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I feel like someone let their 4-year-old child name the "Hospital of Special Surgery." I would demand treatment at a facility named by a grown-up.
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Niwrad posted:NFL ratings are down but their crappy Thursday night game still crushes an NBA Conference Finals game. Heck, their Thursday Night numbers are in line with what the Finals used to get a few years back before Curry and Lebron went at it. NFL is in a different league than everyone else when it comes to ratings. Their ratings are great comparatively speaking. But the NBA as a league has kept their buzz positive and focused on the on court product. The NFL has been blundering from one controversy to another - some serious (concussions) and some extremely ridiculous (Deflategate). When was the last time the NBA had something happen on the level of missteps the NFL makes a couple times a year? The Palace fight? And even then they mitigated it the way a competent organization would.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 05:39 |
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milk milk lemonade posted:Their ratings are great comparatively speaking. But the NBA as a league has kept their buzz positive and focused on the on court product. The NFL has been blundering from one controversy to another - some serious (concussions) and some extremely ridiculous (Deflategate). When was the last time the NBA had something happen on the level of missteps the NFL makes a couple times a year? The Palace fight? And even then they mitigated it the way a competent organization would. The NBA's fixers, and their commissioners(Silver, and Stern) are/were really really really good at their job. The NBA was able to bury that ref fixing games and betting scandal with the quickness and managed to get people to legit believe it was just that one dude doing it. Also way less players to have to worry about.(15 per team vs like 55 per team or whatever). To quote David Stern during his last CBA negotiations. "I know where all the bodies are buried".
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 07:16 |
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It's good to know I'm not alone in wishing the NBA would be punished by viewers for having the ability for something dumb as poo poo as Durant to the Warriors to happen We all know deep in our hearts it won't happen, but it is nice to dream
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 08:35 |
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Stagger_Lee posted:I feel like someone let their 4-year-old child name the "Hospital of Special Surgery." I would demand treatment at a facility named by a grown-up. Literally thought it was a parody post after seeing that name.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 08:37 |
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https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/790432836159279105 https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/790433869652570112 I wonder what roll he was expecting.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 09:36 |
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attackmole posted:Aaaaaand, he's had surgery and is out indefinitely. His ascent into fan favourite begins now.
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Spacebump posted:https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/790432836159279105 Player on the 2009 Lakers. China didn't get many full brodcast Laker games last season, apparently.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 11:35 |
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It's Hospital FOR Special Surgery!!!
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 12:05 |
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Spacebump posted:https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/790432836159279105 He probably didn't expect "probably not good enough to make a team that won 17 games last year." Like he might have made the team just based on the fact that Thomas Robinson looks like he's thrown in the towel and MWP is in his 40s but he had almost no chance of hitting even his lowest incentives.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 12:09 |
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Lessail posted:It's good to know I'm not alone in wishing the NBA would be punished by viewers for having the ability for something dumb as poo poo as Durant to the Warriors to happen You dream about the nba being punished by viewers for a player leaving a team?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 12:17 |
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Spacebump posted:https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/790432836159279105 Probably a nat 20
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 13:14 |
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Lessail posted:It's good to know I'm not alone in wishing the NBA would be punished by viewers for having the ability for something dumb as poo poo as Durant to the Warriors to happen I heard that way back in NBA history 3 all-stars got together during the summer and all decided to take pay cuts to play together. Can someone C/D?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 13:51 |
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milk milk lemonade posted:Their ratings are great comparatively speaking. But the NBA as a league has kept their buzz positive and focused on the on court product. The NFL has been blundering from one controversy to another - some serious (concussions) and some extremely ridiculous (Deflategate). When was the last time the NBA had something happen on the level of missteps the NFL makes a couple times a year? The Palace fight? And even then they mitigated it the way a competent organization would. They had a ref who was fixing games and an owner who was openly racist.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:20 |
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Dexo posted:The NBA's fixers, and their commissioners(Silver, and Stern) are/were really really really good at their job. The NBA was able to bury that ref fixing games and betting scandal with the quickness and managed to get people to legit believe it was just that one dude doing it. I still don't think Stern was that good, outside of the 80's where he put in rules that stopped teams from sabotaging themselves. I think the ref scandal blew over so quick because a bunch of folks already thought the NBA was fixed rather than anything Stern did (although he did push the whole narrative about it being one isolated dude). Look at how much the popularity dipped when Jordan left (both times). Jordan was obviously a phenomenon, but the fact that Stern seemed unable to buoy the popularity of the league until Lebron came around and started winning is telling. Honestly Stern in hindsight seems very similar to Goodell. Silver though I think is doing a solid job. Lessail posted:It's good to know I'm not alone in wishing the NBA would be punished by viewers for having the ability for something dumb as poo poo as Durant to the Warriors to happen If history's any indication, they'll actually have more viewers. Also I still don't get how it's supposedly fine for GMs to rip off other GMs to build up a title team, but players deciding they want to work together to win is somehow a bad thing.
