2013/14 NBA season chatter - let the LBJ hating begin!

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Feb 13, 2014 10:53pm
ESPN has already changed many games. I think 3 or 4 Lakers games have been dropped.

But usually TNT nights there are only 2 or 3 games even being played, so they get the 2 bigger name match ups.

Tonight, these are the only 2 games in the League.
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Feb 13, 2014 11:24pm
gerb131;1580538 wrote:Yea before the season I'm sure.
Should do some flex shit like the nfl or something.
Im sure this has very little to do with anything, but doing it this way would put people out of work (or the company would have to shell out twice as much).

By that I mean, NFL games usually have a set crew who do all of CBS A-B-C-D-ETC games. So if it go flexed out, no one is really losing money, they just work a few days earlier or later that week.

NBA though, TNT/ESPN/ABC hire out freelancers locally. They might have their director or something be a company employee, but Cam Ops, CG Ops, Audio Techs etc will more than likely be local. If TNT books them, they pay them. Doesnt matter if the game is cancelled, the contract is made. So TNT flexs out of LA tonight and heads to, say, Miami. Well, now they have to pay 2 crews...on top of that, someone has to find a crew on (relative) short notice...
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Feb 15, 2014 7:22pm
Thanks Laley I understand the crews etc..

Skills competition between the tnt guys is some what interesting.
They are putting next lol
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Feb 15, 2014 9:05pm
The soccer kicking by Kenny Smith was killing me.
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Feb 15, 2014 9:13pm
Jordan must still play

http://youtu.be/goInA2sgWNs
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Feb 15, 2014 9:17pm
Is that a new video?
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Feb 15, 2014 9:22pm
Skills challenge was pretty fun. Burl shot that 19 footer, ran around to get the last ball, weaves through two obstacles and laid the ball in under 6.5 seconds to win by 1/10th of a second
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Feb 15, 2014 9:42pm
wildcats20;1581179 wrote:Is that a new video?
OJ was in HS I do believe.
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Feb 15, 2014 10:27pm
Fail on me.
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Feb 15, 2014 10:36pm
I got lillard in the dunk contest
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Feb 15, 2014 10:42pm
I have literally no idea what is going on in the dunk contest.
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Feb 15, 2014 10:42pm
Dumbest dunk contest start ever....then a camera angle from the god damn rafters
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Feb 15, 2014 10:42pm
wildcats20;1581234 wrote:I have literally no idea what is going on in the dunk contest.
The west thought it was a fancy layup contest at first.
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Feb 15, 2014 10:44pm
McClemore had the best lookin hops

But I'm taking Wall
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Feb 15, 2014 10:45pm
This format is DUMB
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Feb 15, 2014 10:56pm
Total shit
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Feb 15, 2014 11:00pm
Watched for all of 3 minutes, and I had to turn it off.
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Feb 15, 2014 11:05pm
Here Ye Here Ye

Then John Wall just tells him to get the hell out of here with that shit.
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Feb 15, 2014 11:05pm
Wall's dunk was real nice. But I still don't know what happened.
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gport_tennis
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Feb 15, 2014 11:07pm
Format is dumb as fuck. Nick cannon don't even know what to say Lol.. john wall sick dunk though. These guys getting interviewed are giving no emotion to nick cannon. Its like interviewing a wall
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Feb 15, 2014 11:20pm
Thank God for Barkley and Shaq
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Feb 15, 2014 11:21pm
that shit fucking sucked. congrats NBA for ruining the only professional all-star weekend I semi-looked forward to.
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Feb 16, 2014 9:51pm
West is up 13 at half. Griffin with a dunk clinic oh and a lay up
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Feb 16, 2014 10:02pm
Well....we got the dunk contest, just 21 hours after we expected it


That halftime show was the worst.
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Feb 16, 2014 10:22pm
The 85 foot pinpoint chest pass from Kevin Love is something special.