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[Gugur]

Je connais aucune boutique fiable perso, y a bien des sites mais je n'ai jamais essayé, j'étais pas inspiré.

Tu es nouveau donc tu peux pas le savoir, mais on a un topic pour tout ce qui est jersey. Je te déplace pas ce message, pour que tu puisses le retrouver mais regarde ici : https://www.basketusa.com/forum/viewtop ... start=1550 Pour avoir une réponse par des gens qui passent régulièrement sur ce topic.

[nunu]

https://www.swish-swish.net/dossier/de- ... -a-la-nba/

Un article sur les joueuses ou ex joueuses qui sont dans des franchises NBA, que ca soit en assistant coach ou ailleurs. Et il commence a y en avoir un paquet

[Sativa]

[Alexis]

La belle stat de merde quand même pour ces franchises

The Washington Wizards (58 seasons) and Orlando Magic (30) are the only NBA teams without a winning streak of 10 games of more.

Une autre rigolote (merci à larryjuana sur le PDS de BUSA), pour toi sylvette si tu passes par ici :

Giannis Antetokounmpo is the only MVP of the three-point era to play less than 2,500 minutes. Two other have failed to crack the 2,500-minute threshold (Karl Malone and LeBron James), but both did so during lock-compacted campaigns (1998-99, 2011-12). When applying their court time to a full 82-game slate, Malone and James actually posted the equivalent of 2,900+ minutes.

You must go further back, to the 1977-78, to find an MVP (Bill Walton) who legitimately played fewer than 2,500 minutes. He played 1,929 minutes, fewest ever (Antetokounmpo is second - 2,358).

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The 2019-20 season will be the first since 1962-63, that Wilt Chamberlain ranks outside of the top five in career points.

Yes, by the end of his fourth season in the league, Chamberlain ranked 5th in career points. He was 1st by the end of his seventh season. Chamberlain was in the top five for 56 consecutive seasons, the longest streak in NBA history.

....Kareem is in the top five since 1979-80 season - 40 seasons in a row.

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Eight different teams have been the East’s No. 1 seed over the last eight seasons. It is the longest such streak in league history (for both conferences).

Here are the last eight regular-season winners, starting with the most recent: Bucks, Raptors, Celtics, Cavaliers, Hawks, Pacers, Heat and Bulls.


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Washington's seven 3-pointers set an NBA record for a player making his debut, in the 3-point era (since 1979-80). Jake Layman (2016) and Donyell Marshall (1994) each made five 3-point field goals in their NBA debuts.

[nunu]

You must go further back, to the 1977-78, to find an MVP (Bill Walton) who legitimately played fewer than 2,500 minutes. He played 1,929 minutes, fewest ever (Antetokounmpo is second - 2,358).[/i]

Oui mais Walton se blesse et rate 24 matchs dans la saison, il en joue que 58. Contre 72 a Giannis ce qui explique la différence aussi. La perf de Giannis est plus représentative

[Alexis]

MVP sur 58 matchs ??! Bordel, ça reste une perf' ! Il avait claqué un 19pts 13rbds 5ass 3,6TO 2,5blk 1stl, en 33 min de moyenne sur 58matchs, Portland avait alors fini 1er en 58-24 sous Jack Ramsay.

[nunu]

MVP sur 58 matchs ??! Bordel, ça reste une perf' ! Il avait claqué un 19pts 13rbds 5ass 3,6TO 2,5blk 1stl, en 33 min de moyenne sur 58matchs, Portland avait alors fini 1er en 58-24 sous Jack Ramsay.

Il se blesse en fin de saison et ne joue pas les 24 derniers matchs. Quand il se blesse il sont a 48-10. Ils terminent sur un 10-14 sans lui. A l'époque le 58-24 c'est le meilleur bilan de l'histoire de Portlan. Aujourd'hui c'est le 4 °.

Walton revient pour les PO mais joue que 2 match (et encore il fait que 15 minutes sur le 2°) avant de se blesser a nouveau. Le début de la fin pour lui sur les 4 saisons qui suivent il joue 14 matchs

[Alexis]

Merci nunu la bible ! Je comprends mieux le contexte, entre l'excellent bilan avant blessure, le 1st seed et meilleur bilan de la franchise, ça fait pas mal pour le CV. Pas contesté ce MVP à l'époque, face à un monstre aux chiffres plus ronflants ?

