Can we be proud of D. Wade?

[willie warrior]

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhWfDCkomXFplTS3d1

Don't know if this has been posted before but here's something for us to look out for in a few years!

Buzz better be in there already, although my guess is that Crean has already been sniffing the kid's jock.

[ChicosBailBonds]

A true warrior

http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/9412923/dwyane-wade-miami-heat-needed-knee-drained-play-game-7-finals

[Eldon]

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhWfDCkomXFplTS3d1

Don't know if this has been posted before but here's something for us to look out for in a few years!

If we can land little Wade and he's a guard like his dad, we should already have a solid team in 2021, assuming Otule returns for his 14th season

[MUSF]

If we can land little Wade and he's a guard like his dad, we should already have a solid team in 2021, assuming Otule returns for his 14th season

That would still have to be cleared by the NCAA, though probably a formality at this point.

[karavotsos]

Pretty much unwatchable for most of the last 10 years and the ratings prove it.  Glad to see the game might be coming back finally, because the last decade people were staying away (rightly so).  In the last 15 years, only three games make the top ten since 2011 and two of them were this year.  OUCH!

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013/06/spurs-heat-game-7-final-ratings/#chart

I agree -- I only enjoy watching the watchable highly-rated shows like Dancing With the Stars and American Idol.  Sometimes I will cover myself in a blanket, eat strawberry ice cream, listen to Taylor Swift and watch Twilight.  Its heaven.  I never would have watched Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul and David West in New Orleans, the Steven Jackson and Monte Ellis Warriors or the Steph Curry Warriors.  The Spurs - didn't even know they existed until the finals this year.  Nobody was watching them.  They were unwatchable.  Great, great point!!   

[Blackhat]

Never forget

[willie warrior]

I agree -- I only enjoy watching the watchable highly-rated shows like Dancing With the Stars and American Idol.  Sometimes I will cover myself in a blanket, eat strawberry ice cream, listen to Taylor Swift and watch Twilight.  Its heaven.  I never would have watched Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul and David West in New Orleans, the Steven Jackson and Monte Ellis Warriors or the Steph Curry Warriors.  The Spurs - didn't even know they existed until the finals this year.  Nobody was watching them.  They were unwatchable.  Great, great point!!   

Who is Taylor Swift and what is twilight?
Does Taylor Swift =Patsy Cline, and does Twilight= All in the Family?

[Pakuni]

Pretty much unwatchable for most of the last 10 years and the ratings prove it.  Glad to see the game might be coming back finally, because the last decade people were staying away (rightly so).  In the last 15 years, only three games make the top ten since 2011 and two of them were this year.  OUCH!

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013/06/spurs-heat-game-7-final-ratings/#chart

Television ratings are a reflection on the quality of play?
Worst. Correlation. Ever.
Linking television ratings to quality of play is silly.
How high (or low) ratings are is entirely dictated by the ability to capture the casual fan, i.e. the person who generally wouldn't know quality play if it bit him or her on the behind and probably doesn't care.
The people who do care and recognize quality play are the core audience of basketball fans, and those people know that NBA basketball is the absolute pinnacle of play.

There's nothing wrong with preferring the college game and its ... er, more traditional? .... style. But nobody with any basketball knowledge could possibly believe that NBA basketball isn't the best basketball in terms of quality of play.

[AZWarrior]

Never forget

Legend has it that a T-shirt once existed based on this image.  The shirt however had Father Marquette holding a basket ball under his right arm. 

If some enterprising soul would decide to (re)create such shirt, I would buy several.

[77ncaachamps]

Legend has it that a T-shirt once existed based on this image.  The shirt however had Father Marquette holding a basket ball under his right arm. 

If some enterprising soul would decide to (re)create such shirt, I would buy several.

Are you sure it was spinning on his left hand?

[ChicosBailBonds]

Television ratings are a reflection on the quality of play?
Worst. Correlation. Ever.
Linking television ratings to quality of play is silly.
How high (or low) ratings are is entirely dictated by the ability to capture the casual fan, i.e. the person who generally wouldn't know quality play if it bit him or her on the behind and probably doesn't care.
The people who do care and recognize quality play are the core audience of basketball fans, and those people know that NBA basketball is the absolute pinnacle of play.

There's nothing wrong with preferring the college game and its ... er, more traditional? .... style. But nobody with any basketball knowledge could possibly believe that NBA basketball isn't the best basketball in terms of quality of play.

Television ratings are a reflection of a lot of things, including the quality of the entertainment, the matchups, etc.  I said the NBA was mostly unwatchable in the 2000's....watchable meaning "watching" on TV, etc.

The ratings don't lie...glad to see they are coming back, because it was a brutal product for a number of years.

[MU82]

I guess I don't know how somebody who admittedly doesn't watch the NBA can be an expert on whether the NBA has been watchable or unwatchable.

[Sunbelt15]

I guess I don't know how somebody who admittedly doesn't watch the NBA can be an expert on whether the NBA has been watchable or unwatchable.

+1

[Lennys Tap]

I guess I don't know how somebody who admittedly doesn't watch the NBA can be an expert on whether the NBA has been watchable or unwatchable.

The ratings told Chicos that the NBA was unwatchable. My guess is they told him college basketball was even more unwatchable but he'll still take in an IU/Nebraska stem winder when it's available.
In general, though, he sticks with blue chip, highly rated quality like Dancing With The Stars and Two and a Half Men. True art, doncha know.