It's over, bro. The season is toast, or at least the first 30ish games. This lockout is quickly resembling the one at the end of the 90's. No new talk until August (at least ones involving upper echelon exec's.) To make it worse, there's increasing talk of players bolting to other parts of the world. (Kobe to Turkey, Durant to Europe, Howard to China)
This is turning out to be a fantastic time to start a blog, hah. How does @Dailythunder do it.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
4 great ways to solve the...oh fuck it. I don't give a shit, just figure it out.
Hey! Where's your 'ways to fix the lockout' post? Gimme a bunch of numbers and contract clauses and blablabla about revenue sharing and hard cap!!!
No offense...but the only thing I'm hard capped for is the end of the god damn lockout. I could give a shit about how they fix it, because from my point of view, both sides are just greedy. Are the players more important, or are the owners more important? List a thousand reasons for each, and i promise you they are all relative. Relative as in, you can see each issue either way. The players are way more likable cause we don't see Clay Bennett working a Killer crossover on Jerry Buss then dishing behind the back to Mark Cuban who, in turn, throws it down for an and one over James Dolan.
Everything about the lockout is horrible. A feeling of a lost season is already starting to settle in. The players are on one side, in a trench covered in barbwire and surrounded by landmines and machine guns and Rick Ross music (term used loosely) while the owners are on the other side in a huge fortified tower covered by armed guards, behind a moat filled with class disparity. All the beautiful (and not so beautiful) pre-season NBA coverage has been replaced by sportscasters forced to wonder aloud about solutions to the dumbest self-made crisis since....the NFL lockout...or...the last NBA lockout. Sportscasters are much better suited for screaming 'WHAT!' and 'MONEY!' at dunks then they are to talk about market shares, player salaries and perceived owner financial loss. I didn't care about it at first, then i was mad, now I'm just depressed. Probably because i thought it wouldn't happen for real.
What's the solution? What fan really cares, i just want it over with. Maybe that's simplistic, and i come across as an idiot who can't understand the finer points of dollars and cents. If that's the case, please, fire up a huge text-block of an argument on why i should i care more. Please be sure to include a lot of numbers, and considerable math equations (please show your work...no calculators) as well as pie charts, bar graphs and power point presentations. I'll be glad to read it all whenever one single fan thinks the NBA lockout is worthwhile in any respect and not just born of greed and a complete uncaring nature towards the real cash pipeline, the fan.
No offense...but the only thing I'm hard capped for is the end of the god damn lockout. I could give a shit about how they fix it, because from my point of view, both sides are just greedy. Are the players more important, or are the owners more important? List a thousand reasons for each, and i promise you they are all relative. Relative as in, you can see each issue either way. The players are way more likable cause we don't see Clay Bennett working a Killer crossover on Jerry Buss then dishing behind the back to Mark Cuban who, in turn, throws it down for an and one over James Dolan.
Everything about the lockout is horrible. A feeling of a lost season is already starting to settle in. The players are on one side, in a trench covered in barbwire and surrounded by landmines and machine guns and Rick Ross music (term used loosely) while the owners are on the other side in a huge fortified tower covered by armed guards, behind a moat filled with class disparity. All the beautiful (and not so beautiful) pre-season NBA coverage has been replaced by sportscasters forced to wonder aloud about solutions to the dumbest self-made crisis since....the NFL lockout...or...the last NBA lockout. Sportscasters are much better suited for screaming 'WHAT!' and 'MONEY!' at dunks then they are to talk about market shares, player salaries and perceived owner financial loss. I didn't care about it at first, then i was mad, now I'm just depressed. Probably because i thought it wouldn't happen for real.
What's the solution? What fan really cares, i just want it over with. Maybe that's simplistic, and i come across as an idiot who can't understand the finer points of dollars and cents. If that's the case, please, fire up a huge text-block of an argument on why i should i care more. Please be sure to include a lot of numbers, and considerable math equations (please show your work...no calculators) as well as pie charts, bar graphs and power point presentations. I'll be glad to read it all whenever one single fan thinks the NBA lockout is worthwhile in any respect and not just born of greed and a complete uncaring nature towards the real cash pipeline, the fan.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
It's 10 pm...do you know where your Thunder are?
