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Official '16-17 NBA Thread: not with a bang but a whimper

Also an amazing stat.

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Patty Mills takes down the Mavs. Parker, Manu and Pau stay home. Road win of course.
 
This is from a thread at the top of the subreddit /r/nba, about Magic playing pickup ball.
I used to have a membership at the Hollywood YMCA, and there as a pickup game there every single day. The normal game was just a bunch of guys who were there every day, but once or twice a week, some crazy good ex college and sometimes even ex pros came in.
You had 5 man teams, played to 10 points, winning team kept the court and the next team rotated in. When the really good guys came, they always played on the same team, and they ran the court for hours at a time. (They were dicks about it too, acting like they owned the place, etc.)
There was this really old man (60 or so) who played alot, he wasn't worth much but he could bomb threes like mad when he was hot, and he always claimed he was friends with Magic Johnson and that one day he'd bring him in and we'd finally get to beat this one really good group of guys. We all thought he was full of shit. Then, lo and behold, one day the group of really good guys came in and started winning, (one of them played for UCLA back in the day, and one of them had played pro in Europe) and they started ordering everyone around, calling cheap fouls, etc. So this old man lost it, he leaves and says he'll be back in twenty minutes. Twenty minutes later, he came back with, no shit, Magic Johnson.
This was like summer of 1997, so Magic was probably only a year or two removed from his comeback season with the Lakers. He was in really good shape, and he looked like he was about 37 feet tall compared to me, and I'm 6'3". So, Magic and this old man formed a team, I tried to get on it but they needed runners and I was a known gunner. Eventually it's their turn, and they take the court. Magic played PG, dribbled the ball up the court, and he said he would only shoot the ball two times per game. "The first bucket of the game, and the last." The other team just scoffed and said he could shoot all he wanted, they were obviously not scared at all.
Long story short, Magic absolutely destroyed the game, made those guys look like little boys. As he stated, he did indeed score the first bucket of the game, a very long three pointer (it actually only counted as 2, that's how we played) and then he just became strictly a passer. It seemed like he grabbed just about every rebound of the entire game, and made some insane passes. At one point he actually dribbled the ball up the court by running backwards, and was laughing and obviously not even trying at all. The old man who called him there ended up hitting a three to make the score 9-3, or maybe 9-4, I can't recall, but then Magic said "Ok, you guys get one more posession, then this game is over." With this big grin on his face. So the other team took the ball up the court, but all of a sudden, like a lightning bolt or something, Magic just... it was almost like he dissappeared, that's how fast he moved... he just exploded off his feet, stole the ball from the dribbler, dribbled the ball up the court like a sprinting deer, took it all the way to the hole and dunked it. Not a hard dunk, not a spectacular dunk, it was more like he dunked it the way a normal person would open their car door, like, his facial expression didn't even change. Game over.
Epilogue: The other guys were mad and demanded a rematch, but Magic said the rules of the court were that they had to give up the court to the winnig team and wait their turn to play again. Magic ended up playing there that day for about 2 hours, and won at least 10 games in that timespan. The really good team played his team 2 more times, and again Magic's team won both times, score was never even close.
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Deacfreak07 said:
YO PLAMA, your Hakeem OJahjuwon takes might have been a little early.

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Get outta here with this MDMH math. According to the above Embiid is shoowing 54% vs 49% for HOF. Good thing ESPN shows Embiid is shooting 48% from the field and HOF is shooting 49.5%. They play the same minutes per game and embiid is committing 4 turnovers and 3 fouls per game per HOF's 1.2 and 2.5. Rather clear who is the better player
 
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And Towns puts up 47 and can't even win the game. Guarantee when HOF drops 47 his team will at least win. #donttrustthestats
 
palmab03 said:
Get outta here with this MDMH math. According to the above Embiid is shoowing 54% vs 49% for HOF. Good thing ESPN shows Embiid is shooting 48% from the field and HOF is shooting 49.5%. They play the same minutes per game and embiid is committing 4 turnovers and 3 fouls per game per HOF's 1.2 and 2.5. Rather clear who is the better player
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lol
 
deacphan said:
i guess reddit must have some serious typo controls for rj to type a post that long with that little typos.
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not enough obscure references to folk guitarists and c list female actresses
 
Point God Giannis with 23 points, 8 assists, 8 rebounds, 4 steals, 2 blocks. In 29 minutes. Didn't play in the 4th quarter.

ETA: 0 turnovers, to boot.
 
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Bz sighting! Had no idea he was with the Rockets now. Also had no clue D'Antonio was coaching the Rockets. That's one helluva coaching staff
 
This is some good stuff on TNT right now.
 
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