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NBA stars have a lot more bargaining clout than NFL stars. This hard cap won't pass. It's obviously a low-ball tactic.

This is fact. He follows me around with generic personal insults. I'm pretty sure he is sending me lewd messages on Facebook, as well.

Im just putting it out there.

There's no way, right? I mean, they supposedly talk to ghosts and get attacked by them everywhere they go.

If this is true then it's the most important discovery of mankind, ever.

Why is it allowed? The NBA is getting harder and harder to watch with it's strategic and selective referreeing.

Watch all the calls DWade will get for getting breathed on at home where defenders will literally stand still and not even flinch, yet have fouls are called.

What exactly is/was the Heat's gameplan? They look like an "and 1" team out there, getting out rebounded and out smarted.

Banning people because they disagree? You guys are like a mob.

Works with Cox?

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How many 6'6-6'9 people were playing at this YMCA in Detroit to be able to say he was dominating ?

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Laugh all you want but my husband is 6'4 and there were only 2 guys shorter. 5 guys were around his size and the remaining 8 or so were taller. A few were significantly taller.

ETA: they ran circles around him and he played division 1 in brec/braba.

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Posted by oilfieldtiger
if there's all of these exceptionally talented dudes walking around that could be signed to minimum contracts, i imagine some enterprising GM would have exploited it by now?

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I wouldn't bother hiring them. I mean, I'd much rather have a bench warmer/role player that went through the paces and confirmed to society, rather than some thug that I have to go hunting for. I'd imagine that you'd have to sift through 100k ballers just to find one guy that at best would give you 15 minutes a game of averageness.

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Posted by Jcorye1
If the NBA thought they could play, they would probably be on a team or in the D league. I can buy a couple people slipping through the cracks, but I gotta think they have scouts at bigger rec games.

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There's tons of great athletes in the hood who were never eligible to play high school ball and thus were not recruited by colleges and thus were never even on the NBA's radar. The thing about basketball is even poor kids from the hood can train/practice basketball everyday, especially if they don't have school or jobs. That's not really the case with football and baseball where most practices need to be organized and paid for.

Baton Rouge has players that can almost hit their head on the rim, are fast, and can drain 3's.. That doesn't necessarily make them NBA material but I shudder to think what talents got left on the table in the larger cities.