Around the League: Week 12 1/9-1/15

[carey]

Nationally televised games this week

Monday: None.
Tuesday: Boston @ Toronto 7:30PM EST NBATv, Miami @ Golden State 10:30PM EST NBATv
Wednesday: Memphis @ OKC 8:00PM EST ESPN, Cleveland @ Portland 10:30PM EST ESPN
Thursday: Indiana @ Denver 3:00PM EST NBATv, Chicago @ New York 8:00PM EST TNT, Detroit @ Golden State 10:30PM EST TNT
Friday: Boston @ Atlanta 8:00PM EST ESPN, Detroit @ Utah 10:30PM EST ESPN
Saturday: No televised games.
Sunday: Chicago @ Memphis 9:00PM EST ESPN

NBA News

Rudy Gobert breaks through his ceiling: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2017/1/8/14 ... hootaround

Red Zone for the NBA? http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2017/1/7/14 ... dam-silver

ICYMI over the weekend, Nevada trailed by 14 points with a minute to go, forced OT and won. http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketb ... n-caroline

[Hermen]

Is it just me or is 7$ for one game too much? I assume there are no commercials on league pass? Doesn't help much as you still have to wait for them to finish before the game continues...

[carey]

https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/818485218277519360 Anthony Bennett couldn't even stick on the Nets. Ouch.

[Indy]

Is it just me or is 7$ for one game too much? I assume there are no commercials on league pass? Doesn't help much as you still have to wait for them to finish before the game continues...

It is way too much. It is like DirecTV charging $50 (or maybe it is $40) to watch a single NFL game.

[carey]

I would do $2.99 for a single game fairly often if I knew I could sit down & watch the entire thing uninterrupted. This is the 1st year in the Sarver era I did not get league pass.

[Hermen]

They will charge 2-3$ for last 5 minutes and then people will get to watch 45 minutes of time-outs

[Mori Chu]

I still have League Pass, but there are a lot of decent stream sites that let you (illegally) watch games for free. Hard to compete with that by charging $7 a game. NBA shouldn't alienate their lower-middle-class fans.

[In2ition]

This is the first year that I've been able to watch the Suns games for free on TV, since they committed to having all games on FoxSportsAZ.

[Indy]

I switched from having Sunday Ticket this year to getting League Pass (since I moved from pee aitch ex). I don't have too many complaints, because I watch the games tape-delayed a bit. I usually start an hour after the game actually tips off, then fast forward commercials and reviews and FTs, then catch up in the middle of the 4th. I can't do that on streaming services, and with the games being so much later for me than before, I need to do it this way.

[Hermen]

So apparently Hawks really like Dunleavy, have changed their mind and want to keep Milsap and contend in the east, per The Verticle twitter.
I'm not sure I understand them.
Edit: my best guess is Korver was sent to Cleveland on a secret sabotage mission

[Mori Chu]

So apparently Hawks really like Dunleavy, have changed their mind and want to keep Milsap and contend in the east, per The Verticle twitter.
I'm not sure I understand them.

That's them dumping false info to Woj to get rumors started. They want the word to get out that they are going to keep Millsap, which will then cause the current teams trying to trade for Millsap to up their offers. Guaranteed Millsap gets traded in the next 1-2 months despite this rumor.

[carey]

https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/818636159207276545 https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/818640104021524480

[Ring_Wanted]

They want the word to get out that they are going to keep Millsap, which will then cause the current teams trying to trade for Millsap to up their offers. Guaranteed Millsap gets traded in the next 1-2 months despite this rumor.

Perhaps they mean it. The Hawks have taken a severe PR hit gifting LeBron a monster roleplayer. Millsap has publicly said he wants to stay with the Hawks too, so there's that, and since he is an expiring, the best package would have to come from the rare pretender/contender team without cap space but with disposable and desirable assets.

[UglyTruth]

https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/818636159207276545 https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/818640104021524480

Give them Knight. He's still better than Jennings and Baker.

[carey]

Isola rips Phil Jackson and the Knicks: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baske ... -1.2942009

[carey]

It is NY so anything could be the reason but... problems seem to follow Jeff Hornacek like a lost puppy. Some of this is awfully familiar: https://theringer.com/derrick-rose-is-m ... .tmf1vtb59

[ShelC]

Supposedly he really misses his son and flew back to Chicago. Not sure if there was an incident with his son or not, but still no reason not to send a message to anyone in the organization. But the Garden will cover for him rather than actually dealing with the situation. Where there's smoke there's fire. He was benched for two games, and then all of a sudden goes AWOL prior to a home game to fly back to chicago because he misses his son? Please.

Hornacek is following a long line of coaches who sign on with the Knicks and then realize about a week later what they got themselves into.

[Mori Chu]

I think Hornacek is a good guy and a smart person, but he may not have the toughness necessary to be a NBA head coach. It seems like he is kind of soft and isn't good at corralling strong personalities when they have problems or disagreements. I would still prefer him here over our current coach, though.

[Hermen]

I think Hornacek is a good guy and a smart person, but he may not have the toughness necessary to be a NBA head coach. It seems like he is kind of soft and isn't good at corralling strong personalities when they have problems or disagreements. I would still prefer him here over our current coach, though.

I feel the same way. I guess he could only stick to a team long term and be successfull if the front office really supported him when dealing with players. He didn't have that in Phoenix and no way he was gonna have that in New York. I mean, Dolan, Jackson, Melo, Rose, who didn't see an incident coming there?

[carey]

Adding Morning TIp since it wasn't up when I made the OP.

GM Daryl Morey's vision becoming a reality behind sharp-shooting Rockets: http://www.nba.com/article/2017/01/09/m ... 3-pointers