2022-2023 NBA Season Thread

[trojanfan12]

* Looks both ways for @trojanfan12 *


Bro, Kobe once played all 82 games, won a chip, beat a bunch of 6 grade girls at hopscotch, climbed Mt Everest, swam across the Atlantic, delivered food to the homeless, choreographed a Beyoncé and Shakira video, killed Kennedy, hijacked a plane in 1971 and jumped out that mother fucker, mid flight, with 200k cash, was seen fleeing from the Limbergh estate, with a small bundle that was suspiciously shaped like a baby, fixed the 2022 and 2024 Arizona elections and was the Ghost Writer on Nicki Minaj next album……..All in a single Season.

Players need to stop being cupcakes.

Kobe didn't kill Kennedy, he killed the person who killed Kennedy.

Get your facts straight.

 

[msgkings322]

Kobe was different in that mentality.

But if you are saying that NBA players, getting paid millions, should play every game just isn't smart from the player's perspective.

GSW constantly rested their players last year, and it helped them stay healthy enough to win a championship.

They also 'benefitted' from things like Draymond missing 2 months (so not playing), Klay not playing until midyear and so on.

 

[Eco]

I almost bought tix to the Clippers vs Suns yesterday.

But, since I was only in town for a day, to pick my kid up from College, I passed.

Clippers sat everyone.

For better or for worse, I’m used to that…lol

Agreed, which is why if I'm taking my daughter, I don't usually take her to the second end of a back 2 back. It's just clearly not the same without the stars.

 

[DJ Fieri]

I know for certain Patrice has set out multiple games due to load management.

Pens have sat one of the big 3 at different times due to load management.

Goalies are constantly sat for load management and rarely due a back to back.

Much, much less than the NBA.

And it's not close.

 

[trojanfan12]

Kobe was different in that mentality.

But if you are saying that NBA players, getting paid millions, should play every game just isn't smart from the player's perspective.

GSW constantly rested their players last year, and it helped them stay healthy enough to win a championship.

If they want to play fewer games, shorten the season and take the pay cut that comes with it.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

That Adam Silver is one tough cadaver

How tough is he when the Heat are openly mocking him?

Dude is in a terrible situation.

If coaches openly defied Stern….

Squidward doesn’t stand a chance.

 

[DJ Fieri]

People want to call the players soft for sitting out.

Yet, in most cases it is the team/organization that makes the decision to rest players.

Literally makes no sense.

And the organization would not listen to the players if they insisted they wanted to play?

Stop it.

 

[bksballer89]

I almost bought tix to the Clippers vs Suns yesterday.

But, since I was only in town for a day, to pick my kid up from College, I passed.

Clippers sat everyone.

For better or for worse, I’m used to that…lol

One thing I learned years ago is if you can avoid it, NEVER buy tickets when the team you are there to see is on the 2nd night of a B2B

 

[thunderc]

How tough is he when the Heat are openly mocking him?

Dude is in a terrible situation.

If coaches openly defied Stern….

Squidward doesn’t stand a chance.

Weakest commish in the history of sports

 

[Eco]

Much, much less than the NBA.

And it's not close.

I never said it was, you just asked for NHL players, and I gave them to you.

What would you think if they have the top 6 in each conference make the playoffs, top 2 seeds get byes, and the 'first round' is a best of 3?

That would bring a lot more priority to the regular season.

 

[msgkings322]

If they want to play fewer games, shorten the season and take the pay cut that comes with it.

The players might accept that but the owners wouldn't (less revenue, smaller TV contracts)

 

[trojanfan12]

Kobe was different in that mentality.

But if you are saying that NBA players, getting paid millions, should play every game just isn't smart from the player's perspective.

GSW constantly rested their players last year, and it helped them stay healthy enough to win a championship.

Kobe wasn't different in that mentality, he was just the last guy who thought like that. It's today's players that are different.

 

[DJ Fieri]

What makes sense is playing when they're healthy enough to play which is what they are paid millions of dollars to do.

They don't want to reduce the number of games played because it would mean less money...but they want to treat it like a shorter season by sitting games out.

Kobe's wife once asked him why he insisted on playing every game..."What about the fans that saved up to see me play just once?"

He wanted the fans who wanted to cheer him to be able to do that and the fans that wanted to boo him to be able to do that too.

Exactly.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

If they want to play fewer games, shorten the season and take the pay cut that comes with it.

Whoa…..killa.

Whoa….lol

How dare you suggest they not pay Dudes that show up to practice with their cellphones in their pockets!

 

[Eco]

If they want to play fewer games, shorten the season and take the pay cut that comes with it.

Which I'm sure has been discussed in the collective bargaining.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Wife and I heading to La Parrilla for Mexican and margaritas.

 

[thunderc]

Kobe wasn't different in that mentality, he was just the last guy who thought like that. It's today's players that are different.

And it’s mainly because they have been allowed to be

 

[msgkings322]

One thing I learned years ago is if you can avoid it, NEVER buy tickets when the team you are there to see is on the 2nd night of a B2B

I wonder if this will ever get prevalent enough that the teams start to notice that 2nd nights are harder to draw fans. Maybe then it would change.

 

[msgkings322]

Wife and I heading to La Parrilla for Mexican and margaritas.

I'll let CNN know.

 

[msgkings322]

And it’s mainly because they have been allowed to be