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Cheers my friend!
Let's hope they can turn out a win in a historically difficult place to play.
My prediction:
Spurs by 8.
Cheers my friend!
Let's hope they can turn out a win in a historically difficult place to play.
My prediction:
Spurs by 8.
Faried is out for Denver.
Trap-ish game, tbh..Nuggets are still in playoffs race, but lost 3 straight and players got called out by their coach after last one..
Det elevation
Spurs - 109
Nuggets - 97
Interesting turn of the NBA schedule: Bill Kennedy was the crew chief on Tuesday night in SA for the Spurs/Raptors game; he's also the crew chief tonight for the Spurs/Nuggets game. It would take a while to figure out the last time an official worked consecutive games for one team -- there's usually a gap of at least a few games -- and even longer to figure out when that might have happened without those games being split by something like the All-Star break.
To be clear: tonight's crew chief is the same as Tuesday's, but the rest of the crew in Denver tonight is different than the crew for the Toronto game. Kennedy worked with Nick Buchert and Justin Van Duyne in SA/TOR; he's working with Steve Anderson and Leroy Richardson in SA/DEN.
Interesting point. Does the NBA make a point of keeping official crews from working consecutive games with the same teams, or is it just rare because of the number of teams and travel, etc? I would assume the former, but I have no idea really.
Help LMA get rid of the last of that summer fat.As we learned last year, post Christmas the
starts a rollin'.
I think they generally try to avoid this situation. I know that there's a rule prohibiting an official from working games in the same team's home building without a 14 day break between the games -- so, Kennedy wouldn't be able to do a Spurs game in San Antonio until after January 17. But the geography of the league and the nature of the schedule make it hard to keep officials, and particularly high-end officials like crew chiefs, out of seeing the same team twice in close proximity (For instance, earlier this season, Zach Zarba worked the Spurs game in Chicago on a Thursday, and then had the Spurs' home game against Boston on a Wednesday -- there was only one intervening Spurs game, a home game against Brooklyn on a Saturday).
Thanks for the info. I'd no idea.I just knew that they didn't double up in the playoffs.
As applied to the playoffs, I think those rules are being relaxed, too, particularly in the later rounds.Thanks for the info. I'd no idea.
The 14-day rule doesn't apply in the conference finals or the Finals (for instance, Jason Phillips worked Game 3 of the Finals in Cleveland last year, and then worked Game 6 in Cleveland as well, only six days later) -- though they clearly do try to minimize repe ion to the greatest extent possible. With that, even last year, Monty McCutchen had Spurs/Thunder Game 3 in OKC and Game 5 in SA, which was something that I'd never seen in a Second Round series through many years of keeping track of how officials are assigned to playoff games.
Jokic vs Pau
LMAlpha going to 30
Okc - rox, I'll keep one eye on that one
I expect a lot of jump shots with that al ude tbh.
Jamie Foxx ftw.
What did he say?
Better than Denzel
Took Kobe off the list because all the other guys would be easier to build a team around. Jalen Rose agreed and said Duncan stayed on the same team under the same coach for 19 years, Kobe was on the same team but had 10 different coaches
Kobe easily.
I'm almost 100% sure they included Tim in that picture assuming that's who Foxx would pick. Epic backfire.
Sadly, that's the angle Stephen A Smith and others Bryant apologists seize upon. Kobe had "adversity". Nevermind that a lot of that was self-inflicted adversity. As if Phil and Rudy T weren't quality coaches. And too bad you pushed out Shaq, etc,
Not to mention he requested a trade
Kirby pumpers getting BTFO, as per usual
Not to mention he requested a trade
Kirby pumpers getting BTFO, as per usual
That pic has been going around for two months now. It wasn't something ESPN came up with.
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