NBA: 2012-2013 Season

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Early on, Philadelphia's been BALLIN'! They've done nothing but shoot threes and hit them. Dallas leads over Philly, though right now. It's 38-31, DAL with 10:30 left in the 2nd Quarter.
 
Sorry, Paulie. It was 61-51 at the half for the Rockets. Afterwards, this three-game homestand was completed with three straight wins. We won 117-101 even with former Rocket, Kyle Lowry, coming back to where he did a good deal of damage when rocking Rockets red.

This will be interesting for the Rockets next. They'll head up to Minnesota for memorial services for "Sasha" McHale, then fly to Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder that same day. James Harden returns to where he did most of his damage. I think I heard that this is our only trip to Oklahoma City this season. That's good because OKC is NOT an easy place to play. I'm also glad they aren't in our division. Though regionally, they should be.


Congratulations to all other winners up to and past the time of this post.
 
Yep. I predicted the Rockets would fail, and did we ever- this was a 120-98 Thunder mafia hit on my Rockets. So last night, it was former Rocket Kyle Lowry we had to deal with. This game featured... former Rocket, Kevin Martin. Another Kevin was the star for OKC- Kevin Durant with a lot of points (more than 35- I stopped caring as we were getting beat). You can make the excuse that the Rockets went up to Minnesota to attend funeral services for Alexandra "Sasha" McHale, but that's still no excuse to play this poorly at Oklahoma City.

Rockets now 7-8 after this f:censored: up in OKC.
 
Hey a6, it seems the bulls heard your inspiring speech and thrashed the Mavs.

Let's see if they can find consistency though.
 
I complained about my Rockets. Now some other scores from the night...


* How about that? The 2012-2013 Washington Wizards still stink, but they got their first win of the season hosting Portland. Trail Blazers were put down 84-82 in Washington, D.C.

* How did San Antonio take to Orlando's hospitality? Slammed it in their face. Central Florida wasn't too happy seeing San Antonio leave with a 110-89 massacre of the Magic.

* The Atlanta Hawks soared above Charlotte tonight in the ATL. It was a 94-91 victory for the Hawks in taking down the visiting Charlotte Bobcats.

* Brooklyn handled Boston nicely in Boston- a 95-83 victory. What's up with Boston this season?

* Detroit motored away to a 117-77 evisceration in MoTown as the Phoenix Suns had their Check Engine light on just about all game long. The game was tied at 24 after the 1st Quarter.

* The only Texas team that won tonight was San Antonio. My Rockets had their asses handed to, and so did Dallas. Mavericks got blown away and blown out in Chicago 101-78 to the Bulls.

* Who dat say dey gon' beat dem Hornets? Okay, wrong sport, but you get the idea. Utah won 96-84 in their visit of New Orleans.

* Chicago couldn't beat the Milwaukee Bucks at home recently, but New York came into Milwaukee and hammered the Bucks pretty good- a 102-88 victory for NYK.

* Toronto lost badly in Houston last night, and Memphis didn't do the Raptors any favors. Toronto left Graceland with a disgraceful 103-82 beat down.


And as I mentioned, HOU lost 120-98 at OKC. Congratulations to the eventual winner of Minnesota at the Los Angeles Clippers (currently 72-71, LAC with 2:41 left in the 3rd Qtr. as of this post).
 
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I told everybody at work today that the Wiz were just salivating at tonight's match up. God, we suck. :lol:
 
The final Thursday of November 2012 features these two matchups on both coasts:

* San Antonio Spurs at Miami Heat
* Denver Nuggets at Golden State Warriors

Enjoy some NBA hoops tonight!
 
David Stern got 🤬 at San Antonio for sending 4 out of 5 starters back to Texas vs. Miami, and promised "Sanctions".

Well, Mr. Stern, you need to sanction the guy who does your scheduling. Scheduling one side for four days rest while the other was playing a fourth night in five games, no wonder why Greg Poppovich sent his starters home. You favor the East!
 
David Stern got 🤬 at San Antonio for sending 4 out of 5 starters back to Texas vs. Miami, and promised "Sanctions".

Well, Mr. Stern, you need to sanction the guy who does your scheduling. Scheduling one side for four days rest while the other was playing a fourth night in five games, no wonder why Greg Poppovich sent his starters home. You favor the East!

Utterly retarded. I have no issue with what San Antonio's coach did. Last I checked the NBA is not the owner nor the HC of the Spurs so shouldn't be telling them who they can and cannot play.
 
Stern & his NBA are whores. This pathetic little man indeed is in place to judge someone with a character of Greg Popovich.

I really hope this wakes up more basketball fans to what is wrong with this league. To me, Stern is a cancer to the sport, but this cancer happens to make a lot of money for a lot of people. He will win in this B.S. too.

Much props to Pop for giving that geek a big middle finger in front of the national media. Pop rules. 👍
 
There's a lot of talk going on that the Raptors are about to sign Mickael Pietrus. What do you guys think? If stats are anything to go by, he's probably well past his prime and will probably under-achieve as a Raptor.
 
Even after resting some of their stars, I was a bit surprised the San Antonio Spurs lost only by five at Miami 105-100. I thought Miami was probably going to win by 20 or something. To rest some of your big names and only lose by five probably means the losing team has plenty of depth besides the top stars, or the winning team probably didn't play hard enough to blow the other team out of the building. I hate saying this a a Rockets fan- but hats off to San Antonio on a job well done, even in a losing effort.

