View Full Version : No Spurs/Heat on Christmas Day
Amuseddaysleeper
07-25-2013, 09:36 AM
The Miami Heat will be getting their 2013 NBA championship rings in front of the Chicago Bulls. Their fans then will get to enjoy their Christmas dinner watching the Heat from afar, against the Los Angeles Lakers.
At least that's the preliminary word based on the nearly completed draft of the 2013-14 NBA schedule sent this week to teams and league broadcast partners, the Sun Sentinel has learned.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/sfl-miami-heat-nba-schedule-s072413,0,4285221.story
look_at_g_shred
07-25-2013, 09:42 AM
Fucking figures! I want to play on Christmas dammit!
bklynspursfan
07-25-2013, 09:59 AM
Who's really surprised about this.... The league would take a crappy LA team on Christmas any day of the week vs. the Spurs as the marquis game. Who knows, maybe we'll play the late game in Golden State since that was an exciting series.
Vash StampedE
07-25-2013, 10:00 AM
Fuck Stern/Silver! We were the Finals runner-ups. We supposed to get that Christmas rematch-up against the Heat. Fuck the ratings!!!!
eric365
07-25-2013, 10:12 AM
It will be a blowout game...
xmas1997
07-25-2013, 10:14 AM
The Spurs get to stay home with their families, I think they would be glad for that.
RD2191
07-25-2013, 10:16 AM
Lol, Lakers bout to get blown the fuk out on national tv. Sounds good to me.
The Lakers on Christmas has become the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. It doesnt matter if they are good or bad. i already expect it.
Vash StampedE
07-25-2013, 10:24 AM
This is one reason I hate the NBA. Money-driven league.
InRareForm
07-25-2013, 10:25 AM
Did WOJ confirm this? I won't believe it until WOJ reports it
Leetonidas
07-25-2013, 10:37 AM
Heat/Lakers? You'd get a better game out of of the Pelicans than the Lakers. Who the fuck wants to see a shitty team that will most likely be below .500 play the best team in basketball on Christmas?
Also, the league will never get its Kobe v Lebron dream finals match up, so they have to manufacture these hyped games.
spurs1990
07-25-2013, 11:54 AM
On one hand I understand the leagues mindset knowing how Pop has sat starters for any number of reasons. Vindictive or cautionary, we can trace the reasoning.
Plus it wouldn't be Christmas without heat lakers...going on 10 straight years I'd wager.
TheGoldStandard
07-25-2013, 11:56 AM
Eh, Spurs get to be with there family during the holidays and that's more important.. This should be great though to see the Lakers fall apart.
Amuseddaysleeper
07-25-2013, 11:58 AM
Just because Spurs aren't playing the Heat doesn't mean they will be getting Xmas off.
They just as likely could be playing the Rockets or Warriors or something.
CitizenDwayne
07-25-2013, 12:13 PM
:lol
Anyone who was expecting any different is delusional.
tesseractive
07-25-2013, 02:15 PM
It will be a blowout game...
The Lakers could easily be something like 5-15 at that point. :lol
TheyCallMePro
07-25-2013, 02:42 PM
Wow. What bullshit. The main Christmas Day game is supposed to match up the two previous Finals participants. This is a complete cop out by the NBA. They went for the money/ratings grab all the way. This makes me sick. Seriously.
We should be more angry at these continued slights. Most of you just want to let it go and say we don't care, etc. Well I'm sick of doing that. I wish there was a way we Spurs fans could get back at the NBA for continuing to slight us like this. Like being fucking fined for resting our players after having to play like 4 games in 5 nights last year. This is so ridiculous.
That said...our players probably would prefer to be with their families on Christmas anyways...but as a fan I'm let down still. Especially if we have to play someone else on that day. That would be outrageous.
elmanutres
07-25-2013, 02:45 PM
Just because Spurs aren't playing the Heat doesn't mean they will be getting Xmas off.
They just as likely could be playing the Rockets or Warriors or something.
watching it against the heat would be more worthwhile. watching the lakers get anally raped by the heat would be lame. Still i hope we play on Christmas day, cause i really want a Christmas day spurs jersey
tmtcsc
07-25-2013, 03:02 PM
Ummm, we won the 2012-2013 Finals. Not sure what the deal is here. Absolute slight on NBA's part.
