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It amazes me that guys like Stephen A. Smith make money by spewing this crap. Stephen A needs to get his facts straight, Lebron and Bosh to the Bulls is a done deal. But seriously though Lebron + Bosh to the Nets is a done deal. Wheres my paycheck?

Or they could just work like the rest of us.

How is it blatantly racist? It applies to anyone police stop. White, black, hispanic or whatever they may be. They need to protect their border because the increase in crime due to the Mexican drug cartels is getting out of hand. It may not be "politically correct", but its the right thing to do and more states should follow their lead.

Favoring a race is not racist. Favoring someone does not mean that you dislike for hate the rest. If I favor the Eagles does this mean that I dislike the 76ers? No, I just like that team more.

This is why I love how blind some people become when they need a hero figure. Portland's fanbase was ready to elect statues of Pritchard. Yahoo reported months ago that there was major tension within the organization between Pritchard and ownership, but many of Portland's fans just ignored it as shoddy reporting under the premise that Pritchard's results speak for themselves. Even if Pritchard's accomplishments were his and his alone, how can you sell out your bosses the way he has, go behind people's backs, have power trips, and be as egotistical as he was without getting fired? Even on this site, everyone wants him now to be the Suns' GM. If I were a boss, I wouldn't want this guy as a member of my organization. To put it bluntly, he's a major douche. An accomplished one, but a douche nonetheless.

Two things: You ain't saying that I'm more favorable to black countries. You're tryinna make me look racist, and that certainly is staining my name, 'brah'. Get it right, once and for all -- I ain't rootin for African countries only: A'ight, man. Now if, for some strange reason, you consider The United States a 'black country' (WTH?! ), then -- Is New Zealand a 'black country'? http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/public/style_extra/post_icons/icon14.gif I don't think so...

First off, before I say ANYTHING, quote me where I ridicule or hate soccer. It's not my cup of tea, sure, but all the points I have made are factual. I do not care if anyone like or hates soccer, nor do I like or hate soccer. I don't watch it every single day, but I'll tune into the World Cup occasionally, and got to see The NY Red Bulls 2 years back. Not to mention I played the sport until 4th grade. With that said... First off, you keep failing to realize where you posted this. You posted it in, "General NBA Discussion" on a site devoted to basketball. You can talk about the issue of flopping in soccer all you want, but very few will follow you in that regard. Most people reading this top care strictly about flopping in the NBA. That is why I said, "Let's get over this soccer crap" or whatever because I didn't even realize we were talking about soccer too, since it's, you know...General NBA Discussion. Secondly, you are continuing to ignore the importance of context. Yes, they are two contact sports, and they both have issues with flopping. It ends there. How can you reasonably compare them or say, "The NBA should do this, the NBA should do that because soccer does..." if they are two totally different sports, have a totally different set of rules (including what constitues a foul), totally different orginization running them, each require a totally different breed of athlete, and each have a totally different refereeing situation. All of these factors have a direct impact on the flopping situation in each sport. To directly compare and contrast is trivial and pointless. Treat each as its own entity. All this is nice, but only proves that the NBA is not as physical as the '80's/'90's NBA. Has absolutely nothing to do with proving soccer is a more physical sport. And yes, some players get superstar calls. But for every superstar call they get, they get hit legitimitely hard about 5 other times. And again, there are how many superstars in the league? 5-7? Maybe include 3 others since they were once superstars and get that benefit? That's 10 players in a pool of over 300. Aka less than 3%. And probably less than 20% of the calls they get are "superstar" calls. That's a very, very low number of "superstar" calls league-wide. And once again...context. How often is a star player in soccer fouled? Not too often, nothing like in the NBA, whether you want to talk old school or new school NBA. If you want to compare players getting superstar calls in the NBA, then compare it to rushing the passer in the NFL for players like Manning and Brady. A much, much better comparison. Still pointless, but it makes so much more sense. What are you talking about? I ACKNOWLEDGED THERE IS PHYSICALITY IN SOCCER, AND SPECIFIED THOSE SITUATIONS!!!! The problem is... Let's take yesterday's England vs. Germany soccer match for example. There were 13 fouls, 0 penalty kicks and 10 corner kicks. In the average NBA game you are gonna get at least 30 fouls, and that's in 42+ less minutes than in soccer where it's a struggle to exceed 30 fouls. Now, in the NBA there is similar physicality to those free/corner EVERY TIME DOWN THE FLOOR! So, those 10-15 corner/free kicks and 13-30 fouls in 90+ minutes are supposed to show me soccer is more physical than constant off-ball physicality and 30-50 fouls in 48min of an NBA game? More importantly, it's supposed to show me that flopping in the NBA and soccer are the same to referee when they are completely different in terms of number of penalties called and scenarios where there is physicality? Totally ignoring the fact that NBA players are much bigger and stronger, further making how they are affected and how they will react when fouled different. Along with ignoring your own point that one sport is more about upper body, another is about lower body, which further complicates the comparison. Where's your logic? You are spending entirely too much time trying to play me off as a hater (which you cannot find proof of) rather than refuting my points (which you haven't). 80% of your post has nothing to do with the points I brought up, and the other 20% I refuted.

