David_Eight
@David_Eight@lemmy.world
- Comment on NBA's 25 under 25: Ranking Wemby, Sengun and more rising stars 2 weeks ago:
That’s cause he’s always out of shape and doesn’t take care of himself. All that extra weight he carries around puts stress on his body. Dude just doesn’t care, if he did and put in the work LeBron style Zion would be minimum top 5 in the league.
- Comment on NBA's 25 under 25: Ranking Wemby, Sengun and more rising stars 2 weeks ago:
If we’re ranking them purely on potential, then Zion should be #2.
- Comment on With a budget of $120 million, Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" grossed only $4 million on its opening weekend, making it one of the worst box office openings for a $100M+ movie to date. 2 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Installation 2 months ago:
I’ve never seen pex running into a house from the street/ground. It’s always been copper up to the water meter at the very least and it’s code (in NJ at least) to put grounding wire there.
- Comment on Towns to New york 2 months ago:
Regular season it’ll probably look like a bad trade for Minnesota. But that’s not what this trade is about. During the playoff KATs going to fold like a lawn chair in New York. Randle and Dante will be solid roll players and that’s enough to make this trade an upgrade for Minnesota.
Remember that story about how Jimmy Butler clowned the T-wolves starting five with some G League players? Guess who Jimmy was gaurding during that scrimmage lol.
- Comment on Towns to New york 2 months ago:
KAT disappears every post season, might as well try something new.
- Comment on Charles Barkley Releases Statement 4 months ago:
what does that have to do with comparing Amazon to TNT?
IDK, you brought up NBA LEAGUE PASS.
Maybe you are confusing League Pass with NBA TV which is operated through TNT.
I thought they came together. Does the NBA have two separate streaming services? Is NBA TV like an actual cable channel?
- Comment on Charles Barkley Releases Statement 4 months ago:
I understand that the games Amazon just bought are separate than NBA LEAGUE PASS. You can watch LEAGUE PASS on Amazon and those League Pass games will cost extra.
And I’m not talking about the games that are broadcast on TNT with Ernie and Chuck. I’m talking about the games on League Pass, someone needs to build a studio, film the games, make the halftime show etc. that someone is TNT. The NBA doesn’t make all that themselves because they didn’t have studio space, cameras or the know-how to do it themselves so they contacted TNT to make that for them.
Just like all the shows on Amazon aren’t actually made by Amazon.
- Comment on Charles Barkley Releases Statement 4 months ago:
You’ll still have to pay extra to watch League Pass on Amazon. And the NBA has to pay TNT for league pass content because TNT produces those shows for the NBA.
- Comment on Charles Barkley Releases Statement 4 months ago:
My point was you don’t need cable to watch the TNT games so the initial comment was false in premise.
You bring up a good point, how many subscribers does Prime have over Max though?
- Comment on Charles Barkley Releases Statement 4 months ago:
They stream the games on HBO MAX. How is streaming the games on Amazon prime any better?
- Comment on NBA announces $77 billion deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon 4 months ago:
David Zaslav is such a jackass.
- Comment on Joel Embiid Explains Decision to Play for Team USA over France at 2024 Paris Olympics | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report 5 months ago:
Yeah that’s lame, dude spent his entire childhood in Cameroon and just dropped his homeland like that, sad.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery (TNT) Intends To Match Amazon’s NBA Rights Deal 5 months ago:
They put the GAMES On MAX(formally HBO)
- Comment on LeBron James Takes Near $3M Pay Cut; 2-Year Contract Worth $101.3M 5 months ago:
I agree that the Lakers drafted Bronny for LeBron. LeBron didn’t take a pay cut because of Bronny though. LeBron, if he wanted could have gotten a full max from the Lakers. Also Bronny is making the league minimum, not some crazy great deal.
- Comment on LeBron James Takes Near $3M Pay Cut; 2-Year Contract Worth $101.3M 5 months ago:
He took less so the team would be under the second apron, this makes it way easier to improve the roster. I don’t see how Bronny plays into this?
- Comment on Plot twist: Bronny to the Lakers 5 months ago:
Is this up to date? It seems it was last updated for the 22-23 season before the newest cba took effect.
- Comment on Plot twist: Bronny to the Lakers 5 months ago:
If a Team has made a Required Tender to such a player and the player has not signed a Player Contract within the period between the Initial Draft and the Subsequent Draft, the Team that drafted the player shall lose its exclusive right to negotiate with the player and the player will then be eligible for selection in the Subsequent Draft.
…github.io/…/player-eligibility-and-nba-draft.htm…
This is what I found about the topic but IDK how accurate it is.
- Comment on Plot twist: Bronny to the Lakers 5 months ago:
I think you can re-enter the draft the following year in hopes of getting picked by another team. So if a player says I’m not playing for you, most teams probably don’t want to waste a pick on a player they’ll never get.
For players there is no benefit to being drafted early in second round vs going undeafted. Only first round picks are subject to the rookie scale, everyone else can get paid as much or little as they can negotiate. So theoretically the last pick in the draft or someone undrafted all together can get paid more than the first pick.
- Comment on Plot twist: Bronny to the Lakers 5 months ago:
I think that’s relatively common for second round picks. I know Austin Reeves did something similar.
- Comment on Plaschke: Dan Hurley rejection is another humiliation for Lakers brand 6 months ago:
He’s wants input or he wants to be the GM, there’s an important difference there. A coach having input is normal, a coach wanting to be the GM or having final say isn’t. If it’s the latter then it’s just not a good fit for either side.
- Comment on [Charania] Celtics' Kristaps Porzingis suffered a torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior tibialis tendon. 6 months ago:
I have no idea what that means but it doesn’t sound good lol. Does that mean he’s out for the rest of the series?
- Comment on Plaschke: Dan Hurley rejection is another humiliation for Lakers brand 6 months ago:
IDK, this whole article seems to be based on conjecture to me. Maybe Hurley and his family like living in Connecticut, maybe he just prefers coaching college, maybe he just did the interview to get more money out of UCONN. It’d be embarrassing if he signed with anither NBA team but he stayed where he was.
People always overreact with the Lakers. People’s opinion on Palinka change with the wind. He’s done a decent job overall IMO.
- Comment on Plaschke: Dan Hurley rejection is another humiliation for Lakers brand 6 months ago:
OMG how will the city of Los Angeles live with such shame. Palinka should perform harakiri due the embarrassment he has brought from this failure.
- Comment on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says finalizing the new media rights deals is 'complex' process 6 months ago:
- Comment on [Game Threads] 15 MAY 2024 - PLAYOFFS RD 2 DAY 11 7 months ago:
I think the Knicks should just be themselves, green isn’t Brunsons color.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 12 MAY 2024 - PLAYOFFS RD 2 DAY 8 7 months ago:
It’s ok, most of the Knicks missed the game to lol.
- Comment on Knicks' OG Anunoby Out for NBA Playoffs Game 4 vs. Pacers with Hamstring Injury 7 months ago:
Thibs need to get smarter about running guys into the ground.
He won’t, been doing this since his days as the Bulls HC over a decade ago.
- Comment on Possible foul on Brunson at end of game (not called) 7 months ago:
It was a foul but, he immediately hurled the ball up trying to get 3 FT or the 4pt play. If you really on the refs to bail you out vs playing to the whistle you leave your fate in someone else’s hands 🤷🏻.
- Comment on 🚨 Suns Give Budenholzer $50M 7 months ago:
Ah, I see the Sun’s are continuing with the “I’m a new owner and I’ll just spend my way to a championship” strategy. Bold move.