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damn, he's fallen.
I think he might have to sign a one year deal and prove he can stay healthy and put up consistent numbers
They said "Remember that shit you pulled in the playoffs when you refused to check in a blowout game?"..I called it
Dwyane Wade announces return to Miami Heat for
'one last dance'
Dwyane Wade announced his decision to return to the Miami Heat for one more season.
After a summer of deep contemplation, Dwyane Wade has announced his intentions to return to the Miami Heat for one more season. The 12-time All-Star delivered the news in a YouTube video titled "One Last Dance..." that was published Sunday.
"I feel like it's right to ask you guys to join me for one last dance, for one last season," Wade said. "This is it. I've given this game everything that I have, and I'm happy about that. I'm going to give it for one last season, everything else I have left."
During the 10-minute video, Wade went into detail about the factors that played into the decision and how his life's journey built up to what will be his final NBA season. His mentioned his family frequently, and thanked both them and his fans profusely.
"I feel like my family has put me first for so many years, for good reasons," Wade said. "But I feel like there comes a point in time where we all got to think about someone else, especially the ones around you that have supported you, supported your dream, supported your journey like my family has."
Wade was emotionally forthcoming about the toll of losing Chicago native and former agent Henry Thomas to a neuromuscular disease in January.
"With him not being there last year, that was it," Wade admitted. "I lost something in this game. Me getting traded back to Miami, it helped, but it wasn't enough.
The former fifth overall pick, however, cited his love of the game and the journey it has given him.
"This decision is bigger than the game of basketball," Wade said. "This decision don't have nothing to do with the talent in my body."
http://www.nba.com/article/2018/09/16/dwyane-wade-announces-miami-heat-return
'one last dance'
Dwyane Wade announced his decision to return to the Miami Heat for one more season.
After a summer of deep contemplation, Dwyane Wade has announced his intentions to return to the Miami Heat for one more season. The 12-time All-Star delivered the news in a YouTube video titled "One Last Dance..." that was published Sunday.
"I feel like it's right to ask you guys to join me for one last dance, for one last season," Wade said. "This is it. I've given this game everything that I have, and I'm happy about that. I'm going to give it for one last season, everything else I have left."
During the 10-minute video, Wade went into detail about the factors that played into the decision and how his life's journey built up to what will be his final NBA season. His mentioned his family frequently, and thanked both them and his fans profusely.
"I feel like my family has put me first for so many years, for good reasons," Wade said. "But I feel like there comes a point in time where we all got to think about someone else, especially the ones around you that have supported you, supported your dream, supported your journey like my family has."
Wade was emotionally forthcoming about the toll of losing Chicago native and former agent Henry Thomas to a neuromuscular disease in January.
"With him not being there last year, that was it," Wade admitted. "I lost something in this game. Me getting traded back to Miami, it helped, but it wasn't enough.
The former fifth overall pick, however, cited his love of the game and the journey it has given him.
"This decision is bigger than the game of basketball," Wade said. "This decision don't have nothing to do with the talent in my body."
http://www.nba.com/article/2018/09/16/dwyane-wade-announces-miami-heat-return
In ten years when all parties are retired. We're gonna look back at Brons first two years back in Cleveland and what he accomplished and who he accomplished it with and against and be amazed.
While,I agree with you some the blame of it is on LeBron and Tristan. You had folks saying Tristan is the next Dennis Rodman despite making his first playoff appearance in 2015.....And LeBron for wanting to play with one-dimensional players like Kevin Love and Tristan.
While,I will always side with the players for getting their money. Players like Tristan doesn't deserve max money. He got his money and never heard again for the most part.
Amazed at what? LBJ wanted all those players he played with in Cleveland; if he didnt none of them would have been resigned. Im more amazed at Kyrie not wanting to play there then what LBJ played with....
Bron turned a loser city and loser franchise into a champion. Any criticism you lob at him is irrational bullshit.
LBJ was forced to play role of exec and GM due to utter incompetence by the actual people paid to perform those roles. He won a title with limited talent and nearly zero depth. He also didnt make Love and Kyrie injury prone and undependable.
Forced to play GM
yo Ive heard it all now; dude stop it..Love was injury prone before Cavs traded for him; Which LBJ endorse and wanted the trade. Kyrie was injury prone before LBJ came back to Cleveland; LBJ knew this as well. Tristian was resigned with LBJ pushing for it; JR was resigned as well same thing. All this is documented. They won that chip because of a lot of factors, not just LBJ; lets be real and honest for a minute geeze...He won 1 title with the people he wanted signed period; he also lost multiple titles with those same people. Not amazed now nor will I be looking back. Alot more things to be amazed about in LBJ career.....
Whether they were injury prone pre=LBJ or not isnt the issue. The issue is they WERE injury prone and he won it all with them and contended without them. And they won becuae of LBJ. He was THE only non interchangeable piece in the lot. To debate this is more irrational bullshit. He beat the winningest team of all time with only ONE legitimate HOF talent who happened to be a guy who couldnt win more than 20 games before Bron saved his career.Forced to play GM
To act LeBron blameless is ridiculous. It's been documented he wanted Love on the team and wanted the Cavs to re-sign Tristan and JR since they're his boys.
I'm grateful for what LeBron and Kyrie did for my city but for anyone to say LeBron shouldn't be criticize is ridiculous.
I'm not even saying he gets 10% of the blame because ultimately the owner,the coach and GM has to get good players around him but he's not without fault either.
Im saying for ANY Cavs fan or resident of that shit state to criticize him AT ALL is absolutely ridiculous. And the fact you have ANY that actually do after seeing that franchise with and without him twice.. proves that you fucking losers deserve to be exactly who and what you are. Fucking Losers.
