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

wow

holy shit

before we move on i just want to highlight this one quote from woj's melo column about j.r.'s brother

One opposing GM called him "maybe the worst player in the history of the [NBA] summer league."

MAYBE THE WORST PLAYER IN THE HISTORY OF THE SUMMER LEAGUE

i guess someones got to be it

i loved that quote

Now, owner James Dolan has turned over the Knicks to Steve Mills as president and general manager. Only in the Knicks' parallel universe can an executive help run the franchise into the ground for a decade with Isiah Thomas, get fired, move into the financial sector, chase the National Basketball Players Association's top job and then, somehow, get his old job back – this time with more power.

wow @ that TV revenue story

that really is some Major Rawls shit xp

300 MILLION SO FAR

Now, owner James Dolan has turned over the Knicks to Steve Mills as president and general manager. Only in the Knicks' parallel universe can an executive help run the franchise into the ground for a decade with Isiah Thomas, get fired, move into the financial sector, chase the National Basketball Players Association's top job and then, somehow, get his old job back – this time with more power.

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:54 PM (5 minutes ago)

the knicks have probably made a lot of money in that time, what do they care

well dolan has prob made a lot of money off of MSG

i'm not sure what he cares about

some owners definitely do care about how well their teams do, partic small market teams i would think who depend on large jumps in their teams' popularity to sell jerseys/get on national tv etc, but the knicks are the knicks, they're always gonna be profitable i'd think. dudes in suits are just out there having a good time

i mean dolan seems to desire to win. he could never pay the tax, for example. or he could disinvest himself from the knicks and make hundreds of millions of dollars off of MSG and go spend all his time playing in a band. he just seems to be a massive, massive idiot.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nba-attempting-end-losing-role-greatest-sports-business-164701257--nba.html

Had never heard of this before!

― Clay, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:43 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

i cant believe none of you had ever heard of this before- i found out sometime a few years ago reading some article about how the spurs manage the business side as a small market team and found out about this aba deal

it's incredible, the contract literally says IN PERPETUITY so those bros are not being jerks (sort of) they are literally just taking what the nba's contract says they get! DUMMMMM

it's sort of the opposite of that dude who owned like 20% of apple and sold if back to them for like 500 bucks or whatever

@celtics Brandon Bass on Brad Stevens: "There's something special about that guy."

@me to brad stevens 'plz stop winning basketball games ffs'

he was so expressionless after jeff green's buzzer beater it was actually creepy

yeah that was great

Jeff McDonald ‏@JMcDonald_SAEN 2m
Boris Diaw averaging 10.3 points on 8.5 FGA. Does Pop expect Scorin' Boris to keep up his aggressiveness? "Sure," Pop says, "Or sit."

i was skeptical abt bringing a coach straight from college but upon further reflection: stevens success at butler wasnt built on recruiting which is how most big name college 'coaches' do it it was based on like basketball stuff, he was so ridiculously successful just kind of unreal levels of successfulnesses, he doesnt have to win right away so he has time to adjust to the pro game im not against college guys making the leap but it seems generally like a season or two as an assistant might be helpful and this set up where the celtics are tanking and he has a long contract can maybe serve the same purpose, hes not an authoritarian like a lot of college coaches a quality which insults nba players

haha pop

he is a cool guy part one million http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/11/11/popovich_veterans_day_food_stamps.html

hah, yes

http://i.imgur.com/EjkNXqV.png

well dolan has prob made a lot of money off of MSG

i'm not sure what he cares about

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc he cares about Daily News Blues, Long White Cadillac, Gonna Kill That Dog (both versions), and other of his blooz jams. To be fair, he also has a song called "Fix the Knicks," so I guess even when he's channelling SRV, cap problems, reemploying Isaiah Thomas and JR Smith's brother are never far from his heart.

http://i.minus.com/i32yp5RwO0ffd.gif

how is that a tech? ball is live you should be able to do what you want with it

yeah is there like a written rule against that?

lamest "taunting" call ever.

Yeah, there's written rule that makes blatantly faking a pass at your defender's face a taunting tech.

“I ain’t think that was nothing. I’ve got that from Michael Jordan,” Stephenson told reporters after the game. “I’ve seen Michael Jordan do that all the time, now it’s a technical foul. So I don’t know if I’ll do that anymore.”

how is that a tech? ball is live you should be able to do what you want with it

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:10 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol at tony calling a travel

like Allen i thought that was gonna be a travel

yeah i mean who wouldve predicted a tech there

ref holds a grudge towards lance is the only explanation i can come up with

idk if someone wants to be flippant with the ball, let em be. Maybe the defender should just, you know, steal it from them?

the funny part is it fucked w tony for a second and he does a lil flinch

Jenny Dial Creech ‏@jennydialcreech 18m
Dwight Howard on FTs: "I don’t want to talk about it...just let it go.WE talk about it so much I think about it at the line."

dwight otm stop mindfuckinbig big guys who cant shoot his best ft% season was his first, orlando shdve just been happy w the 65% and left well enough alone

he didn't call his bank

is what i would write in the basketlol thread

Well I guess he's just an asshole :(

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/bucks/larry-sanders-cited-in-january-for-keeping-dogs-out-in-the-cold-b99140898z1-231642171.html

Jenny Dial Creech ‏@jennydialcreech 18m
Dwight Howard on FTs: "I don’t want to talk about it...just let it go.WE talk about it so much I think about it at the line."

dwight otm stop mindfuckinbig big guys who cant shoot his best ft% season was his first, orlando shdve just been happy w the 65% and left well enough alone

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Apparently he really does shoot 80% in practice. He needs a sports psychologist.

Guess it's too late into his career to try switching to his naturally dominant hand to shoot a la Tristan Thompson.

Larry man c'mon

Heat announcers very reluctant to attempt to pronounce Antetokounmpo's name, just let him take a 3 pointer with no comment.

this would not be a problem if everyone could agree on a cool nickname

heat announcers also referred to lebron hiking the ball to chalmers as his "signature move"

actually that was the bucks guy nvm