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The Rest Of The Sports World => Designated Hitters Make Baseball Better => Topic started by: Jumbo on June 15, 2018, 12:44:38 PM
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Kawhi wants out of San Antonio, has LA at the top of his preferred destinations. Offseason craziness just beginning.
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Golden State wins
/the end
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i dont see why lebron would goto the west, even with PG and kawhi theyre not beating the warriors. lakers would need to move significant pieces for kawhi, and i kind of doubt pop wants lonzo and his dad.
so you sign pg and trade half the team for kawhi, on top of doing whatever you need to do to get lebron(is it easier to sign him outright or for him to opt in and sign and trade? do the lakers have enough to get kawhi and lebron?)
so lets say you somehow do all that. now you're a team with no depth and 3 stars. worked in miami, sure. the warriors werent a thing then, though.
plus you need to deal with Houston on top of the warriors.
i just dont see it happening for all 3 of them. maybe kawhi, maybe lebron, maybe george, maybe you stretch and get 2, but 3 is too thin.
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I still think the best situation for Lebron is Philly. He’ll go to the Lakers for the narrative.
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i think lebron in philly would be cool, a new group of dudes to lose with lebron.
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i think lebron in philly would be cool, a new group of dudes to lose with lebron.
I just want Lebron to stay in the East long enough for another team besides his to become good enough to keep the Celtics out of the finals.
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@joevardon
LeBron James’ agent informed the Cavs he will not exercise his $35.6 million option and thus will become an unrestricted free agent, sources told @clevelanddotcom ... Story coming
it starts
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LeBron to LA Lakers
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I still think the best situation for Lebron is Philly. He’ll go to the Lakers for the narrative.
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Have to think that Magic will do everything he can to bring Kawhi Leonard to LA.
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Have to think that Magic will do everything he can to bring Kawhi Leonard to LA.
If Magic can beat AIDS, he can find a way to bring Kawhi to LA.
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If Magic can beat AIDS, he can find a way to bring Kawhi to LA.
Not only beat AIDS, he gained weight. Never mind Jordan or LeBron, Magic is the greatest of all time.
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Not NBA, but worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ozW-6DT1cA&feature=youtu.be
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Cousins just signed with golden state
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NBA is the worst professional sports league right now
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NBA is the worst professional sports league right now
It's not good. And I'm a huge fan for about 40 years.
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I don't think the Cousins signing is going to be as big as people are making it out to be. He basically just ensured a ring while he rehabs from a devastating injury. But he's still coming off said injury and this is not a guy that could have been characterized as a gym rat even before he tore his knee.
Their ring was predestined before the signing anyway. Which does speak to how much the league sucks.
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cousins is deff a luxury sign. he wont be ready till december at the earliest and even then, it's an achilles, he'll be 80% tops this year.
i like the big f u to lebron and rest of the league get
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Raptors trading DeRozan to San Antonio for one year of Kawhi Leonard. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
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Sources tell SN's @SeanDeveney Kawhi Leonard has "no interest" in the Raptors and could sit out.
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Sources tell SN's @SeanDeveney Kawhi Leonard has "no interest" in the Raptors and could sit out.
Sounds like a fun guy, Knicks ought to offer him a max deal if they can get out of the Noah mess.
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Sources tell SN's @SeanDeveney Kawhi Leonard has "no interest" in the Raptors and could sit out.
Apparently if he does then his year will roll over and he misses out on FA next year.
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Apparently if he does then his year will roll over and he misses out on FA next year.
someone must have explained to him how contracts worked
https://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/report-leonard-will-raptors-training-camp-play-next-season/
“His camp made it very clear over the past week, to the Raptors and other teams, that Leonard wanted no part of Toronto, sources say,” wrote ESPN’s Zach Lowe after news of the trade broke.
“The Raptors didn’t care. They know any threat of failing to report is probably empty, since they can fine Leonard for each practice and game he misses — up to his full $20.1 million salary.”
There was even one report that went so far to report that Leonard would entertain the notion of sitting out next season entirely.
Enter: ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, to pour a hefty dose of water on those flames.
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“[Leonard’s] going to play, he’ll be at training camp. He’s healthy,” he continued. “What I was told is that he’s starting to warm to the idea. He’s going to a contender. He’s got a team that can be as good as anybody in the Eastern conference. Now it’s up to Toronto to try to recruit him and keep him.”
