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[NIkeL]

Lolomgwtf.cabeça toda acima do aro

 

[cavs # 23]

n vi o jogo de ontem (nem vou ver o de hoje, é que isto de jogar fora com equipas do oeste :(....mas grande vitoria em portland...

 

O King MVP Lebron com grandes numeros...

 

 

[Baggy_Baghdatis17]

as 3 da matina so msm pra malucos :cadeirada:

[Dinai]

Ainda em relação ao caso Arenas, li isto hoje.

 

Former Wizards coach Eddie Jordan and his staff privately intimated they felt undermined by Grunfeld when it came to matters of discipline with Arenas. Arenas, a notorious practical joker, often crossed the line of acceptable decorum. The example often cited was how Arenas once defecated in teammate Andray Blatche's shoe during Blatche's rookie season. His behavior often went unchecked and unpunished, said a former team employee on condition of anonymity

 

:facepalm:

[Victarion]

eu tenho andado a acompanhar a novela do Arenas e ando mesmo a ver que os Wizs depois do bust do Kwame, agora é o bust dos 111 milhões do Arenas...

 

e podiam muito bem trocar o Deshawn ou mandá-lo embora. Que sujeitinho mais ranhoso. Só tem m*rda naquela cabeça.

[NIkeL]

Há forma de os Wizards conseguirem uma anulação de contrato devido ao mau comportamento do atleta?

[Victarion]

sim, mas só se for algo mais "extremo", isto é, só com a decisão do tribunal. Mas em Washington, ninguém está a considerar esse caso.

[Perdigas]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Que rei o Arenas!

[Nuk]

Redd lesionou-se e não joga mais esta época e pode acabar a carreira :(

 

E o Skiles ontem foi para o hospital com arritmia.Tá tudo a correr bem :|

[The Bad Blood]

agora é o bust dos 111 milhões do Arenas...

 

Há piores. Por exemplo:

 

Redd lesionou-se e não joga mais esta época e pode acabar a carreira :(

 

[Maffu]

Anthony de volta = Easy win.

[Dinai]

Há forma de os Wizards conseguirem uma anulação de contrato devido ao mau comportamento do atleta?

 

 

The Washington Wizards have told locker room pistolero Gilbert Arenas they believe he is in violation of his contract and they have the right to void the $111 million deal .

 

We're told a team official was trading text messages with Arenas after the locker room incident, in one of the messages, the official told Arenas the team felt Agent Zero violated the clause in his contract prohibiting him from engaging in conduct detrimental to the team or the NBA ... and they could have the contract voided as a result.

 

Most NBA contracts contain morality clauses -- but it's difficult to void an NBA contract on those grounds. The Indiana Pacers didn't void Ron Artest's contract after "The Malice at the Palace" in 2004.

 

Nevertheless, there are strong indications the Wizards want out of the Arenas deal. As one law enforcement source put it, the team has been overly cooperative in the police investigation that targets Arenas.

[Victarion]

Há piores. Por exemplo:

 

eu falo do bust dos Wizs. Dos outros não tenho nada a ver. :mrgreen:

 

pena pelo Redd. Bom shooter. E o nuk ama-o.

 

 

Epá, que eu saiba (li) é que os Wizards não andam a ponderar nada disso. Mas também, não se sabe ao certo de nada, ao início eram armas no balneário, depois foi um "showdown" Arenas-Javaris, e depois já era uma partida do Arenas. :confuso:

 

ps:

The last time the Bucks won in Arizona:

• Ronald Reagan still had nearly two years to go as president.

• The Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union stood tall.

• The price of gasoline averaged 89 cents.

• Nary a whisper could be heard about steroids in baseball.

• And the Lakers and Celtics were the teams to follow in the NBA.

[andriy pereplyotkin]

O Jennings nem era nascido.

[Major Tom]

A NBA Tv ainda não dá. :C

[Dinai]

Tá no fórum da Zon que devido a problemas técnicos o canal ainda não está a transmitir e não sabem quando começará.. Enfim.

[Osnofa]

Hoje é pra ganhar aos LA Kobes!

