April 18th

[Ian Noble]

Brooklyn Nets vs Philadelphia 76ers
Milwaukee Bucks vs Washington Wizards
Miami Heat vs Atlanta Hawks
Los Angeles Clippers vs Memphis Grizzlies
Oklahoma City Thunder vs Sacramento Kings

[Ian Noble]

Thunder GM, Shaquille O'Neal, unwittingly rested Cousins and Durant and thereby gifted 8th Seed to the Kings with the win today.

[Mike Krzyzewski]

Wow.

Well, congrats Sacramento. Those 2 straight losses to OKC coupled with you meeting a "resting" OKC were too much for me to overcome. Good luck in the playoffs!

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May 18, 2014 12:50:09 GMT Mike Krzyzewski said:

Wow.

Well, congrats Sacramento. Those 2 straight losses to OKC coupled with you meeting a "resting" OKC were too much for me to overcome. Good luck in the playoffs!

Thank you Mike! Honestly, your team dwarfed mine after I traded Josh Smith so I chalk this up to the combined power of Johnny Football/Tim Tebow. With that said, however, the Clippers played well at the end of the year and deserve to be a playoff team. Therefore, I hope player agents don't try to factor this or other real-life factors that should not translate *cough* Donald Sterling *cough* into Blake's free agency decision. Additionally, I know most in this league talk about the Northwest and rightfully so, but the ole' Pacific Division is a pretty tough division as well. Good luck to the Clippers in the off-season and I TOLD YOU WE WOULD BE COMING SPLASH BOYS!

[Shaquille O'Neal]

Felt bad tanking the last sim but had to get the 6 seed..

Even if I win that game you still fall one game short though.

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May 18, 2014 16:36:30 GMT Shaquille O'Neal said:

Felt bad tanking the last sim but had to get the 6 seed..

Even if I win that game you still fall one game short though.

I love you! You really helped me get in.

[Mike Krzyzewski]

No worries OKC. That is part of the game. You have to do what is best for your team, I completely understand that.

Thanks Vlade! I appreciate it. We did play much, much better basketball after a slow start (we were 5 or 6 games below .500 I think early on so I am very pleased with the way the team played. We had numerous wins over top playoff teams down the stretch so I really think we could have made some noise had we gotten in.

Good luck to you and all the playoff teams this year! For the 1st time in a while, we will be on the outside of the playoffs looking in. We have already had multiple team meetings on this and you can be sure that we will be extremely focused to not only return to the playoffs, but to be a true title contender!