NBA 2011-2012

[TripletDaddy]

Taken on Sunday at Staples. This is a great picture. I'm really starting to like Lebron's unabashed "f-you" attitude. Dude is doing his own thing now, which is cool.

[falafel]

Taken on Sunday at Staples. This is a great picture. I'm really starting to like Lebron's unabashed "f-you" attitude. Dude is doing his own thing now, which is cool.

I wonder what's in the bag. Shaving kit? Shoe polish?

[Donuthole]

Taken on Sunday at Staples. This is a great picture. I'm really starting to like Lebron's unabashed "f-you" attitude. Dude is doing his own thing now, which is cool.

I'm no LBJ hater, but I'm not sure I'd call that his own thing. Since his move to Miami, LeBron's style seems to be very similar to that of Wade.

[TripletDaddy]

I wonder what's in the bag. Shaving kit? Shoe polish?

hoagie

[Flystripper]

I wonder what's in the bag. Shaving kit? Shoe polish?

I like the purple shirt. How long before he is a Laker?

[TripletDaddy]

I'm no LBJ hater, but I'm not sure I'd call that his own thing. Since his move to Miami, LeBron's style seems to be very similar to that of Wade.

Has Wade ever rocked something like this? Not a chance!

[MartyFunkhouser]

Funk off the bandwagon as fast as he got on.

It was your offer on Tillamook I've cream that helped get me back on the Jazz bandwagon.

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[BGRTHNUMEGO]

Apparently Hollinger's comparison of Paul to Magic is safe.

@Lockedonsports
Only one other rookie other Kyrie Irving has ever averaged scoring at least 18 pts, shot 45% FG, 40% 3pt and 80% FT -- LARRY BIRD !!!!!!

It seemed to be that the general consensus last year was that Irving was a low risk pick, but that he also had a low chance of becoming a star. And I'm starting to wonder if that is what we're going to hear about several guys at the top of this draft who will also turn out to be better than suspected in the NBA.

[FN Phat]

I'm no LBJ hater, but I'm not sure I'd call that his own thing. Since his move to Miami, LeBron's style seems to be very similar to that of Wade.

[FN Phat]

Taken on Sunday at Staples. This is a great picture. I'm really starting to like Lebron's unabashed "f-you" attitude. Dude is doing his own thing now, which is cool.

Did you see DWade (who was walking next to LBJ)? He had a shirt on that was 2-3 sizes too small with capris on. Where does that fall on your fashion scale?

[TripletDaddy]

Did you see DWade (who was walking next to LBJ)? He had a shirt on that was 2-3 sizes too small with capris on. Where does that fall on your fashion scale?

I did see that and I think it looks silly, but...

1. When you are cut, rich, and famous you can wear whatever you want.
2. He often wears those types of shirts.

Wade is a wannaba Andre 3000. I've never enjoyed Andre 3000's style but he definitely has a style to him. If you look at Wade's suits and casual combos, he has to be getting some of it from Andre 3000, especially his penchant for wearing stupid hats.

Lebron is up and down. He sometimes wears clothes I really like and other times he looks clueless. I really liked that gingham shirt he wore on The Decision, for example. Looked really cool.

[LiveCoug]

Bobcats beat the Magic tonight for their 5th win on the season.

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

Interesting read on "Hero Ball" on ESPN.

The first (and only) rule of hero ball: Big-name scorers must always take the last-minute shot. That the numbers now exist to prove it doesn't work is, curiously enough, beside the point. In the world of hero ball, when Bryant -- by the numbers, the least efficient clutch-time go-to scorer in the league -- barks at James at the end of an All-Star contest for not jacking up a low-percentage shot, Kobe is praised, LeBron is vilified and the world mouths along with the Laker yelling: "Shoot the f--ing ball!"

Start with the basics. The goal of basketball, in its simplest form, is to turn possessions into points. And on that basis, when Synergy began breaking down NBA plays by type in 2004, what it found would have made Wooden smile: Plays involving off-the-ball cuts (1.18 points per possession) and transition plays (1.12 ppp) are by far the most efficient, followed by putbacks (1.04 ppp) and pick-and-rolls in which the ball reaches the hands of the rolling man (0.97 ppp). And the least efficient? Isolation plays, good for only 0.78 points per possession.

There was more. The stats revealed that when a player passes out of an iso, his team's points per possession rise from that woeful 0.78 to a more tolerable 0.93. Despite that, players pass out of isos only 20 percent of the time -- and only 16 percent during crunch time. If that player is the team's top iso threat, the number drops to 12 percent.

There it was, right before Barr's eyes: Go-to scorers in crunch time who are isolated against one or more defenders -- the very definition of hero ball -- almost never give up the basketball even though they are, in that moment, the least effective scorers on the court.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/76...-espn-magazine

[UtahDan]

The Bullets are going to have their coming out party tonight. Laker fans beware.

[UtahDan]

The Bullets are going to have their coming out party tonight. Laker fans beware.

Comeback any minute now.