And here everyone thought Phil Jackson was the problem
Well... he's now there best player. So probably expecting him to be fairly useful.So the Celtics trade Avery Bradley, their only guy who bothered to show up for the ECF and their only legit two-way player, to make cap space. Just how much of a game changer are they expecting Gordon Hayward to be?
So the Celtics trade Avery Bradley, their only guy who bothered to show up for the ECF and their only legit two-way player, to make cap space. Just how much of a game changer are they expecting Gordon Hayward to be?
TheNew York Knickswere en route to their fifth straight loss last week against Brooklyn when a frustratedTim Hardaway Jr.screamed angrily, "Get the rebound!''
Certain his second-year teammate was speaking to him,Carmelo Anthonyapproached Hardaway on the way down the court and used an expletive to ask Hardaway who in the world he thought he was talking to.
Anthony, according to sources, then used another expletive in telling Hardaway he was going to beat him up when they got into the locker room after the game.
While the two players never wound up fighting, the episode was emblematic of the volatile state of the Knicks. Off to their worst start in franchise history at 4-19, the Knicks are a team full of discord, defiance and doubt, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
"Nobody's taken a swing at anybody, but there's a lot of arguing and cursing each other out after games,'' one source said.
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Several Knicks, in addition to Hardaway, are at odds with Anthony and believe he's not playing team basketball. Sources said players voiced their displeasure with Anthony this past weekend, telling him he shoots too much, doesn't move or pass the ball, and only plays defense when he feels like it.
Sources said the most tension exists between Anthony and Hardaway as they haven't cared for one another almost since Hardaway joined the team last season, with each player believing the other shoots too much and doesn't care about defense. Sources said Hardaway was also bothered by the favorable treatment Anthony received under last year's coach, Mike Woodson.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...eams-better-eastern-conference-tom-haberstrohAnd as a Celtics fan, do you think that Hayward is the big missing piece that all the media seems to be presenting him as? It puzzles me that nobody ever talked about this guy before this free agency period, and now all of a sudden he's a giant prize. Maybe that's a function of being buried in Utah or whatever, but the hype seems overblown.
Triple double, though.Lonz-oh-no
36, 11, 8, and 5 though.Lonz-oh-no
36, 11, 8, and 5 though.
Kyrie Irving asks for a trade to San Antonio, among other places.
What a crazy offseason so far.
The fact that a player of Irving's pedigree put Minnesota on his list of preferred destinations is incredible to me.