The Official NBA Season Thread: Kings Fire Mike Brown

[IATT]

Thing is the KD Warriors were a joy to watch. Besides Draymonds antics it was awesome basketball. And Cleveland beat em in the finals once.

Joy isn’t the word I would use.. when I think of the early 2000s kings teams or the nash suns or even that 93 Barkley suns finals team or like the kemp/peyton sonics teams I think “joy”.. or even the pre KD warriors team I’d use joy

I can’t think of the right word, but the best example I got for a comparison of that warriors team with KD is Simone biles.. and I appreciate what she does and think she is deserving of every accolade but outside of the Olympics, I’m not watching more gymnastics

 

[N41D]

The hell is Naji getting hit harder than Nurkic when he started the whole damn thing and swung first? NBA laughable.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Surprised Social Justice Star Silver would suspend a black man for more games than the Euro. He must be busy.

 

[IATT]

DRAYMOND WAS RIGHT

A multiple time nut puncher will never be right

 

[antidope]

Which state is this? Let me know so I can never go there

 

[HOU$TON]

I’m glad the rockets are exercising patience. At the same time It’s still frustrating leaving wins and opportunity on the table. Okc the only clear cut contender in the west right now.

 

[moe200069]

You had legit stars spread amongst several teams and you would have had legit battles

My point is all that basically got erased in a single offseason.. and it’s very easy to ask what if.. and also to get interest back after having lost it

Hell it took shaq/kobe along with other high level entertaining teams to bring things back after jordan retired

But just think of how entertaining things would have been if KD just stayed with the thunder or went to anywhere else but the warriors, cavs or rockets at that point.. dude could have gone to Boston

warriors becoming a superteam with durant made the league seemingly unfair, but had little to do with folks tuning out the product. It was a foregone conclusion that the heat (or any team with lebron) would come out of the east with bron, bosh and wade, and we still watched.

This is a forbes article in 2019 about the warriors losing KD and the nba’s ratings issue then

It’s an unpopular truth amongst hardcore fans and parts of the media, but parity has never driven ratings. Casual fans want to see dominant teams. They want to see a sport played at the highest level. They want to experience greatness.

I could be off but maybe a part of the ratings issue is that some of the league’s biggest stars are on small market teams that they barely show on national tv: okc, memphis and Milwaukee are at the top of their conferences and have players that are always creating espn highlights but didn’t play on Christmas?

 

[pmatic]

Which state is this? Let me know so I can never go there

For sure somewhere in Texas. Next step by teams/league is getting rid of the blackout rule.

 

[ALNotSure]

Joy isn’t the word I would use.. when I think of the early 2000s kings teams or the nash suns or even that 93 Barkley suns finals team or like the kemp/peyton sonics teams I think “joy”.. or even the pre KD warriors team I’d use joy

I can’t think of the right word, but the best example I got for a comparison of that warriors team with KD is Simone biles.. and I appreciate what she does and think she is deserving of every accolade but outside of the Olympics, I’m not watching more gymnastics

They had great ball movement, the shots were great and they played great defense as well. The bench was fly too. I see them right there with the other teams you mentioned.

My 2 cents.

 

[IATT]

warriors becoming a superteam with durant made the league seemingly unfair, but had little to do with folks tuning out the product. It was a foregone conclusion that the heat (or any team with lebron) would come out of the east with bron, bosh and wade, and we still watched.

This is a forbes article in 2019 about the warriors losing KD and the nba’s ratings issue then



I could be off but maybe a part of the ratings issue is that some of the league’s biggest stars are on small market teams that they barely show on national tv: okc, memphis and Milwaukee are at the top of their conferences and have players that are always creating espn highlights but didn’t play on Christmas?

