New Looks for Some NBA Teams

 There where five teams this past off season who went under re-branding for the 2015-2016 NBA season. Thea teams are the Clippers, Hawks, Raptors, Bucks, and Sixers. I will be ranking them 5-1 in my opinion on who did the best job this off season.

5. LA Clippers

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The design is cool and something different, The white jerseys are the better of the two with design. The red jerseys are ugly and number next to the logo like that looks bad. Overall not a bad job though I think the City of LA will like the jerseys I believe it fits there demographic.





4. Philadelphia 76ers

http://www.nba.com/sixers/MadeInPHILA

These jersey's are a little better than the Clippers jerseys I think the style with these are more of a retro look that will great for the city of Philly. Because I think once again this team is going to be a team in the dumps for another seasons
and hopefully these help them live in the past a little bit longer

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3. Toronto Raptors
The jerseys didn't bring to much of the change in their design but more in the Logo which is much cooler than what is was before.

Bucks, Bleacher Report

2. Milwaukee Bucks
These jersey I think are cool because of
the design of the new logo. Even though the jerseys didn't change much I like the new logo better than the Raptors








1. Atlanta Hawks 
 The Hawks did a great job in re-branding used a new template new jerseys, integrated new colors. The jerseys are new and fun and will bring a new buzz to the Hawks franchise. These are the best new designed jerseys in the NBA.




These were all made in my own opinion and I also found another website that ranked these jersey so go head and check out Slants opinions on the NBA jerseys by clicking here.



Michael Standley
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Warriors, Klay Thompson responds to Doc Rivers

The defending NBA champions the Golden State Warriors begin this year with a big target on their back. One is because they are the defending champs and since its the preseason still they are the team to beat. Also last years playoff run doesn't come without its fair share of controversy or criticism from people around the NBA coaches, players, and fans. Some fans that I know personal will laugh at how easy they think the Warriors had for their play off run, Granted one is die hard Spurs (Bulls, Nuggets, Pelicans, Knicks, how many more teams are their?) and the other a Clipper Fan. Saying that both of their teams would of crushed the playoffs if they wouldn't have faced each-other and had the route the Warriors had. Than you have NBA coaches who wish they would of had the chance to play the Warriors in the playoffs. Clippers coach Doc Rivers stated "You need luck in the West, Look at the Warriors they didn't have to play us or the Spurs." Which can be found in a interview done with Grantland which you can find here. In which Klay Thompson responded, "He is bitter" and that Klay said "I wanted to play them last year, but they couldn't handle their business." I guess the team that won the NBA championships last year, had the best record in the NBA, and the MVP Stephen Curry, Will set out to prove this year that they belong at the top of the NBA.

Michael Standley
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The NBA Family

On Tuesday October 13, Former NBA champion with the LA Lakers, Lamar Odom who was found unconscious at the Love Ranch a brothel just outside of Las Vegas. He is currently in critical condition at a hospital in the area. Former teammate Kobe Bryant leaves after game and former GM Mitch Kupchak have visited Lamar shortly after their game in Las Vegas as well. Many former teammates and friends have reached out over several social media platforms sending out prayers and reminders to others to keep him and his family in their thoughts and prayers as he battles for his life.

Found at Lakers Nation

Dwyane Wade's Twitter

 This reinforces the idea of sports can create a family bond between teammates that last a lifetime. Form teammate of Lamar's in Miami Dwyane Wade tweeted  (on the left). The NBA is more than a league of player going out to the court every day and night destroying there bodies just so people can bet on them and criticize them on their wrong doings, These guys also do it cause they love their teams, the love the sport, and they love their fans. Through this and this is relevant in all sports at all levels a bond between is created that makes it more than teammates, it makes them a family.

To everybody please keep the wonderful Lamar Odom in your thoughts and prays as he fights his toughest battle.

Michael Standley
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Favorite Feature of NBA 2K16

While patiently waiting for the 2015 basketball season to start the easiest way to bridge this gap of time is to go out and get this years NBA 2K16 basketball game to fill up the time till the NBA season kicks off. Each year they enhance some of the features of the game which they did a lot with the my player mode. My favorite addition to the game from last years is in the GM mode. The following site shows some of the other NBA 2k16 9 new features along with the one I will address in this blog.

The GM mode where you choose one of the NBA teams to be under your control, you become the General Manager and are now in control of the business operations of the team. One of the cool new features that has been added this year is the option to relocate the team. I will go through the steps of this in hope of successful getting 16 of the owners to approve the application to move your team.

