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  1. 1 hour ago, Kuetsar said:

    Does anyone take a 2nd round flyer on him? Probably not right? I have no idea about his skill level, but on the board it seems to be the consensus that he's not NBA material. Given the amount of baggage his father comes with, I wonder if he even gets a token camp invite.

    I could see the Lakers giving him a camp invite if that will keep his father quite for a min. On the other hand if Lebron comes Lonzo might not even be on the Lakers so who knows.

  2. 17 minutes ago, sabremike said:

    But the WNBA (which is a summer league) always stops for the Olympics. The reason is very simple: the Olympics bring attention to their sport and in turn to their league. Who cares if the NHL can't use footage? They benefit from the exposure and their players become bigger stars.

    No they don't there zero evidence that there is a boost to attendance or ratings for NHL games post Olympics.

  3. 2 hours ago, Contentious C said:

    It's always struck me as weird that the NFL has so many more players per team and doesn't have an individual salary cap, while the NBA does and is just as affected (if not moreso) by a single player's presence on a team.

    Well NBA also has totally guaranteed contracts and a soft cap.

  4. 1 minute ago, Kevin Wilson said:

    Not sure I've ever seen someone catch their own pass and score a TD. How many FFL points does he get for that?

    depending on leauge scoring it assuming 6pts for a TD then Id be 12pts 6 for the throwing TD and 6 from Receiving TD

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  5. 12 minutes ago, JohnnyJ said:

    In a perfect world Austin is the special ref with both champs leaving the company after the match. He stuns the hell out of everyone and both titles are held up. At the Rumble the final 2 get to challenge each other in a best out of 3 falls match at mania to unify the titles. Winner of rumble comes into match with a one fall advantage. Roman and Cena are final two with Roman the winner. Now someone give me the book.

    So you now have a unified world title but two brands running 'ppv' every month. Is the champ going to have to defend the belt on both shows ppv and do build for both matches?

  6. 35 minutes ago, RonL21 said:

    I don't think he realized it was a referee since he was grabbed from behind and reacted

    Wait wait wait. You don't think he could tell the difference between, his team mates ( who were in all white uniforms), the chiefs players (in all red), and the refs in black and white stripes?

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  7. Actually for those thinking Katie will be part of Greenie's show. If you listen to Richard Deitsch SI: Media Podcast, hes said its very likely ESPN wanted Katie on the show but Katie didn't want it because she sees the writing on the wall that if it fails ESPN wont hold it on Greenie but on her.

  8. On 10/3/2017 at 3:49 PM, supremebve said:

    Are they going to show the team picking live like at a local park?  I want to see whoever is picked last stare a hole into the captains.  Of all this year's all-stars, who gets picked last?

    Not this year at least. Likely to be a special on TNT one of the Thursdays before All-Star-Weekend. Think they want time to be able to make up unis for everyone and have the teams set for the couple of practices they have that weekend. Personally I think if your going this to do this the NBA should have just gone all in. Top 24 players based on the fan vote, top two captions. if any of those 24 are injured then Silver picks a replacement. The draft is done during All-Star Saturday and Sunday is a shirts vs skins game. Oh and players call fouls.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Zimbra said:

    Big changes coming to the All-Star game.  It's no longer East vs West.  Instead the team captains (highest vote getters from each conference) will pick players for their teams regardless of conference.

    I love the picking players ideal and can't wait to see how it works in practice.

    Can we just call this the 'We don't want Lebron to lose by 100 in the all star game' rule

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  10. 4 hours ago, Dewar said:

    Outside of the Super Bowl and Thanksgiving day games, how often were the networks televising the national anthem anyway? It's not like NASCAR, where they show the anthems being sung every single race and do a prayer.

    Since the start of this whole thing nearly every early game. The late games usually had a video package coming back from a brake.

  11. The two sticking points I have are the 'encouraged' to be accessible to fans for interaction before the game. What the hell does that even mean. And second what would prevent a team from listing player a as injured and then sit player b who isn't injured even thou player a isn't really injured?

  12. 4 minutes ago, Kuetsar said:

    Not to sound too much like a 19th century British aristocrat here, but they ARE getting paid. Louisville(for example, and I only know because I just looked it up) costs $40,000 a year to attend. So they got the equivalent of some 40k to attend. I know there are huge flaws in the ways athletes are manipulated into basket weaving 101 or what ever, but they have the opportunity. 

    But that's beside the point. WHO is going to pay these kids "what they are worth"? You pay one player. you have to pay them all, assuming its the university, not the shoe companies. If you try just pay the elite from the college, on a Monday say, by Tuesday you would have a lawsuit from every other player on the team, and every women's player too, based on Title IX. 

    If you just legalize what is happening now, its going to be in the paper(or internet), just what everyone makes, and it will breed resentment, or scheming by subs to get the money by undermining the starter, or guys "missing" blocks if they resent what the starting QB is making say, or an equivalent situation in basketball.

    You want to figure out a scheme to give everyone a small entertainment stipend or something to make up for not having a part time job? I could see that working, but anything more could collapse the system. 

    If you remove the amateur rule then schools don't have to pay the players a dime. Just allow the players to seek out endorsement deals no different then any other 'entertainer'. Why is it ok for the drama major who might also be on scholarship to be able to get payed for acting jobs while still in school but Joe PG cant?

  13. 24 minutes ago, CSC said:

    It's Geek & Sundry's online pay streaming service that they stuck Tabletop on to try to get subscribers, then backtracked once they pissed off the entire fanbase (and creators) and admitted that the episodes would be released on Youtube about 3 months after going live on Alpha.  

    Correct me if I'm wrong but its more Nerdist online pay streaming service using Geek & Sundry's name and people.

  14. 1 hour ago, supremebve said:

    Am I the only one who hates how everyone drags the military into all of this?  At what point has anyone took a knee against the military?  That's like me taking a knee against 49ers fans, and someone interpreting it as me hating Kansas City Royals fans.  I honestly do not get where the military has anything to do with any of these protests.  They people protesting have made it very clear why their protesting, except everybody tries to make it something else.  

    They bring the military in because in there view the military fight to protect everyone's right that the flag stands for except the ones those people don't agree with. So the argument goes by protesting the flag your disrespecting the military men and women who died to protect the right to freedom of speech and assembly that the players and others are invoking. Which is the very reason that so many vets openly say they have zero issue with people kneeling or protesting because that's why they did what they did.

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  15. Wait so yours saying HAVE more basketball when people are already complaining about teams sitting players to get them 'rested' before the playoffs? Also owners would never go for a system where they make the playoffs (thous having to pay the players and coaches) but get no money from it. while 8 others teams get all the money.

    3) There are so many teams in the 5-6-7-8 range that are one player away. Portland has a great backcourt but they're sort of stuck now in the 6-9 range. Memphis the past few years were a pretty beloved team just one great shooter away from doing some real damage. These are all really well-run teams that are just a player short. We should reward them.

    If there so well run why arn't they using there assets like draft picks and players to get that one missing player? Why haven't they used free agency or the draft to get that player?

  16. 1 hour ago, Zimbra said:

    Also pretty cool that anonymous Boston execs felt the need to shit on IT anonymously to Chris Broussard as they traded him away.  I hope he drops 100 on them on opening night.

    Isn't that like rule one of being an exec of a Boston pro sports team?

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  17. 7 minutes ago, Zimbra said:

    Actually I don't think he was eligible in the first place since he was sign-and-traded from the Kings to the Suns, so he technically signed an extension before he was traded.  He also would have had to to make an all-NBA team or win MVP next year to be eligible.

    oh the NBA CBA is hard to fallow

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