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

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

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

― 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

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

― 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

http://i.imgur.com/v1JtNgL.jpg

now we're having fun! l

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

He also does local sports talk (and sucks at it).

lol carne, couve been waiting for that one all summer long

hey wade i sitting out the 2nd game of the season

https://twitter.com/ddockett/status/395671589288558592

hah forgot that crash was among the garbage unloaded to the c's in that trade

jeff green at the 2!

there's a legit chance that Adidas pays Bucher to write that shit right?

Nets rip off ten straight to start, pierce looking great

Lol Jeff green shooting guard brad Stevens u so crazy with yr 6 year contract

tanking from the start

Haha I forgot abt Tristan Thompson switching hands in the offseason

This Sixers/Heat game

faverani is great ahn ?

Special to see a Varejao, an Oden, a Bogut, and a Gordon running injury-free in the wild on the same night. Savor these moments fans.

* and a Bynum!!

wait what the heck is goin on in philly rn

Bynum looks pretty good

Haha Pelicans' mascot has a mohawk, very proactive / totally outrageous paradigm.

tristan thompson just shot a left-footed stepback with this right hand

Michael carter-Williams with a near triple double

ummmm MCW

Reggie Evans scores and gets fouled = kg slaps his hand a dozen times before helping him up

Love that giant psycho

the heat are gonna lose to the sixers

Maybe I'll take that 9999-1 bet now

mc-w looks nine years old

also he's threatening that triple-double with STEALS

spurs rattled off 22 pts in a row

Jeff Green, shooting guard, is not the embarrassment we all expected.

Well goodbye heat win streak

Good way for Philly to honor AI tonight imo

Wade obviously the most important Heater.

k love about to open the season with a 30-20 game

let the great nugget experiment begin