[Lleyton]

Até o Mason tá a jogar bem :lol:

[#24]

Promise fulfilled as Nowitzki reaches impressive plateau

 

 

Posted Jan 13 2010 12:44PM

 

In an age when pre-teen players are scouted from the time they begin filling up hoops in middle school, there are very few surprises when it comes to identifying prospective NBA talent.

 

Yet on one night in San Antonio, back in March of 1998, the echoes of basketballs bouncing off the walls were mixed with the sound of so many jaws practically hitting the hardwood floors.

 

Donn Nelson, then a Dallas Mavericks scout and now the team's president of basketball operations, remembers glancing around the stands and wondering how many other NBA bloodhounds were on hand to catch a whiff of what he'd just witnessed. There was the scent of potential in the air.

 

A tall, skinny, blond-haired teen from Germany had just put on a clinic against the best young talent that America had to offer at the Nike Hoop Summit -- 33 points, 14 rebounds, three steals and more moves than a belly dancer -- and all Nelson could think of was the future.

 

"A versatile 7-footer who could shoot from out there and run the floor?" Nelson recalled not so long ago. "Imagine the possibilities."

 

Nearly 12 years later, the promise has been fulfilled as Dirk Nowitzki moves to become the 34th player in NBA history to score 20,000 points in a career. He is averaging 25 points a game this season and needs 16 Wednesday against the Los Angeles Lakers to reach the plateau.

NOWITZKI THROUGH THE YEARS

 

From his impressive showing at the Nike Hoop Summit in 1998, Dirk Nowitzki has come a long way in the NBA, becoming just the 34th player to score 20,000 points in a career. Check out some of the best images during his career, which has been filled with numerous All-Star Game appearances and an MVP award in 2007.

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From the record books, one can see that Nowitzki has been an eight-time All-Star, a four-time All-NBA first team selection and was chosen the 2007 Most Valuable Player. From the video highlights, it's easy to see an ambidextrous, multi-position player who is unique in combining his size with his shooting skills. He's a 7-footer who is a career 47.2 percent shooter from the field and has canned more than 1,100 3-pointer while also grabbing 8.5 rebounds. Nowitzki is a deft ball-handler and nimble enough big man to spin around defenders and finish with slam dunks.

 

But who sees and understands more than an opposite number in a different color jersey, the player most often regarded as the fiercest competitor in the game today?

 

"He's tough," said the Lakers' Kobe Bryant. "That's what I like about him. He's not a punk. A lot of superstar players don't like to get touched. They're kind of finicky about how they go about things. Dirk's nasty and that's what I like about him. He'll take the gloves off and go at it."

 

That's a far cry from the early days of a career that had him labeled as "soft" and had Nowitzki known as Irk -- no D. Over the course of his career, Nowitzki has developed into a solid team defender, become the Mavs' unquestioned team leader and has staked his claim as the best international player to jump straight to the pro ranks in the NBA. Nigerian Hakeem Olajuwon spent three years learning the ropes at the University of Houston before stepping into the NBA and Argentine Manu Ginobili honed his game for two years in the Italian League before joining the San Antonio Spurs.

 

The Americanization of Nowitzki began as a 19-year-old with little more than a sweet jumper and an outsider's tentative grasp of a different culture, coming from the picturesque Bavarian town of Wurzburg, Germany, known for architecture, art and white wine. His career path has been a steady, upward line on a graph that has frequently had Nowitzki playing off the charts.

 

"It's tough to argue that he's not the best international player ever," said Bryant. "We're gonna try to make a case when it's all said and done for [spaniard] Pau Gasol years from now. But Dirk is phenomenal right now.

 

"If you look at some of the games that he's had against great players, it's amazing. I think his coming out party years ago was against [Kevin] Garnett. Garnett is a phenomenal player and Dirk was putting up 35 and 20 rebounds. That's ridiculous. I'm looking at that like, 'Whoa, Garnett's one of the best defensive players ever and [Dirk] torched him.' "

 

Two nights before, Houston's Tracy McGrady had his legendary 13-points-in-35 seconds finish to defeat the San Antonio Spurs on Dec. 4, 2004, T-Mac dropped 48 points in Dallas. In the same game, Nowitzki hit back and scored 53.

