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NBA League Pass Customer Service Update
by nbrans on Dec 17, 2009 3:16 PM EST
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When we last left off, I had been accused of online harassment and possible vandalism by an NBA League pass customer service representative for pressing them for a partial refund for the several incorrect feeds over the course of the season. Needless to say, I was not thrilled and took the fight to the streets, er, Sactown Royalty
Today I got an e-mail from the VP of Business Operations at NBA League Pass and we spent about 15 minutes talking about the exciting adventure that was my customer service experience (coming soon to theaters near you!)
Actually it was all very polite.
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Adventures in NBA Customer Service (or rather the complete lack thereof)
by nbrans on Dec 11, 2009 7:17 PM EST
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As you may have seen complained about in the Kings/Spurs game thread, the NBA League Pass Broadband feed was incorrectly showing the Cavs/Rockets the other night. This wasn't fixed the entire game. Since this isn't the first time this has happened and because the service costs a hefty $100 for the entire season (and this is just for the privilege of watching seven teams), I thought a partial refund was in order.
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Right now it appears that Oklahoma City is leaning towards picking Rubio and keeping him as a trading chip to potentially use this summer. A few sources we spoke with mentioned that they still expect Rubio to end up in New York when it’s all said and done.
Oklahoma City is also active in trade talk with Phoenix, with their main target appearing to be Robin Lopez. They are reportedly offering Phoenix their 2010 unprotected pick back in return for Lopez, but that seems like a very high price for the Suns to pay.
Sacramento seems to be leaning towards Tyreke Evans from what we’re hearing, and may have even told him as much.
5 months ago
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Sacramento has reportedly offered Detroit the #23 and #31 picks in exchange for the #15. The Kings may target DeJuan Blair at 15 if he’s available, while the Pistons like Toney Douglas and possibly DaJuan Summers.
5 months ago
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Hollinger on Rubio
"OK, it's time to shine a harsher light here. There's one thing working hugely against Rubio's status as an A-list prospect that nobody seems to want to mention, so let me put it out there: There's very little evidence he can score at anything approaching an acceptable rate for an NBA point guard.
We have very little recent Euroleague data to work with from Rubio -- just a 66-minute sample from this year and a larger sample from two years earlier -- but both sets translate to scoring about five points per 40 minutes and shooting in the low 30s. Ugh. Rubio shot better in the Spanish ACB league this season, including 25-of-62 on 3-pointers, but he also shot only 39 percent on 2s against a lower level of competition.
Same goes for his alleged breakout in the Olympics -- as heralded as he was for his play, he made nine baskets in eight games and shot 28.1 percent for the tournament. And while one of those games was against a team full of U.S. All-Stars, he wasn't bedazzling the Germans or Angolans either. Obviously he's a Jason Kidd-like rarity in that he can have a heavy impact on the game without scoring, but if his shooting numbers don't improve, he'll make Kidd look like Rick Barry."
5 months ago
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Chad Ford: Not a sure thing the Kings would take Rubio #4
"Rubio has been pretty adamant that he doesn't want to play in Memphis. Although he doesn't have the same objection to Oklahoma City, it sounds as though the Thunder are leaning toward drafting either James Harden or Stephen Curry. So, if neither team makes a trade, Rubio would be there at No. 4.
But sources in Sacramento say that the Kings have reservations about Rubio and that it's far from a done deal that they will take him if he is on the board."
6 months ago
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Gani WithdraLawals From the Draft
"I'm going back to school," Lawal said. "I sat down with my family and after going through this positive experience, where I learned a lot and got a lot of exposure, I realized the best thing for me to do was to go back."
6 months ago
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Positional Rankings, or How I Still Fear This Year's Draft
by nbrans on Jun 11, 2009 11:01 PM EDT
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It’s been some time since my last foray into the world of Sactown Royalty Fanposts. My last entry was about How to Avoid a Draft Bust, and I tagged it with the ominous subtitle "how I learned to fear this year’s draft."
Well, that was January. A lot has changed since then and… actually not much has changed. I still fear this draft. I still think James Harden is a future NBA roleplayer and Rubio’s lack of athleticism scares me to death. But hey – the guy can just flat out play, right? Um….. Right?
In order for that joke to make sense and to explain where I’m coming from with the rankings, here is a brief rundown of my drafting philosophy as expressed more extensively in that old post:
1. Avoid guys who are underathletic and/or undersized but who pundits say “can just flat out play."
2. Raw upside guys: a) must be athletic; b) SGs and SFs need to be able to shoot and have a handle; c) bigs must have good hands; d) point guards have to be very quick and either really good at scoring or really good at passing.
3. Watch out for the unmotivated
In the hopes that posterity will either remember me as an anonymous basketball savant or, much more likely, as an unadulterated idiot, I thought I would provide some draft capsules on this year’s crop of players for everyone to argue over.
Positional rankings, point guard to center. Here they come...
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This has been a Jeff Teague public service announcement. This is only a test.
9 months ago
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Newsday: Kings interested in Marbury, Maloofs lost hundreds of millions to Madoff?
"One team that is believed to have asked about Marbury is the Sacramento Kings, a franchise believed to be in serious financial distress because its owners, the Maloof family, lost hundreds of millions in the alleged Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme."
10 months ago
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