Utherhimo

i am glad we didnt pick him!

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BlayZa

with that kinda attitude 'just want the money, ill just do whatever when im competing' how is that going to add to the dunk contest when he's so half-assed about it?!?! stern should have cut him off right there and got a replacement - imo its bringing the good spirit of the weekend into one only about $ and it hurts the NBA image.

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I'm just glad we didn't draft A_am M_rris_n.

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Huey Lewis

You're kidding right. Isn't all star weekend for the fans. The same fans that pay an average of $80 a ticket, which enables the players to make the millions they are making? What an ungreatfull peice of crap. Why the f did he even take the invitation. This really ticks me off.

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ProudBFan

Obvious question: Link?

Context is sometimes important.

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Me too. I was afraid he'd fall to us at #4 on draft day. I'm always leary of a guy who has a great NCAA tourney and shoots from obscurity to "Potential Lottery Pick". It wasn't even a great tourny (if I remember correctly), just an unbelievable game vs Duke and JJ Red. I will see that he is already a much better shooter than Swift ever was.

dudleysghost

I think I had Thomas third on my draft board (not a prediction of order, but just who will be the better player).

IIRC, I think I had it Aldridge, Gay, Thomas, Roy, Foye, Bargnani, Shelden Williams, Morrison. Yes, some of them seem screwy now ... but I bet if others look up their picks we'd see some screwball predictions from just about everyone. In my defense, while I thought Thomas would eventually be a better player than Roy, I did think Roy would be by far a better fit for the Blazers in the near term. It's been surprising how much better he and Aldridge have looked than any of those other guys in the top 10. I also got some flack for picking Morrison so low, but looking at it now I don't think that was wrong at all.

In any case, the Blazers had nearly a perfect draft. Even in hindsight, could they have possibly done it any better? The only way I see how is if they had taken Craig Smith, Alex Johnson, Daniel Gibson or ideally Paul Millsap at #30 instead of Freeland. But Freeland still has a chance to prove that pick right, and even if that doesn't happen, making three seemingly ideal first round picks, where you wouldn't change any of them even after seeing the guys play half an NBA season, is a rare feat.

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I think the Bulls have over-reacted, though it would've helped his case if he'd gone on to say something like, "What's important to me isn't individual achievement but how our team does. Really, I'd just as soon not run the risk of injury, save that it'd be nice to get paid that much for 20 minutes of work. Regardless, I'm looking forward to finishing All-Star weekend and getting back to games that matter."

So, he didn't say that and I suppose we shouldn't give him credit for potentially thinking that. Still, it seems like not that big a deal to me.

On the other hand, some pretty cool things happen when guys do actually prepare. I loved Amare's dunk a few years ago when he threw the ball off the backboard from near the half-court side lines to have Steve Nash head butt it back to him for the dunk. And if I recall, that somehow didn't even win the competition!

mgb

The league is looking to replace him in the dunk contest.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/spo..._nba_look.html

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Reep

In Ptown's defense, it was clear to me from the original post that Tyrus was talking about the dunk contest. Ptown never implied anything else, in or out of context. Just because some of you made assumptions doesn't mean Ptown was wrong. You know what they say about ***uming.

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yuyuza1

They should put in Gay. IMO he has more athleticism and creativity than Thomas.

loyalty4life

Here's John Paxon's statement about it:

Afterwards his agent issued a statement after Thomas being fined:

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It's_GO_Time

Too bad it's not a lay up contest. With Travis Outlaw's quick first step and vertical ability he could contend. And the best part is if he missed the lay up, he can try again . . .

BlayZa