Enforcer84 Posted July 6, 2019 Report Share Posted July 6, 2019 Guys. If the Warriors win this year I think there will be suicides all over the nation. Who's your favorite? This could be the first time in a long while that neither team from the Championship series repeats. Both teams lost major contributors. The good teams got gooder? The bad teams stayed bad. Players have taken the helm and owners everywhere are perhaps pissing themselves. Are we excited? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 6, 2019 Report Share Posted July 6, 2019 Delly and His Wife are Expecting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2019 Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 I'm not as knowledgeable about the NBA as some, but I understand the teams to beat in the West are now the Lakers, the Jazz (Really? Are you sure?), and the Clippers (What?! That can't be right....). It's going to be a strange year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted July 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 I still think Houston is in the mix...unless I missed a big trade or free agent escapee. But Houston will be in the mix. I want to say Portland will be as well, since Dame, CJ, and 3 other guys can get to the playoffs at will. Denver is still scary good and if the loss to Portland made them hungrier instead of breaking them, they're in there. The Jazz do look good. They got a scoring point guard who plays good defense in Conley. They fixed their front court logjam with the leaving of Derrick Favors. The Clippers (by the way, I believe Jerry West is in the Clipper's front office) stepped on the Laker's collective ball sacks and I love it. And I'm honestly, not sure how afraid of the Lakers I would be. Though they signed Boogie who is good and further from the acl injury. He worked well with AD in New Orleans. I'm assuming they got along or LA wouldn't take a flier on Cousins of AD was not on board. (But given the Laker drama of the last five years I wouldn't necessarily put it past them to bring in locker room poison) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted July 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 Listening to some basketball gurus podcasts, can we talk about teams that have been acquired by *good* owners and hired *good* gms to run their team and turned around decades of futility? Case in point, your LA Clippers on the west coast and Brooklyn Nets in the east. They were punchlines for years because the Clippers were owned by a cheap, ignorant, racist who wanted a team to show of to his rich friends. And the Nets who were a franchise in flux got purchased by a Russian Billionaire who tried to buy a championship and then supposedly mortgaged the future of the franchise on past their prime stars. The Nets had traded away draft picks for years. But in the last three years they've hit pay dirt with limited draft picks and managed space. They built a culture and turned young players with chips on their shoulders into a playoff team (in the east, yes) just like what the Clippers did in the west. They broke up their best team in decades and made a playoff run with a team that gelled around no superstars. They managed to haul in 4 of the biggest Free Agents between them and the prestige teams in their same cities dropped the ball (though it's really hard to say the Lakers dropped the ball too much, the Knicks are garbage.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2019 Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 Interesting article looking at the possibilities for 2019-20: After years of imbalanced NBA predictability, free agency rewards fans with a refreshingly wide-open title race Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted July 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2019 The bulk of the power shifted towards the West again so that imbalance is still there (less so next year when KD runs roughshod over the east - assuming he's physically capable) Philadelphia is huge. Just huge. The Bucks don't look much stronger than they did last year but we'll see. is this the year Orlando gets it's head out and starts playing to the talent people claim they have? How will Indiana look with Olowadipo back? Going to be an exciting year and that's assuming none of the rookies are meteors. (Zion will probably be exciting to watch, maybe Ja Morent) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 Report: Player in Europe failed drug test because it showed he was pregnant Enforcer84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted August 16, 2019 Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 I'm pretty sure Demarcus Cousin's left leg (torn Achilles, torn quad, torn acl over the span of 18 months) is trying to tell him something. YMMV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 I feel bad for the guy. A lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 According to the commentators I heard, the Pelicans are supposedly in very good shape this season. Lonzo Ball has had a completely different summer now that he's not a Laker anymore -- getting a real agent, hiring a chef to prepare his off-season training meals (as opposed to grabbing cheeseburgers at In-and-Out) and in other words applying himself to be a professional basketball player. LaVar seems to have lost interest in his eldest son's career, preferring to position his youngest (now playing pro ball in Australia) to be the #1 pick overall. But Big Baller Brand has just about completely imploded (apparently the shoes were terrible, though nobody seemed to care) and the media has tired of the act. Hearing less from LaVar Ball is a good thing in my opinion. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 They all worship at the altar of Chinese money anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 12, 2019 Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Not that I've ever been a huge basketball fan anyway, but the NBA's treatment of this whole China affair bugs me. For an organization that prides itself on being politically progressive and 'woke', this kowtowing to a foreign power in the interest of economic benefit feels straight out of the Trump playbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 Opinion: LeBron James undermines values he's espoused in most disgraceful moment of career tl;dr version: James said that Rockets GM Daryl Morey "Could have waited a week to send it"--'it' being a tweet that criticized China's handling of the Hong Kong situation and ultimately resulted in the cancellation of a bunch of publicity events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 yeah that's a disappointing comment. But one you'd expect from a business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 ...which, ultimately, is what LeBron James is. Not that I can criticize him too heavily. It's a good gig if you can get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 My husband has sworn off the NBA due to them kowtowing to China (ditto him dropping Blizzard Entertainment). He's got 3 (rather nice) jerseys he's looking to sell, 2 Cavs and 1 Spurs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 yeah, he's not one of the athletes I worry will end up destitute due to bad decisions with money. Actually it's kind of nice seeing the number of superstars who seem to have that finally covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 It seems a little naive to think we all don't financially 'bend the knee' to the Chinese in one way or another. Their goods and services are thoroughly integrated into our economy at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted October 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 it's not just China. Though they've got the centralized power. Most megacorps are well on their way to our cyberpunk dystopic futures. Just look at all the things nestle owns. But this is a basketball thread! I'm wondering if the Lakers are going to implode harder than Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 I think they'll be excellent...when healthy. The problem is that Davis, like Chris Paul, gets hurt too much to bring his full potential to a team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 23, 2019 Report Share Posted October 23, 2019 China protests hit Lakers-Clippers opener as activists hand out 13,000 pro-Hong Kong T-shirts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 12, 2019 Report Share Posted November 12, 2019 Because of course he did. Draymond Green makes history, gets Chase Center's first-ever Warriors ejection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 On 10/15/2019 at 1:29 PM, Enforcer84 said: it's not just China. Though they've got the centralized power. Most megacorps are well on their way to our cyberpunk dystopic futures. Just look at all the things nestle owns. But this is a basketball thread! I'm wondering if the Lakers are going to implode harder than Houston. Hey look, you got Melo! Umm, congratulations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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