Gervin 2nd du vote et seul concurrent (80pts vs 96 pour Walton), en 27-5-4, meilleure adresse et bilan collectif 52-30. KAJ 4e en 26-13-4 et 3blk, mais que 4 matchs de plus et un bilan à l'équilibre.

Edit : une dernière pour la route

Andrew Wiggins has played 14,420 career minutes and has only two charges drawn.

[SylvesterTemple]

Sympa les stats !

[ThePenDontLie]

Walton ça reste un beau what if parce que dans le genre dévastateur, il était bien posé.

[MintBerryCrunch]

J'adore Bill Walton moi aussi

[Sentenza]

this year vs last year

[marmite]

Inside the NBA's silent tension surrounding Daryl Morey

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/280 ... aryl-morey

NOBODY SAW MUCH of Daryl Morey in the days after the Houston Rockets landed in Tokyo for the NBA's Japan Games. The Rockets' general manager confined himself to his room at the Ritz Carlton in Roppongi Hills during the team's six-day visit, spotted leaving for occasional jaunts to the Shake Shack located a half-mile away.

Morey had reason to shut himself inside. When he tweeted an image on Friday, Oct. 4, that read "Fight for Freedom, Stand With Hong Kong," a sequence of events ensued that upended the NBA and one of its most recognizable franchises.

Yet apart from a follow-up tweet on Sunday that declared his intention wasn't to offend Rockets fans and friends in China, Morey sequestered himself from public view. He didn't attend the Rockets' practice on Sunday. He skipped the team's basketball clinic for Japanese youth on Monday. And though they were staying in the same hotel, Morey and NBA commissioner Adam Silver never met face-to-face. With Silver in Tokyo for less than 48 hours amid a packed schedule of public events and crisis management, they conducted their conversations over the phone.

During the week that the NBA set up shop in Tokyo, the Ritz Carlton felt less like a luxury hotel than a diplomatic retreat where a high-stakes international negotiation hung in the balance. With each passing day, those on the ground sensed the tension compounding.

On Wednesday, a day after Silver followed up the NBA's initial tepid statement by backing every NBA employee's right to political expression, Morey got off the elevator in his trademark mock turtleneck and walked to the hotel's Lobby Lounge on the 45th floor. He looked haggard, an appearance that wasn't helped by his tatty beard, when he received one of the only people he would engage in Tokyo: Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri.

That Ujiri, who projects a statesmanlike persona, was Morey's executive counterpart in Tokyo was both coincidence and blessing. Ujiri has written op-eds on the kidnappings by terrorist organization Boko Haram and the Atlanta Hawks' Danny Ferry episode. He spoke out publicly against Donald Trump's characterization of "s---hole countries" in the developing world.

Ujiri wanted to understand Morey's interest in Hong Kong, his level of passion and its origin. Morey explained to Ujiri that MIT Sloan, where he received his MBA in 2000, was a thick pipeline to Hong Kong in the world of business. As conflicts between protesters in Hong Kong and the Chinese government in Beijing have grown increasingly contentious in recent years, Morey's friends have continued to discuss the idea of political autonomy in Hong Kong. Morey revealed that the timing of his tweet coincided with the implementation of a new law in Hong Kong prohibiting protesters from wearing masks.

Ujiri told Morey he had spoken to a handful of general managers, who offered their support. Morey found that a bit unconvincing -- he has never been widely popular among rival executives -- but he thanked Ujiri for the well-wishes. Passersby in the airy room, be they team personnel or league staffers, couldn't resist stealing a glance at Morey as they breezed by the small table.

Morey hadn't seen Ujiri in person since the Raptors won the NBA Finals in June, and after debriefing on the China affair, the conversation drifted to basketball. Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry blossomed in Houston during Morey's tenure. The two execs swapped stories about the competitive, occasionally maddening but incomparably singular player. They chatted about Nick Nurse, the Raptors' head coach who came of age in the Rockets organization.