As if another reminder that the NBA is headed straight into a destruction hurricane via a greed tornado and an ego flood was needed...
Twitter has done a great job of helping destroy society along with facebook and youtube. As a matter of fact, without twitter, i wouldn't rightly know where all of our beloved Thunder players are at any given time, since getting together and practicing in their gym is about as legal as Shaq wearing his Lakers jersey in an icy hot commercial. So here: 10 things I've learned from twitter...
1) Kevin Durant is awesome....but he listens to Rick Ross.
2) James Harden has scored 51 and 52 points in consecutive games in an amateur league in L.A., breaking their records. While that's fantastic, there's a good chance he's also going to break his hand.
3) Nate Robinson not only urinated on some building in New York, but he routinely flies between Seattle and New York for no real reason.
4) Nate Robinson has several children, but no matter how many he has, they will never want for cereal, as his pantry is literally stocked with hundreds of different types.
5) Serge Ibaka speaks 4 languages, and usually lets you know about it...in 4 different languages.
6) Daequan Cook is hard for OKC. Why wouldn't he be, right? Before the Thunder made him an offer, every tweet was either him giving OKC more credit than is really necessary or re tweeting someone else's tweet which mentioned how much they (and OKC) love him, with a bashful 'cool bruh, 'preciate that'
7) Nick Collison exists on twitter only during the off season. I assume this is because during the regular season he is in a lab studying thermodynamics and gravity in order to defend people that, by sight and on paper, he has no business defending.
8) KD is in China. What's he doing there? I don't know, but i swear he was going to play in a Chinese amateur league game. I could not possibly imagine who the Chinese YMCA has that can guard Durant. Also, Durant was stuck in a Typhoon on a bus of some kind with 15 other people! $$$
9) Byron Mullens and Cole Aldrich just play Call of Duty and workout with people that used to play for KU and Ohio St. all day.
10) The rest unmentioned, are mostly casual, boring tweeters. (Perk isn't even on twitter)
Twitter has done a great job of helping destroy society along with facebook and youtube. As a matter of fact, without twitter, i wouldn't rightly know where all of our beloved Thunder players are at any given time, since getting together and practicing in their gym is about as legal as Shaq wearing his Lakers jersey in an icy hot commercial. So here: 10 things I've learned from twitter...
1) Kevin Durant is awesome....but he listens to Rick Ross.
2) James Harden has scored 51 and 52 points in consecutive games in an amateur league in L.A., breaking their records. While that's fantastic, there's a good chance he's also going to break his hand.
3) Nate Robinson not only urinated on some building in New York, but he routinely flies between Seattle and New York for no real reason.
4) Nate Robinson has several children, but no matter how many he has, they will never want for cereal, as his pantry is literally stocked with hundreds of different types.
5) Serge Ibaka speaks 4 languages, and usually lets you know about it...in 4 different languages.
6) Daequan Cook is hard for OKC. Why wouldn't he be, right? Before the Thunder made him an offer, every tweet was either him giving OKC more credit than is really necessary or re tweeting someone else's tweet which mentioned how much they (and OKC) love him, with a bashful 'cool bruh, 'preciate that'
7) Nick Collison exists on twitter only during the off season. I assume this is because during the regular season he is in a lab studying thermodynamics and gravity in order to defend people that, by sight and on paper, he has no business defending.
8) KD is in China. What's he doing there? I don't know, but i swear he was going to play in a Chinese amateur league game. I could not possibly imagine who the Chinese YMCA has that can guard Durant. Also, Durant was stuck in a Typhoon on a bus of some kind with 15 other people! $$$
9) Byron Mullens and Cole Aldrich just play Call of Duty and workout with people that used to play for KU and Ohio St. all day.
10) The rest unmentioned, are mostly casual, boring tweeters. (Perk isn't even on twitter)
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