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someone must have explained to him how contracts worked
I'd like to have been there for that.
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Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
Cavs‘ roster has been informed of firing of Ty Lue, per league sources. Lue has been let go as Cavs head coach after 0-6 start to Cleveland’s season.
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Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
Cavs‘ roster has been informed of firing of Ty Lue, per league sources. Lue has been let go as Cavs head coach after 0-6 start to Cleveland’s season.
Talk about the NBA's version of a mercy killing. Red Auerbach couldn't guide that roster to 35 wins.
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And in the hotly anticipated clash tonight between the league's two remaining unbeaten teams, Giannis is out with a concussion and the Raps are resting Kawhi.
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Sucks we won’t get to watch Lebron lose in the finals this year
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I'm trying to get into this season now that the Dodgers are done and the Knicks are mathematically still alive.
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[Charania] Minnesota has traded Jimmy Butler and Justin Patton to Philadelphia for Robert, Covington, Dario Saric and a 2022 second-round draft pick, league sources tell me and @JonKrawczynski.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1061315746444312577
philly has no desire to hit the long ball, i guess. timbervolves were probly screwed by butler being such a vocal bitch.
looking forward to butler toiling away in obscurity
Rose or Teague, Wiggins, Roco, Saric, and KAT
not gonna win anything, but might be fun to watch in minny
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https://twitter.com/worldwidewob/status/1062158972013240329
Markelle Fultz oh my lord
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https://twitter.com/worldwidewob/status/1062158972013240329
Markelle Fultz oh my lord
it was obvious fultz was not going to make it in this league when he reacted the way he did to those questions his first game back last year. not only is his form completely (and seemingly irreversibly) broken, he doesn't have the mental makeup or fortitude to make it at this level either
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https://twitter.com/APOOCH/status/1062164603424137216
nsfl warning caris levert injury
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https://twitter.com/APOOCH/status/1062164603424137216
nsfl warning caris levert injury
Saw it live and died inside.
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Saw it live and died inside.
Dislocated foot.
Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
No surgery for LeVert and he is expected to make a return this season. LeVert flew home with the Nets from Minneapolis last night, went to hospital in New York and ran tests that showed no fractures and moderate ligament damage.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/masinelije/status/1066522890865131520
Don’t read this
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Wardell Curry is apparently a moon truther
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Kyrie Irving when asked about his future with the Celtics:
Oct. 4, 2018: “If you guys will have me back, I plan on re-signing here.”
Feb. 1, 2019: “Ask me July 1...I don’t owe anybody s--t.”
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lakers lost to the suns tonight, likely ending their season, getting walton fired and perhaps even getting lbj shutdown
(https://media.giphy.com/media/2JeyC2DvEhdRu/giphy.gif)
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Magic Johnson just stepped down as President of the Lakers
rumors running rampant that luke is being protected by jeannie
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Doesn't look like too many competitive series in the first round.
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https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/1120718979767648257?s=19
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Kyrie after Game 3:
"It's really just about being efficient ... I don't think you'll see another 8 for 22"
Kyrie in Game 4:
7 for 22
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Kyrie after Game 3:
"It's really just about being efficient ... I don't think you'll see another 8 for 22"
Kyrie in Game 4:
7 for 22
Don't be rude about Kyrie, he's your starting point guard next year.
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Don't be rude about Kyrie, he's your starting point guard next year.
Bring Kemba Home
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Don't be rude about Kyrie, he's your starting point guard next year.
kyrie is one of the strangest people in the nba. he tries to come off all intellectual and the delivery of his thoughts/ideas is enough to pull off an air of sense and logic, but then you actually listen to him and figure out he is making no sense at all.
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Lolceltics
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Can't wait to see the Knicks end the summer with Kyrie and the #3 overall.
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Kyrie after Game 3:
"It's really just about being efficient ... I don't think you'll see another 8 for 22"
Kyrie in Game 4:
7 for 22
6 for 21 in Game 5
Can’t make this excrement up
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When did the Milwaukee Baratheons become a good team?
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When did the Milwaukee Baratheons become a good team?
Since Giannis became an MVP caliber player
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Since Giannis became an MVP caliber player
He is ridiculous
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Since Giannis Stannis became an MVP caliber player
I see...
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I want to have Kawhi Leonard's children.