Golden State won 106-105 hosting Denver. Good job to the Warriors holding serve in the Bay Area against the Denver Nuggets.


Enjoy this Friday ball night if your team(s) is/are playing.
 
It's so good to have Chauncey back. Now we need Grant Hill to be healthy and then we get to see what this Clipper team is really going to be.
 
There's a lot of talk going on that the Raptors are about to sign Mickael Pietrus. What do you guys think? If stats are anything to go by, he's probably well past his prime and will probably under-achieve as a Raptor.

The Raptors now have indeed signed Pietrus, I'm not sure if he plays today against the Suns or how much more useful he'll be over Kleiza and Anderson.
 
There's a lot of talk going on that the Raptors are about to sign Mickael Pietrus. What do you guys think? If stats are anything to go by, he's probably well past his prime and will probably under-achieve as a Raptor.
If it's just the age, he'd be a decent addition to the bench. It's unusual to for someone to be unsigned this late into the season though. There possibly could be an issue, like injuries or something?
Pop's wallet lightened $250k for the sit down.
What I think should be done to David Stern, I'm certain it's against the AUP, so I won't say it, but you get the idea. I could not begin to describe how disgusting I find that sellout.

I didn't think it was possible to love Greg Popvich more, and be more disgusted by David $tern. What a puke.
 
David, you should have fined the Miami Skeat for almost losing to back ups.

I blame Omnis for this for no apparent reason though.
 
I pointed out on CBS Sports NBA page that they never seem to penalize teams that tank their entire seasons for a shot at a lottery, but Stern is too much of a geek to deal with this particular situation like a man.

I actually heard argument from handful of people supporting the penalty. Probably same people who have zero understanding how Stern's action has zero to do with the game, but with the MONEY, also silly pride(whore with a pride lol). If I was rich enough to own an NBA team, I'd sue the league.

I read somewhere somebody posted how the NBA should be fining I think the Bobcats(?) for scoring only 30 points in the first half the other night. :lol: Spurs actually played hard, and David Stern's old enough not to embarrass himself like a silly little child in public.
 
The only reason David Stern threw a hissy fit is because them Spurs showed no respect to his team, the Miami Beat.

I can't wait for that imp to go.
 
I'm not sure if he even likes Miami Heat. It's no secret that he is enjoying what came of this new super team trend in the league. Profit over integrity of the sport. That should be his middle name, and also the longest middle name in the world.
 
He loves Miami and other superstar laden teams because they sell most Jerseys and other team crap.

He hates teams like the Spurs because they happen to be teams that win using fundamentals.
 
Yup, a lot of jerseys & ratings, too. OKC's an exception though. No market, but it helps to be a personal friend of David Stern. "Do you want a NBA franchise? OK, let me find one for you with Kevin Durant on it". God bless them.
 
He loves Miami and other superstar laden teams because they sell most Jerseys and other team crap.

He hates teams like the Spurs because they happen to be teams that win using fundamentals.

Exactly. A few years ago, Dallas was in a same position as the Spurs when they won their championship, ironically over the "Superteam" Heat. If that lesson didn't hammer into Stern's head then that fundamentals wins championships, nothing will.
 
It was 124-116 as we defended Toyota Center from the visiting Utah Jazz. The sweet music playing here in Houston was that of the Rockets taming the Utah Jazz. A great fourth quarter helped the Rockets win this one. Jeremy Lin accounted for 19 points (I think) in this game for the Rockets. I've mostly listened to most of the 2nd Half on the radio. Dish still has yet to carry Comcast SportsNet Houston, so I am still relegated to radio in following my Rockets.


Congratulations to all other winners. As for the whole Spurs deal, I am sort of on the "Spurs did the right thing" side of the fence. I swear David Stern is making this whole thing seem like an NBA version of the 2005 F1 United States Grand Prix- in the sense of cheating fans out of a marquee matchup *in November* by not having all the star players out for SA. I don't know what to REALLY think or believe, so I kept my commentary simple on this whole matter.
 
Congratulations to all other winners. As for the whole Spurs deal, I am sort of on the "Spurs did the right thing" side of the fence. I swear David Stern is making this whole thing seem like an NBA version of the 2005 F1 United States Grand Prix- in the sense of cheating fans out of a marquee matchup *in November* by not having all the star players out for SA. I don't know what to REALLY think or believe, so I kept my commentary simple on this whole matter.

I think most everybody is, except those on ESPN. They lost a lot of face with that game, and they go and attack the Spurs about it every chance they get too. Steven A, who I HAD a lot of respect for, just lost it with that one issue.
 
Well, I was watching "Around the Horn" on Friday when most of the panel that was on the set basically was like, "you don't rest all of your starters when you got a marquee game like this." I could understand the marketing the NBA thing. I can understand having star players out on the floor. But come on now. It's not like the NBA is starving for attention. It isn't like Spurs at Heat in late November is like trying to market Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. It isn't like the NBA is losing serious money trying to compete with the NFL and Major League Baseball. If Pops want to rest his boys with the schedule and the trip, that's SA's choice; not the NBA's, and certainly not David Stern's choice.

But for most of ESPN's words... they're ESPN. They got to make their money somehow, even at the expense of comments common folk will likely disagree with.
 
Makes people wonder who is dumber: The NBA for attempting to micromanage and failing or ESPN for buying into the NBA's logic and then next week will be directly going against it.
 
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