Commander of Awesome
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Nov 29, 2011 2:28pm
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-spears_nba_free_agents_112711
Where do you see some of the NBA Free Agents going? I've heard Chicago is going to go after Young pretty hard though I'm not sure I see him moving. I think he is a RFA.
Also:
$.10-- The NBA lockout finally came to an end, just in time to salvage an abbreviated season that starts on Christmas Day. After lots of bitter acrimony and doomsday speak, cooler heads prevailed.
I'm actually a big fan of a shorter, more compact season. 66 games between Christmas and the very end of April is better than 82 between late October and mid-April. Playing five games in seven nights shouldn't be too much of a challenge, provided the schedule makers are able to read a map. Hopefully this eliminates the ridiculous stretches like the Cavs had a few years ago when they played Monday in Toronto, Tuesday in Cleveland, Thursday in Miami, and Friday in New Jersey. I like the sense of urgency and putting more of a reliance on having functional depth.
But I think the NBA missed a golden opportunity here to do what they really needed. Contracting two teams should have been a given and not a quickly discarded negotiating chit. New Orleans has proven time and again that it is incapable of supporting a viable NBA franchise. It's a team currently under league control that cannot find an owner willing to keep the franchise in New Orleans. Their arena situation is poor, and they rank near the bottom in ancillary revenue. They were the poster child for why many other owners were crying foul, and they should have been whacked. And because it makes no sense to have an odd number of teams, the league could easily have contracted another franchise hemorrhaging cash on a yearly basis. The Charlotte Bobcats, a team nobody really clamored for after the Hornets fled for New Orleans after years of mismanagement and a half-full (if they were lucky) arena, would not be missed after a year or two.
Heck, I would strongly consider contracting my beloved Cleveland Cavaliers. The bump in prominence that team got from Lebron is going to wane quickly. Then it will be back to the days where my Dad and I could count the number of people sitting in the upper bowl on our four hands. One of the last pre-LeBron game I attended in Cleveland, I sat in Section 133, the corner section behind the basket beyond the visitor bench. I got the $35 tickets free. My brother and I were the only people in our row, the rows immediately above and below us were completely empty, and this was against the defending East champion Nets. Those days are coming back to Cleveland very soon, and owner Dan Gilbert will be losing millions. Remember, he bought in high. It would break my heart to see the Cavaliers go away, but the plain fact is that the NBA is not viable in that market. Just as the NHL blew their chance to eliminate superfluous teams in Miami and Long Island, the NBA leadership failed to address one of the biggest reasons why they locked the players out in the first place. The league had a chance to remedy that but chickened out on the contraction front. [LEFT]
Read more: http://football.realgm.com/src_hangtime/68/20111128/$10_for_week_12/#ixzz1f7l7TxVy
Jeff Risdon can go fuck himself.
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Where do you see some of the NBA Free Agents going? I've heard Chicago is going to go after Young pretty hard though I'm not sure I see him moving. I think he is a RFA.
Also:
$.10-- The NBA lockout finally came to an end, just in time to salvage an abbreviated season that starts on Christmas Day. After lots of bitter acrimony and doomsday speak, cooler heads prevailed.
I'm actually a big fan of a shorter, more compact season. 66 games between Christmas and the very end of April is better than 82 between late October and mid-April. Playing five games in seven nights shouldn't be too much of a challenge, provided the schedule makers are able to read a map. Hopefully this eliminates the ridiculous stretches like the Cavs had a few years ago when they played Monday in Toronto, Tuesday in Cleveland, Thursday in Miami, and Friday in New Jersey. I like the sense of urgency and putting more of a reliance on having functional depth.
But I think the NBA missed a golden opportunity here to do what they really needed. Contracting two teams should have been a given and not a quickly discarded negotiating chit. New Orleans has proven time and again that it is incapable of supporting a viable NBA franchise. It's a team currently under league control that cannot find an owner willing to keep the franchise in New Orleans. Their arena situation is poor, and they rank near the bottom in ancillary revenue. They were the poster child for why many other owners were crying foul, and they should have been whacked. And because it makes no sense to have an odd number of teams, the league could easily have contracted another franchise hemorrhaging cash on a yearly basis. The Charlotte Bobcats, a team nobody really clamored for after the Hornets fled for New Orleans after years of mismanagement and a half-full (if they were lucky) arena, would not be missed after a year or two.
Heck, I would strongly consider contracting my beloved Cleveland Cavaliers. The bump in prominence that team got from Lebron is going to wane quickly. Then it will be back to the days where my Dad and I could count the number of people sitting in the upper bowl on our four hands. One of the last pre-LeBron game I attended in Cleveland, I sat in Section 133, the corner section behind the basket beyond the visitor bench. I got the $35 tickets free. My brother and I were the only people in our row, the rows immediately above and below us were completely empty, and this was against the defending East champion Nets. Those days are coming back to Cleveland very soon, and owner Dan Gilbert will be losing millions. Remember, he bought in high. It would break my heart to see the Cavaliers go away, but the plain fact is that the NBA is not viable in that market. Just as the NHL blew their chance to eliminate superfluous teams in Miami and Long Island, the NBA leadership failed to address one of the biggest reasons why they locked the players out in the first place. The league had a chance to remedy that but chickened out on the contraction front. [LEFT]
Read more: http://football.realgm.com/src_hangtime/68/20111128/$10_for_week_12/#ixzz1f7l7TxVy
Jeff Risdon can go fuck himself.
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