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Official 2013 NBA Thread vers. flippity floppity

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Trust me, not that many teams are going to sit their starters like the Spurs did tonight. Teams need wins, and some players want to play and would refuse to sit.
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The Spurs had to play the world champs on the road on the second night of a back to back. I'm sure if you go through the schedule, you'll find a bunch of top teams playing other good teams on the road in a dense part of their schedule. These games will tend to be nationally televised on TNT, ESPN or ABC. If you allow one team to essentially forfeit a nationally televised game, it will continue to happen (because, as you said, it's a good coaching decision). Sterne can't allow that.

If they had done it at the Hornets or Kings, it might be forgivable because who cares about those games. Make me watch those games. But why would a coach do that? A win vs. the Heat counts exactly as much as a win against the Kings, so the coaches are most likely to use their B teams against good competition and then beat up on the scrubs.
 
They lost to the World Champs by 5 POINTS last night. If anything it shows how much depth the Spurs have.. they almost beat the Heat with their back up players.

After watching that game, I'm not sure the Heat end up with the win if the Spurs would have played their starters. They should be thankful for last night's win.

Plus this gives Popovich a chance to let his young guys have some starting experience against good teams. I think it's a great way to build for the future and develop new young leaders on your team, because you know eventually Duncan, Ginolbli, and Parker are going to retire. They can't play forever.

Every player in the NBA is capable of playing at a high level, there is a reason it's Professional Basketball.
 
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All-Shimazu Team

PG - Ty Lawson
SG - Tyreke Evans
SF - LeBron James
PF - Kevin Love
C - I guess Dwight Howard by default, or Andrew Bynum from the waist up

6th man, Ray Allen
 
Yeah a $250K fine for what amounts to an ambiguity is absurd and unenforceable. David Stern is finally succumbing to that particular dementia that only affects human-lizard hybrids.
 
Fortunately I enjoy all basketball teams. But as a Pistons fan in particular, I feel like a major chump becoming one of those people that root for their team to lose for a better chance at a high draft pick. Honestly though, I think Joe Dumars has been consulting with Edward Scissorhands for the past several seasons. These teams have been rough to watch.
 
Why can't they be the Jazz?

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I don't understand why pelicans are not taken seriously. They're such excellent fishers. Electric, precise:

 
Hopefully it will finally find respect as the representative of a blighted and bankrupt NBA franchise on the verge of liquidation.

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as much as i love bad nba franchises the league would be best served with 12 teams

would make minor league bball kind of cool
 
12 teams is an extreme and 28 is still a bit too many imo.

I think the world could personally live without the entire pacific division except for the Lakers and the Suns. I mean who has ever cared about the Sacramento Kings or the Golden State Warriors, and the LA Clippers are just a bad franchise. In the east I would take away the Bucks, Cavs and um, the Hawks. And in order to get rid of the Orlando Magic I will also need to be cutting out the New Orleans PELICANS.

But that's not even, so I need to remove two more teams. The Charlotte Bobcats because not even Michael Jordan could make North Carolina care about professional basketball, and on the west the Utah Jazz would make an easy choice.

So that's 20 teams. Two conferences of ten, each with two divisions of five.

My ideal NBA.

Also get rid of the Timberwolves and bring back the Supersonics. Sort them as you please.
 
drop the kings, warriors and bucks solely due to poor ass facilities

pittsburgh, seattle, and perhaps cincy would be excellent markets
 
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