I'm surprised about the Grizzlies to be honest. Practically every NBA analyst & writer all but wrote the Grizzlies off once they traded Rudy Gay to Toronto as part of a multi-team, multi-player trade at the NBA Trade Deadline in February. Might they be the team that prevents the Heat from winning a second straight NBA Championship?

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

I stand by my original statement of the Knicks barely having even one likeable guy.

JR Smith - Malcontent, Selfish
KDdidit Martin - Hothead, sociopath, ugly
Chandler - Hothead, always crying (Unlike the first two, I wouldn't mind if he was on my team though)
Felton - Loser, fattied up last year and played like dogshit for Portland. They're happy, they got the rookie of the year Lillard
Kidd - Wife beater, kid has a huge head, awful interview and seems dumb as a rock. Also sucks.
Carmelo - Loser, his teams don't make it anywhere, hero baller, selfish, forced his way out of a perfectly good situation in Denver, wife runs the house, doesn't play defense

And what really pisses me off about Carmelo is that he can play defense, and he can play it very well. Just refuses to do it. Whatever year those playoffs were a few years ago when Kobe and Carmelo went mano a mano proved that 'Melo can play defense at a high level. he just doesn't want to.
He also wore a fedora at the press conference yesterday.

I like Shumpert and Woodson.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

I'm surprised about the Grizzlies to be honest. Practically every NBA analyst & writer all but wrote the Grizzlies off once they traded Rudy Gay to Toronto as part of a multi-team, multi-player trade at the NBA Trade Deadline in February. Might they be the team that prevents the Heat from winning a second straight NBA Championship?

Harrison Barnes may indeed be dead.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Can't believe he's back out there. Looked like a severe concussion at the very least.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

That's the end of the Warriors.

This is the second year in a row that a major injury messed up the playoff bracket. Memphis this year, and Boston last year, do not belong.

What about the Bulls once Derrick Rose tore his ACL a year ago? Philadelphia didn't necessarily belong either.

Boston beat Philly to get to the ECF, when they should have played the Bulls had Rose not got injured. So I assume the Bulls would have eliminated Boston.

This is the second year in a row that a major injury messed up the playoff bracket. Memphis this year, and Boston last year, do not belong.

That's just dumb. Memphis would've beaten OKC even with a healthy Westbrook, like I have been saying since November.

That's just dumb. Memphis would've beaten OKC even with a healthy Westbrook, like I have been saying since November.

I do agree Memphis would've beat the Thunder, but the Thunder winning thought is far from dumb.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Saying Memphis doesn't belong is dumb. That's all there is to it.

I might be splitting hairs here, but I only said Memphis didn't belong because they did not beat the defending WC champs at full strength. I'm not surprised they beat OKC without Westbrook, so in that sense they do belong. However, in my opinion, I do not think they would beat OKC, the second best team in the league with the second best player in the NBA, in a rematch with a healthy Westbrook.

^Ok, this is where it all began.^ Had I been more thorough, I would've agreed that this is a dumb thought. Boston had the Heat down 3 games to 2 in the Conference Finals. They clearly belonged.
Memphis to some degree could've/should've/would've beat the Clippers and the Thunder regardless of the health status of Blake Griffin and Russell Westbrook.




Farvio doesn't say a word about "belonging", and spiral starts.




Now this time, vegan comes back with the truth, not knowing at the time that Farvio's biggest problem with the whole thing was whether or not Memphis "belonged" there. This is also the point where I started reading in earnest.




There I am spouting off without having read the whole thing. Of course my thoughts were spot on, but in retrospect, a bit misplaced.





Vegan again with a terrific thought, but the "belonging" part missing from those thoughts, kind of changes everything.




This is where it hit me. I felt bamboozled. Or that could've been my earlier date. Anyways, had Farvio said this with his first response, we wouldn't be in this predicament.




And now they don't belong and do belong all in the same paragraph. In conclusion, I'm gonna have a smoke, a pancake and a drink, and leave you with this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxZInIyOBXk

Hi vegan . Ya, it was all in good fun.


I just think Memphis is too physical for Oklahoma City. The trade of Rudy Gay made the Grizzlies into even more of a defensive juggernaut, (Tayshaun) and took the ball out of Gay's hands and got it into the hands of Gasol and Randolph, for much higher percentage shots. That trade also put pressure on Conley to accept even more of a playmaker role, and he has responded with the best basketball of his career.

Aside from the physicality, I just find Memphis to be a smarter, veteran laden team than the Thunder.