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I would like to applaude the above approach and the fellow fan for documenting it. This is supposedly the franchise's official forum, and yet the attidute of even some of the moderators is utterly disgraceful. The board cannot be even considered family-friendly with any degree of honesty. This is mind boggling. At the end of the day, my disappointment lies with the ownership and the media management department. If the organisation thinks that forums are dead at this day and age, they should just shut it down and focus on the platforms they actually want to support. There is no point in asking of 25-year old volunteers to meet basic decency standards in any area that bears the official Magic logo. This should be somebody's job, period. Again, thanks to the fan in quote. Go Magic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u0Y4TS3pCF4 Nuff said.

"This is a topic that is not talked about enough and it is a huge problem," Anderson continued. "Let's be honest here. We live in a society now where you've got to live up to something, you've got to be a certain person and you're not (always) going to be accepted. Every single person has something special about them. That's what I want to be my goal here." http://www.nba.com/2013/news/09/30/pelicans-anderson.ap/index.html I had no idea. Wow...

...and got waived. nba.com

Great job :cheers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gKzbw_MRUSM Love the soundtrack part :)

Welcome onboard Jason. Character, work ethic and the sorts is all we need right now. GM knows what he's doing, so play on.

'Estimated between $200m to $250m per season' accounts for a $4bn to $5bn deal (the contract with Warner is confirmed to be for 20 years). Bloomberg (on Oct 2012) quotes $3 billion. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-30/lakers-are-ready-for-nba-spotlight-with-nash-3-billion-tv-deal.html That figure translates to $150m/y, on the considerably off chance that the contract pays on a straight-line basis. Assuming the $30m/y figure regarding the old media deal isn't as bogus as the "250m per season" figure, the "total increase" is somewhere north of $100m. ps. "..."

For the Lakers' revenue to increase by $200m/y due to a "new media deal worth $200m/y", the current media deal would have to be worth $0.

Pure gold.

It's probably nothing, but Bledsoe was picked in 2010 by the OKC. So Perhaps Rob, or somebody that Rob respects, liked him.

Perhaps they'll pull something along the lines of: http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=n3pahd5 in order to sell the Garnett trade to LA as being a 'separate one' to the Doc Rivers trade.

Danny Green SG, waived, waived, NBA finals record. Sample size lol.

I don't really like running a team through Bledsoe, I'd like my PG to be the highest-IQ player on the roster. However, a. he is pretty talented and b. we're not gonna get him anyway, so no biggie. Trading Afflalo and Baby for flexibility should be high on the to-do list.

http://www.nba.com/video/channels/playoffs/2013/05/10/20130509-inside-the-game-hollins.nba My kind of guy. I'd like to see them win.

Sure. Jabbar, Howard, it's a twitter thing.

Best tanking season ever. Ending up with the worst record and still being so excited about the team, it's incredible. Guys winning in LA, showing hustle, energy, promise all year long - it was great. But this year's MVP was Henny. He was brought in an impossible situation and really went to work. He hired JV, who did exactly what he was supposed to do this year. He traded Howard for 2 huge prospects at key positions (SF-C). He drafted well before the season. He traded epicly mid-season. I'm really looking forward to an era of such high professional and ethical standards as those set by Rob Hennigan. :cheers:

Emetic call on Kobe's injury. Talk about being a superstar (in a team that allows you to be one, that is). He starts to drive, hurts inside, falls down, ref calls a foul. Jeez.

I love Hedo's new role with this team. Love, happiness, live and let live. :shard: Rob (and his team) has proven so huge for this ballclub, in such a short time and after such a franchise shock... His hire is the definition of money well spent. He goes out in the offseason, under immense pressure, and picks two guys from philly with little 'sample size'; they turn out gold. He picks two guys from milwaukee with little 'sample size', bingo again. And he's a great guy. I mean wow.

Nice work. Official look to the official forum.

We did have a firm grip on the... well, whatever :shard:

I would flat out pay for more users (FANS) like you in this forum :cheers: If Hedo was cut and if the final shot was a bit longer, ie allowing for Tobias' jersey number to show before the fade out, I would be ecstatic. Now i'm just extremely thrilled. :shard: Many thanks, and keep them coming!

I thought Beno was a better player...

Couple of nice rugby passes from Jameer. Didn't know Moore had this kind of dunk in him :)

He probably wanted to run some play designed for close games, to see how it pans out in 'real life'. Nothing else makes any sense. And JV had none of it.