2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

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

― lag∞n, Thursday, January 2, 2020 1:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

lol la

tbh he’s a pretty intriguing player to watch

agreed, he's a "hustle player"

also bonus points for good sense of humor
http://i.imgur.com/y9WA4VG.png

Alex Caruso definitely is a guy who “trains hard”

feel like he has the “celtics mindtype”

More like the Seahawks

really wish there was something the nuggets could do with jerami grant

jj barea is such a badass. 35 years old coming off a torn achilles, barely playing this season and he's just roasting the brooklyn centers on switches.

yeah he’s been good in the times I’ve seen him. still got it

Michael Porter Jr. has arrived

Sky is really the limit if he’s good, he’s like the definition of what they haven’t had

JJB really is kinda special

loved this piece about stern: https://www.truehoop.com/p/exceptional-ruthless

the leap in bam's offensive skill is sometimes startling

When Bam Adebayo blocked Joe Ingles' pass-fake shot a week back, he then absorbed it into his repetoire, Megaman style. pic.twitter.com/N3X4ExssKf

— Couper Moorhead (@CoupNBA) January 3, 2020

Leading Scorers By Zone: 2010s Pistons pic.twitter.com/nB1BsoE28a

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 3, 2020

the other night on NBATV, Greg Anthony listed his all-decade Nuggs and somehow Will Barton made his starting five. Goldsberry's scoring chart for Denver reiterates how dumb this is (ftr, Anthony left off Faried, which seemed to me the most egregious oversight)

The nuggets are kinda tough because a lot of the best level of play was in the first two and last two years of the decade.

Didn’t barea divorce miss Puerto Rico and then marry a different miss Puerto Rico

the 1st was also miss universe

you miss 100% of the proposals to miss universes you don't take

vince carter will be the first player to play in 4 different decades tonight

trade rumors heating about around the hawks and Drummond

WHAT