Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 52. (Read 901976 times)

Kyle Korver is a tough name to live up to when it comes to being a shooter in the NBA.  I was lucky enough to see him play in college.  He played for Creighton, my schools (Southern Illinois University) rival.  He was about as dead on of a shooter as it gets, and he followed up a great college career in the NBA with much of the same.  I was thrilled to have him on the Chicago Bulls for a few years as well.  Heck of a player.

What's good is he still got that minutes and he's inside with the defending Champ, we don't know what will be the plan for him after that contract but if he keeps on improving and adds more minutes and exposure we never what awaits him in this league either Boston will let him go and get that decent contract from a new team or will continue to use him and give him more decent offers,  for now, let's wait for another season and see if will continue his contribution even in a limited minutes being provided for him to play.

Like a Duncan Robinson type of guy who can shoot but not expect too much on the defensive end. Well, there's always a chance for improvement and I think that's the reason why they gave him a better contract. He can also be one of their ace if ever they want a trade since his value went high after the championship.

True that. One of the supporters of cryptocurrencies especially Bitcoin. He is one of the crypto enthusiasts who started early than other NBA players and he might actually be the reason why more players are well-versed today in the crypto industry. Do imagine how much criticism he took during the time when no one believed in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and now he can say "Look at me now!".
He also said in one interview "I am not crazy anymore." Yeah, that's how people will look at you when you are in crypto before.

I guess we can't change that; it seems like people are more willing to spend on entertainment than on other important things in life, so the industry is getting big money. I think one of the reasons is also the gambling industry. While there's no direct proof, I have a feeling that if the government were to ban gambling on sports across the world, those contracts would likely drop. The gambling industry is so huge, generating billions if not trillions of dollars, and they owe a lot to the sports organizers. Without sports, their industry wouldn't exist.

It has always been the case that the labor of those in the entertainment industry is valued much higher than that of those who work as doctors, firefighters, scientists, etc. But that's a question for government officials who spend budgets on anything but raising salaries for people in those professions.
As for $500 to attend a sporting event, I agree with you. For example, a ticket to a more or less normal seat at the Olympics can cost 400-600 euros, and the price of tickets for some seats at the recent showcase games of the US team was more than $1,5k.
And the price of tickets for the NBA final series matches is better not to remember at all.

Same here, I have a membership with Amazon Prime Video, but I prefer watching Netflix. However, now that they are partners with the NBA, does it mean we can also watch NBA games through Amazon Prime? If this is the case, it will be easier for viewers as they won't need to buy a separate subscription like they did with NBA League Pass.

Legion Hoops is reporting that Amazon is interested in picking up the contracts for the NBA on TNT crew in order to keep the show going on Amazon! That’s awesome news for me. I sold my Warner Bros stock when it got spun off anyway. As long as Ernie and the guys get to stay on my TV, I’m happy.

It's becoming super ridiculous to get even any reasonable televised sporting events on any cable right regardless of how premium your subscription to the cable is let alone have on national tv, well my own country is actually a big joke because you literally need to pay for a cable subscription to watch national and local news alone, let alone sporting events.

It's completely outrageous the amount of data I actually spend on to watch NBA during the regular season even having the more than 3x the minimum for the league pass subscription, and the of internet service fee is also an headache and nothing to write home about itself, greed and capitalism is the order of the modern day!

The NBA's deal with Amazon Prime has been great. I've already had an Amazon Prime membership for years, and I hardly ever used the Prime Video section. I felt like I was paying for nothing. Finally there's something to watch there. My current TV package gives 1 NBA game a night, but it's usually boring Rockets games because of the Turkish player Alperen Şengün factor. Now that there's an alternative, it's a very good thing.

I'm not saying that we might not see this rookies displaying talents, for sure we will see some of them like crazy dunks or passes. But in the last couple of years, we have like Zion and Chet and Wemby entering the league and everyone is very excited and they can even bring sits in the arena to see them play.

As compare to this years draft, not much of a name except for a couple maybe. But they really fair bad as compare to those rookies that I mentioned. So let's see, maybe I was just wrong and there could be rookies that will perform better than expected.

Ya, this is a bummer for me for lots of reasons. NBA on TNT was one of the best shows on TV and definitely the best basketball analyst show. Ernie is a legend. I also have Max so it was nice being able to stream games. I don’t have Amazon Prime, so I guess I’ll be forced to add another streaming service.

