Be interesting to see if Utah now tries to sign Otto Porter to fill in Hayward's spot.  I think Otto can devop into a very good player, but the Jazz will have to Max him to get him away from the Wizards and that's too much money to spend on Porter. The other option is to chase Rudy Gay, but unless they can get him relatively cheap and short contract, I think he'd be a mistake

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Be interesting to see if Utah now tries to sign Otto Porter to fill in Hayward's spot.  I think Otto can devop into a very good player, but the Jazz will have to Max him to get him away from the Wizards and that's too much money to spend on Porter. The other option is to chase Rudy Gay, but unless they can get him relatively cheap and short contract, I think he'd be a mistake

It seems, , to most of the so-called experts, that the Wizards will match any offer to Porter. We shall see.

Was hoping that Hayward would stay in Utah.

I agree. Utah was building nicely and Mitchell looks like a great pick up in the draft for them. I can understand why Hayward would leave though. The West is stacked and Boston should easily make the ECF and if they can make a few moves with the glut of SF's they now have and get a decent C so Horford can revert to PF, they could make Finals. I'm not a huge fan of Deandre Jordan, but I think he'd be a good get for them. Time for Ainge to cash in a few of his assets.

Well the Celtics are surely and steadily improving to compete in the East....thats has to be and will be in a few years a good thing.

Peace

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Well the Celtics are surely and steadily improving to compete in the East....thats has to be and will be in a few years a good thing.

Peace

Yeah I hate the C's but that's a great signing. They got the Butler connection up there.

Hoping to rekindle the Sixers/Celtics rivalry over the next few years...

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g under p said:

Well the Celtics are surely and steadily improving to compete in the East....thats has to be and will be in a few years a good thing.

Peace

Yeah I hate the C's but that's a great signing. They got the Butler connection up there.

Hoping to rekindle the Sixers/Celtics rivalry over the next few years...

No worries it's coming, I foresee a future of the classic teams returning to power and playing seriously for championship. Back in the day the few times the Celtics were out and the Sixers were in with Doc being one of my favorite players i unbelievably  rooted for the Sixers to go on and beat LA.

Peace

Here' who will probably be the #1 Pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.  HOPE Sac Kings get it>HAHA

Here is the write up and a good angle :
http://www.maxpreps.com/news/hgrh9WEzuUyzGAuxQAXoUw/video--watch-no-1-recruit-marvin-bagley-battle-nba-star-demar-derozan.htm


And here is another angle :
https://youtu.be/3UebzKLeH24

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Good idea or not???

Is it time for a different way to end basketball games?

Jun 29, 2017

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It seemed like a gimmick at first. Eliminate the clock at the end of a basketball game and you eliminate the best part of basketball: the buzzer-beater. Who would consider such a thing?

TBT, that's who. TBT isn't Throwback Thursday, but the fourth edition of the summer-long The Basketball Tournament. Prompted by a deep hoops thinker named Nick Elam, TBT ditched the game clock for the last four minutes of its Jamboree round (15 teams playing for the last four spots in the field of 64). The idea isn't to eliminate buzzer-beaters, but every other unsightly element of late-game basketball.

We all know the drill. Fouling, frequent stoppages, commercials, desperation shots, more fouling, endless substitutions, equally endless trips to the foul line, more fouling, timeouts in between foul shots, more commercials, more and more fouling. Did we mention the fouling?

Instead of finishing the contest with a traditional game clock, officials establish a target score and the team that reaches it first wins. Joe Lunardi/ESPN

Elam has studied the issue for over a decade, charting over 2,200 NBA and NCAA games. The data speaks for itself. Late-game fouling almost never works. The trailing team runs out of time the same way spectators run out of patience. But the teams foul anyway, because they have to, as it's the only strategy available.

On the playground, we'd never do this. "Play to 15, win by two" is common. Variations on predetermining the winning score are even more common. "Play by 2s, play by 1s or make-it-take-it" are other keep-the-game-moving strategies.

At the TBT Jamboree, the game clock was turned off after the under four-minute stoppage of the second half. A "winning score" was determined by adding seven points to the leading team's total. Play on until somebody wins.

Calling the games on ESPN3, I couldn't help but smile. With minor exceptions, the players intuitively kept playing as they had their whole lives. No stall ball, generally unrushed offense and -- best of all -- a far greater chance for the trailing team to mount a comeback.

Instead of stopping the clock, getting stops was the priority. In consecutive contests, despite a seven-point deficit when the untimed portion of the game -- dubbed the "Elam ending" -- began, the trailing team came back to tie or take the lead, winning once and losing another on a walk-off breakaway dunk.

There are no buzzer-beaters in the strictest sense of the term (as there are no buzzers to beat). The better analogy would be that every contest is the equivalent of an extra-inning baseball game won by the home team. The game always ends with a walk-off score of some kind, be it a basket or a free throw (regarding the latter, defensive teams learn quickly not to foul if they are a single possession away from defeat).

In several instances, when both teams were within a single possession of the target score, a version of sudden-death basketball was created. The intensity on both offense and defense belied the casual nature of summer basketball. It's not hard to imagine the overwhelming intensity participants and spectators would experience in an elimination setting (think overtime in Game 7 of an NHL playoff series).

Yes, buzzer-beaters would fade into YouTube memories. According to Elam's study, however, they occurred only 21 times in the 2,200-game sample (and only six of those were buzzer-beaters in which the lead changed). Are we willing to trade that for every game ending with the ball going through the basket? Isn't more genuine "basket ball" better than less?

It's worth a closer look. The designated hitter was a gimmick once, too.

Fascinating idea

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What ya think? Cheap or not?  I think it is. I don't know what the difference it is between where they went and a Club. Either way he spent $487.13 and was served, so he SHOULD be Tipping accordingly. 

Look: Andre Roberson called out by waiter for leaving bad tip

https://www.thescore.com/general/news/1330141

A waiter who served Andre Roberson on Wednesday night called out the Oklahoma City Thunder forward on Twitter for leaving a bad tip.

According to TMZ Sports, Roberson and 12 of his friends hit up Chupacabra Cantina in Austin, Texas, for drinks after he signed a new three-year, $30-million deal with the Thunder, racking up a $487.13 tab and leaving a $13.97 tip. Suffice to say, the waiter wasn't happy.

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Roberson responded to the tweet, claiming the waiter didn't deserve a tip because "there was no service."

Absolutely cheap.  Tip your friggin bartenders! They depend on it.

Not only that, he can't add.  $487.13 + 13.97 = $501.10

Apparently he didn't take any mathematics courses during his time at the University of Colorado.

With all this trade talk about the mess that is called the Knicks and Anthony this place is awfully quiet!

Jazz just signed Ekpe Udoh!