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

I suppose they could have asked the players before they introduced them officially, but who possibly could have thought of anything as bizarre as that? If they deep six them I guess that's good enough.

remember the synthetic ball lol

"Ultimately, if the players don't like them, we'll move on to something else," Silver told Bleacher Report.

http://www.famouspictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/I_want_to_believe5.jpg

haha otm

damn rip http://nypost.com/2014/03/24/former-nets-player-found-dead-in-shallow-grave

or is he?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/03/24/former-nba-player-quinton-ross-reported-dead-is-not-dead/

welcome back quinton ross! (sry other quinton ross)

i was just warming up to the sleeved jerseys as a better fan experience (less visibile pit hair, fans can wear jerseys without wearing an undershirt)

rockets throwbacks tonight are excellent

austin daye leading all spurs with 19 after 3 Q

might as well give us the title, we got the god firing 3s

that reminds me, happy 30th to the true god chris bosh

Spurs man, doesn't even matter who they throw out there.

next game, they will throw austin daye, jeff ayres, the wichita state dude that got tayshauned against kentucky, and a couple of labradoodles. the labradoodles will combine for 7-12 from 3 pt land.

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/assets/4183147/lillard.gif

DAME. Just checked the box score, looks like the blazers in another close one huh? getting comical.

m bise otm

yeah went on a 13-2 run in the last couple minutes to get back into it, tied it up, bron barreled his way for a layup on the next possession and the blazers didn't have a timeout. bosh blocked a get look at the hoop from damian and that's that

when does lma come back?

Trailblazers: The Team That Almost Was.

he travelled with the team for this trip, i think there's three games left, but i haven't heard anything about him actually playing.

he's played like garbage since the all-star break fwiw.

like if you're gonna set an nba record for 18 footers attempted you can't shoot <40% on them

he was playing so well too. Finally rebounding etc.

regressing to the mean

yeah he and wes matthews came back to earth

team was beautiful til it started to matter, gotta give 'em that

PHX tied with Dallas for the 8th spot again.

Perk should smile more, its a good look.
http://instagram.com/p/l52bSaiqNm/embed/

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/shaquille-oneal-under-investigation-alleged-assaul/nfKdT/

:(

lmao perk

maybe tnt will fire shaq

tho he was prob just roughhousin

yeah that story seems so weird

shaq taking roughhousing too far / bullying some TNT employees completely sounds in character to me

the pacers had 11 assists as a team last night

they're getting bounced in the second round

^feel like this could happen either Toronto or Chicago could put in some work against them

They will probably need a monster series from hibbert to get to the east finals

It seems wrong to root against dirking but I think I'd rather see Phoenix sneak into the playoffs this year

otm, i like all three teams fighting for the last two spots

maybe they should have a West sweet 16 situation, toss in whoever wins the NCAAs to round it out

Mark Jackson hates Scalabrine

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/warriors-coach-mark-jackson-forces-reassignment-of-assistant-brian-scalabrine-184142899.html

i'd really love to see the grizzzzzzz miss the playoffs but we've been over this

wtf scal is a cool guy, who could possibly have a problem with scal

Over the past two years, Jackson's difficulty with managing his coaching staff and creating a functional work environment has developed into one of the issues that threatens his future on the job, league sources said.

spottie can you elaborate on this? haven't heard anything about the situation honestly.

Yeah first I've heard of it.

uh yeah if management wont let him fire scal then thats not looking too good for jackson long term

its a dis

news to me. weird to hear about him and mike malone not talking for weeks too.

heard multiple ppl suggest if they don't make conference finals he's toast

this is terrible news for my television

he shd coach the knicks