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largebillsonlyplease said:
Keep of course
He and KD are a package deal

I hope the nets make the playoffs
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Sidebar convo...

I feel like the narrative that the east is weak is a little lazy right now.

Ok obviously the Bucks are monsters...

But who would have thought Toronto solid

And Indiana, Miami, Boston, philly even the magic got life

Its detroit and atlanta etc thats straight trash.

But the west aint MUCH better to me.

Warriors, kings, pels, wolves, suns blazers spurs and grizz dying.

I'm shocked utah doing so well

Luka a prodigy but without HELP he aint gonna do damage in play off time against the top western teams
 
jack walsh13 said:
Kyrie really just needs ta shut the fuck up. He's always saying something extra special stupid after games. Watch they get rid of this nutjob sometime next year during the season. :smh:

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Something just aint right about that boy
 


Quit playing with me man. Down 19. Malone got smart and kept my boy in for damn near the entire 2nd and OT. Nuggets gotta stop doing this shit man. Warriors were blasting they ass like Steph and Klay was back:lol:.
 
Klay looks like he could come back soon, so I'm wondering if they do it.

February makes it eight months?
 
M.H.C. said:


Quit playing with me man. Down 19. Malone got smart and kept my boy in for damn near the entire 2nd and OT. Nuggets gotta stop doing this shit man. Warriors were blasting they ass like Steph and Klay was back:lol:.
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The warriors just have too many young players. They don't know how to close out games
They play hard they can get leads. A ton of the games they end up losing they were either winning or within a couple points then fumble the shit away
Kerr gotta do a better controlled job.
 
Complex said:
Klay looks like he could come back soon, so I'm wondering if they do it.

February makes it eight months?
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No way in my opinion. He's already said as much that he feels good but he wants to take his time because he wants to be fully recovered and ready to go so that for his longterm health there aren't any issues.
 
Duece said:
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.
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When players KD Steph and Klay come back things will be better.
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
The warriors just have too many young players. They don't know how to close out games
They play hard they can get leads. A ton of the games they end up losing they were either winning or within a couple points then fumble the shit away
Kerr gotta do a better controlled job.
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Man when y'all get healthy....scary. Paschall, Lee and Cauley-Stein blocking everything. Plus whatever lottery pick y'all get. Shit let me just enjoy this season lol
 
Duece said:
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.
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Man fuck the viewers. They're all casual observers anyway. Viewers who's only knowledge about the NBA was Lebron vs the Warriors. Viewers that never knew how dope Anthony Davis really was until he got to LA. Viewers that want to see 130-140 type scores every night. Fuck those casual viewers for real.
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
No way in my opinion. He's already said as much that he feels good but he wants to take his time because he wants to be fully recovered and ready to go so that for his longterm health there aren't any issues.
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Both Klay and Steph need to take their time and make sure they don't get any overcompensation injuries. No need to rush back. Gear up for 2021 season. I remember saying the same thing about KD as soon as he looked back at his leg. Just rest dog. Let the body find balance after injury recovery.

I want to see prime warriors competing in the west next year. Same core as the 73-win squad.
 
M.H.C. said:
Man when y'all get healthy....scary. Paschall, Lee and Cauley-Stein blocking everything. Plus whatever lottery pick y'all get. Shit let me just enjoy this season lol
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They fight
I know nobody else rightfully so has a reason to watch them but I do

In the games they focus they could win 50/50 they're just young and fumble it but the experience will be so valuable.
 
gene cisco said:
Both Klay and Steph need to take their time and make sure they don't get any overcompensation injuries. No need to rush back. Gear up for 2021 season. I remember saying the same thing about KD as soon as he looked back at his leg. Just rest dog. Let the body find balance after injury recovery.

I want to see prime warriors competing in the west next year. Same core as the 73-win squad.
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Exactly
Steph will be back tho
Probably in a month he's basically practicing at this point just by himself and full workout and shooting drills so as long as his hand is ok it's ok it's different than a leg injury

Klaus doing the same but it's a leg injury so just sit out and rest
 
M.H.C. said:
Man fuck the viewers. They're all casual observers anyway. Viewers who's only knowledge about the NBA was Lebron vs the Warriors. Viewers that never knew how dope Anthony Davis really was until he got to LA. Viewers that want to see 130-140 type scores every night. Fuck those casual viewers for real.
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I agree. Fuck them viewers. Fuck them and their mothers.

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Damn you Zion :lol:

We only get to watch Nuggets games(unless it's DirecTV)when they're on National TV here. Now we get bumped. You better ball son
 
Complex said:
Can they move the Pelicans two games off tv this week then.
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Man they knew they were going to flex whatever game for Zion's debut and I said since jump, they should've flexed their national television games since Zion was injured before the season so it's only right. NO is balling lately but let's be real, the hype about seeing those early games died when Zion wasn't playing.
 
jack walsh13 said:
Wait, how come you can't see Nuggets games out there?

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Altitude sports and Xfinity and Dish Network on some contract negotiation bullshit. Only folks that can watch the game locally and without having to stream is DirecTV and I literally just switched to Xfinity before the season. My fam got DirecTv still so I just watch the games over there sometimes or just stream them. That stream quality don't be the same sometimes though. Nuggets and Avs both having dope seasons #2 seeds in both leagues but fans can't watch the games on the cable service they pay for.
 

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