Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is finalizing a deal to become the new president of basketball operations of the New Orleans Pelicans, sources tell ESPN. Dumars was president of the Pistons from 2000-14, building the 2004 Detroit championship team. Now returns home to Louisiana.
In related news, New Orleans plans on offering max money this summer to Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva.
Wow they actually downgraded lol.
Dumars is the Byron Scott of GMs. A relic in the modern era. Get ready for the Pels to play "old school" basketball while other teams run circles around them for the 50th time.
Then again I can't think of a more deserving organization. Their fans are legitimately garbage. _________________ Yi Jianlian Fanboy. Respect The Chair.
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i'm hoping for a close game tonight between GS and Memphis. even if GS win, i want their stars to play heavy minutes, and then get rolled by Houston's young team.
Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:13 pm Post subject:
Lakersfan1211 wrote:
Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
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Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
easy series for Boston. East is so pathetic, every preseason they all hyping up how much improved east will be, but by playoff times, same top heavy conference. why is that actually? this is not just in recent years. ever since the Bulls run in the 90s, west has been the much more competitive conference. it's been like this for 25+ years now.
Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
easy series for Boston. East is so pathetic, every preseason they all hyping up how much improved east will be, but by playoff times, same top heavy conference. why is that actually? this is not just in recent years. ever since the Bulls run in the 90s, west has been the much more competitive conference. it's been like this for 25+ years now.
It's cyclical. The Showtime Lakers went to 8 straight WCF (and 10 out of 12, winning 9), while the Celtics, Sixers, Pistons and Bulls beat the hell out of each other in the East every playoffs. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:35 pm Post subject:
27 wrote:
what are the chances clippers get by the nuggets?
I think nuggets take it in 5 or 6 but cilppers have a punchers chance if they can steal a game in denver
If Kawhi is healthy. Clippers win that series. Denver doesn't have the floor spacing they did in past playoffs. _________________ When the world grows. Grow with it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:39 pm Post subject:
kikanga wrote:
27 wrote:
what are the chances clippers get by the nuggets?
I think nuggets take it in 5 or 6 but cilppers have a punchers chance if they can steal a game in denver
If Kawhi is healthy. Clippers win that series. Denver doesn't have the floor spacing they did in past playoffs.
Thats the big IF that I am assuming will not break in the favor of the clippers. That and Harden playing as good/better than he did in the regular season
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:46 pm Post subject:
Dr. Laker wrote:
SGV-Laker fan wrote:
Lakersfan1211 wrote:
Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
easy series for Boston. East is so pathetic, every preseason they all hyping up how much improved east will be, but by playoff times, same top heavy conference. why is that actually? this is not just in recent years. ever since the Bulls run in the 90s, west has been the much more competitive conference. it's been like this for 25+ years now.
It's cyclical. The Showtime Lakers went to 8 straight WCF (and 10 out of 12, winning 9), while the Celtics, Sixers, Pistons and Bulls beat the hell out of each other in the East every playoffs.
Free Agency combined with conferences. The West may be better, but it has basically the same odds in the lottery for the top 3 guys. So, the west drafts just as many tier 1 guys and the Free Agent movement favors parts of the West.
There's a chance a 48 win team could have pingpong balls for Cooper this year.
Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
easy series for Boston. East is so pathetic, every preseason they all hyping up how much improved east will be, but by playoff times, same top heavy conference. why is that actually? this is not just in recent years. ever since the Bulls run in the 90s, west has been the much more competitive conference. it's been like this for 25+ years now.
It's cyclical. The Showtime Lakers went to 8 straight WCF (and 10 out of 12, winning 9), while the Celtics, Sixers, Pistons and Bulls beat the hell out of each other in the East every playoffs.
Free Agency combined with conferences. The West may be better, but it has basically the same odds in the lottery for the top 3 guys. So, the west drafts just as many tier 1 guys and the Free Agent movement favors parts of the West.
There's a chance a 48 win team could have pingpong balls for Cooper this year.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:12 pm Post subject:
27 wrote:
kikanga wrote:
27 wrote:
what are the chances clippers get by the nuggets?
I think nuggets take it in 5 or 6 but cilppers have a punchers chance if they can steal a game in denver
If Kawhi is healthy. Clippers win that series. Denver doesn't have the floor spacing they did in past playoffs.
Thats the big IF that I am assuming will not break in the favor of the clippers. That and Harden playing as good/better than he did in the regular season
Kawhi has been playing 40+ minutes in recent games.
Sure, the Clippers are gonna choke. And Harden is gonna choke.
But I think they can make it out of the 1st round. _________________ When the world grows. Grow with it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:18 pm Post subject:
kikanga wrote:
27 wrote:
kikanga wrote:
27 wrote:
what are the chances clippers get by the nuggets?
I think nuggets take it in 5 or 6 but cilppers have a punchers chance if they can steal a game in denver
If Kawhi is healthy. Clippers win that series. Denver doesn't have the floor spacing they did in past playoffs.
Thats the big IF that I am assuming will not break in the favor of the clippers. That and Harden playing as good/better than he did in the regular season
Kawhi has been playing 40+ minutes in recent games.
Sure, the Clippers are gonna choke. And Harden is gonna choke.
But I think they can make it out of the 1st round.
all good points and I agree if Kawhi can keep it up, they may get out. I actually hope we see them in the Western Conference finals.
Sucks that Jalen Suggs is out for season, hope Paolo and Franz Wagner have a series against BOS when they're through with ATL. ATL has no chance with BOS.
easy series for Boston. East is so pathetic, every preseason they all hyping up how much improved east will be, but by playoff times, same top heavy conference. why is that actually? this is not just in recent years. ever since the Bulls run in the 90s, west has been the much more competitive conference. it's been like this for 25+ years now.
It's cyclical. The Showtime Lakers went to 8 straight WCF (and 10 out of 12, winning 9), while the Celtics, Sixers, Pistons and Bulls beat the hell out of each other in the East every playoffs.
That's true but outside of the aberration that was MJ's Bulls, the West has been dominant for the better part of 35 years. 90s Suns, Sonics, Jazz, Spurs were all regularly 60 win teams with others like Portland and Lakers elite in some years (end of 90s for the Lakers). That's not even counting Houston who dind't rack up the regular season wins but went back to back. By the times the Bulls ascended to their first championship, Sixers/Pistons/Celtics were finished. They were completely irrelevant by the early 90s. Bulls contended with at most the Knicks, the Heat and briefly Orlando before Shaq came here. None of those teams held a lick to the 90s elite WC teams I mentioned. _________________ KOBE
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Magic vs. Hawks, Warriors vs Grizzlies. I like the Dubs over the Grizz. I hope Curry's finger doesn't mess with his shot. I like the Hawks over the Magic. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
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How good do you all project Banchero and Wagner to be?
Better than TMac and Mike Miller had Orlando kept them together like McGrady wanted. TMac had said before he asked the front office to keep them together and start Miller, but they traded him for Goodwin and Giriceik because players don’t make personnel decisions 🤣
Trae Young is definitely gone from Atlanta this summer
It will be interesting to see which teams will be opening their wallets for him. Overpaying for the wrong franchise player is a common mistake. But I wouldn't have thought the Cavs would be doing so well with Mitchell either. I would hope TY isn't the type the Lakers would be going after, not that it's something to worry about anymore. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:00 pm Post subject:
CandyCanes wrote:
How good do you all project Banchero and Wagner to be?
All time great Laker killers. LOL! Especially Wagner. _________________ "The game is MORE than just one player. Without Luka, DFS would have been more than enough to replace him based on what we've seen," LakersFever714, the greatest casual of all time.
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