The 2014-2015 NBA Season Thread. Lock It Up Please: The Golden State Warriors Are The Champions

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Wait, I just saw that Rasual Butler had 18 for the Wiz tonight. The hell? Dude's been out of the league for like 3 years. Good for him though.
 
And then Anthony Morrow. 19 in one quarter tonight. What? This dude can seem like he's Steph Curry sometimes and then will disappear for whole seasons. Crazy.
 
The Nuggets ain't even fun to watch anymore man :{ & they got all those entertaining players on the squad. Wish Karl was still the coach. Wish somebody would bring him back. **** his playoff record, his teams are fun to watch

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Wait, I just saw that Rasual Butler had 18 for the Wiz tonight. The hell? Dude's been out of the league for like 3 years. Good for him though.
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Bruh :lol I thought you were either exaggerating or it was a different Butler, then I go to ESPN & he got 18 on 7-8 shooting :rollin had NO idea he was still in the league.
 
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Wow at Corey Brewer field goal %age (38% and 6.5 ppg). He is really missing K. Love outlet passes more than anyone. At that clip he may be overseas for good before we know it. He needs to get some semblance of a offensive game outside of cherry picking ASAP...
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He can shine like sonny weems is at CSKA
 
Anthony Davis has filled out well. That's one ideal body to run the floor with.

Can't wait for a couple of more years to see him.

Same with Embiid.
 
Well deserved win last night for the Magic. Fournier is on FIRE!

Quite funny really, I was gutted about loosing Afflalo to the Nuggets. Not so much any more
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NBPA director: 'Let's stop pretending'

Michele Roberts, the NBA players' union executive director, questioned several of the principles that have governed owner-player relations in the league for decades Wednesday, objecting to the concept of a salary cap while making clear she'd push for much more than a 50-50 split of basketball-related income.

"Why don't we have the owners play half the games?" Roberts said, speaking in her Harlem office to ESPN The Magazine. "There would be no money if not for the players."

"Let's call it what it is. There. Would. Be. No. Money," she added, pausing for emphasis. "Thirty more owners can come in, and nothing will change. These guys go? The game will change. So let's stop pretending."

Roberts, hailed as one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the United States, made history in July by being elected the first female union chief in major North American sports.

But given the context of a nine-year, $24 billion TV deal set to begin in 2016, and the players' ability to opt out of the league's collective bargaining agreement after the 2016-17 season, Roberts' relatively radical perspective could prove to be just as profound a change.

"I don't know of any space other than the world of sports where there's this notion that we will artificially deflate what someone's able to make, just because," she said, talking about a salary cap -- a collectively bargained policy that, in its current form, has constrained team spending in the NBA since 1984-85. "It's incredibly un-American. My DNA is offended by it."

The rookie wage scale, she argued, is also problematic, as are max contracts, another entrenched restriction of the NBA's free market that Roberts wants dissolved.

"I can't understand why the [players' association] would be interested in suppressing salaries at the top if we know that as salaries at the top have grown, so have salaries at the bottom," she said. "If that's the case, I contend that there is no reason in the world why the union should embrace salary caps or any effort to place a barrier on the amount of money that marquee players can make."

But Roberts didn't merely take aim at financial constraints on player wages.

While commissioner Adam Silver has proposed increasing the NBA draft age limit to 20, Roberts rejected the philosophy underpinning an age limit.

"It doesn't make sense to me that you're suddenly eligible and ready to make money when you're 20, but not when you're 19, not when you're 18," she said. "I suspect that the association will agree that this is not going to be one that they will agree to easily. There is no other profession that says that you're old enough to die but not old enough to work."

Nor does Roberts expect the players to swiftly consent to the current plan for "cap smoothing," as relayed by the NBA's attorneys, wherein the league would avoid a TV-driven spike in the salary cap in 2016 by artificially and incrementally increasing the cap over multiple seasons leading into that season.

"You can call it a 'spike,' but it's also just an accurate reflection of what the revenue is," she said. "At first glance, [cap smoothing] is not that attractive, I won't lie. But we're studying it to figure out if there really is some advantage for players."

Roberts would also like to keep investigating the prospect of shortening the 82-game season, a desire already expressed by superstars such as LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki.

"Every time a player gets hurt, I think, my God, they really are pushing their bodies," she said. "And back-to-backs, those are the ones I really find disturbing. ... So the answer, of course, is that everybody wants a shorter season. The tension is, Will that mean less money? And that's something we need to talk about and think about. ... I don't think it would hurt the game to shorten the season."

In fact, Roberts doesn't think that teams are hurting for money, period -- even if she did recently hear Silver report that roughly a third of NBA franchises are still unprofitable.

"I initially just started laughing, to be honest with you," she said of her reaction to that statistic. "I know that as a result of the last CBA, at least 1.3 billion dollars in revenue that would have otherwise been on the players' side is now on the owners' side. I see the valuations of these teams going though the roof. ... How much more do you need to make money?"

So how has the NBA managed to successfully institute legislation that, in Roberts' view, is both opposed to this country's capitalistic principles and her players' best interests?

"No one wants to say it out loud, but it's a monopoly," she said. "And were there alternatives, they wouldn't get away with it."

"I'll give the league credit," she added. "They have done a great job controlling the narrative."
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Gahdammie, she emptied the chamber. :lol
 
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Speaking of Marc Jackson, I didn't know dude was a Jesus Freak. Odd

Lol @ that Howard block and then saluting the crowd. Nice, Nice
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He is an ordained minister as well. Hypocrite of the first order, and his follies among women are legendary. The man is a buffoon in the truest sense.
 
No salary cap in the NBA would be 
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I wonder what that would mean for the average NBA player's salary not necessarily the superstars 
 
Specifically, how they keep winning championships — five since 1999, their most recent this past June — with a nucleus of Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and coach Gregg Popovich.

"I'm extremely jealous of that," Bryant said. "I don't know if I can express to you how jealous I am of the fact that Tim, Tony, Manu and Pop have all been together for all those years. Like, I can't even ... I can't express to you how jealous I am of that. Not all this up and down stuff."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba...days-after-lakers-lose-to-pelicans/ar-BBdqUQb
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Ironic, considering he is an integral part in the current condition of this franchise . . . lol.
 
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Bryant really that jealous of the Spurs? He just gonna forget all the superstar teams he been a part of and how he had Phil for years and years

"Not all this up and down stuff" 
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what up and down stuff? Dude really is spoiled aint he
 
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He needs to just hang it up already, it was a great career. The old days are long gone.
 
Maybe I'm off base...but I swear there was something sketchy between Gary Sheffield, Mark Jackson, and Jackson's wife.
 
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