I didn't discover it until December of last year, when a friend referred it to me as a place that was “very stats heavy.” It's become a routine stop since.

You, along with the rest of the folks posting on this blog site, are indeed a great bunch. The discussions here are engaging and often thought provoking. Ever since I discovered your blogs in April, I've been checking it twice a day. I went back to read every one of previous entries and comments as well. Great stuff. Please keep it up.

Living in the UK, I don't really get much NBA coverage, but thanks to your blog my enthusiasm for the game and the team I support has remained high. The fact that this has been sustained into the off-season is a testament to the excellent work you've been doing.

Out of curiosity, how much of your time does maintaining a site like this consume regularly? I'm assuming you also work/are in school?

Cue the contemplative look into the sunset with The Wallflowers playing in the background.

Jokes aside, congrats on the year and moving back to the City of Dreams.

Thank you very much for your hard work.

Once again, thank you for the site. It has helped me pass time at work and get through last season, even though last season was good for Brooks, Chase, Martin, Scola and Ariza. With Yao out all of our role players were able to step up and get lots of minutes. Anyway, I was wondering what your thoughts are on David Anderson and Chuck Hays? Our other back up centers. Hays is spectacular on D, I love Hays, but we have Brad Miller. Brad plays good “D” and has a decent offensive game. David is soft on D but shoots a nice jumper, unfortunately that is not what we need from our back up center. Anyway I love the articles and keep up the good work.

Go Rockets.

This year was odd, most primarily because we knew we had no chance. I'm really looking forward to next year and the emotions which accompany actual hopes of winning. I also have some more plans for the blog which I'll slowly be unveiling as we get closer.

I'll be on the road for the next day, so I apologize in advance if I'm slow to respond to your comments and emails. I also apologize if we somehow trade for Chris Paul in the next 24-48 hours and there's no post (though I suppose the overall elation will allow you to overlook my tardiness.)

Thanks again.

on a completely unrelated and random note … what do you think of this idea?

if you were a terrible basketball team and couldn't sell any tickets and were going into full on “rebuilding” mode … why not put together an “all washed up” team of former stars and create some (possibly negative) buzz around that? you could do it at the same time as you were rebuilding.

for instance, maybe a team like cleveland could go out and get tracy mcgrady, allen iverson, stephon marbury, and keep shaq. ideally, sign them all for at or close to the minimum amounts. and start all of them and have the other guys come off the bench. since they are all worse physically than they were at their prime, they probably wouldn't be able to do more than 20 minutes per night. so there'd still be plenty of time left for the bench players (which means the younger players on the team would still get significant minutes to get better).

yes, this team would probably be horrible. but, because your “starters” would all be playing for at or near the minimum, your team payroll would be very low. and, there might be a strong curiosity factor where people might want to buy tickets just to see these guys play (or fail). so potentially this idea could be pretty profitable for an otherwise terrible team that would have lost a lot money.

and i think this idea only really works if you get lots of them on one team and have them start. if you just got one of them and sat them on the bench the whole time, no one would care. but put them all on one team as starters, … that would be interesting enough that i think people would pay to see how (badly) they'd do.

and who knows? from pride alone, i bet these guys would work pretty hard to show that they weren't washed up. they probably wouldn't be boston celtics level, but they also might not be the worst team in the league either.

finally, assuming this team ends up losing a ton of games, they'd have a good draft pick the following year. so, if my idea works, they'd end up being a lot more profitable than they would otherwise, their young players would still get a lot of minutes to get better, and they'd be bad enough to get a good draft pick the following year.

if you're a rebuilding team, why wouldn't you do this? (the biggest problem i see with this, assuming a team wanted to do it, is that the stars themselves might not join such a situation since they know they'd basically be a “freakshow”). still, it'd be cool if it could happen.

p.s. I look forward to the Royce Chang's contributions. I'm sure he we do very well.

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Whatever the ba;ance you have at the moment is perfect. Keep doing exactly what you're doing. This is definitely my favourite basketball related site. Keep up the good work!