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I'm a little late on this one, but:
Guy averages 11.7 PPG, 3 REB, 1.6 AST career...
Eighteen million..
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I'm a little late on this one, but:
Guy averages 11.7 PPG, 3 REB, 1.6 AST career...
Eighteen million..
Yeah, it's just insulting at this point. I've washed my hands fully of the nba.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just some "cool" pictures of guys that could really play above the rim:
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Three top 10 players who also happen to be 3 of possibly the top 5 most ball dominant players in the league. What could possibly go wrong?I love that Melo to OKC hasn't even been mentioned on BP
So appropriate. Saw a few articles last weekend trying to push it as the next Big 3 in OKC -- lose all credibility as a sports writer.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Captains to pick teams for NBA All-Star Game after format tweak
The NBA All-Star Game is switching formats this season, as two captains will select the teams without regard to which conferences the players play in, the league announced Tuesday.
The players who win the fan vote from each conference will be the captains.
There will still be 12 players selected from each conference for the game in Los Angeles on Feb. 18. Five players from each conference will be selected as starters, with the fan vote being worth 50 percent, player vote worth 25 percent and media vote worth 25 percent. Seven reserves for each team will be picked by each conference's head coaches.
The new system will enable players from each conference to play against each other and will allow current teammates to face off. Starters will be picked first, so the 10 players voted in as starters will remain that way.
Last season, LeBron James led fan voting in the Eastern Conference and Stephen Curry had the honor in the West. All-Star voting will begin on Christmas Day.
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It is a part of a package of changes the NBA has made this season with fan interest in mind.
Entire article: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ts-captains-pick-team-conference-affiliations
I never was interested in the NBA All Star Game (never thought of it was a real game, just an individual shooting exhibition) and still not interested.
The NBA All-Star Game is switching formats this season, as two captains will select the teams without regard to which conferences the players play in, the league announced Tuesday.
The players who win the fan vote from each conference will be the captains.
There will still be 12 players selected from each conference for the game in Los Angeles on Feb. 18. Five players from each conference will be selected as starters, with the fan vote being worth 50 percent, player vote worth 25 percent and media vote worth 25 percent. Seven reserves for each team will be picked by each conference's head coaches.
The new system will enable players from each conference to play against each other and will allow current teammates to face off. Starters will be picked first, so the 10 players voted in as starters will remain that way.
Last season, LeBron James led fan voting in the Eastern Conference and Stephen Curry had the honor in the West. All-Star voting will begin on Christmas Day.
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It is a part of a package of changes the NBA has made this season with fan interest in mind.
Entire article: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ts-captains-pick-team-conference-affiliations
I never was interested in the NBA All Star Game (never thought of it was a real game, just an individual shooting exhibition) and still not interested.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Mavs owner Mark Cuban fined $600,000 for tanking comments
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined $600,000 for making public statements detrimental to the NBA, commissioner Adam Silver announced Wednesday.
Cuban said on Monday's episode of the House Call with Dr. J podcast that it's in his team's best interests to lose on purpose for the remainder of the season in order to better position themselves for the draft lottery.
"I'm probably not supposed to say this, but, like, I just had dinner with a bunch of our guys the other night, and here we are, you know, we weren't competing for the playoffs. I was like, 'Look, losing is our best option,' " Cuban said. "Adam would hate hearing that, but I at least sat down and I explained it to them. And I explained what our plans were going to be this summer, that we're not going to tank again. This was, like, a year-and-a-half of tanking, and that was too brutal for me. But being transparent, I think that's the key to being kind of a players' owner and having stability."
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-mark-cuban-fined-tanking-comments/360493002/
Mark Cuban isn’t the only owner talking about tanking
Other teams are embracing the same strategy. Why is Cuban the only one fined for it?
The NBA knows it has a problem. There’s a built-in concession prize that increases in value the worse a team becomes, and it’s much easier to be bad in the NBA than good. Rebuilding used to come in cycles for every team. Then a few teams (okay, maybe just one) decided to game the system by gutting their teams of any veteran talent. Now, the only word anyone has for this phenomenon is ‘tanking.’
Even the mere notion of tanking is a fineable offense for owners and front office personnel. Most recently, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was fined $600,000 for his comments on the “House Call with Dr. J” podcast when he recalled telling his team that “losing is our best option.“ The fine was the biggest Cuban has ever paid—which is saying something.
Entire article: https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2018/...avericks-mark-cuban-tanking-fine-lakers-bulls
The Mavs are blatantly tanking -- and they're just one of many
The truth hurts. And the Mavs have a lot of company in their misery, which is one factor in the possible tanking epidemic that the NBA faces as the regular season enters its final quarter. A perfect storm is brewing for the NBA's race to the bottom, to borrow a phrase from Cuban, being intensely competitive in ridiculously noncompetitive ways.
