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Around the League => Around the NBA => Topic started by: CelticsElite on January 16, 2018, 01:54:55 AM
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This started the altercations, along with the chippy game:
https://twitter.com/aaronbruski/status/953155406385242113
Woj: https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/953153110356017152
Harden, Ariza, and Gerald Green pushed into Los Angeles Clippers locker room to confront Austin Rivers. Security escorted rockets out before anything turned physical
Rocket players were clamoring for Blake griffin too. Chris Paul also entered with other rockets through a back door that connects the locker rooms
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http://twitter.com/World_Wide_Wob/status/953159884064854016
This is great. These guys are terrible basketball analysts, but they are humorous at times. Also, I doubt people were busting into locker rooms to confront Shaq and Chuck lol
EDIT: Oh my, it just keeps getting better. Apparently they set a “Capela trap” lol
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/953162234733117441
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As president of the players union, cp3 showed a lack of leadership by not just allowing this, but being a part of it. How Do you go through backdoors after getting kicked out by security from the opponents locker room and think its a good idea
And what's Gerald Green thinking! He was almost out of the league until a few weeks ago. And he decided he wants to help jump the Opponents coaches kid in their locker room... Glad he isn't in our team
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Sounds like a bunch of fake tough guy stuff going on here.
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Bad look for the Rockets after getting beat by an inferior team. Suck it up, boys.
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Sounds like they watched last week's episode of Vikings. (spoiler alert) there was some quality flanking maneuver action.
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Blake massacred them all game long then punked them all at the end. Had me applauding him.
Rockets are a team of mentally fragile guys with no leadership. Hope SAS meets them in the playoffs (or LAC eliminate them in a 2v7 playoff).
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Was Cliff Paul there for the assist?
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http://twitter.com/World_Wide_Wob/status/953159884064854016
This is great. These guys are terrible basketball analysts, but they are humorous at times. Also, I doubt people were busting into locker rooms to confront Shaq and Chuck lol
EDIT: Oh my, it just keeps getting better. Apparently they set a “Capela trap” lol
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/953162234733117441
Oh man, that is hilarious!!
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As president of the players union, cp3 showed a lack of leadership by not just allowing this, but being a part of it. How Do you go through backdoors after getting kicked out by security from the opponents locker room and think its a good idea
And what's Gerald Green thinking! He was almost out of the league until a few weeks ago. And he decided he wants to help jump the Opponents coaches kid in their locker room... Glad he isn't in our team
What do you mean? CP3 finally led his team to somewhere! 8)
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Sounds like a bunch of fake tough guy stuff going on here.
Yup, typical wantabee tough guys, needs friends to back them up before they can fight, weak!!!
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Sounds like a bunch of fake tough guy stuff going on here.
It's the NBA. Of course it is.
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Let the boys play
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I'd sure like to know what Rivers and Griffin said. And what's with the bench players standing on the court while the play is going on?
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This started the altercations, along with the chippy game:
https://twitter.com/aaronbruski/status/953155406385242113
My takeaways from this:
1. Looks like Ariza started yapping first.
2. Rivers Jr. looks like he's never worn a suit in his entire life.
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Sounds like a bunch of fake tough guy stuff going on here.
It's the NBA. Of course it is.
Yup but on the plus side that makes this a lot more comical. Shaq and Chuck laughing about "call LAPD, Chris Paul's trying to beat me up!" was great.
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I'd guess this has to do with Austin puffing his chest out after taking Paul's role and having a couple good games. I saw in a recent interview thay he's still defending his talent and place in the NBA based on merit rather than nepotism.
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Edit. Wrong thread.
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As president of the players union, cp3 showed a lack of leadership by not just allowing this, but being a part of it. How Do you go through backdoors after getting kicked out by security from the opponents locker room and think its a good idea
And what's Gerald Green thinking! He was almost out of the league until a few weeks ago. And he decided he wants to help jump the Opponents coaches kid in their locker room... Glad he isn't in our team
Gerald's still upset with Doc for trashing him as a rook and 2nd year player in Boston!!
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I'd guess this has to do with Austin puffing his chest out after taking Paul's role and having a couple good games. I saw in a recent interview thay he's still defending his talent and place in the NBA based on merit rather than nepotism.
