2023-24 NBA Thread

[MU82]

I feel fantastic.  Just ran 4 miles and am now steeping my 100% pure Peaberry Kona Coffee.

Peaberry Kona Coffee? That's INEXCUSABLE!

[Scoop Snoop]

Muggs, it must be exhausting being you.

Not really. Flip his gender for a moment and understanding Muggsy is as easy as it was for Jack Nickolson's character in As Good As It Gets when he was asked how he captured the character of women so well in his novels:

Receptionist: "How do you write women so well?"

Writer: "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability."

[MuggsyB]

Not really. Flip his gender for a moment and understanding Muggsy is as easy as it was for Jack Nickolson's character in As Good As It Gets when he was asked how he captured the character of women so well in his novels:

Receptionist: "How do you write women so well?"

Writer: "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability."

You're not quick witted SS.  Read some Oscar Wilde or something. 

[MuggsyB]

Peaberry Kona Coffee? That's INEXCUSABLE!

These are prime-time c-beans.  And I'll take the barrista challenge with anyone, whether it be with my French Press or Pour Over.

Although......Gale Boetticher would have been tough competition.   

[MU82]

These are prime-time c-beans.  And I'll take the barrista challenge with anyone, whether it be with my French Press or Pour Over.

Although......Gale Boetticher would have been tough competition.   

INEXCUSABLE!

[wadesworld]

Have been overseas for almost all of summer league. How have the Bucks hopeful contributors look?

From what I've heard, MarJon looks terrible, Livingston looks good, Andre looks like an okay glue guy, Smith doesn't impress, and AJ Johnson looks very good at times but not good at other times.

[Scoop Snoop]

You're not quick witted SS.  Read some Oscar Wilde or something.

Not attempting to be. Just a spot-on description of you. Rationality and accountability are absent in so many of your posts.

Oh, and regarding reading? If you tried that once in a while regarding history, perhaps you would not constantly be making a complete ass of yourself with your posts about world events of which you are laughably ignorant. Oscar Wilde's writings won't help.

[MuggsyB]

Not attempting to be. Just a spot-on description of you. Rationality and accountability are absent in so many of your posts.

Oh, and regarding reading? If you tried that once in a while regarding history, perhaps you would not constantly be making a complete ass of yourself with your posts about world events of which you are laughably ignorant. Oscar Wilde's writings won't help.

Lol.  You've ckeatly become unhinged  which is unfortunate. 

[Scoop Snoop]

Lol.  You've ckeatly become unhinged  which is unfortunate.

Like the orange man, your response is to accuse your opponents of being what you demonstrably are. You live in LaLa land and accuse your critics of living there.

Thank you for keeping this exchange going.

[MU82]

Barkley & Co might not be done yet.

Warner Bros. Discovery - which owns TNT - matched Amazon's bid for broadcast rights for a big chunk of NBA games.

Probably headed to the courts, but TNT clearly had a right-to-match clause in its contract.

[The Sultan]

Barkley & Co might not be done yet.

Warner Bros. Discovery - which owns TNT - matched Amazon's bid for broadcast rights for a big chunk of NBA games.

Probably headed to the courts, but TNT clearly had a right-to-match clause in its contract.

But the NBA is going to argue that the right to match wasn't just about the money but about the method of distribution and the number of households. A number of people are predicting that the NBA will eventually just pay off WBD.

[MU82]

But the NBA is going to argue that the right to match wasn't just about the money but about the method of distribution and the number of households. A number of people are predicting that the NBA will eventually just pay off WBD.

Thanks for adding that. Yes, the NBA still could end up on Amazon instead of TNT.

Here's The Athletic's quickie summary:

A big update in the NBA broadcast rights saga: The Athletic's Andrew Marchand reports that TNT, initially left out of the new rights deal, has filed to match the package given to Amazon, which represents the smallest tier of the agreement.

Two notable layers:

In the current deal, TNT has a contractual right to match any package agreed to in the new framework. Yet Andrew reports the league is expected to decline TNT's match and go ahead with Amazon as its new partner. Legally, it's unclear if the NBA can do so. A court fight will be messy, and extremely awkward if TNT wins.

TNT still has a lot going for it here, namely the giant popularity of "Inside the NBA." David Zaslav, CEO of TNT's parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, has talked about losing the NBA for months — but don't think TNT is bowing out quietly. Andrew mentioned a possible financial settlement or addendum to the rights deal before it's signed.

[The Sultan]

TNT could have avoided all of this nonsense had they just used the exclusive window like ESPN did.

[WhiteTrash]

TNT could have avoided all of this nonsense had they just used the exclusive window like ESPN did.

Maybe the same group that advised the Pac12 is advising TNT? 

[Uncle Rico]

Maybe the same group that advised the Pac12 is advising TNT? 

It isn't

[Jockey]

It isn't

It was Gutey - "let's just wait and see what happens".

[WhiteTrash]

It isn't

Should have used teal.

[Skatastrophy]

Should have used teal.

The mods disabled teal

[lawdog77]

Nice story on Junior Bridgeman
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40625836/how-nba-sixth-man-built-600m-empire

[MU82]

Charles Barkley will either remain with TNT Sports on his 10-year, $210 million contract or he will listen to offers from ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video as he reconsiders retirement, he told The Athletic on Friday.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5660857/2024/07/26/charles-barkley-tnt-contract-free-agent-espn-nbc-amazon/?

"My deal is 10 years, $210 million," Barkley said in a phone interview. "Turner has to come to me ASAP and they have to guarantee my whole thing or they can offer me a pay cut, which there is no chance of that happening and I'll be (a) free agent.

"My thing was, 'Wait, y'all f— up, I didn't f— up, why do I have to take a pay cut?"

Barkley is in the third year of his deal.

The NBA announced this week new deals worth a total of $77 billion over 11 years with incumbent ESPN and newcomers NBC and Amazon. In the process, the NBA rejected TNT Sports' matching rights. TNT Sports filed a suit against the league in hopes of taking over Amazon's deal, it announced Friday.

"I wouldn't want them to sue," Barkley said. "The NBA clearly wanted to break up with us. I don't want to be in a relationship where I have to sue somebody to be in it. That makes zero sense.

"If you have to sue somebody to stay in a relationship, do you think that is a healthy relationship?"

[Jockey]

Nice story on Junior Bridgeman
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40625836/how-nba-sixth-man-built-600m-empire

One of my all-time fave Bucks. Never quite as good as we all thought he would be, but still very good. His game would have been perfect for today's 3-and-D NBA.

[PGsHeroes32]

The White Sox might have to be contracted

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

The White Sox might have to be contracted

Tangentially related to basketball I guess

[Skatastrophy]

Sox have been traded for cash considerations

[MU82]

It's cute that Anthony Edwards believes that, aside from Michael Jordan, no NBA player had any skill until Kobe Bryant came along.

"I didn't watch it back in the day, so I can't speak on it. They say it was tougher back then than it is now, but I don't think anybody had skill back then. [Michael Jordan] was the only one that really had skill, you know what I mean? So, that's why when they saw Kobe [Bryant], they were like, 'Oh, my God.' But now everybody has skill."

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5723752/2024/08/26/anthony-edwards-magic-johnson-lakers-timberwolves-nba-kobe-bryant-lakers-the-bounce/?campaign=5888993&source=dailyemail&userId=3738391

It's even cuter that he started his ridiculous take by admitting he was ignorant on the subject.