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  1. abeer3

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    this is definitely the knee procedure that solves all of kawhi's problems.
     
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    anyone who listens or pays attention to that c*** nose f*** Nick Wright should be throw in the same battery acid filled barrel Nick Wright belongs in.
     
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    All Russ’s mean muggings and flexes had to have pumped all the fans up though.

    :clap: :D
     
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    Wrong.
    He’s been saying the Flippers since PG and The Real Man of Glass teamed up. They will fail again.
    The Big Three in the Valley of the Sun will have to do so much heavy lifting throughout the Regular Season due to their lack of depth that they will be worn down come playoffs.
    Yeah, of course Denver will be good again.
     
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    :Laugh:
    True.
     
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    Wow. I thought they'd see the sinking of the titanic through till the bitter end.
     
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    MJ doing some damage on his way out. You don’t take “fit” at #2, you take best player available

     
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    trading SGA for PG keeps on looking worse for the clippers

    but any GM who deals away a top 5 pick for PG should be fired on the spot
     
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    Anything to pump up his boy Lebron as the goat. Literally anything.
     
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    I was thinking that it's likely the #3 is dealt during/post-draft. Teams may only want it if, for example, Scoot is available so that deal is only happening after(/if) Miller is picked by Charlotte
     
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    so the rumor is a 3-teamer:

    atl: ayton/pritchard (think it's pritchard)

    bos: collins/bey

    phx: brogdon, muscala

    i have several questions as it would mean boston needs another pg and atlanta needs to get rid of capela.
     
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    Not gonna get baited even if true:Laugh:
     
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    if lebron wants AD traded, why not just trade himself? you're not getting a better running mate in an AD trade--you're getting picks and prospects. it doesn't make sense for say, portland, to trade lillard for AD (even if i'd value them pretty similarly). guys of AD's stature aren't traded in lateral moves, which is what lebron would want. so again, just ask out yourself. i'm good with it. you're no longer worth 50 million per, and it's been your injuries as much as AD's that have tanked us in every non-title year since you've arrived. at least AD doesn't try to play manager and harm our bargaining position via press manipulation.
     
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    #bestleaderever
    #bestteammateever
     
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    If true and I'm not sure it is. I think there's guys he's closer with who maybe he'd rather play with but I think they're fine. Still want to know whatever was going on during Bron's record breaking game. But if true, Bron's LA box office, AD is not. Everything off the court is in LA for Bron and for Jeanie, Bron makes her money. All star votes, social media engagement, national news, international news, jersey and merchandise sales.... it's all Bron. Bron at 50 will be worth more to her than if AD was MVP next season.
     
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    yeah, i don't necessarily buy the "report", and i am one who still thinks something was amiss when lebron broke the scoring record, but still...i know it's not popular but i'll be glad when we're out of the lebron game. just so much stuff like this, all the time, with a lot of it really his doing and not just the press hounding for clicks (some of that is there, but he gives them kindling all the time).

    we've obviously gained a ton from our connection to lebron, but the costs have started to outweigh the benefits from a fan perspective. this is why i'd be cool if he asked out and we obliged. everyone still gets to look ok, and we don't have lebron trying to trade AD for draymond green or something.
     
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    That rumor is funny, AD isn’t going anywhere. I’ve said in the past that I would trade AD, IF our goal is to rebuild, because you can get picks and likely a young player for him and start to look to the future. But if you’re trying to win a title right now it’s AD or bust. There’s no player that can be had for AD that can bring what he does when healthy, he practically won us the Memphis series on his own with his defense, he was everywhere. So yeah even if that report were true who would we even get? Nobody that makes this team better than AD does when healthy can be likely be had for AD, you’re talking like a handful of guys at most that could maybe make us better than we were last playoffs in his place, and you can’t really replace him with depth either because LeBron is too old for that. If by some wild chance that rumor were true and he got traded, I cannot see who would come in and replace what he brings in any way.
     
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    agree with this. i've been anti-AD trade the whole time, but if lebron moved on, my mind would be open to it very quickly.

    only possibility would be a three-teamer, with the AD return being routed to portland for lillard or some similar scenario.

    and no, i don't really believe that this is something we're considering (moving AD this summer). hell, even the guy spouting this off put it at a 3% chance.
     
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