He was the 10th pick in the draft to a team that had nothing to do with his father ever. He clearly has NBA level talent.
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As the NBA gathers information for its investigation into the events surrounding the bombastic LA Clippers-Houston Rockets game on Monday night, forward Trevor Ariza has been further isolated as the person most responsible for the Rockets' postgame charge into the Clippers' locker room, league sources told ESPN.
Rockets All-Stars Chris Paul and James Harden are increasingly described as working to slow down Ariza's anger with the Clippers' Austin Rivers and Blake Griffin, league sources said.
Nevertheless, there are those on the Clippers' side who still insist that Paul -- in his return game after six turbulent seasons in Los Angeles -- eagerly entered the home locker room through a backdoor entrance with Ariza, Harden and teammate Gerald Green.
The Rockets players were filled with a greater animus for Rivers, sources told ESPN, because they insist that he had been especially belligerent from the bench in the late stages of the Clippers' victory. Out with an ankle injury and wearing a suit, Rivers was reveling in Griffin's dominant performance of 29 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists. Once Griffin became entangled with several Rockets, Rivers' verbiage appeared to become more aggressive.
Griffin unleashed on the Rockets in the final minutes of the game, brushing past Mike D'Antoni and inspiring the Rockets coach to scream "F--- you" at him. Griffin, as he was falling out of bounds, fired a loose ball off the back of Eric Gordon, and seconds later, he engaged in a skirmish with Ariza that led to double technical fouls and an ejection with 1 minute, 3 seconds left.
As the drama unfolded later, Rockets center Clint Capela walked down the main corridor and banged on the front entrance to the Clippers' locker room, league sources said. Soon, a Clippers staff member opened the door and looked up to see Capela, a formidable 6-foot-10 figure, standing in the doorway.
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2754683-report-trevor-ariza-gerald-green-suspended-2-games-for-actions-vs-clippers
Ariza and green suspended 2 games
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How does glory boy, Chris Paul NOT get any suspension???
Paul is the same piece of crap that VERY DELIBERATELY hit Julius Hodge in the groin in 2005 when with Wake Forest!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3tptzEWmM
And people think he is a CHOIR BOY!!! He is NOT!!!!
He is the Head of the NBA Players' Association and he should NOT get a pass because of that and the FACT that it would look BAD for the NBA for him to get suspended!!!!
He showed them where the back door into the locker room was located. He should get a longer suspension that those two!!
Utter hogwash. There is NOT much justice in our world today sadly!!!
Smitty77
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I'd guess this has to do with Austin puffing his chest out after taking Paul's role and having a couple good games. I saw in a recent interview thay he's still defending his talent and place in the NBA based on merit rather than nepotism.
He was the 10th pick in the draft to a team that had nothing to do with his father ever. He clearly has NBA level talent.
Sure, but by that logic it would be ok for Anthony Bennet's dad to trade for him and get him a big contract. Rivers was one of the worst players in the league when he was traded to LA & only slightly improved when they inexplicably gave him a $30M contract. It was very clearly favoritism, even if he's a talented kid.
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Sounds like a bunch of fake tough guy stuff going on here.
It's the NBA. Of course it is.
Yup but on the plus side that makes this a lot more comical. Shaq and Chuck laughing about "call LAPD, Chris Paul's trying to beat me up!" was great.
LOL agreed. Like come on now. CP3? He's like the equivalent of class president. He's not about to roll up and throw hands with a teacher's child. Much ado about nuthin. There are a lot of goons in the NBA...but CP3 ain't one of em. Gerald Green though? Is about that life.
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If there's 20 total guys in the NBA that are true tough guys I'd be shocked. And not one of them plays for the Clippers or Rockets LOL.
I'd say Embiid, Baynes, TA, and Bobby Portis are a lock 4. Possibly Rondo too.
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If there's 20 total guys in the NBA that are true tough guys I'd be shocked. And not one of them plays for the Clippers or Rockets LOL.
I'd say Embiid, Baynes, TA, and Bobby Portis are a lock 4. Possibly Rondo too.
I'd throw in Gerald Green, Zach Randolph, Pat Bev, and Cousins off hand.
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If there's 20 total guys in the NBA that are true tough guys I'd be shocked. And not one of them plays for the Clippers or Rockets LOL.