Signed,
Indie Nile
timtonymanu
07-25-2013, 03:04 PM
Honestly, I don't even care about regular season games anymore.
Can we just skip right to the playoffs? There's something I was robbed of last June. :lol
smaka
07-25-2013, 03:39 PM
2 words for all the guys that are surprised:
small market
baseline bum
07-25-2013, 04:07 PM
Fuck Stern/Silver! We were the Finals runner-ups. We supposed to get that Christmas rematch-up against the Heat. Fuck the ratings!!!!
Doesn't always happen like that. I remember the Spurs got a road game in LA on Christmas Day 1999 as defending champs. Snitch threw down a nasty dunk on Jaren Jackson.
baseline bum
07-25-2013, 04:10 PM
Just because Spurs aren't playing the Heat doesn't mean they will be getting Xmas off.
They just as likely could be playing the Rockets or Warriors or something.
A Spurs-Rockets Christmas Day matchup would be awesome. Especially if it's in Houston so the fans can get butthurt when Pop starts hacking Howard.
slick'81
07-25-2013, 04:12 PM
After that great finals how the spurs don't play the heat is bs
Vash StampedE
07-25-2013, 04:37 PM
Higher Ratings>Better Basketball game.
A Spurs-Houston/GS would do it for me if a matchup versus the Heat can't happen. Yeah, I would love to see the Spurs give Houston and Howard some Christmas freebies from the free throw line.
hater
07-25-2013, 04:37 PM
good.
who wants to watch 6 vs 4 basketball again??
Not thrilled, but we will get to play the Heat again (probably on NBA TV... heh). This is probably retaliation to Pop and Spoelstra likely sitting their A team against each other until the Finals yet again next year.
LarryDavid
07-25-2013, 05:49 PM
This is one reason I hate the NBA. Money-driven league.
All leagues are money driven.
Poolboy5623
07-25-2013, 07:41 PM
I'd rather not think about the spurs/heat this Christmas...a win against the heat wouldn't be that satisfying, with how the finals ended..a loss would be a painful reminder.....on Christmas!? No thanks.
Poolboy5623
07-25-2013, 07:43 PM
How many "28 second" replays, do some of you, realistically... think you can handle?
Doesn't always happen like that. I remember the Spurs got a road game in LA on Christmas Day 1999 as defending champs. Snitch threw down a nasty dunk on Jaren Jackson.
Christmas Day 2005 was a loss against Detroit right?
I see SAS/HOU or SAS/GSW or even SAS/OKC on Christmas though.
Poolboy5623
07-25-2013, 08:56 PM
I remember that Xmas day game, against det...it was UGLY.
I dunno if we had Christmas Day 2007 against Cleveland. Probably not since that Finals was a coronation and ratings poison.
SAS/CLE that season gave us a SuperManu game though, so I'm happy.
barakz21
07-25-2013, 09:09 PM
It's cool if we don't have a Christmas game against the Heat. I mean, how funny would it be to watch LA on Christmas day not because they deserve it but simply because they're the Lakers? And to be utterly destroyed by Miami, mind you.
Marrow
07-25-2013, 09:21 PM
It's cool if we don't have a Christmas game against the Heat. I mean, how funny would it be to watch LA on Christmas day not because they deserve it but simply because they're the Lakers? And to be utterly destroyed by Miami, mind you.
Truly a great gift :lol
Don't the Lakers make a spectacle of losing on Christmas Day anyway?
They won in 2012 against NYK and 2008 against BOS, but in other years a Lakers Christmas Day game sucked for them. :lol
FTL, tbh
barakz21
07-25-2013, 10:34 PM
Truly a great gift :lol
The announcement of the game was actually a gift for us Spurs fans. Prefect example of what one would call "Christmas in July" Lol
Sean Cagney
07-25-2013, 11:27 PM
:lol
Anyone who was expecting any different is delusional.
YEP, who cares..... Your right.
Amuseddaysleeper
07-26-2013, 05:29 PM
A Spurs-Rockets Christmas Day matchup would be awesome. Especially if it's in Houston so the fans can get butthurt when Pop starts hacking Howard.
