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Doltos posted:I grew up there for four years it's a basketball crazy area. It's also full of rich people and rich rear end corporations, not to mention a poo poo ton of military bases and industry around that. Virginia's rapidly growing and up there with the big boys of NY, PA, and Florida. It's also turning into a huge transplant area so college loyalty isn't as strong as it used to be, same with Raleigh. Yeah, I didn't mention it the other day when I was tilted, but I actually did too. I grew up in Norfolk and there would definitely be support for an NBA team. I think there are fears that the military might pull out and cripple the area, but who knows whether that would actually happen. A team in Williamsburg could potentially pull Richmond and the seven cities, but I think SEVA could support a team. People in that area are pretty jaded about the prospect though. edit: top of page content 
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The navy isn’t going anywhere that Port is ludicrous
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Jul 22, 2020 02:10
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Expand to Seattle and Vegas (or KC), move Minnesota to the Eastern conference under the Central Division. 32 teams gives you a nice "half in half out" balance to the playoffs.
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Jul 22, 2020 02:11
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Don't expand imo
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Jul 22, 2020 02:12
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make a seattle team then let metapod personally steal it
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Jul 22, 2020 02:14
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Lockback posted:Minnesota has like 5 Eastern teams within 600 mile flight and 0 Western. I mean, look at the map. Memphis might be a bit further east but them and NO are WAYY closer to Texas teams. Memphis and NO are generally closer to Western teams than Eastern teams. It's that and in football and baseball there are very well established rivalries with Wisconsin, Chicago and Detroit.
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Jul 22, 2020 02:15
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THIS ROSTER SPOT COULD HAVE BEEN LUKA, VLADE IT COULD HAVE BEEN LUKA
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Jul 22, 2020 02:24
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Pls move the Mavs East. It makes no sense but it’d be nice to be on that side of the playoff bracket.
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Jul 22, 2020 02:35
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Move to STL please I can go to games
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Jul 22, 2020 02:41
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https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1285752766523232258?s=21
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Jul 22, 2020 02:47
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lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iix2iRRyUKo&t=203s
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Jul 22, 2020 02:47
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Good, Zygi Wilf owns. He's a total sleezebag slum lord that actively fucks over everyone he's ever worked with but he puts it all into the Vikings because he loves sports.
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Jul 22, 2020 02:57
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If you expand to 32 teams, do you keep the same number of playoff teams, or do you add a bonus team that barnstorms both conferences in the playoffs until it accumulates 6 losses
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Jul 22, 2020 03:06
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Doltos posted:Good, Zygi Wilf owns. He's a total sleezebag slum lord that actively fucks over everyone he's ever worked with but he puts it all into the Vikings because he loves sports. Honestly, yeah. And he absolutely wouldn't move the team.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:10
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Five 6-team divisions like sbnation proposed https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/11/26/7280545/nba-schedule-reform-regions-map-playoffs
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Jul 22, 2020 03:17
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Dejan Bimble posted:If you expand to 32 teams, do you keep the same number of playoff teams, or do you add a bonus team that barnstorms both conferences in the playoffs until it accumulates 6 losses
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Jul 22, 2020 03:27
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In season regional tournaments the top 5 winners get into the playoffs with the best record non winner getting the sixth slot. Bottom 4 runner ups play in to make it 8 seeded. That gives the NBA two wildcard games which would get massive ratings and three rounds of 4 game series with the top 8 teams. Less games would also mean less injury fatigue in the playoffs. That model would also support 10 more expansion teams which will probably be needed over the next 50 or so years.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:31
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Even asking this is going to sound like blasphemy to some posters, so apologies in advanced. Which player would you rather have play their entire career for your favorite team, Kobe Bryant or Chris Paul?
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Jul 22, 2020 03:47
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Spacebump posted:Even asking this is going to sound like blasphemy to some posters, so apologies in advanced. Which player would you rather have play their entire career for your favorite team, Kobe Bryant or Chris Paul? Kobe wasn't a dirty player/whiny bitch so him I guess you could probably argue the second part if you wanted to but certainly not on the level of Paul
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Jul 22, 2020 03:49
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Lmao https://twitter.com/ESPNLosAngeles/status/1285767791383990273
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Jul 22, 2020 04:12
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Poque posted:Five 6-team divisions like sbnation proposed A clear sign that no one from SBNation has ever driven or flown to Utah or Texas from Arizona is them constantly sticking Arizona teams in with teams that take 2 hours or 14 hours of driving to get to instead of LA teams that take 30 minute flights or 6-8 hours of driving to get to.
