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| Spurs |
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165 | 32.93% |
| Thunder |
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76 | 15.17% |
| Clippers |
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54 | 10.78% |
| Warriors |
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50 | 9.98% |
| Rockets |
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23 | 4.59% |
| Lakers |
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133 | 26.55% |
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I'd be more ok with ads if it was part of revenue sharing.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:39
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PantsFreeZone posted:Meet Bruno Caboclo. He's real. 
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Jun 27, 2014 23:39
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Kibner posted:I assume this is sarcastic, but something I found out this season is that teams actually lose some of their timeouts if they aren't spent soon enough. I can't remember if it is at halftime, the fourth quarter, or both. They might be losing more as the NBA tries to speed up the length of games. Jersey ads would let the NBA run fewer commercials to try to get down to the 2 hour mark. I don't think that's a trade off they're going to want to make.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:43
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Bashez posted:They might be losing more as the NBA tries to speed up the length of games. Losing more as in fewer total timeouts or as in more TV timeouts? Because I don't see how it speeds up the game in the slightest if you're still using the same number of total timeouts, and the TV timeout doesn't come out of the team's bank if they've already used one so it could only slow the game down, not speed it up
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Jun 27, 2014 23:47
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http://bleacherreport.com/miami-heat Lowry trade to Miami heat immenent 
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Jun 27, 2014 23:48
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Canadian takeover continues in Sacramento, as the Kings have signed noted awful 7'5" fat guy Sim Bhullar from New Mexico State as a UDFA. A guy I'm Facebook friends with who is both a Kings fan and the owner of a South Asian Studies degree says the Kings are trying hard to appeal to the Indian market. I just read a draft report that says if he gets signed he'll be the tallest player in the league, edging out Hasheem Thabeet, who he may outweigh by a hundred pounds. Sign this guy, Kings!
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Jun 27, 2014 23:48
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WYA posted:http://bleacherreport.com/miami-heat Ric Bucher
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Jun 27, 2014 23:49
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chunkles posted:Ric Bucher Oh haha, nevermind
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Jun 27, 2014 23:53
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Ric Bucher was literally fabricating information during the Sacramento/Seattle drama, I don't know why people still put stock in what he says
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Jun 27, 2014 23:53
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FREAK
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Jun 27, 2014 23:53
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Why would Toronto trade Lowry for Norris Cole and a bunch of lovely picks? Have they, like, tried asking anyone else for an offer?
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Jun 27, 2014 23:53
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MourningView posted:They don't want to trade one revenue source for another, they want to make as much money as they possibly can. It's a business.
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Jun 27, 2014 23:55
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Fast Luck posted:I don't care if NBA teams make more money, I don't care if NBA players make more money, and I'd like to be able to look at a basketball player dunking without my eyes being monetized. It's not as if the revenue would be used to slash prices of tickets or concessions or anything else beneficial to fans of the game, so I don't understand why one single fan should support such a change. I already responded to this. I'm not supporting it I just don't give a poo poo one way or the other beyond thinking the outrage it causes will probably be over the top and kind of funny from the perspective of someone who doesn't care. MourningView fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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Jun 27, 2014 23:56
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The fans don't have to support it for it to happen. Unless a significant number of fans actually stop watching, they don't care whether your like it or not
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Jun 27, 2014 23:56
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The Heat are not exchanging Bosh for Lowry in any scenario (I know it wasn't in the article as a trade but he says that Bosh would be the member of the Big 3 to be given the heave ho).
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Jun 27, 2014 23:58
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PantsFreeZone posted:The Heat are not exchanging Bosh for Lowry in any scenario (I know it wasn't in the article as a trade but he says that Bosh would be the member of the Big 3 to be given the heave ho). For Carmelo, which makes even less sense. They could literally have big 3 + Lowry but get Melo instead of Bosh because reasons
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Jun 28, 2014 00:01
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I dont support it but I'm definitely not going to boycott one single game either because really
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Jun 28, 2014 00:01
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Soccer has the ideal balance in my opinion. Zero commercial breaks except at halftime and tons of loving ads everywhere. Let's do that NBA. Instead, we will get tons of commercial breaks and tons of ads everywhere.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:02
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Lowry seems like a big upgrade for Miami. Does this have any impact on getting Gortat or some other free agent Big?
