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Official NBA 2008 PLAYOFFS Thread Of Second Round Virgins

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Branduil said:
Dirk is 30 and he has never complained about his team or thrown his teammates under the bus, even though he plays with heartless contract hos like Dampier, and had one of the worst coaches of all time in Avery.
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Again I have to ask, who cares? These are all big boys that are paid way too much money. If Kobe called me crap and I was Kwame Brown, I'd go home and laugh in my bed made of shredded hundred dollar bills.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
You wanna know why Dirk has never complained? He's never been to the top.
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So going to the top makes calling out your teammates in public, calling out management in public, ratting out an ex-teammate to the police when you're the one being charged, demanding trades, and literally crying about it all to ESPN all OK?
 
:lol http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3397572

LAS VEGAS -- Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges.

"My mistake," Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am golf tournament in Hoover, Ala. "I'm not broke, and I'm going to take care of it."

Barkley was responding to comments by Clark County District Attorney David Roger, who said prosecutors would file a criminal complaint if he did not pay the debt cited by the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

"He'll have an opportunity like anybody else to make restitution to the hotel," Roger said.

The casino alleged in a civil complaint filed Wednesday in a Nevada state court and first reported by the Las Vegas Sun that Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, received last Oct. 18 and 19.

"To date, and despite repeated demands, Barkley has refused to repay the $400,000," the complaint said.

In a radio interview with sports station WJOX in Birmingham, Ala., Barkley repeatedly blamed himself for letting the debt lapse.
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:lol man, i wish i could have the money to just "forget" a 400K gambling debt. let's hope that he actually just did forget and isn't broke or something.
 
AirBrian said:
So going to the top makes calling out your teammates in public, calling out management in public, ratting out an ex-teammate to the police when you're the one being charged, demanding trades, and literally crying about it all to ESPN all OK?
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I never said it was ok but it was understandable. And what does the Colorado incident have to do with this? I thought this anti-Kobe tirade was about his offseason bitching.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
Passing out when you're 20 feet from the summit of Mount Everest is not the same as getting to the top. You either get there or you don't.
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So what magically changes when you win it all that it suddenly doesn't become classless to throw your teammates under the bus publicly?
 
AirBrian said:
So going to the top makes calling out your teammates in public, calling out management in public, ratting out an ex-teammate to the police when you're the one being charged, demanding trades, and literally crying about it all to ESPN all OK?
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Leave Colorado out of it. Also, I don't remember Kobe ever "literally" crying.

And to answer your question (aside from the stuff that we're leaving out of it), yes. Yes, what Kobe did was perfectly alright. I don't think anyone who thinks objectively about the situation will disagree with that. Kobe was within his rights to call out management and demand a trade.

As for calling out his teammates, all he really said was something like "our starting PG was Smush, who isn't really getting any PT with Miami, and our starting C was Kwame, who isn't really getting any PT with Memphis." Is there anything in that statement besides an honest assessment of the situation?

You guys need to quit being haters and look at the situation from an objective viewpoint. That's probably too much for Absinthe, but I'm sure you can do it. Hell, Wayne Gretzky (the great one) asked to be traded from the L.A. Kings. Ultra-competitive players want to go somewhere where they have a real shot at winning a title.
 
Wow that last page is full of bitter tears from Utah-Age. And of course it wouldn't be complete without Absinthe hanging off Kobes ass like a dingle berry.
 
Jeff-DSA said:
So when Shaq dragged Kobe there did it count?
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LOL. When Kobe averaged 29.4 ppg throughout the 2001 playoffs and 26.6 ppg the next year (while leading the team in assists), that was being dragged?

I feel like I'm on the ESPN boards right now.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
I never said it was ok but it was understandable. And what does the Colorado incident have to do with this? I thought this anti-Kobe tirade was about his offseason bitching.
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How does making it to the top make it more understandable? I would think never getting there or getting extremely close would make you hungrier for a ring.

