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AK gave an interview to a Russian sports magazine. The highlights: He is not going to play for the Russian team in the world championship. It was a very hard decision for him and he expects a severe backlash from the Russian fans. The Jazz were really against his participation. Sloan and...

It is really amusing how often Matthews' FG% is brought up as an indication that he is a good SG. Who else did it last eason? Pretty much every shooting guard on the Jazz: Brewer and Korver had 49 FG%. Or such outstanding SGs as Bill Walker, Sonny Weems, Marquis Daniels or DeMar DeRozan. It...

To those who mentioned the hopelessly stuck in the lottery Clippers and Warriors - yeah, I did not say that this way is without its pitfalls. Three (or even more) years of high picks do not guarantee the team a championship. However, it seems to be the only realistic road to the championship for...

With Boozer gone and Okur very possibly having had a career-changing injury it is a good time to look back at the achievements of the first post-Stockton-and-Malone team. It was a good team, they were in the 3-5 range in the West for a while. However, they never went to the Finals and were in...

That is the only conceivable way for the Jazz to win a championship, unfortunately. SLC is not LA or New York, so they cannot spend $80-100 million on salaries. And to win a ring they need an elite wing and an elite big. There is no way to get them trough the draft - any team with Deron will...

That is exactly the point - great wing players do not need a great PG, they can handle and distribute the ball AND provide the scoring punch at the same time. So why pay the max to a great PG then? A passable point would suffice, and the money saved could be used to sign a max wing player...

Here we go again. Years of Stockton and Malone, Nash and Dirk, and Nash and Stoudemire were not enough, I guess? To win a championship the team typically needs a superstar wing + a superstar 7-footer. The great PGs are simply to easily neutralized to the large degree by having a cheap veteran...

Magic was not a point guard, he was essentially a point forward. Parker, Rondo and Billups were Ok point guards and payed as such, their teams had money to aquire other pieces. Players like Kidd, DWill, CP3 get payed max money or close to it. But they do not produce like max players. That's...

The point guard is simply the least important position in the NBA. Paying big money to the star point prevents the team from signing the players to other postions, those that really matter. And, even worse, the great point can single-handedly keep the team out of the lottery, so no building...

Remind me again, how many rings do the last seven great PGs have? Stockton, Payton, Johnson, Kidd, Nash, DWill, CP3? And how many rings belong to the last seven greatest centers or SGs?

Elite point guards = no rings. Look at 4 greatest PGs currently in the league - Nash, Kidd, CP3, Deron. 0 championships. Look at the teams who actually won anything in the last decade, all of them had either an OK (Billups, Parker, Rondo-08) or below average point guard (Fisher, Williams)...

What a tool! "I don't necessarily get into all the coaches stuff," Wade said. "I feel the coach is only as good as his players. There are some great, great coaches around who can squeeze a lot of life out of their players, like Jerry Sloan. Every year he proves that."...

So, all posters on this board agree that having Brand's contract is tolerable if it brings the second pick... but somehow the Sixers are assumed to think otherwise. Why so?