Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

the kicker is: nba is offering the salary PLUS a college scholarship

yah this is big and absolutely the right move

great idea to include a scholarship yeah.

like oh shit u thought we didnt give a fuck about education? FUCK you. SCHOLARSHIPS.

Will be so great to see the NCAA crash and burn they deserve every bit of it

Will NBA university have a good philosophy department?

unfortunately kinda think it wont really affect them, like if you think about it theyve been losing tons of years of the best players forever and theyre more popular than ever, the march madness tv contract is bigger than the entire nba one, college basketball isnt really about quality of play its a little bit about school/regional fandom and a lot about a big exciting single elimination tournament

March madness did fine when players were going straight to the pros. 15-20 guys should go pro and the rest go to college, it’s fine.

yeah

most one and done guys arent actually that good their freshman seasons even

It seems pretty silly to do this and not just let trans draft them tho xp

*teams.

it makes sense if its the seed for something bigger, like i hope this development team turns into a program and then ultimately an academy for younger players so they can be in a situation thats thinking more long term rather than the win now hs/aau scenes thatre bad for players skill and physical development, nba already runs academies like that overseas, and its the standard practice for euro soccer tho those academies are run by the teams rather than the leagues

noticed they said the development team will be playing vs those international academies for some of their game, no doubt the nba has thought a lot abt doing a usa basketball academy for hs age players

if we had these the ball brothers might have normal jump shots lol

yeah it really needs to turn into a true feeder/development system or every guy is going to be this anthony edwards kid from georgia taking crazy stepback 3s and shooting under 30%.

guys hitting college age w all sort of injuries and bad medical care is a big issue too, greg oden mightve had a career under a different system

Yeah it does seem like things go wrong in high school but otoh if you’re genetically predisposed to injury it would crop up then quite often

wld think just having access to good trainers medical staff etc from any early age + not being over played by coaches only concerned with winning wld have great benefit

it seems to me that kids who are still growing need a different training regime from those who have attained their full height. concentrating exclusively on bulking up with ever-stronger muscles when your tendons and ligaments are still adapting to new growth seems like a recipe for overstraining weak connective tissues. this is a big problem for youth baseball pitchers, so the rules put in strict limits on pitch counts.

yep

dame taking ownership of russ and the thunder last year was truly a blessed hoops moment

This sequence by Damian Lillard is still iconic 😲 pic.twitter.com/yZfuiLLfWx

— ESPN (@espn) April 17, 2020

otm

that series had so much schadenfreude in it, joyous times

I was reminiscing on the career of new Nuggets GM Calvin Booth and found this Murder

https://youtu.be/8hp7bt_4UiE

huh, i haven't thought of calvin booth in a decade, didn't realize he'd had some front office jobs.

yeah blast (dunk) from the past

I also had forgotten that Calvin Booth once had 10 blocks in 17 minutes

i'll always love footage of dunleavy getting done dirty

Dunleavy made the funniest facial expressions and always seemed to be tackled in some fashion each game

i am sad to report that haralabob's little dog passed away.

oh no :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-M3x-eZpV8

one year ago today, tryin not to think abt what we're missing this spring ;_;

just rewatched that game yesterday, it's great. Lillard took a huge charge off Russ with two minutes left

lol, i saved the tape and watch the ending about once every two month

Sebastian Telfair and his brother Ethan lost their mother and brother to COVID-19 ... 💔💔💔 pic.twitter.com/qHJdlnTe01

— The Undefeated (@TheUndefeated) April 28, 2020

NBA Tonight on ESPN starting at 7: final games of the 2004 Pistons/Lakers Finals and 2014 Spurs/Heat Finals

this idea rules

Our Insider @ShamsCharania reports on the NBA considering Disney World Resort as a potential return playing site and the latest discussions around coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/BUNNSFdKmA

— Stadium (@Stadium) April 29, 2020

the orlando magic theory is coming to a head

makes a hell of a lot more sense than vegas

Is there more about this proposal? Would they jump into the playoffs?

i think i read that the players will need a month to get back in shape.

simmons and russillo were saying that teams have an incentive to get to 70 games b/c otherwise they'll have to refund some of the money they get from the local sports networks. right now teams are between 63 and 67 games played.

the crowd should be mickey mouse et al

What a Goofy idea I love it

lol

it's a small world after etc etc

NBA TV has game 7 of the pacers/knicks '94 East Conference finals at 9pm ET, one of the best Ewing performances of his career

ah Ewing, the James Harden of centers

fuckin hate the ewing knicks lol