2014-2015: Apex's Mark Price Shirsey Returns!

[ChuckD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUiOM9JkQQ

[PenFoe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUiOM9JkQQ

That was legit amazing.

[InternetApex]

My Bleacher Report APP told me that the Cavs might sign E'Twaan Moore to wave towels on the bench. If that happens, I'm all the way the fuck in.

I'm sure once the Bears Super Bowl Parade is over and Cutler ends the Middle East crisis, I'll turn my attention toward basketball full time and let my Cavs boner breathe a bit. But I don't think it will come with the same type of juice that the Heat boner did. There were so many haters and trolls to destroy on the internets with that one. This will just be about watching my favorite player play awesome basketball with a talented team that beats teams 137-129. Hopefully Kurt Rambis will make a cameo and clothesline somebody.

[Quality Start Machine]

My Bleacher Report APP told me that the Cavs might sign E'Twaan Moore to wave towels on the bench. If that happens, I'm all the way the fuck in.

I'm sure once the Bears Super Bowl Parade is over and Cutler ends the Middle East crisis, I'll turn my attention toward basketball full time and let my Cavs boner breathe a bit. But I don't think it will come with the same type of juice that the Heat boner did. There were so many haters and trolls to destroy on the internets with that one. This will just be about watching my favorite player play awesome basketball with a talented team that beats teams 137-129. Hopefully Kurt Rambis will make a cameo and clothesline somebody.

Once the Bears Super Bowl Parade is over, keep your spot for the Blackhawks one.

[Saul Goodman]

My Bleacher Report APP told me that the Cavs might sign E'Twaan Moore E'Twaun Moore to wave towels on the bench. If that happens, I'm all the way the fuck in.

I'm sure once the Bears Super Bowl Parade is over and Cutler ends the Middle East crisis, I'll turn my attention toward basketball full time and let my Cavs boner breathe a bit. But I don't think it will come with the same type of juice that the Heat boner did. There were so many haters and trolls to destroy on the internets with that one. This will just be about watching my favorite player play awesome basketball with a talented team that beats teams 137-129. Hopefully Kurt Rambis will make a cameo and clothesline somebody.

Something something Purdue can't spell and your basketball choices are stupid.  Actually I don't really have an opinion or care.

[InternetApex]

Preeeeeeeediction time!!!!! I didn't do too badly last year and here goes:

East
1. Cleveland - They may struggle out of the box to find an identity and learn the system, accept roles. But that may be to their advantage later as they will have to play hard in the dog days to achieve consistency. And I just don't really like any other team's roster enough to pick them first.
2. Washington - This will no longer be a young, inexperienced team. They picked up Pierce who, if nothing else will give them some much-needed perspective and professionalism.
3. Toronto. - Just too much talent not to finish in the top half of this conference.
4. Chicago - I'm putting them here because I have absolutely no idea what this team is. Nobody does. I expect they'll play hard no matter what so ... 4th.
5. Charlotte - If healthy, Al Jefferson will take a huge step forward and make the all-star team. They're the Hornets now so the huge dark cloud of suck that hovered over them may be gone, at least psychologically. I think that's good for a two spot jump in the conference.
6. Atlanta - I would have picked them higher if not for the Danny Ferry fuckery. This franchise was pointed in the right direction and seemed like it had a solid plan moving forward. All of that might have been undone this past offseason and the new leadership might tear it all down.
7. Miami - Wade is terrible now. Bosh will have inflated stats and provide some entertainment. Deng will ably replace LeBron DEFENSIVELY but... who scores on this team besides Bosh? I retain enough faith in Riley and Spoelstra to believe this won't be a complete leper colonization but I don't know, it might be.
8. Brooklyn - Somebody has to be the 8th seed and of the teams who could qualify, the Nets are the only ones who actually figure to want it. Detroit, Milwaukee and Boston should be tanking. New York may have enough to go out in a blaze of 9th place glory. Indiana really should be phoning this season in and I think Larry Bird is smart enough to know that. Their only hope is a triumphant return of Roy Hibbert as an offensive threat. If that happens, they could stupidly win the 8th seed or better.

EASTERN FINALS:
Cleveland over Washington

WESTERN FINALS:
San Antonio over Golden State

NBA FINALS:
San Antonio over Cleveland

FINALS MVP:
Kawhi Leonard

NBA MVP: LeBron James

Coach of the year: Dave Blatt

[Slaky]

The Wizards got Pierce? Jesus. They're gonna be good. Beal is a monster.

[InternetApex]

The Wizards got Pierce? Jesus. They're gonna be good. Beal is a monster.

I think he mitigates some of the problems they have with their coach being a useless shite. At the very least he gives them a playoff-tested veteran voice in the huddle telling Wall and Beal to PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION. With any luck, he'll be healthy and competitive come playoff time and give them a legitimately feared crunch time scoring threat who can actually make a free throw if his season depends on it. They'll miss Ariza's defense. But even at 37 Pierce is a guy the opponent must account for in the waning moments. That can't do anything but help Wall and Beal.

[Slaky]

The Bulls looking good - the Knicks looking HORRID

[InternetApex]

The Bulls looking good - the Knicks looking HORRID

The Bulls do look good. They'll be challenged a lot more than they were in the opener but this team is extremely interesting to watch. Friday night vs. Cleveland should be fun as hell and lack most of the venom and hate that had built up between the Bulls and LeBron's Heat. That could all change by season's end but Friday might actually be about two very good basketball teams feeling each other out as they find their own identities. Good times.

[PenFoe]

The Bulls looking good - the Knicks looking HORRID

And that's without Jimmy Butler.

Excited for this team - really deep group.

[Slaky]

The Bulls looking good - the Knicks looking HORRID

And that's without Jimmy Butler.

Excited for this team - really deep group.

Aaron Brooks was a really nice pick up. Not sure why it didn't get much press.

[PenFoe]

Is it either too early or too stupid to be glad the Bulls didn't get Carmelo?

[SKO]

Is it either too early or too stupid to be glad the Bulls didn't get Carmelo?

Yes.

But it's not too early to go full Kaplan on him and call him a fraud for saying that he stayed in NY because he thought they could win. HE WAS OUT FOR THE MONEY PLAIN AND SIMPLE. FRAUDMELO.

[BH]

Is it too early to think Thibs has changed and now will give players more rest? Noah and Rose weren't overworked last night.