2012 NBA season thread

[buzzy]

here it is

 

[RipCity32]

Epic commercial! lol

 

[DJT]

I wondered if they would do the rings on Christmas...it would be a nice present...but I guess most people will be at home with families.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

https://twitter.com/#!/WojYahooNBA/status/143558238951051264

One league official says there are seven NBA teams that have two stretches of 5 games in 6 nights this season. Good luck with that.

Good lord that is insane.

 

[DJT]

Yay we might see some scrubs!

Kyrylo Fesenko OMG!!!!!

 

[Pugz]

i really need nba league pass, damn.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Man I'm just ready for Friday.

 

[cruzg24]

I hope Iman Shumpert plays well and develops into a lockdown defender. It would really help out that weak bench that we have.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I know two of the Hornets games so far. December 26th at Phoenix, and February 17th at New York.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_training_camp_delay_120611

The NBA is considering pushing back the start of training camps until Monday, multiple league executives told Yahoo! Sports.

The league office was polling team executives over the past 48 hours about the possibility, sources said. Despite the discussions, no final decision has been made.

Friday is the first day that teams are allowed to sign free agents and make trades. Training camps, scheduled to start the same day, could be pre-empted to allow teams to assemble fuller and more complete rosters.

“Teams with just a handful of guys under contract have been complaining that it’s going to be too difficult to start on Friday,” one league executive said.

 

[RipCity32]

That's a good point.
Might as well push it back at least a couple of days.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Yeah it makes sense, just don't push back the start of FA and all that lol

Obviously though if they pushed back FA they'd push back camps even more.

 

[elcheato]

The Cavs play a stretch of 7 games in 9 days in April, and they have 17 games in 24 days total in the month. Crazy.

 

[VC15]

Bobcats: One game on ESPN
Bucks: One game on ESPN
Wizards: One game on ESPN
Jazz without Deron Williams: Eight games combined on ESPN/TNT

Nets with Deron Williams: Zero games on ESPN

 

[Elite]

Who cares, you get to watch all their games anyway.

 

[elcheato]

I prefer local broadcasts to national TV, especially cause Austin Carr is that dude.

 

[DJT]

Bobcats: One game on ESPN
Bucks: One game on ESPN
Wizards: One game on ESPN
Jazz without Deron Williams: Eight games combined on ESPN/TNT

Nets with Deron Williams: Zero games on ESPN

The Jazz get 8 lol thats a joke. But good for them.

 

[DJT]

Amnesty news:

Fans love to talk about the amnesty clause — the idea of just wiping away one of your GMs bad contracts is intoxicating. But fans are bound to be disappointed because if even five guys get waived that way this year I’d be surprised.

That said, the details of how the amnesty will work are starting to leak out.

First, teams will have a seven-day window this season to use the amnesty provision this year, and if they don’t use it the amnesty goes away to 2012, reports Marc Stein of ESPN. What those seven days are not yet known, but they will be soon.

Over at Point Forward on Sports Illustrated, Zach Lowe has a bunch of details on the amnesty provision. Here are the highlights.

• Teams will not be able to use the amnesty provision on a player acquired in a trade going forward….

• Teams will not be able to use the new “stretch” provision on players they acquire via the amnesty process… Teams can use the provision only on “new” contracts, or deals that don’t yet exist….

• Finally: If a team bids on a player in the amnesty waiver process, it is bidding on the full length of his contract, not just the first season.

So if a team were to bid on Gilbert Arenas you get him for three years, not just one, but at the price you bid. (If a team bids $5 million for him, they pick up that much of his salary, the Magic still pay the rest but it doesn’t count against their cap or tax.)

Interesting. But you will see more teams use it in a couple of years than you will this year.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I'd much rather national games because the Hornets local people suck.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I'm listening to NOLA radio and they are talking about the drafting of Chris Paul and Reggie Bush basically at the same time. They said that coming in Reggie Bush was a diva, but over his years he became humbled. Chris Paul came in humbled, but began to become a diva when he got all buddy buddy with Lebron and such.