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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Jul 11, 2016 - 03:55pm PT
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He is well liked because he doesn't talk about himself all the time. He talks about his team and his teammates. Rare anymore.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jul 11, 2016 - 03:58pm PT
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^^^^DK what are you talking about? He was just good. Didn't really like him but he always made his teams better. More so than anyone else in the last 20 years. Who is your candidate?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 11, 2016 - 04:31pm PT
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I stood next to Larry at O'Hare once. Besides being really tall he is
really white, and polite, not that those necessarily go together.
While being ushered to our booth at the Whiskey BITD we walked by a booth
occupied by Wilt. How many babes can fit in a booth with Wilt? Four!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 11, 2016 - 04:44pm PT
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All I can say for sure is that Michele was not one of them, but to get to the matter at hand, who was playing that night, The Doors?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 11, 2016 - 04:47pm PT
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Oddly, I think it was Hoyt Axton who you wouldn't think would be high
on Wilt's list. LOL!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 11, 2016 - 05:14pm PT
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Could give you some of the low-down, but better not.
Interesing coincidence. I saw Hoyt at the Palomino several nights in a row around that time. The guy next door was a DJ and gave us a whole bunch of tickets.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Jul 11, 2016 - 07:27pm PT
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I saw Wilt in the Lakers locker room....nuff said...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 12, 2016 - 03:09pm PT
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and Pop on Tim Duncan?
"You don't see Timmy beating his chest as if he was the first human being to dunk the basketball, as a lot of people do these days. He's not pointing to the sky. He's not glamming to the cameras. He just plays, and we've seen it for so long it's become almost mundane. But it's so special that it has to be remembered."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 12, 2016 - 03:10pm PT
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and what does the NBA say?
"The NBA is a global sports and media business built around three professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association, the Women's National Basketball Association, and the NBA Development League. The league has established a major international presence with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 49 languages, and NBA merchandise for sale in more than 125,000 stores in 100 countries on 6 continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2015-16 season featured 100 international players from 37 countries and territories. NBA Digital's assets include NBA.com and the NBA app, which achieved record traffic during the 2014-15 season, as well as NBA TV. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than one billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 18, 2016 - 12:24pm PT
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Nobody combined offense and defense like Tim Duncan
WINS ABOVE REPLACEMENT
PLAYER MINUTES PLAYED OFFENSE DEFENSE HARMONIC MEAN
1 Tim Duncan 56,738 108.1 110.3 109.2
2 Kevin Garnett 55,701 107.3 87.2 96.2
3 Karl Malone 62,759 162.5 67.5 95.4
4 David Robinson 38,492 100.6 80.3 89.3
5 Hakeem Olajuwon 49,971 79.5 93.3 85.9
6 LeBron James 46,861 196.2 52.5 82.8
7 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 50,840 144.4 53.5 78.0
8 Larry Bird 41,329 120.3 53.6 74.2
9 Shaquille O’Neal 50,016 133.8 50.2 73.0
10 Scottie Pippen 49,174 87.4 62.3 72.7
11 Jason Kidd 56,199 94.8 55.4 70.0
12 Michael Jordan 48,485 206.5 41.6 69.2
13 Charles Barkley 44,179 154.9 41.0 64.9
14 Magic Johnson 40,783 149.1 34.6 56.2
15 Clyde Drexler 43,109 118.2 35.6 54.7
16 Shawn Marion 43,934 63.0 47.0 53.8
17 Robert Parish 51,881 70.9 41.4 52.3
18 Pau Gasol 41,572 81.4 38.5 52.2
19 Horace Grant 44,793 68.3 41.3 51.5
20 Patrick Ewing 45,801 41.2 65.3 50.5
Nobody combined offense and defense like Tim Duncan
Includes all NBA regular seasons and playoffs from 1973-74 to the present.
Detals here:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/farewell-to-tim-duncan-the-greatest-two-way-player-in-modern-nba-history/
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 18, 2016 - 07:13pm PT
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" Larry isn't white, Larrys clear.." Bill Murray , Spacejam.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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At least Lebron is getting out the Ohio vote for hillary!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 17, 2016 - 09:18am PT
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Warriors vs. Lakers this Wednesday (new wrinkles - KD and MeadowLuke Walton). Game is sold out. I think it's on TV.
Meanwhile, a 6' 6" guy can dunk at age 39? Huh. I'm supposed to be amazed?
Bring it back in thirty years.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:21am PT
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Warriors beat Lakers 123-112. Brandon Ingram looked good. Even blocked a Durant shot at the rim (bad foul call).
Ingram (190) needs to get closer to Durant's (240) weight.
Comparisons abound. What does Brandon say?
"i'm not him"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:45am PT
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He made seven of 10 shots, two of three from three-point range. He scored a team-high 21 points and had four assists, two steals and a team-high seven rebounds.
I call that HUGE for this early in the preseason.
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