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Jul 22, 2020 04:16
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Just move the Suns to Austin already Sarver clearly hates Phoenix on a personal level
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Jul 22, 2020 04:38
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Love KG but he kind of seems like he’d suck as an owner. Others can probably speak to this better but I remember his backseat GMing being real bad
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Jul 22, 2020 04:46
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https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1285784158552326144?s=19
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Jul 22, 2020 04:56
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Jul 22, 2020 05:36
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Lockback posted:Expand to Seattle and Vegas (or KC), move Minnesota to the Eastern conference under the Central Division. 32 teams gives you a nice "half in half out" balance to the playoffs. If they expand and Big Boi and I don’t get a team in Pittsburgh we will know that 2 teams is 0 net teams
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Jul 22, 2020 05:49
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Add Seattle and Vegas, move Minnesota to the East 32 teams in 8 divisions of 4 (like the NFL) West Golden State/Sacramento/Portland/Seattle Lakers/Clippers/Phoenix/Vegas Utah/Denver/OKC/Memphis Dallas/Houston/San Antonio/New Orleans East Philly/New York/Brooklyn/Boston Minnesota/Chicago/Milwaukee/Indiana Detroit/Cleveland/Toronto/Washington Miami/Orlando/Charlotte/Atlanta Play every team home and away - 62 games Play the teams in your division an extra home and away series - 6 more games Play every non-division team in your conference once more (6 home/6 road split) - 12 more games 80 game schedule, 1280 regular season games total (30 more games than the current schedule) 8 teams from each conference go into a 1-16 inter conference playoff bracket. If you win your division you automatically get into the playoffs but have no seeding guarantee (e.g. you could be the 16th seed even if you won your division). Make me commissioner! (actually don't it seems like a hard job) tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jul 22, 2020 |
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Jul 22, 2020 06:02
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DeimosRising posted:If they expand and Big Boi and I don’t get a team in Pittsburgh we will know that 2 teams is 0 net teams Hey now, theres already a "net" team 
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Jul 22, 2020 06:23
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Spacebump posted:Even asking this is going to sound like blasphemy to some posters, so apologies in advanced. Which player would you rather have play their entire career for your favorite team, Kobe Bryant or Chris Paul? Since my favorite team is the Rockets, I would lean Chris Paul. Kobe would've made those early 2000s Stevie Franchise teams a lot better. Not like contender better, but better to the point where they never get Yao. Now a hypothetical Yao/Kobe team would've ruled in the years Yao stayed healthy for the playoffs. A Kobe/T-Mac team would've been some peak mid 2000s iso ball that got wrecked by the Spurs every year. The problem is that by the time Harden was available, Kobe would be washed and overstaying his welcome at the wrong position. Chris Paul's career lines up much more nicely with the Rockets timeline. By 2008, he would've been good enough to put that awesome Ron Artest team over the top even with T-Mac and Yao going down. The post Yao/pre-Harden teams would've been Hornets-level competitive at least, and given that Paul/Harden experiment worked really well for one year, it's hard to imagine that duo not winning a championship in 8+ tries, especially if they still got a couple decent Dwight years in there.
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Jul 22, 2020 06:54
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Spacebump posted:Even asking this is going to sound like blasphemy to some posters, so apologies in advanced. Which player would you rather have play their entire career for your favorite team, Kobe Bryant or Chris Paul? Chris Paul wasn't a rapist, so him.
