Semi-Pro Page #4

I can't even feel my arms!

OK, Jackie, listen to me. Jackie?

- Hey, Jackie?

- Yes?

Four teams will be absorbed

into the NBA next year.

The rest of the league

will terminate operations.

Exactly. You know it.

Wait.

Wait, what did you say?

The Nets, the Spurs,

the Pacers and the Nuggets...

are gonna play in the NBA next season.

- The rest of us are gonna dissolve.

- Dissolve?

What's "dissolve"?

Is that even a word?

Yes, it is a word...

and financially it means

you'll cease to exist.

Let's don't get emotional about it.

Just...

No!

No!

OK.

All right, you're being...

Well, Jackie. Jackie...

You... Don't bite yourself.

Come on.

Jackie, we agreed to a very large sum.

I don't want a large sum, OK?

I want my team.

Come on, you guys...

you're not gonna just sit there

and take the money, are you? Huh?

What do the Nets have

that I don't have?!

The Nets have a huge fan base.

They got a brand-new stadium.

Solid economic growth package

with great tax incentives.

Come on, Alan, that's bullshit!

The NBA's gonna

take four teams, Jackie.

This is a good deal.

Best four teams should go.

He's right.

The season isn't over yet.

Hey, you know what? Yeah,

everybody should have a chance.

That's the fairest way.

Aw, gee whiz...

that sounds like so much fun...

fair and all.

But come on, guys...

I mean, look at what

we're dealing with here.

This guy plays power forward

for his own team, so...

But he has a point.

Why not make the terms of

a merger performance-based.

- Exactly.

- Huh?

- What he just said.

- Yeah.

I move we vote

on the terms of the merger.

- I second.

- And what he... what that guy said.

But... What both those guys said.

God damn it, Bob! I'm about to reach

over there and tear you a new a**hole!

Don't be a jackass.

- It makes sense.

- F*** you, Bob! We talked this out!

I don't see a need

for that kinda language.

Now, if you wanna go outside

right now...

I'll take both of you f***ers out

right damn now!

We're not gonna fight,

we're gonna vote!

- Let's vote!

- Let's vote...

and then we'll fight!

Come on, guys...

you should be juiced right now.

This is a chance to become

a real NBA franchise.

Man, get outta town.

Ain't no way in Sam Hill

we gonna make it to fourth place.

- Nope.

- Yeah, Jackie...

we have a horseshit record right now.

Yeah, well, we just need to start

hittin' our threes, OK?

That's not the problem, Jackie.

The problem is...

we suck.

Scootsie, you did not deserve that.

- I know.

- I apologize.

Stop that sh*t, man.

We do not suck, OK?

I been doin' a lot of thinkin'.

Decided to add someone to our team

to add some real firepower, OK?

I think this guy

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