***Official 2024-2025 NBA Thread***

[KC_Connection]

Season starts tonight with Knicks and Celtics followed by Lakers and TWolves.

Will history be made early in the 2nd game?

[New World Order]

What were 90s NBA tv ratings?

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

But who? Shai is a joy to watch but he’s boring. Jokic and Luka and Giannis are excellent players but maybe too European to be American superstars. They’re trying with wemby but I just don’t see it. Nobody is gonna latch onto Tatum, Brunson or Embiid. The best bet is Ant and hes being way too misused to be relevant.

Out of anyone in the NBA, Shai probably plays stylistically most like Jordan did. Edwards is closest in athletic profile but he is more of a shooter and less og a playmaker as Jordan. It isn't like Shai is a bad athlete but obv not as athletic as Jordan but just as smooth.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by New World Order

What were 90s NBA tv ratings?

That was before old white men trashed the NBA for two decades without ever watching the product.

Eventually something becomes believed if people keep saying it.

Kind of how people pile on Nickelback. While not the best band hardly the worst.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by dirk digler

Yup Yup. They need to cut the season down to 42 games, start on Christmas and teams only play a couple of times a week, preferably all on the same days. Have an NBA show like NFL redzone to drive interest while all the games are going on at once.

Next CBA insitute a hard cap and no guaranteed contracts. If you have to lockout do it.

Would never happen but I'd love a Christmas season tipoff

If players are calling for load management by Christmas then just shorten the season, but apparently there's a revenue stream somewhere because these contracts for players are absurd so follow the money

I'm a casual NBA fan and still won't bother learning Giannis's name. He's got zero star power and is a multiple season MVP and a finals MVP

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Out of anyone in the NBA, Shai probably plays stylistically most like Jordan did. Edwards is closest in athletic profile but he is more of a shooter and less og a playmaker as Jordan. It isn't like Shai is a bad athlete but obv not as athletic as Jordan but just as smooth.

I really love Shais game. Especially in a league where superstars are all 3 point shot chuckers. But he doesn’t have anything close to superstar charisma unfortunately.

The other guy I forgot to throw in as Ja. Stunning to watch on the court, but like watching a car crash off the court.

[chiefzilla1501]

The lakers and Celtics put their entire teams as questionable for Christmas games including injury management tags. Seriously wtf are we doing here.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

The lakers and Celtics put their entire teams as questionable for Christmas games including injury management tags. Seriously wtf are we doing here.

I'm just here so I won't get fined

[KCUnited]

I’ve been monitoring Suns/Nuggets tix for tomorrow night since it’s the late game after the early Chiefs game but likely won’t touch it outside of being nearly free

[KC_Connection]

Remember when Stern’s NBA fined Pop for resting his stars on the Spurs on back to backs about a decade or so ago?

Adam Silver let it get to this point. Worst commissioner in sports.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Remember when Stern’s NBA fined Pop for resting his stars on the Spurs on back to backs about a decade or so ago?

Adam Silver let it get to this point. Worst commissioner in sports.

Yeah there is something to be said about being disliked as a commissioner. That's kind of part of the job. Silver is the most liked commissioner of many but he let everyone have an inch and it turned into a mile.

[KC_Connection]

Spurs Fined $250,000 for Resting 4 Regulars

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By Howard Beck
Nov. 30, 2012
When the San Antonio Spurs held out four regulars Thursday night, Coach Gregg Popovich framed it as an investment in the future: Resting Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green now will presumably pay dividends next spring.

That investment just cost the Spurs a whopping $250,000.

Commissioner David Stern announced the penalty Friday evening, citing an obscure league policy intended to discourage teams from resting players “in a manner contrary to the best interests of the N.B.A.”

Teams occasionally rest players, without much scrutiny, but the Spurs’ decision stood out under the circumstances. They were playing in Miami, in a nationally televised game, against the defending champions. The marquee matchup lost its luster when Popovich announced before the game that he had sent the four players back to San Antonio.

In a statement, Stern said the penalty was “dictated by the totality of the facts in this case.”

“The Spurs decided to make four of their top players unavailable for an early-season game that was the team’s only regular-season visit to Miami,” Stern said. “The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way. Under these circumstances, I have concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans.”

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Remember when Stern’s NBA fined Pop for resting his stars on the Spurs on back to backs about a decade or so ago?

Adam Silver let it get to this point. Worst commissioner in sports.

Manfred is easily the worst. But silver is giving him a run for his money.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

Manfred is easily the worst. But silver is giving him a run for his money.

Manfred has at least been improving MLB for the better with all their changes, Silver didn’t even acknowledge his league has a problem until a few days ago.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Manfred has at least been improving MLB for the better with all their changes, Silver didn’t even acknowledge his league has a problem until a few days ago.

Nah, manfred completely botched the cheating scandal. This is an isolated incident for silver and to a large extent, not easy ones to solve. Manfred does stupid shit every single year. Like when he created rules midseason around using sticky substances and pitchers were blowing their arms out left and right. And the mlb has problems of their own with way too many strikeouts and lack of offense. But long term manfreds desire for NY/LA media markets is going to destroy the game. The way LA has built a superteam off deferred contracts is gonna be really bad for the game for a while.

[smithandrew051]

My 5 year old is loving the Disney NBA game. Pregame so far.