And something tells me the other 15 franchises don't have their own rig and staff doing the same thing. I'm not sure it's a huge advantage for the teams that subscribe, but it's certainly an advantage. Yet so many of the worst teams in the league (Charlotte, Sacramento, Detroit, the Lakers) don't utilize it. It's not cheap. But when you're dropping $50 million on a set of players at the low end, any other investment pales. The second interesting point: teams are on average more efficient on drives (defined as when a player dribbles a ball from at least 20 feet from the rim to within 10 feet) than on NFL 18 Coins non-drives, even when not including transition possessions. Having watched the Kings so closely, I would have thought the exact opposite! (Tyreke Evans' middle name is either Jamir or Dribble-Drive Into Traffic. Hard to remember which sometimes.) Lowe notes that the Rockets score 1.5 points per possession on James Harden drives.
That is just completely ridiculous. The great Will Leitch wrote about Darren Rovell, and specifically my disagreements with the sports business reporter. I take particular umbrage at Rovell's constant coda that fans have an unyielding duty to turn out for their teams. That's what Rovell's infamous "empty arena pics" are supposed to say: they are meant to shame fans for not consuming a particular product. What gets my goat is that Rovell recently tweeted out a pic of a fairly empty upper level at a Kings home game against a similarly bad Suns squad, and asked "Why are we trying to save the Kings?" The extent of the intellectual dishonesty -- assuming he understands what the
Maloofs have been pulling for six-plus years -- is stunning. (You'll notice that after ripping Kings fans for daring to believe in their own ability to make a statement on Saturday he didn't tweet any videos or photos from a nearly packed house. Because that might contradict the point he's trying to make, you see.)* If there was any question as to whether Arnie Kander is the NBA's greatest trainer, look no further than Terry Foster's notebook in the Detroit News. Andre Drummond, the rookie wunderkind, is out for a bit with a back injury. Kander (whose greatest hits include banning the Nike Hyperize from team use after a couple of sprains, drawing the quiet ire of Eugene Beaverton, Oregon) needs
Drummond to pay attention to his posture. The staff also doesn't want to remove Drummond from the locker room, where he's building important relationships on his path to greatness. So Kander has Drummond playing a drum in front of the team, coaxing him to sit up straight and tap faster. Can we get a reality show starring Kander and Nuggets trainer Steve Hess working out civilians? And can I please sign up? The Buy Madden 18 Coins Hook is a daily NBA column by Tom ZillerSee the archives.NBA All-Star Game 2013: Joakim Noah could sit out due to plantar fasciitis - https://www.mmogo.com/