Blazers win!
Outlaw, Roy, Aldridge are fucking amazing. They're a straight up team.
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Blazers win!
Outlaw, Roy, Aldridge are fucking amazing. They're a straight up team.
Lebron got busted for speeding.
I heard he was clocked going 23 in a 22.
^ Nice.
The Jazz are 15-2 since trading for fucking Kyle Korver.
Celtics and Cavs playing tonight.
I hope to God that Boston and Cleveland meet in the second round. It would be terrible for the Pistons to go Cleveland then Boston.
Ha, what do you know? Webber's first start with GS is against Chicago on Thursday and it IS a TNT game.
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NEW YORK -- Kobe Bryant will take part in the 3-point shooting contest at All-Star weekend against a field that includes defending champion Jason Kapono and the last repeat winner, Peja Stojakovic.
Steve Nash, Detroit All-Star Richard Hamilton and Cleveland's Daniel Gibson also were chosen Wednesday to take part in the event, which will be held Feb. 16 in New Orleans during All-Star Saturday night.
Bryant will try to add the 3-point title to the dunk championship he won as a rookie in 1997. He is shooting 35 percent from behind the arc this season.
Kapono signed with Toronto in the offseason and is shooting 51 percent from 3-point range. He won last year in Las Vegas while playing for Miami, falling just shy of the event record with a 24 in the final round.
Stojakovic, from the hometown Hornets, won the event in 2002-03 while playing for Sacramento and was the runner-up in 2004.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
Both of them were talking trash before the Lakers-Pistons game about the 3 point contest. Now it's on!!
Hornets over the Suns 132-130 in 2OT.
Paul: 42 points, 9 assists, 8 steals.
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Shocked by Shaq trade, LeBron seeks to improve Cavs
Associated Press
Updated: February 6, 2008, 9:56 PM ET
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- LeBron James was in Shaq shock.
Like nearly everyone else, Cleveland's megastar was floored by Shaquille O'Neal's trade to Phoenix.
"Unbelievable," James said after practice Wednesday. "That's all I got. It's unbelievable."
O'Neal, one of the league's top centers for more than a decade, was traded by Miami to the Suns for forward Shawn Marion and guard Marcus Banks, a blockbuster deal that rocked the league like one of Shaq's backboard-bending dunks.
It was the second jaw-dropping swap involving All-Star players in days. Last week, the Los Angeles Lakers acquired 7-foot center Pau Gasol from Memphis, a trade that may have forced the Suns into retooling their team in order to stay ahead of their nearest competitor in the Pacific Division.
For James and the Cavaliers, Shaq's departure from the Eastern Conference is a plus. They'll only have to face him twice in the regular season, and won't have to worry about him until the finals, assuming, that is, they ever get back there.
"It's always good to see guys like that leave the East," Cavs coach Mike Brown said. "But the reality of it is if you expect to win it, you're going to have to play somebody like him or Gasol or [Tim] Duncan eventually."
But the Shaq-to-the-Suns trade also raised another issue in Cleveland: When will the Cavaliers make their own super swap?
James recently said he would love for general manager Danny Ferry to make a run at New Jersey point guard Jason Kidd, who has made it no secret that he wants the Nets to dish him off before the Feb. 21 trading deadline.
When James was asked if being paired with Kidd, his teammate last summer on the U.S. national team, could win the Cavs their first championship, Cleveland's superstar delivered an answer as resounding as any of his powerful slam dunks.
"Yeah," James said. "It's that easy."
If that was only the case.
The Cavaliers have been active in talks on several major trades in the past two years, but Ferry has been unable to pull one off since taking over the club in 2005. He made a strong push for Sacramento's Mike Bibby last year and may still be interested in adding him to Cleveland's roster.
Ferry, though, has been hampered by a roster filled with unappealing contracts and few tradable assets.
But getting a major deal done involving All-Stars isn't an impossibility as the Gasol and O'Neal deals have shown. Whether they work out, well, that remains to be seen.
The Cavaliers would like to add another star player to complement James, who's having an MVP-caliber season. Larry Hughes hasn't been what Cleveland had hoped since Ferry signed the oft-injured shooting guard to a five-year, $60 million contract before the '05 season.
James was asked if it's necessary for a team to have multiple stars to win an NBA title.
"It helps," he said with a laugh. "It does help when you have guys on the team that are perennial All-Stars or can go out there and produce every night and you know what you're going to get."
Reminded that Kidd was still available, James grinned.
"I know that," he said.
James, too, knows that adding another big player can lead to problems.
"It can mess up the chemistry a little bit and it could take a little longer for them to fit in, maybe not," he said. "The reward is you get a good player. Like the Lakers, they got a guy [Gasol] who has averaged 20 [points] and 12 [rebounds] for his whole career. Last night, Kobe Bryant gets six points and the Lakers win by 15, that's the reward.
"It all depends on what caliber of player you are getting and how fast he can adjust to the new system."
If the Cavaliers stand pat and don't make a trade, James is confident the defending Eastern Conference champs are still good enough to win it all.
"As long as I'm healthy, we're going to give ourselves a chance to win," he said. "No matter who is out on the court with me."
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
How can his teammates stand him? I don't care how much better you are than me, don't talk about me like I'm fucking handicapped.
I'd be so pissed if I heard a teammate was talking about me like that. I'm sorry I'm not a perennial MVP candidate, but that doesn't mean you can talk about me like I'm the biggest piece of shit in the league and I'm only holding you back. He basically said "I am the team, you can put whatever crap around me you want and I'll still get us a chance at a championship. Put something worth anything around me and we'll win it all for sure."