And I thought we were talking about personalities too since LBJ's tattoos were brought up last page. Never mind then about the CO comment.
 
Branduil said:
So what magically changes when you win it all that it suddenly doesn't become classless to throw your teammates under the bus publicly?
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Nothing. Kobe was right to question management and shit on Kwame and Smush but he was wrong to voice his opinion publicly.

Jeff-DSA said:
So when Shaq dragged Kobe there did it count?
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Neither could have won on the threepeat team without the other. They both did their fair share of dragging the other along.
 
AirBrian said:
How does making it to the top make it more understandable? I would think never getting there or getting extremely close would make you hungrier for a ring.

And I thought we were talking about personalities too since LBJ's tattoos were brought up last page. Never mind then about the CO comment.
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Being a Cubs fan, you certainly don't know what its like to win championships
I keed, I keed
and then become a bottom feeder.

How would you feel if you were fucking the hottest super model in the world for 3 years and then it all ended and you somehow get left with some average girl?
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
How would you feel if you were fucking the hottest super model in the world for 3 years and then it all ended and you somehow get left with some average girl?
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It's more like, how would you feel if you were fucking the hottest super model in the world for 3 years, and she went and gained 150 pounds and stopped showering? And she also started doing coke and getting arrested outside of Hollywood clubs?

You'd be pretty fucking pissed, right?
 
Green Shinobi said:
It's more like, how would you feel if you were fucking the hottest super model in the world for 3 years, and she went and gained 150 pounds and stopped showering? And she also started doing coke and getting arrested outside of Hollywood clubs?

You'd be pretty fucking pissed, right?
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hopefully doing coke made her lose couple of pounds
 
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No wonder they're down 3-2
 
I thought supermodels smoked to keep the pounds off and did lines of blow to forget how vacuous and otherwise terrible their existence is.

If coke keeps the weight off too, I really need to get in on that myself.
 
Green Shinobi said:
Leave Colorado out of it. Also, I don't remember Kobe ever "literally" crying.

And to answer your question (aside from the stuff that we're leaving out of it), yes. Yes, what Kobe did was perfectly alright. I don't think anyone who thinks objectively about the situation will disagree with that. Kobe was within his rights to call out management and demand a trade.

As for calling out his teammates, all he really said was something like "our starting PG was Smush, who isn't really getting any PT with Miami, and our starting C was Kwame, who isn't really getting any PT with Memphis." Is there anything in that statement besides an honest assessment of the situation?

You guys need to quit being haters and look at the situation from an objective viewpoint. That's probably too much for Absinthe, but I'm sure you can do it. Hell, Wayne Gretzky (the great one) asked to be traded from the L.A. Kings. Ultra-competitive players want to go somewhere where they have a real shot at winning a title.
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I'm all for demanding trades and embarrassing your teammates, coaches, and management when they've mis-managed things. But keep it in-house. There is no reason why this kind of stuff should go public to the extent they have been lately. Kobe (and every other player) just sound like whiny little bitches who are pissy because they're not getting their way. Being competitive and wanting to win does not excuse this kind of behavior. It doesn't make it understandable either. They get paid way too much and owe the fans more than they show. And this goes for every player that does this, not just Kobe.


Jamesfrom818 said:
Being a Cubs fan, you certainly don't know what its like to win championships
I keed, I keed
and then become a bottom feeder.

How would you feel if you were fucking the hottest super model in the world for 3 years and then it all ended and you somehow get left with some average girl?
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:lol You have no idea.
 
They should trade him to the European League, he'll get more playing time, and his entitlement complex will allow him to blend in with the common man.
 
From LA times:
Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko missed practice today because of a problem with his visa, a day before Utah plays host to the Lakers in Game 6.

A Jazz spokesman says the Russian was absent because he was resolving a visa issue. No other details were immediately available.
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OMG tell me it's not true. :lol :lol
 
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