How Seattle (kind of) Got its Groove Back

Seattle Arena Deal

 Seattle fans are that much closer to getting back an NBA team.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine signed legislation on Oct. 16 on a new arena deal in an effort to bring an NBA team back to their city. The investor group led by Chris Hansen and the city of Seattle will finance the construction of the arena.

There are some specific details to the legislation, which I won't get into. Check out the news release here if you want more information.

Congratulations to Seattle. As entertaining as the Thunder are to watch, I think I speak for everyone when I say we want those  Supersonics' jerseys back. Not to mention that Seattle fans are absolutely nuts.

More Preseason.

Here's an informative fact for all of you reading: Preseason basketball isn't exciting to watch.

The only guys really trying are the players fighting for roster spots. Starters get limited minutes and no one really cares how their team fairs in these exhibition games. For instance, the Lakers are 0-4 this preseason and last in their division. Do you think Lakers' fans are worried about their team, that has Howard, Kobe, Nash, Gasol, and the always dangerous Metta World Peace, will get slapped around during the regular season? Hell no.

In contrast, Sacramento is tops in that same division at 2-0. Even if Demarcus Cousins somehow changes his entire attitude and starts playing like the dominant big man he can be, Sacramento still won't make the playoffs this season.

Speaking of this season (check out that segue), in an effort to speed up its games, the NBA has implemented a new 90 second rule. Starting immediately after player introductions, 90 seconds will be placed on the clock. After those 90 seconds the ref will throw the jump ball. The new time limit after player introductions will cut down on the pregame player routines like the impromptu photoshoots and these other weird to hilarious things. Good job NBA. If there's one way to speed up games it's by cracking down on these short and entertaining player idiosyncrasies. If removing those gives more time for commercial breaks during the multiple timeouts called at the end of every close game, I'm all for it.

Science and Carmelo Anthony

Here's Carmelo Anthony as a very realistic science student in an ad for some product. Carmelo says he's all about the science but really, I think we know he's all about the person in his portrait that he drew.