I've had a lot of questions about the upcoming offseason and season NBA in general and was hoping I could get some answers. 1)If a player blocks a shot and another player grabs the blocked shot what does the 2nd defensive player get stat wise? A steal, a rebound? Anything? 2)Why do we have the draft lottery? How come you ccan only get 250 balls? why can't we have a convential system like the other leagues? 3) What happens if two NBA teams call up the same player from the D-League? 4) Where do you guys think Ray Allen goes this offseason? What about Derek Fisher? 5) Why can't the all-star game mean something like in baseball? It be nice if the players actually put in some effort. 6)Does this league have too many teams or just not enough talent for every team to compete? It's ridiculous how the Clippers have only gotten into the playoffs once in the past 12 years. 7) It's ridiculous that some people can't shoot free throws and still earn a paycheck. I don't care if you're a guard or a center if you can't hit an uncontested shot from 15 feet away you shouldn't be a professional. 8) With regard to european players, can they be bought flat out or does their contract have to expire? Does the player's team have to agree or can just the nba team and player have to agree. 9)What's up with basketball in the UK? I know soccer is the dominant sport there)(and in most of the world) but most countries can put together a decent national team(Spain, Germany, Greece, Argentina) without basketball being the top sport. Why can't the UK get their kids playing b-ball? The only NBA players they've ever had that I can think of are Luol Deng and Jon Amaechi. And yes, I did intentionally leave out Pops. 10) Why so little diversity in the NBA? It seems like everyone in the league is a black or white guy from the burbs, a black guy from an american city or a white guy from europe.
1) I believe the 2nd defensive player gets credit for a rebound 2) The NBA used to have a system more like other leagues. The top two picks went to the worst team from each conference, with a coin flip deciding who got the #1 pick. 8) European players can be bought out if they have a buy out clause in their contract. The money for the buy out has to be paid by the player. 10) There are actually several black players from Europe (Tony Parker, Boris Diaw, Ronny Turiaf). There are also usually a handful of players from Africa in the league at any given time.
Rebound, I believe. The old system promoted tanking way too much. Teams still somewhat tank, but not to the extreme they used to (see: Spurs before Duncan). Team A calls and the player agrees to a contract (usually 10 days). Team B calls, but the player is already under contract. They have to wait. There's no such thing as a simultaneous call-up. I think Ray Allen will re-sign with Boston at a significantly smaller salary. Fisher will stay with the Lakers also at a cheaper salary... or retire. Football and basketball are much more physically demanding than baseball during the game; by that, I mean there's more chance for injury with intense play (pitchers for baseball are the only risk, but their job is severely reduced in the All-Star game, too... that's why there was that tie because they didn't want to extend the pitchers). Teams don't want their players getting injured just for some mid-season spectacle. If there's a winner, there must be a loser. Even if every team had some amazing superstar, there'd still be losers. Some teams just have awful management that don't seem to care about the success of their team and lead to perennially awful teams. This isn't a question. Some people (Shaq) are great because of their size and ability to finish. I think he had a pretty amazing career for having never been able to shoot free throws well, don't you? Should he not be a professional? Different strokes for different folks. If they are under contract with a European team, they have to finish that contract. Again, it's a CONTRACT. The contract can be bought out if they can agree on a price, but the NBA team cannot pay more than $500,000 of the buy-out. That is the problem Ricky Rubio is having right now -- the buy-out is too expensive and the Timberwolves can't really help out with it. It's all on Rubio. Beats me. I sit next to a guy from England at work and he didn't want two free tickets to a Rockets game in Club seats. Why don't Americans (in general) like Cricket? Don't know, it's just how it is. I think it's pretty diverse. I mean, look at the Rockets: Black American: Aaron Brooks White American: Chase Budinger Black/White American: Shane Battier Chinese: Yao Ming Argentinian: Luis Scola Austrailia: David Andersen Spanish (soon): Sergio Llull Black Americans just seem to be more physically gifted than everyone else, quite honestly. They put in the same work ethic, but do better because of these gifts. That makes them better and thus more appealing to NBA franchises. I still think it's pretty diverse nonetheless; David Stern has done a good job in that facet.
Thank you for answering my questions, I sort of agree with the above statement of blacks being physically superior. I think you could probably look and see that because most African-Americans are descendants of slaves who did nothing but work and were bred to produce the best workers that the genes of being big or strong or fast are more common among african-americans. that's not to say all blacks are amazing athletes or that whites can't play
