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    Schilling Diagnosed with Cancer

    Just wanted to add a belated congratulations on the wonderful news and best wishes for the rest of the road to full recovery!
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    Red Sox Defensive Gifs

    Wow, you're right...and thanks for restarting my nightmares about those SAT analogy questions. What the hell is the relationship between rock and stone, anyway? Except that my head seems to be full of both.
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    Red Sox Defensive Gifs

    I'll say. You've pegged DP's retirement date before he turns 32. Which is to say, you can add 2B to the list of 2015 homegrowners.
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    Antoine Walker for 4?

    I would have thought shots at the rim have a higher expected value, too. But I can see how, among jumpers, this could throw things off. If anything, though, that should be an argument for adding a 4-pointer. If a shooter can hit the 30-footer with enough consistency, it expands the area of...
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    Trading Chips and Keepers

    Totally - for some reason I was thinking this offseason. The Knicks could wait out one more year of basically the same crew with the promise of some aggressive shopping in the Rondo-Love FA year. Point well taken, Nighthob.
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    Ivan's Kevin Love Fantasy

    Call it what it is. Kevin Love is just a big flirt.
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    Trading Chips and Keepers

    Probably not the thread for this question, but how does that work with the Knicks in for $90 million plus in salary next season (depending on whether Melo takes a paycut to come back)? Would it be a sign and trade? I'm sure there's a way, since he's supposedly lobbying Rondo to join him there...
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    Trading Chips and Keepers

    Oh, and since this is a chips vs keepers thread, I think it shakes out like this over the next few years: Keeping Rondo, Sully, Olynyk, Green, Bradley only if they can get him cheap Trading/letting walk: Hump (maybe even as a s&t this summer), Bass, Bogans, Anthony and Wallace Holding unless...
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    Trading Chips and Keepers

    Jumping off of Curtis Pride's chart (very useful stuff, by the way), I started to wonder which players will decrease in value and which will increase in value as trading chips if they are held onto until after the season ends.   I see four categories, with the takeaway that the team may be in...
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    Trading Chips and Keepers

    I see that with a guy like Bass, who is more likely to go to a team that wants to add depth, rather than a team focused on cap and tax issues. Definitely disappointing if your team gives up something decent in a trade just to get a guy for a few months. The exception being if you get better...
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    Trading Chips and Keepers

    Unlikely scenario, but is it possible Hump, Bogans, and maybe a first get sent out to a team looking to tank/rebuild in return for an A-/B+ star (an Al Jefferson-type)? Maybe that's more likely after the season when teams are ready to give up on players they pinned their hopes on previously.
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    Schilling Diagnosed with Cancer

    Awesome that surgery went well - sure that's the first of many positive milestones to come. Oh, and not talking sucks, so hopefully that's done quickly. At least it's a good time to let the wife get some airtime, too, it sounds like...
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    Schilling Diagnosed with Cancer

    Just wanted to add my well-wishes to the pile and let you know you're in my prayers. Cancer has affected a bunch of close family members, and their strength in making it through the treatment has always impressed me. Since you've proven time and again how much physical, mental, and emotional...
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    Down with tanking, play to win!

    “Tanking” is too much of a catch-all term.  Some teams are going to just be awful.  Others will underperform due to developing players, injuries or being cursed by whatever BABIP-style deity the NBA has.  Awful teams can’t flip the switch with the top pick (not even with LeBron or Shaq).  But a...
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    When will Rondo return?

    Yeah, um, about that being ready for the start of the season thing...I was way off (and a bit late acknowledging it). http://espn.go.com/boston/nba/story/_/id/9750298/rajon-rondo-boston-celtics-not-setting-sights-miracle-return Speaking to reporters for one of the first times since his...
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    It Is What It Is: Sh*t BB Says

    "Well, I thought there was some good effort out on the thread today, glad to come out with a win. There are certainly areas we can improve on, a lot of room for improvement. A number of things we can do better. We'll look at the tape and work on those things in practice, just try to get...
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    Brad Stevens named Celtics head coach

    Yeah, no one ever thought of getting three good players on the same team until Danny Ainge came along. Yeah, but at least he came up with the nickname Big Thr...oh, right. In fairness, it's a good point that analytics isn't some secret weapon. It's probably like baseball where every FO has at...
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    Brad Stevens named Celtics head coach

    On the other hand, as Allen Iverson pointed out, that's probably a more time than NBA teams spend substantively practicing. Awesome. Great explanation - thanks for that. So practice-wise, probably screwed, but there's a chance that, over time, his prep for players/teams will actually be...
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    Brad Stevens named Celtics head coach

    Back on Stevens, I had a question to throw out about prep in college vs. NBA (I don't follow college at all, so this is really a question, not trying to make a point).  It looks to me like teams will play around 30 games, but depending on how far they get in tournaments, it can be closer to...
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    When will Rondo return?

      This.  Especially given Stevens's love of combos and lineup comparisons, I could definitely see this getting some run, at least early in the season.  And that's not to say it will be good offensively, just that it may be one of the better of a bunch of not great options.   Also, on the Rondo...
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