2021-22 Around the NBA Thread

[Cheesebeef]

@AzStevenCal

It's the full recovery comments after back surgery that often make me skeptical. I'm not sure if anyone is the same coming off more than one back surgery, especially lower back. Actually I'm not sure what that means. My personal observation is back problems don't go away. Maybe they get better.

They don’t. At least to the idea that the back is ever really “back to normal” ever again. Especially with, what... four back surgeries already at that age?

 

[Phrazbit]

Lt Dan Taylor is expected to make a full recovery after having both his legs amputated.

 

[Mainstreet]

Lt Dan Taylor is expected to make a full recovery after having both his legs amputated.

Gary Sinise was so good playing that role in Forest Gump.

 

[Covert Rain]

@AzStevenCal

It's the full recovery comments after back surgery that often make me skeptical. I'm not sure if anyone is the same coming off more than one back surgery, especially lower back. Actually I'm not sure what that means. My personal observation is back problems don't go away. Maybe they get better.

My buddy who is the super active outdoor type has had 3 back surgeries this year. He got some very very short-term relief but it's still messed up and they want him to go back for a 4th. He is almost ready to just hang up some of the outdoor activities and accept he will likely always be in pain. He was promised relief with the first three and it simply hasn't happened. He just has no faith in the 4th. Back surgery is a crap shoot without being a professional athlete.

 

[Ronin]

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[Mainstreet]

My buddy who is the super active outdoor type has had 3 back surgeries this year. He got some very very short-term relief but it's still messed up and they want him to go back for a 4th. He is almost ready to just hang up some of the outdoor activities and accept he will likely always be in pain. He was promised relief with the first three and it simply hasn't happened. He just has no faith in the 4th. Back surgery is a crap shoot without being a professional athlete.

An anesthesiologist once told me he sees just as many people after surgery as he does before surgery.

 

[TRW]

My buddy who is the super active outdoor type has had 3 back surgeries this year. He got some very very short-term relief but it's still messed up and they want him to go back for a 4th. He is almost ready to just hang up some of the outdoor activities and accept he will likely always be in pain. He was promised relief with the first three and it simply hasn't happened. He just has no faith in the 4th. Back surgery is a crap shoot without being a professional athlete.

I have a friend in the same situation. He just decided to “live” with it. Never ending pain even with pain meds. It’s sad and frustrating.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I have a friend in the same situation. He just decided to “live” with it. Never ending pain even with pain meds. It’s sad and frustrating.

My wife had her back fused in 97 and has lived with intermittent (frequent) pain and discomfort ever since. But she was in constant agony before the surgery so she'd do it again in a heartbeat if necessary.

 

[Mainstreet]

I have a friend in the same situation. He just decided to “live” with it. Never ending pain even with pain meds. It’s sad and frustrating.

At a certain point in time this is what it comes down too for a lot of people after they have exhausted other options.

 

[Ronin]

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[Suns_fan69]

Found this via NBA Reddit, but a slightly more nuanced take on Strength of Schedule which factors in home vs away and days of rest:

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[Phrazbit]

Found this via NBA Reddit, but a slightly more nuanced take on Strength of Schedule which factors in home vs away and days of rest:

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Pretty funny that the Lakers have looked like such trash against such a garbage schedule.

As for our low scoring SOS at the moment and for the rest of the season as well... I suspect it is because we can't face ourselves.

 

[95pro]

First Take, Stephen A getting roasted by the other guest they have on today.

 

[Dback Jon]

First Take, Stephen A getting roasted by the other guest they have on today.

Good

 

[GatorAZ]

Screamin’ A Smith gonna have JJ Redick fired for making him look like an idiot.

 

[Mainstreet]

Austin Rivers enters health and safety protocols. Nuggets beat Miami in first game of road trip.

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[Ronin]

Adrian Wojnarowski

@wojespn
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ESPN Sources: The NBA will make Chicago and Miami forfeit their next available second-round draft pick over findings in probe into early contact in summer free agency. Probe was centered on Lonzo Ball and Kyle Lowry sign and trades.

 

[Ronin]

Adrian Wojnarowski

@wojespn

The league told teams in a memo that both the Bulls and Heat "fully cooperated with the investigations" and that was taken into account when doling out the penalties.

 

[Mainstreet]

Adrian Wojnarowski

@wojespn
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ESPN Sources: The NBA will make Chicago and Miami forfeit their next available second-round draft pick over findings in probe into early contact in summer free agency. Probe was centered on Lonzo Ball and Kyle Lowry sign and trades.

All that and not much of a penalty.

 

[Ronin]

Adrian Wojnarowski

@wojespn
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Among the penalties that were available to the NBA: Fines up to $10M per team, loss of draft picks and suspension of team executives.

 

[AzStevenCal]

All that and not much of a penalty.

At least the message went out plain and clear. If you cheat in order to add a quality player to your roster and then cooperate with the league's investigation, you're going to lose one of those almost irreplaceable 2nd round picks.

IOW, chop down someone else's apple tree, admit it, pay a one cent fine, profit from all the fallen apples, then move on to the next apple tree.

 

[JCSunsfan]

At least the message went out plain and clear. If you cheat in order to add a quality player to your roster and then cooperate with the league's investigation, you're going to lose one of those almost irreplaceable 2nd round picks.

IOW, chop down someone else's apple tree, admit it, pay a one cent fine, profit from all the fallen apples, then move on to the next apple tree.

Looks like the old adage works here. "Better to ask forgiveness than permission." Just say sorry and it's pretty much ok.

 

[95pro]

Who gets those second round pics that aren’t able to be drafted? Are there just less players drafted?

 

[Mainstreet]

At least the message went out plain and clear. If you cheat in order to add a quality player to your roster and then cooperate with the league's investigation, you're going to lose one of those almost irreplaceable 2nd round picks.

IOW, chop down someone else's apple tree, admit it, pay a one cent fine, profit from all the fallen apples, then move on to the next apple tree.

It's a cheap cost for doing business and does not discourage tampering.

These type tranactions are worth more than 2nd round pickks. So business as usual.

 

[Mainstreet]

Bam Adebayo expected to miss 4-6 weeks with thumb surgery.

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