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It has nothing to do with actually making them. I'm already going to make 90+ banners for the team forums. It's more about deciding on who to put on there, how many more banners we'll need, and me having to have another 3-4 skins to cache, along with the 31 already needed. It's the main reason why I dropped the writers' customized forums from a long time ago. Great idea, but we have to think about our server, and re-caching that many skins at once puts a huge load on the server, especially when we're sharing it. If I had $200 a month, we'd go dedicated, but we don't have that kind of activity to start blowing money on one.

magicmoment and Ron Artest, just decided to show up at her house, haha http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs187.snc1/6260_158209708664_784693664_3306424_8295888_n.jpg Her sister and Ron http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs167.snc1/6250_1044278605654_1786315019_98336_7751306_n.jpg More family http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs167.snc1/6260_158209703664_784693664_3306423_324089_n.jpg Ron Artest is the MAN. I've never seen an NBA player interact with all of his fans like that, not this much. He talks to us on Twitter, jumps into video chats with us, and hell...he comes to your house.

If any other forum is getting personalized banners (other than the main index and the team forums), it'll be the other sports. There are too many artists to pick from, and if I do that, I might as well make the movies forum one also, and games...and there's just no point in doing that.

It was ridiculous to see people mourning Chris Benoit's death...and quite disgusting, to say the least. And I'm sure people felt the same about Michael Jackson (although I didn't). I'm assuming you're talking about Ted fleeing the scene during his accident.

He should've wanted to in the Finals, then, when Hakeem had his way with him. Are you telling me that Shaq didn't want to win a championship? He is a decent defender. Howard is an exceptional defender. Shaq is a dominant offensive player, and Howard has no post moves and lacks a hook or the ability to pass the ball like O'Neal.

Howard is the better rebounder, defender and shot-blocker. It's not even up for debate. But Shaq was better at everything else, and about five times better than Dwight on offense. I watched Shaq since 1992. He has never defended the pick and roll well, always late getting to the rim to contest guard penetrations, and couldn't hold anyone one-on-one (and you saw this many times, especially with guys like Hakeem and Alonzo). Dwight is twice the defender Shaq was. Shaq is five times the offensive player Dwight is. It's really that simple.

If someone is personally attacking you, that doesn't give you the right to do the same. And it happens frequently between the same people all the time. It's a Philly fan and a Boston fan, football and baseball, sometimes basketball, and it's getting quite annoying. So this is the last time I'm asking both sides to fix it, before I start fixing it...and I'm really not that great at fixing things, just eliminating them, when I don't have the time. Start a new topic if you want to continue the original discussion, since it has already gone to waste.

Iverson was the main reason for the Nuggets creeping into the playoffs in 2008, so I'm not sure where you're going with that. They improved by what...four wins? Because of the Birdman and Nene being healthy? I seriously doubt it had anything to do with the Billups and Iverson deal, especially looking at the production from the two guards and how badly the Nuggets needed another scorer in the playoffs (and before them).

You called me out for what? Please dude. If you'd like, I'll completely tear your argument apart. I've seen more shit (yes, that's what it is) in this baseball forum coming from you and other Philly and Boston fans, than anywhere else on this site. No coincidence that the same worthless trash goes on with the Eagles and Patriots. I don't take too kindly to people that can't control their mouths. You can talk trash on the Boston Red Sox as long as it's in moderation, but you aren't going to go after their fans, just as I don't allow personal attacks anywhere on this board. Yeah, I get the PM and I come in here. I don't pay attention to every single post on this site because I'm too busy working my ass off to allow you to post here for free. We're done talking.

And by the way, there's a difference between trash-talking, and calling other people douche bags. If you don't see that, you don't belong in any discussion.

Or I'll just ban you from the baseball forum and lose one poster. Until you run this site and pay for it, don't tell me what to do with it. I can already tell who the problem is.

The entire baseball forum is going to get deleted, completely (including all topics) if this continues. I don't care if your teams are bitter rivals or not. You guys are going to start respecting each other on the forums, or I will truly remove the baseball forum for every member here, and then I'll be sure to let all of them know why it was removed, and who was involved.

If you feel you deserve to end your life, you don't deserve to live that life in the first place.

Man. I'll take a look at that in a few.

I'll get them back up, don't worry. I have to re-code all of them, not just re-create the banners, so it's going to be a little bit. I'm hoping it'll take me less than a week.

Kobe with big man rebounding, shot-blocking and post abilities? That would suck for the rest of the league. Whoever did that blended the skin well. I've seen it before.

Font is back to 2.3.6 style (the old board). I knew most of you liked it better that way.

Should be fixed now. That's a bug I can't figure out. Every time I change the main skin, the team skins crash. I reported it to Invision.

Hate to break it to ya, but that really is Ron's Twitter. TLN members talk with him on video chat. I went in as a guest once, not believing it, but there it was...and he talks about that using his Twitter account, also.

Yeah, they'll be up there, and probably Stockton and Malone (even though they didn't win, gotta blame Jordan). The theme is duos that have top three all-time players at their positions. Kobe, Shaq, Jordan, Pippen, Kareem, Magic, Stockton, Malone...I'd say all of them are top three at their positions. Pretty crazy, too.

Here's the plan for the team banners: http://www.otrbasketball.com/banners/vince_carter.jpg Why 2010? Because it'll probably be 2010 by the time I get done with these things. Haha, but I don't know...why not? Basketball and football games release early.

Well, the main problem is re-coding the skins. I have to edit all of the colors, and actually re-code the default one (although I'll do that off to the side, then replace it while you guys are sleeping, haha). The banners are tough because of the player cuts...just time-consuming...but the coding SUCKS.

Team sites won't be done for a while. I want to get them finished soon, but we might be talking a full week. Sorry guys. I'm doing what I can.

One more for now.

18.7 PPG in three games. In 2007-08, he averaged 26.4 PPG on 45.8% from the field (that's second to his career high). If it matters, Iverson was without Melo those first two games of the season, and he dropped 25 on the Clippers on 47% shooting (I believe). Melo came back in that third game, against the Lakers, and he shot 5-15 from the floor, while Iverson shot 3-8, I think. So that PPG average is lower than what it should be because when Iverson went up against the Lakers, Melo decided to throw up 10 bricks, and Kobe played defense. Just three games, anyways. It was a system he did pretty good in, and was the leading scorer for Denver the season before that. Plus, Iverson played all 82 games for Denver in 2007-08, so health is not the issue. Detroit was just a bad place to play, especially when there was talk that some young, wreckless point guard was going to send Iverson to the bench.