2017-18 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD PART 1 ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE TEAMS ARE BACK

glad the best league is doing well

cavs have won 8 games in a row

messy drama over DRose has put LeBron into his comfort zone?

thats a crazy ratings increase

lots of fun story lines this year. helps that the knicks have a reason to watch. and the lakers kinda

yeah there are only like 4 or 5 completely terrible teams

Cool pic from last night, as Terry Rozier rubs his hands together when he realizes he gets a chance to guard his buddy and mentor, Avery Bradley. https://t.co/CblKfLCcPN pic.twitter.com/CnFxCbuWQ4

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) November 28, 2017

Aw cuet

:D

NBA ratings being way up undercuts the whole bullshit narrative that NFL ratings are down because of player protests

Yah there was articles on declining nfl ratings like 4-5 years back

i quit watching the nfl around that time, all the extra-curricular violence against women and kids and the early days of the CTE stuff just made me feel gross watching the game, nba culture is so much better

Due to the fact that I've spent almost every Sunday afternoon for two decades visiting my daughter for five or six hours, NFL football faded out of my life pretty thoroughly a long time ago. Now, when I happen onto a game and watch some it, it seems boring. Great athletes, but hardly any creativity or excitement. I turn it off after ten or fifteen minutes.

the fact that pacman is still around... my god

NBA ratings being way up undercuts the whole bullshit narrative that NFL ratings are down because of player protests

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 28, 2017 8:01 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well no one in the nba has taken a knee and im sure the league wld like to keep it that way, i do think the protests are affecting ppls feelings towards the nfl but its def part of a larger malaise that prob includes domestic violence low level scandals like deflategate head injuries revulsion with conservative culture general bad vibes and the games havent been as good

also the nfl is so popular its just hard to maintain that peak level

the NFL product is really terrible now too and no one seems to care about the newest crop of star players that much. And there are so many iconic franchises that have been awful or boring for years. I grew up a bears fan and I don't remember the last time they were fun in a good way and not in a popcorn.gif way.

something tells me that there's less conservative/racist/USA!USA! dipshits among NBA fans than NFL...

Compare that with how well the NBA markets their players and the interpersonal drama, it's a magnificent glorious beautiful game with pro wrestling narrative in the best sense of the term. And with all that it's forward thinking good vibes all around. I want some of the coaches to be president whereas I think the NFL coaches should maybe be in prison.

even when the Bears were good this century it wasn't in a fun way!

how is ncaa football doing in the ratings

staying flat as of last year apparently: https://www.si.com/mmqb/2016/11/15/college-football-ratings-2016-season-nfl-ratings-espn-fox-nfl-draft

xxp what's not fun about scoring all of your points with defense and kick or punt returns while kyle orton tries not to fuck it up?

tell me lebron got ejected for arguing a traveling call

again jokic tries to give the early frustration foul

sick passing so far tho

i hate plumlee so much

like 6 of the NFL's 10 most marketable players are either injured or suspended, I'm sure that's not helping

LeBron just got ejected for the first time in his NBA career. pic.twitter.com/M4vvDbeSNp

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 29, 2017

how has he never been ejected? even curry's had a couple

the blazers are... leading their division, fourth in the western conference? whodathunkit?

pretty amazed the announcer knew that off hand. how do you play 15 years and never get the boot once. dork.

simmons go to move seems good

The unstoppable shot. If Ben Simmons gets this down with his left hand, there won’t be many point guards that can guard him at all...probably not any of them pic.twitter.com/WMNsndilSK

— IN THE LAB (@TEN000HOURS) November 28, 2017

lil hook floater

half hook float push

Deer up 33 on the road, hell yes

up 33 against the kings is more of a gee, uh, yeah, good I guess

well they kings did beat the dubs last night

the cavs have only lost one more game than the warriors

some stuff about the grizz
http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/nba/grizzlies/pick-and-pop/2017/11/29/what-david-fizdale-firing-says-him-marc-gasol-grizzlies-front-office-and-others/904113001/

helluva ankle roll here

Porzingis to locker room with ankle injury. Bye. pic.twitter.com/V4ALVzGfM8

— Will donate ankle for playoffs (@World_Wide_Wob) November 30, 2017

terrence ross's leg just got destroyed

fuck xp

destroyed is too strong

like livingston bad? or blake griffin the other night bad?

it's hard to say but westbrook buckled his knee pretty bad

porzingis' xrays were negative btw

yeah phew

russ hella stressed

🗣Stressssss https://t.co/rnH0mVq5l9

— CHAMPIONSHIP MEK (@_YoMek) November 30, 2017

russ 11-23, pg 7-17, melo 5-16, who coulda predicted this might not come together seamlessly

i wonder if Pop is sitting Kawhi so he could have a month or two to establish LMA and build his confidence.

local radio guy speculated as much based on the information that parker has been physically ready for two weeks

LMA dropped 41 tonight

my boyfriend kyle had 10 pts and 4 stls