Heat Vs. Wizards: Fake Open Game Thread For Game 3 Of Locked-Out NBA Season
by Jake Whitacre on Nov 6, 2011 5:00 PM EST
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On November 6, 2011, the Washington Wizards were supposed to play the third game of their season against LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat. As a Wizards fan, you were supposed to be on here discussing the game in this open thread. Unfortunately, billionaires have decided to lock out millionaires, and millionaires are not willing to accept all the concessions the billionaires are asking them to accept.
So instead, this game thread is merely an open thread to discuss whatever the heck you all want. Below the jump, a look at a classic Wizards-Heat game from yesteryear.
| 1996/97 NBA Regular Season | ||
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| 19-15 | 25-10 | |
| January 13, 1997 |
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| At Miami |
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| 7:00 PM | ||
| HTS | ||
| Probable starters: | ||
| Rod Strickland | PG | Tim Hardaway |
| Calbert Cheaney |
SG | Sasha Danilovic |
| Juwan Howard |
SF | Keith Askins |
| Chris Webber |
PF | P.J. Brown |
| Gheorghe |
C | Alonzo Mourning |
This was the first game Juwan Howard played in Miami after having his free agent contract with the Heat voided in the previous off-season. Despite 23 points and 8 rebounds from Howard, the Bullets fell short 98-95 against the eventual Atlantic Division champion.
- Some things never change. Here's what Juwan had to say about the crown in his "return" to Miami: "I expected the hostile crowd. But you know what? I expected it to be worse than this."
- In some ways, this was the beginning of the end of the Jim Lynam era. After a solid 19-15 start to the season, the Bullets would lose eight of their next eleven before he was fired the next month.
- John Wall was six years old when this game was played.
- Sasha Daniovic only played two seasons in the NBA but managed to start in 60 of the 75 games he played.
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I just found a positive spin to put on the lockout
If we miss the season, maybe Juwan Howard will finally be too old to play by the time next season rolls around!
I'm a Wizards fan. We've been trying to tell you about Lebron for years. Hated the man before it was cool.
I wont get that many rec's combined
For the rest of my life.
I'm a Wizards fan. We've been trying to tell you about Lebron for years. Hated the man before it was cool.
by returnofswagger on Nov 7, 2011 12:11 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Looking at the schedual, 3-11 over november is a real possibilty...
I’m 1-3 so far in my 2k12 RS and there’s a westcoast roadtrip coming up….
Wall is 18 and 8 so far, Vesely is 3 and 1, playing about 7 minutes. Blatche is averaging 10+ rebounds with 18 ppg but Javale is only 8 and 6. Nick is has been horrible for me and I think Mack and NDiaye will go to the DLeague next month. Since Jeffers and Owens are not in the game I have brought back Martin and Evans and signed Marks as a veteran big.
"My logic fails all the time...especially when talking to females" Rook6980
so how do we feel after the skins blew another game?
by thewiz06 on Nov 6, 2011 7:18 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I hope they decertify now.
I’d love to see an upstart league like a new ABA. There are going to be a lot of players available for a league start up. Come on Donald Trump.
by Janber on Nov 6, 2011 8:11 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Trump would have to be able to make a profit on it.
otherwise, he’s not going to bother.
Nike could try to do something, but at the end of the day, I don’t see any league making a serious threat at the NBA.
The NBA absorbed the ABA. At one point all the Actors in Hollywood signed contacts with major studios they were owned and traded like NBA players. Eventually the major actors made their own studio United Artists and changed the rules at least for a while. The top players could form their own league too.
by Janber on Nov 6, 2011 8:59 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
The issue about players making a new league in the long term is this.
1. Initially, guys like LeBron, Kobe, Dwight, and KG will have their own league which they likely will have significant ownership in themselves.
2. Let’s say they never come back to the NBA. Eventually, they’re going to retire from the game, and they’ll be solely owners of teams, like the NBA teams owners are now. Future players in the LeBron league are likely going to have to unionize themselves since the founding player-owners will try to make more and more money over time, and this cycle will repeat itself. One thing the LeBron league could do is make the league an at-will league, so it’s easy to fire players and hire them as they see fit, like it is with most employers in America. That way, there is no CBA’s to worry about because there is no union.
I really strongly dislike Juwan Howard
Always have, always will. There’s some part of me that irrationally (rationally?) overwhelmingly dislikes Juwan and everything he has done and failed to do on the basketball court.
Me too. I hate his shot mechanics. His pissen and moaning over contact. He plays like a zombie. I think he’s the undead.
by Janber on Nov 6, 2011 10:33 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
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