ESPN, like cnn have their own problems.. and they do the same thing with football and forcing any cowboys subject or hell is pretty predictable how a particular issue will be covered depending on the team(s)/player(s) involved

But my main thing with KD going to the warriors, if KD hadn’t gone you would have had pretty much all your bases covered from stars and narratives except for the lakers and Boston aspects

But can’t compare bron going to the heat because that wasn’t a seamless fit on top of heat having to gut the roster.. and heat actually faced adversity between taking time to gel and obviously having legit competition in the finals, even when winning

The KD warriors only became interesting because of injuries and that 1 rockets series

 

[dmbrhs]

Which state is this? Let me know so I can never go there

Clearly Texas.

I'm guessing all three games are available on a TV somewhere in the area, which is the general rule regarding blackouts. Blazers games used to be blacked out in Seattle all the time because CSN Oregon is available here.

 

[antidope]

IDK how I didnt realize that . I run into the same issue being in Jersey with the Knicks, Nets, and Sixers

 

[B Sox]

I bet it’s Austin, TX.

 

[pmatic]

Windy has said on his podcast he lives in Omaha and can't get T'Wolves, Nuggets and I think even Thunder games.

 

[antidope]

Suprised he has internet in Nebraska.

 

[freeze]

Imagine randomly playing chess at the park with Wemby first thing in the morning

 

[addict4sneakers]

My brother back in Nebraska can’t get t wolves, nuggets, bulls or thunder games.

 

[lawdog1]

Which state is this? Let me know so I can never go there

Yikes. And I was going to complain about not being able to watch the Clippers-Warriors game last night in Santa Clara because of local blackout rules. Guess I didn’t have it so bad compared to others.

 

[moe200069]

ESPN, like cnn have their own problems.. and they do the same thing with football and forcing any cowboys subject or hell is pretty predictable how a particular issue will be covered depending on the team(s)/player(s) involved

But my main thing with KD going to the warriors, if KD hadn’t gone you would have had pretty much all your bases covered from stars and narratives except for the lakers and Boston aspects

But can’t compare bron going to the heat because that wasn’t a seamless fit on top of heat having to gut the roster.. and heat actually faced adversity between taking time to gel and obviously having legit competition in the finals, even when winning

The KD warriors only became interesting because of injuries and that 1 rockets series

even though the West was a foregone conclusion, folks still watched basketball during KD's years with GSW

didn't need lakers or boston to be good during that time because warriors vs cleveland was carrying the league. say KD stayed in OKC and it was OKC vs Cleveland in the finals, was OKC a big enough market to draw in casual fans to watch?

 

[king j]

My brother back in Nebraska can’t get t wolves, nuggets, bulls or thunder games.

 

[freeze]

Y'all gonna be big mad when warriors finish with 67 wins.

Season starts tonight.

 

[freeze]

Bad ruling

Why?

 

[freeze]

Joy isn’t the word I would use.. when I think of the early 2000s kings teams or the nash suns or even that 93 Barkley suns finals team or like the kemp/peyton sonics teams I think “joy”.. or even the pre KD warriors team I’d use joy

I can’t think of the right word, but the best example I got for a comparison of that warriors team with KD is Simone biles.. and I appreciate what she does and think she is deserving of every accolade but outside of the Olympics, I’m not watching more gymnastics

I don't understand these comparisons at all lmao. Like not a single letter chosen. Both paragraphs.

 

[IATT]

even though the West was a foregone conclusion, folks still watched basketball during KD's years with GSW

didn't need lakers or boston to be good during that time because warriors vs cleveland was carrying the league. say KD stayed in OKC and it was OKC vs Cleveland in the finals, was OKC a big enough market to draw in casual fans to watch?

That’s why I say inception point.. KD could have stayed in OKC and western conference playoffs are stacked with multiple contenders, he goes to say Boston in the East the eastern playoffs are better.. and warriors aren’t overwhelming favorite but you have the stars spread out you have big market and small market teams

You had this high of the 73 win warriors team having to come back in the playoffs and then fall just short in the last seconds of the finals.. multiple all time guys in their primes and in different locations

I’d not really related but sort of league needs to go back to best of 5 for first round series

 

[finessence]

If anything, PJs push de-escalated the fight