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When was the last time a player got suspended for weed? Feel like it’s already been removed from testing off the record or something

i’m still shook by stephen jackson revealing he used to smoke weed before games. few things would make me panic harder than smoking weed and then sitting on an NBA bench with all that noise & stimulation around me waiting to be called into the game. but i guess that’s why i’m not stephen jackson

yeah thats wild lol

i bet he smoked it a lil while before the game so that he wasnt super high but still feeling loose

like you get high then warm up and by the time the game starts youre in the zone, thats what i used to do at the gym lol

it’s a good thing there are only 2 games today, this way more games can be played the other days. if you’re making the schedule you definitely want to block some days off to not have games

they dont want to catch march madness

there’s no known cure for it

April fools theres actually 100 games today

shd be fine

Game changer: The league's new collective bargaining agreement will give players the ability to invest in NBA and WNBA teams, as well as promote and/or invest in sports betting and cannabis companies, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 2, 2023

invest in the teams they play for?

must be april fools

love to invest in sports betting while playing professional sports

New cba sucks for teams that draft and develop well.

no games tonight, more games other days!

many games on tues, bos-phil cld be nice but wonder if we might be in rest mode east seedings are looking pretty set

I think officiating hasn't been mentioned enough as a factor in the NBA's offensive explosion this season

16.6% of all 2-point shot attempts drew fouls this year, a massive increase from 15.2% last season, which was already the highest mark of the 21st century pic.twitter.com/GAuFTzNbwK

— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) April 13, 2023

hmm not good

that's interesting. i'd be curious to see how that trends with 2-pt shot location (i.e. more shots near the rim = more opportunity to draw fouls)

^^^

If teams continue to move towards the morey fever dream of all 3s and layups, gotta think this number has yet to reach its high water mark

thatll show em

The NBA says Dallas has been fined $750,000 after the league opened an investigation into the Mavericks' decision to rest several players before last Friday's home game against Chicago while still mathematically alive for a play-in spot.

More NBA from me: https://t.co/A6ycVmnrjq

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) April 14, 2023

all they had to do was fake some injury maintenance but they had to go run their mouths

The marketer who proposed Slovenia Night now has their head on the chopping block.

this is wild

As part of the new CBA, if a team goes over the second tax apron, their 1st round pick 7 years out is unable to be traded, sources told me & @wojespn. Teams that then exceed the apron twice over the following four years will have that pick dropped to the end of the 1st round.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 17, 2023

Looks like the owners reaaallly don't want to be expected pay more than the cap.

yup

they just don’t want guys like balmer and lacob to being able to spend into infinity. my understanding is that this CBA was tailored to encourage teams to spend into the tax

Adam Silver says for the NBA's in-season tournament, players will wear different uniforms, the courts may look different. The tournament will be played in November and December. The final four teams will play at a neutral site, per Silver.

(via @SBJ World Congress event)

— Mark J. Burns (@markjburns88) April 18, 2023

The teams who play in the in-season championship will effectively be playing in their 83rd game of the season, per Silver. All of the other games in the in-season tournament will also be treated as regular season games.

— Mark J. Burns (@markjburns88) April 18, 2023

i don't get it

the people are clamoring for more uniforms there are not enough uniforms already is what theyre saying

this is a bad idea lol

it’s so dumb

i think it’s a bad sign when you’ve repeatedly explained the concept to your audience over the course of years and everyone’s response the entire time has been “what?”

uniforms are cool, but what about courts that look different? you guys love basketball courts.

the teams will have different names, the players will be new heights, the shoes won’t be shoes, threes will be twos and twos will be threes, circular backboards, if you can imagine it it’s in the tourney baby

if i was commissioner i'd have each franchise start its own slamball team and that would be the midseason tournament

don't show Silver the movie BASEketball

they could use that old FIBA court thing where the sides of the key were slated outward

it's absolutely wild that the nba's solution to everything involves adding more games

this seems like a big deal, hopefully other teams follow

Suns Owner Mat Ishbia says Suns games will no longer be on cable and plans to make it free to watch over the air on local channels and direct-to-consumer streaming services

“We're not focusing on money. We're focusing on winning, success and taking care of fans, taking care of… pic.twitter.com/EP5y2HMZd1

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 28, 2023

it’s inevitable. idk if you’ve been reading about what’s going on with RSNs and baseball, but that economic model is not feasible. bally sports, which had to file for bankruptcy, owed the texas rangers $111m for the rights to their games this year. MLB is essentially taking over broadcast operations for a dozen or so teams this year who otherwise wouldn’t have a company to broadcast their games. it seems like baseball as soon as next year is going to have to completely shake up how they put out their product… i think the suns are getting ahead of even that & showing what the model will be (streaming + local cable)

bally also broadcasts lots of basketball games so this is gonna come for everyone. the leagues have the ability to patch together coverage in the short term bcuz of league pass type infrastructures but i think in as soon as like 2 years the entire local TV blackout etc model is gonna be extinct. there isn’t going to be anyone getting into the RSN model again, certainly not a national scale where you’re paying out like $1 billion a year for local TV rights

if local cable pays for the rights to a game it would still be blacked out for their service area no?

also i guess you’d still have carve-outs for eg appletv, etc

"The league has wanted to spread the talent around the NBA. They want that 3rd star for a team in another market. It's gonna be hard to have 3 stars, 3 max players."@wojespn on the Kevin Durant, the Suns, and the rest of the NBA 😬pic.twitter.com/DSJp6FgZnT

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 5, 2023

yeah that seems obvious at this point

one team i’m really wondering about is denver. jokic is already on a super max, murray will be extension eligible soon to push his salaries past $50m, you’ve still got 4 years left of porter at ~$150m & only two years left of gordon who will be looking for a new deal pushing him over 30m/year. and they never wanna go into the tax to begin with. it doesn’t seem tenable to keep it together w/ this CBA?

feel like this is gonna be bad for those mid-level solid rotation players/vets? or maybe teams will get smart and stop giving near max deals to borderline all stars?

yeah i wonder if this current CBA was in place whether denver would’ve given that deal to porter

i think you have to look at teams like OKC, orlando etc who could very plausibly have three max players on their team very soon. or like if detroit wins the lottery… how do you keep cade, wembanyama & let’s say jaden ivey if he’s really good? i guess the salaries might be depressed enough in the first few years of the extensions, plus you have a lag between when each kicks in, that you could swing it for a few years. but if you get to this point where denver is at where you have a super max guy, a second star about to hit his third deal, and two other guys who need to be paid $35m+ minimum? and btw none of the 4 guys on denver are even older than 28. denver is $18 million into the tax this year — the new CBA starts hammering teams once they pass $17.5m in tax.

every CBA has unintended consequences where the teams try and bend things in their favor but end up fucking themselves. this CBA is very clearly targeting the warrior, clippers, nets etc but idk it doesn’t look great for small market teams that build up great rosters either. it does encourage them to go into the tax a bit, which is good, but it’s almost like — don’t draft too well, it might come back and bite ya!

wolves have to extend Ant soon so add them to that list

right. yes.

would be more manageable if instead of Rudy we had a young defensive big on a favorable deal.. oh I don't know, someone like Walker Kessler maybe