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Good ol' ignore function working perfectly well: http://i.imgur.com/kTlJM.png Love this feature.

Tradition.... http://i.imgur.com/k7CIv.png ..that goes back a long time. Happy 34th Birthday, Kobe!!! P.S. I'll never forget how ALCS beat me by 2 mins to make the topic back in 2006... Good old times.

Sick! BTW, I love the 'then & now' / 'through the years' idea (Kobe, LeBron)!! That's gotta be the most good-looking series of banners in OTR/DH history!

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LMAO!!! Funniest thing I've heard in a while... Thanks for the good joke! :bigup:

READ TO ACHIEVE!! http://i.imgur.com/jU7GN.jpg

Already posted -- yesterday: http://www.discusshoops.com/forums/topic/29913-billups-rehab-going-well/

Yeah, I did try that a few times.... color > B&W, though.

I thought of that too but something tells me it won't work. So I'ma Jet Li their asses instead!

In no order (top of mind): Michael Jordan Earvin 'Magic' Johnson Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Wilt Chamberlain Hakeem Olajuwon Isiah Thomas David Robinson Reggie Miller Kobe Bryant LeBron James Sħãlïq's Note: Great Thread! Gave you a well-deserved +1 (I must've raised your Rep count by 20 over the last few days, B.. ).

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Greek Team Panathinaikos Reportedly Interested in Ben Wallace http://i.imgur.com/O1dT8.png A team in Greece is apparently interested in possibly signing Detroit Pistons center Ben Wallace. According to a story on the website gazzetta.gr, Panathinaikos Basketball Club has shown interest in Wallace, an unrestricted free agent who has yet to announce his intentions for next season. Wallace originally said last season that he planned on retiring but he never closed the door on a return to the Pistons, for whom he has played nine of his 16 NBA seasons. We won't even try and quote the story out of Greece since it's a bit difficult to understand even after being translated. But you can read it for yourself and see what's being said about Wallace. It seems unlikely Wallace would be interested in continuing his career overseas since he turns 38 in less than a month and might be unwilling to either relocate his family or leave them behind in the United States at this point in his life. But stranger things have happened. The story out of Greece details Wallace's career and touches on the Pistons 2004 NBA Championship, the infamous Malice at The Palace brawl with the Indiana Pacers and his arrest last year for drunken driving and carrying a concealed weapon. http://www.mlive.com/pistons/index.ssf/2012/08/greek_team_reportedly_interest.html

To prepare for his new role with the Boston Celtics, swingman Jason Terry has been studying tape of ex-Celtic Ray Allen. Terry and Allen’s respective games are similar, and Terry, just like Allen, will presumably be called on for a perimeter touch and clutch shooting in crunch time. Via ESPN.com: “‘I have been watching film and watching Ray Allen, the way he maneuvers and works off screens. I believe in [Celtics head coach] Doc [Rivers]‘ system. He’ll have me do some of those things, so curling the three, that’s a tough shot, it’s off balance. And that’s just one that I will add.’ The comparisons probably won’t end there, if Terry ends up delivering in the fourth quarter the way both he and Allen are accustomed to doing. Before the question of late-game heroics could even be completed, Terry was already saying, ‘My time, my time.’ He eventually elaborated on how he’s been able to thrive in the clutch moments in seasons past. ‘That’s my time of the game. Obviously your team is counting on you, your fans are counting on you to bring home that victory, whether it’s an assist to win it, whether it’s a shot to seal the game, or a free throw to win the game, it’s what I do,’ Terry explained. ‘That’s my time. And the reason why I’m confident in those situations is because of the work I put in. It’s like repetition for me. It’s second nature.’” Link

M. Prokhorov Calls James Dolan ‘That Little Man’ There’s a big feature about the Nets moving to Brooklyn and the whole mess that’s accompanying them up on NYmag.com this morning, but here’s a solid nugget: Nets owner/Russian multi-billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov refers to Knicks owner/American multimillionaire as “that little man,” which is some quality owner-to-owner trash talk. Here’s some more info on the total rebrand of the Nets organization: “The Nets are trying to make you forget they ever were in New Jersey. Everything about the team now screams premium. The centerpiece is Jay-Z, who has been intimately involved in glitzing up the operation, from polishing the logo to redesigning the uniforms to choosing which forks are used in the private suites. The Nets are rebranding with Jay-Z class. They are more about the ambience than the food. (Though—and Ratner wants to make sure you know this—they are bringing in all sorts of Brooklyn cuisine to the concessions.) In addition to the Vault, there’s also the Legends Lounge on the Main Concourse and the signature Barclays Center feature, the ‘Loft Suites.’ These are private boxes like any other private box at an arena, but with fewer seats (ten), thus making it (theoretically) more affordable for smaller businesses. (By ‘theoretically,’ I mean ‘$275,000 for the season.’) The loft-suite licenses also provide ‘use of the suite on nonevent dates.’ The team says over 80 percent of its corporate boxes have been sold already. The one corporate box that’s off-limits? The ‘Prokhorov Suite,’ sitting at the center bowl of the arena, larger than any other private box and reserved for the mercurial Russian owner. (Prokhorov told me back in December that he plans on attending a quarter of the regular-season games and ‘all the playoff ones.’ He also made sure that I heard him call Dolan ‘that little man'.) The Nets frequently note that a minimum of 2,000 seats a game will cost $15 or less, at least for the first season. Still, it’s clear that the Nets did not move to Brooklyn to be Pepsi to Jim Dolan’s Coke: They want to be Veuve Clicquot.” Source

Ron Harper:" if I’m goin’ into the Hall of Fame, I’m goin’ in as a Los Angeles Clipper." http://www.slamonline.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/harper_2-634x439.jpg "SLAM: I guess being a Laker from ’99-on was a long ways from being a Clipper in ’89. Ron Harper: That’s for sure. It’s definitely a long way, but I tell folks any time, if I’m goin’ into the Hall of Fame, I’m goin’ in as a Los Angeles Clipper. SLAM: Really? I thought associating L.A. with where you got hurt… RH: That’s OK. That’s part of the game. But they gave me a chance to prove to people that I could carry a whole team. I carried a team that wasn’t shit. [Laughs] A team that had Charles Smith, Ken Norman, Benoit Benjamin, Gary Grant and half a year with Danny Manning, and we could do work with any team in the League. I’m not tradin’ my red, white and blue for nobody. I love the Chicago Bulls, I love Phil, but my Los Angeles days? I love the Clippers. http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2012/07/no-regrets-ron-harper/

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Dumb move. Why did they reject him...?

GloomilyEbbing and EbbilyGloomed both PMed me. They wanted to post something in that thread in response to:

Why was kingfish's HOF topic locked? http://www.discusshoops.com/forums/topic/30848-hall-of-famers-that-would-be-role-players-in-todays-game/