2013-14 NBA Thread part 1

It would never happen and he'd never consider it.

 

Does Stephen A Smith have a clue that he is as offensive as Stepin Fetchit? SAS is such a stereotype with his exaggerated 'street talk' and forced use of vocabulary. Does he not have a friend who can tell him that he's a bad joke?

 

When he first jumped on the scene -- circa '06 or '07? -- I thought he was really good because he provided pretty strong commentary without all the, ahem, bells and whistles. And then it's like someone told him to jive it up. He lost me as fast as he impressed me. I don't get it. He's pretty smart, in the grand scheme of things.

Has anyone interviewed him in the last 3-4 years and asked why he went all cuckoo?

 

Fun with attendance figures: the 76ers announced 14,754 were at last Friday night's game vs. Indiana.

My son and I were two of them. But even in a 20,318-seat arena, I defy you to find 14,752 people in here. The whole upper section behind the basket in the pic was completely empty.

 

Although I must say the beauty of a lousy team late in the year was that I got those upclose seats for cheap, and a Sixers employee let my son, the biggers Sixers fan in Chicago, onto the floor after the game for a pic. Not that there was a lot of demand.

 

One more great thing about seeing a bad team... in the arena there is the requisite pictures of the roster. Indiana has enormous banners, but Philadelphia just has a headshot lineup, both befitting their status this season. And with all the changes to the roster, they haven't caught up -- or bothered with -- getting everybody's head in there. There's only eight or nine players in it, with gaps in between two pictures where they, say, removed Lavoy Allen's mug.

 

LeBron scored 25 in the 1st quarter tonight against the Cavs.

Watch out, Wilt. Or at least Kobe.

 

Yet the Cavs are still in this one. For now.

 

Maybe, but mainly it means they don't have to worry about the legal headaches of breaking a lease. They don't have to wait for an expiration date or hope attendance falls below some certain figure, or anything else -- they can just leave.


Of course no billionaire sports franchise owner really gives a fuck about leases or any other legal factors, they know in the end any judges will simply let a billionaire do whatever he wants, but since they own the arena themselves they won't even have to deal with THOSE minor annoyances.

 

LeBrons a pussy. 37 points thru 3 quarters and the game is tied.

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1999142-adam-silver-says-nba-jerseys-will-most-likely-have-sponsor-ads-within-5-years

I was trying to find some numbers on how many jerseys are sold each year, and couldn't find numbers (just player rankings) - still I figure the loss in revenue from sales would be more than made up by jersey sponsorship. Two years ago the total revenue projection for league teams (not per team) was $157 million per year. You would have to sell half a million of the authentic $300 jerseys to reach that figure and you know a few people would still shell out for the Celtics Dunkin Donuts jersey.