 

"Dirk's not gonna back down. I like that," Bryant said. "He's not soft. Oh, no."

 

Though he grew up trying to emulate the all-around skills of Scottie Pippen, because he's blond and tall and white and can shoot with either hand, from the time he entered the league Nowitzki has always drawn the comparisons to the legendary Larry Bird.

 

"They're very different actually," Bryant said. "The similarity is that they're big guys that can shoot. But I think that's where it ends. Bird with the Celtics, they ran a lot of things through him to facilitate things for others. In Dallas they use Dirk more as a striker.

 

"Hopefully the fans in Dallas can appreciate what they watch -- a 7-footer that can put the ball on the floor, can shoot it from the outside, can post. Dirk's a rare breed, man. A rare breed."

 

Who's come a long way to get so far.

 

NBA.com

 

Dirk :prayer:

Melhor shooting big man que já vi, e julgo que um dos jogadores que mais alimentou o meu gosto por basquetebol.

[#24]

 

No. 1 pick Griffin to have season-ending surgery

 

 

Posted Jan 13 2010 4:02PM

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Blake Griffin's first season with the Los Angeles Clippers is over before it even began.

 

Griffin will have surgery on his broken left kneecap, keeping the No. 1 draft pick out for at least more four months, the eternally star-crossed Clippers announced in a statement Wednesday.

 

Griffin hasn't played a regular-season game yet for the Clippers after injuring his kneecap in their final preseason game Oct. 23, wincing in pain as he landed after a dunk. After resting the stress fracture for several weeks, the former Oklahoma star recently increased his workload in rehabilitation by running on an anti-gravity treadmill.

 

The power forward developed pain in his knee, and an examination Tuesday revealed his recovery wasn't progressing properly. The Clippers said more details would be announced soon.

 

After a loss in Memphis on Tuesday, the Clippers will play at New Orleans on Wednesday night before returning to Los Angeles for a road game against the Lakers on Friday.

 

The top pick hasn't been such an honor in recent NBA drafts. Griffin is the second No. 1 selection in the past three years to miss his entire first season with an injury.

 

Greg Oden, the Ohio State center chosen by the Portland Trail Blazers in 2007, had microfracture surgery on his right knee three months after the draft. Last month, Oden also broke his left kneecap and was lost for the rest of this season.

 

Griffin was the consensus college player of the year with 22.7 points and an NCAA-best 14.4 rebounds per game last season for the Sooners, and the Clippers eagerly chose him in last June's draft.

 

Griffin averaged 13.7 points and 8.1 rebounds during the preseason, and coach Mike Dunleavy and his new teammates all expected him to be a major part of their comeback season. Instead, Griffin has never been fully healthy in Los Angeles, even straining his right shoulder during summer league play in Las Vegas.

 

Griffin's woes sadly can't be surprising to fans of a team with just two winning seasons in the last 30 years and just one playoff series victory since moving to town in 1984.

 

The Clippers also have a long history of disappointing draft picks, including a pair of No. 1 overall choices that didn't dazzle.

 

Danny Manning played just 26 games in his rookie season in 1988-89 after tearing his knee ligament and undergoing surgery, though he eventually became an All-Star before fleeing town. Michael Olowokandi, the top pick in 1998, played just 45 games in his rookie season, and he wasn't much help even when healthy during five underachieving seasons.

 

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É uma pena, jogador cheio de potencial. Vamos a ver se volta bem na próxima época ou se é mais um infeliz como o Oden..

 

[Victarion]

Yé, próxima época, ROY. :mrgreen:

[The Bad Blood]

É uma pena, jogador cheio de potencial. Vamos a ver se volta bem na próxima época ou se é mais um infeliz como o Oden..

 

Mesma lesão e tudo ...

 

A referência ao Kandi-man foi cruel. :mrgreen:

[ProkhoLov]

Fantasy :mrgreen:

 

Tanto potencial desperdiçado :-|

 

[perolas negras]

Nets ](*,) :cadeirada:

 

massacre

[ProkhoLov]

Não ta aqui o TBB pra dizer se foi record ou não, mas deve andar la perto. Va la que os Celtics são amigos pra tirar o pé e não aumentar ainda mais a humilhação.