As Ujiri listened to Morey's early impressions of the James Harden-Russell Westbrook pairing, it dawned on the Raptors exec that as happy as he was to extend support, the most consolatory thing he could offer Morey was a chance to be himself. For an hour or two, Morey dropped back into the comfortable role of exuberant NBA GM, the trigger-happy swashbuckler who enjoys texting preposterous trade proposals to other execs or baiting an opposing NBA player on Twitter -- the guy who loves being Daryl Morey, for better or worse.

THE TENSION THAT bubbled inside that Tokyo hotel persisted throughout the Rockets organization and the league for weeks. League sources say NBA leadership continues to monitor trade negotiations between the United States and China. They believe that a resolution both sides find agreeable could help soothe the league's relationships in its most profitable foreign market.

Nobody at the NBA or with the Rockets wished to speak on the record for this piece, nor did players, team owners or executives around the league. The collective silence is a reflection of not just the sensitive nature of the conflict, but also the belief that there are significant inflection points ahead.

Some around the NBA marvel at this perfect storm, and the number of variables at work is remarkable:

Morey just happens to be the top basketball exec for the one franchise with the strongest claim of being "China's team." That team's organizational ambassador over the past two decades: Yao Ming, who carried the flag for China during the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and now leads its top basketball league.

Morey published the tweet when NBA teams were literally boarding jets bound for China, and that matchup featured LeBron James, the NBA's most influential star whose criticism of Morey would resonate the loudest.

On top of that, the United States and China had been engaged in one of the most contentious trade wars in recent history, while the Communist Party of China was celebrating its 70th anniversary in an environment of intense nationalism across the country.

If the general manager of an Eastern Conference cellar-dweller had posted the exact same tweet in March, would he have ignited this level of international controversy?

But all of that engendered little sympathy for Morey around the league, even as voices from across the American political spectrum rallied behind him. The crisis raged not only in Asia, where players, Silver and the Rockets contended with its immediate effects, but also throughout the NBA, which braced for the aftermath. Conversations with top business and basketball operations executives during the days that followed the initial events revealed a league beset by frustration.

Panic infected some front offices, which worried about a sizable reduction in salary-cap projections due to lost revenue from China. Teams that have spent years instructing players on the hazards of impulsive social media use were irritated to see an executive wreak havoc with a tweet. A few execs who respected Morey's stance over events in Hong Kong expressed bemusement that he took the tweet down. To them, his decision to do so signaled a lack of conviction: If he felt his political expression warranted the fallout, then at least stand by it.

China's state-run network CCTV, one of the largest international broadcasters in the world, has not aired an NBA game through the season's first three weeks. Games have returned to Tencent, an ESPN partner that streams the NBA in China, but viewers can't watch the Rockets. Asked when they expected the impasse to be resolved, nobody around the league could offer an approximate timetable, even as the NBA and CCTV officials maintain communication about the future of broadcasts in China.

Beyond just the fate of NBA games on Chinese platforms, the broader situation remains fluid and, to many in the league, inscrutable.

WHEN NBA TEAM presidents logged online for their quarterly video conference on Oct. 16, a palpable tension hung over the discussion. Less than 48 hours earlier, a despondent LeBron James told reporters in Los Angeles that Morey's tweet was misinformed and had the potential to cause physical, financial, emotional and even spiritual harm.

Chinese companies that had existing sponsorship deals with NBA teams notified franchises early the previous week that those partnerships were being terminated until further notice. One NBA team says it immediately slashed revenue projections derived from Chinese sponsorship for the 2019-20 season to zero.

Beyond their spreadsheets, multiple sources say front offices around the NBA were shaken by the turmoil. The league had been enjoying a lengthy winning streak -- a doubling of revenue over eight years, global expansion, positive coverage in the media. Some land mines lingered on the horizon, but NBA leaders had come to believe that there were few issues that couldn't be managed -- yet China was testing that faith.

After introductory remarks from commissioner Silver, Rockets CEO Tad Brown spoke to the group. Brown started with Houston 17 years ago as its director of corporate development. He inked the franchise's first sponsorship contract with a Chinese company, Yanjing Beer Group, soon after the team drafted Yao.