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That was a great ending, even though I was rooting for the Sixers.
One good thing about the Knicks being so bad is I don't have to live through those heartbreaks every May. excrement like Ewing's finger-roll rimming out or Charles Smith not dunking the ball, you can't ever get it out of your head.
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What does "We the North" supposed to mean?
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What does "We the North" supposed to mean?
'We the North' is a phrase used by one of the southern most cities in Canada to describe themselves. it was coined by Indians from the Brampton/Mississauga area, themselves famous for their infatuation with trying to act like urban Black American males.
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'We the North' is a phrase used by one of the southern most cities in Canada to describe themselves. it was coined by Indians from the Brampton/Mississauga area, themselves famous for their infatuation with trying to act like urban Black American males.
Hey, that's not fair. We're like the third most northern team in the league, and as of yesterday the most northern team left in the playoffs. WE THE NORTH BITCHES.
Also, while our fanbase may draw heavily from the Indian communities in the western GTA, we also extensively feature Asians from Richmond Hill and white dudes in suits from Yorkville, all of whom also believe in their ability to channel their inner black man. But it's an awful lot of fun, our crowds are brilliantly rowdy. All of those boys like to throw down $13 domestic tallboys.
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This made my day, thanks guys.
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This team good. Not sure if it's beating the Warriors good, but it's definitely legit.
HE STAY.
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This team good. Not sure if it's beating the Warriors good, but it's definitely legit.
HE STAY.
i enjoyed your last post RE toronto. i was trying to get a rise out of you and thought you responded well.
after the last series i thought the sixers deserved it more and would have matched up better with the bucks/warriors than the raptors, but the raptors showed out this series and shut me/everybody up.
i hope the raptors win, i'm so tired/annoyed of the warriors. i don't think it'll happen but i'm hoping for it
there are 3 constant players that have been involved in every single NBA finals since 2011 - lebron, steph, and kawhi.
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also, i don't know what kawhi is going to do, i can totally see him stay or see him jettison towards LAL/LAC, but there is a video that his sister dropped that said that he's going to leave toronto.
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Guess I'm rooting for Toronto now. Looks like it will be the only thing Boston doesn't win.
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Didn't realize Toronto has home court. That's helpful.
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Ok then. Let's go.
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dubs werent ready for actual defense and not flopping like houston. i dont think you can expect siakam to have 3 more baller derriere games like that, but stranger things have happened.
i would have to assume drakes big mouth is going to cost the raptors dearly in game 2.
gonna be a better series than we thought
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dubs werent ready for actual defense and not flopping like houston. i dont think you can expect siakam to have 3 more baller derriere games like that, but stranger things have happened.
i would have to assume drakes big mouth is going to cost the raptors dearly in game 2.
gonna be a better series than we thought
Warriors have no real answer for Siakam until KD comes back.
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Warriors played with no sense of urgency, were sloppy with shooting and passing, and spent all game focusing on trapping kawhi. We got destroyed in the transition, just played slow all game.
Credit to the raptors for a great game threw the warriors right off.
17 turnovers is abysmal, sloppy.
Hopefully we get better refs the rest of the way, so touchy feely and inconsistent for both teams.
Game 2 should be better, warriors derriere got woke up
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Warriors have no real answer for Siakam until KD comes back.
The only answer for him right now will involve giving Kawhi more room to play. Pascal had an amazing game but he was a beneficiary of the Warriors' defensive focus on Leonard.
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The only answer for him right now will involve giving Kawhi more room to play. Pascal had an amazing game but he was a beneficiary of the Warriors' defensive focus on Leonard.
Which is why Golden State needs KD.
He can guard Kawhi or Siakam.
If he doesn’t return, the Raptors have a real chance.
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Which is why Golden State needs KD.
He can guard Kawhi or Siakam.
If he doesn’t return, the Raptors have a real chance.
Apparently KD is planning to return for game 4.
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iggy got hurt and slowed down early on, which didnt help with our defensive efforts. he says he'll be ready for g2.
kd is apparently targeting g3 to return, which would be nice.
if we need to let kawhi get 40 every night, who cares, we need to make sure rest of the team isnt getting 20-30 a piece.
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ho yaaaa 1-1 now
hopefully klay just over extended it and wont miss time, and durant is probly back soon.
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Looney broke his collarbone and is done for the series. Thankfully they don't have anyone to repla.... freak.
