Dumbest Quotes of the NBA Offseason

The thing about the world today is when you say something stupid, it doesn't take the world long to find out about it, repeat it, post it, tweet it or retweet it. 

If you make a fool of yourself and you're a celebrity, it'll make the rounds and end up on top-10 lists and all sorts of things. Here are the 11 dumbest things said or tweeted during the offseason. 

Marquis Daniels

Marquis Daniels gave us a good life lesson a couple of weeks ago when he tweeted:

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Take nothing for granite, be excited about every moment in your life and always keep#GOD over everything #beleedat

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Nor should we take anything for granted, for example auto-complete. 

This is the "11th" on the top 10 list, and a precautionary tale regarding the dangers of auto-complete. 

Chirs Bosh

Chris Bosh:

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Spending is the easiest thing in life. You give me $100 million and I can spend it in twenty-four hours. You think I'm playing? I'm not playing. People can't fathom it. But going broke is the easiest thing ever. Money requires a lot of attention.

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Remember last year when he got mad at Omer Asik for diving for a ball and complained, "we've to to provide for our families." 

Yeah. Maybe salt away a million or two instead of spending it all then. 

Pau Gasol

The flopping giant, Pau Gasol has complained about Blake Griffin flopping. 

"I think we were upset that they were flopping a little too much," said Gasol.

Uh huh. Next up OJ Simpson is going to complain about Griffin's violent temper. I wouldn't exactly call the Barnes foul a "flop" so much as a real and actual foul. 

This is ludicrous. If Pau Gasol played Manu Ginobili in game of one-on-one, they would both go to the ground without getting within five feet of each other. 

Matt Barnes

Not trying to pile on the Lakers here, but Matt Barnes followed up the Pau Gasol flopping remarks with his own little whining about "all the hoorah after every single dunk." 

The thing is that there really wasn't that much "hoorah' and "celebrating" after "every single dunk."  I know this because I actually watched the game twice and there were plenty of dunks where there wasn't any celebrating. 

Maybe...just maybe...the problem here is that you're giving up way too many dunks. Look, I get it, little brother just smacked you down on your own court twice in less than a week. 

The whining form the Lakers is just sad. Talk about "act like you've been there before." The Clippers haven't been there before. Let them enjoy finally getting there. It's not like the Lakers never celebrated anything. 

Oh, and incidentally, the video above is how Griffin celebrates after winning the dunk contest. 

Javale McGee

Nothing says that the players are about to fold like a player saying the players are about to fold.

As in, "some guys are in there saying they're ready to fold."  

If I were Mr. Rogers, I would have given McGee a word for the day: "solidarity." 

Amar'e Stoudemire

Amar'e Stoudemire had a moment that was triply-dumb when he told the New York Post:

"We're going to hunt in South Florida," Stoudemire said. "You know what we're going to hunt down there, right? We're going to hunt LeBron and D-Wade."

It's dumb because it's really not about the Knicks and Heat right now. For a core that hasn't won a playoff game yet, they should probably be talking about that before they start acting like they are the ones hunting down the Eastern Conference champs.

It's also dumb because why would you want to be comparing yourself to the Heat? It's not like they've gotten all this positive attention. 

Lastly, it's dumb because you're in New York and drawing a giant bulls-eye on your back. 

Hey, I'm all for talking about championships, but singling out another team and discounting other better teams is just dumb. 

Derrick Rose

Derrick Rose probably means it when he says, "I don't play for money, I play to win," but some people found it ironic that he said it on the same day he inked a $95 million deal. 

This isn't so much about the words as the timing. In essence, some people are going to find fault with you the moment you sign your name to a contract that has you making close to $100 million. 

Rose makes up for it a bit with the "Mom, we made it!" quote, though. 

Dwight Howard

After his pathetic first preseason game against the Miami Heat Howard said:

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I told the guys we're in this together … we're going to stay on the path to win a championship, like I told the guys, at the present time we're all on the same team and we're all in this together. Until that changes, we should go out and play hard every night.

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At the present time? He might as well have told them, "Look fellas, we're all in this together...until i abandon you!" 

When you're demanding a trade, you really lose your ability to go with that "Band of Brothers" jargon, Howard. 

Chauncey Billups

It would have been one thing for Chauncey Billups to merely retire if a team he didn't want to play for picked him up, but he went too far when he threatened to be disruptive in the locker room.

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I’ve been known as a leader, and I am a leader, but a leader can be as disruptive as he can be productive, especially when you carry a strong voice and people rally around you. This is about me now. This is about me, and teams should know that right now.

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There's really no pleasant way to parse this, though few have tried.

Roger Mason

Roger Mason "accidentally" tweeted," "Looking like a season. How u." 

And we thought the lockout was over about two months before it was. His explanation was almost as much fun as the tweet. 

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Mason explained it like this: "Actually I was in high school with my son and I have an assistant that frequently updates my account. And a friend of mine sent me a message about how the lockout could last. And I said, 'It looks like it could be a season.' So it sent him a message back. She sends a message thinking it was a text message but it wasn't, it was a tweet. 

"So I got a bunch of calls from media and they asked me about the tweet and I didn't know anything about it so I assumed I had been hacked."

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Uh huh. The old, "My assistant did it" accusation. 

Do you think he points at her after he passes gas too?

David Stern

I need only say two words here. "Basketball reasons."