Brown acknowledged how much the events over the previous two weeks had affected every franchise in the league. He said he understood the economic impact, as well as the difficult position players, coaches, executives and teams now found themselves navigating. Fellow executives around the league appreciated Brown's remarks as sincere and straightforward.

Brown's comments then spawned a conversation about the prospect of large-scale demonstrations at NBA arenas and their possible long-term repercussions. While the discussion touched on Hong Kong and China, there was a collective acknowledgement that in the present-day NBA, protest was now a matter of course. The league had cultivated a brand identity around social and political consciousness, so it followed that when social and political issues come to light, NBA personnel will get a disproportionate amount of attention.

There's still great uncertainty about the effects on league business, from the impact on salary-cap projections to the probability that the NBA can fully restore its relationships with Chinese broadcasters and corporate partners. Does the NBA have a shot of returning in the foreseeable future to China, where it has played preseason games in every non-lockout season since 2007?

No team has felt the brunt of the fallout more than the Rockets. League sources say the franchise has lost more than $7 million in revenue this season from cancelled Chinese sponsorship agreements and nearly $20 million overall when terminated multiyear deals are calculated.

Previous Rockets owner Leslie Alexander was able to parlay the Rockets' presence in China into numerous investment opportunities, from wine distribution to the Chinese auto aftermarket. The friction between the NBA and China could temper any ambitions his successor, Tilman Fertitta, has to expand his portfolio into China after paying $2.2 billion for the team in 2017. For their superstar James Harden, the losses could be considerable if no resolution is reached. A source says Harden's endorsement agreement with Shanghai's SPD Bank Credit Card is imperiled.

During Yao's heyday in Houston, there was a common joke in the NBA: The two best ways to get a shoe deal were to be an All-Star or play next to Yao Ming. Shane Battier, Luis Scola, Bonzi Wells and Chuck Hayes each cashed in with Chinese footwear companies, as has a new generation of NBA players that includes Klay Thompson, CJ McCollum and Gordon Hayward. But as the current standoff wears on, the Rockets' magic potion might have turned into a poison pill.

AS AN EXECUTIVE who values digital platforms as a means to communicate with the world, Morey hired a Chinese firm a few years ago to help him manage his social media accounts in the country, including Weibo. That company dropped Morey as a client immediately following his tweet. Soon after, security consultants advised Morey to install advanced protective software on all of his devices and change his passwords to maximum strength.

When Morey reached out to a number of friends from Hong Kong soon after the story exploded, a few were too petrified to speak to him. Others, including some friends stateside who were concerned about surveillance and hacking, instructed him to install secure apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. One of Morey's closer friends from Hong Kong had his attorney return Morey's call on his behalf. The lawyer, who declined to offer his name when contacted by ESPN, told Morey that all communication should be channeled through him until further notice.

When Morey was named the NBA's Executive of the Year by his peers in 2018, he was genuinely shocked, believing himself too unpopular to win the award. A computer science major/MBA-turned-strategy consultant before his career as a front-office exec, Morey has embraced his persona as the NBA's chief disrupter. He co-founded the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (of which ESPN is a sponsor), one of the professional sports world's annual power confabs, and he readily uses social media, whether to advance voting reform or to trash-talk an NBA player who is in a public tiff with a Rocket.

Few of Morey's colleagues around the NBA were surprised by his post. Most fellow execs saw Morey's decision to comment on Twitter about the conflict between Hong Kong and Beijing as consistent with his behavior during his 13 years as Rockets GM.

This is a general manager who, after all, took the unusual tack over the summer of submitting to the NBA a signed, executed player contract between the Rockets and Nene laden with questionable incentives, daring the league to reject it. The NBA office, miffed that the Rockets didn't check about the deal's legality ahead of time, chose to amend the contract on its own -- quickly diminishing the valuable trade chip Morey was hoping to manufacture. The episode was another instance of Morey testing limits as one of the league's most aggressive general managers.

In contrast, conversations with nearly a dozen NBA front-office executives show that most have an acute allergy to this specific conflict with China.

"I honestly just try to stay away from it," one NBA team exec said. "It's like watching my dog vomit."

