Charlotte Hornets (@hornets)
OFFICIAL: President & Vice Chairman Fred Whitfield is stepping down from his position and departing the organization after more than 17 years leading the team’s business operations.
NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral)
Adam Silver is working on expanding the draft to two nights
“We're working on it. And it's something that we have to continue to work through with our network, ESPN and ABC, which broadcast the draft. And then, of course, with the Players Association.”
(12-06-2023, 06:28 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: [ -> ]Rick Carlisle has the Pacers playing like Doug Moe's Denver Nuggets teams of the mid to late 80's. Pacers average 128 ppg.
Carlisle's undoing, as always, will be his tendency to play with 3 guards instead of 2 guards + 1 properly sized 2-way SF.
(12-06-2023, 11:59 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: [ -> ]Charlotte Hornets (@hornets)
OFFICIAL: President & Vice Chairman Fred Whitfield is stepping down from his position and departing the organization after more than 17 years leading the team’s business operations.
NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral)
Adam Silver is working on expanding the draft to two nights
“We're working on it. And it's something that we have to continue to work through with our network, ESPN and ABC, which broadcast the draft. And then, of course, with the Players Association.”
Whitfield stepped down for health reasons (throat cancer) and to take care of his ailing mother.
It's early but the Pacers are giving the Bucks the business.
(12-07-2023, 06:15 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: [ -> ]It's early but the Pacers are giving the Bucks the business.
Haliburton with another 15ast 0tov game. His assist/tov-ratio on high volume is a bigger statistical outlier than all the scoring explosions or triple doubles that we have seen in the last few years.
If the Lakers win the in-season tournament NBA media is going to act like it is the greatest achievement in the history of basketball...
(12-07-2023, 10:47 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: [ -> ]If the Lakers win the in-season tournament NBA media is going to act like it is the greatest achievement in the history of basketball...
If the Pacers win it…they will not act like that.
(12-07-2023, 11:43 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ]If the Pacers win it…they will not act like that.
Will be just me celebrating RC. Not sure if it is enough for the GOAT debate but I am going to try my best to make the case.
Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes)
B/R Sources: Bucks forward Bobby Portis passionately challenged head coach Adrian Griffin and teammates in locker room after being eliminated by Pacers in IST.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1010...limination
Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania)
Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren is expected to miss two weeks with a sprained left ankle, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Tough blow for the 2-19 Pistons, who have lost 18 in row. Duren is averaging 12.6 PPG, 10.9 RPG, 1.4 BPG but has had injuries to both ankles this year.
(12-08-2023, 03:52 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: [ -> ]Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes)
B/R Sources: Bucks forward Bobby Portis passionately challenged head coach Adrian Griffin and teammates in locker room after being eliminated by Pacers in IST. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1010...limination
Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania)
Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren is expected to miss two weeks with a sprained left ankle, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Tough blow for the 2-19 Pistons, who have lost 18 in row. Duren is averaging 12.6 PPG, 10.9 RPG, 1.4 BPG but has had injuries to both ankles this year.
Detroit has "Buzzard's Luck" this year. That streak will probably continue as they get the Magic, Pacers, and Sixers twice the next 4 games.
Haliburtan is a star and really fun to watch.
It is early, but I am more bearish on the Bucks being a legit top contender. First of all, Middleton needs to look like Middleton again. Maybe that will come but right now he doesn't pass the eye test. Last night, he took the inbounds pass when Dame wanted it. Shook off Dame, dribbled it down the court and then when he couldn't do anything, tried to pass the ball back to Dame. The ball was stolen and Middleton did not race back and when the layup was missed there was no one there to rebound the ball. That was one of the biggest plays of the game.
NBA should be sending thank you flowers to Haliburtan and Lebron for what they did to the in season tournament and how it can continue to build moving forward.
Haliburtan showed you can be an emerging star on a current non-contender team but can use this tournament to show the league you have arrived as an elite player. Seeing him say the tourney games were the biggest games of his career really sets a good message moving forward. With Lebron, you have one of the best players ever trying hard to win the in season championship. If he and the Lakers win the tournament, you can count in future years that current stars will want to make sure they get this checkmark as well.
Love you Chicagojk, so I don’t mean it personally, but I couldn’t disagree more. Halliburton saying these were the biggest games of his career just makes me feel sad for Halliburton that he hasn’t had the opportunity to be in any bigger games! I don’t see the tournament ever being anything. It is literally almost meaningless in its current configuration. You could make the argument that it benefited the Mavs not to have to play a better teams than Utah and Portland. And we got extra rest on either end.
(12-09-2023, 09:47 AM)MarkAguirreWrathofGod Wrote: [ -> ]Love you Chicagojk, so I don’t mean it personally, but I couldn’t disagree more. Halliburton saying these were the biggest games of his career just makes me feel sad for Halliburton that he hasn’t had the opportunity to be in any bigger games! I don’t see the tournament ever being anything. It is literally almost meaningless in its current configuration. You could make the argument that it benefited the Mavs not to have to play a better teams than Utah and Portland. And we got extra rest on either end.
This is what I thought going into this season, but the players ARE taking it very seriously. Even the group play games were played much harder than random early season games usually are. I actually think the tournament has done quite a bit to make the first 3rd of the season more watchable, though I never would've expected that.
I think it's the money. I think there's a card-playing, gambling, competitive culture in the NBA and that money on the line is worth playing hard to get for these guys. Half of them actually need the money, and the half that don't are treating it like they're playing golf for $1K per hole. It's just extra competition for the most competitive people on Earth.
(12-09-2023, 09:47 AM)MarkAguirreWrathofGod Wrote: [ -> ]Love you Chicagojk, so I don’t mean it personally, but I couldn’t disagree more. Halliburton saying these were the biggest games of his career just makes me feel sad for Halliburton that he hasn’t had the opportunity to be in any bigger games! I don’t see the tournament ever being anything. It is literally almost meaningless in its current configuration. You could make the argument that it benefited the Mavs not to have to play a better teams than Utah and Portland. And we got extra rest on either end.
That is fair. I still think they need to tweak things and time will tell if it is has legs. I think the first season has been a success though.
I do agree with you about how the Mavs got extra rest and two lesser games. I wonder if you will see a veteran team in the future who loses their first game and then decides to semi tank to get that extra rest. I also think you need to find ways to incentivize the winners without making in junky. That part is a little tricky. You don't want to give them a playoff spot, but you need to find a way for the winner to have some juice to it. Not sure what the answer is.
(12-09-2023, 09:41 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: [ -> ]NBA should be sending thank you flowers to Haliburtan and Lebron for what they did to the in season tournament and how it can continue to build moving forward.
Haliburtan showed you can be an emerging star on a current non-contender team but can use this tournament to show the league you have arrived as an elite player. Seeing him say the tourney games were the biggest games of his career really sets a good message moving forward. With Lebron, you have one of the best players ever trying hard to win the in season championship. If he and the Lakers win the tournament, you can count in future years that current stars will want to make sure they get this checkmark as well.
Well he should be giving something back to the league for all the hard work these refs, some in their 60s, have put in.
NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral)
Tom Thibodeau stated that he does not regret his decision to keep Jalen Brunson and the other starters in the game, despite being down by 12 points with only 20 seconds remaining, per @SbondyNBA
Brunson injured his ankle after the Celtics had already cleared most of their bench
(12-09-2023, 12:14 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: [ -> ]Well he should be giving something back to the league for all the hard work these refs, some in their 60s, have put in.
Classic.
Christian Wood embracing the Theo Pinson role...