NBA announced unanimous approval of Finals format change -From 2-3-2 to 2-2-1-1-1.
   — Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) October 23, 2013



Today's the day, B-ball is back in full force!

October 29, 2013 : Tuesday:
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Magic
7:00 PM (ET)
Pacers
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Bulls
8:00 PM (ET)
Heat
Channel: TNT
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Clippers
10:30 PM (ET)
Lakers
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Who do you think will win the 'ship this season?

Heat will have a stacked team yet again this year. LeBron can't be stopped, DWade has his days where he is amazing, Bosh can do pretty well, Chalmers and Battier can get hot with 3's often, ad hopefully Oden will make a good center.

Plus back-ups Birdman and Ray Allen are bad ass too.... The team is just so damn good this year.

The Heat are the best team on paper, but it's really hard to win 3 in a row. I'm going to say either Houston or Chicago win it all. BTW -- James Harden will be the league MVP.

I want to see the Knicks or Warriors win it all. I like the Bulls chances, if any team's gonna beat out the Heat in the East it'll most likely be them. The West is a bit of a toss-up for the Finals but I actually think the Warriors might do it.

warriors are overrated i said it first

yeah rockets gonna go a long way

pacers: depends on granger. i bet Lance S gonna be jacking up shots now and ruining their chemistry. both paul george and hibbert will take a step back

Raptors might be decent

clippers will suck. bust of the year

wizards will go as far as BRADley beal will take them. wall isnt a leader

knicks will be about the same

bulls will be bake (good)

hornets will be a surprise

timberwolves or trailblazers, hmmm one will disappoint

lakers will win 44 games

I KNEW the Lakers would beat the Clippers last night. The Clips are definitely overrated. Lakers might be a LITTLE underrated by some people, like I said I think they'll be a 7-8 seed team, and a better team in general once Kobe gets back. If Kobe's out for a while that might be what keeps them out of the top 8 seeds, but I don't think any worse than a borderline playoff team with or without Kobe.

kobe def gonna be playing less minutes til the playoffs this year

Stickied this in honor of the Pistons being 1-0.

wiards lost to the pistons by 11. fuk

Yall trash as fuck. It was embarrassing to watch.

lakers are 5-7 not too bad.

fuk the wizards 4-7

*4-8

Pistons 100% trash

Don't care much for basketball, but I just read Derrick Rose will be out indefinitely w/ a torn meniscus. Tough break for him after sitting out a whole year last season. Now I just hope people who were criticizing him for not playing last year now know why he was skeptical of coming back.

hes only out 6-8 weeks i think

How about them Raptors?

The Knicks lost to the damn Wizards...

yeah i saw that on the local news

wizards are now 5-8

knicks are 3-9, lost 5 straight

heat are 10-3

pacers 12-1

full standings:
http://www.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Cnf.html

Nice recap, ya did good Huh

Can't believe the Knicks just lost to the Wizards, especially after the comeback they made...

Wtf @ the end.. We had a timeout and didn't use it.

brad beal tho. he'll be better than james harden gulp

Pacers are 25-6, Heat are 24-8. Oh shit.

Eastern Conference
EASTERN W L PCT GB HOME ROAD DIV CONF PF PA DIFF STRK L10
1 Indiana 36 10 .783 - 22-2 14-8 6-2 23-5 98.6 90.6 +8.0 Won 1 7-3
2 Miami 33 13 .717 3 19-4 14-9 9-2 21-10 104.1 98.7 +5.4 Won 1 6-4
3 Atlanta 25 21 .543 11 16-7 9-14 6-5 17-11 103.1 101.5 +1.6 Won 2 6-4
4 Toronto 25 22 .532 11 ½ 12-10 13-12 8-2 17-12 99.4 96.7 +2.6 Lost 1 6-4
5 Washington 23 23 .500 13 11-11 12-12 4-2 17-12 98.7 99.0 -0.3 Won 1 6-4
6 Chicago 23 23 .500 13 13-10 10-13 7-4 18-12 92.5 92.7 -0.1 Lost 1 6-4
7 Brooklyn 20 25 .444 15 ½ 12-11 8-14 5-4 13-16 97.3 100.2 -2.9 Lost 3 6-4
8 Charlotte 21 28 .429 16 ½ 11-13 10-15 1-7 15-16 94.4 97.4 -3.0 Lost 1 5-5
Detroit 19 27 .413 17 9-15 10-12 5-3 17-12 100.0 102.7 -2.7 Won 2 5-5
New York 19 28 .404 17 ½ 11-16 8-12 3-6 15-17 96.9 99.0 -2.1 Lost 1 4-6
Cleveland 16 31 .340 20 ½ 11-12 5-19 3-8 10-20 95.8 101.7 -5.9 Lost 4 3-7
Boston 16 33 .327 21 ½ 10-15 6-18 3-5 13-17 94.6 98.7 -4.1 Won 1 3-7
Philadelphia 15 33 .313 22 8-16 7-17 3-5 10-20 101.0 109.9 -8.9 Lost 2 2-8
Orlando 13 36 .265 24 ½ 10-14 3-22 3-7 10-20 96.2 102.0 -5.7 Lost 1 3-7
Milwaukee 8 39 .170 28 ½ 4-18 4-21 3-7 7-23 91.9 101.7 -9.8 Lost 6 1-9

Western Conference
WESTERN W L PCT GB HOME ROAD DIV CONF PF PA DIFF STRK L10
1 Oklahoma City 38 11 .776 - 20-3 18-8 7-5 22-8 105.4 97.8 +7.6 Lost 1 9-1
2 San Antonio 34 13 .723 3 18-8 16-5 7-3 21-9 103.8 96.8 +7.0 Won 1 5-5
3 Portland 34 13 .723 3 19-5 15-8 7-2 18-11 108.3 103.4 +4.9 Won 1 6-4
4 LA Clippers 34 16 .680 4 ½ 20-3 14-13 5-4 19-8 105.9 100.1 +5.8 Won 1 7-3
5 Houston 32 17 .653 6 20-7 12-10 9-4 18-14 105.1 101.4 +3.6 Won 3 7-3
6 Phoenix 29 18 .617 8 16-7 13-11 6-3 18-12 104.9 101.3 +3.7 Won 5 8-2
7 Golden State 29 19 .604 8 ½ 14-8 15-11 7-3 19-15 103.5 99.0 +4.5 Won 2 5-5
8 Memphis 26 20 .565 10 ½ 13-13 13-7 2-10 17-16 95.9 95.2 +0.7 Won 6 9-1
Dallas 27 21 .563 10 ½ 16-8 11-13 7-4 15-15 104.2 102.8 +1.4 Won 1 5-5
Minnesota 23 24 .489 14 13-9 10-15 4-5 11-17 105.9 101.6 +4.3 Lost 2 5-5
Denver 22 23 .489 14 12-11 10-12 4-6 12-16 103.6 103.0 +0.6 Lost 2 4-6
New Orleans 20 26 .435 16 ½ 11-11 9-15 3-7 8-21 100.0 101.5 -1.6 Won 1 5-5
LA Lakers 16 31 .340 21 8-13 8-18 4-6 9-18 100.6 106.1 -5.6 Lost 6 2-8
Utah 16 31 .340 21 10-13 6-18 3-7 9-23 94.7 101.0 -6.3 Lost 2 4-6
Sacramento 15 32 .319 22 9-16 6-16 2-8 10-23 101.7 104.6 -2.9 Lost 7 1-9

spurs might just take it all

losing to the lakers right now though

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