But, that is only because it was being covered locally. Otherwise there is no reason to black it out.
Good point and yes I agree. My guys in Orlando told me this might happen, but you guys bring up a good point that since locally it isn't being broadbcast locally, there is no need for a blackout.
And nice try last night bro! I saw you try to ruin the Timbers game for me.....knowing that I worked and had to come home and watch it later! Nice try FAMS!
It won't be blacked out as that's a mandate by the NBA to black out games in local broadcasting areas when the local station is also broadcasting the game. It's the same during the season when some games were on TNT and the Blazers weren't broadcasting the game.
Nice to see this as a top story on the ESPN NBA home page - Should the Lakers be scared of the Blazers? Stephen A says 'hell yes'
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...kounmpo-1-game-headbutting-wizards-moe-wagner The Grizz get a break. I don't know if the Bucks were planning on competing in this one but this bodes well for Memphis. That would also mean that if Memphis takes advantage of this good fortune we will be in a must win game. We don't want to have to beat Memphis twice, should Phoenix and San Antonio lose.
Guys, actually nothing has changed, Memphis is gonna play against the C-Bucks Team, Phoenix is gonna play against the C-Dallas Team because they locked in at 7th, San Antonio is gonna play against the C-Utah Team because they don't want to move up, we saw that master tanking job by Snyder against Dallas. If only 2 of those 3 Teams win and we lose against a motivated Nets team (motivated because their players wanna earn minutes for next season when Durant and Kyrie come back), we will be out and the season will be over. We stil got a lot of work to do. Luckily for us, our game will start when the other games are over, which means our players will be full aware of what happens if we drop that game
Rick Carlisle said he played his stars last night because the league wants stars to play national TV games. Well tomorrow's game is on national TV so he should play his stars again, yes? Has it been confirmed either way?
We're going to be playing the worst team out of all four of the teams who are in contention for the play-in. That being said, we will likely be in a must win scenario. I sincerely doubt that all three teams will lose and we can't afford to be in the ninth spot having to win two in a row and obviously we don't want to be tenth or eleventh on the outside looking in. Our guys will know what they have to do, that was a good point. They will do whatever it takes to get that eighth spot.
I've been over this with you the Bucks sat everyone in that game and still the Nets barely won. The only good win the Nets have in the bubble is the win against the George-less Clippers, who are still a really good team without PG13. They got blown out twice and the rest of their wins came against the worst teams in the bubble. OK their last win, against the Magic was pretty good too since they won it while sitting all of there guys. That being said, I'm not scared of them but I know our guys will get up for this game to lock up the 8th spot... if that is needed (which is very likely). Any team can beat any other team in this league in any given game but we will be desperate, they will not and we have the better team.
Actually, it was the Brooklyn Nets that sat everyone in that game. Harris, Allen, and LaVert all sat out the game. Meanwhile, most of the Bucks rotation players played at least 15 minutes including Giannis and Khris. https://www.nba.com/games/20200804/BKNMIL#/boxscore
Okay they both sat a ton of their players, look at Giannis' minutes and the minutes of the rest of the starters. Also take a look at the depth chart and look how many of their third stringers got major minutes. Both teams didn't give a damn about that game. That win still means nothing to me. By the way, do you think they're going to beat us tomorrow?
Look at the last item in this article, every writer from ESPN has us advancing to the playoffs. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I mean I totally agree with them. Our team just needs to take tonight's game extremely seriously, biggest game of the season (unless the unlikely happens and the game means nothing). https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ames-best-bubble-moments-our-play-predictions
