My gurl Dee l, wasn’t a beauty queen by for, but I was/is crazy about her. She been looking Older in the face lately...but that shit don’t matter....
even Ms. Mask knew what Diana T did for me
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My gurl Dee l, wasn’t a beauty queen by for, but I was/is crazy about her. She been looking Older in the face lately...but that shit don’t matter....
even Ms. Mask knew what Diana T did for me
My gurl Dee l, wasn’t a beauty queen by for, but I was/is crazy about her. She been looking Older in the face lately...but that shit don’t matter....
even Ms. Mask knew what Diana T did for me
Loyalty?
but when the OWNER cut or trade the PLAYER???
Or the owner relocates the ENTIRE TEAM?
Or raises ticket prices so high regular folk can't go to games?
Its just business, huh?
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You do know hes coming off back (and butt) surgery this season right ?A younger Dwight coming off back surgery
Bron>>> bean
Yeah, because surgery is surgery huh, Doc
Are you going to blame Kobe for Steve Nash too?
I know you're old, so let me refresh your memory, since you seem to be misremembering Dwight saying he came back too early
The Inbounds: What came out of Dwight Howard's back was gross
Dwight Howard had a massive lump of tissue removed from his back. So that's pretty gross.
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My gurl Dee l, wasn’t a beauty queen by for, but I was/is crazy about her. She been looking Older in the face lately...but that shit don’t matter....
even Ms. Mask knew what Diana T did for me
Man, Memphis is in good shape
Memphis has two solid players and two good young role players in Brooks and Clarke. Jackson and Ja look to be future all stars.
Jackson is shooting incredible from three.
They passed Phoenix and Sacramento already...and those teams have been bad drafting lottery picks for most of a decade
Memphis has two solid players and two good young role players in Brooks and Clarke. Jackson and Ja look to be future all stars.
Jackson is shooting incredible from three.
They passed Phoenix and Sacramento already...and those teams have been bad drafting lottery picks for most of a decade
Ninja fux what u saying, pernt blank
yea I think many times it playing time followed by the correct system that works in these youngsters favor....
Fans don't say shit about that but criticize players wanting to leave or team up.
Ja looks to be another potential great point guard. I like what I'm seeing from him. Is it too early to talk all stars? Trey Young has got to be one this year.
Back on track
Heat now with seven undrafted players; lots of ‘chip on our shoulder’
Even during the abyss that was the Miami Heat’s lost weekend in New York, Erik Spoelstra took consolation that Chris Silva, Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn “got their handshakes.̶…
www.sun-sentinel.com
Great job adjusting to the pick and roll in the second half beating the Nets. Sixers are usually horrible at defending it.
The state of the NBA, and why things aren’t as good as they should be
In 1983, four years after its inception, local cable companies started paying ESPN five cents per subscriber. From that moment on, millions of American consumers could be relied upon to turn to and pay for the right to watch live sports on television.
That world, thanks to cord-cutting and streaming, is changing. But in sports, it’s not changing that fast. NFL ratings are up on TV for the second year in a row. Ratings for Monday night’s college football championship increased by 1 percent compared to last year.
Yet the NBA’s national ratings, despite perceived widespread anticipation after an action-packed free agency period, have dropped by 16 percent this season. Live-streaming makes up some of that loss, but not enough, and it doesn’t help that NBA League Pass is typically less user-friendly and more fussy than illegal streams. Don’t ask me how I know that.
Regardless of how many people are streaming, the NBA as it stands isn’t maximizing its potential.
The problem isn’t popularity, per se. Per the NBA, global merchandising sales are up over 8 percent. Social media engagement is up. People are consuming the NBA. The problem is where they’re consuming it: online, where there’s far less money to be made.
The storylines cater to Twitter over television, undercutting the very advantage that sports has over everything else that threatens to grab our imagination: It’s our last collective experience, one of the few things that cuts through our increasingly niche consumption habits.
Viewers may tune out the Oscars, but sports can persevere. There’s a difference, after all, between a live event and an event you have to watch live. But a lack of superteams, the Twitterization of NBA coverage and a rise in injuries (and injury-prevention) have the NBA in danger of veering into the former category.
This is how the NBA became the stream-of-consciousness league for a stream-of-consciousness era — and how it might reverse course to be more TV-friendly again.
The demise of superteams
This offseason, superstars resisted the urge to form trios and joined duos. Parity was promised, and with it, renewed interest. But that hasn’t happened, and at its halfway point, the NBA feels rudderless without an ear-splitting dominant force to rise to the zeitgeist.
