Event Around the NBA: Oh hell, it's December 2025!

[Cugel]

How those teams could outbid other

You know what has been the biggest eye opener to me over the years is seeing these random no name guys come and go and they have been absolutely dominant at the HS/College level and just not have it for one reason or another at the pro level. Always been the star of their teams and just didn’t quite get to the right situation to flourish at this level.
We used to have friends and people we know that went on to D1 in college or the pros in Europe come back and play with us at my gym over the years….they would DESTROY us out on the court!
I think it’s amazing what Reeves is doing. Lighting the league up!

look at undrafted Emberhard in DAL. He is playing well, really well. Plenty of GMs apparently are poor judges of talent. College success doesn’t mean the same thing in the NBA. It’s such a different game as I am sure you know.

 

[THE HCP]

How those teams could outbid other

look at undrafted Emberhard in DAL. He is playing well, really well. Plenty of GMs apparently are poor judges of talent. College success doesn’t mean the same thing in the NBA. It’s such a different game as I am sure you know.

I don’t think that’s a reflection on the GMs not doing their jobs, I just think it magnifies how much of a crapshoot the draft and making it to the league it really is. Shit, if Draymond goes to 25 other teams other than the Warriors, he probably doesn’t even make it to his 2nd contract. The prefect fit, system and coach play such a huge part of it. When I see some G-League guy who won’t even play in the game that night, out there in warmups at 4pm not miss a single shot for like 10 minutes, it just blows my mind.
Reminds me of when I used to work a ton of golf. I would sit out there and watch these no name players on the practice range just place that ball wherever they wanted to for like an hour…..but to win and thrive on the tour, you needed more than that. Making it to the big leagues is one thing…..succeeding is a whole other thing.

I’m seeing it with my daughter right now. Dominated at every level ever. The star of any team she was on…… Now in college, she has had a lot of success, but not a star by any means. Every kid on her team were stars. She could have gone to a smaller program and dominate for sure, but wanted that top level.
Sports is an amazing thing. That’s what gets me when people come on here and are all of a sudden experts on things hoops, just because they can google some numbers. It’s more than that.

 

[THE HCP]

Where did this guy come from!!!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Where did this guy come from!!!

My post from June 2021:

Biggest sleeper of the draft and he’s still a projected lotto pick: Jalen Johnson

 

[THE HCP]

My post from July 2021:

Biggest BUST of the draft and he’s still a projected lotto pick: Jalen Johnson

I’m confused. You were wrong FAMS!

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

I think GMs and scouts start sniffing their own brand of farts in trying to think they are smarter than anyone else too. Some of the reaches and stuff that happen are wild. Some gms want to go for the home run instead of the double. That can be understandable, but the double might have them keep their job where the swing and a miss can get then fired.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Trying to find the best 60 players available worldwide to be drafted every year is an impossible task. "Mistakes" are always going to be made.

 

[RR7]

Trying to find the best 60 players available worldwide to be drafted every year is an impossible task. "Mistakes" are always going to be made.

To add on to that, there are so many people on websites and podcasts with their mock drafts, and quickly a consensus forms, and when things go a little astray, everyone calls it a reach, but it's a bunch of people pretending to read tea leaves doing all that shit. And then it trickles down to us. Trickle down draftenomics doesn't work! lol. But so much judgement is made based on where a few people think someone should go, and whether or not a GM does or doesn't take them there. And no GM is gonna tell any of those fools who they like. Look at Yang. Everyone panned it immediately. And then all of a sudden everyone had Brooklyn liking him. Did you not know that beforehand and adjust your board? No. So Portland looks silly, I guess, for "reaching".
I lost my point. I was out shucking oysters at an event tonight and sampled on my own supply and now am sleepy

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[THE HCP]

Who in the hell IS this dude!!??

 

[AldoTrapani]

 

[SheedSoNasty]

Who in the hell IS this dude!!??

That’s Christian Wood’s cousin.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Where did this guy come from!!!

Yeah, he's kind of running away with MIP. And the answer to your question is that he was always there, it's just Trae Young was standing in front of him, and now he's sat down.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

My post from June 2021:

Biggest sleeper of the draft and he’s still a projected lotto pick: Jalen Johnson

Yes, but then the next day you were saying it about somebody else...

 

[Cugel]

JJ had a couple injuries that kept him under the radar too.

 

[inconceivable]

watch the nuggets acquire chris paul and make him a champion.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

watch the nuggets acquire chris paul and make him a champion.

1. I doubt it - he's pretty much made himself radioactive. But
2. If they do, why not? Chris Paul has been fucked over by fate so many times, but is basically the best 6 foot player since Isiah Thomas. (Yes, better than Iverson.)

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Memphis should definitely be the team that relocates to Seattle. 40% of their starting lineup played for Washington State:

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Memphis should definitely be the team that relocates to Seattle. 40% of their starting lineup played for Washington State:

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Having Coward sure would make trading for someone like Giannis easier.....

