NBA 15-16 season

[dawson1989]

Watching Rockets v Spurs and at the end of the 1st the Spurs intentionally fouled the inbounder (Capela). Like literally ran over, stepped out of bounds next to him, and grabbed his arms. How is this not an intentional foul? Ball is not in play.

I've literally never seen this before, nor knew that it was a rule that the inbounded could get FTs

 

They said it's a technical for delay of game if they knock the ball out. Players should just drop it when touched.

[CubColtPacer]

Watching Rockets v Spurs and at the end of the 1st the Spurs intentionally fouled the inbounder (Capela). Like literally ran over, stepped out of bounds next to him, and grabbed his arms. How is this not an intentional foul? Ball is not in play.

 

There's not really anything in the NBA rulebook about intentional fouls. The rule on flagrants cites "unnecessary", but the NBA has never interpreted this type of foul to be part of it.

 

Teams do this type of foul all the time with the hack a strategy. They often tell the ref they are going to foul the guy and then wrap him up in the backcourt. This is certainly an innovative way to do it though that I've never seen before.

[dawson1989]

Watching Rockets v Spurs and at the end of the 1st the Spurs intentionally fouled the inbounder (Capela). Like literally ran over, stepped out of bounds next to him, and grabbed his arms. How is this not an intentional foul? Ball is not in play.

 

There's not really anything in the NBA rulebook about intentional fouls. The rule on flagrants cites "unnecessary", but the NBA has never interpreted this type of foul to be part of it.

 

Teams do this type of foul all the time with the hack a strategy. They often tell the ref they are going to foul the guy and then wrap him up in the backcourt. This is certainly an innovative way to do it though that I've never seen before.

 

Well duh they do it in the back court. In this case it is a dead ball because the clock isn't running. That's what makes it different. They are fouling when the ball isn't even in play. Why allow this when a defender isn't even allowed to be out of bounds in that area legally anyways. If this is allowed then why wouldn't a foul on any player on the court before the ball is even in bounded?

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[wolf stansson]

Thibs was on Bill Simmons' podcast. Can't listen. Miss that guy.

[soccer10k]

Want to have a few minutes of fun? Go and look up some random players on Basketball-Reference and see how much money they made in their careers. The best one's are the guys who played 8-12 years, were never good enough to start consistently but good enough to be the 6th-8th men and played in the 90's/2000's. The results will usually amaze you.

 

Tyronn Lue: 21.3M.

Chris Mihm: 25.4M.

Devean George: 28.6M

Kwame Brown: 64M!!!!

 

This started because I was curious how much Lue made in his career and I then started looking up random Lakers. I was at the Bucks-Kings game tonight with my wife and a few coworkers and I looked up the good Bucks team that lost in the ECF in 2000-01. Jason Caffey was on that team and I randomly picked him. He averaged 7.3 ppg and 4.4 rpg for his career over 8 season and yet made 34M.

[dawson1989]

Want to have a few minutes of fun? Go and look up some random players on Basketball-Reference and see how much money they made in their careers. The best one's are the guys who played 8-12 years, were never good enough to start consistently but good enough to be the 6th-8th men and played in the 90's/2000's. The results will usually amaze you.

 

Tyronn Lue: 21.3M.

Chris Mihm: 25.4M.

Devean George: 28.6M

Kwame Brown: 64M!!!!

 

This started because I was curious how much Lue made in his career and I then started looking up random Lakers. I was at the Bucks-Kings game tonight with my wife and a few coworkers and I looked up the good Bucks team that lost in the ECF in 2000-01. Jason Caffey was on that team and I randomly picked him. He averaged 7.3 ppg and 4.4 rpg for his career over 8 season and yet made 34M.

 

Kwame isn't that ridiculous when you really look at it. Came in as a No.1 pick and thus was making a good amount right away. He then lasted 12 years. $5.3 million per year is about what Kwame was worth.

[sneakypower]

Want to have a few minutes of fun? Go and look up some random players on Basketball-Reference and see how much money they made in their careers. The best one's are the guys who played 8-12 years, were never good enough to start consistently but good enough to be the 6th-8th men and played in the 90's/2000's. The results will usually amaze you.

 

Tyronn Lue: 21.3M.

Chris Mihm: 25.4M.

Devean George: 28.6M

Kwame Brown: 64M!!!!

