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

good interview w larry sanders he seems like a cool guy http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/80534/qa-larry-sanders-on-the-new-look-bucks-and-being-larry-sanders

whoa jordan farmar is back and playing for.... the lakers

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/photos/sanders.gif

I started writing your name on Grantland in all caps, and with an exclamation point at the end. It has randomly caught on. The Bucks tell me they use it sometimes in internal communications. Do you know about this?

Yeah, yeah, I do. That’s awesome.

And, most importantly: Are you OK with it?

Oh, yeah! That’s fine! It’s cool.

Good. I mean, I just felt like your game merited that kind of treatment. Part of that was the emphatic shot blocks, but I have to admit, the stuff with the referees and the ejections played into it.

That’s funny. But it’s cool. Keep doing it.

His biggest struggles, obviously, were off the court during his time in Philadelphia. The guiding force for Iverson, and the man whose name he couldn't bring up without crying, was former teammate Aaron McKie.

mckie was the best, AI was the best, man, emotions

Yeah that retirement speech thing :(((

ai is the realest ever

wish he could play forever

"But I'll watch tapes of AI, too. I don't take anything from AI. Well, I do -- his will. They say he was 6 feet, but AI was like 5-10½. Do we even want to say 160? 170 [pounds]? Do we even want to give him that much weight? And he played like a 6-8 2-guard. He was one of the greatest finishers we've ever seen. You could never question his heart. Ever. He gave it his all. AI was like my second-favorite player growing up, after MJ."

Asik had 14 boards last night, so he and Dwight combined for 40. Pretty good.

fuck analytics imo http://www.thenbageek.com/teams/phi?season=2000

then bag eek?

they def have some trades to make

probably, but at the same time i really buy that they want Asik/Howard to work. (there's just no cool way to combine those two names, sadly. Asward? Howsik?) in much the same way i think Lin/Beverly are kind of a cool second team wreck crew. how many teams can transition from a two towers rebounding and paint protecting behemoth to rapidfire small ball like that?

i got it: Ho-mer!

the crash brothers

im sure dwight will figure it out (the stupid name, that is) if asik sticks around.

poor asik

i got a lot of pleasure at asik's hang dog and exhausted looking put-uponness last year--paired with dwight he seems like the long-suffering straight man in a bad comedy routine.

haha yes

still can't believe that article on shaw i posted earlier. pound the ball inside...what year is this?

Hours before deadline, it remains unlikely that Utah and Gordon Hayward will close the gap and agree on extension, league source says.
5:15pm - 31 Oct 13

NBA STATS 13/14 fyi

yeah I saw that beverley only got 10 minutes of burn

looking at the rockets roster it seems kind of...topheavy

Beverley left the game with an injury.

still can't believe that article on shaw i posted earlier. pound the ball inside...what year is this?

Shaw is a Triangle guy and it's a post offense.

IMO when they get Gallo back they should run the post with him a lot since he's the best passer on the team.

Apparently the Kings declined Fredette's option.

nuggets talk will be banned when they slip below .300, everyone agree?

lol sorry jimmer you'll be great in china next year

I always thought Miles Plumlee was way more talented than Mason

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i love some nba randoms but holy cow i had no idea there were two plumlees

otm

Jimmer will get one more shot with a team before heading overseas, no?

the asik-howard dynamic reminds me of perfect strangers except the straight man is the euro and the wacky guy with bad fashion sense is the american

also they're not cousins

im sure someone will give jimmer one more cheap contract- probably a contender looking for threes off the bench- but the league is p close to full employment right now and there is a deep draft coming

of course the likes of daequan cook and james jones hung around forever so who knows

hope no one ever floats to dwight that he belongs in sitcoms xp

feel like seeing Asik's slumped shouldered dejection in the background behind Dwight beaming his huge smile is gonna be my enduring memory of this season. i dont think i've ever seen Asik smile once and i watched like 95% of the rockets games last year.

yeah asik always looks sad poor guy

Lonely guy just thinking baout things

http://www.awolfamongwolves.com/2013/10/happy-halloween-from-alexey-shved/

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Jimmer will get one more shot with a team before heading overseas, no?

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 31 October 2013 23:42 (Yesterday) Permalink

He improved a great deal last year, I think the Kings are making a mistake here.

if you can shoot 40% from 3 in the NBA you have a NBA roster spot, pretty much

Hummer will be restricted, right? So they can see what the market bears. No reason to lock him up now.

Hummer? My autocorrect doesn't like Jimmer I guess

knicks are ass tonight

klay thompson looking more ripped

cp3 dunk

Hummer will be restricted, right? So they can see what the market bears. No reason to lock him up now.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, November 1, 2013 1:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, by declining his option they lose his restricted free agent rights. They're done with him, pretty much.

mo speights just drilled a 60-footer

clippers 2nd unit should be running teams off the floor just like last year in no time, but they've got some kinks to work out

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BX9F_z1CMAEilsz.jpg

Are they low fiving?

yup