Cavs thought they had a win
So this was the epic matchup that everyone in the NBA said was must see TV? Yeah. Stanley Cup Finals is so much more compelling.
Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
Lebron simply doesn't have enough help out there. Kyrie won that series last year and he nearly won this game tonight. He is absolutely amazing at finishing at the rack. He makes some incredible shots all the time. Don't remember a player who was so skilled at finishing.
A finals sweep is great for the nba.....
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jpx7 (06-22-2017)
The Bulls' front-office is so ****ing incompetent.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
acesfull86 (06-29-2017), cajunrevenge (07-04-2017)
Didn't get as much for Butler as what I would have thought, but it makes sense to go into rebuild mode now. LeBron has maybe 3-4 more years of greatness left in him and the Warriors likely will be dismantled by then - with a couple of high picks in the next few years, the Bulls could be one of the better teams by then.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
NBA should be a lot more interesting in 2017-2018, with several teams cashing-in or -out on a given direction. Minnesota and Houston should be very interesting to watch (I'll temporary be a fan of the former, while the Bulls wallow and go fallow for a few seasons), while teams like the Clippers, Bulls, and (potentially) Pacers should be very bad, opening up space for some ascension from bubble teams in their divisions (I'm looking for Milwaukee to win a decent amount more in the Central).
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
chop2chip (06-28-2017)
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Pairing CP3 and Harden is a risk, but I think it's one that needs to be taken. Would have been a nice place for the Knicks to pawn off Carmelo, if the coach was anyone but D'Antoni.
This movement in the NBA for stars to play together is just awful.
JPX, I actually like the deal for the Bulls. Lavine has an absurd ceiling. I could see him becoming a 28+PPG scorer with excellent shooting numbesr from all areas on the floor.
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In 2016, it would've been a nice deal for the Bulls; in 2017, I hate it.
LaVine's a better shooter from range the Rose ever was, but the parallels of a young, athleticism-dependent, emerging-star guard felled by ACL tear are not encouraging. Dunn is a defensive monster, but otherwise terrible—and old, for a player with one season in the league—on a team that really needs a scoring PG (or needs to dump Hoiberg). And not receiving any additional or future picks back—they essentially just traded up, from 16 to 7, to draft a non-star rotation player—for a consensus top-10 two-way NBA talent is just garbage, even considering they need to be garbage for a few years to really rebuild. The cherry on top is that they sold their second-rounder to GSW, and in the aftermath essentially admitted that (a) they don't understand NBA roster rules and (b) did both a terrible and shockingly-cursory job scouting the draft. The front office is in omnishambles, and I have no faith the Bulls will successfully execute a rebuild until John Paxson and Gar Forman are kicked to the curb—which probably won't happen in Jerry Reinsdorf's lifetime.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."