BigDaddyG wrote:

NYKMentality wrote:LeBron = out two months.

Lakers have 0% chance at making the playoffs without LeBron.

Knicks vs. Milwaukee.
Brooklyn @ Orlando.
Cavs vs. Wizards.
Celtics vs. Raptors.
Bulls vs. Mavs.
Charlotte @ Memphis.
Indiana @ Denver.
Miami @ Los Angeles Lakers.

All I care about is an NY win but tonight has a lot of the big guns from the East playing.

I wouldn't say that. I think Westbrook, if he gets it together, and AD are good for the play-in, at the very least.

Agreed. LeQ taking what amounts to a long Thanksgiving/Christmas break isn't exactly a death knell to the "Fakers".

Clean wrote:

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I really wish we went for Lonzo like I wanted in the offseason. He would have probably costed us Kemba and Burks but he would have been worth it and it was obvious he was on the verge of breaking out. I don't know how the Pelicans GM totally did not see this coming. Lonzo was pretty good last year before he got injured.

The problem with Lonzo is that he still doesn't create in half court or penetrate. The offense would be looking at many of the same issues.

As the New Orleans Pelicans remain mired in one of the poorest starts to this NBA season, league-wide speculation has only increased about the job security of executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin.

The rumblings began following the Pelicans' 0-3 start (currently a league-worst 1-11 after Wednesday’s loss to OKC), coupled with Griffin's public handling of All-Star forward Zion Williamson's prolonged recovery from offseason foot surgery. New Orleans brass certainly hoped Griffin's tenure would finally lead to a playoff berth, despite its tenuous two years building around Williamson.

Word of a heated exchange between the chief executive and Sacramento Kings associate head coach Alvin Gentry has since circled around the league.

Griffin and Gentry first connected during a shared tenure in Phoenix in the Steve Nash era. Later, as the Pelicans head coach from 2015 to 2020, Gentry played an integral role in helping Griffin land New Orleans' head of basketball operations position in 2019, only for the executive to fire Gentry following just one season.

While New Orleans projected optimism about competing for a postseason berth during the Orlando bubble, Gentry and a large portion of Pelicans staffers were already prepared for the coach's ouster, sources said, as Griffin was widely known to covet Ty Lue, who was the head coach in Cleveland when Griffin served as the general manager for LeBron James' 2016 championship team. Griffin would often tell team and other league officials that he'd given Gentry "all the answers to the test, and he still fails," sources confirmed to B/R.

That expression was first reported in a September article from NOLA.com, which served as the catalyst for Griffin and Gentry's exchange in New Orleans, sources told B/R. After the Kings defeated the Pelicans 113-109 on Oct. 29, Griffin approached Gentry in the bowels of Smoothie King Center to offer a warm hello to his former head coach, yet Gentry brushed off his initial efforts as inauthentic.

From there, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the incident, Griffin denied the findings of the NOLA.com article, particularly his "answers to the test" line, and the notion that he played piano for Williamson during the team's bubble stay in Disney World.

Gentry responded with his own choice words, noting how his eventual replacement, Stan Van Gundy, who was also fired after one season in New Orleans, finished just one game better (31-41) than the Pelicans did under Gentry (30-42) the year he was let go. "You must not have given Stan the answers to the test, either," Gentry shouted at Griffin, according to multiple sources, and the two men had to be separated.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2950333-after-ugly-exchange-with-ex-coach-pels-exec-david-griffins-job-is-on-the-brink

Ha, so bad it's comical- so glad we didn't hire this fool (though didn't he turn us down because he said he wouldn't be given full control by Mills or something?). He sounds like he was born to be a pre-Rose Knicks GM

Clean wrote:

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I really wish we went for Lonzo like I wanted in the offseason. He would have probably costed us Kemba and Burks but he would have been worth it and it was obvious he was on the verge of breaking out. I don't know how the Pelicans GM totally did not see this coming. Lonzo was pretty good last year before he got injured.

I never thought we would try to speed things up this year. I was really torn between Lonzo, Graham and Sexton. Now that we are trying to run, not signing Lonzo was downright criminal

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Guess they need Elf

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martin wrote:

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Wow alarming stuff from a lot of teams

Clean wrote:

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Without having to worry about foul baiting people are actually Ding up Harden now.

These new changes have be great for the game. I am so glad they have recognized the problem and these measures that they have implemented work wonders for Thibs , theoretically. If we had that last year we would be a lot closer with Atlanta.

Clean wrote:

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Without having to worry about foul baiting people are actually Ding up Harden now.

Lmfao