Around the League: Week 1 10/26-11/1

[carey]

The National Basketball Association's 2015-2016 season is upon us! Rejoice, heathens!!

Nationally televised games this week

Monday: None.
Tuesday: Cleveland @ Chicago 8:00PM EST TNT, New Orleans @ Golden State 10:30PM EST TNT
Wednesday: San Antonio @ Oklahoma City 8:00PM EST ESPN, Minnesota @ Los Angeles Lakers 10:30PM EST ESPN
Thursday: Atlanta @ New York 8:00PM EST TNT, Dallas @ Los Angeles Clippers 10:30PM EST TNT
Friday: Miami @ Cleveland 7:00PM EST ESPN, Golden State @ Houston 9:30PM ESPN
Saturday: Golden State @ New Orleans 7:30PM EST NBATv, Sacramento @ Los Angeles Clippers 10:30PM EST NBATv
Sunday: Milwaukee @ Toronto 6:00PM EST NBATv

NBA News
Flip Saunders dies of cancer at age 60: LINK
LeBron returns to practice, on course for opener: LINK
Rose to play in opener, Bulls to watch minutes: LINK
Gerald Green was fined $25K for menacing gestures? Huh. LINK
Jorts & Ish Smith (why did he turn down the Suns again?) were waived by Washington: LINK
Even Popovich has a dream job (great read): LINK

More news links as we get further into the week. Games start Tuesday!

[Mori Chu]

You da real MVP, carey!

Looks like the Pistons are about to cut Danny Granger. Pretty sad how far he fell so fast. Even our med staff couldn't salvage him.

[Superbone]

Glad you said the Pop article was a great read. I probably wouldn't have read it otherwise.

[carey]

Love the art on this story, but worth a read just to see some of the "really?" moments about LeBron and the Cavs last season. I'm not sure Jordan ever acted that brashly as a player, but I was younger then and there was no internet: LINK

[pickle]

Love the art on this story, but worth a read just to see some of the "really?" moments about LeBron and the Cavs last season. I'm not sure Jordan ever acted that brashly as a player, but I was younger then and there was no internet: LINK

On July 11, 2014, LeBron James places three calls, to Dwyane Wade, owner Micky Arison and president Pat Riley, telling each he's leaving the Heat.

no bosh?

[Mori Chu]

If you want a chuckle, here's a reddit /r/nba thread devoted to trash-talking. Funny to see everybody rip on each other's teams.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3 ... y_for_the/

[Mori Chu]

LOL.

[Mori Chu]

Interesting chart, though ESPN's NBARank is questionable at best.
https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/659386308347998208

[Indy]

It is interesting, despite the NBARank shit. I wish that were in text so I could play with it a bit.

[Mori Chu]

Anyone else surfing around the League Pass games on right now? I'm watching Washington-Orlando. Enjoyable matchup. Aaron Gordon had an absolutely sick put-back dunk over a guy's back. I absolutely adore the Wall-Beal backcourt; very envious. And Orlando is going to be really good in a few years.

[Mori Chu]

Switched to Heat-Hornets. Oh my, Jeremy Lin's hair.



Another angle:

[Mori Chu]

Dragic lays it up for what feels like the tenth time in this first half. Crowd going nuts, forces Hornets to call timeout.

Good thing we got rid of that loser!

[carey]

Psssh.

[Mori Chu]

Now watching Spurs/Thunder, at halftime now. Durant doing Durant things. Looks great. Super happy to see him back. Ginobili also looks spry. Aldridge fitting in nicely already. Good matchup.

[carey]

Yeah, this one is tied at 101 with 3 minutes left. Both these teams will be really good this year (duh.)

Kanter signed that 4/$70M deal and is coming off the bench. He should do really well against some 2nd unit C's. He has 15 tonight (7-12) along with 16 rebounds in just 24 minutes.

[carey]

Denver beat Houston by 20. Harden shot 2-12 from 3. Howard with a DNP already.

[carey]

Knicks beat the Bucks by 25 even though Melo was 4-16 and Zinger was 3-11.

[SDC]

okay rubio just knocked down 2 threepointers in the first q.

[SDC]

8-23 three attempts for byron scott's lakers.

[SDC]

rubio with 25 pts, shooting well.