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

so boozer has like 500 points

his cycle was timed well this year apparently

dwyane wade is 2-10 for 6 points through three quarters of a blowout, guess they can't #tradewade anymore

that pass from lebron tho

score is close but i really am loving this clippers team

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9900737

bosh the god

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1828951-lebron-james-vs-derrick-rose-still-plenty-of-room-for-debate

what is this shitty song in the lebron commercial though

It gets even better for true believers. They can get astronomical odds of 9,999-1 if they want to wager at the LVH on the 76ers winning the NBA title.
"It was the highest number our computers would let us put in," [oddsmaker Jeff] Sherman said.

yeah i was gonna say, that's way too low

what is this shitty song in the lebron commercial though

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:25 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa whoa the Raphael Saadiq one?

ha no the other one where he's running everywhere

oh ok thought you were dissing the gawd

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― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:16 PM (Yesterday

lol

looks like griffin's really improved his FT shot, 3/8 so far tonight

so lame they are calling this delay of game nonsense after catching a ball once it goes through the hoop

also griffins 'post moves' look exactly the same

xp

this is one wacky Lakers rotation. If there is a rotation.

yeah such a weird roster

"another man's trash is another man's treasure" -- Reggie Miller

CP is such a little punk

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/194rh14avwdcxpng/ku-medium.png

lol

Bring back Del Negro imo

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adopting Kobels twitter steez huh

what is this shitty song in the lebron commercial though

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:25 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa whoa the Raphael Saadiq one?

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

it's john legend prod by mike will made it

the best part of tonight is that amongst the lakers bench extravaganza wesley johnson shot 1-11

lol at the clippers in any event

my fav wes johnson moment of the night was when he drove and missed a gimme and Hill cleaned it up and he still pounded his chest and celebrated like he just bammed on Mutombo.

yeah that was pretty strange

this is better than the 'training day' commercial imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYgm8tzVIS4

yeah that one is nice too

being lebron's kid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (450,000 more >) >>>>>> being michael jordan's kid

the shorter version of that is the one spottie was talking about with the saadiq song

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― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:16 PM (Yesterday

lol

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:20 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure i can endure these in game pitches for the bleacher report team stream app every five minutes for the rest of the season

lol at lakers bench crushing the clips tho

diantoni magic is BACK

After Nicholson basically had the best basketball quarter of his life in the 2nd quarter, Jacque Vaughn decided to sit him through e whole 3rd. Oladioo looking super-legit already. He attacks relentlessly and can get to the bucket pretty much at will; plus, he's already putting together some finishes.

Kinda crazy seeing the whole Pacers defense buy in to the verticality rules, think they had four dunk-blocks like that, and a few defensive posterizers. As long as the league continues to non-call those, they're gonna frustrate a lot of teams. Compared to the beginning of last season, their offense looks worlds better for both units.

are there new verticality rules?

Nope, but Pacers defense seems to building on it as a core principle, and afaik they'd be the first team to really do that. Hibbert really started mastering it last year; against the Magic last night, a bunch of other dudes looked to have picked it up. Don't think it was a fluke that they probably set some kind of team record for blocks last night. They did it so well that the moments they bit on shot fakes really stood out. If they continue to improve to the point where they're only closing out + going straight up defending shots it's going to be glorious to watch.

good idea for a team w some tall guys like hibbert and george on there

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― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:16 PM (Yesterday

man wha happened to ric bucher, he's down to local sideline reporting for the warriors and trolling on bleacher report

he must have said something wrong to simmons

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/581/905/lebronrose1_crop_north.jpg

iverson officially retired today or something, rip the realest ever

also no, there's no room for debate, d rose is really good and hopefully will be back in mvp-competitive form, and maybe if he does his teams will have a shot at competing for the title for a long stretch, that's great

lebron is the best player on the planet for five years running and *guarantees* a decently-assembled team will be a contender and any well-built team with him will be a favorite, and still think we haven't seen his peak

There's not a lot of upside left to lebron, but he prob has 2 more years of this level of physical ability before he starts adapting his game to his slowing down a bit and not jumping as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjp2gHy6Xgk