pau Gasol with Bosh and Ilgauskas/Shaw/Brad Miller/whatever they throw out there.
  24. 17 Seconds
    game 4
  25. 17 Seconds
    That's nice and all, but when are the results actually going to show up? This is what we talk about every year with BJ Upton. How he's supposed to be good and how he should be good, but then you look at the numbers and he's not good.
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