@taco918 said:

Love the Thunder and Durant- but they're a Harden short of the mix. They may well win the West.

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

What's wrong, you bruise your pussy practicing in the backyard?

The fact that you've seen this played live amuses me greatly. As does your assertion that I'm a pussy for deriding a fake game based on children's fantasy novels beloved by absolute fucking nerds. You can keep it, I'm sure it suits you.

@roycerolls said:

Minnesota would trade him for Greg Oden's ass pubes...

Those could be stiches...

@taco918 said:

and the clippers.

@browns149 said:

go watch the Sac Kings vs Phi 76ers

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey now, that's just rude. Boogie is worth watching though.

@roycerolls said:

For the people who wantied to just sign Love as a free agent, you're assuming that he would make it to free agency. Minnesota would trade him for Greg Oden's ass pubes before they'd let him hit the open market. The cavs gave up a lot of potential and relatively cheap talent, but Cleveland fans have been through enough rebuilding; it's time to win.

Y'all have the best player since MJ on your roster. Damn near every NBA player would love (no pun intended) to sign there. Do you really think Love, with his current reputation, would turn down a less than max deal from the Cavs next summer? Hell if y'all kept enough cap space for 2016 Durant would have to take a serious fucking look at joining the Cavs. I'm not sure how it would work positionally but you'd have to make that happen.

With that said, if you motherfuckers poach Durant I swear to God there will be a new Civil War between Oklahoma and Ohio. I don't want to meet any of you assholes across trenches so I guess I'm in favor of the Love trade now, as long as you lock him up long term.

@westside-steve said:

that's funny

@thenew23 said:

No. Baseball revolves around every pitch.

@the-gipper said:

go watch the Sac Kings vs Phi 76ers

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@tim-couch-pulls-out said:

Shit talk Quidditch all you want but it's the only sport I've ever seen a 125-lb girl drop a 225-lb man and break his collarbone.

It's also the only sport I've seen someone have a broomstick slice open their taint which required like 20 stitches.

Lorena Bobbit=Jim Brown.

WSS

@cambridgeho said:

The Spurs have maybe one more year with Duncan and a good Manu. After that, they wont be the same team. The only team that would stand in our way would be the Bulls.

And the Thunder.

Regardless of how Wiggins pans out, he's already a plus defender due to his athleticism and length. LeBron is now the only plus defender on the roster. Keeping Wiggins would've given your team more balance and reduced the wear of LeBron by him not having to guard the opposing teams biggest threat night in, night out.

This trade makes your team less balanced. Before the trade you would've had a top tier offense along with a legit (and possibly top tier if Varajao can stay healthy) defense. Now you'll have a top 3 offense and a bottom of the rung defense. That's not a winning recipe for championships in the NBA historically.

Despite my pessimism, I would probably put the Cavs as my second favorite team. With that said, if Rose is healthy, the Bulls are more of a favorite now in my eyes, at least in the East. They'll have a top tier defense regardless of Rose's health and they've loaded up on offense. If they even have a league average offense, they'll be the favorites, at least from a purely basketball stance.

@the-cysko-kid said:

It's not a sport and it's lame as hell. You have to pretend to ride a fucking broom for Christ's sake

What's wrong, you bruise your pussy practicing in the backyard?

@westside-steve said:

I think that's going on in Cleveland this weekend isn't it? That's an event in the Gay Games I believe.

WSS

Shit talk Quidditch all you want but it's the only sport I've ever seen a 125-lb girl drop a 225-lb man and break his collarbone.

It's also the only sport I've seen someone have a broomstick slice open their taint which required like 20 stitches.

Had we waited until the deadline, it would have cost us half a season of chemistry to build between the New Big 3. A trade was inevitable, might as well get it out of the way now (even though I'm really bummed we lost Wiggins).

Regarding the deal, we couldn't sign him in the offseason. At least not for max money like he wants. By trading for him now, we now have his bird rights which allows us to resign our own players while going over the salary cap and into the luxury tax. We couldn't have signed him outright without gutting our team of ~$22M first.

Kevin Love may alleviate Lebrons workload a little bit....but not like Wiggins would have. In the coming years you could have seen Lebron actually sit out numerous games as Wiggins plays in his spot. We pick up another young point guard and we could have started to pace Kyrie in a couple years. If Bennett lived up to some of his potential we could be sitting Love too. As the team is now....most certainly 1-2 championships should come Clevelands way. But if Wiggins starts skying out in Mn the trade cost us not 1 not 2 not 3....you know the rest. I was frankly perfectly ok with pacing Lebron this coming season and making Wiggins carry some of the load so we see what he's about....than the following year we get Love and a talented bench that got thrown in the fire the previous year. Greg Popovich and the Spurs would not have made this trade before seeing Wiggins in an NBA game....knowing that Kevin Love will not sign a long term contract anywhere but with them. We would have insured a decade or more of relevance for Cleveland basketball. Oh well.