NBA 2015-2016 Season Thread

[Quom]

With the monumental news that Anthony Bennett has cleared waivers and signed with Toronto, as well as me re-upping my sub to league pass and Maxx starting a fantasy league, I figure it's probably about time to kick off a new season thread.

 

[Maxx]

Fuck DeAndre Jordan

[LL!]

Go Heat!

[gunnar hendershow]

Holding pattern season until the Wizards can go all-in on trying to lure Durant home.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Gooo Thunder! 5 uniforms now! And DURANT WILL STAY!

[thatshortguy]

Hawks almost had J-Rich, but alas.  Had his body held up, he could have been a damn fine depth guy.  Better he walks away with his health, though.

Mike Scott was arrested for drug possession.  Knowing how it's gone for other athletes, I doubt he will be affected terribly.  Still wish we would go get some more backcourt help.

[VerbalPuke]

Nothing to report for the Pistons currently. Hoping they can finally make that push into the playoffs with a team revamped in SVG's image.

[JasonM]

Fuck DeAndre Jordan

[DYSI]

 

Deron Williams-free in Brooklyn! Now time for us to be bottom feeders and watch whoever the hell has our first round pick reap the benefit. >_>

[Quom]

Tristan Thompson wants more than $17.5M a year. I understand the leverage he has over the Cavs (they're over the cap so a replacement would be an exception or minimum player, friends with and has the same agent with LeBron), but how the fuck could you consider giving him that? 

[gunnar hendershow]

Because salaries are about to explode, Thompson won't be getting paid that much comparatively in a couple of years.

[Quom]

He's a 10 & 9 and isn't a starter, no matter how much salaries jump there is no way an average role-player will be getting $17.5M. It isn't even like he's had some monster 30-10 game or something that you can point to as him being able to bust out and do something amazing. Shit is crazy.

[JasonM]

Oh yeah, Tristan is just idiotic trying to force himself to such a deal. He's playing behind one of the best PF's in the game when healthy in Kevin Love, and then he demands 17.5M as a player with limited usage. He's just crazy and LeBron is also an asshole for practically telling him to do such a thing rather than talk sense into the kid.

I get why Tristan would ask for it, since it might be his only major payday of his career even if the cap goes up, and it's obvious he's a limited player who won't have all-star upside.

But still, dude needs some sense because there's no other team that will pay that much for a player like him, not even the Kings would go there...

[Your Mom]

What the fuck is this? D-Rose got elbowed in the face and is having orbital surgery. Is he made of glass???

[thatshortguy]

What the fuck is this? D-Rose got elbowed in the face and is having orbital surgery. Is he made of glass???

Yes.

You knew this.

[Rafael]

I'm pissed off at basically everything the Hornets did. Maybe we get a 7th seed but no upside for the next few years thanks to Mr. Michael Jordan not understanding the meaning of ''long term''. At least Kaminsky looks decent.

[Benjamin]

Man, I want Matt Barnes to get punished so badly, but I know nothing will come out of it.

[Quom]

If he did spit on his ex-wife that's fucking disgusting and deserves punishment.

But I wouldn't date someone I knows ex without running it by them first. He overreacted but a lot of people do in that situation. Hell a lot of people overreact if they don't already know their ex-wife/husbands new partner.

And I'll qualify it by saying I think Matt Barnes is a horrible person. But the whole thing is ick and making it public is even icker. 

[Twist]

So I've recently been really getting into basketball having only kind of paid attention before now. Which means I don't have a team.

So I'm going to have a tournament for my support! And probably a few of my pennies!

I don't want to just choose a team so I'm going to watch all 30 teams and essentially 'advance' a team to the next round based on who I end up rooting for (regardless of result). For example, I have watched the first of these games already and the 76'ers have been eliminated with the Knicks progressing to the next round! I realise Philly were missing most of their big names from this game but I want to get this going early so I'm including pre-season so I can have a team as soon as possible. So, hooray (?)! I'm pretty sure outside of @Plubby there are no Knicks fans around here though?

Anyway, I figure this is a pretty good way of finding out who I naturally root for and end up with a team I genuinely like. And knowing my history of stereotypical British love affairs with previous underdogs I suspect I won't be celebrating a championship any time soon in this sport either.

So yeah,

Round One

76'ers @ Knicks

Timberwolves @ Raptors

Spurs @ Heat

Pelicans @ Bulls

Trailblazers @ Jazz

Bucks @ Cavs

Nuggets @ Warriors

Kings @ Lakers

Rockets @ Suns

Edited October 14, 2015 by Pepsi Twhor

[Plubby]

There's a couple other Knicks fans here...was it @Meacon? And at least one other.