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

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nicolas-batum-last-second-triple-double-attempt-maybe-180456325--nba.html

“Why would I be mad at that?” Popovich said. “He’s a good kid. I don’t care.”

<3 pop

pop gotta stay on the good side of the frenchies

really piling it on w those 11 points

Yo clay where were yr seats, good game report, keep it up ilh

200 level, center courtish. They were great seats to luck into on opening night. I had a salad and a hot dog.

The players feel differently about this stuff than the fans do. But then, the players live in a different world.

How much was the hot dog

it was free! club level, deep connex, free food, never look back.

damn

respect

westbrook plays tonight says twitter

thank god the thunder are a disaster to watch without him

Timmy D's side-eye after that shot is all time tho:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYHrRMDCMAA0THL.jpg:large

ha great photo

Just saw shaq in a political commercial for Chris Christie :-|

I've read Shaq's complaints in the past about FICA taxes "kiling him" (yeah, right), so he's probably a republican sympathizer.

haven't caught the cavs yet but what's up with kyrie?

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Sunday, November 3, 2013 3:52 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

elbow injury

RUSS BACK

Just saw shaq in a political commercial for Chris Christie :-|

― 乒乓, Sunday, November 3, 2013 4:31 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah wtf is this I guess Shaq is probably just an annoying rich guy semi-conservative but maybe it's just fat guy solidarity

Congrats on the hot dog clay

Oladipo tearing up the nets btw steal + 360 dunk to end the third

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZg6aavcJg

if you can spot the guy in an orange sweater eating a hotdog in the above video, that's me

Knicks are slow motion in reverse

RWB-jackson-fisher-KD-ibaka lineup out there for thunder right now

the clippers did not get enough for Eric Bledsoe huh

nerp

wolves-NYK looking like it'll be a good finish

(reminder that league pass is free right now)

rubio has missed like 5 straight layups, what is this dude's deal

he is terrible at scoring

btw celtics r winning the race to the bottom rn go celtics

no one seemed to mention the jazz as being in the race but they are def in and looking strong

we talked about the Jazz playing RJ just the other night!

l meant more like in the pre season media stuff, def ilh caught on but its seemed like everyone was just talkin abt bos/orl/phi/sac before

I think people stopped talking about them because their tanking moves came early on. They still are in the bottom 5 of most everyone's ranking.

maybe denver will get off to a rough start and blow it up cause who want to make sense of that crazy ass roster anyway

lakers prob shd too but you know theyre too proud and will porb trade draft picks for some mediocre vet

heat should maybe too b/c lebron will not be there soon and wade is dead

basically everyone blow it up, everyone tank

trade wade amnesty bron marry bosh

trade wade

i hear nate the great™ might be available, if the heat throw ray allen into the deal.

nash back btw

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/819529274.gif

bosh looks fantastic so far

every time i come to post a gif or something from twitter lagoon beats me by like 20 seconds

*pushes fedora back on head* got to be pretty quick my friend

no one seemed to mention the jazz as being in the race but they are def in and looking strong

― lag∞n, Monday, November 4, 2013 2:51 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jazz are 0-3 but they lost to OKC and PHX by a combined 6 points. They didn't look bad against the Rockets either. When Trey Burke comes back they should be fine.

Brian Shaw appears to be out of his depth with the Nuggz, anything is possible there.

btw Kanter and Favors are both averaging double doubles and their average age is 21.5.

Jazz def have talent but they're not going to win a lot of games- Matt as you've pointed out this is closer to regular "rebuilding" than any sort of blatant tanking but they will definitely not be trading for real veterans (lol biedrins) to push for the eps playoffs or anything silly like that. They will be good to watch while they lose tons of games.