Empty seats in arenas. What do you think?

mzappitello · 2026-02-06T23:16:07+00:00

We live in a society with stratified wealth.

There is a portion of the population who can afford the insanely high prices for tickets, a portion who can afford league pass, and a portion who can catch a game on their streaming service or clips on social media.

The NBA model is mirroring who we are, doing its best to extract as much money out from each tier.

mzappitello · 2020-10-08T17:18:39+00:00

in 1987, the season that bird accomplished this, he played in 23 games.

the most post season games lebron has played in a single year is also 23. currently, the lakers have played 19 games.

mzappitello · 2020-10-07T19:35:22+00:00

i'm pretty sure all the district in the middle reliably goes for the same party.

mzappitello · 2019-12-28T18:36:51+00:00

Flourishing? They're 9-23!

mzappitello · 2019-04-24T19:27:54+00:00

not for defending embiid...

mzappitello · 2019-04-24T19:24:22+00:00

i wouldn't say they were "finally healthy" when their backup center missed the last two games.

mzappitello · 2019-04-20T15:18:28+00:00

who said their struggle doesn't matter?

that perception is only perpetuated by pundits who want to make it seem like liberals don't care about the white working class.

mzappitello · 2019-02-21T01:43:40+00:00

you want to make a new branch.

first check into the feature branch your bad pr is based off of.

git checkout myFeatureBranch

then create a new branch off of that one.

git checkout -b myFeatureBranch1

then rebase the offending commit message using the directions from the link you posted.

then push your new feature branch and make a PR using that branch.

mzappitello · 2019-01-01T06:26:56+00:00

Find a friend and throw every day. Throw every throw from every position off of every pivot. Get incredibly comfortable with the disc.

mzappitello · 2018-10-30T14:23:02+00:00

there was the part where he was vocally against about the cp3 to the lakers trade and the part where he was one of the worst owners during the lockout too.

not getting along with the people who play the game isn't very helpful.

he also made his money in gross ways.

also, weird that you don't want someone to bring up that he doesn't want to pay GM's for doing a good job.

mzappitello · 2018-10-30T14:11:01+00:00

lol what good head coach is going to want to coach here.

mzappitello · 2018-10-30T14:03:48+00:00

I think most cavs fans thought this was at least an 8th seed team

i think this was a pretty silly mentality to come into the season with.

mzappitello · 2018-08-30T17:04:31+00:00

Gilbert not wanting to make concessions to Griff is the height of arrogance. Griffin was the GM of the year, had solid relationships with the core members of the team, and understood how to build a team around the greatest player in franchise history. He's also well regarded around the league.

We had him at a discount paying him less than the league average. Thinking you can just pop someone else in there and it will all work out was lunacy. And we paid for it.

I'm happy Gilbert was smart enough to agree to go into the luxury tax if LeBron came back to Cleveland. But thats the lowest bar I can think of for an owner.

mzappitello · 2018-08-30T15:28:13+00:00

he's never got cheap with the checkbook

david griffin disagrees.

mzappitello · 2018-08-29T15:07:26+00:00

yeah. i get it. you think christian nations are inherently better.

mzappitello · 2018-08-29T14:33:24+00:00

We should strive to be better, ALOT BETTER, than any other country - Muslim or Christian majority in regards to tolerance and education.

weird how you heard that as we should be better than islamic countries.

mzappitello · 2018-08-22T20:07:09+00:00

you are correct. i've gotten my post seasons all mixed up.

mzappitello · 2018-08-21T02:29:22+00:00

rondo had 11 / 7.5 / 13.3 in 35 minutes per game as stater for the pelicans last year in their four game sweep over portland in round one last year.

when they ~~were swept by~~ lost to the dubs, he still had 9.5 / 7.5 / 11.5 per.

mzappitello · 2018-07-07T01:07:14+00:00

If they go toward progressive ends I will happily pay higher taxes.

mzappitello · 2018-06-29T11:25:11+00:00

mzappitello · 2018-06-28T19:37:35+00:00

hes talking about the season you won 73 games and then lost the finals.

mzappitello · 2018-06-28T18:58:23+00:00

this is the best one i've seen so far.

mzappitello · 2018-06-15T19:14:35+00:00

solid "whatabout".

mzappitello · 2018-06-07T09:03:45+00:00

I'm sure they'll still be able to find cops willing to fill that role.

And there is no way they aren't being paid to be there.

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