NBA 2014-2015 Thread

[packsyd2284]

"I'm from Brooklyn, I've never fished a day in my life."

[shel311]

NBA season Over/Unders

Heat over.

Pelicans 82-0

[Seeitsaveit13]

Sixers over 15.5

[ReignOnU]

Raptors under; Nuggets over

[shel311]

Sure did look like lebron was setting a screen for Norris Cole.

https://t.co/ysU8QYow7W

[DRiccio21]

first Beal hurt now Durant out 2 months.

shitty few days for injuries

[Cnasty]

NBA2K curse!!!

[shel311]

NBA2K curse!!!

Perfectly done!

KD injury, that sucks.

[shel311]

"@johnschuhmann: Westbrook played only 41 minutes without Durant last season: http://t.co/05Elp26MdV Attempted 35 (!) shots in those 41 minutes."

[shel311]

How to not be good at offense:

[nick]

whos that? Josh Smith?

[shel311]

whos that? Josh Smith?

Great guess!

But it's the Lakers in 1 preseason game. 48 of 82 shots were long jumpers. The more amazing part is it seems to be planned, as they've talked a lot about how they only want to take ten 3s per game or something like that.

Not that ten 3s a game is a good strategy, but if the 3s you're not taking are just turned into long 2s, it's an even worse strategy.

Hilarious.

[DRiccio21]

somehow i missed this but one of my fashion predictions is coming true (i've had 2 main ones over the last 10 yrs: mismatch sneakers and... )

Chris Douglas-Roberts is bringing back short shorts!

[nick]

.....

[DRiccio21]

Short Shorts!!!

get excited nick!

[nick]

i like the mismatched sneakers idea a lot. Personally not a fan of short shorts but c'est la vie

[shel311]

Could be a hell of a business move by the NBA:

http://www.businessinsider.com/nba-owne ... le-2014-10

In May, the NBA approved the sale of the Bucks to new owners Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry for a then-NBA record $550 million.

Shortly after the sale, Brian Windhorst and Marc Stein of ESPN.com learned that as part of the agreement, the NBA had the right to buy back the team for $575 million if a new arena was not approved, built, and ready to use by November, 2017.

the Donald Sterling fiasco in Los Angeles happened and Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion. Now, five months later, the Bucks still don't even have a location for a new stadium and the Bucks are worth a lot more than $575 million

If the Bucks can't get a new stadium built before the deadline, the NBA could buy the team for $575 million and then turn around and sell the team to a group in Seattle for an estimated $1.6 billion.

That would be a cool $1.025 billion profit for the league or about $35.3 million for each of the other 29 owners. As Simmons put it, "it's in [the NBA's] vested interest for Milwaukee not to have an arena."

[DRiccio21]

i wonder what restrictions the owners would have from just selling to Seattle themselves before that deadline.

[shel311]

i wonder what restrictions the owners would have from just selling to Seattle themselves before that deadline.

I wondered that as well. Here's another, somewhat similar idea proposed by Simmons(instead of selling to Seattle, moving to Seattle themselves):

An alternative theory proposed by Simmons is that the NBA could agree to not buy the team if the new Bucks owners agree to not build a new arena and pony up some more money — presumably a transfer fee of a few hundred million — and they would be able to remain owners by moving the team to Seattle.

[DRiccio21]

if the NBA can get the team and truly feels they can get 1 bil profit from a Seattle sale they wouldn't take a dollar less than 1bil minus whatever they felt the risk was of upsetting Milwuakee fans. i'm not sure that has a big premium either considering they are moving the team to a bigger market and appeasing those fans.