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yeezus said:
Bynum will not be healthy and has an insanely ****ty attitude, even for a basketball player. He's a joke.
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The health part is why I didn't put the Cavs over the Knicks. I know he won't be healthy or at least its highly unlikely that he will be.
 
8. Cleveland Cavaliers (2012-13 finish: 13th)
If only they could trade for the Phoenix Suns training staff. With the talent on the roster, the Cavaliers could vault as high as the No. 5 seed in the East, but the talent could also be in street clothes for much of the season. No team possesses more "if healthy" qualifiers than the Cavaliers, with Kyrie Irving, Anderson Varejao and Andrew Bynum all battling various leg injuries.

To counteract the injury risk, the Cavs could use big developmental strides from Dion Waiters, Tristan Thompson and No. 1 overall pick Anthony Bennett. A Heat-Cavs first-round playoff matchup is a real possibility, though I can't imagine we'd find anything to talk about.

And who was ranked #5 you ask? Thats right...the Knicks.
 
jpx7 said:
They could be even worse than that, depending on if and how well Bynum can play with Cleveland.

My top four, as it stands now:

1. Miami

2. Chicago

3. Indiana

4. Brooklyn

(gap)
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Miami

Indiana

Chicago

Brooklyn

Knicks

Then 3 others.
 
BRule said:
The Knicks won THIRTY MORE games than the Cavs last year, THIRTY.

The Knicks got better, but somehow we are in a "debate" about who is the better team next year when all the Cavs have done is, add a oft-injuried center with huge question marks surrounding his health and attitude. Sign a back-up PG, who fell off a cliff the last 2 months of last year, draft a 20 year old and sign a PF to play SF.

BUT we are talking about THAT team, being better than the Knicks.

Really?
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How are they better, pretty much the same team as last year.

5th best in the East, maybe 6th.
 
gilesfan said:
Cavs:

Bynum

Thompson

Varejao

Clark

Bennett

Zeller

Cavs blow the knicks out of the water.

How does that blow anyone out of the water?
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How the hell isn't it?

It certainly blows the Knicks front court out of the water.

Thompson was a double double machine last year.

Bynum is the best C in the league when healthy.

Zeller, Varejou is solid depth.

Knicks front court is laughable, especially on defense.
 
WTF is wrong with you?

Andrew Bynum the best C in the league? Do you have mental issues?

THompson is a league average player. He has some decent offensive skills and is a bad defender.

Varajo is a very good player.

Zeller.....the lulz.
 
Zach Lowe's article today doesn't paint a pretty picture for the Thunder come playoff time.
 
chool of NBA executives — perhaps 20 percent of the people I've discussed this with over the last 10 months — who insisted, even before the Harden trade, that they'd have kept Harden over Ibaka. And that was the choice Oklahoma City made, even if Ibaka's lower market value — both as a free agent signing and as a trade piece — helped drive that choice. (This is different than asking whether the Thunder should have waited through last season to trade Harden, but we've beaten that one to death.)

Harden is a rarer talent, these folks say, and the Thunder would have been more dangerous with three perimeter stars and a rotating cast of Carl Landry or Brandon Bass–type big men around the usual minimum-level cheapies.
 
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