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  1. Two replies, zero arguments. k.
  2. Didn't shot clocks used to up all the time in the 80s so they had clocks in the corners too? I definitely recall a Larry Bird story about something like that. In any case, good to know that basic NBA facility management is being ignored despite those sweet sweet new revenue streams from ad patches and annual meme jerseys inspired by the famous dog poop patterns on the local boardwalk.
  3. You people are out of your minds. You think Vince Carter is the reason basketball is played in Canada? This is Canada we're talking about, not Turkmenistan or some previously uncontacted jungle people. It's right next to the United States. Toronto has been a major Great Lakes city since such a concept existed. Plenty of culture spillover. They (briefly) had a team before in the old BAA (NBA forerunner league). Basketball very much existed there before and still would have without Wince Carter being a glorified Ricky Davis. Also, Raptors game-day entertainment, the oblivious rich kids who still go to NBA games, and broccoli-headed zoomies on social media who've never heard of Alvin Williams or Mo Peterson =/= most of Toronto. People who were old enough in 2005 to have an opinion on the matter despise him, and rightfully so. He set their franchise back years by demanding a trade and then immediately killing his own trade value and never did anything of note while he was there besides throw down some meaningless dunks and jet-lag himself before Game 7 of the Sixers series so he could do his UNC graduation walk. Cool story. I associate Wince Carter with being a selfish disappointment and a net negative on the game. This is crap. The Grizzlies moved because they were atrociously run by one of Stern's league office stooges and Vancouver - besides being just a worse market to begin with - was far more sensitive to the Canadian dollar problem (the same one that pushed out the Jets and Nordiques) than Toronto. The original owners were determined to sell the team and nobody local was interested, therefore they moved. Glorified Ricky Davis wouldn't have saved them. The similarly shameful Steve Francis wouldn't have saved them either had he not demanded out before his tenure there even began. Again, Canada isn't Mars. And some good being "on the map" (whatever that means in this case) did for the Raptors in the decade that passed in between Wince scurrying off to Jersey (in exchange for an old center who just got a kidney transplant and two Mattress Firm delivery guys, because he quit on the franchise and tanked his trade value and his team's leverage, but yeah sure reward that and retire his number!), and them unearthing Kyle Lowry and Valanciunas actually getting good for the first time. They were a piss-poor, borderline radioactive franchise in the interim and I still wouldn't say they're quite "on the map" considering Kawhi Leonard probably never even unpacked his suitcase in the one season he played there before bolting in free agency.
  4. After the garbage he pulled, Toronto retiring Vince Carter's number would be one of the most spineless moves an NBA franchise has ever made. Might as well suggest the Celtics retire Kyrie's number.
  5. The Warriors aren't what they used to be but killing them by 50 when all their important guys played - and we didn't have Porzingis - is a very good sign. It indicates that they actually give a :censored:. Last year's team probably loses this game just because.
  6. *posts picture of Joel Embiid's meniscus* I like Atlanta Strip Malls, Atlanta Nordiques, or Atlanta Saskatoons better.
  7. How are you gonna relocate the Jets for underwhelming attendance when the Coyotes are still playing at an abandoned Planet Fitness on a "temporary" basis? 9500 season tickets doubles up the latter's whole capacity. I don't live in Canada and don't know anyone who does, so my knowledge of whatever goes on up there is limited to whatever I happen to stumble across either here or on sites like reddit, which could be ChatGPT bots for all I know. But it seems like standard of living isn't great up there right now, by North American standards. And Winnipeg apparently has never been particularly strong in that regard anyway. So people probably just can't afford the price point they're insisting on. The lowest available ticket price being almost double that of the Blue Bombers is silly. > durrrrrr if you cant find money for overpriced tickets during a rough economy I guess youre just not real fans, no shuddup about the coyotes they just need another new arena there are five million people in the phoenix arizona metropolitan area the number you have dialed is not in service Also speaking of the Coyotes, Coyotes terminate Adam Ruzicka after he posts cocaine video on instagram. And definitely read those comments if the phrase "growing the game" makes you feel any kind of way.
  8. The socials are having a fit because they once again got suckered into watching the NBA's annual meme event where nobody even pretends to try and never has, because the lovespawn of James Carville and Pinhead promised them it would be different this year. They don't learn.