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Jun 28, 2014 00:04
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nachos posted:For Carmelo, which makes even less sense. They could literally have big 3 + Lowry but get Melo instead of Bosh because reasons Right. Either of them. Bosh is a better fit. Ric Bucher is a moron.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:05
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Unless it involves Kobe like five years ago Ric Bucher doesn't know poo poo about poo poo. He writes for loving Bleacher Report.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:05
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He didn't even really have that great of insight into Kobe, he just had the advantage of being the only person Kobe didn't hang up on.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:06
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Yeah he was mostly just a mouthpiece for whatever Kobe's camp wanted to get out there, and only got that point by relentlessly kissing his rear end at every opportunity.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:08
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Kyle Lowry's agent playing puppet master with his hand up Bucher's bum trying to get Ujiri to blink.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:09
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nachos posted:For Carmelo, which makes even less sense. They could literally have big 3 + Lowry but get Melo instead of Bosh because reasons There's been a lot of chatter this offseason that Lebron really wants to play with Melo, which as far as I can tell is 100% manufactured and not based on anything at all. It was the nucleus of the Harden for Melo sign and trade Broussard was pushing earlier this week.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:11
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@SmithRaps: There have been "zero" conversations between Raptors and Heat; please take a breath and enjoy the long weekend Doug Smith is the Raptors beat dude. He rarely gets news first but also never gets news wrong.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:12
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If they do ads I'd be curious if any teams pull a Barcelona and refuse to play with ads due to an inflated sense of self. I could see the Lakers and the Celtics both turning down sponsorship.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:15
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Sheriff posted:There's been a lot of chatter this offseason that Lebron really wants to play with Melo, which as far as I can tell is 100% manufactured and not based on anything at all. It was the nucleus of the Harden for Melo sign and trade Broussard was pushing earlier this week. Do we know why? Like obviously Melo can get buckets, is it because he thinks he'll draw the 2nd best defender? Aside from wanting to play with great players in general I don't know why Melo would be the one he'd really want to play with; Melo doesn't seem like a guy who'd be much fun to play with.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:16
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Lowry don't leave please
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Jun 28, 2014 00:20
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Intruder posted:Losing more as in fewer total timeouts or as in more TV timeouts? Because I don't see how it speeds up the game in the slightest if you're still using the same number of total timeouts, and the TV timeout doesn't come out of the team's bank if they've already used one so it could only slow the game down, not speed it up Currently teams get charged timeouts for TV timeouts. The D league has altered it's rules on timeouts slightly, and teams will each lose down to 2 timeouts, if they have more than that. Because of TV timeouts you could only have 3, the rest would have already been charged to you for commercial breaks. Now you either have to use that timeout at some point, or it goes away. For the D league, anyway.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:22
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Lorini posted:...and grade refs on consistent officiating. I realize they'd have to fire half the refs they've got for this to happen, but the officiating is the most irritating part of the NBA. They already are evaluated a few times per season. Referees get flushed down the toilet if they don't meet certain standards. R.D. Mangles posted:I think what just got lost in all the draft nonsense is that Would've been cooler if you left the last name off. Articles are already using this kind of clickbait:  Paul Zuvella posted:So everyone's been talking about how Chicago needs to amnesty Boozer to sign Melo. If that does happen where does he sign to ring chase? I'd assume either the Heat, or the Clippers. Boozer sucks on O now and if he goes to a bad/marginal D team his D will be hilariously exploited as he hangs around the rim trying to grab scarce DRBs like his life depends on it. Still one of the loudest NBA players though and that has to be worth a few million. However, I don't think Reinsdorf would amnesty Boozer unless someone built a time machine and abducted late 1980s Jordan. He gets labeled as cheap a lot which isn't factual but he is frugal.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:23
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MourningView posted:Yeah he was mostly just a mouthpiece for whatever Kobe's camp wanted to get out there, and only got that point by relentlessly kissing his rear end at every opportunity. He's the same with the Rose camp now. Seems like he becomes friends with the camp of one NBA star every 5 years and delivers a few scoops on that player. The move makes no sense either. Lowry can make more than $10 million on the open market and why the hell would the Raptors want to help Miami?
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Jun 28, 2014 00:36
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Can Lowry make more than $10M? I'm not doubting his ability but are any teams that have cap space in the market for a new PG?
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Jun 28, 2014 00:40
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Libertine posted:Soccer has the ideal balance in my opinion. Zero commercial breaks except at halftime and tons of loving ads everywhere. Let's do that NBA. I think the NBA does a decent job with regular season games. I know games here start just after 7pm and I'm out of there before 9:30pm most nights. It'd be cool if they could shave a few minutes off, but I think they do a decent job of making the games short. Playoffs are another story though as they extend the timeouts and halftime breaks (national TV regular season games do this too). One negative of limiting timeouts is you'd probably see less of the best players every night. It's easier to play 40 minutes when you have an extra 5 minutes of timeouts to rest.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:40
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WhyteRyce posted:Can Lowry make more than $10M? I'm not doubting his ability but are any teams that have cap space in the market for a new PG? A lot of teams seem to be going with multiple PGs and there should be a lot of cap space available. I think he'd be an interesting fit even in Chicago if they strike out on Carmelo. Nate Duncan wrote a good piece on why Lowry would work in Chicago and they have the cap space to make it happen. Would dramatically improve the offense and defensively it would be compensated by having Butler, Gibson, and Noah playing in front of them.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:44
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MourningView posted:Unless it involves Kobe like five years ago Ric Bucher doesn't know poo poo about poo poo. He writes for loving Bleacher Report. Skolnik is pretty good but unfortunately writes for Bleacher Report. Also I am ashamed I clicked a bleacher report link for the first time in two years.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:45
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Zogo posted:However, I don't think Reinsdorf would amnesty Boozer unless someone built a time machine and abducted late 1980s Jordan. He gets labeled as cheap a lot which isn't factual but he is frugal. I am fairly confident they'll amnesty Boozer if they can't move him in a trade somehow. I'm pretty sure the Bulls will be paying around the same amount in payroll even if they do amnesty Boozer, since they'll just be able to spend up to the salary cap (plus the mini-MLE, plus veteran minimum contracts). As long as someone bids a few million on Boozer, it shouldn't be that different from if they didn't amnesty Boozer and added someone with the MLE.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:51
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PantsFreeZone posted:Meet Bruno Caboclo. He's real.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:51
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Bleacher Report has a handful of great writers. Bowen is always a good read for NFL X's and O's The key to Bleacher Report is to follow the good writers and only click the articles they tweet out.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:51
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Howard Beck is good too for Bleacher Report. The Bulls are most likely going to amnesty Boozer. They'd be eviscerated here for not doing so after the Deng salary dump last season.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:56
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