2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

cp3 is having a big 4th quarter. he’s had a really nice past couple of months

Yah he looked cooked to start the season. Maybe he’s come to the realization he’s stuck in this position and he may as well embrace it. Or he’s trying to play his way to being tradable.

either way, okc looks respectable. considering what they lost and gained in the offseason, they should feel p good.

happy new year to my good friends on ILH. many years together now!

: )

happy new year to everyone. this remains my favorite little corner of the internet.

love you guys with all my heart! haven’t posted much this year bc Portland b-ball is kinda depressing and I’m too busy to keep up as much as I’d like to but idk I really need to prioritize Yung Luka, it’s a special time

happy new year, ilh!

happy new year

happy new year to the ILH crew and to no one else

Happy new year dear friends of ilh

happy new year ilh! may your year be one of peace warmth and thunderous dunks

HNY. 2020 is gonna get a triple double. I can feel it.

20/20/20

Happy new year peeps!

Echoing the sentiment! I am a new and fairly marginal participant here but I really enjoy everyone’s jokes and insights.

IOW all of you make me want to be a better fan

as the mod of ilh, i take full credit for how good this place is and also for about 85% of the jokes so you're welcome and happy new year

good tidings to all

happy New Years everyone, it's been fun
gonna try to watch more basketball and esp non Wolves b ball in 2020

i recommend "the mavs"

ball

RIP David Stern

Wow RIP. It seemed like players really respected him, and he cared about them as people.

truly the end of an era, let's send him off right
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RIP big man

rip BIG HOOPS aka the sterndriver

RIP David Stern, his interview with Jim Rome about if the draft lottery was rigged is still wild. pic.twitter.com/BOtjAT7tkz

— 13-3. #1 seed. (@Dubs408) January 1, 2020

incredible

right along with that, i think ethan captured stern pretty well here:
https://theathletic.com/1475199/2020/01/01/to-my-pen-pal-david-stern-whom-ill-miss/

It started when I reached out for a story, roughly two years ago. I said in my email that he could call me at any hour, not expecting a response. One day, I checked my phone and saw I had a message. An annoyed-sounding voice said, “Hi Ethan, this is David Stern, calling you, at any hour. But this is obviously not a good hour.”

From the very beginning he was needling me. You didn’t take umbrage because the spirit of the message wasn’t to take you down. It was to spar for the joy of sparring. It’s such an understatement to state that David was perpetually ready for a fight. Saying that David Stern was ready for a fight is like saying that a fish is ready to swim. There was no other modality.

There’s a sense among many in the NBA that he did not like to be challenged. I think it’s the opposite. He craved it, thrived on it. An argument was an occasion he was perpetually ready to rise to... The commissioner would not abet defiance, but he would thrill to a challenge. The challenger might lose but earn respect along the way.

fuck bosses forever but stern obvs did a good job and whatnot rip

otm

ugh j isaac just had to leave on a stretcher. team is saying hyperextension but it looked bad

Really hard to tell because he has that brace on. Didn’t seem like he had a ton of weight on it, maybe ok

awful news about stern. selfishly i loved that he always seemed to have time for the media in retirement if someone came to him with an interesting inquest. i feel like he had a lot of good stories left to tell.

it’s a real shame we didn’t get an autobiography or a book length interview or etc

I always begged Stern to write a book. He wouldn't do it. But if somebody writes a book about him, on page 1 should be the way that he stood tall against HIV/AIDS ignorance after the Magic announcement.

— Jack McCallum (@McCallum12) January 2, 2020

RIP

I kinda forgot about Jim Rome, a real sports media piece of shit's sports media piece of shit

lol was thinking the same thing, just hearing his voice shook up some old feelings of stfu man

haven’t listened to him in years but his voice is so similar to russillo’s it made me to a double take

He sucks so bad, so unfunny and just kinda hateful and dumb

lopez mad

Jarrett Culver dunks on Robin Lopez’s head then gets chased down pic.twitter.com/AeddWCQtEL

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 2, 2020

Hah fropez has a short fuse

lol against the rules to dunk on me bro didnt u kno

was at that game it was wild

I have a soft spot for Rome because I've been listening to him since I was like 10. He doesn't have the underlying malevolence of a Gottlieb or a Travis, which I appreciate. And his whole format is so funny! I love listening to his weird callers read their insane takes.

I always appreciated that he used stuff like Iggy Pop and Ned's Atomic Dustbin for his drops. The state of music fandom in the sports world is pretty bleak.

rome getting slapped by chris everett is some classic content

I was always fascinated by how Roger Lodge was a regular guest on Rome’s tv show. Maybe he should be a guest on every show

man, fair enough, I just don’t dig his style at all. Plus all the fat jokes. And the calls from “clones” uggggghh. The interviews are boring (I guess most national interviews are). would rather listen to Stephen A. if given a choice tbh (fp away)

sorry for shitting up ILH, hny all

And he rides for Bombay Sapphire lol

Steve Ellington interviews are good, I’ll give him that

rome getting slapped by chris everett is some classic content

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lol regardless of whether or not you did this on purpose.

along with the somewhat more explicable tacko fall (lol boston), alex caruso aka "the accountant" is in the top ten guards for all star contention