in these, the waning days of stern: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 1)

cj mccollum in the game word

btw Barbosa in a Suns uni just feels right

was joe dumars just like "well we've got to sign somebody we have all this money, it'd be embarrassing not to spend it"

― Clay, Thursday, January 9, 2014 3:24 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's exactly it, and if they find a sucker for for a trade partner some day it might be worth it

chase !!!!!

― moullet, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:05 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good to see him back

sort of hate barbosa

one of the worst foul calls of all time on a point blank missed layup by one of the morris twins there

tonight's Plumlee-Pekovic matchup is sponsored by GNC

eastern conference features epic first round battle between no. 1 pacers and no. 8 nets. lock the brackets now.

Pekovic really is a solid, decent defender. Big gap between him and Love there.

the nyer piece on lurie from a few years ago is a total hatchet job and p amazing

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this was quite a read

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 10:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yo i know right

sort of hate barbosa

why? I mean he's not very good any more at all but he was a blast in the mid 00s with those suns teams.

the thing I always remember with Barbosa is that when he came out in the draft he wasn't really on anyone's radar but there was this talk of a "Barbosa tape" of his Brazilian games that was blowing everyone away

wow dont think the nba was ready for that type of thing back then but now people are more open minded so itd prob be ok

why don't we have more athlete sex tapes? There was that Trent Richardson tape that was supposedly out there...

wow this john lurie nyer thing is maniacal

its a good question like we know they all love to jet blow jays in front of each other and everything xp

today the phrase "who wants to sex mutombo" passed through my mind for no particular reason

i hope the answer was "everyone"

I sometimes suspect the nyer thing was a joke that lurie and his "enemy" were both in on, and that the writer may or may not have been in on

ya something about it feels very not right

tho unfortunately i suspect the explanation is more mundane

it def feels like these guys live in a slightly different reality than i do

today the phrase "who wants to sex mutombo" passed through my mind for no particular reason

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 10:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw the version of this I heard was "who wants to suck dikembe" -- see it's a pun

haha

the plot thickens, not really: http://johnlurie-newyorker.blogspot.com/

yup

Nikola Ice Fishing Photos!

omg he ice fishes in an Adidas tracksuit

haha he's the best

suns are all discombobulated on offense

they aren't nearly as good when Bledsoe is out.

oladipo just absolutely crushed lillard with a block on an attempted dunk

Those Scrappy Suns

man the wolves cannot win a close game

no they can't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crsd0ut-EPs

hella clean

warriors wouldve been the first team ever w/a 7-0 road trip if they won tonight

i'd say block of the year but lillard is such a crap finisher that it downgrades it slightly xp

warriors have played the most road games of any team this year

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob 24s
MIN's close game “randomness” is pretty much the other side of 2012 Dallas’s record in close games. Neither were / are random.

haha wow bob with the quant heterodoxy

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob 7m
@PPPBasketball when a team that scores a lot in transition, and is poor (relatively speaking) in the halfcourt - close losses aren’t random

surely he'll get better but holy moly

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=combined&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=fta&c1comp=gt&c1val=250&c2stat=ft_pct&c2comp=lt&c2val=.40&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

ouch

he's increased his FT% by a grand total of .7% this year

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/832520442.gif?1389245179

i guess humphries really wanted to be on a poster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYrPGHGrRwk

Game recognize game

that question about players in their prime is actually pretty interesting

i might still roll the dice on the heat with 30 ppg wade, ray allen from like 8 years ago, rockets battier, max contract era rashard and, uh, greg oden as a college senior

and i guess lebron and bosh in their currents states

the nets would probably win. but so would the spurs.

d league news http://www.ridiculousupside.com/2014/1/8/5288406/nba-d-league-president-dan-reed-interview-showcase-expansion-progress