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Shaliq spamming the shit out of this thread.... But again, whats new?

i want to see shoelick eat 25 feet of toilet paper

got any screenshots?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSFlMCTXE8

'Greetings from St. Kitts & Nevis' Kinda rusty. First drawing since 'Bahian Angel' (2008): http://i.imgur.com/7arXU.jpg Started this more than a month ago (before the London Olympics). Not having much time these days. Been staying up till like 5 AM almost every day to finish this by August 23rd (Kobe's birthday). Have slept a combined 10 hours or so over the last couple of weeks. 'I'm exausted, fairly breathing, holding on to what I believe in...' (Kanye West - "Amazing")

Thanks for the thoughts guys

A franchise player is a primary scoring option that you build your contender around. If you have any doubt that said player is a primary scoring option, and even think for a second that he could be a better second option...then he's not a franchise player. Danny Granger is a great example. So is Andre Iguodala. Monta Ellis. Kevin Martin. Blake Griffin (when he finally fell back down to Earth). Even better example? Pau Gasol, when he was in Memphis. He was traded to LA, became a second option, and actually played better (individually) and won two championships in that role as well. Kevin Love is more Gasol than he is Dirk, as of today...not so much the style of play, but in the ability to fulfill that role. You asked if Dirk could win it all without Jason Kidd? Who knows, but he had Dallas contending for a decade without Kidd, and he was in the 2006 NBA Finals without him or Nash.

http://i.imgur.com/rfwnj.jpg I was working and studying at the time, so it took me more than a week to finish it. The Korean word means "50", it's pronounced 'shwin' and it used to be integrated in my old avatar: http://i.imgur.com/RMs81.jpg The writing in the lower right corner is in Farsi. It says: http://i.imgur.com/P1m3w.jpg 'Shaliq'

hes popular so you have to focus on him. same reason why the media gives attention to twilight and its actors despite it being an awful movie series with horrid acting

seriously. if its any team... it would have to be [ironically] the nets

hi Shaliq

I'm not even going to reply to the Jordan/LeBron stuff, because deep down, you know he's not close, unless you didn't watch Jordan with your own two eyes. Two seasons, no more than that...and why are we talking about how Kobe shoots jumpers now? Kobe just came off a horrible shooting percentage (age is finally getting to him), and 2010-11 was injury-ridden. It only makes sense that LeBron's jumpshot percentage improved with Wade as his teammate, anyway. Let's go ahead and compare today's Tim Duncan to Andrew Bynum, I guess. My point stands. LeBron can hit open jumpers, but in games where a defensive-minded player isn't scared shitless of his drive to the rim (or he just gives him the step), LeBron struggles. Also, LeBron defends three positions. Pau Gasol is a center that plays like a small forward, so when he's out there muscling Gasol for two plays, that doesn't mean he's defending centers. He also gets toasted by PG's more often than not. I didn't see his ass move over and defend Rondo back in May/June, when Rondo decided to average 21/7/11 on nearly 50% FG, and going apeshit for 40+ in Game 2. He can take the call in one regular season game, but if he's not going to do it when Mario Chalmers, a gimpy Dwyane Wade, and Norris Cole are getting obliterated, then he doesn't defend the position well enough to be significant. Kobe took Russell Westbrook for the rest of the LA/OKC series a few years back, when Fisher was a matador, and Westbrook didn't hit 40% again. He took LeBron in January and February of 2009, and held him to two bad games, despite destroying his finger in one of those. Kobe has defended three positions for most of his career. By the way...that article you're referring to (posted on RealGM) is hilarious. It's the +/- stats, huh? Well, it also breaks down the fact that Wade is also extremely overrated on the defensive end, something you would argue against until your eyes bleed. But, yeah...those +/- stats... It really doesn't matter to me, anyway...don't even know why I brought Kobe up. Now that he's not cremating teams like he used to, everyone is opening up Basketball Reference again...so it's whatever.

I put this on my life, I'm almost about to laugh at the way you're making LeBron out to, basically, be the greatest player of all-time. Hands down, in fact...because everything you have said, pointed to, etc...it has trumped Mike already, because LeBron has done all of this against zone defenses, which are five times harder to play against than your typical hand-checking, physical defender. I was waiting for someone to do it after he won his first championship, but it didn't happen. You might as well go ahead and call LeBron the greatest player to ever play, no joke...because your last post pretty much tells me he would have 6+ championships, 5+ MVP's, a DPOY (or more), and scoring titles galore if he had Phil, Pippen, and a plethora of shooters camping around the perimeter. And saying Kobe is the complete player, and LeBron isn't, is justified because, once again, you and I both know LeBron is not the jumpshooter that Bryant (or MJ) have been over their careers, and he doesn't have the range when you stick someone in his face most of the game. He shot over 48% against Boston? That's not on jumpers, that's overall. I'm really tempted to go see all of his shot charts, but I don't have time to mess with it right now. In the game or two that he hit plenty of jumpers, they were over Bass and not defended the way they should have been (Bass didn't even contest well). This thing about Kobe not playing defense is kind of annoying, also. You keep giving me DWS and DRtg...so why not compare to, say, Gary Payton? We know he has been an incredible defender most of his career, yet, his numbers are pretty similar throughout (and even Kobe had a better season than Payton AND Jordan (supposedly) back in 2000, with a 98 DRtg). Looks like Derrick Rose has been one of the best defensive players in the league over the last two seasons, also (DRtg)...which is funny to me, because I know that's dead wrong. These are reasons why I started to slow down when it came to feeding my posts a bunch of stats. If I did, I'd be telling you that Kobe was as good of a defender as Payton, that Kevin Love is a franchise player, and that LeBron James is the greatest player since Wilt Chamberlain.

Met Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf the other night at Mosque. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abdul-Rauf A really nice guy. Talked to him for a few minutes and I asked him if I could interview him for a possible future article. He gave me his e-mail so hopefully I can write on him in the near future.

Nope. He can score and board, but he just doesn't have that consistency. Definitely not a Dirk, and Larry Bird is entirely out of the question.

Oh I see, I like black and white part though for some reason. I remember when I used to have art class back in HS. I would never color my work, I just liked the black and white.

what is happening right now

Pretty nice stuff man. But you ever try not to use color? Like just white and black with bunch of shades?

This shit will someday be the downfall of this website. If we have one more instance of this, people baiting each other and acting childish, I'm going to insert 3-4 members into a poll into the staff forum, and I'm going to allow my moderators to take a vote, to see which are going to be banned for life, accounts deleted and IP addresses banned. I have been the reason why the mods haven't decided to take care of this mess yet, for the sake of keeping guys around, but now, things are going to be much different...and I have a feeling members will be shocked to see who goes (one, or all).

This one > rest, IMO: http://i.imgur.com/KBd62.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Vh13e.jpg Back in the beginning of the '07-'08 season, I printed and laminated all and then shipped it to LA. Photographer Henry (Chen) promised to bring them to a Clippers game @ STAPLES.....

Very good!

Thanks! There's more where that came from: http://i.imgur.com/dXsNS.jpg

OMG!. Very well done. E Muito massa, Shaliq!

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