 

This started because I was curious how much Lue made in his career and I then started looking up random Lakers. I was at the Bucks-Kings game tonight with my wife and a few coworkers and I looked up the good Bucks team that lost in the ECF in 2000-01. Jason Caffey was on that team and I randomly picked him. He averaged 7.3 ppg and 4.4 rpg for his career over 8 season and yet made 34M.

immediately coming to mind is Zeljko Rebraca, a guy who never averaged 7 PPG or 4 REB, yet still surpassed twenty million actual real US dollars earned in his career...over $10,000 per minute played

[wolf stansson]

They would score 150 a game and the starters would play 25 minutes a game.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--warriors-serious-threat-to-sign-kevin-durant-182559375.html

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Phil most likely wont stop bothering Luke Walton at this point.

[dawson1989]

 

At first I took this as a threesome joke but then I realized it was meant to mean something else entirely. Something much more sinister.

[SpongeWorthy]

gordon got robbed but that was a horsefeathering awesome dunk contest

[imb]

gordon got robbed but that was a [expletive] awesome dunk contest

 

he would have had a 90 on the over the mascot under the ass dunk if they would have let the judges. that was a top 3 contest dunk

[dawson1989]

Boring deadline. Seems most teams didn't see the point of mortgaging the future for a star on an expiring deal considering they can't compete with Warriors or even Spurs.

[Derwood]

Boring deadline. Seems most teams didn't see the point of mortgaging the future for a star on an expiring deal considering they can't compete with Warriors or even Spurs.

 

Expiring contracts are bad right now. With the cap going up next year, those players will be really expensive to re-sign

[dawson1989]

Boring deadline. Seems most teams didn't see the point of mortgaging the future for a star on an expiring deal considering they can't compete with Warriors or even Spurs.

 

Expiring contracts are bad right now. With the cap going up next year, those players will be really expensive to re-sign

 

Certainly doesn't help but didn't stop a big deadline last year.

[Derwood]

Boring deadline. Seems most teams didn't see the point of mortgaging the future for a star on an expiring deal considering they can't compete with Warriors or even Spurs.

 

Expiring contracts are bad right now. With the cap going up next year, those players will be really expensive to re-sign

 

Certainly doesn't help but didn't stop a big deadline last year.

 

Last year was different. Next year the cap jumps $20 million. It jumps another $20 million the next (I believe). Players with multi-year contracts are now very valuable, as those players are cost controlled heading into an era of huge salary jumps

[soccer10k]

Steph's record for 3-pointers in a season is 286. After hitting 10 more tonight, he's got 276 on the season. The Warriors have played only 57 games this year. So he's about to break the record with more than 1/4 of the season left.

 

He's on pace for 401 3-pointers this year. To put that in perspective, the equivalent in baseball would have been for McGwire to hit 86 home runs in 1998, or for Bonds to hit 98 in 2001.

[dawson1989]

Steph's record for 3-pointers in a season is 286. After hitting 10 more tonight, he's got 276 on the season. The Warriors have played only 57 games this year. So he's about to break the record with more than 1/4 of the season left.

 

He's on pace for 401 3-pointers this year. To put that in perspective, the equivalent in baseball would have been for McGwire to hit 86 home runs in 1998, or for Bonds to hit 98 in 2001.

 

He's ridiculous but it's more like the doubles record. If you set it, you're a great player but it's not the holy grail of your sports records like HRs are for baseball.

 

What I find crazy, last year he beat 2nd place by less than 50 3-pters. Right now he leads by 113 and it's likely to grow to around 150 by season end. That's a number that would have nearly led the league as recently as 2011-12. A margin of victory so large it could have led the league just 5 years ago.

[Derwood]

Steph's record for 3-pointers in a season is 286. After hitting 10 more tonight, he's got 276 on the season. The Warriors have played only 57 games this year. So he's about to break the record with more than 1/4 of the season left.

 

He's on pace for 401 3-pointers this year. To put that in perspective, the equivalent in baseball would have been for McGwire to hit 86 home runs in 1998, or for Bonds to hit 98 in 2001.

 

And how many fourth quarters has he sat out? Ridiculous

[SpongeWorthy]

What can you say about this guy JFC walks into a 35 footer for the game winner

[Gilby]

hahahaha, what in the world

[17 Seconds]

I don't believe it

[CubInOK]

I knew that was going in as soon as Curry shot it.