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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline?
This poll is closed.
The Big3 Tourney 67 22.41%
Will Lakers draft Ball 40 13.38%
Where will the Pauls go 54 18.06%
Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? 41 13.71%
Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking 97 32.44%
Total: 210 votes
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chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

WhyteRyce posted:

RIP all the rebounding specialists from the late aughts

:911: gone but not forgotten :911:

reggie evans
kenneth faried
kris humphries
probably a bunch of guys i forgot

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Lugnut Seatcushion
May 4, 2013
Lipstick Apathy

chunkles posted:

:911: gone but not forgotten :911:

reggie evans
kenneth faried
kris humphries
probably a bunch of guys i forgot

Kris Humphries back

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Fake Trades! Sad!

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Pop talking about white privilege is blowing my mind

He's transcended basketball coach to idk what. English professor or something

Also

https://twitter.com/joelembiid/status/912480923152736258

:frogsiren:

euphronius fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Sep 26, 2017

hitze
Aug 28, 2007
Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...

drat look at that lineup that is gonna play like 60 minutes this season

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

chunkles posted:

:911: gone but not forgotten :911:

reggie evans
kenneth faried
kris humphries
probably a bunch of guys i forgot

Thomas Robinson now ballin in the Euro League :911:

de curry GOAT
Oct 23, 2005


I just think that you just care entirely too much

de curry GOAT
Oct 23, 2005

I get it, I get it, ask the questions, relationship, here it is, here it is. But you keep forgetting basketball’s a team sport. I’m around differently players all the time. I understand it’s 1-2, 2-1, however you want to slice it. There is no personal issue. There is no, ‘Let me figure out what’s going on, let’s dive in and maybe we’re missing something over here.’ I made the decision as a man, and as a man over there just respect it and leave it alone.

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

chunkles posted:

for some reason i hallucinated a brief time in which he developed a bit of a post game and was scoring closer to 20 ppg than 10, but looking over his stats I guess I imagined the whole thing. He's never played over 28mpg in his career although he has started most games.

I believe his nascent post game was highlighted By Zack Loeb in a column 2 yars ago

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
This made me chuckle earlier today, but I forgot to post it:

https://twitter.com/Jim_Eichenhofer/status/912423950059220997

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/912471069033975808

zoux
Apr 28, 2006


Wow, how did I miss Rondo to the Pels

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004



four alphas

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs
That album cover is Met-worthy

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

zoux posted:

Wow, how did I miss Rondo to the Pels

Same, I'm so ready for this season to get going. poo poo is gonna be wild.

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
I just realized how the offseason could get better a team not on Wade's list claims him off the waivers.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Speaking of 3rd Coast gaudy record covers, Master P and Caron Butler have founded a mixed gender league called Global Mixed Gender Basketball and it was on that same show where he promoted it that Mssr. P called Melo to OKC. And said his son is going to be the next Will Smith because he got a haircut

de curry GOAT
Oct 23, 2005

https://twitter.com/NickDePaula/status/896042633121767424

huh...

Quizzlefish
Jan 26, 2005

Am I not merciful?
This could actually be good. Kneecaps permitting.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZfJcbslFrp/

E: D'oh how do I embed?

e2: vvvvvvvvvv well it's a picture of the clippers pat bev, gallinari, Griffin and DJ. vvvvvvvvv

Quizzlefish fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Sep 26, 2017

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Quizzlefish posted:

This could actually be good. Kneecaps permitting.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZfJcbslFrp/

E: D'oh how do I embed?

I don't think you can embed Instagram, only Twitter.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


is derrick rose back

Spite
Jul 27, 2001

Small chance of that...
I love that Demarcus is the best shooter in that picture.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


rajon rondeaux

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
https://twitter.com/suduupadhyay/status/912449915334340610

Ye getting mad about Mike Conley being underrated is the best story of media day

Wiltsghost
Mar 27, 2011


Thinking about getting League Pass for the first time this year. I've read using a vpn is cheaper and gets rid of the blackouts. Is this the way to go or are there any alternatives?

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

That's a fine deal for a solid scoring small forward /tweener forward who can rebound to make up a bit for Marqueese Chriss's deficiencies at pf.

He might be an atrocious defender or it might be the apathy and lack of centers in Phoenix.

cougar cub
Jun 28, 2004

Where do you live? Canadians have options through Telus and Shaw.

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


xbilkis posted:

https://twitter.com/suduupadhyay/status/912449915334340610

Ye getting mad about Mike Conley being underrated is the best story of media day

the best league. every single day

Wiltsghost
Mar 27, 2011


cougar cub posted:

Where do you live? Canadians have options through Telus and Shaw.