Eight teams -- a pack that has a combined losing streak of 44 games heading into Monday night's slate -- sit within two games of having the league's worst record (and best lottery odds). All but the Brooklyn Nets, whose first-round pick is owed to the Cleveland Cavaliers via the Boston Celtics because of the disastrous Kevin Garnett/Paul Pierce deal, have extreme incentive to tank. All-Star Kristaps Porzingis' season-ending knee injury means the New York Knicks have motivation to join the tank party, too.
NBA scouts project June's draft to feature five to seven elite talents, depending on individual opinion. Also, this is the final year before changes to the lottery system are implemented, leveling out the odds. In the future, the teams with the three worst records will each have 14 percent odds of winning the lottery. The odds for the teams with the three worst records this season: 25, 19.9 and 15.6 percent, in descending order.
The result, multiple league executives told ESPN, is a formula for perhaps one of the most widespread tanking efforts the league has ever seen.
Entire article: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22573750/how-nba-bottom-dwellers-putting-tanking-clinic-nba
NBA tankathon: Who will win the best lottery odds?
The tank is on.
Who is winning the crowded race for lottery pingpong balls, and who needs to try harder? Where will traded picks land for the Cavaliers, 76ers and Celtics?
Every week we'll guide you through the ugly basketball on the way to NBA draft hope.
See the odds: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22554035/2018-nba-draft-tank-race-win-best-lottery-odds
In the NBA you are allowed to tank; however, team owners/management/players just can't talk about it in public.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been fined $600,000 for making public statements detrimental to the NBA, commissioner Adam Silver announced Wednesday.
Cuban said on Monday's episode of the House Call with Dr. J podcast that it's in his team's best interests to lose on purpose for the remainder of the season in order to better position themselves for the draft lottery.
"I'm probably not supposed to say this, but, like, I just had dinner with a bunch of our guys the other night, and here we are, you know, we weren't competing for the playoffs. I was like, 'Look, losing is our best option,' " Cuban said. "Adam would hate hearing that, but I at least sat down and I explained it to them. And I explained what our plans were going to be this summer, that we're not going to tank again. This was, like, a year-and-a-half of tanking, and that was too brutal for me. But being transparent, I think that's the key to being kind of a players' owner and having stability."
Entire article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-mark-cuban-fined-tanking-comments/360493002/
Mark Cuban isn’t the only owner talking about tanking
Other teams are embracing the same strategy. Why is Cuban the only one fined for it?
The NBA knows it has a problem. There’s a built-in concession prize that increases in value the worse a team becomes, and it’s much easier to be bad in the NBA than good. Rebuilding used to come in cycles for every team. Then a few teams (okay, maybe just one) decided to game the system by gutting their teams of any veteran talent. Now, the only word anyone has for this phenomenon is ‘tanking.’
Even the mere notion of tanking is a fineable offense for owners and front office personnel. Most recently, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was fined $600,000 for his comments on the “House Call with Dr. J” podcast when he recalled telling his team that “losing is our best option.“ The fine was the biggest Cuban has ever paid—which is saying something.
Entire article: https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2018/...avericks-mark-cuban-tanking-fine-lakers-bulls
The Mavs are blatantly tanking -- and they're just one of many
The truth hurts. And the Mavs have a lot of company in their misery, which is one factor in the possible tanking epidemic that the NBA faces as the regular season enters its final quarter. A perfect storm is brewing for the NBA's race to the bottom, to borrow a phrase from Cuban, being intensely competitive in ridiculously noncompetitive ways.
Eight teams -- a pack that has a combined losing streak of 44 games heading into Monday night's slate -- sit within two games of having the league's worst record (and best lottery odds). All but the Brooklyn Nets, whose first-round pick is owed to the Cleveland Cavaliers via the Boston Celtics because of the disastrous Kevin Garnett/Paul Pierce deal, have extreme incentive to tank. All-Star Kristaps Porzingis' season-ending knee injury means the New York Knicks have motivation to join the tank party, too.
NBA scouts project June's draft to feature five to seven elite talents, depending on individual opinion. Also, this is the final year before changes to the lottery system are implemented, leveling out the odds. In the future, the teams with the three worst records will each have 14 percent odds of winning the lottery. The odds for the teams with the three worst records this season: 25, 19.9 and 15.6 percent, in descending order.
The result, multiple league executives told ESPN, is a formula for perhaps one of the most widespread tanking efforts the league has ever seen.
Entire article: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22573750/how-nba-bottom-dwellers-putting-tanking-clinic-nba
NBA tankathon: Who will win the best lottery odds?
The tank is on.
Who is winning the crowded race for lottery pingpong balls, and who needs to try harder? Where will traded picks land for the Cavaliers, 76ers and Celtics?
Every week we'll guide you through the ugly basketball on the way to NBA draft hope.
See the odds: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22554035/2018-nba-draft-tank-race-win-best-lottery-odds
In the NBA you are allowed to tank; however, team owners/management/players just can't talk about it in public.
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