NBA 2012: Running thread

Lakers were playing Carver High.

 

Did all of these teams lose their uniforms in the laundry and need to wear their practice jerseys?

 

The NBA has done some dumb things, but this uniform idea is atrocious.

 

You know, teevee runs every goddamn thing in sports, you would think some honcho at ESPN/ABC would call up David Stern and say "hey maybe these nifty uniforms look awesome from 3 feet away and maybe Adidas thinks they are the bee's knees, but you cannot see the fucking numbers on TEE VEE, which pays more of your freight than Adidas does, so you send all those players right back in the locker room and you bring them out in uniforms which are legible on TEE VEE. You got that?"

 

Lin's starting to get his juju back, and Harden is a machine, and these Rockets are destroying the Bulls. Even Republicans would say this is illegitimate.

 

It also helps that they are no longer giving 30-plus minutes per game to Jamison and Duhon.

Amazing what happens when you have a healthy Steve Nash and Pau Gasol. Those guys are pretty good.

 

Deron scalps another coach. Avery out.

 

Maybe this is where Phil goes. They've got a big man he can work with and other pretty strong pieces, including the Coach Killer.

 

I get that it's Phil Jackson and all of the rings.

What I don't get is why people keep suggesting that he take over teams with elite point guards? Why would you neuter Steve Nash or Deron Williams like that?

(this post is working under the assumption that Deron Williams' most-recent 27 games are not indicative of his abilities as a player moving forward)

 

Clippers win 16th in a row tonight. I must say, I love this Clippers lineup and, if it was any other team, I'd probably be on the bandwagon, but I still have trouble with the notion of cheering for the team owned by HOF sleazebucket Donald Sterling. The idea of that douchebag hoisting a trophy gives me the willies.

 

The Nets scored 2 points in the third quarter last night:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/sports/basketball/nets-with-carlesimo-break-down-against-spurs.html

Holy crap!

 

5 points -- made 2 FGs.

On another note, the Clippers have won 17 in a row. There's really only one more thing (well, two) that needs to happen to make sports complete in my lifetime, and that's the Clippers winning the title. Never really thought the Buccaneers would win the Super Bowl, and I sure as hell didn't think the Kings would ever win the Stanley Cup. It's fair to say the Clippers have been the most woeful franchise of any of the Big 4. But it looks like things are changing. Clippers winning the NBA title? That would be weird.

Which happens first: Clippers winning the title or the Cubs winning the World Series?