I get it, it's all about the money, but why does everything need to move to a streaming service these days? A household already spends a ton on just basic cable each month and internet. Now you start making people have to pay for subscriptions to 2 or 3 different services each month just to be able to watch sports and the bills start to get ridiculous. On top of that, I live in the country and my internet isn't unlimited, so if I were to purchase a streaming service in order to watch sports I am going to spend even more money because my internet bill will go through the roof on overages for streaming sporting events.

The world is becoming too greedy plain and simple. Entertainers make way too much money and are valued more than the people that actually matter. Doctors, teachers, police, firemen, nurses, and those that actually provide valuable services to the world. We as a people need to completely boycott these streaming services and let people know we don't need or want them, but that will never happen. Teams of all sports need a wake up call. You used to be able to take your kids to a game and spend $100-200 for 3 people total. That included parking, tickets, food, and a snack. Now a 3 person group taking a night out to go to a sporting event will spend $500 easy and that's sitting in the nosebleed seats. INSANE!!!!

Interesting, let's see how NBA is going to respond on this because it seems that the deal was already stamped with Amazon Prime.

But with what I can tell, most fans are going to boycott once the season starts through Prime. It feels so different if it's not with TNT.

Steph Curry told reporters that he along with LeBron and Kevin Durant recreated the legendary Bird, Magic, & Jordan Dream Team photo. I hope it comes out good and not corny. I’m pretty sure that Steph will be Magic holding up the 3 fingers, but I’m not sure who will be the other two. LeBron being super corny could easily be Bird, but I assume he’s going to want to be Jordan in the photo. That leaves KD giving the thumbs up? Anyone else want to take a guess who will be who?




TNT looking to sue the NBA now. Their statement:

You've got the same opinion as the others and it's a fact that Lebron was a factor in drafting Bronny to the Lakers. But look at the other top and round 1 picks and prospects.

But let's wait until the season starts but I am not expecting a lot on him as he's still a rookie and likely he won't get a lot of playing and when he does, for sure that many will say that it's because of his dad again.

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Anyway, NBA and WNBA going to Amazon Prime for 11-years of deal instead of TNT.

Prime Video reaches a landmark 11-year streaming deal with the NBA and the WNBA

Dinwiddie is definitely the most crypto friendly guy in the NBA. He even tried to tokenize his contract and offer it to crypto investors but was halted by regulators.  A shame he’s on the downside of his career and not super popular. I look forward to the day we get bonafide superstars openly supporting Bitcoin.

Spencer Dinwiddie is also a great crypto fan. I mean in any other place if we were talking about NBA and him signing to Dallas, I would not mention this, but since we are at bitcointalk forums, I like to think that people would love to hear that. Dude puts all of his savings into bitcoin, he is a safe investor so he doesn't go for smaller cap alts or tokens like that, some people here put up thousands to meme projects and all, he isn't that kind of guy. He just buys and accumulates bitcoin, and maybe he even decided to move to ETF, who knows? In the end, he is one of us and seeing him win a title would be something great, I would love to see that, he seems like a guy who would be quite fun to talk bitcoin about.

In the end, he is putting up millions, and while 1 year contract is never good for an NBA player, he will be making good amount, and if they do end up winning the title and if he helps, then I am sure that they are going to give him a full max offer as well. He is the scoring type that helps this team, Doncic and Kyrie could be defended well at times, locked down, and Spencer could help during those times, he never had that much trouble having the ball in hands, so he could be good.

Bronny is at Lakers all thanks to his father, nothing more than that. This isn't technically a deserved draft as a result. LeBron will probably play with his son for only 1 season and then retire. This is my humble opinion on this of course. After that, I would really like to see Bronny having improved his game already and continuing to be a part of NBA.    It is a tough work though so I hope he works hard from now to the end of next season.

His role is probably like Kyle Korver who is also a great 3 point shooter.
Judging on his salary, I think they have close to Sam Hauser as the contract now have already increase compared to the last 5 years.

https://hoopshype.com/player/kyle-korver/salary/

So if Sam Hauser will continue to be contributing and of course his health is very important, he might still get a good contract but his amount would not increase significantly due to his limited role.

Agree to that, he deserves to have it a secure contract and be on the team, just like what you point out he's really a good shooter and his percentage if giving that minutes he really can provide good outside threats, though he needs to work with his defense if he aiming to be more useful, being a two-player type of a player will give his name more value, as we know that shooting advantage mostly being use by the coach especially if you are playing with the defending title holder who will try to repeat that same acheivements.