Sports! (General Thread)

I was a fan of the Bulls, and still am, but I was more a fan of Pippen. I think it was because he was overshadowed by Jordan and I like to cheer for the underdog. I watched a video a while back about Larry Bird. According to the video he is underrated. They didn't say he was as good as Jordan but they did kind of hint at it.

Yeah, they are Frankensteining a team right now. I think part of the reason the Lakers are building this team is to give them a deep enough bench so they don't fall short due to injuries. And I totally get that.

I don't know how the Lakers team dynamics will be though. Lebron and Westbrook are both very idiosyncratic players. If things aren't their way, their balance is thrown way off. Westbrook's shooting isn't reliable enough for him to be an off the ball player and Lebron doesn't like playing without the ball. So I don't know what will happen.

Davis could play with either one of them but playing with both of them at the same time may be weird.

I think Dwight Howard is super happy right now though 😄


It's too bad that the Bucks are losing PJ Tucker.  And the fact he's going to a big Eastern rival is interesting.

I do like the Heat a lot so I'm pretty excited to see Tucker and Lowry joining Jimmy Butler.  I think Markieff Morris is joining them too which is good cause they need more size. Bam is awesome but he's just one guy.

Chicago looks to be a big contender too which should be interesting.  Meanwhile, Boston seems a little lost.


NBA teams keep having these seismic shifts every few years. It's like the NBA became a rogue-like 😁

The Bulls might actually look like a real team this year, I am pleased.

Lakers going full nWo with the Carmelo Anthony signing. Will D-Wade come back from retirement?  Maybe they can put Robert Horry, Derek Fischer, and Ray Allen in a de-aging machine to give them clutch 3's? 😂

I get their motivations here (especially Carmelo and Westbrook) but wow that parity just went right out the window in the west. On paper, their bench could outplay other team's starters.

But I just have no idea if they will all gel.  Lebron has pretty good off court relationships with many of them though (unlike some of the guys the Lakers sent away recently) so there's already some personal chemistry there. But the fact remains - there's only one ball on the court. Who is going to handle it?  And as good as Westbrook is on offense, what can he do off the ball if Lebron is going to be the primary ball handler?  Carmelo can make that work and can also evolve to meet the team's needs when he's not the best player, as we saw in the past few years with his excellent contributions to the Blazers. But this is probably the first time since Durant left that Westbrook isn't the best/key player on the team.  Plus, even when he played with Durant, Westbrook still handled the ball most of the time. But now he may not be the primary ball handler. And he's never been the #3 option but he is here behind Lebron and Davis. This will take an adjustment for him. 





1000% agreed about Portis. He became my favorite individual player to watch in the last two rounds this year. He is like The People's Champion of the Bucks with his deserved fan support.  He was all passion and was a true joy to watch. I'm really glad that he is returning this season.  

I don’t consider this a “sport” in the traditional sense of the word, but I figured I’d put this here anyway. I’ve been an F1 fan for a long time, my loyalty wanes when someone dominates for a long time (ahem, Hamilton…), but lots of great new drivers and upstart teams have pulled me back. I really like Max Verstappen and his total lack of respect for Hamilton’s legacy, so things have been interesting again, only problem is shit like this keeps happening.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOFvDyauhe4&feature=emb_err_woyt

Any bets that the Jacksonville Jaguars will fire Urban Meyer before the end of the month?

Man, it's getting terrible down there.

Agreed that it was always a dubious hire given the long history of disciplinary concerns with his programs, his history of walking away for "health reasons," and just generally being a sociopath so I'm not particularly surprised at "lapdancegate."

I feel like this isn't big enough to warrant an immediate-ish dismissal but given how he'd already been rebuked a few weeks back for basically talking against the company line, he has to be on incredibly thin ice. The Jaguars being winless isn't unexpected so that's not a factor on its own but the continuation of abysmal football AND repeated distractions by/from the head coach (who I "think" might have some roster control too as a president/GM) is unacceptable, even for the league's worst team. I don't expect that he'll be back next season unless their on-field fortune immediately reverses course AND he can avoid being a media distraction. So yeah, he's as good as gone lol..