Real Deal

C - Marreese Speights | Spencer Hawes | Nikola Vucevic PF - Elton Brand | Craig Brackins | Lavoy Allen SF - Thaddeus Young | Andres Nocioni SG - Andre Iguodala | Evan Turner | Jodie Meeks PG - Jrue Holiday | Louis Williams With rumors of Iggy being in trade talks for Kaman (to acquire an expiring deal) and big question marks for Elton Brand (FA in two years) and Thaddeus Young (who will be a free agent after this upcoming season), what players do you see headed out the door? Who is expendable? Also, if you were running the team, what direction would you go? Is Jrue Holiday the future starting point? Would you give Evan Turner a chance to shine?

Vote and explain.

I'm sorry I asked you basketball questions. BAM.

1) What's better for you: beard, or clean shave? 2) You are playing a game of two-on-two. It's you, and _______ (another NBA player), against Matt Harpring and Mehmet Okur. Who is your teammate? 3) I'm selling OTR, and you don't seem to be interested. Who ends up with the site? 4) You're the owner of an NBA team, and you need a coach, general manager, and a scout. What three OTR members get the positions? 5) Name the team that you own (city and team name). 6) On that team, you get ONE superstar, one borderline all-star, and the rest is filled with role players. What two NBA players do you pick up as your superstar and borderline all-star? 7) Rate your basketball skills on a scale of 1-10. 8) What NBA player would you compare your style of play to? 9) What is your dream car? 10) Dream girl? 11) I'm making everyone change their display names. What do you change yours to? 12) Everyone must have team reps. What team do you rep? 13) If you had a pet anteater, what clever name would you give it? 14) What's the most unique display name you've seen on the site? 15) If 50 OTR members were posting once a day for the first month, twice a day for the second month, three times a day for the third, and they continued to increase their daily post count averages by one each month...how many posts would we have in a year's time?

Given that LeBron and Wade aren't that great playing off the ball, and Kobe and Shaq won three rings working together, and Nash needs the ball more than Kidd does, it's the first team for me. Plus, let's face the facts: if LeBron and Wade aren't able to get to the rim, they are done. With Kobe and Kidd defending the perimeter, and Shaq's 356-pound big ass in the paint, the game is over.

Ha, no kidding. I've had an ex slap me in the face, then punch me a couple of times in the chest before I caught her fist/wrist. I seriously wished she was a dude at that split second...she just tugged away and walked off like a bad ass, and her two annoying friends acted like she just conquered the world.

I'm sitting here wondering how the hell OTR is going to make it, lol. Getting through the summer is usually bad enough.

One last bump. Judgment Day for many personal messages will happen on Sunday.

Changed the top navigation and the team rep just now (you'll have to refresh the browser), but it's going to be too difficult to fit the logo in the background of the banner without cutting off either the basketball OR the DC text...which sucks.

Ah...could be difficult to make that work in the banner (as you were saying). Do you actually like that one better?

That reminds me, I need to change the team rep, and the top navigation logo. But, the logo isn't outdated...it's the red and blue version.

Vote, then explain your pick.

C - Roy Hibbert PF - Tyler Hansbrough SF - Danny Granger, Brandon Rush, James Posey SG - Paul George, Dahntay Jones, Lance Stephenson PG - Darren Collison, George Hill, AJ Price Of course, the Pacers are going to look for backup bigs, or they will try and bring back McRoberts, Foster, and Jones...but, with what they have today, how close are the Pacers from being that 50+ win East team that can give a top three seed a run for their money in a seven-game series? What pieces do they need, other than backup big men? Can they get there with Granger as their franchise player, or will he need to take a backseat to a guy the Pacers need to bring in?

Kevin Garnett (one year, $21.2 million) Ray Allen (one year, $10 million) Paul Pierce (three years, $48 million) It could be less likely that the Celtics will be able to work out a trade for Paul Pierce, given the fact that KG and Allen's deals are expiring contracts, but if you were Boston, would you start looking at, and strongly considering, offers that would bring you younger and/or cheaper talent?

You're the new Memphis Grizzlies General Manager...what would you do? Explain your answers after you vote.

FINALLY...all of the team forums are done. Time for me to get some sleep. Sorry for the long wait. It's been a rough year so far. There are a few minor things I'm seeing that I need to go in and edit (gaps near the bottom, or small border colors that nobody will notice, for example), and once there are better images to add to the banners for some of these players (such as Kemba Walker), I'll get to that. Anyone have a favorite forum design? The Cavs and Warriors' colors look really good together, IMO.

Well, if you don't want to bother trying to figure it out using your computer, you'll have to go the more expensive route. CLICK ME That's probably not the cheapest one, but that's what you'll need. I'm using my iPhone to look it up, so I went ahead and gave you the first search result. I'm sure there are better/cheaper ones out there.

There are the rules, and the topic closes July 6th. GO.

Posting in here just so you can look and see the new Cavs forum. Can't remember the last time I had two rookies on a team banner. :o

Wow man, that's pathetic.

If there are links to the games, you can post those. I just have to make sure we don't have actual topics promoting sites that broadcast games.

Well, first off, that's 50 consecutive wins, which would set a record...so that, alone, would be historical.

There are othersssss.... :o

I think we have the goods to do a redraft, and we can reach back into previous drafts with it. We can start with the current 2011 Draft, and go back as far as possible. Instead of assigning picks to members, we're going to make the selections ourselves, in polls. We've done it before, but interest was lost because we were also busy with a sim league. With the NFL lockout in place, and the NBA lockout evident, I think we can make this work. What do you guys think?