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still waiting on klays mri results, hopefully hes able to get in some quality minutes in g3.
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Kerr: Durant out for Game 3, Klay questionable
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Golden State Warriors officials prefer that guard Klay Thompson sit out Wednesday's Game 3 to protect his sore hamstring for the rest of the NBA Finals, but Thompson has continued to lobby them to play, league sources told ESPN.
A final decision on Thompson's status will be made closer to tip-off.
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Everyone shut up something important happened:
Vince Carter will retire after next season.
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Everyone shut up something important happened:
Vince Carter will retire after next season.
No he won't. He's like Larry Fitzgerald, he's going to play forever.
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Danny Green is from my town. You’re welcome, JE
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Danny Green is from my town. You’re welcome, JE
Danny Green is a god amongst men.
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Two more and you the champs.
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Two more and you the champs.
Apparently KD will scrimmage with the team today. Going .500 against Golden State with Klay and KD back in the lineup is still a huge ask.
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Apparently KD will scrimmage with the team today. Going .500 against Golden State with Klay and KD back in the lineup is still a huge ask.
At the very least you come back to Toronto now. This is how Houston did it vs the Knicks in 1994, got one at home one at MSG and the last two at home.
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man, curry is GOOD. too bad nobody else on the warriors could drop a freaking bucket last night.
great series so far. friday should be something
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I just want a good series and more games, get us closer to the Vegas season. I'm rooting for Toronto but if they lose I'll be over it seconds after changing the channel.
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man, curry is GOOD. too bad nobody else on the warriors could drop a freaking bucket last night.
great series so far. friday should be something
Ya. KD confirmed out again, Klay confirmed available. No surprises either way.
After last night it sort of feels like the Raps are playing with house money, but it shouldn't and I hope they're not feeling that way.
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I wouldnt expect everyone on the Warriors to be so bad again. That was embarrassing.
Everyone but curry played like crap, but pretty much everyone on toronto played well.
Vanvleet has figured out that the refs dont call excrement for curry, so hes elbowing the freak outta him to create space. And then he was able to hit from pretty much anywhere.
Lowry was hitting at the end, couldnt miss.
I will say though, we kept it close despite all that.
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I wouldnt expect everyone on the Warriors to be so bad again. That was embarrassing.
Everyone but curry played like crap, but pretty much everyone on toronto played well.
Vanvleet has figured out that the refs dont call excrement for curry, so hes elbowing the freak outta him to create space. And then he was able to hit from pretty much anywhere.
Lowry was hitting at the end, couldnt miss.
I will say though, we kept it close despite all that.
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I dunno, I might expect Boogie to be that bad again. The dude looks like he can't jump, he was getting handled by Gasol and Ibaka at the post and I presume it's because he's still not quite recovered from his injury. 48 hours won't fix that.
Iggy's a great guy and a solid role player, but the Raps did a good job of limiting him to long range shots and he can have those all day long because he shoots 33% from the arc (game 2 notwithstanding).
Of course Klay brings a different dimension and opens the floor up so much for others, but I have total belief in the Raps' defense - they're now 4-1 against the Warriors this season and the whole "but the postseason is different" argument is kinda done with. My biggest concern is that I don't know if we can shoot as consistently as that for 2 more games.
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i guess you can count on everyone on the warriors to suck again.
kawhi is good, i really hope he stays on TO. the city loves him and if he wins a title at home? holy excrement.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D89HetEXkAA9GNH.jpg:large)
Not sure who I'm rooting for now.
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Nav's an awesome guy. Never missed a home game, has courtside seats, spends hundreds of thousands a year on a bunch of extra season tickets that he just buys to give away to people in the community who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to go to a game. He's the immigrant story everyone loves; came over here with virtually nothing, got a job selling cars, turned out to be incredibly good at it, bought his own dealership, is now a self made multimillionaire who loves his adopted country and gives a huge amount back to it.
I won't hear bad things about Nav.
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Nav's an awesome guy. Never missed a home game, has courtside seats, spends hundreds of thousands a year on a bunch of extra season tickets that he just buys to give away to people in the community who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to go to a game. He's the immigrant story everyone loves; came over here with virtually nothing, got a job selling cars, turned out to be incredibly good at it, bought his own dealership, is now a self made multimillionaire who loves his adopted country and gives a huge amount back to it.