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Niwrad posted:They had a ref who was fixing games and an owner who was openly racist. The Donaghy thing was almost 10 years ago, and the NBA kicked the racist owner to the curb in a way that no other league would have the balls to do. How Donald Sterling was handled should be considered a glowing high point in the Adam Silver era. I don't think that effects the viewership one way or another by a huge degree. The fact that NFL is trying to fight social media and keep it's product walled up is probably hurting itself way more.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:28 |
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Today is the last day for cuts, I think. Pels will probably release one of Alonzo Gee or Lance Stephenson. Lance is the likely better player for this team (though the gap is smaller than I would like), but Gee has apparently become a close friend of AD's. I don't believe the Pels have made a worse roster move when a better one was available due to "AD friendship" before and I hope they don't start now.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:30 |
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Lockback posted:The Donaghy thing was almost 10 years ago, and the NBA kicked the racist owner to the curb in a way that no other league would have the balls to do. How Donald Sterling was handled should be considered a glowing high point in the Adam Silver era. Yeah, for whatever reason the league's offices seem to want to centralize everything and work against engaging with fans. The recent restrictions on what teams can post on social media accounts is just baffling.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:32 |
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Kibner posted:Yay, some official word from the Holiday camp: Wait, he named his daughter "Jrue Tyler"??
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 14:52 |
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:I heard that way back in NBA history 3 all-stars got together during the summer and all decided to take pay cuts to play together. Can someone C/D? False equivalence
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:11 |
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Wait, he named his daughter "Jrue Tyler"??
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:17 |
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alansmithee posted:Also I still don't get how it's supposedly fine for GMs to rip off other GMs to build up a title team, but players deciding they want to work together to win is somehow a bad thing. Irrational sports fans
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:26 |
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https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/790551597411504128
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:36 |
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I laughed: (from http://fansided.com/2016/10/24/memphis-grizzlies-still-grinding/)
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:42 |
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I'm just basically dumping things from my Twitter timeline that may be of interest. https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/790562079539290112 ---- And the Pels waive Gee. Looks like Lance has made the roster.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:45 |
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This article spoke to my heart: http://fansided.com/2016/10/24/detroit-pistons-celebrate-mediocrity/quote:{...}
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 15:57 |
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I'm jumping on the Devin Booker bandwagon while there is still some room. I love his game. edit: Also: quote:Overall, public officials from Oakland, Alameda County and the joint authority they formed to run Oracle Arena and neighboring Oakland Coliseum have claimed more than 7,000 tickets to Warriors’ games at a total face value of $7.8 million over the last three seasons, records show. http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/...family-cronies/ Edit: quote:Valle gave four tickets worth $10,000 each for Game 7 of last season’s NBA Finals to an Oakland artist and county arts commissioner, Andrew Johnstone, who two years earlier had painted a portrait of Valle’s wife and presented it publicly.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 16:09 |
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For some reason I thought that GSW was going to have a lot of trouble keeping KD next summer with cap holds and stuff, but it's pretty straightforward for them to keep KD and Curry and still have $19m to re-sign Livingston and Iggy or go after other free agents. That's a little depressing.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 16:13 |
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Didn't international League Pass basically have all of this already? It definitely had arena feeds during timeout/halftime which are amazing.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 16:37 |
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(CURRY)
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 16:44 |
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James Young made the Celtics 15 man roster.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 16:56 |
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There are a bunch of NBA twitter emoji now. Sadly, they don't show up when the tweets are embedded here.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:02 |
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leftist heap posted:Didn't international League Pass basically have all of this already? It definitely had arena feeds during timeout/halftime which are amazing. ILP is done by a different company, uses a different client, has different packages, different rates, and even had more feed choices than LPBB did until recently. It's a completely different service and what it does has no bearing on the domestic version or vice-versa.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:03 |
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Niwrad posted:They had a ref who was fixing games and an owner who was openly racist. Its only been, what, 2 years since Sterling got booted? Feels longer.
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:17 |
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Shaq is gonna die of a heart attack and no lockouts until the mid-2020s. https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/790569045837787136 https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/790587919752957952
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:19 |
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Meanwhile in important NBA news https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/790569045837787136 I hope this means that Shaq's pro gaming teams will have donut sponsorships. e: ^^^^
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:20 |
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RJ Hunter got waived. Anyone looking at a shooter who can't shoot?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:22 |
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So the biggest question is, will the new CBA still come with an amnesty?
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# ? Oct 24, 2016 17:21 |
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WhyteRyce posted:RJ Hunter got waived. Anyone looking at a shooter who can't shoot? Waived on his birthday, rough go
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Tae posted:So the biggest question is, will the new CBA still come with an amnesty? That's been my big question. I'd bet yes. Also, Yao status: still huge. https://twitter.com/PGA_JohnDaly/status/789815822701080576
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