Les' wife to blame for new ball???

Speak for yourself........just continue eating grass & twigs!

 

$80m difference across 30 teams = $2.66m/yr. Over 8 yrs, that's $333K per year.

$333K per year is not worth changing the ball, either. It's not enough to help save a team drifting in the red, and it's not enough to significantly impact to quality of the product. It's just adds some petty cash to line the owners pockets.

 

nanci should persuade her friend, david sterns wife, into making the comissioner clean up the "reckless" play under the basket!

yao would average 30+ per game. the rockets would be unstoppable.

 

les' wife should quit meat.

 

I knew it, David Stern is the DEVIL's right hand man!

 

You are 100% right.

 

It's a generalization about broads..

 

Well it isn't often you hear that around here. Thanks.

 

I am thinking about the tradeoff - the environmental problem the composite material brings.

The new material can never be as environment-friendly as the hide.

And people consume beef such that there are always some hides left, either for basketballs, or for other leather products.

Do they really save anything?

 

I am thinking about the tradeoff - the environmental problem the composite material brings.

The new material can never be as environment-friendly as the hide.

And people consume beef such that there are always some hides left, either for basketballs, or for other leather products.

Do they really save anything

enough with your rational thinking, that has no place in an environmental debate

but really, i suppose having a composite ball that takes 2,000 years to break down naturally is better for the environment (not to mention the god knows what type of chemicals used). At least all the little creatures will have something to play with after the human race is long gone.

 

Now that makes sense...Damn, that's a lot of money for Balls....oh wait...

 

She did....once they got married....

 

Just curious: Does anyone know up until this point in the season, compared to last year, if the overall fg % has changed significantly?

 

i didnt know that the "OLD" ball is made up of animal skin. geez!

 

Les and Nanci were divorced in 2003. This is garbage.

 

And forbid leather shoes, leather seats in autos, leather belts and all other animal-made goods like leather couches, eggs, milk, etc.

BTW, it seems that there are more turnovers this year than ever. I wonder if the ball really is slippery by the third and fourth quarters and so sticky players palm the ball more often in the first and second quarters.

 

I have felt that something like this must've been the reason since the very beginning. The reasons that Stern and the NBA have been giving have never sounded all that convincing, IMO, and you have to figure that money is behind it somewhere. My thought was always that with the old basketball pattern, they couldn't trademark it, so the shape/pattern from Wilson, Spalding, etc. was the same. The only difference was that Spalding could use the NBA logo. But now, with a new ball shape/pattern, Spalding would be the only one who can make basketballs, as the NBA sees them.

 

What about the animal-on-animal violence? They are eating each other. Why should we be left out of the food chain?

 

The turnovers are more likely due to the travelling calls they have been making.

 

... to cover up the fact that the ball is slipperier. Excellent point!