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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

at least he found a fall man

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Isaiah Mobley dominated all summer, Sam showed he's 27 and Emoni grew game after game and showed he could fit in a system.

Let's go Cavs!

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Game Time - 9:00pm on ESPN

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Getting a second coaches challenge after winning the first seems like a no brainer. I would love for flops to be taken out of the game so I'll be cautiously optimistic about that change.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Why is everyone so actively negative about this? I get not caring at all, but there's clearly more than that. If you don't like this tournament...just pretend they're regular season games and nothing changes. If you already don't watch regular season games... keep not watching regular season games and nothing changes.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Coming soon: the NBA Cup.The NBA unveiled the details Saturday of its inaugural in-season tournament, which will have a prize pool of about $18 million and will be capped by a championship game — which won’t count in the standings — in Las Vegas on Dec. 9. It’s an event that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wanted for years, giving teams a trophy to play for during the regular season.And now, it’s finally reality.“This is a concept that has been rumbling around the league office for about 15 years,” Silver said. “It's not a new concept in sports. For those that follow particularly international soccer, it's a long tradition of having in-season tournaments ... so we thought, what a perfect opportunity for a global league like the NBA and it's a perfect fit for our game.”The tournament payouts for players on standard contracts will be $500,000 apiece for those on the winning team, $200,000 apiece for those on the runner-up, $100,000 apiece for those on the teams that lose semifinal games and $50,000 for those on the teams that lose in the quarterfinals.Two-way players on any of those teams are eligible for up to half those amounts, depending on how many games they spend on a roster during the tournament.“I can see what the aim could be,” said Miami guard Josh Richardson, who follows global soccer closely and understands the parallels Silver makes when comparing it to in-season tournaments that sport has around the world. “It gives you another chance to win something, for real. I think that’s a big part.”Games will start on Nov. 3, being played mostly on Tuesdays and Fridays in November — except for Nov. 7, when the NBA will play no games to commemorate Election Day. That announcement came Saturday, and will mark the second consecutive year when the NBA has no games on that date with hopes of promoting civic awareness and engagement.The Final Four will be in Las Vegas.“This city knows how to host big events,” Silver said.Teams were assigned to a five-team group. They'll play one game against each other; the six group winners will make the quarterfinals, as will the best two second-place teams from the groups.They were chosen as follows:West Group A — Memphis, Phoenix, the Los Angeles Lakers, Utah and Portland.West Group B — Denver, the Los Angeles Clippers, New Orleans, Dallas and Houston.West Group C — Sacramento, Golden State, Minnesota, Oklahoma City and San Antonio.East Group A — Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, Indiana and Detroit.East Group B — Milwaukee, New York, Miami, Washington and Charlotte.East Group C — Boston, Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago and Orlando.“I'm excited about this midseason tournament,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. “I think it's going to add an element of energy and excitement for the players and coaches and the fans. I think it's a great idea.”Joe Dumars, the league’s executive vice president of basketball operations and a Hall of Famer as a player, said he thinks players will like the idea — even if it takes some time.“Everybody’s not going to buy in right away,” Dumars said. “That can’t be the goal, that everybody’s going to buy in from Day 1. These things take time. And I think as time goes on you can build this up and people can really get into it.”Tournament games, except for the championship game, will all count in the standings — much in the same way that the WNBA runs its Commissioner's Cup event.It’s been known for some time that teams will be getting only an 80-game schedule when the 2023-24 slate is released by the NBA in the coming weeks.Games 81 and 82 will be added in December; this is where things get tricky.Teams that don’t make the knockout stage will be assigned two games against other non-knockout qualifiers, and those will be the missing two games on their schedules.For the eight teams that make the knockout stage, the quarterfinal game becomes the 81st game added to their schedule. Quarterfinal losers — two from the East, two from the West — will play each other, and that’ll be the 82nd game on their schedules. Semifinalists — again, two from the East, two from the West — will play, and that game becomes the 82nd game on their schedules.That means the championship game will be one of 83 games on the schedule for the last two teams standing. And since the season is 82 games, that game won’t count in the standings, nor will the stats count for anything. They’ll be playing for money and the trophy.___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

500k each for the winners all the way down to 50k for the 8th place team will no doubt bring out some good competition. That's some pretty nice dough even for the max contract guys. Who doesn't want an extra 50k of pocket change? Especially going forward when the 5th place team sees other guys getting hundreds of thousands more than them, that'll no doubt bring out the competitive spirit in a lot of guys.

East Group B is looking to be a bloodbath, same with West Group A.

I wonder if scheduling will cause any weird issues like playing a team 5 times or an intraconference team only twice. I suppose you could have games later in the season against team A or team B depending on who of your group went on to the knockout stage.

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Cavs vs Raps tip off at 3:30

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

the amount of resources it would cost us more than we realistically have and the cap space isn't there. we have 17 mil after all the cap moves for this year. he costs 33 this year, plus 16 going forward which we also can't afford. we could trade someone with a big contract, but we still need to add picks to that package.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe you can't with Max contracts due to the max cap % you can pay out and then the annual raise restrictions and all that, but you always could with sub max contracts. You can also just split up the contract evenly, like Jarrett Allen's deal. He gets 100 mil for 5 years and every year he gets 20 mil. Which is in practice a regressive contract where his % cap hit decreases year over year.

What you said is interesting in that it doesn't seem to happen that often, where you could butt up against the cap one year, get relief for future years with a regressive contract. Maybe it's just the belief in kicking the can down the road and counting on cap increases while maximizing current rosters.

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Our roster composition by position:

PG - 2

SG - 6

SF - 0

PF - 3

C - 2

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

My ublock has been at a constant "0" on this site since I've started. A youtube tab will have over a hundred by the end of a 10 minute video.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sports communities have been moving over. Unfortunately I don't have an account to promote coming here.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I feel like this keeps the suns about the same but adds a couple years to the window. The shooting is going to be insane though. Booker KD and Beal are going to score 70 points a game.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I know how people feel about running backs, but I truly feel Nick Chubb is one of the special ones. I don't think he's going to drop off, rather have a more extended career like some of the other greats. Rarely should a RB get a third contract in this NFL but we'll probably look back and say how obvious his greatness was.

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