I guess maybe at this point it’s just a title and not really a description but with people talking about expanding to Vancouver, BC and games being played all over the world. The NBA really is international!
Do we think there’s any chance they change the name?
https://twitter.com/nbata/status/865936398620262400
He has been on the Sixers training staff since the beginning of the 2003-2004 season according to NBA.com
Context: Mark Cuban was talking about the AAF and its relationship to the NFL. He compared it to the relationship between the G-League and the NBA.
Full quote:
> Julian Newman, a member of the 2020 recruiting class, became a viral video sensation starting at eight years old.
> "He's got a few 100,000 followers on Instagram, and after every one of his games, he's selling merchandise. He's his own little business," said an impressed Cuban. "I don't know if he's good enough to make the NBA… but people recognize what the Ball's did with Big Baller Brand and what others have done. There are building businesses and brands around themselves."
> The G-League is where Cuban sees basketball, branding and capitalism colliding.
> In October the G-League, which is comprised of 28 teams including the Wizards' Capital City Go-Go affiliate, announced it would begin offering "select contracts" worth $125,000 annually starting with the 2019-20 season to prospects not yet eligible for the NBA. Often these prospects join the college ranks for a "one-and-done" season.
> Cuban sees another path for those headliners armed with a social media following.
> "If you're a strong enough brand and a good enough basketball player, you're crazy I think if you don't take the [$125,000 salary] in the NBA G-League (because) they can also do their own marketing deals. They're not constrained by the NBA players association."
Source: Ben Standig article on Yahoo/NBC
Ben Standig is a Wizards, Redskins reporter for nbc sports washington.
So I made the post recently about Ferris possibly being the first team since Yale in 1894 to go 16-0.
One other, maybe more impressive, note, that I thought people would be interested in, that could happen with a Ferris State victory this Saturday.
Ferris State won the 2017-18 Division II men's basketball national championship. One of the key contributors on that team was DeShaun Thrower.
Thrower is also a key contributor on the football team.
I posed the question a few weeks back, around when the playoffs started, on if anyone had won both a basketball and football national title at their school. There were some instances of winning a football conference title and playing in the Final Four (like Donovan McNabb), there was Charlie Ward winning a national championship and playing in the Elite Eight. Julius Peppers playing in a Super Bowl and Final Four. There was Jim Thorpe winning a football national championship and an intercollegiate ballroom dancing national championship.
But Thrower, I believe, would be the first to ever win both a football and basketball national championship during his college career.
EDIT - looks like Thrower would be the second. Chris Davis of Wisconsin-Whitewater looks like the first. He was on UWW's championship basketball team in 2011-12 and on the football national championship team in 2013. Thrower looks like he would be the second, first in D-II, and first to do it in the same calendar year.
The way this man ran the franchise into the ground is hard to put into words. Charles Oakley, a beloved Knicks legend experienced the bullshit a couple years ago and now even the biggest fan of the franchise, Spike Lee himself. This is getting beyond ridiculous and It's becoming really sad to watch this man destroy the franchise from all sides.
Adam Silver, please get this man away from the league, as far as possible. His influence is literally toxic.
I just saw Faried go for the tip at 6’8” so I assume that’s close? And I also wonder why Lebron never did opening tips in his prime?
Hey all. I'm looking to get into basketball this year, but have been told that to register as an individual I'd basically have to go there on the night and ask around, which just seems like a game of luck to me. So I thought I'd ask on here.
If it helps, I'm 23, reasonably athletic, and 205cm (but I've temporarily lost the ability to jump high enough to dunk, working on it though). If anyone out there needs someone else to fill out their team please let me know.
Thanks
EDIT: if there are other places to ask I'd also appreciate that
