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likeacrackado said:
I watched the end of Sixers-Knicks last nigh
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I just realized I cannot name one player on either team off the top of my head at this point, though I might pass a multiple guess test where I had to match team and player. Guess I'm farther removed than I even thought I was.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Yet they're apparently in line for a huge increase in broadcast rights from NBC (replacing TNT/Warner) as well double the shekels from ESPN/Disney. I don't get it.

NBC 'ready to pay $2.5bn-a-year to snatch NBA TV rights away from TNT' - more than DOUBLE average fee paid by Warner Bros - as league enters 'advanced stages' of new round of media-rights deals

I pay zero attention to the regular season, and barely glance at the playoffs these days. Maybe just point and laugh at ESPN commentators deepthroating LeBron for the billionth time or that weird "in season" tournament they did. I can' t imagine I'm alone.
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That sweet gambling revenue is really paying dividends. There's no way people are watching the shit they offer with regular season games if they don't have action on it.
 
Womble of Wimbledon said:
That sweet gambling revenue is really paying dividends. There's no way people are watching the shit they offer with regular season games if they don't have action on it.
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Gambling? No wonder ads have been all over the place in niggerball, particularly fanbets and all other shit. They are turning basketball into horse racing betting.
 
WULULULULU said:
Gambling? No wonder ads have been all over the place in niggerball, particularly fanbets and all other shit. They are turning basketball into horse racing betting.
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Gamblers are idiots, then. You just don't see disparities like this without some sort of memo from the home office to enforce compliance. Especially with a decidedly mediocre team like the Lakers this year. link
Today's big number is +507. That's the Los Angeles Lakers' free throw differential this season, which is by far the largest in the NBA. LeBron and company have taken 1,983 free throws this season, which is 507 more than their opponent. No other team has a free throw differential above +250.

You're reading that right. The Lakers' surplus of free throws is twice as large as the next highest team, the Boston Celtics. Here's what that looks like in a pretty chart. You think that's crazy. That lead actually grows when we add last season to the mix.
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Then again, the article treated it like a competitive advantage that arose with no hint of shenanigans. 🙄 Or the fact that the Celtics won the East by a mile while the Lakers were in, what, 7th place or something?
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Gamblers are idiots, then. You just don't see disparities like this without some sort of memo from the home office to enforce compliance. Especially with a decidedly mediocre team like the Lakers this year. link

Then again, the article treated it like a competitive advantage that arose with no hint of shenanigans. 🙄 Or the fact that the Celtics won the East by a mile while the Lakers were in, what, 7th place or something?
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>Imagining free throws will carry your team to victory
Niggerball speculators never fail to amaze me.
 
Womble of Wimbledon said:
That sweet gambling revenue is really paying dividends. There's no way people are watching the shit they offer with regular season games if they don't have action on it.
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Sports betting apps constantly send you push notifications trying to get you to put a low-dollar prop bet on a random-ass game that is going on. They REALLY want you watching everything so you're more likely to bet. Plus some are owned by the networks anyway so they can double dip by getting more eyes in front of advertisers.

Before sports betting there was a reason the NFL pushed fantasy football so hard. They wanted people to have some sort of stake in nearly every game. Now the NBA can have that too with betting
 
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the Sixers got eliminated last night. Merchant Joel Embiid with 2 points in the 4th.
Bucks also got eliminated.
 
Raikiri said:
I pretty much only watch play-offs and I have no idea, what are you referring to here?
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https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/anthony-edwards-ig-model-abortion-texts/ (https://archive.is/tCsEk)

Basically he got some woman pregnant and then wanted her to get an abortion. "Send da video" was him trying to get her to send him a video of her taking Plan B. He was 21 when this happened (he's 22 currently) so he's certainly got time to mature.
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Edwards' statement:
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std::string said:
Sports betting apps constantly send you push notifications trying to get you to put a low-dollar prop bet on a random-ass game that is going on. They REALLY want you watching everything so you're more likely to bet. Plus some are owned by the networks anyway so they can double dip by getting more eyes in front of advertisers.

Before sports betting there was a reason the NFL pushed fantasy football so hard. They wanted people to have some sort of stake in nearly every game. Now the NBA can have that too with betting
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I'm convinced that all of these sports (mainly NFL, NBA and MLB) ratings would be in the toilet if not for gambling. The fantasy football stuff was dog whistling to the gamblers. I knew a couple of degen gamblers in the 90's and they would use FF info as "scouting" for their sports betting. The NFL, as I recall, were the first sport to really push that shit, and coincidentally those years (early 90s) was when the NFL really took off in popularity supplanting the MLB in terms of fan interest.
 
To be fair, the Timberwolves right now are a good team even outside of Edwards. KAT's an all star, Gobert's probably a DPOY, and their team defense is very well disciplined and rotates super smooth. Anthony Edwards doesn't have as much of an uphill carry job as Kevin Garnett did, since KG getting too good too fast screwed the Timberwolves out of high draft capital and his mega contract not only precipitated the lockout but made signing free agents hard. None of that's really KG's fault, and even as a 32 year old when he went to a different team he immediately won a championship.

That being said, what Ant's doing is already very impressive given his age, and will only get more and more so the further the Timberwolves manage to go. I personally believe that if they get by the Nuggets they've got a real shot at the championship, and while I wouldn't say that would make him the GOAT Timberwolf over KG quite yet, he's certainly on that pace provided he sticks around which is already really hard to do.
 
Lurkbot Prime said:
To be fair, the Timberwolves right now are a good team even outside of Edwards. KAT's an all star, Gobert's probably a DPOY, and their team defense is very well disciplined and rotates super smooth. Anthony Edwards doesn't have as much of an uphill carry job as Kevin Garnett did, since KG getting too good too fast screwed the Timberwolves out of high draft capital and his mega contract not only precipitated the lockout but made signing free agents hard. None of that's really KG's fault, and even as a 32 year old when he went to a different team he immediately won a championship.

That being said, what Ant's doing is already very impressive given his age, and will only get more and more so the further the Timberwolves manage to go. I personally believe that if they get by the Nuggets they've got a real shot at the championship, and while I wouldn't say that would make him the GOAT Timberwolf over KG quite yet, he's certainly on that pace provided he sticks around which is already really hard to do.
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It's Minnesota. You can never trust a Minnesota franchise to perform when it matters.
 
This shit is rigged as fucked as soon as Indiana got a 9 point lead, how inconsistent and consistently in favor of Knicks calls and non-calls were insufferable.

Lurkbot Prime said:
Anthony Edwards doesn't have as much of an uphill carry job as Kevin Garnett did, since KG getting too good too fast screwed the Timberwolves out of high draft capital and his mega contract not only precipitated the lockout but made signing free agents hard. None of that's really KG's fault, and even as a 32 year old when he went to a different team he immediately won a championship.
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That was mostly Joe Smith stuff.
 
Lurkbot Prime said:
To be fair, the Timberwolves right now are a good team even outside of Edwards. KAT's an all star, Gobert's probably a DPOY, and their team defense is very well disciplined and rotates super smooth. Anthony Edwards doesn't have as much of an uphill carry job as Kevin Garnett did, since KG getting too good too fast screwed the Timberwolves out of high draft capital and his mega contract not only precipitated the lockout but made signing free agents hard. None of that's really KG's fault, and even as a 32 year old when he went to a different team he immediately won a championship.
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There's also the fact that those early to mid 2000s Western Conference were dominated by the Spurs and Lakers.
 
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