I won't hear bad things about Nav.
Tough excrement...IS doesn't like him and you need to respect that.
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Tough excrement...IS doesn't like him and you need to respect that.
LOL. As a Knick fan I reserve the right to hate everyone.
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How drunk is Mr. English about now?
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Congrats to Toronto.
Everyone can go freak themselves now. Bring on the Knicks draft, free agency and Vegas.
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How drunk is Mr. English about now?
Just woke up and I think I'm still drunk.
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Just woke up and I think I'm still drunk.
The trophy hasn't even arrived in TO yet, and the Wizards are already trying to wine & dine Masai.
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Maybe the Wpg Jets can hire Nick Nurse away from the Raps.
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The trophy hasn't even arrived in TO yet, and the Wizards are already trying to wine & dine Masai.
At least 75% of the league would hire Masai tomorrow if he was available. Washington is probably one of the least attractive options given their contract and roster situation.
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At least 75% of the league would hire Masai tomorrow if he was available. Washington is probably one of the least attractive options given their contract and roster situation.
I have a question for you so hopefully you're sober enough to type an answer.
Does Kawhi leave the Toronto Raptors?
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Everything is awful. There is no sunshine anymore. Darkness only.
forreal tho, how did we go from an unstoppable dynasty to losing 2 of our top 3 to catastrophic injuries that changed everything this summer?
Durants achilles, gone for the next year and a fa.
Klays acl, gone for the next year and a fa.
Cousins was on a one and done, and he balled out in the finals.
Green is in a contract year.
Livingstone is probly gone.
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I have a question for you so hopefully you're sober enough to type an answer.
Does Kawhi leave the Toronto Raptors?
Possibly.
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Possibly.
Nav doesn't like your answer
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Everything is awful. There is no sunshine anymore. Darkness only.
forreal tho, how did we go from an unstoppable dynasty to losing 2 of our top 3 to catastrophic injuries that changed everything this summer?
Durants achilles, gone for the next year and a fa.
Klays acl, gone for the next year and a fa.
Cousins was on a one and done, and he balled out in the finals.
Green is in a contract year.
Livingstone is probly gone.
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karma for trying to build a super team.
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The NBA rigged the finals and caused the injuries as punishment for LeBron playing like excrement in LA
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Anthony Davis to the Lakers in a pretty massive deal
Surprised they were able to hang on to Kyle Kuzma
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Toronto managed to make a spectacular clusterfuck of the victory parade. They woefully underestimated the effect of the volume of people who went downtown, so the main square filled up very early and fans started tearing down fences so they could move into the blocked off media and security spaces as well as climbing up the big arches over the rink.
They also hadn't put in place proper crowd control along the route, so the buses couldn't manoeuvre properly without having a travelling phalanx of cops pushing the crowd back the entire way, which meant that the parade which was supposed to arrive at the main square at 12:30 got there just before 3pm.
As a result of this, the crowd were hot, tired and lacking energy by the time the players got there. The players had spent the entire five hours on the buses drinking champagne, so they were hammered. Marc Gasol was hilarious to watch. Then the various dignitaries, including the Mayor, the Provincial Premier and the Prime Minister all had to be part of the show. (Highlight of the day: the entire square of 60,000 people or more booing Doug Ford, the fat evil queynte who is Premier of Ontario, after he had already been snubbed backstage by Masai. You know you're a true piece of excrement when you get a worse reception than the CEOs of Rogers and Bell.) By the time they got to the actual main event, everyone was just exhausted and a lot of the excitement had gone.
Then, midway through an incredibly boring speech by Larry Tannenbaum, the CEO of MLSE, one of our local gangbangers decided to liven up proceedings by getting all shooty blasty with someone who had looked at him a bit funny and caused a minor stampede in which several people were injured, as well as the woman he'd actually shot. This led to a temporary suspension of proceedings on stage while he set off on foot to Yonge-Dundas Square a block away where there was a secondary victory celebration, and got into a gun battle with police causing a second stampede and the lockdown of our largest downtown shopping mall.
By this point everyone seemed generally sick of the whole business, Drake came on stage and promoted his festival instead of performing a couple of songs as everyone had been expecting, and the whole thing fizzled out as 1M+ people mingled with all of the downtown office workers and they all tried to figure out how they were going to get home at the same time.
We The Motherfucking North.