I would love that matchup :ihit
Drom John
07-27-2013, 08:50 AM
Christmas 2007
Miami at Cleveland
Suns at Lakers
SuperSonics at Trailblazers
T Park
07-27-2013, 11:35 AM
This is one reason I hate the NBA. Money-driven league.
Lol they're a business not a charity case. They have to turn a profit. Nice fail here.
raybies
07-27-2013, 06:40 PM
Nbatv doing a spurs vs heat series replay starting at 1 pm cst tomorrow for those who want to relive the finals... They also doing the bulls heat replay tonight for those who want to scout beli.
TheGreatYacht
07-27-2013, 06:50 PM
Nbatv doing a spurs vs heat series replay starting at 1 pm cst tomorrow for those who want to relive the finals... They also doing the bulls heat replay tonight for those who want to scout beli.Good. I suggest that the Pop and Manu apologists go re-watch the game and try to fight off their blind homerism of blaming the loss on the whole team when Pop and Manu were clearly the ones that fucked up the most.
xmas1997
07-27-2013, 07:47 PM
Good. I suggest that the Pop and Manu apologists go re-watch the game and try to fight off their blind homerism of blaming the loss on the whole team when Pop and Manu were clearly the ones that fucked up the most.
Don't you ever stop?
:troll:deadhorse
bklynspursfan
08-01-2013, 12:27 PM
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look_at_g_shred
08-01-2013, 12:58 PM
Spurs Vs Rockets sounds good to me on Christmas Day.
superbigtime
08-01-2013, 02:15 PM
dissed
FromWayDowntown
08-01-2013, 02:21 PM
Combining this with Frank Isola's tweets from 7/30, Christmas looks to be:
OKC/NYK
BRK/CHI
MIA/LAL
LAC/GST
with one more game -- a Rockets' road game -- to be revealed.
ducks
08-01-2013, 02:26 PM
kobe is going to lose again on christmas
Proxy
08-01-2013, 02:41 PM
Imagine Pop sitting the the starting 5 on Christmas day
raybies
08-01-2013, 02:43 PM
If stern really wanted to get us he would have us on the road against Miami opening day...
look_at_g_shred
08-01-2013, 03:10 PM
Combining this with Frank Isola's tweets from 7/30, Christmas looks to be:
OKC/NYK
BRK/CHI
MIA/LAL
LAC/GST
with one more game -- a Rockets' road game -- to be revealed.
Rockets Vs Pacers Probably
T Park
08-01-2013, 03:31 PM
Thats a pretty darn good Christmas Day lineup IMO. Win win, NBA gets its big city teams and the fans get solid games.
cheguevara
08-01-2013, 04:19 PM
I'd rather not think about the spurs/heat this Christmas...a win against the heat wouldn't be that satisfying, with how the finals ended..a loss would be a painful reminder.....on Christmas!? No thanks.
:tu
Clipper Nation
08-01-2013, 05:48 PM
Next time the Spurs get a Christmas game, Pop should rest all the starters and spend the whole game hacking all the other team's bigs :lol
Kool Bob Love
08-01-2013, 06:55 PM
Rockets @ Spurs? :nerd :hungry:
Josepatches_
08-01-2013, 07:53 PM
I was expecting a HOU@LAL game tbh
4 or 5 years ago we won a christmas game in PHO with a Mason Jr 3 pointer if I'm not wrong
look_at_g_shred
08-01-2013, 09:00 PM
I was expecting a HOU@LAL game tbh
4 or 5 years ago we won a christmas game in PHO with a Mason Jr 3 pointer if I'm not wrong
Correct
FromWayDowntown
08-02-2013, 10:05 AM
If the Rockets have a road game on Christmas and if it happens to be at San Antonio, that will be the first time the Spurs have ever played a home game on Christmas day. All of the other 7 Spurs Christmas Day games have been on the road -- and the bulk of those (5) have been in Phoenix or Los Angeles.
Spurs All-Time Christmas Day games:
1978 at NOJ (Win)
1980 at PNX (Loss)
1992 at LAC (Win)
1995 at PNX (Win)
1999 at LAL (Loss)
2005 at DET (Loss)
2008 at PNX (Win)
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