LOL the dunk contest is getting destroyed on Twitter. Same with the 3pt contest. I guess the highlight today was Bazingaz winning the skills. And I was so excited.
I missed the first part. The 3 point contest wasn't as good as last year, but it was fine. The dunk contest was awful. With the exception of the drone (fail) there was no creativity. Shame.
Last years dunk contest was awesome. Prior to that it was pretty lackluster for some years. Dwight Howard, Nate Rob (despite his 4,000 attempts) and Blake Griffin did some unique stuff. This year was awful. The skills competition was better than the dunk and 3 point contest this year. They need to get back to getting high profile players involved. It's a travesty that LeBron never did it. Derrick Jones can throw down but was anyone really excited to see a D-leaguer in there? Russ Westbrook, John Wall, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Devon Booker for example would've been a sweet roster. Giannis better do it at some point.
One week ago, Buddy Hield grabbed Cousins' crotch and got ejected. Now he's traded for him. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...arcus-cousins-groin-ejected-article-1.2970914
Has this trade been confirmed? I have only heard sources say the Kings are thinking the deal over. Confirmed: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ee-deal-demarcus-cousins-new-orleans-pelicans If he doesn't resign with New Orleans, they just screwed their future.
It's going to be interesting. They're only a couple games back of the 8 seed in the West. Has there ever been a combination of big men as talented as these two? Pau & Bynum to a lesser extent although Bynum never really tapped into his potential. I can't really think of any two 7-footers averaging 27 points per game playing together. Do they clog it up for each other? I mean they can both shoot from some distance (Cousins 35% from 3, Davis 30% & good mid range games). This is going to be extremely interesting.
They are still lacking guard help though. They're lacking help everywhere else besides those 2 actually.
Steph Curry, D-Rose, their own Jrue Holiday, Jeff Teague, and George Hill are the top point guards available this upcoming offseason if I'm reading the years right. CP3 with these two would be sweet. Edit: CP3 and Lowry are free agents the following offseason.
Jrue would be good on the knicks. I think the trade could flop for pelicans...Remember the hyped Zach Randolph and Eddy Curry duo lol. But it may be a tough situation. Boogie has to stop shooting 3's
There have been a number of notable pairings of elite big men. Aside from Duncan and Robinson, there was Hakeem and Sampson on the Rockets, Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld on the Bullets, and Dan Issell and Artis Gilmore on the Kentucky Colonels.
Cousins is a disaster; any team that thinks he can keep it together mentally to turn a team into a winner is desperate, blind or both. The Kings just saved themselves 5 years of regret.
They actually changed the rules so Rasheed's single season record of 41 is basically unbreakable. The accumulation now resulting in suspensions should be called the Rasheed Rule.