First was choosing a team, Sorry Milwaukee Buck fans, but I think your franchise needs to be moved. (not really but thought this would be one off the easier teams to move because of their recent lack of success). Than you need to decided where to move the team there are 60+ options in the United States along with 3 options in Canada. I think keeping this team in the Midwest will be important and decided on moving the team to Kansas City. They also give you the option of building the stadium in the downtown area or the Suburbs along with plus and minus to both of those areas, expected attendance and operation costs. The final decision was to move the Bucks to the Suburbs in Kansas City.

      The next decisions is whether to keep the team as the Bucks or re-brand the franchise. I choose to re-brand the franchise and call them the Kansas City Stingers, The re-branding process gives you the option to change the team name, colors, and symbol. This is what Kansas City Stingers look like.

This is THE BEEHIVE, created using NBA 2k16 Team Relocation tools

Next option is to create the arena for your team to play in this starts with Naming the arena and this is what ever you want it to be and also giving it a short name, THE BEEHIVE , Is the home of the Stingers. Next steps are choosing from the different types of seating in your arena, than design the court down to the color of every out of bounds line and the advertisements on the scorers table. You also get to place text on the Baselines, and have the ability to download images to be added on the court.

The next step is to create home and away jerseys for your team. Starting with the base of the jerseys design once you decide on this you move to the color scheme of your jerseys. Next you move to designing the stripes along the neck, arm, and waist line of the jerseys. You adjust the numbers and names on the jerseys to your desired size and placement on the jersey. The finally you can add logos to wherever you want on the jersey. The following are the customized home and away jerseys for the Stingers.

The last step before submitting your relocation offer to the league is to select facilities and upgrades for the future stadium with money that is currently available from your owner. This will be in areas of luxury seating, concessions, restaurants, parking, merchandise, seating, green initiatives, public transportation, amenities, and digital services. They each have different levels under each category, what you upgrade and what you cant upgrade can be very important to offer being passed by the other league owners. This leads into the last steps of the relocation process, you submit the offer to the league and wait as other teams vote on weather they want this to be approved if the believe this is a legitimate offer. You also have the opportunity prior and after the submission of the offer to hear from the other owners and where they stand on the issue. You will than find out if you team has been approved for relocation.

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My Preseason Favorites to Win the 2015 - 2016 NBA Finals

http://claycord.com/2015/06/16/warriors-win-the-golden-state-warriors-are-the-nba-champions/

The 2015-2016 NBA season is right around the corner and now is the time you start to wonder did your team make enough moves to catch the Golden State Warriors, Western Conference Champs or Eastern Conference Champs the Cleveland Cavaliers. Also according to power rankings from ESPN (http://espn.go.com/nba/powerrankings) they have both of these teams on the top of their list to start the season along with the old reliable Spurs and the I’m just going to ignore these calls from Mark Cuban, LA Clippers. With that being said I’m going to give my prediction of the Eastern and Western Conference championship and the 2016 NBA Championships.

Eastern Conference Championships (Bulls beat the Cavaliers in 6 Games)

Chicago Bulls

Granted the Bulls have had issues in the past with staying healthy...(D-Rose)... and last year Joakim Noah who only played in 12 games will be the key to the Bulls getting this far in the playoffs. But if these two can stay healthy along with new Head Coach Fred Hoiberg and his new run and gun approach to the game I would expect big things out of them. Also can’t forget the year Jimmy Butler, who will most likely put bigger numbers this year with the new style of offense.

Cleveland Cavaliers

With the same squad as last year the team will thrive and dominate in the east minus playing the Heat and Bulls. The only issue when it comes to another deep playoff run when they run into a good game who will step up, or will there be too many guys trying to do to much.

Western Conference Championship (Warriors beat Spurs in 7)

San Antonio Spurs

How does Gregg Popovich continue to do it year after year. They got better adding guys like David West and LaMarcus Aldridge I don't think any team in the NBA had a better off-season. Along with adding those two he convinced his old timers to all return and continue playing, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, and Tony Parker. This team is going to be hard to beat with the post presence they now have.

Golden State Warriors

The Warriors are back and now with the experience of winning a NBA Championship and knowing what it takes to get there will help them get back there again. Also with the big addition of Jason Thompson the 6’11 Power forward who played for the Kings last year adds depth to the Warriors front court.

NBA Championship (Warriors beat Bulls in 6)

This will be a great NBA finals to Watch the score boards will light up with points from both sides. The Warriors will prevail in the end due to the amount of talent and pure shooters and athletes that are on their roster. All of this together will be impossible for the Bulls to keep up with.

-Michael Standley

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