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Official '15-16 NBA Season Thread: THEY WON ONE FOR THE LAND

buckets said:
Timmy will prolly just be like alright I'm out, see you dudes later and walk out forever
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I think he'll just not show up for camp. When Pop is asked about him, he'll just say "Yeah, that guy doesn't play here anymore. He told us not to pay him or anything."

Brilliant front office work by the Spurs. I see what they did. This week, they had at Sixers tonight, at Raptors on Wed, then a Fri-Sat home-away back-to-back with the Lakers and Hawks. They wanted to rest players on Monday and Friday so they got Boban and McCallum some D-League run this weekend, so they'll be ready to go. Boban ends up with 18 pts on 8-10 fg in 17 minutes.

I love the internets. There are two Boban highlight packages out already. I'd say it was just the Sixers and essentially a 3rd D-League game, but he makes Noel and Okafor look silly. Man, if the Spurs can get quality minutes out of him to sit Timmy, that would be huge. By the way, notice how the Sixers crowd gets into it near the end.
 
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Niky Shooter with a solid -43 last night.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
The PTR guys love Boban.
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Who doesn't love Boban? The clips from last night and this weekend remind me when Arvydas Sabonis came into the league. He's not nearly as good as Arvydas though.
 
I read a report from someone at the game who said people were chanting "MVP" after that last basket.
 
The Colangelo signing for the Sixers F.O. should make all the OWGs who don't #trusttheprocess happy. The scuttlebutt is the NBA was mad about the Sixers losing the league money, so they wanted someone in there who had plenty of experience turning franchises around.

So my question is about competitive balance and commissioners/league front offices. I know it's in commissioners' best interests to ensure parity and balance, but to what extent should they interfere with operations of teams? When they potentially damage the brand/the league? Other circumstances? Never?

I know this can't make Hinkie happy, but if agents hate working with him, I can't say this is a bad move. I also might want an experienced voice around for next year's draft, and someone with experience to keep Brett Brown happy and Okafor under control.
 
So now only OWGs want teams to try to win?
 
I think only OWG's get pissed off when teams intentionally lose. What the Sixers are doing is stupid and is most likely not going to work, but I don't really care if a team I'm not a fan of chooses to be horrible. There are always a handful of god-awful teams in the NBA, who cares if one of those is god-awful by choice.
 
Only thing annoying about the sixers to me is the people who cram it down your throat that it's a smart approach when it's far more likely to be a total disaster
 
It's not just OWG's who think what the Sixers are doing is shameful.
 
TownieDeac said:
The Colangelo signing for the Sixers F.O. should make all the OWGs who don't #trusttheprocess happy. The scuttlebutt is the NBA was mad about the Sixers losing the league money, so they wanted someone in there who had plenty of experience turning franchises around.

So my question is about competitive balance and commissioners/league front offices. I know it's in commissioners' best interests to ensure parity and balance, but to what extent should they interfere with operations of teams? When they potentially damage the brand/the league? Other circumstances? Never?

I know this can't make Hinkie happy, but if agents hate working with him, I can't say this is a bad move. I also might want an experienced voice around for next year's draft, and someone with experience to keep Brett Brown happy and Okafor under control.
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i am sure it happens more behind the scenes but what are the recent league office moves that could be considered interference? paul to the lakers. forcing the other donald out of the clippers.
 
RChildress107 said:
I think only OWG's get pissed off when teams intentionally lose. What the Sixers are doing is stupid and is most likely not going to work, but I don't really care if a team I'm not a fan of chooses to be horrible. There are always a handful of god-awful teams in the NBA, who cares if one of those is god-awful by choice.
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Don't think this is an OWG thing.
 
If this is leading to Hinkie being forced out for, like, Bryan Colangelo, or whoever, that GM will inherit a fantastic situation. He will inherit all the assets Hinkie collected with none of the stink of the last 3 years attached to him. Meanwhile, whoever takes over the Nets is completely fucked. Hinkie sacrificed wins and credibility to stockpile for the future. The Nets threw away the next half-decade to make a shitty 1 season run. Which one was the fucking ponzi scheme?
 
ChrisPaul3 said:
If this is leading to Hinkie being forced out for, like, Bryan Colangelo, or whoever, that GM will inherit a fantastic situation. He will inherit all the assets Hinkie collected with none of the stink of the last 3 years attached to him. Meanwhile, whoever takes over the Nets is completely fucked. Hinkie sacrificed wins and credibility to stockpile for the future. The Nets threw away the next half-decade to make a shitty 1 season run. Which one was the fucking ponzi scheme?
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Both.
 
Do the Pacers defeat the Golden State Warriors tonight to end their winning streak?

PG on Curry would be an interesting matchup, and the Pacers are the second best team in the East.
 
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