 

[wizenheimer]

what "Chinese revenue boost"??? People keep saying that without explaining where the supposed boost is coming from. As far as I know, there is none that is not part of BRI and shared with all other 29 teams after the NBA takes it's slice.

Houston made money after adding Yao but that was from partnership deals they signed with Chinese companies. But Yao was a phenomenon in China at the time; Yang isn't now; Yang is not Yao

 

[kjironman1]

what "Chinese revenue boost"??? People keep saying that without explaining where the supposed boost is coming from. As far as I know, there is none that is not part of BRI and shared with all other 29 teams after the NBA takes it's slice.

Houston made money after adding Yao but that was from partnership deals they signed with Chinese companies. But Yao was a phenomenon in China at the time; Yang isn't now; Yang is not Yao

There is definitely a boost from fans from China. If you don’t think so go to a game. Anyone paying even the slightest amount of attention to the team can see this.

 

[wizenheimer]

There is definitely a boost from fans from China. If you don’t think so go to a game. Anyone paying even the slightest amount of attention to the team can see this.

according to BBREF:

average attendance this season: 17,721
average attendance last season:17,545

so, only a 176 ticket increase. But looking at past seasons, it looks like attendance tends to fall a little as the season progresses. It's also the case that home openers tend to be sell-outs and the differential for that is only dispersed over 9 games so far. Portland has also played the Lakers, OKC twice, Curry and the Warriors, the Spurs and 2 in-season tournament games at home. So, a lot of factors are going into that 176 increase in attendance; not just Yang and his 4 minutes/game

so, if the average ticket revenue for those 176 seats is 25K and say 20% of that is due to Yang, then it's a boost of $5000/game. Over 41 games that's 200K in a season. Call it 300K just to make sure it isn't shorting the Yang effect. His salary is 4.4M this year. So far, he's boosting Portland into the red

now maybe I'm missing some factor(s), but a lot of the ways Yang is supposed to amp up Blazer revenue are actually part of BRI

 

[kjironman1]

according to BBREF:

average attendance this season: 17,721
average attendance last season:17,545

so, only a 176 ticket increase. But looking at past seasons, it looks like attendance tends to fall a little as the season progresses. It's also the case that home openers tend to be sell-outs and the differential for that is only dispersed over 9 games so far. Portland has also played the Lakers, OKC twice, Curry and the Warriors, the Spurs and 2 in-season tournament games at home. So, a lot of factors are going into that 176 increase in attendance; not just Yang and his 4 minutes/game

so, if the average ticket revenue for those 176 seats is 25K and say 20% of that is due to Yang, then it's a boost of $5000/game. Over 41 games that's 200K in a season. Call it 300K just to make sure it isn't shorting the Yang effect. His salary is 4.4M this year. So far, he's boosting Portland into the red

now maybe I'm missing some factor(s), but a lot of the ways Yang is supposed to amp up Blazer revenue are actually part of BRI

Look I’m not going to argue stats and attendance.
Go to a game. Then tell me there is not an increased Chinese presence. Then open up the thought process to what happens if that kid starts playing better and the team actually starts winning some games.
Situations make a difference. Not everything is black and white and definable by stats.

In short your numbers are laughable at best.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[kjironman1]

I’m confused. You were wrong FAMS!

Yes

 

[THE HCP]

That’s Christian Wood’s cousin.

Alright that’s funny. The comedic callback is a lost art. Well done FAMS!

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[wizenheimer]

Look I’m not going to argue stats and attendance.
Go to a game. Then tell me there is not an increased Chinese presence. Then open up the thought process to what happens if that kid starts playing better and the team actually starts winning some games.
Situations make a difference. Not everything is black and white and definable by stats.

In short your numbers are laughable at best.

yeah right...my 'numbers' are laughable because they conflict with your unsupported and subjective assertions. You say you're "not going to argue stats and attendance"...then you do exactly that by arguing the attendance numbers are laughable. But those are the numbers whether you like them or not

in 2028-19 when the Blazers won 53 games their average attendance was 19,496 which is actually a bit over seating capacity of around 19.400. There was no Chinese player on the team at the time, yet somehow, Blazer attendance averaged 1,775 more without the massive Yang impact

in 2022-23, when the Blazers only won 33 games but were led by Dame having arguably his best season as a pro, Portland averaged 18,716, basically a 1000 more attending than this season so far.

all the Blazers need to do to amp up attendance is put a better product on the floor; a team that wins more games than they lose while being led by great players

 

[riverman]

in 2028-19

check your stats time traveler!

 

[Phatguysrule]

You didn’t offended me ma’am. That’s impossible. Instead of doing 10 hours of research and typing out all this info and stats, it’s ok to just acknowledge a player is killing it or has killed it in the past. Not EVERY stat or players accomplishments need to be torn down. Just give props where they are due. Not just Blazer players. I never see people on here kill Deni for pretty much averaging the same amount of FT attempts as SGA, yet SGA get’s MURDERED by people on here. Fandom is a dangerous thing.

I have no problem with hunting fouls by initiating contact. I have a problem with flopping.