Real Deal

I just posted about Smush a few minutes ago (he did nothing in Cleveland, absolutely horrible player), but Mihm was a backup at best as a Cavalier, who was shooting 44% or less the first three years he played with Cleveland (he only played three years and 22 games with them), couldn't stay in the game longer than 20 minutes or so because he was averaging nearly six fouls a game PER36...basically just a good rebounder that couldn't post up and had no way of defending anyone. He came to LA and averaged his best numbers as a pro, shot over 50% his first two seasons there (like every big man should), and for some crazy reason, started every single game those first two seasons before he was injured (and it ruined his career). Mihm was in his first year as a Laker without Phil Jackson there, and he soaked in the benefits of playing with Kobe more than Kwame Brown did (because unlike Kwame, Mihm could actually catch a pass). He was able to play at the rim much more, was getting open dunks, passes under the rim, etc...so if Mihm were to ever say a bad word about Bryant, he would be in the same boat as Smush Parker...although, again, Mihm was actually a backup, while Smush should have been left out of the league a long time ago.

I find it hard to believe Kobe refused to talk to Smush just because he didn't have any success to his name...had to have been for some other reason, if he really did refuse. I met Kobe back in 2004, and I talked to him for 3-5 minutes after a game. Me. I was a fan with a #8 jersey on, and that's it. Smush talks about how we should look at his numbers, to determine if he was an NBA player or not. Well, let's do that. His best shooting percentages came in LA (both years). His best 3PT% came in LA. His highest PPG averages, by far...in LA. Aside from the Lakers, and his rookie season (where he started just 18 games), he only had three other starts to his name...and two of those three starts were after he left the Lakers. After putting up 11 PPG on 44% shooting, starting 80 games in 2006-07...he went to the Clippers and Heat, played 28 total games in that one season, and never saw the league again. You rarely see that without some sort of injury coming into play. What happened before he became a Laker, though? Well, he played one season in Cleveland, then was out of the league for an entire year. He then signed with the Pistons, then waived three months later after playing 11 games. He signed a 10-day contract with Phoenix, signed another (I believe), then was waived by the Suns after playing five games for them. Kobe and Phil made Smush Parker. He was worthless before those two, and he became even more worthless (if that's possible) after those two...and now that he put on 100 pounds and is basically irrelevant to the game of basketball, this is his last-ditch effort to make the news.

I swear she hit him. It was hard to tell, but I thought I saw her come in with a punch or slap (before she was hit).

ABL hating life right now.

That might be the bad thing about leaving it open. Usually, with affiliations, we get members from other sites that don't want to be there anymore...and, well, any chance they'd get, they would talk dirt on the place. And not only that, but it gives those owners a chance to continually bump their site up to the top of the page, and they won't even have to be posting here to do it...just log in, post something in that topic, and leave. I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing. I did think about it for a while, though.

I'm shocked that she popped right back up to fight him. You don't hit females, but if she would have decided to spit in my face...I really can't say that I would have sat there, either. The funniest part, to me, was when he threw her out of the bus. He tossed her like a bag of clothes, lol.

Parker replied back, said something about how he belonged in the NBA, and he stopped passing the ball to Kobe in the second half of his second season with LA. On Around The Horn, they were laughing at it, and said that him being reluctant to pass to a guy averaging 35 PPG is a big reason why he's not in the NBA anymore, lol.

I went ahead and added you as our first affiliate. Once I get home, I'll have you something. I don't have access to any images right now, and my banners are a bit too big. Thanks bro.

Do you have a particular image you want to use for the affiliation? It can be a decent size, as long as it fits into a single post. I think I'm going to add affiliations as topics, into an individual forum. In the past, I've used coded pages and redirect links directly on the board, so this is something different. Also, maybe you can put together a few lines about the site, a descriptive paragraph that would encourage others to join.

I went ahead and split your post from the old topic, to make a new one just for your channel. Love the uploads. I've seen a lot of those, being a huge MJ fan...but haha...never saw the Red and White game, and it was the first thing that popped up. Stick around, if you can. We'd love to have you taking part in all of our discussions, especially during the season. We have a small community, but it makes for better basketball talk because it's really hard to look over what others post on here.

Our Dwight Freeney fans would be upset, though.

I was seriously waiting for Paul Ryan to turn into a vulture and fly off the stage. There are a few of my friends that aren't so happy with Ryan (Republican friends)...and are kind of venting on Facebook right now, lol.

Well, you visit the Raptors team forum more than any of the other 29, so you were pulling from your browser's cache when you clicked back in. It's like when some members go and change their avatars, then can't see them for a while (until they refresh their browser)...then, your browser reloads the image, and it appears as the new version. Things would have been much different if I had named the banners differently, but I just decided to overwrite the old ones, using the same names (ex. Raptors.jpg).

Took Spanish in the 7th grade, don't remember much at all. In high school, I took French I and II, but didn't get to take French III because we didn't have enough enrolled for it.

Probably not, but he gets asked about it far too many times, and he's probably sick of hearing the questions. Parker wasn't asked. Nobody even gives a damn about him anymore, really...and that's a big part of the reason why he said what he did, much like Shaq has done with Dwight Howard recently (and I believe he said something about the Celtics after he retired, also). If you watch Kobe in these interviews, whether it's post-game or during practice...he's just tired of it. And Kwame did mention the Lakers a while back, didn't say Kobe's name, but he did talk about how it was impossible to get a shot attempt (and he's talking about KB when he says that, since Bryant was averaging 35 PPG around that time). Kwame never had any room to talk. He had plenty of opportunities, but he could never catch the ball. Parker never made the right decisions. It would piss me off, also, if these guys were bad-mouthing me, a guy that is known as the second-greatest two-guard in league history (by most).

I'm shocked. I really thought Biden was going to hit rock bottom, but he's doing extremely well. Ryan's numbers aren't helping him out, and I think it's tough for him to defend an indecisive Romney at this point.

I know, that you know, that Parker lashed out at Kobe well before Kobe said a word about him. I believe he did that multiple times, in fact.

LOL. I really don't think I'm going to remove his name from the word filter.

Go to the forum, then hit the refresh button on your browser (or F5).

It's not exactly what we're looking for. During the NBA season (starting November), we take discussion seriously. We aren't looking to merge with any other site, or relocate. We've been around since 2005, nearly one million posts (which over half have been deleted due to a hack), and easily reaching 1,000+ posts per day in our prime. Of course, our worst months occur in the NBA offseason and heading into the preseason. Our direction seems different (regarding the two websites and how discussion is generated), and we have never merged with another site to begin with, so as far as that goes, it's out of the question for, honestly, any site.

I suppose this is related to the Sixers, so...how are the colors in the team forum? I had to change them up. The blue was really dark, red didn't match. :/

Sounds good. What happened to the site, anyway?

I'm going to start affiliating with other message boards and websites again, so if you know of anyone that would be interested, let them know. Just make sure that they are a credible site, and any message boards we affiliate need to have 500+ members, have been up for 9+ months, and have 50,000+ posts. Those number requirements aren't set in stone, and I may tag a couple of boards that are younger (and may decline others that meet the requirements), but it's just a general idea of what I'm looking for. As of right now, we're just in it to swap links. I'm not going to spend money to place an ad on their site, and I don't expect them to do the same thing. Relating to what sites we would be interested in, mainly your typical four sports (basketball, football, baseball and hockey). Video game sites would work, I suppose. We will also consider one-team sites (such as LakerNation) as long as they are basketball.

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