waiting for the other shoelace to drop: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

the other thing that sucks is you can't change the font size in your phone by doing the expander finger thing

I don't consider myself to be particularly averse to change but I can think of tons of sites I immediately stopped visiting following a layout change/upgrade. Would love to see some stats on that kind of thing impacts traffic.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/65669/bring-on-the-4-pointers

this sounds stupid

I wonder how today's game would change if they got rid of the three pointer

I've been to SLC a few times and I can't really argue with DWill's take. Park City is nice tho.

yeah i used to live there and it's a dull isolated place. if you're into skiing it's great for that. the mormons are pretty rabid about basketball though as they all grow up playing at church.

met twitter superstar n 3 t w e r k last night, really nice guy to talk to

(i don't think he knew i knew he was who he is tho)

or is it n e t w 3 r k, i always forget

where did you meet him?

it's the secind

at this party http://deadspin.com/colin-kaepernick-on-richard-sherman-come-on-1512305284

all-star bench

west:
aldridge
dame lillard :)
cliff paul
tony parker
harden
dwight
dirk
+1 to come replacing kobe

Joe Johnson: 15.7pts, 3.4rbs, 2.8ast, 0.5stl, 55.3 TS%, 14.9 PER. >>> ALL STAR
Kyle Lowry: 16.8pts, 4.3rbs, 7.6ast, 1.6stl, 58.7 TS%, 20.4 PER >>> NOT ALL STAR

NY vs Canada

east:
the god chris bosh
hibbert
noah
wall
paul millsap!
joe johnson
demar derozen

lance and lowry snubbed.

rip the east, tho, just look at the disparity in quality on those rosters

Kevin Pelton ‏@kpelton 5m
Joe Johnson (14.9) is the 2nd All-Star chosen by coaches with a below-average PER since 2003 (Luol Deng, 14.1, 2012).

lance did def not get any sort of snubbed, lowery on the other hand

Good for Milsap. Well deserved

the god chris bosh

quote-for-truth.

http://esg6rzdhdg9i115s.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/chris-bosh.jpg

Joe Johnson 7-time all-star lol why not. Lowry ultimately snubbed but criminal that Lance clearly the better all-star game baller, wish Hibbert could bow out and give his spot to Lance.

there's no way that Royce White is the worst first round pick ever. Probably not in the top 50 worst.

I don't consider myself to be particularly averse to change but I can think of tons of sites I immediately stopped visiting following a layout change/upgrade. Would love to see some stats on that kind of thing impacts traffic.

― tsrobodo, Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gawker got absolutely nuked when they did it, I don't know how quickly/if they fully recovered.

there's no way that Royce White is the worst first round pick ever. Probably not in the top 50 worst.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:56 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Names pls

I mean leaving aside any thorny issues of whether the rockets handled him well or whether It turned into a fight unnecessarily or w/e but ... dude has logged 0 nba minutes

Haha Bennett checking in reminded me why they scheduled these sorry teams for a national game, one is the Knicks and one had the #1 pick in the draft last year

like luol deng, joe johnson is also a "creative scorer"

remember when brooklyn was gonna destroy the league and now they have one all-star and it's joe johnson and no one thinks he deserves it

Btw the dragon is tearing it up vs pacers league pass alert 21 pt first half

I never remember anyone saying Brooklyn would "destroy the league." I did figure they'd at least win the Atlantic though!

I was p high on them! Tbf they lost their best player and d will was just bad and kirilenko is probably their fourth best guy and was out for a long time

Also Jason Kidd is just a dumpster fire of a coach

Obv they weren't going to destroy the league but it was reasonable to think they'd be just a few ticks behind the elite spurs-pacers-heat tier maybe in with Houston and other pseudo contenders

nets were a fairly popular preseason pick to come out of the east

like for challoppers who didn't want to pick miami or indy nets were the go-to

LIKE ME

kyle lowry didn't make the ASG cuz he's an asshole, that's really the explanation

his own coach prob didn't even vote for him

i have a pretty hard time getting upset about any of the "snubs" in the east, none of those guys would really be in the conversation if they played in the west

didn't the suns already beat the pacers this year?

indiana does not want to face phoenix in the nba finals.

pacers r like rully scared fer sure

they should be suns have figured them out

there's no way that Royce White is the worst first round pick ever. Probably not in the top 50 worst.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:56 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Names pls

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Friday, January 31, 2014 1:11 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LaRue Martin, Chris Washburn, Rafael Araujo, Joe Alexander, etc.

Pacers really turned the screws that quarter, yikes, those dudes can d up

lol how's the weather in Phoenix Daniel

Ha joe Alexander well done sir

46 more to go Matt

lol how's the weather in Phoenix Daniel

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 30, 2014

dry and dusty, but the retirement-home has some fine cuisine.

With the NBA trade deadline just three weeks away, the rumor mill is about to go into overdrive. For the fans who live for scuttlebutt, it'll be a great time. For the players whose names are heard along the grapevine, it'll be an unsettling month.

In speaking with several league executives and agents this week, here are some of the things I was told: It's not unanimous, but most executives I spoke with think Chicago will go after Carmelo Anthony in free agency.

hehe

http://sportsmockery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/77111961.jpg

Gross

Who was that big man from Spain that Orlando drafted a while ago who kept promising to come over and then backed out or something?

I would be happy to see him and his salary go except that I know nothing good will come of it as long as Jimmy D. is running the org

Who was that big man from Spain that Orlando drafted a while ago who kept promising to come over and then backed out or something?

fran vázquez? from the 2005 draft.