The length of the 82-game season has never felt more pronounced or tedious, in part because teams increasingly don’t take it seriously. But load management and meaningless seven-game Wednesdays have always been part of the NBA’s infrastructure. Neither phenomenon explains a 16 percent drop in viewers, when most casual fans have considered most games irrelevant for years.
Convince a sports fan that a moment could be etched in history and he or she will tune in. That’s what superteams do for the NBA: They make up for the lack of stakes in the regular season by putting on unmissable shows.
Superteams have actually shielded the NBA from facing just how broken the structure of the regular season is, turning the 82-game chaos into the background noise to the main event: Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, the rise and redemption of LeBron James, the Curry phenomenon. In the absence of an obvious headliner, the background noise has become the main event, changing the way people consume the sport. Instead of one big game, fans are turning to multiple 30-second highlights. Per the NBA, its YouTube channel has broken its own records for three straight months, with 160 million views in December. Fans spent 20.3 million hours watching the NBA’s YouTube channel, a 55 percent increase compared to last year.
People have more choices, sure, but people don’t gravitate to sports for an abundance of choices — quite the opposite. The teams that have driven the most fans and mainstream interest to the NBA were so good they eliminated choice from the equation. In the NBA, the abundance of choice merely means no team is good enough to transcend the muck.
In 1983, four years after its inception, local cable companies started paying ESPN five cents per subscriber. From that moment on, millions of American consumers could be relied upon to turn to and pay for the right to watch live sports on television.
That world, thanks to cord-cutting and streaming, is changing. But in sports, it’s not changing that fast. NFL ratings are up on TV for the second year in a row. Ratings for Monday night’s college football championship increased by 1 percent compared to last year.
Yet the NBA’s national ratings, despite perceived widespread anticipation after an action-packed free agency period, have dropped by 16 percent this season. Live-streaming makes up some of that loss, but not enough, and it doesn’t help that NBA League Pass is typically less user-friendly and more fussy than illegal streams. Don’t ask me how I know that.
Regardless of how many people are streaming, the NBA as it stands isn’t maximizing its potential.
The problem isn’t popularity, per se. Per the NBA, global merchandising sales are up over 8 percent. Social media engagement is up. People are consuming the NBA. The problem is where they’re consuming it: online, where there’s far less money to be made.
The storylines cater to Twitter over television, undercutting the very advantage that sports has over everything else that threatens to grab our imagination: It’s our last collective experience, one of the few things that cuts through our increasingly niche consumption habits.
Viewers may tune out the Oscars, but sports can persevere. There’s a difference, after all, between a live event and an event you have to watch live. But a lack of superteams, the Twitterization of NBA coverage and a rise in injuries (and injury-prevention) have the NBA in danger of veering into the former category.
This is how the NBA became the stream-of-consciousness league for a stream-of-consciousness era — and how it might reverse course to be more TV-friendly again.
The demise of superteams
This offseason, superstars resisted the urge to form trios and joined duos. Parity was promised, and with it, renewed interest. But that hasn’t happened, and at its halfway point, the NBA feels rudderless without an ear-splitting dominant force to rise to the zeitgeist.
The length of the 82-game season has never felt more pronounced or tedious, in part because teams increasingly don’t take it seriously. But load management and meaningless seven-game Wednesdays have always been part of the NBA’s infrastructure. Neither phenomenon explains a 16 percent drop in viewers, when most casual fans have considered most games irrelevant for years.
Convince a sports fan that a moment could be etched in history and he or she will tune in. That’s what superteams do for the NBA: They make up for the lack of stakes in the regular season by putting on unmissable shows.
Superteams have actually shielded the NBA from facing just how broken the structure of the regular season is, turning the 82-game chaos into the background noise to the main event: Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, the rise and redemption of LeBron James, the Curry phenomenon. In the absence of an obvious headliner, the background noise has become the main event, changing the way people consume the sport. Instead of one big game, fans are turning to multiple 30-second highlights. Per the NBA, its YouTube channel has broken its own records for three straight months, with 160 million views in December. Fans spent 20.3 million hours watching the NBA’s YouTube channel, a 55 percent increase compared to last year.
People have more choices, sure, but people don’t gravitate to sports for an abundance of choices — quite the opposite. The teams that have driven the most fans and mainstream interest to the NBA were so good they eliminated choice from the equation. In the NBA, the abundance of choice merely means no team is good enough to transcend the muck.
Praise Jesus the Magic held onto win.
Shit, great night in the NBA if you ask me. I liked damn near all the results tonight.
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