2012 - 2013 Philadelphia 76ers Regular Season Thread

[MDS]

they have 8 teams to pass to get there
good things dont happen to philly teams

next

[ice grillin you]

they are basically a baseball team five games out of the wild card with a month and a half left

and they are the worst team in the mix

the phillies last year were in a similar position but they were the hottest team in the group and you were pimping them

[MDS]

not remotely close

i was having fun with the phillies run...like what the hell why not kevin frandsen in the 3B go ahead and make the playoffs. what did they have to lose? 3 draft pick spots? in baseball? what does that mean.

i hope the sixers tank and dont pick a colossal waste of humanity like evan turner again. i just doubt they are getting top 3.

[Rome]

of course he doesnt but it has nothing to do with the nba or its players....the only reason to pick on the nba there is because its filled with young rich lazy black kids...right?

and its not why you dont watch the nba....because if a lazy player caused you to not watch an entire pro sports league you wouldnt watch sports at all

I don't watch the NBA because it bores me.  Too many teams, too many meaningless & irrelevant games and too much loafing by overpaid, over-indulged spoiled brats.  Skin color has nothing to do with that.    The NFL and MLB are filled with young black kids and so are college football and basketball.  I love those sports and watch my teams religiously, so your racist assumptions/accusations are not only ridiculous, they simply belie the facts.  As usual.

[Sgt PSN]

I don't watch the NBA because it bores me.  Too many teams, too many meaningless & irrelevant games and too much loafing by overpaid, over-indulged spoiled brats.  Skin color has nothing to do with that.    The NFL and MLB are filled with young black kids and so are college football and basketball.  I love those sports and watch my teams religiously, so your racist assumptions/accusations are not only ridiculous, they simply belie the facts.  As usual.

They're paying Bynum $16.4M to sit on his ass and do nothing.  Of all the things wrong with professional basketball, that's the worst, and it's a major reason why I refuse to watch it anymore.   Granted I never paid much attention to it anyway, but still... how the farg does a guy get paid that sort of cash for not playing?   It's disgusting.

You're kind of contradicting yourself here.  I'm not playing the race card with you, but most of the reasons you mentioned for not watching the NBA apply to NFL, MLB and NHL. 

Too many teams?  The NBA has 30 teams, just like the NHL and MLB.  And the NBA and NHL have the exact same amount of games a year, which is 1/2 of what MLB plays.  So how you can say the NBA has too many teams and plays too many games but not feel the same about NHL or MLB just doesn't make sense.  Especially MLB. 

Even in the NFL with their non-guaranteed contracts, I think there's still some protection from injury.  If AP tore his knee up again today and expected to miss the season, it's not like the Vikings could just cut him and not pay him another dime.  And if a team suspects you are malingering, they're probably going to investigate it, especially when they're on the hook for $16mil.

Bynum is definitely aloof, even more so in Philly than he ever was in LA so if you don't like the dude, fine.  I don't think you'll get an argument the contrary from anyone here.  If the NBA is boring to you, fine.  But you're seriously contradicting yourself with all reasons you're giving as to why.   

And as far as the "loafing by overpaid, over-indulged spoiled brats" goes, you just described the 1994-2005 Phillies and the 2011-2012 Eagles. 

[Rome]

I watch college basketball and prefer it over the NBA.  Sue me.

Nice post, though, Sarge. 

[Sgt PSN]

I watch college basketball and prefer it over the NBA.

This is probably where you should have started and stopped. 

I've come back around to the NBA as a whole.  In the 80s and 90s, I thought college ball was almost unwatchable, especially compared to the NBA.  10 or so years ago, I'd have preferred to watch a college game over pro.  But the NBA game has gotten so much better over the last decade because the stars have gotten close to being on the same level as they were 20 years ago.  LeBron, Kobe, Wade, Durant, KG, Pierce, Rondo, Dirk, CP3, etc, etc.  The game is softer now than it was during the NBA's golden era, but the quality of the stars is about as good as it's ever been.  The biggest difference today compared to 20 years ago imo is the absence of dominant centers and it's really about the only thing in the league that is really lacking.  PG play today is about as good as I can ever remember.  The personalities probably don't seem as big, but I think that's just because there's a big difference watching MJ or Magic through the eyes of a child/teenager vs watching LeBron or Durant as an adult.  shtein's always better as a kid. 

[SD]

I'll always love and follow the Sixers, but I checked out as an NBA fan after the 2002 Lakers/Kings semi-finals. It was obviously rigged. Sac was a much better team. The 2000 game 7 vs. the Trailblazers with the 20 point comeback was equally awful, but the 2002 semi finals was a blatant farg you from Stern. He wanted the Lakers in the finals, and he got em. I give them zero credit for any of those championships. The only legit one I give them is when they beat the Sixers.


The worst is at the 5:30 mark where Kobe elbows Bibby to the face with the ref standing right there and no call

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjRcTiwVEwo

[Rome]

I watch college basketball and prefer it over the NBA.

This is probably where you should have started and stopped. 

I've come back around to the NBA as a whole.  In the 80s and 90s, I thought college ball was almost unwatchable, especially compared to the NBA.  10 or so years ago, I'd have preferred to watch a college game over pro.  But the NBA game has gotten so much better over the last decade because the stars have gotten close to being on the same level as they were 20 years ago.  LeBron, Kobe, Wade, Durant, KG, Pierce, Rondo, Dirk, CP3, etc, etc.  The game is softer now than it was during the NBA's golden era, but the quality of the stars is about as good as it's ever been.  The biggest difference today compared to 20 years ago imo is the absence of dominant centers and it's really about the only thing in the league that is really lacking.  PG play today is about as good as I can ever remember.  The personalities probably don't seem as big, but I think that's just because there's a big difference watching MJ or Magic through the eyes of a child/teenager vs watching LeBron or Durant as an adult.  shtein's always better as a kid.

I grew up with Dr. J, McGinnis, Doug Collins, Lloyd Free... and I still didn't give half a shtein about any of them.   As a kid it was Phillies, Eagles, Flyers, Big 5 and then if nothing else was on, I'd watch the Sixers.  People my age never truly embraced the Sixers and that's why the Spectrum was half-full when they were playing (whereas you could never get a Flyers ticket back then). 

That said, if the Sixers had guys with heart like Moses, Doc, (who played his entire pro career with knees as bad or worse than a piece of shtein like Bynum) & Charles Barkley you might have something other than outright apathy on the part of Philly fans.

Not trying to troll it up here and I agree that other pro sports have their malcontents and bums, but the NBA is a joke to me. 

[Don Ho]

SD, great video.  Goddamn the farging Lakers.

[ice grillin you]

I watch college basketball and prefer it over the NBA.

This is probably where you should have started and stopped.   

this is correct

[ice grillin you]

spencer hawes father should have come in a napkin

[ice grillin you]

bradley beal is unfair

[SD]

Clutch loss

And great effort by Hawes with the game on the line letting Nene make you his bitch

[ice grillin you]

spencer hawes is as disgusting as it gets

bullets and kings both win today