  9. How exactly does one look at glossy baseball stadium concept art and arrive at the conclusion that the NHL should move in? Well :censored:, you're right, screw Creighton and the College World Series, if the Beef - whoever they are - can survive in whatever abandoned suburban Joann Fabrics they play their games in for 33 scarecrows that are all probably on a standing-up fentanyl bender, the NHL and the latest Generic Cokehead With Too Much Money who wants to buy in would be fools not to follow suit.
  10. Tillman's a good get, especially for other people's couch change. I was hoping for another perimeter guy though. I don't feel super secure with Pritchard and Hauser being the main guys off the bench come playoff time. Brissett's always hurt and looks like one of those guys that has one good year somewhere and then just surfs on it. Maybe there's enough bags of Doritos still lying around to get... somebody.
  11. Who the hell even plays for Memphis right now? I don't think even the post-brawl Pacers were this cleaned out of actual NBA players. This is the first time I've felt like winning a game by "only" 40 warrants criticism.
  12. Which comes to out to what, about 58 people? Half of which probably live in a mountain?
  13. Not happening. They made the conference finals last year as a 7 seed/play-in team, they're on track to be about the same this year. If they were having a 2008 Heat type of year where they're like 10-40 and the wheels are violently coming off then maybe, but I doubt it. LeBron went to LA because he wants to be in LA and live the Brentwood instahoe high life, not because it gave him the best chance for the most amount of rings. The Celtics have been better about taking care of business this year (as their record would indicate) but I'm super glad that the breakthrough this-game-will-win-itself-we-can-chill-ACK event happened at home against a Lakers team without LeBron or Davis. Extremely cool. I still don't trust them, if they make it out of the East it will probably be because they dodged Miami, Doc killed the Bucks from within, the Sixers are the Sixers, and the Cavs are the nu-Jazz. When you break it down that way, the Knicks start to look like actual contenders.
  14. I doubt it, all the sports leagues consulted with themselves and decided a long time ago that more scoring is always desirable. A few years ago I just started adding (or subtracting) 10 to whatever metric I used to use to judge NBA games and/or players. A 20 point deficit in 2004 meant you were getting blown out, now coming back from that is barely even notable; 30 is the new blowout number. Paul Pierce would definitely have had a couple of 30 ppg seasons if his career was unfolding right now, while Donovan Mitchell or Devin Booker would be hovering right around 20 ppg flat if they played during Pierce's prime. And so on.
  15. Absolutely not. 2.7 million people in the region* puts them on par with St. Louis, Charlotte, Sacramento, San Antonio. You could probably drop the NFL and their 8-9 home games per year in there (disregarding the Sunday issue of course), but adding just one of NHL or MLB would be tight, let alone both. *That's just the statistical area info from Wikipedia, their TV market probably sucks because there isn't jack beyond those SLC outskirts.
  16. He's gonna do something dumb again before the All-Star break and get suspended for the season. I can feel it.
  17. Decrepit boomers who blow their septums out if a woman appears on their sporpsball broadcast unless she's twerking or playing volleyball versus screeching TikTok gutter trash that lives with their parents despite being of legal drinking age. I stand with the meteor on this one.
  18. Expecting (the memory of) a guy like Krause - always a controversial and somewhat tactless figure with the Bulls, always eager to take credit, definitely not blameless in how the dynasty ended (depending on who you ask, he's primarily responsible) - to get a warm and cozy reception in Chicago, especially during a halftime of yet another :censored:ty Bulls season, seems like a bit of miscalculation by somebody. Normally I wouldn't have an opinion, but the people who seem most up in arms about this are the usual jerkoffs who are always itchy to call others classless, love to tell everyone else to "do better", tend to say things like "as a Kings fan this sickens me" when someone gets arrested for assault, etc, so if anything I'm inclined to applaud the fans in attendance for not giving in to the "you can't boo this guy you didn't like, his family is here!" manipulation tactic.
  19. > looks at upcoming Pistons schedule > Tue 12/26 vs Brooklyn > Thu 12/28 @ Boston Uh-oh
  20. Because he died from eating too many pigs-in-a-blanket? If not then I don't get it.
  21. The Time Warner contract (signed around then when cable and baseball interest were already on the way down) is what's making all this possible, right? When's this bubble popping? I was promised a bubble pop.
  22. Yes. Great job playing dumb. Look up, someone wrote "gullible" on your ceiling.
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