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Vinestalk posted:What teams would be likely to move though? the suns would fit the bill yeah Spacebump posted:Even asking this is going to sound like blasphemy to some posters, so apologies in advanced. Which player would you rather have play their entire career for your favorite team, Kobe Bryant or Chris Paul? chris paul and it’s not close Spring Break My Heart posted:Same number of playoff teams yeah this makes the most sense since as things are more than half the teams in the nba make the playoffs every season and 1 vs 8 tends to be sacrificial lambs anyway; i wouldn’t be surprised to see the nba add in a play-in game/series of 3 for the eighth seed for the added playoff revenue in the event there were 32 teams though
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Jul 22, 2020 12:28
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All scrimmages will be on league pass, some on NBA TV Wednesday, July 22 Orlando Magic vs. LA Clippers (3 p.m.) Washington Wizards vs. Denver Nuggets (3:30 p.m.) New Orleans Pelicans vs. Brooklyn Nets (7 p.m.) Sacramento Kings vs. Miami Heat (8 p.m.) Thursday, July 23 San Antonio Spurs vs. Milwaukee Bucks (3 p.m.) Portland Trail Blazers vs. Indiana Pacers (3:30 p.m.) Dallas Mavericks vs. Los Angeles Lakers (7 p.m.) Phoenix Suns vs. Utah Jazz (8 p.m.) Friday, July 24 Memphis Grizzlies vs. Philadelphia 76ers (3:30 p.m.) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Boston Celtics (5 p.m.) Houston Rockets vs. Toronto Raptors (7:30 p.m.) Saturday, July 25 Los Angeles Lakers vs. Orlando Magic (12 p.m.) Milwaukee Bucks vs. Sacramento Kings (12:30 p.m.) Miami Heat vs. Utah Jazz (4 p.m.) Brooklyn Nets vs. San Antonio Spurs (4:30 p.m.) LA Clippers vs. Washington Wizards (8 p.m.) Denver Nuggets vs. New Orleans Pelicans (8:30 p.m.) Sunday, July 26 Philadelphia 76ers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (12 p.m.) Phoenix Suns vs. Boston Celtics (1:30 p.m.) Indiana Pacers vs. Dallas Mavericks (4 p.m.) Portland Trail Blazers vs. Toronto Raptors (6 p.m.) Houston Rockets vs. Memphis Grizzlies (8 p.m.) Monday, July 27 Washington Wizards vs. Los Angeles Lakers (3 p.m.) Sacramento Kings vs. LA Clippers (4 p.m.) Utah Jazz vs. Brooklyn Nets (5:30 p.m.) Orlando Magic vs. Denver Nuggets (7 p.m.) New Orleans Pelicans vs. Milwaukee Bucks (8 p.m.) Tuesdays, July 28 Memphis Grizzlies vs. Miami Heat (2 p.m.) Toronto Raptors vs. Phoenix Suns (3 p.m.) San Antonio Spurs vs. Indiana Pacers (4 p.m.) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Portland Trail Blazers (6 p.m.) Boston Celtics vs. Houston Rockets (8 p.m.) Dallas Mavericks vs. Philadelphia 76ers (8:30 p.m.)
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Jul 22, 2020 13:01
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I'm going to be watching basketball in 6.5 hours
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Jul 22, 2020 13:32
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https://twitter.com/TaylorRooks/status/1285709114849538048?s=19
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Jul 22, 2020 14:17
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The funny part is I could see both parties being offended
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Jul 22, 2020 14:31
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So if I don't have cable tv is it worth buying league pass just for the restart? Or are all of the games considered nationally televised and thus blacked out?
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Jul 22, 2020 14:31
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Remembering Ether > Listening to Ether Anyway, time to compartmentalize all my fear and anxiety because today I Am Watching Basketball.
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Jul 22, 2020 14:32
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a new study bible! posted:So if I don't have cable tv is it worth buying league pass just for the restart? Or are all of the games considered nationally televised and thus blacked out? I would just stream these games until at least they count toward the playoffs. This is glorified preseason
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Jul 22, 2020 14:36
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a new study bible! posted:So if I don't have cable tv is it worth buying league pass just for the restart? Or are all of the games considered nationally televised and thus blacked out? These games are probably going to be insanely bad until the playoffs. Kevin Garnett basically is the Minnesota Timberwolves so give them to him imo. Chris Paul is way more Pistony than Kobe even though Kobe almost got traded here.
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Paul’s bad hammy is still the worst playoff injury imho Not worst in terms of severity but in terms of what it meant
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