The Rest of the NBA

[ice grillin you]

honestly do you think good things happen to philadelphia

im almost positive this is all going to work out for the sixers

[MDS]

what happens if wiggins sucks

[ice grillin you]

jason kidd got teed up today in his firts game ever as a head coach

fyi - it was in a summer league game

[ice grillin you]

somehow dorrell wright got a 2/6 deal from portland

[hbionic]

I was at a show last night and Ice Cube bashed Dwight Howard...at one point calling him Dwight Coward as well as a soft bitch.

Nothing new, but the crowd went crazy and I'm glad most out here feel the same way.

[reese125]

well the first team to offer bynum a multi year deal is the cavs on a 2yr $24 mill. mavs and hawks are up

[Rome]

I was at a show last night and Ice Cube bashed Dwight Howard...at one point calling him Dwight Coward as well as a soft bitch.

Nothing new, but the crowd went crazy and I'm glad most out here feel the same way.

Ice Cube is still a top-5 show of all-time for me.  He was so great it actually makes me giddy thinking about it and that was 20 years ago.

[hbionic]

I must sadly admit it was my first. But damn, what a set.

[ice grillin you]

i saw him with del...when del was no one but a face on the amerikkkas most wanted cd sleeve....i thought he was his hype man

[Sgt PSN]

Never saw Cube in concert.  And that makes me sad. 

[ice grillin you]

his set lists suck now.....too much we be clubbin and bown down and not enough bird in the hand and we gonna tear this motherfarger up

i understand why but its nothing i wanna see....dook hasnt made a good song since like 1993

[Sgt PSN]

I wouldn't "want" to see him in concert today because he's too mainstream now.  I mean, I guess I'd go if I had tix thrown at me, but I'm talking about wishing I'd seen him back in the day. 

[Dillen]

i saw him with del...when del was no one but a face on the amerikkkas most wanted cd sleeve....i thought he was his hype man

This is awesome

[reese125]

I love this Russian owner. A guy that knows he's filthy rich and can give a farg if it eats his pockets for the price of a championship--even though they still won't get it.

[Nets] Their payroll — once they complete a trade for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce — will be about $98 million, triggering a tax bill of about $75 million. That would be the most any team has paid since the league instituted the luxury tax in 2002-3, according to figures provided by the cap expert Larry Coon.

In fact, $75 million is more than double the total taxes paid by all 30 teams combined in the 2011-12 season.

Then again, the comparison is slightly unfair. The Nets are, in a sense, the first major victims — albeit voluntary victims — of a highly punitive new system.

Under the original tax structure, teams paid a simple dollar-for-dollar penalty once they exceeded the threshold. So in 2007, for instance, the Knicks paid $45.1 million in taxes for spending $45.1 million past the tax line.

But next season the penalty will start at $1.50 per dollar spent beyond the threshold, and it will keep increasing. Once a team has gone $5 million over the line, it will be taxed at $1.75 per dollar. At $10 million over, the rate increases to $2.50. At $15 million over, it shoots up to $3.25.

[ice grillin you]

i dont know what their cap number is going to be but that crazy russian dont give a farg about a luxury tax