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Let's see how we play with Shard, Blatche, and McGee all starting. Hopefully John has a good game.

Wednesday, December 29th LA Lakers @ New Orleans Winner: Lakers Leading scorer: Kobe Thursday, December 30th New York @ Orlando (TNT) Winner: Magic Leading rebounder: Dwight Howard San Antonio @ Dallas (TNT) Winner: Mavericks Leading passer: Tony Parker Friday, December 31st Toronto @ Houston Winner: Rockets Player with the most threes made: Kevin Martin Atlanta @ Oklahoma City Winner: Thunder Leading scorer: Durant Saturday, January 1st Golden State @ Miami Winner: Miami Leading scorer: Dwyane Wade Sacramento @ Denver Winner: Nuggets Player with the most free throws attempted: Chauncey Billups

http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2010/12/lakers-devin-ebanks-heads-to-d-league.html

Completely agree with you here, but it's hard to get back to your prime, a lot of musicians want to try out new things. Nas did the same with Distant Relatives, as did Kanye with 808's. That's why you see a lot of rappers at the top of their game when they first start out. I wouldn't say that's always the case, but just look at guys like Kanye and Nas who had great debut albums. Hell, even a guy like Kid Cudi's best work came with his first ever mixtape (at least in my opinion).

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/LeBron-didn-t-mean-contraction-when-talking-ab?urn=nba-300875

But you're using Big L, one of the greatest ever, as a measuring stick for how good Wayne is. Everyone is so divided about him. People either think he is the best rapper alive or no talent clown who is ruining hip hop. Carter III was either a classic album or a weed plate. I feel I am someone who is in the middle of the discussion. Carter III was disappointing and Lil Wayne is far from being the best rapper alive. But on the other hand he is a talented rapper, who is entertaining and who I feel loves music. While Carter III was disappointing it was still a very good album and Carter 1 and 2 were good albums as well. He is a good rapper who I would rate ahead of a guy like T.I but is still over hyped if that makes sense. Thing about this guy is the fact he has really good high's and really really bad lows. Like the whole rock album thing. Basically at a point in his career where he'll do anything to be at the top. Even if it means selling his soul.

But...there's no point in bringing up Big L at all.. We all know how great he is, there aren't many rappers out there (or ever) that are as good as him. It seems like you are comparing him to Weezy, and I don't understand why.

Yeah the Wayne hate is pretty ridiculous. I love his work from Carter II and some of his older stuff.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6moxtdaWM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHEjqIsUMY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEtmfQCxbY I don't like some of his recent stuff, but you gotta respect what he did earlier in his career.

Got this off of the Bulls forum over at RealGM: http://www.rumorpress.net/ Not sure how reliable the link is, but it would be great if they managed to get OJ. I think he's a better fit than Stephen Jackson simply because he can come in and make an impact right away and would be a long term solution for them at SG.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-yaorockets122710

Well, we managed to play hard, but the Spurs are just too good for us. John Wall isn't ready to play IMO, he's trying to shake the rust off, but he didn't look as explosive out there. Nick Young was getting harassed by the Spurs D, he didn't get many good looks at the basket. The good news is that Shard actually had a good game.

Wall to play limited minutes tonight. Finally!

Colts offense looked great on that last drive, their run game is looking good as of late. 150 rush yards in consecutive games.

MJD not playing, hopefully we still lose..

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_magic/2010/12/big-baby-magic-cant-beat-us-in-playoffs.html Fully agree with him here, considering how poorly Dwight played yesterday without Perkins, I don't see this Magic team beating the C's in the playoffs. Boston had a total of 15 assists yesterday compared to their league leading 25APG, you gotta believe Rondo would make a huge impact against Orlando.

I love My Player mode the most, it's pretty challenging. Association mode is pretty hard too, I'm playing on Superstar right now with the Wizards and I'm 0-2 so far..

Dirk Nowitzki: 24.5PPG, 7.6RPG, 2.4APG, 54%FG Amare Stoudemire: 26.4PPG, 9.3RPG, 2.1BPG, 52%FG Who's better right now?

Idk if this has been asked before, but what's your guys' favorite mode on 2k11?

^^Agreed. Our best bet is to go after expirings and draft picks, I don't think we can get talent for talent back in a deal for Dray. With a good crop of forwards in the upcoming draft (whether they actually enter the draft due to the lockout remains to be seen, but we should bank on them doing just that), we should just go after a PF then. I know most of us have our eyes set on another Kentucky freshmen sensation, Terrence Jones, he is a SF, a position that we don't need to focus on entirely. I think we have a good shot at getting a top 5 pick this year since we're the third worst team in the league. With that being said, if we're able to move Blatche out of here, and draft a guy like Sullinger or Perry Jones, we'll be in a GREAT position moving forward. Hopefully Ernie finds a buyer... There are not many options out there though. We could potentially send him to Cleveland, and get Hickson in return (he's currently discontent with him being a role player on that team, and they are searching for viable trade scenarios involving him). While that's a major downgrade in talent, we could try to get one of their draft picks (possibly the Miami 2012 first). What about the Pistons? We could try to trade for Tayshaun's 11 mill expiring deal, although I'm sure there are some contending teams out there trying to get him as well. Idk, again I'm just throwing out random ideas here, one can only hope Ernie gets a deal done before February. I'd love to see guys like Booker, Seraphin, and Yi get as much PT as possible.

Just wanted to post the news here: Good job Ernie.

Let's all remind ourselves that we're in December, 30 games into the season..

Game has settled down, Boston is finally executing on offense. 12-0 run.

Well I hope you decide to post more, I feel so lonely here.. -_- I'd look into trading him for another forward. Bobcats are trying to trade Gerald Wallace, maybe we could put together an enticing offer for them? Blatche and Thornton or Hinrich? I'm just throwing out random ideas here, but it is realistic. Or maybe we can make a deal that sends Carl Landry to DC and Dray to Sacramento? Either way, I'm really hoping we make a trade before the deadline.

Where the hell have you been?!!?! I remember during the offseason I kept telling you he will have a good year for us and he should become mature, but it looks like you were right. He's been terrible this season, I don't care what his stats look like (won't bother looking it up either). We got rid of Arenas, and now we have another headcase on our hands. We need to get rid of all the immature, selffish chuckers, I'm getting so tired of seeing Kirk bring the ball up, pass it to Blatche at the three point line, and watch him try to cross his defender up. The end result more than likely is a brick or a turnover. What's worse is during the Chicago game he continued to shoot poorly and make mistakes. He didn't try rectifying his errors, he didn't stop putting up shots, and he continued to stop the flow of the offense. It was just a miserable game for him. We need to ship him out while we can. EDIT: Check this out: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/wizardsinsider/2010/12/andray-blatche-javale-mcgee-re.html#comments Wow... And then there's the good news: http://twitter.com/#!/STEIN_LINE_HQ/status/18498269705412608

Don't see Arenas having a good game here, I think the Celtics D will give him a ton of problems. Dwight should have a good game, he's been a beast lately. Celtics should end up on top, 94-80.