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Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2014 2:34 pm**

“Since there is a shorter clock, it affects playing time, so it’ll be interesting to see how it plays into substitution patterns.”

Fuck only knows since 50% of all NBA TV time seems to be the last 60 seconds.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:41 pm**

Leisher wrote:What's the point?

That could be asked of the entire NBA.

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:14 pm**

LEBRON!

Posted: **Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:30 pm**

Cleveland is the center of the sports universe today.

Celebs confirmed to be in town today: Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Leo Dicaprio, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Michael Strahan, and everybody's alltime favorite the Biebs!!!

Yes! Beibs is in town for Johnny and to watch Lebron! hahahaah

http://www.cleveland.com/enterta....sp.html

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Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:23 pm**

Gay calls it a day.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:08 pm**

Stranger wrote:Cleveland is the center of the sports universe today.

Celebs confirmed to be in town today: Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Leo Dicaprio, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Michael Strahan, and everybody's alltime favorite the Biebs!!!

Yes! Beibs is in town for Johnny and to watch Lebron! hahahaah

http://www.cleveland.com/enterta....sp.html

If a meteor hit Cleveland today, one could argue that our nation would improve.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:19 pm**

I'll cut JT some slack. At least he can play all the instruments he tours with. And he can write his own songs.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:25 pm**

Collateral damage.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:35 pm**

Leisher wrote:Collateral damage.

Yeah, I'd say that. Probably give him a statue or something after it. Screw everyone else.

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Posted: **Tue Dec 02, 2014 1:13 pm**

Great play even though he traveled and threw an elbow at the end.

Posted: **Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:57 pm**

Magic on the Lakers.

Posted: **Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:11 pm**

In one of Bill Simmons' recent columns a reader emailed him a genius idea to keep teams from tanking:

From Simmons' Week 13 column.

Saying the NFL cares about player safety is like saying the 2014-15 Sixers care about their fans. That reminds me — two readers took last week’s “Should the Sixers be relegated?” conversation even further:

Q: What about combining NBA relegation with wrestling’s “loser leaves town” concept? 30 spots every season for 31 franchises. Worst team “leaves town” (or in the case, disappears for a year), to be replaced by Seattle’s expansion team. The next season, 2015’s worst team returns and takes the spot of 2016’s worst team. (Obviously, this works for other sports- hello, L.A. Raiders!) Can you imagine the difference in the environment at the end of the year- when, instead of playing in dead arenas, teams would play in front of a bunch of frenzied fans worried about losing their franchise?
—John, Santiago, Chile

Q: Create a 31st “expansion” team (Seattle anyone?) that serves as the first franchise to sit out Year One. The worst team from Year One’s season then sits out Year Two — they can’t sell tickets, but break even through revenue sharing. I’m still working on what the sitting-out players would do for the year.
—Younger, Houston

BS: Yeah, that’s a problem. You can’t force 15 NBA players to sit out a season. But we actually have this rule in my West Coast fantasy football league — 11 franchises, 10 spots, the previous year’s winner gets to “vote out” one team before every draft. It’s always exciting, but it peaked in 2012 when our crazy friend Brad nearly snapped after getting voted out. Here, look:

There's a video here, but if you want to see it, go to the column itself. Linked above.

I don’t know how you capture that magic for a professional sports league, but here’s one possible way: We make Seattle a franchise-in-waiting. If any other franchise loses 70 games AND gets outscored by 15 points per game, Seattle immediately assumes control of that team. Like, for good. That roster become the Seattle SuperSonics for the following season; meanwhile, Philly becomes the franchise-in-waiting and can’t get another team until someone loses 70 games AND gets outscored by 15 points per game.

Ask yourself this: If this rule were in place … would any NBA franchise even think about tanking a season as egregiously as the Sixers are throwing away the 2014-15 season? No way. Not a chance.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:47 am**

I am not a huge NBA fan as you all know. That being said, I've been following the Cavs this year due to the Lebron thing and at the behest of my brother-in-law.

I think the owner needs to have a meeting with Irving, James, and Love and ask them what they need to win. He needs to tell them to be as honest as possible with him and each other. If they're not the right fit, he could make a big trade and get them where they want to be and bring in other pieces.

End of the day, they need to fire their coach. Not that it's his fault for what's happening, but I think he's lost the team. They need a coach with a bigger personality to handle this group. That's the secret to how the Heat won with their "big three". No not Spolstra, but they had Riley backing him. Those three listened to Riley.

The Cavs need a Riley or a Phil Jackson to get that team united and playing on the same page. Someone to control the egos and get them playing as a team, and not individuals.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:55 am**

Blatt will be fired, that's a no brainer its just a matter of time now. They hired him before Lebron came back because he was the only coach who would take the job. Had Lebron came back first the Cavs would have had a much higher profile coach in there.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:58 am**

Phil would be such a no brainer for that job. It's too bad he took the Knicks GM job or I think he would have happily coached the Cavs.

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:20 am**

Timberwolves are classless.

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:57 pm**

Is this sexist? I say no.

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:34 pm**

Hell no. he didn't say "women should ref women's games" or "no women can ref the NBA" or anything like that. He simply used the gender appropriate pronoun for referring to the woman.

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:11 pm**

The people who are making it sexist are the ones calling it sexist.

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:25 pm**

LeBron gets Scottie's record.