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48 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

Cade was on KD's podcast. Excellent interview, worth the watch. 

 

Bro.

Kidding aside, great interview. Although, I'm a bit upset how likeable KD was in that interview.

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Despite LeBron James' imminent return, the NBA’s star crisis worsens

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All told, NBA stars have already missed over 200 games this season due to injury or illness, doubling the total we saw at this point two years ago. The NBA’s official star designation in the league’s player participation policy stipulates that a star player is one who has made an All-Star or All-NBA team in any of the previous three seasons. This season, 45 players meet that criteria, which means that, on average, NBA stars have already been sidelined by about five games each.

For a league fighting the image that star players aren’t playing enough, this season’s power outage is especially alarming. In 2023-24, with the first year of the mid-season tournament seeming to motivate its biggest names to suit up, star players played 87.2% of its games by this juncture of the season (12 games in). Last season, it dipped to 82.6%. This season, the bottom has fallen out, with star participation falling to 67.6%.

Put another way, in the opening month of the season, star players used to miss only one out of every nine or 10 games. Now, on average, it’s one out of every three games.

Of greatest concern for the league, stars played in just 56% of their teams’ 12th games this season, continuing a downward trend as we head toward Thanksgiving. The league is dangerously close to having the distinction of having over half its stars in street clothes on any given night in the NBA, something we typically don’t see until the last week of the season as teams rest their stars for the postseason. Now, we’re seeing it in November.

 

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Home court doesn't mean much.  I just looked back at the last 3 finals.  A 4th, 5th, and 7th seed made it to the finals.  Those 3 teams had 12 series and only one was a home series.  The home team did win each Finals though.

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But wait.  PBev's lawyer said he was just protecting his sister from a predatory 18 year old?

Jesus christ.  This is so brutal you almost hope she is a liar.

Patrick Beverley Accused of Choking, Punching Sister In Eye ... Before Assault Arrest

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Upon his arrival, Hilderbrand was told to go inside ... and Lisa called Beverley to come over to the residence.

 

Beverley then seemingly scolded his sister before he "grabbed her by her neck with both hands, and picked her up off the ground, by having her feet come up from the floor."

 

His sister claims his grasp on her neck made her feel pain and as if she was losing oxygen and unable to breathe ... which lasted between 20 and 30 seconds.

The sister stated Beverley took her out of the bedroom by the neck and slammed her body against the walls of an open room area of the house.

 

She claims Beverley then laid her on the sofa, stood on top of her and punched her "approximately one time on her left eye with a closed fist."

 

The sister added Beverley made a comment that "he will be the family relative to kill her."

 

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