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[Doc Jon]

The Sixers are 10-3.

They own one of the best records in the league.
They are undefeated at home.
They have the BEST point differential of ANY TEAM in the league (they win by more points than anyone else and lose by less).

And they can't buy a story on ESPN. That's because they are doing it through team play where the 5 starters regularly get double figures. They play team basketball, and so, they are ignored. They don't even get as many fouls because they don't have some superstar bitching and moaning on every play that they got hacked.

I'm not a huge fan of basketball anyway, but this is the type of bs that permeates the sport.

[avengingtitan]

I love basketball but this season I'm sitting it out. The strike pissed me off. A bunch of millionaires bitching about how to split billions. Fuck em.

[rdrsfn82]

ESPN being bad at covering things has nothing to do with the NBA.

The Sixers being good after 13 games is not something that needs tons of coverage. If they are still like this and playing this well after 30 games, they will get lots of coverage as the surprise team of the year.

They don't even have the best record in the East, much less the best record in all the NBA. There's 5 teams with 3 or fewer losses, and another 4 that only have 4 losses. So it's not like their record is anything terribly special.

Yes, they have the best point differential, but they have also played the Wizards twice (the worst team in the NBA, and a team with only one win all year), as well as Toronto, Phoenix, New Orleans, and Detroit, all horrible teams that are among the 5 or 6 worst in the NBA. In fact, they've played 9 games against teams with losing records and have 8 of their 10 wins in those games, while only going 2-2 against teams with winning records (and no games against the other first place teams, and only 2 games against 2nd place teams with a 1-1 record in those games) so their record could easily be an illusion of a favorable early schedule and they may well fall off a cliff as they play better teams.

So basically, this is far from a travesty.

[rdrsfn82]

I love basketball but this season I'm sitting it out. The strike pissed me off. A bunch of millionaires bitching about how to split billions. Fuck em.

Now this, this is a great reason to hate the NBA.

It doesn't bother me personally, or at least not enough to make me not want to watch, but I understand this thought process.

[Juan Cena]

I love basketball but this season I'm sitting it out. The strike pissed me off. A bunch of millionaires bitching about how to split billions. Fuck em.

It was a lockout on the owners' part, not a strike. Big difference.

[avengingtitan]

It was a lockout on the owners' part, not a strike. Big difference.

Either way it was a bunch of people fighting over BILLIONS of dollars and being real bitchy about it.

[eltopo]

The Sixers are 10-3.

They own one of the best records in the league.
They are undefeated at home.
They have the BEST point differential of ANY TEAM in the league (they win by more points than anyone else and lose by less).

And they can't buy a story on ESPN. That's because they are doing it through team play where the 5 starters regularly get double figures. They play team basketball, and so, they are ignored. They don't even get as many fouls because they don't have some superstar bitching and moaning on every play that they got hacked.

I'm not a huge fan of basketball anyway, but this is the type of bs that permeates the sport.

I agree

[Keb]

Co-sign rdrs.

There are always teams playing great team ball who don't get coverage on the big sports networks, because the big sports networks have to report on the big money stars and big money teams. The Houston Rockets were like that a couple years ago when they were tearing shit up in the playoffs. Same goes for Memphis last year.

The biggest name on the Sixers right now is Brand (heh Brand name) and even he hasn't been a really big name in sports for a long time. If the Sixers make the playoffs as a 4th seed or higher, they'll be a big deal.

[Doc Jon]

ESPN being bad at covering things has nothing to do with the NBA.

The Sixers being good after 13 games is not something that needs tons of coverage. If they are still like this and playing this well after 30 games, they will get lots of coverage as the surprise team of the year.

They don't even have the best record in the East, much less the best record in all the NBA. There's 5 teams with 3 or fewer losses, and another 4 that only have 4 losses. So it's not like their record is anything terribly special.

Yes, they have the best point differential, but they have also played the Wizards twice (the worst team in the NBA, and a team with only one win all year), as well as Toronto, Phoenix, New Orleans, and Detroit, all horrible teams that are among the 5 or 6 worst in the NBA. In fact, they've played 9 games against teams with losing records and have 8 of their 10 wins in those games, while only going 2-2 against teams with winning records (and no games against the other first place teams, and only 2 games against 2nd place teams with a 1-1 record in those games) so their record could easily be an illusion of a favorable early schedule and they may well fall off a cliff as they play better teams.

So basically, this is far from a travesty.

Uh-huh.

What we need are entire articles on LeBron understanding the pressures Tebow is facing.

It's a joke, plain and simple.

[rdrsfn82]

Co-sign rdrs.

There are always teams playing great team ball who don't get coverage on the big sports networks, because the big sports networks have to report on the big money stars and big money teams. The Houston Rockets were like that a couple years ago when they were tearing shit up in the playoffs. Same goes for Memphis last year.

The biggest name on the Sixers right now is Brand (heh Brand name) and even he hasn't been a really big name in sports for a long time. If the Sixers make the playoffs as a 4th seed or higher, they'll be a big deal.

I laughed at your shitty pun.

[rdrsfn82]

Uh-huh.

What we need are entire articles on LeBron understanding the pressures Tebow is facing.

It's a joke, plain and simple.

Again, ESPN being shitty has nothing to do with the NBA and everything to do with ESPN being shitty. Their terrible coverage of all sports is not a sign that all sports are awful.

[habitual]

The Sixers are 10-3.

They own one of the best records in the league.
They are undefeated at home.
They have the BEST point differential of ANY TEAM in the league (they win by more points than anyone else and lose by less).

And they can't buy a story on ESPN. That's because they are doing it through team play where the 5 starters regularly get double figures. They play team basketball, and so, they are ignored. They don't even get as many fouls because they don't have some superstar bitching and moaning on every play that they got hacked.

I'm not a huge fan of basketball anyway, but this is the type of bs that permeates the sport.

So ESPN is the NBA's biggest problem?

Philly is pretty good this year, you'll see more coverage later in the year, there not at the Mav's or Heat's level yet.

Hab

[Punchy]

Sounds like your problem is with the media than with the sport.

Like saying all comic books suck because you don't like Newsarama.

[rdrsfn82]

Sounds like your problem is with the media than with the sport.

Like saying all comic books suck because you don't like Newsarama.

This guy doesn't follow ESPN or the NBA, but gets it.

It's really not a complicated thing.

[Doc Jon]

So ESPN is the NBA's biggest problem?

Hab

Well, media coverage from the biggest sports network in the world is a huge problem.