The Official Unofficial BS Report Notes Page

15 biggest indicator of celtics succcess is two Rondo stats: FTA and rebounds 

31 this isn’t the end of celtics big3 

3630 celtics atl 2008 series was a 5 game series disguised as 7

3930 celtics playoffs have already been an extra season worth of games for the big three

45 westbrook in 3rd overtime (game 4 vs grizz) still in 5th gear kind of makes up for the turnovers. how do you still have energy?

21 Fox News clobbers everyone in the ratings but on big events & breaking news ppl go to CNN

19 “you can never assume there’s going to be justice in sports”

40 the mavs are 10-0 against the spread in the playoffs (11-0)

1:03:30 in sports, nothing drives tv ratings like uncertainty. not ticket sales, but tv ratings. see: english premier league. the 63 NCAA games in march madness make more in revenue than the entire 1000+ game nba regular season

1930 Toronto is black vegas - place players love to visit but stop short or wanting to live (b/c of taxes and weather) - Jason Whitlock

5430 “horror movies are the genre where real visual storytelling is done bc you need to frame it right, light it right, sound needs to be there, it’s not about dialogue, that’s why guys like danny boyle, peter jackson, sam raimi, oliver stone, scorsese, polanski - all these guys who are making a gazillion dollars on their movies now - started in horror movies”

scream 1 made horror a mass-appeal genre because it was smart and self-referential

1530 BS: Kobe’s confidence exceeds his talent at this stage in his career. JA: but that’s what you want.

5130 The Heat have the “magic” play, the play all the experts were excited about when they signed the big three, which is the LeBron-Wade high screen. they’ve been saving it for the playoffs. so have Durant-Westbrook. a two-man game.

53 Dwyane Wade has horrible running form (sticks his heel out, locks his knee up, slows him down and puts pressure on tendons and ligaments) . LeBron James has great running form (lands on ball of his foot with knee flexed)

5430 Virtual reality guy from NYU at MIT Sloan conference… they can take airport security camera footage and differentiate, just from reading body language, whether they are palestinian or israeli soldiers. based on exhale rate, moment of arms… so these people work in sports now. next generation stuff beyond stats.

1:09 it ain’t easy being [jeff] green

11 the whole sport of cricket has been changing over the last ten years, going from a 5-day defensive chess match to a newer, more aggressive 3-hour form. it’s called Twenty20. certain skillset demands are changed, affecting which players prosper

1330 the india that you think of today was born in 1990, when its economy opened up. the sport of cricket has mirrored that economical and societal change, with the rise of Sanchin Tendulkar as the sport’s Michael Jordan / Muhammed Ali

17 cleveland peaked in 1950; it was the third-largest US city then. the number of things invented there is astounding.

25 pappy. van. winkle. (bourbon whiskey)

22 ck: the NCAA’s token response to the absurdity of not paying men’s football and basketball players is that they’re student-athletes. however, it would be reasonable for them to say “look, if you want funding for all of your collegiate sports, men’s and women’s (title IX), from mainstream to obscure, the money has to come from somewhere.” right now the NCAA acts like they’re offended when people say that the system is crazy, but that statement would be publicly understandable  

46 what really is an ideal attendance size for a basketball game? we see so many empty arenas around the NBA. the minnesota twins’ new stadium heeds that advice, sporting a lower than average capacity

5630 ck: the achilles heel in every sports league is it’s insistance to cater to and woo a market that isn’t interested in the game at all. over-extension, over-expansion, and dilution of the product results. “we need to appeal to a wider audience” - the nba in particular is too concerned with that

1:08 the nba has desirable problems, at least compared to where the league was in the late 70’s early 80’s (couldn’t get prime time tv for their finals). franchises were bought for around $10M at that time.