hammerva Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 This bulls vs nets game makes me wish for football on this day. Just sloppy and dull but then again it is the nets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 This bulls vs nets game makes me wish for football on this day. Just sloppy and dull but then again it is the nets Don't worry. Knicks and Thunder will definitely provide some laughs and levity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 I kinda dig basing the lottery odds on the last three seasons idea, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Did I just see that right? The starting 5 for the Nets makes almost as much as the Heat TEAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Tanking is overblown though.. everyone accused the suns of tanking with the way they built their roster and now it looks like they could make the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK Hopefully at Xmas dinner no one needs to ask JR Smith to pass the gravy. Because he won't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Pau and the Summerleagues keeping it close at least. This game has also featured one Tombstone dunk by LeBron and also an alley oop you'll see a lot of later. Although if they're letting Bosh through for 100 point blank shots in a half they're going to be worn down eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Besides that LeBron dunk off the board, the highlight of today is kevin hart figuring out a rhyme with andre iguloudia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Gabrielle Union's engagement ring, GOD DAMN. Last one I saw that big came from the corner store and was grape flavored. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Deadspin is working hard on the holiday to bring us this very, very true and necessary, albeit obvious, story: http://deadspin.com/nbas-christmas-uniforms-are-ugly-as-sin-1489554765 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Look at the eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Good grief. Melo just invites the ridicule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 To be fair, that shot was taken when he was stretching while standing; I think during a timeout. I still think it looks funny with the score right underneath him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Even when he's NOT playing, his shots are questionable at best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Finally a good game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I honestly don't think this will fuck over small market teams, but will quickly weed out the bad execs/GMs vs the good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I don't think you even need to do anything that drastic draft wise. Knock down the %'s even more so the advantage you get for being the worst team in the league isn't overwhelming. Also, get rid of this protecting picks nonsense. You either take the risk and trade your first round pick or you don't. The way it is now, it gives team's more incentive to intentionally lose games to make sure they hang onto their pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Clippers vs Warriors is breaking down into a war. Total bullshit call on that Griffin technical foul. I'm no Clippers fan, but that was all on Bogut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Can't believe we got through the rest of this game without Matt Barnes going Matt Barnes on Bogut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I don't think you even need to do anything that drastic draft wise. Knock down the %'s even more so the advantage you get for being the worst team in the league isn't overwhelming. Also, get rid of this protecting picks nonsense. You either take the risk and trade your first round pick or you don't. The way it is now, it gives team's more incentive to intentionally lose games to make sure they hang onto their pick. IF they do that draft cycle bullshit, they might as well fold 2/3 of the league, because any decent draft pick will just wait until a big city team comes up. Just make it so any team cant have back to back top three picks. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 With that kind of draft cycle, the NBA would turn into the MLB, minus the high salary caps. All the best players end up in the big market teams, you forget the small market teams exist. I'm surprised the NBA hasn't adopted that structure, frankly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfredoE Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Watched Lakers-Heat on Christmas and actually watched the entire game after expecting a blow-out since its Christmas and the Lakers usually lay a big egg on those games, not to mention lack of any point guards besides a returning Jordan Farmar, and the Heat were at full strength (i.e. Lebron played). Very entertaining for the most part with the scrappy underdog Lakers taking the lead a few times on the Heat. Heat force a lot of turnovers which really caught up with the Lakers since they have no point guards and they blitzed Xavier Henry quite a bit whenever he got the ball. This might be the first time I've heard JVG actually say he enjoys watching the Lakers at home, which is true. Very fun team to watch despite all the injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I don't think you even need to do anything that drastic draft wise. Knock down the %'s even more so the advantage you get for being the worst team in the league isn't overwhelming. Also, get rid of this protecting picks nonsense. You either take the risk and trade your first round pick or you don't. The way it is now, it gives team's more incentive to intentionally lose games to make sure they hang onto their pick. IF they do that draft cycle bullshit, they might as well fold 2/3 of the league, because any decent draft pick will just wait until a big city team comes up. Just make it so any team cant have back to back top three picks. . . . I kind of like Simmons idea of doing of grouping the teams and then there slotted into pick ranges with 5 different lottery, with the teams records being the bases on who's likely to get each pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 The draft proposal idea is a fun idea but it will never, ever happen. Part of the fun of the NBA is the lottery. The NBA is all about these subtle things to get eyeballs (i.e. the sleeved shirt "controversy" from yesterday) and the lottery does just that.What I would love to see happen, though, is a tournament among the non-playoff teams. Single elimination. The winning team gets to pick: You either get the #1 pick or take the 8-seed in the playoffs. On paper, everyone would take the #1 pick. A quasi-8 seed team ending up with the number one pick becomes a very good team if they don't pick Anthony Bennett in most years. But that would really piss off a lot of the players on the team (they should get rewarded for the year's of hard work and also 8 seeds have pulled off some series wins) and maybe keep the team from getting some free agents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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