Many executives said they would like the NBA to develop guidelines for dealing with China and other politically sensitive topics, rather than leaving teams, players and executives to formulate them on their own. For example, those making a preseason trip to India in the future would appreciate some direction on how to respond to any questions about regional tensions around the subcontinent. League sources acknowledge the need for guidance.

Though a couple of NBA executives speculated Morey might have greater difficulty attracting marquee free agents to Houston, few said that his ability to perform his job would be affected beyond having to placate Fertitta, a shotgun marriage that sources close to the Rockets have considered a tenuous fit since Fertitta bought the team in 2017.

None of the executives doubted Morey's interest in the political issue in question, but almost all of them suggested that Morey would figure out how to leverage the ordeal into a net positive for himself. Several noted that, in recent years, Morey has immersed himself in so many disparate pursuits -- the Sloan conference, theater production, Silicon Valley, techno-activism -- that his impulses are best interpreted as groundwork for his next big thing.

As the NBA regular season enters its fourth week, the anxiety of front-office executives skittish about lost revenue and arena protests has largely receded. The quandary with China is a black box whose contents remain mysterious. It's something for Silver and his brain trust to figure out while these execs busy themselves with the management of their rosters, owners and fan bases. And little has changed about Morey's day-to-day dealings with rival front offices.

But Morey has maintained a low profile over the past few weeks. He has discussed only basketball publicly, while taking to social media to celebrate Houston's new backcourt pairing and to recognize center Clint Capela's charitable work. On Monday, he retweeted a clip from "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" about the liabilities of faulty voting machines.

But on matters relating to East Asia, Morey -- like the rest of the NBA -- has remained silent.

[Sentenza]

[Cracker]

C'est une blague ? Ils ont vraiment fait de la pub pour ça en parlant de prodige ?

[Doctor_answer]

On parle de sa première signature shoe d'ici noël

[Sentenza]

Il a mis plus de panier en 30s que certains joueurs pendant toute leur carrière...

[Sentenza]

[marmite]

NBA’s engaged in serious discussions w/ NBPA and broadcast partners on sweeping, dramatic changes to league calendar that include re-seeding of conference finals, an in-season tournament and a postseason play-in.

Proposals would lower regular season to a minimum of 78 games. Discussions are progressing with hope of bringing a vote to an April meeting of Board of Governors that would introduce some, if not all, of these proposals into the NBA’s 75th anniversary season of 2021-2022.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/281 ... on-play-in

The NBA is engaged in serious discussions with the National Basketball Players Association and broadcast partners on sweeping and dramatic changes to the league calendar that include a reseeding of the four conference finalists, a 30 team in-season tournament, and a postseason play-in, league sources told ESPN.

These scenarios include the shortening of the regular season to a minimum of 78 games, league sources said.

Discussions are progressing with hopes of bringing a vote to the April meeting of the league's Board of Governors that would introduce some -- if not all of these proposals -- into the NBA's 75th anniversary season of 2021-2022, league sources said. The NBA still has work to do coordinating with constituents on the myriad of implications involving the proposed changes.

The reseeding of teams in the semifinal round -- based upon regular season record -- could give the NBA a championship series that includes its best two teams. The WNBA has been seeding teams in the playoffs without regard to conference for several seasons.

Commissioner Adam Silver has been driving this agenda of change -- especially the in-season tournament cup modeled after European soccer -- for years. The NBA is selling the idea of lucrative television and sponsorship revenue that would drive long-term growth and a combat stagnation in a rapidly splintering consumer environment.

The league's working to make sure that the loss of revenue for teams and players with a shortened regular season would be break-even or better initially with significant financial windfalls in the long-term.

The NBA cannot implement these changes without an agreement with the NBPA, and those talks have been ongoing between groups led by Silver and NBPA executive director Michele Roberts, league sources said.

In proposals that include adoption of in-season tournaments and post-season play-in, the traditional regular season schedule would be reduced from 82 games -- with most teams charted to play 78 or 79 games. There's an extremely limited possibility of a team playing a maximum of 83 games based on upon possible tournament and play-in scenarios, league sources said. For the in-season tournament, the NBA is focused on 30-team participation that begins with a divisional group stage of scheduled regular-season games.

