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Superbone wrote:

Big Jake Little Jake wrote: We need a Chris Bosh type. A big who is quick, can pick and pop AND pick and roll, decent post game, decent rebounder...who best fits that mold?

Kevin Love!

Big Jake Little Jake wrote:Monroe's overrated. My best buddy watches every Pistons game and even he doesn't even like him.

he's got no motor and seems disinterested in most games.

Big Jake Little Jake wrote:

Superbone wrote:

Big Jake Little Jake wrote: We need a Chris Bosh type. A big who is quick, can pick and pop AND pick and roll, decent post game, decent rebounder...who best fits that mold?

Kevin Love!

Yeah, I was afraid someone would say that! He really is perfect for this team. Imagine his outlet passes to Dragic in the open floor...

Not sure how good his defense really is, but who cares. We just team him with a strong post defensive Center (Len in a couple years?) and blow everyone out.

There's gotta be someone else out there who fits that mold and is being under utilized.

INFORMER wrote:

Big Jake Little Jake wrote:Monroe's overrated. My best buddy watches every Pistons game and even he doesn't even like him.

And I know a Suns fan that watches every and who hates PJ Tucker.

Memphis Grizzlies guard Nick Calathes will be suspended 20 games for testing positive for a banned substance and violating NBA's anti-drug policy, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

The banned substance – Tamoxifen – was part of an athletic supplement that Calathes had been using, sources said.

NBA lab results found no traces of synthetic testosterone or performance-enhancing drugs, and, as one source told Yahoo Sports, "There was no intent, nor advantage gained here."

INFORMER wrote:

Memphis Grizzlies guard Nick Calathes will be suspended 20 games for testing positive for a banned substance and violating NBA's anti-drug policy, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

The banned substance – Tamoxifen – was part of an athletic supplement that Calathes had been using, sources said.

NBA lab results found no traces of synthetic testosterone or performance-enhancing drugs, and, as one source told Yahoo Sports, "There was no intent, nor advantage gained here."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/grizzlies- ... 39105.html

NEW YORK -- Armed with majority support from owners and saying "we're ready to go," NBA commissioner Adam Silver made it clear that pushing back the league's age minimum to 20 is at the top of his priority list.

The league's owners hosted NCAA president Mark Emmert to discuss the issue as part of their annual two-day spring meeting this week. Any changes wouldn't be in place by next season because the league is waiting for the players' association to name an executive director before formally starting negotiations. But it's clear there's a growing momentum to force this occasionally divisive issue through soon, possibly in time for the 2016 draft.

Silver said owners discussed possible changes to the draft lottery and the current playoff system. There has been a growing sense of a need to change the way draft position is established to discourage teams from attempting to lose games to enhance draft or playoff spots.

Owners presented a number of options, including changing the odds, the so-called "wheel" that would rotate the No. 1 pick to all 30 teams over 30 years and a play-in tournament to determine draft order. But Silver said there was no consensus on which direction to take and that it will be studied by the league's competition committee at its annual summit over the summer. The owners did not discuss a timetable for potential changes.

NBA president Rod Thorn presented playoff seeding options and the idea of abolishing conferences when it comes to picking the 16 playoff teams. In 11 of the past 14 seasons, the ninth-best team in the Western Conference would've been a playoff team in the Eastern Conference. Silver has hinted recently he'd consider removing conference designations but said this was also headed to the competition committee for study.

Silver said owners discussed possible changes to the draft lottery and the current playoff system. There has been a growing sense of a need to change the way draft position is established to discourage teams from attempting to lose games to enhance draft or playoff spots.

Owners presented a number of options, including changing the odds, the so-called "wheel" that would rotate the No. 1 pick to all 30 teams over 30 years and a play-in tournament to determine draft order. But Silver said there was no consensus on which direction to take and that it will be studied by the league's competition committee at its annual summit over the summer. The owners did not discuss a timetable for potential changes.

INFORMER wrote:

Big Jake Little Jake wrote:Monroe's overrated. My best buddy watches every Pistons game and even he doesn't even like him.

And I know a Suns fan that watches every and who hates PJ Tucker.

INFORMER wrote:he's got no motor and seems disinterested in most games.

SDC wrote:

Silver said owners discussed possible changes to the draft lottery and the current playoff system. There has been a growing sense of a need to change the way draft position is established to discourage teams from attempting to lose games to enhance draft or playoff spots.

Big Jake Little Jake wrote: Yeah, he's as good a rebounder as Tristan Thompson and JJ Hickson.

Gortat has slightly better rebounding numbers than him and I would never say Gortat was a great rebounder. Sometimes all you have to do is be big and play 32 minutes a game.