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Omar Little
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I find it funny that the people who act like Magic should shut up because he has no good reason making these tweets seem to constantly read his feed. Maybe that's why he does it, because people care what he's thinking, even the ones who spend a lot of time reading his feed so they can immediately tell us how little they care about each of his opinions...
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It's Twitter. You're supposed to write (bleep) that comes to your mind.
Nobody expects it to be BREAKING NEWS, great insight, or life changing advice that cannot be found elsewhere.
Nobody except posters on LG apparently |
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Rick12322
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With the massive changes the owners are looking to make, Orlando doesn't have to trade Dwight. The whole idea of losing someone in FA will become a fallacy because of the hard cap. The concept of losing had to do with losing your capspace, which could only be maintained through re-signing the player or trading. All of that is null with the changes they want to make.
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| numero-ocho wrote: |
It's not a question of whether or not Magic has a right to an opinion. It's whether his opinion should be treated as if he's representing the Laker organization. |
how could it possibly be? he completely divested himself of the lakers |
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Omar Little
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| Rick12322 wrote: | | With the massive changes the owners are looking to make, Orlando doesn't have to trade Dwight. The whole idea of losing someone in FA will become a fallacy because of the hard cap. The concept of losing had to do with losing your capspace, which could only be maintained through re-signing the player or trading. All of that is null with the changes they want to make. |
Not necessarily true. There are several teams with better ability to get further under the cap than Orlando 2 seasons from now. The only thing that would work in Orlando's favor is a franchise tag.
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numero-ocho
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| NickF wrote: | | numero-ocho wrote: |
It's not a question of whether or not Magic has a right to an opinion. It's whether his opinion should be treated as if he's representing the Laker organization. |
how could it possibly be? he completely divested himself of the lakers |
He still maintained his Vice President title after he sold his ownership stake.
http://www.iamagm.com/news/2010/10/22/magic.johnson.remain.lakers.vice.president
I've never really been sure what he's vice president of or what his actual duties are with the team.
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Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
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| questionmark wrote: | | If OKC offers Westbrook and Perkins, I don't think the Lakers have a chance to offer a better package. |
Hell that's better for the Lakers. Westbrook gives the Lakers a lot more trouble than Dwight. |
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| MortalKombatX wrote: | Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
Magic better shuts the hell up, no doubt.
However - before discussing anyone's amount of brain cells - just check your own. What does it have to be with Israelis/Palestinians 
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| numero-ocho wrote: |
I've never really been sure what he's vice president of or what his actual duties are with the team. |
Apparently his duties were to embarrass himself and say dumb things every time he appears on national television. |
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Magic's been saying... Lakers need to improve the roster... or the Lakers need to call the Orlando Magic...
to us, those things seem obvious enough... yes, the Lakers need to do those things... but maybe, just maybe, Magic is privy to info that, again maybe, the Lakers are not planning to do those things (staying pat) that's why he's saying them out loud... just saying, me and my imagination.
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| golakersgo121 wrote: | | What does it have to be with Israelis/Palestinians |
There are Internet rumors floating around that Starbucks gives financial support to the Israeli government.
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| 24 wrote: | | Rick12322 wrote: | | With the massive changes the owners are looking to make, Orlando doesn't have to trade Dwight. The whole idea of losing someone in FA will become a fallacy because of the hard cap. The concept of losing had to do with losing your capspace, which could only be maintained through re-signing the player or trading. All of that is null with the changes they want to make. |
Not necessarily true. There are several teams with better ability to get further under the cap than Orlando 2 seasons from now. The only thing that would work in Orlando's favor is a franchise tag. |
Yep.
And, as much as I usually support a lot of owners' points - that's the one I can't support at all. As it is limiting the freedom of the player. I kinda understand limiting it with financial incentives. It still gives him a choice to sign the less attractive deal with the team of his choosing. But to simply put any kind of a tag on the human being (even very well compensated) - it is beyond my understanding
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| numero-ocho wrote: | | golakersgo121 wrote: | | What does it have to be with Israelis/Palestinians |
There are Internet rumors floating around that Starbucks gives financial support to the Israeli government. |
And what does it have to do with Magic/D12 and/or the Lakers
I support Israel as well - and it has nothing to do with it
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| numero-ocho wrote: | | NickF wrote: | | numero-ocho wrote: |
It's not a question of whether or not Magic has a right to an opinion. It's whether his opinion should be treated as if he's representing the Laker organization. |
how could it possibly be? he completely divested himself of the lakers |
He still maintained his Vice President title after he sold his ownership stake.
http://www.iamagm.com/news/2010/10/22/magic.johnson.remain.lakers.vice.president
I've never really been sure what he's vice president of or what his actual duties are with the team. |
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| VALakerFan80 wrote: | | Yeah I would take Howard... I wonder could Howard and Bynum play together? I think Gasol needs to be traded! |
Bynum needs to stop being injury-prone first.
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| MortalKombatX wrote: | Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
Magic doesn't have AIDS. He still has the HIV Virus.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| MortalKombatX wrote: | Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
Nothing like combining bigotries, in case anyone isn't offended by one!
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| BobbyJ wrote: | | MortalKombatX wrote: | Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
Magic doesn't have AIDS. He still has the HIV Virus. |
Not to mention that is a pretty screwed up thing to say about somebody with HIV. |
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| golakersgo121 wrote: | | numero-ocho wrote: | | golakersgo121 wrote: | | What does it have to be with Israelis/Palestinians |
There are Internet rumors floating around that Starbucks gives financial support to the Israeli government. |
And what does it have to do with Magic/D12 and/or the Lakers
I support Israel as well - and it has nothing to do with it |
It has nothing to do with it, especially since Magic sold all his Starbucks franchises.
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| 24 wrote: | | I find it funny that the people who act like Magic should shut up because he has no good reason making these tweets seem to constantly read his feed. Maybe that's why he does it, because people care what he's thinking, even the ones who spend a lot of time reading his feed so they can immediately tell us how little they care about each of his opinions... |
Kinda how everyone keeps talking about Lebron every 5 seconds and how every crappy sports writer is an idiot even though I see his stuff posted on here every other day. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| numero-ocho wrote: | | golakersgo121 wrote: | | What does it have to be with Israelis/Palestinians |
There are Internet rumors floating around that Starbucks gives financial support to the Israeli government. |
If they were, what's wrong with that? (not directed at you)
I find it strange though considering that Coffee Bean is many times over more popular in Israel than Starbucks. But that doesn't matter anyways.
Just a dumb post by the OP that started this. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| MortalKombatX wrote: | Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
You've posted 10 times and you bad mouth a Laker HOF'r?
Bad move... |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| oldandpurpleandgold wrote: | | Magic should think about shutting the F up about the Lakers for a while. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| MortalKombatX wrote: | Something must be wrong, this guy has been saying the same (bleep) every time he speaks....
The Aids have killed his brain cells.... does he even realize no one cares what he thinks.... go donate money to Starbucks so the Isarelis can keep killing Palestinians by getting money to buy more weapons.
Magic is a worthless piece of crap. |
Go (bleep) yourself you piece of (bleep). Speaking of dead brain cells, this i'm amazed you can even type on a computer. |
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