NBA Play-off

[Affan devil]

yes man NBA PLAY-OFF IS started

here are the Team who made it in Play-off

Sixer
Pistons
Bostan
Rocket
Mavericks
Pacers
Net
Heat
Suns
Grizzlies
Bull
Wizards
Nugget
Spurs

I want Boston to win this season ;-)

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

man - u have mixed east and west there

i think heat may do it - as wade has been superb and well shaq is shaq and will probably step up in play offs

[Geordie Ahmed]

I support whoever Shaq plays for - SO GO MIAMI

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

LOL - shaq is argubly the greatest baketball player ever - more so than MJ

[Geordie Ahmed]

I wudnt go that far BUT i am a SHAQ fan, i used to support the Lakers until he left so i support the HEATS now!
When SHAQ retires then i cudnt really care who wins or loses!

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

GA - i mean it is very hard to say who is better out of MJ and Shaq but for me shaq was so unique - ppl now like allen iverson have said shaq is the greates - hmmm it is hard but i would go along with iverson and others

[Geordie Ahmed]

The only thing that lets him down is he CANT SCORE FREE THROWS - BUT Shaq has other advantages!

Jordan had a massive impact on Basketball, an impact no one will ever match!

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

shaq certainly made quite an entrance - slam dunking and smashing the backboards - glass everywhere - one word WOW.

[Affan devil]

i support Boston man davis, walker, paul, and gray will destroy every single team they were first in there divison.

[Civil]

Yes miami won

I don't care who wins the title seeing as the Raptors arent in the play offs but I just hope Vince Carter gets kicked out as soon as possible that traitor!!

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

VINCE CARTER rules- some of the moves man!!!! - he did the right thing leaving the second rate raptors for the nets - guy has finally started playing properly

[Geordie Ahmed]

Vince Carter is lethal

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

he is after all vincredible and simply inVINCEable

[Civil]

guys the raps aint second rate just wait till next season lol

and the once Air Canada Carter for your info was a cry baby whiner who had stopped dunking for the past few seasons cause he thought he was too pretty , and got his mom to bad mouth players in his place. He also admitted to not giving 100 Percent all the time.

to think all the money i spent on season tix to watch hiim sit on the sidelines with a suit

Trust me it was getting too much, and the nets aint ever gonna go anywhere. J KIdd wants out

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

j kidd will stay i think - carter is a great player - like randy moss in the NFL - ha serious character problems but a great player

[Officer Barbrady]

Can someone give me a brief summary of how this works? are they like a knock-out?

how often do players switch teams?

any one here buy season tickets? do they include the play-offs?

[Civil]

Marooned the playoffs involve the top 8 teams from each conference (east and west) depending on the teams geographic location

anyways it involves 4 rounds

in the first round the teams in each conference face each other in a best of 7 series

(for each conference)
1 vs. 8
2 vs. 7
3. vs. 6
4 vs 5

with the top 4 teams in each conference getting home advantage ( 4 out of 7 possible games in their building)

whoever wins 4 games in the series advances to the next stage and so on until there is one team left in each conference who face in the final (once again best of 7) for the Larry O'brien trophy.

Season tickets don't involve play offs but the season ticket holders get reserved first choice in buying tickets for the playoffs. atleast in Toronto.

The players switch teams quite often these days as there are salary cap restrictions and so on.

[Officer Barbrady]

thanks civil! I am taking a sports and econ course and this sort of info is quite relevant.

I assume buying a season ticket means you can watch any game in the season? You are assigned a seat in particular?

[Civil]

Yup

however it is very rare that just one person will buy season tickets

Usually Companies and firms such as my father's or groups will buy and divide them amongst employees and friends.

I don't know if this will be relevant to your course but when people measure a North American Sports franchises viability the first thing they look at usually is the amount of season ticket sales.

[Officer Barbrady]

it is relevant...thanks

nba has different franchises? ie teams?

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

similar to NFL in that regards - they both have salary caps - although these are artificial as owners just give players huge signing bonuses and then pay less waged. Also they employ a base salary system - i.e. the wage increases bu a certain % each year - so teams like handing out 10 yr deals as in short term they pay very little

£20 over 5 years isnt paid as £4m each year - could pay signing bonus of £5m and then pay £5m in final year - so in first year u pay hardly anything!

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

is that too much detail marooned?

[Officer Barbrady]

it's helpful. But how many teams are owned by a franchise?

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

bhai - teams are a franchise - e.g. in nfl minnesota has a franchise - the vikings miami have a franchise - the dolphins - that is where the term franchise is used

[Officer Barbrady]

Ok thanks..

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

it is confusing, do u have any other questionsabout NFL?

[Civil]

Latest Update

Indiana Pacers even up series with Celtics 1-1

Reggie Miller 28 pts. Playoff TIME is MILLER TIME!!

Rockets take 2-0 lead going back to their own building!! Yao Ming plays one of his best games as a pro.

[Gasherbrum]

on the vince carter topic ~ most people just see the highlights and think the guy is just unbelievable. VC had great potential and toronto gave him everything the guy wanted, the ownership bent over backwards and even got rid of players he didn't like. but far too often he would go for the fancy fade-aways rather than the straight up jump shot or drive to the rim. people in toronto were extremely frustrated with him by the time he left, and i won't be a bit surprised that the same will happen in New Jersey once the honeymoon is over. He lacks heart and toughness. its a character flaw, won't hold it against him, we were just expecting too much.

American sports are BOOOOOOOOOOOORING

[zushy_786]

American sports are BOOOOOOOOOOOORINGHitman:

I agree some sports are boring like baseball..... But there are sports like ice hockey (although their in lockout so no hockey) and basketball which are pretty exciting to watch...... Sometimes more exciting that dare I say Football with 0-0 and 1-0 games...... :)?

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

nfl and nba are great to watch!!!