VERY good win. No LeBron, no Shaq, no Z, no Jamison (hurt in 2nd half) and we STILL got the win!
Now, like you said, LeBron will get a full week's rest. (Last game played was last Friday. Next game is scheduled for this Friday).
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VERY good win. No LeBron, no Shaq, no Z, no Jamison (hurt in 2nd half) and we STILL got the win!
Now, like you said, LeBron will get a full week's rest. (Last game played was last Friday. Next game is scheduled for this Friday).
Even if they had lost...it was a win-win situation. Lebron got a full weeks rest, guys got playing time and they got to evaluate some of the you guys on the team if they have a future in the organization.
Not to mention we aren't exactly pressing for the #1 seed. We have at least a 5 game lead on the #2 at this time and we hold the tie-breakers against Orlando and LA.
BTW, I'm liking this Jawad Willaims (UNC alumn and Cleveland native). He's making the most of his additional playing time.
Orlando did not figure out a secret code to beating the Lakers, or to stopping Kobe Bryant either. That was one game out of an 82 game season. Matt Barnes has had ample opportunity to stop Kobe Bryant in the past, and he's never done so.
The biggest factors were that the Lakers are on a mini-swoon on their road trip, and Kobe's finger. Barnes gave Kobe his best shot, and Kobe did not flinch, either literally or figuratively. Kobe Bryant has proven to be the best clutch player in the game today. One game did not change that.
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Iverson Facing Alcohol, Gambling Issues
According to Stephen A. Smith...
This is turning out to be a sad story.
[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4975922"]Report: Allen Iverson facing alcohol, gambling problems - ESPN[/ame]
According to Stephen A. Smith...
This is turning out to be a sad story.
[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4975922"]Report: Allen Iverson facing alcohol, gambling problems - ESPN[/ame]
According to Stephen A. Smith...
This is turning out to be a sad story.
Report: Allen Iverson facing alcohol, gambling problems - ESPN
Wow, being banished from casinos is serious stuff. Normally casinos roll out the red carpet for high-rolling celebrities/athletes. He must have outstanding markers at casinos...
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They do for the ones who are high-rolling, but in "control". Casinos never want to be associated or appear to be enabling someone with a problem, no matter how much the gambler can afford to lose....
What a shame. I've always loved AI as a player.According to Stephen A. Smith...
This is turning out to be a sad story.
Report: Allen Iverson facing alcohol, gambling problems - ESPN
I wonder IF the drinking was due to the issues with the illness of his daughter? Either way, it is sad.
Sounds like Iverson's vices may be over quite a long period of time. He made over $150 million in salary alone, let alone endorsements, etc., and now he threw all that away and probably owes casinos money too.
That takes more than four years.
Sandra
That takes more than four years.
Sandra
Yeah but we do not know if it a matter of is he broke or a deadbeat...when it comes to financial equation to his current situation.
The drinking, who knows. Might have been something he has done all his life but kept under raps or something that may have just started due all of the personal issues that are happening now.
The drinking, who knows. Might have been something he has done all his life but kept under raps or something that may have just started due all of the personal issues that are happening now.
Amazing how Iverson could go through what was probably over $200 million. Obviously Uncle Sam takes a huge chunk and I don't know what Iverson's child support/alimony situation is, but there had to be at least tens of millions left after taxes...and he has nothing left going forward. So sad.
You wonder how he'll live the rest of his life. Basketball players who have made a fraction of what Iverson made have set themselves up for life. Iverson threw it all away.
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You wonder how he'll live the rest of his life. Basketball players who have made a fraction of what Iverson made have set themselves up for life. Iverson threw it all away.
Sandra
I always got a kick out of Jack Clark. He didn't understand the conceptual differrence between the $8.7 million dollar value of his last significant contract and infinity. He'd pay for a coffee and donut with a $100 bill and tell them to keep the change. After two years, his agent told him he was so far in the hole that the remainder of his contract wouldn't be enough to dig himself out. Clark didn't understand it. He also didn't understand his current market value and if I recall correctly, he declined to exercise his player option of the third, $2,9 million dollar year, and wound up signing a $100,000 contract with a team but didn't make their roster.
When Clark filed for bankruptcy, most of his creditors were supportive of him because they believed that, since Clark was also their buddy, they would eventually be paid what they were owed even if the debts were legally discharged. That included payments on seventeen of his eighteen cars. Unfortunately, good intentions don't pay debts. Only money pays debts, and those people never got paid.
From the New York Times archives:
Ryne Sandberg briefly retired in 1994, claiming the he simply had lost interest in the game, but when his wife filed for divorce, a lot of people suspected that he had retired so that his future earning potential would not be factored into the divorce settlement. He then cam back to lay for two more seasons.
Allen Iverson's future value will likely be whatever he can get playing overseas. Maybe ten million dollars over the next few years? If he has bigger debts than that, he'd better get them discharged before trying to re-establish himself financially with whatever future earning potential he has left.
When Clark filed for bankruptcy, most of his creditors were supportive of him because they believed that, since Clark was also their buddy, they would eventually be paid what they were owed even if the debts were legally discharged. That included payments on seventeen of his eighteen cars. Unfortunately, good intentions don't pay debts. Only money pays debts, and those people never got paid.
From the New York Times archives:
Ryne Sandberg briefly retired in 1994, claiming the he simply had lost interest in the game, but when his wife filed for divorce, a lot of people suspected that he had retired so that his future earning potential would not be factored into the divorce settlement. He then cam back to lay for two more seasons.
Allen Iverson's future value will likely be whatever he can get playing overseas. Maybe ten million dollars over the next few years? If he has bigger debts than that, he'd better get them discharged before trying to re-establish himself financially with whatever future earning potential he has left.
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THIS is classic. NOW, ESPN is ALL a buzz because the Dunlevy was fired and they are "paving the way for going hard after Lebron James"....just because they NOW offer MORE money than anyone else.
