2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

Like 2 month stretches where he was engaged and everything was clicking

This was a key game for cavs donyell! Totally forgot about this series

https://youtu.be/UrFyYJ85bu0

Can't remember if it was on ESPN or The Ringer but I just read a retrospective of all the notable big men Lebron has played with, and it sort of singled out Donyell as an important player in LBJ's (and thus the league's) evolution in that he was an early big man who spaced out to the 3 point line. In my memory I think of him more as an oversized wing than a power forward, but I guess maybe that's why.

donyell was just before his time.

he was also a spectacular college player back in the few minutes when the uconn huskies were cool and not irritating

He was a year behind me in a nearby high school and I remember after I graduated hearing that people from my school were going to his games just to watch him play.

donyell was just before his time.

― Spottie, Friday, October 23, 2020 11:16 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i often think of nature vs nuture w/the timberwolves too, are our draft picks bad because we pick bad players or is the player's development destroyed because he gets drafted by the timberwolves?

prob some of both

The NBA is targeting Dec. 22 for the start of the 2020-21 season and a 72-game campaign that finishes before the ‘21 Olympics, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 23, 2020

thats soon! wonder what their plan is re virus/bubble

Are they going to fly city-to-city or go back in the bubble? If they start in Dec and don't go back to the bubble, they'll have positive tests, schedule disruptions, and teams playing with depleted rosters. But first they'll need buy-in from the players' union on any plan, which I think is going to be a pretty divisive issue among players. Interesting times.

Amar'e Stoudemire has agreed to become an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets under former Suns teammate Steve Nash, per @ShamsCharania pic.twitter.com/kYodn3IjHF

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 23, 2020

i often think of nature vs nuture w/the timberwolves too, are our draft picks bad because we pick bad players or is the player's development destroyed because he gets drafted by the timberwolves?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, October 23, 2020 11:27 AM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yah both, but also sometimes players dont want to be in a certain place

i don’t think anyone has the intention or desire to bubble again. it was expensive, the ratings were shit, the players don’t want to live in isolation for the entirety of an 82 game season, and you couldn’t have condensed schedules like you did this time around for a full season. the MLB and NFL unbubbled seasons are going to “work” (as in the seasons will be completed even with positive tests and wild schedule rearrangements) so i can’t come up with a reason why the NBA won’t follow suit

yeah true

amaré looking like he might have a major part in the new matrix reboot

yah the bubble wont work for a full reg season even if its compressed a bit.

bill simmons has been on this for over a week, basically saying that they weren't confident enough about having fans for the 20-21 season to wait for march or something, and that preserving the 21-22 season and starting it on time became the biggest priority.

also that the ratings disaster convinced them that maybe the october-june schedule is actually the best window for the nba to live in

what was the theoretical problem with oct-june anyway? who cares if the nfl is on during the first half of the season

i think there was a theory that starting at christmas meant you could dodge the NFL and then "own the summer" but no one watches tv in july and august, it's just a fact.

thing about the ratings disaster is all sports are down during the pandemic and weirdly in fact all tv is, i saw some chart and the nba was about in the middle as far as sports declines, tho the finals were way down but a lot of the has to do with the fact that it was over as soon as miami got all injured, starting on christmas and shortening the season is generally good tho imo

and it does allow them to still doge some nfl too, which i think having some overlap is fine maybe even desirable, but also have less overlap is good, and having fewer games is great

basketball is deeply associated with winter think its prob good to stick with that at least

it even makes sense (its indoors)

placing the star on top of the tree was in its way the first dunk

yeah they're certainly not alone in the ratings thing (apparently the world series is getting absolutely destroyed). mid-december to mid-june w/a shorter season would be ideal, except for an interminable offseason for those of us for whom ball is life.

surely it was god 360 windmilling his magic sperm into the virgin mary

xp

you may be right but i did not want to get controversial (religion)

ilh is a (cultural) marxist hoops board, we are officially atheist

cant believe ive never looked into what the various christian views are re the particular mechanism of immaculate conception

dec 22nd is pretty quick, but i can at least understand the logic of starting the schedule earlier and cutting the season down a little bit to finish at a more normal time.

i do worry that a non-bubble nba might be more susceptible to rona outbreaks than outdoor sports like football and baseball. and they're probably not gonna be able to keep lou will out of the clubs anymore.

little known fact: john the baptist was washing peoples feet when they got their ankles broken

the various christian views are re the particular mechanism of immaculate conception

it's not what you think. the immaculate conception refers to the doctrine that Mary was born without original sin, as the chosen-of-God to become the immaculate (= 'spotless') vessel to bear the Christ child.

...What you're probably wondering about is the virgin birth. Well, the way it gets told is that she was impregnated when the Holy Spirit descended upon her, making the whole operation decidedly incorporeal. And here you thought the Holy Spirit was just some worthless fag-end of the Trinity who never gets to do anything.

trinitarian conception misconception

i like my dunk contest conception theory better

I get the economic reasons for the quick turnaround, but we are going to have to read about how this being the cause of every player who gets injured and I don't think it will be totally unrelated.

how

half the league hasnt played in months already

Yeah, but who cares how the Kings knees' feel?

the teams that went really deep in the playoffs may start slow but everyone will have gotten time off....like as i understand it most guys take maybe a month of doing nothing when their season ends and then get back into training hard. i hope it won't be too bad.

also lost sleep/rest/travel/flights is probably a huge issue in a typical reg season

do they even know when the draft/free agency is yet is one wild thing re the quick turnaround

draft is set for nov 18 iirc, fa is cingent on when season starts and when they set the cap

*contingent

i think they should do the nba draft right now

bold, they could just cobble together a quick zoom

https://www.si.com/nba/2020/10/26/nba-roster-needs-for-every-team

New York Knicks
Priority: Draft well

"Hold Buddy Hield" sounds like NBA fan fic