2019 NBA Catch-All - It’s Fantastic

And all the Sonics references on Frasier make the show seem really dated now.

Expanding to Seattle and another city while cutting down to a balanced 62-game schedule would be pretty much perfect.

The players and owners won't like the 10-15% cut in their earnings/revenue to get to that point (and the regional sports networks will probably revolt) but after how last season went for Kawhi and Toronto I think everybody's going to be load managing their stars for 10-20 games. Better to cut those games out than to let it fester and damage the product/brand.

Not to mention the Warriors...

Roke wrote:

Expanding to Seattle and another city while cutting down to a balanced 62-game schedule would be pretty much perfect.

The players and owners won't like the 10-15% cut in their earnings/revenue to get to that point (and the regional sports networks will probably revolt) but after how last season went for Kawhi and Toronto I think everybody's going to be load managing their stars for 10-20 games. Better to cut those games out than to let it fester and damage the product/brand.

I'd actually be ok if it got down to 50 games, plus a Champions League type in season tourney.

You could run 10 games/mo, Nov-Mar, then playoffs Apr-Jun. Save the miles on the players, an enhanced product, and just charge fans more. What, am I NOT going to buy League Pass with a slate of must-watch games? Nope. Mimic football and have scarcity drive up prices. A quality NBA product would do that.

They'll never go that low. Maybe 75 games or 70 if they do a mid season tournament for something. Personally I prefer they don't change it.

Amazing.

My favorite part is Harden heading to the locker room first.

Top_Shelf wrote:

Amazing.

My favorite part is Harden heading to the locker room first.

Just another reason why I love the NBA:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...

article wrote:

Donaldson is the fifth woman hired as an assistant coach just this summer, joining Lindsey Harding (Sacramento Kings), Lindsay Gottlieb (Cleveland Cavaliers), Kara Lawson (Boston Celtics) and Niele Ivey (Memphis Grizzlies). The other current female assistants are Natalie Nakase (LA Clippers), Becky Hammon (San Antonio Spurs), Jenny Boucek (Dallas Mavericks), Kristi Toliver (Washington Wizards), and Karen Stack-Umlauf (Chicago Bulls).

Donaldson's path is different. She is younger. She was not a star in college, or in the WNBA. She has no significant coaching experience. She arrives through the side door of analytics. It is perhaps a sign that some of the unconventional paths to NBA power that have long been open to men are opening to women, too.

Donaldson is just excited to get to work.

"The strategy and the X's and O's -- that is where it's at for me," she says.

She graduated from the university I work at from the department I teach in.

#humblebrag

Is it time for a new thread for 2019-2020 season, or do we just keep this one?

Yeah usually a new thread around preseason time, but go ahead a few weeks early if you want.

I'm not starting a thread with a Canadian banner image.

A Canadian banner image, but then Kawhi is chilling by his pool in LA.

Just the entire deflating Raptor gif plz

Vector wrote:

Just the entire deflating Raptor gif plz

Kawhi saying "what it do baybeeeeeeeeee"