Those pre-knockout round games will be part of the regular season schedule. Six divisional winners -- based on home and away records in the group stage -- and teams with the next best two records would advance to a single-elimination knockout round, league sources said.

Those teams could each potentially compete in quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.

Proposals exist that would compensate players and coaches for advancing in and winning the tournament, league sources said. Even with possible passage, the NBA has no illusions that it will get the entire league to make an immediate enthusiastic commitment to the importance of competing for an in-season tournament championship, but does believe that would come with time and tradition.

The NBA and NBPA are finding common ground on a post-Thanksgiving tournament window that would extend into mid-December, league sources said. Months ago, the NBA had proposed a late January-February tournament that would culminate with a Final Four on All-Star weekend, sources said. That idea faded fast. Both the union and team executives expressed concern over that idea. The NBPA was resistant to shortening players' All-Star breaks and requiring some to potentially participate in the in-season tournament and All-Star weekend.

Teams were concerned that roster turnover at the early February trade deadline and ensuing buyout/waiver window could compromise the integrity of the tournament.

As for timing, there was uncertainty that holding the tournament in January would risk losing viewership and media attention to the NFL playoffs. Running into March means competing with college basketball. The post-Thanksgiving window gives the NBA the chance to compete against only conference bowl championships and less consequential early bowl games.

The league has been hesitant about shoehorning tournament games onto the Christmas Day schedule; they (and their network partners, including ESPN/ABC) want to make sure every Christmas game features elite teams and franchises from the league's biggest markets.

The play-in proposal is this: two four-team tournaments featuring the seventh, eighth, ninth, and 10th seeds in each conference. The seventh seed would host the eighth seed, with the winner of that single game earning the seventh spot, league sources said.

The ninth seed would host the 10th seed, with the winner of that game facing the loser of the 7-versus-8 matchup for the final playoff spot.

Roberts and staff have been discussing league proposals extensively at the NBPA level and recently began bringing details of the league's calendar proposals to the broader membership on a team by team basis, sources said. Roberts and union officials meet with all 30 teams over the course of each regular season, these sessions with players are starting to take the shape. As high-ranking source said, "So far, there's been no real pushback."

For the NBA to achieve its goal of implementation of the proposed changes for the 2021-2022 anniversary season, there's a clock on finding a framework that works for the teams, union and television partners before the April meeting of the Board of Governors, league sources said. Talks are ongoing, but legitimate and serious traction is emerging for dramatic change for the future of the NBA.

[marmite]

Perso je suis infiniment contre.

[UJ3212]

Why? Je trouve ça pas mal.

Pas tout, mais y a des idées intéressantes.

[marmite]

Je comprends complètement que c'est une entreprise et qu'il faut des sous-sous avant tout, mais je ne sais pas, l'idée d'un tournoi en pleine SR c'est vraiment un gros changement quand même...

[Cracker]

Ça fait plus de compétitions et de matchs type PO ce genre de rencontre entre le 9eme et 10eme par exemple (j’ai pas tout lu) mais je ne suis pas forcément pour un changement non plus.

[Sentenza]

pourquoi pas à voir, je suis ne suis ni négatif, ni positif pour ces mesures, j'attend de voir

[Alexis]

Assez intrigué positivement, j'ai toujours aimé les changements personnellement les traditions c'est pas mon truc. J'ai pas trouvé la partie sur le reseeding par contre, ça veut dire que si le 7 sort le 3 en PO, le numéro 4 devient 3 et le 6 => 4 ? (s'ils passent) Pourquoi pas c'est intéressant, la SR est récompensée plutôt que du cul sur le tableau.

Sinon, le tableau in-season j'aime beaucoup (à voir la récompense après, mais ça met du feu dans une SR bien longue quand même), les matchs win or die pour accéder aux POs également, chouette idée pour créer de la tension. Après ça favorise les 1-6 qui auront un à deux matchs joués en moins, moins d'influx nerveux déchargé, donc c'est peut être la seule qui m'emmerde à la réflexion, favoriser les gros n'est jamais une bonne idée.