THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP

[addict4sneakers]

Even after his contract expires and they stop paying him, Udonis probably still going to keep showing up for Heat practice.

Finesse isn’t the right word but what he’s pulled of in Miami for the last 30 years has been amazing. Salute

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

Bulls need some damn health more than anything. Not sure anybody has been hit harder with the injury bug more than them over the last couple years.

Pelicans need to fire Gentry and hire Atkinson. Gentry is a nice guy, but I think they need something different.

idk about this one fam.

last years excuse was Otto Porter.
meaning that when Otto went down the entire team structure fell apart.

so you mean to tell me a guy that has been on the team for a year and a half after a trade was that crucial to the overall team success!?!?!?

With Lavine, Markkanen, Carter Jr, Gafford, White and fillers that Otto was the difference maker?????

if we were one Otto injury away from being a real team, then we were never a real team to begin with.
Dysfunction and chaos are often used as exaggerations but not in this case. The Reinsdorfs are the ultimate absentee bosses. They literally don’t give a single F about this team. As long as they keep making money so that they can subsidize that minor league scrub team on the south side, all is well.

The last dance doc should’ve told you all you needed to know about the Reinsdorfs. Happy to let the ghost of Krause catch all them stray bullets so they can look like the caring owners who’s hands were tied by this penny pinching ogre Krause.

 

[lawdog1]

He made them punch in for practice

It’s low key shocking he didn’t get Spreewell’d by one of his players during his tenure.

 

[darthska]

Bulls are bad but Boylen was on some other ****

Not sure if New York Bulls of Chicago or Chicago Knicks of New York.

 

[ahat]

Boucher is something else out there

Been that way all year

Always shows up to play. High effort yute

 

[dman14]

ian a throwback big. today's gm doesn't appreciate his skillset

 

[storm2006]

Udonis Haslem is starting today.

Serious question...does Udonis get his jersey retired in South Beach?

 

[B Sox]

idk about this one fam.

last years excuse was Otto Porter.
meaning that when Otto went down the entire team structure fell apart.

so you mean to tell me a guy that has been on the team for a year and a half after a trade was that crucial to the overall team success!?!?!?

With Lavine, Markkanen, Carter Jr, Gafford, White and fillers that Otto was the difference maker?????

if we were one Otto injury away from being a real team, then we were never a real team to begin with.
Dysfunction and chaos are often used as exaggerations but not in this case. The Reinsdorfs are the ultimate absentee bosses. They literally don’t give a single F about this team. As long as they keep making money so that they can subsidize that minor league scrub team on the south side, all is well.

The last dance doc should’ve told you all you needed to know about the Reinsdorfs. Happy to let the ghost of Krause catch all them stray bullets so they can look like the caring owners who’s hands were tied by this penny pinching ogre Krause.

No, I am not saying injuries are the only reason, but it definitely hasn't helped much of anything.

In the last 2 years...
Wendell Carter has only played in 59% of the team's games.
Lauri has only played in 69% of the team's games.
Dunn has only played in 66% of the team's games.

Since getting traded to the Bulls, Otto Porter has only played in 32% of the team's games.

Denzel Valentine missed half of this season.

They obviously need a new coach too on top of some more talent, but let's not act like the Bulls of the last 3 years have been what the franchise has been for the last couple decades.

 

[tay1]

How is Udonis Haslem swill with the Heat ?

 

[youngthundercat]

Serious question...does Udonis get his jersey retired in South Beach?

Hell yea...Riley know he better

 

[papichino]

Damn hope all is well

 

[Lake Shore Drive]

Serious question...does Udonis get his jersey retired in South Beach?

Miami has Michael’s # 23 retired.
A player who never suited up for them.

If Udonis had played for the Kings they would’ve put a statue of him outside the stadium already.

 

[Based Jesus]

Not sure if New York Bulls of Chicago or Chicago Knicks of New York.

We just minding our business Ska, let us live

 

[B Sox]

Damn hope all is well

Did he even play at all in the bubble?

 

[papichino]

Serious question...does Udonis get his jersey retired in South Beach?

Longevity and other stuff yes how about Nick Collison???

Plus like other NTer said Heat had Jordan retired.

And lastly he got #40 no one gonna fight for that number lol had he have a cool number like 7 or 3 wed be talking about it

 

[bostoiah]

Longevity and other stuff yes how about Nick Collison???

Plus like other NTer said Heat had Jordan retired.

And lastly he got #40 no one gonna fight for that number lol had he have a cool number like 7 or 3 wed be talking about it

UD is from Miami tho. Think this is what the video is about.

nick from Iowa (not okc or Seattle)

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Dame sold his soul or something man

 

[NickFolarin]

 

[NickFolarin]

Which criticism of KD are you insinuating that Dame deserves?

Responding to people on social media

 

[lovehateself]

Udonis Haslem is starting today.

are in in 2010 ?

 

[storm2006]

RE: Money (Salaries and Revenues)

Maybe the whole NBA has another motivation: This bubble has to work to remain anything like the rich league it has long been. If the NBA can’t come together, some very fine salaries might disappear for the foreseeable future. Plugged in people suggest a 2020-2021 season depends on players’ agreeing to the biggest pay cuts in history—the other option is the force majeure clause, and quite possibly tearing up the collective bargaining agreement.

We all think of the NBA as a pot of gold, but the NBA had a terrible financial year. It was in the hole many hundreds of millions because of China’s hard line against Daryl Morey’s single tweet in response to Hong Kong protests. Then the pandemic brought revenues down, temporarily from some billions a year, to zero. The pain is real now. There are suggestions the NBA, itself, might seek federal support. Billionaire owners have already been circling the White House, hoping for bailouts of their restaurant chains and cruise lines. Longer-term the outlook is hardly any rosier. Fans won’t be in stadiums anytime soon, which the NBA says means about a 40 percent revenue reduction. Disney just reported that ESPN had a great quarter in part because the NBA was closed—meaning not airing the games didn’t hurt as much as paying the rights fees. Cable, the league’s primary source of income, is in a freefall. Young people don’t watch at the rate of their parents. China is supposed to be the league’s key market of the future, but is a tough and increasingly unpopular partner.

 

[amitt5504]

Serious question...does Udonis get his jersey retired in South Beach?

Yes. He’s the #HeatCulture. Not that other BAN

 

[lovehateself]

Dame sold his soul or something man

all terrible shots

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Who tf is this photographer, smh. He got fired from the league and was in the bubble

 

[niketock88]

they had the opportunity to play like this since Nov of last year

I mean the Suns were in this position for a reason

....The bubble rules state that if the ninth seed is within four games of the eighth then there’s a play in tournament. The suns are tied for the ninth seed as far as I’m concerned.I don’t care if the grizzlies won their season matchup against Suns and are considered the 9th seed because of that. That’s not with the criteria or the rules of the bubble stated before this all started. You can’t just make up A whole new set of rules concerning the bubble and then sprinkling regular season rules in Whenever you feel. Suns tied for 9th and should be playing the grizzlies to play the Blazers otherwise don’t even implement a play in tourney. ..just give it to the blazers.