Recent content by blazerkor

Our last game was Thursday of last week. So for the guys who didn't go to all star weekend an 8 day break. For our players that went to all star weekend it's been four days since the end of the festivities.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47979919/nba-set-enact-anti-tanking-rules-next-season-sources-say I like the combination of a few of these rule changes: Flatten the lotto odds, teams can't pick in the top 4 consecutive years and teams can't pick in the top 4 the draft after making the...

Obviously it's not impossible, it's just improbable because for one thing it doesn't sound like all of the billionaires involved were in on it, if it did happen and that is dangerous due to said uninvolved billionaires' resources. I think it would be a dumb risk to take for Silver and I don't...

I just think the high visibility of the NBA draft lotto would make it a very very expensive large-scale scandal that would lose them a ton of business and it would mean about everyone in the NBA's front office losing their jobs. Again, I just don't think the reward would be worth the gamble...

Yeah I guess the points you just made make getting Luka to the Lakers and Flagg to the Mavs worth the $210,000,000,000 combined net worths of the NBA and Ernst and Young totally worth risking.

If you guys think that the NBA gives Ernst & Young anything close to enough to endanger the rest of their 53B in business they do every year and risk the NBA's reputation as well, I don't know what to tell you. Does it seem fishy that the Mavs got the first pick and specifically Flagg, right...

Scoot is still a stud prospect. Anyone who has given up on him, may not be wrong in the long run but they are wrong for doing it so soon. His three point shot has improved drastically since entering the league, the game is slowing down for him on offense, his defense just keeps getting better...

It doesn't say teammates. It was an amount of racism hurled at a Ramadan post on the teams IG account from Islamophobes.

I think what Silver has said lately is being misinterpreted. The newest article on ESPN and for that matter all articles besides the MSN one say nothing about scrapping the draft as one of the solutions. Fining teams and taking picks is all that's being discussed right now. I think the thing...

If this is real David Aldridge is a moron. These aren't separate corporations. He's ignoring the cap, lux tax and revenue sharing. If you follow his logic the league becomes something entirely different than it is today, far less competitive and therefore less exciting and a worse product.

@wizenheimer got me to change my mind. I now think that leveling the lotto odds and maybe even pushing the lotto spots to the top 5 would be the best way to get rid of tanking except for maybe the last few games of the season which are always going to be weird because teams are sitting players...

The thing is players don't tank... besides a game a few seasons ago with the Mavs and the game the Jazz are being fined for, I haven't seen coaches tank a lot either. Usually the way teams tank is the fron office shuts players down. I don't know what incentive there would be to tank if the...

Just makes no sense that the Stripes beat both the other teams and then had to keep playing against one of the teams they already beat. I didn't realize how fucking stupid this format was.

A quote from the article: "However, if Silver and his advisers decided the only way to stop tanking, and thereby protect paying customers from forking over money to watch their teams lose on purpose, was to stop the draft altogether and turn rookies into free agents, that same league official...

They already beat the other two teams. There is no reason for this last game.