I'd say Embiid, Baynes, TA, and Bobby Portis are a lock 4. Possibly Rondo too.
I'd throw in Gerald Green, Zach Randolph, Pat Bev, and Cousins off hand.
It's an interesting question. I would prob filter this question by figuring out what players grew up in "tougher areas". There's a huge difference between looking tough on an NBA court and having the experience of catching multiple beatings growing up. The latter teaches one how to win a fight more than the former.
If it were a straight boxing match, I'd take someone with the reach. If some type of MMA event, I like stocky guys like Marcus Smart. If it's a real fight on the street, I like the guy with the baseball bat or gun. Give me Spud Webb with a 9mm.
The whole "tough guy" thing is overrated. In my opinion, the toughest guys are those that are mentally strong enough not to engage. You might never seem them fight, even though they're capable of laying down a beating.
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If there's 20 total guys in the NBA that are true tough guys I'd be shocked. And not one of them plays for the Clippers or Rockets LOL.
I'd say Embiid, Baynes, TA, and Bobby Portis are a lock 4. Possibly Rondo too.
I'd throw in Gerald Green, Zach Randolph, Pat Bev, and Cousins off hand.
Ben Wallace may top the list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWXpyrfEuYo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWXpyrfEuYo)
He and the Bad Boy Pistons (Laimbeer) just before him. The guys that end up carving out careers as top 3-and-Ders generally played with some grit, too --Bowen, Iguodala, Ariza, Matthews, Ron Artest/MWP, etc.
This reminded me of an article about Artest that I read a while ago: https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Ron-Artest-admits-he-used-to-drink-Hennessy-at-h?urn=nba,206187 .
Not labeling that "grit", but man... he was a true wildcard. Unhinged cowboy.
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How does glory boy, Chris Paul NOT get any suspension???
Paul is the same piece of crap that VERY DELIBERATELY hit Julius Hodge in the groin in 2005 when with Wake Forest!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3tptzEWmM
And people think he is a CHOIR BOY!!! He is NOT!!!!
He is the Head of the NBA Players' Association and he should NOT get a pass because of that and the FACT that it would look BAD for the NBA for him to get suspended!!!!
He showed them where the back door into the locker room was located. He should get a longer suspension that those two!!
Utter hogwash. There is NOT much justice in our world today sadly!!!
Smitty77
This is how I feel. He was probably the leader of those guys and if he told those guys not to go into the locker room they wouldn't have. I was kind of looking forward to Paul being punished.
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If there's 20 total guys in the NBA that are true tough guys I'd be shocked. And not one of them plays for the Clippers or Rockets LOL.
I'd say Embiid, Baynes, TA, and Bobby Portis are a lock 4. Possibly Rondo too.
I would take Marcus Smart over any of those guys. Marcus is straight up hard and tough and walks the walk without getting cheap dumb fouls call on him and getting tossed from games. I also thing that Ayron Baynes, Morris are tough guys. Up and going tough rooks are Semi, Guerschole, Tatum, Brown, Rozier, Theis... There is a verY GOOD TIGHT TEAM. This playoff version of the 2018 BOSTI=ON CELY=TICS ARE A CUPUAL MOVES that could he us some shooters, rebounders and trouble creators. The Celtics come to gather and we are talking about a team that could get the warriors some trouble in the finals!!
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If there's 20 total guys in the NBA that are true tough guys I'd be shocked. And not one of them plays for the Clippers or Rockets LOL.
I'd say Embiid, Baynes, TA, and Bobby Portis are a lock 4. Possibly Rondo too.
I would take Marcus Smart over any of those guys. Marcus is straight up hard and tough and walks the walk without getting cheap dumb fouls call on him and getting tossed from games. I also thing that Ayron Baynes, Morris are tough guys. Up and going tough rooks are Semi, Guerschole, Tatum, Brown, Rozier, Theis... There is a verY GOOD TIGHT TEAM. This playoff version of the 2018 BOSTI=ON CELY=TICS ARE A CUPUAL MOVES that could he us some shooters, rebounders and trouble creators. The Celtics come to gather and we are talking about a team that could get the warriors some trouble in the finals!!
And Kelly Olynyk......Well according to Cavs fans. :)
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RJ Huntah signed a two-way contract with the Rockets. This scuffle may be the best thing that ever happened to their franchise. :)