I DON'T root only for 'black countries', man. I think you're the one missing some points here - 2008 through 2010: SoccerPubs.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=25482&mode=threaded&pid=501894 Is USA a black country? You gotta stop tryinna stain my name, brah.

You 2-faced bastard.

And you clearly missed that you posted this topic in the, "General NBA Discussion" forum on a website devoted to basketball. No one cares about flopping in soccer here except you and maybe 1-2 other people. Three things... -Stop generalizing. For every "touch foul" Wade gets called for him, he gets hit hard legitimitely about 5 other times. When you take it to the rim at a rate that ranks among the all-time greats, you're going to get hit hard a lot. That's why despite his very thick physical frame, he's had his fair share of injuries. Then you have players like LeBron and Shaq who are physical marvels and take enormous punishment yet manage to stay relatively healthy. -How many superstars are there in the league? 5-7 MAYBE? For every "superstar" call, and for every foul called because someone flops, there are about 35 other legit fouls called in the game. That's what you're really overlooking. -The hand-check rule is called rarely. It does get called, but not that often. The entire Lakers-Celtics series when Kobe faced up he was getting hand-checked. T-Mac always used to get hand-checked. And again, most of the physicality in the NBA is OFF-BALL! Take a look at that Celtics-Lakers series and watch all the physical play going on in and around the paint. So you are using the absolute worst case scenario injuries to prove your point? In soccer, will you see a soccer player breaking his leg every game? Every 5 games? 10 games? No. All of what you just said does nothing to refute... *That in an average NBA game there are more than twice the number of fouls compared to soccer. That NBA players are bigger and stronger in both the upper AND lower body, which makes taking a hit from an NBA player a lot more painful. And most importantly, as opposed to soccer, ON EVERY POSSESSION NBA players with and without the ball have to deal with physicality. If you refute those points, you may have a case for FIFA being as physical as the NBA. Maybe. Also, you know NOTHING about an NBA training regimen...even Kobe, a shooting guard, has been seen squatting over 400lbs for reps. I highly doubt there are more than 5-6 pro soccer players that can squat over 400lbs...many NBA players can. Why? Because vertical jump is cloesly associated with overall power output, and power = strength x speed. You need to have incredible lower body strength to defend post players, cut through traffic, finish strong at the rim, etc... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...wow...REALLY?!? First off, how do you go from Stockton/Malone to Arron Afflalo, a 3rd year player who's played 75+ games only once? I know the answer, don't bother. But it doesn't make you saying that any less mind-blowing. Secondly, you REALLY think NBA players can go 10 games without many bruises to their entire body?!?! Think Dwight Howard doesn't have bruises from getting hacked all the time? Or his defenders don't have bruises from all of Howard's elbows, hipchecks and other tactics? You don't think that players like D-Wade or LeBron, who get hit HARD a few times every game don't have a ton of bruises? You think because Wade and LeBron get a few "superstar" calls a game that they don't also a ton of clean shots each and every game? AND ONCE AGAIN REMEMBER- CONTEXT! STOP COMPARING THE SITUATION OF FLOPPING IN THE NBA TO THE SITUATION OF FLOPPING IN SOCCER! JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE BOTH CONTACT SPORTS MEANS NOTHING! NO COORELATION!

Fail.

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Jason Kidd overrated? In my opinion Nash is overrated. Nash defensively blows, he has a career dRTG of 110, while Kidd rests at a 102. Don't believe in advanced stats? Even the normal stats prove Kidd has the edge. Now, there is more to comparing then stats yes, but Kidd takes over here. APG Kidd - 9.2 Nash - 8.3 Kidd has a steady lead there, although I will admit Nash is the better "clutch" or "legit" passer out of these two guys. Scoring wise, it's safe to say Kidd isn't that accurate, but he puts up the points his team needs him to put up, averaging 13.6 PPG Career (Nash 14.6) Bottom line is, defense always takes the edge when comparing players, and the fact that Nash could shoot better just doesn't make up for the fact he can't play on his man.