Kansas, I think Denver is my blackout team.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

https://twitter.com/wontgottlieb/status/912404753627234304
"lol gently caress the fans"

https://twitter.com/PompeyOnSixers/status/912341679931314176
Embiid being realistic with himself

Criminal Minded
Jan 4, 2005

Spring break forever

He's gonna play 98, duh

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
Faried probably honestly only making the Olympic team out of loyalty to USA basketball, off of a season of Exit Planning from the Nuggets, then being a monster that the US maybe doesn't get a gold medal without, then into a Denver offense that couldn't play him anymore is depressing. I dunno, I think if he ended up on a team with enough shooting and solid defensive rotations (Faried does try on defense even if he doesn't have the right instincts) and he'd probably have an impact.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Wiltsghost posted:

Thinking about getting League Pass for the first time this year. I've read using a vpn is cheaper and gets rid of the blackouts. Is this the way to go or are there any alternatives?

It's a bit expensive, it has commercials unless you go with the crazy expensive plan, they only had 4 commercials last season so you saw them 10,000 times, and blackouts can be annoying. The quality is really good, even on my so-so internet I always had really good streams, it's simple to use, you always know your team is going to be watchable unless you are in the blackout.

There is always r/nbastreams but sometimes if your team isn't that good, you may have to watch at 200p since there wont be a lot of people wanting to stream that. I dont know if ballstreams or the such is around anymore.

In the end...it's ok. I dont hate that I spend 100 bucks to watch the Pacers, but I'm not yelling from the rooftops for people to buy it like I am a service like MLB.tv

Icy Penguigo
Nov 7, 2010
Nuggets watchers; in what ways is Faried a worse player than Tristan Thompson? As a person who has watched a lot of TT and not a lot of Faried, I always assumed they were pretty much the same type of player.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

Icy Penguigo posted:

Nuggets watchers; in what ways is Faried a worse player than Tristan Thompson? As a person who has watched a lot of TT and not a lot of Faried, I always assumed they were pretty much the same type of player.

TT has a small superpower in that he's an amazing offensive rebounder, which makes him uniquely valuable and important to the Cavs. Faried is more of a bog standard board getter. TT is also a better rim protector than Faried

The Maestro
Feb 21, 2006
I was gonna ask the same thing about LiveStream. It's $120 for single team, $200 for all teams + commercials, and $250 for no commercials.

I'm blacked out on LAC and LAL, but I'm a Kings fan so I don't mind. I'll still get to see Ball bust. Very intrigued by the Clips also, if Griffin stays healthy. But Sac had a great offseason! Can't wait to see Vince suit up in the royal purple.

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

Icy Penguigo posted:

Nuggets watchers; in what ways is Faried a worse player than Tristan Thompson? As a person who has watched a lot of TT and not a lot of Faried, I always assumed they were pretty much the same type of player.

Defense, Handsomeness, the ability to win 1v5 rebounds despite not being very tall, not being a liability if switched onto a wing

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/ChefTrillie/status/912412346953461760

lmfao

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

Wiltsghost posted:

Thinking about getting League Pass for the first time this year. I've read using a vpn is cheaper and gets rid of the blackouts. Is this the way to go or are there any alternatives?

The Maestro posted:

I was gonna ask the same thing about LiveStream. It's $120 for single team, $200 for all teams + commercials, and $250 for no commercials.

I'm blacked out on LAC and LAL, but I'm a Kings fan so I don't mind. I'll still get to see Ball bust. Very intrigued by the Clips also, if Griffin stays healthy. But Sac had a great offseason! Can't wait to see Vince suit up in the royal purple.

I use the black market reborn4HDLive. Last year the quality and reliability was really good, and they support a bunch of different options like Plex, PS4 and Chromecast. The problem is they got rid of all the convenient payment options so you need to go through a Chinese phone card website or pay by bitcoin. Sketchy, but you can use paypal for the phone cards so the risk isn't overwhelming.

Here's my referral link: https://reborn4hdlive.org/en/register/?ref=6da2c407

They usually do a free week or whatever when the season starts and I usually post it then too if you want to give it a try.

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tanglewood1420
Oct 28, 2010

The importance of this mission cannot be overemphasized
I can't speak for the experience of a US based fan, but as someone who lives in London across the pond League Pass is a brilliant product. The streams are great quality, the stats tracking and layout alongside the games are nice, you can have multiple games open at the same time or just switch from one to the other whenever, option of choosing home or away broadcast feeds (watch Houston or Boston games while never having to hear their extremely lovely commentary teams ever again!), and the condensed highlights (12-20 minutes depending) they provide of every game are really great too, especially for an overseas viewer who can very rarely stay up to watch west coast games live.

However, I do order it via a VPN to get the Canadian pass as it is way cheaper - £81 ($108 US) once the 10% renewal discount was applied, vs £184.99 ($248 US) if I ordered legit as a UK subscriber. If I was paying the official price then I very probably wouldn't do it and make do with streams, but at the VPN price it's worth it for me.

Once you go through the VPN to set up billing you don't need to use it to watch the games, it's attached to your login account and you can watch using a normal browser perfectly fine. I didn't even have to do it this year as I just left on auto-renew and billing and it renewed at the Canadian price automatically. Also my billing details are my UK card and address and it didn't matter.

tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Sep 26, 2017

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