2013/14 NBA season chatter - let the LBJ hating begin!

• wildcats20

  

  ESPN has already changed many games. I think 3 or 4 Lakers games have been dropped.
  
  But usually TNT nights there are only 2 or 3 games even being played, so they get the 2 bigger name match ups.
  
  Tonight, these are the only 2 games in the League.
• Laley23

  

  gerb131;1580538 wrote:Yea before the season I'm sure.
  Should do some flex shit like the nfl or something.

  Im sure this has very little to do with anything, but doing it this way would put people out of work (or the company would have to shell out twice as much).
  
  By that I mean, NFL games usually have a set crew who do all of CBS A-B-C-D-ETC games. So if it go flexed out, no one is really losing money, they just work a few days earlier or later that week.
  
  NBA though, TNT/ESPN/ABC hire out freelancers locally. They might have their director or something be a company employee, but Cam Ops, CG Ops, Audio Techs etc will more than likely be local. If TNT books them, they pay them. Doesnt matter if the game is cancelled, the contract is made. So TNT flexs out of LA tonight and heads to, say, Miami. Well, now they have to pay 2 crews...on top of that, someone has to find a crew on (relative) short notice...
• gerb131

  

  Thanks Laley I understand the crews etc..
  
  Skills competition between the tnt guys is some what interesting.
  They are putting next lol
• Ironman92

  

  The soccer kicking by Kenny Smith was killing me.
• Ironman92

  

  Jordan must still play
  
  http://youtu.be/goInA2sgWNs
• wildcats20

  

  Is that a new video?
• Ironman92

  

  Skills challenge was pretty fun. Burl shot that 19 footer, ran around to get the last ball, weaves through two obstacles and laid the ball in under 6.5 seconds to win by 1/10th of a second
• Lovejoy1984

  

  wildcats20;1581179 wrote:Is that a new video?

  OJ was in HS I do believe.
• Ironman92

  

  Fail on me.
• gerb131

  

  I got lillard in the dunk contest
• wildcats20

  

  I have literally no idea what is going on in the dunk contest.
• Ironman92

  

  Dumbest dunk contest start ever....then a camera angle from the god damn rafters
• Ironman92

  

  wildcats20;1581234 wrote:I have literally no idea what is going on in the dunk contest.

  The west thought it was a fancy layup contest at first.
• Ironman92

  

  McClemore had the best lookin hops
  
  But I'm taking Wall
• Trueblue23

  

  This format is DUMB
• gorocks99

  

  Total shit
• Lovejoy1984

  

  Watched for all of 3 minutes, and I had to turn it off.
• Ironman92

  

  Here Ye Here Ye
  
  Then John Wall just tells him to get the hell out of here with that shit.
• wildcats20

  

  Wall's dunk was real nice. But I still don't know what happened.
• gport_tennis

  Format is dumb as fuck. Nick cannon don't even know what to say Lol.. john wall sick dunk though. These guys getting interviewed are giving no emotion to nick cannon. Its like interviewing a wall
• Ironman92

  

  Thank God for Barkley and Shaq
• Pick6

  

  that shit fucking sucked. congrats NBA for ruining the only professional all-star weekend I semi-looked forward to.
• gerb131

  

  West is up 13 at half. Griffin with a dunk clinic oh and a lay up
• Ironman92

  

  Well....we got the dunk contest, just 21 hours after we expected it
  
  
  That halftime show was the worst.
• Ironman92

  

  The 85 foot pinpoint chest pass from Kevin Love is something special.