Forced to play GM
I don't remember Love being injury prone with Minnesota
He stays injured...
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/4/8/4203370/kevin-love-injury-timberwolves-knee-surgery
Kevin Love injury: Timberwolves' star to undergo season-ending knee surgery
Kevin Love's injury-riddled season will come to an end thanks to a bothersome knee that requires surgery.
By Ryan Rosenblatt Apr 8, 2013, 10:06pm EDTSHARE
Kevin Love will undergo season-ending knee surgery to remove scar tissue in his bothersome left knee, bringing an end to the power forward's injury-riddled year. The normal recovery time for the operation is four to six weeks, which rules him out for the rest of a season that only has nine days left in it.
The power forward has only played 18 games this season, but it was his hand, not his knee, that has kept him sidelined to this point. He twice broke his right hand, first while working out before the season and then again in a game on Feb. 3. Love was scheduled to have that hand re-examined in New York on Tuesday, an appointment he will still keep, but then he will meet with the surgeon in New York who will operate on his knee.
Love has had the scar tissue problem with his knee all season, and the plan was to undergo surgery in the offseason, but as he increased the intensity of his workouts in an attempt to return from his broken hand, he experienced more and more discomfort in his knee. That, likely combined with the fact that the Minnesota Timberwolves were eliminated from playoff contention long ago, encouraged Love to undergo the knee operation now as opposed to waiting until the season ended.
Love averaged 18.3 points and 14 rebounds per game in his limited time this season, a year after averaging 26 points and 13.3 rebounds per game en route to All-NBA Second Team honors in 2011-12. Love is in the first year of a four-year, $62 million contract that allows him to opt out after three years.
I could post more but I think you get the point; dude was injured in Minnesota, and hes been the same injury prone player in Cleveland...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...en-right-hand-minnesota-timberwolves/1821959/
Kevin Love out 8-10 weeks for Timberwolves with broken hand
APPublished 8:57 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2013
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — If the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to chase down their first playoff berth since 2004, they're going to have to do most of the work without Kevin Love.
But this hard-luck franchise knows what it feels like to play without its All-Star and Olympian.
Love will miss the next eight to 10 weeks after needing surgery to repair a right hand that is broken for the second time this season, the team announced on Wednesday.
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It's the latest in a long line of injuries to Minnesota's key players that have threatened to derail a season which started with postseason aspirations. It's also the latest chapter in what has been a nightmare season for Love in the first year of the $62 million contract extension he signed last January.
Love missed the first three weeks of the regular season after breaking his right hand in the preseason. He returned faster than most expected, played for about a month and then broke two bones in his shooting hand in a game last week against Denver. The team said a date for the surgery would be announced Thursday.
"We're going to miss him a lot, but there's nothing we can do about that right now," point guard Ricky Rubio said Tuesday night before knowing the full extent of Love's injury. "We just have to keep moving forward."
The timeframe would put Love back on the court possibly around mid-March, about a month before the playoffs begin. The Wolves (16-15) started the day in ninth place in the Western Conference, one spot out of the playoff field.
Love was averaging 18.3 points and 14.0 rebounds after helping Team USA to the gold medal in the London Olympics, but he hasn't been the same player who emerged as the best power forward in the game last year.
Needing more time to rest after the Olympic grind, Love showed up to training camp knowing he would need to push himself to get into the shape he was accustomed to playing in. That process was halted late in the preseason when he injured his hand the first time, a break that didn't need surgery and allowed him to return about 10 days earlier than expected.
Once he was back in the lineup, Love struggled to recapture the shooting form that made him such a unique problem for opposing defenses. He was shooting just 21.7 percent from 3-point range and 35 percent from the field, with his hand not allowing him to get the feel on his shot.
"I think this time, he needs to do it right, to recover fully, recover all the way to the end," center Nikola Pekovic said before the team played Oklahoma City on Wednesday night. "The last time, the previous time he got hurt, he kind of hurried. So maybe, I'm not a doctor, I don't know. Maybe that's the reason: it's not healed all the way. I'm sure this time he'll heal it up all the way."
Love also drew scorn from a Timberwolves fan base that had adored him shortly after returning when he made some critical remarks about the organization to Yahoo! Sports and renewed his complaints about getting a four-year contract and not the five-year deal that he wanted.
Now the Wolves will have to play on without him again.
They've also lost Brandon Roy, Chase Budinger and Josh Howard to knee injuries this season and been slowed by Rubio's gradual return from a torn ACL in his left knee last March. Rubio returned for five games in mid-December, but had to sit out four games with back spasms, as well, and said after dishing out eight assists in a win over the Hawks on Tuesday night that he's still working to get his conditioning back up to speed.
Nikola Pekovic, J.J. Barea and Luke Ridnour have also been dealing with minor injuries, a run of health issues that has left coach Rick Adelman without a full bench for almost the entire season.
Even Adelman has been absent lately, missing the last two games for personal reasons. It's not immediately clear when the coach will rejoin his team.
"The NBA doesn't stop for us," said assistant Terry Porter, who is filling in for Adelman. "I wish I could make it stop and just twist the schedules a little bit. I don't want to stop seeing somebody but I just want to re-shift when we see them. Like OKC, we want to see them in March maybe."
Was planning to do it later tonight, but since I got rained out, I'm get on it in a few minutes.
Actually thought about creating one when I wat he'd the video of Lebron first interview as a Laker.
Thanks for the acknowledgement tho, that's real respect.
U one of the best posters and u spit real shit! U always got my respect big bro, always!!
Get a room
lol
Get a room
Say bro, you didn't even have to get down like that....we been better tha that
