“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.
“Since there is a shorter clock, it affects playing time, so it’ll be interesting to see how it plays into substitution patterns.”
If a meteor hit Cleveland today, one could argue that our nation would improve.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
Leisher wrote:Collateral damage.
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.