[Official Knicks Board Community Board Thread] X-Rated NSFW

[CrazyKnicks]

Anyone down for a friendly game of 2k11 around 10? (XBOX btw)

[defjux21]

It took me an hour to drive home from work today. It was a total icestorm and there was even some lightning.

Phuck this weather.

[ezmoney707]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Inside-Chris-Bosh-s-ridiculous-Maxim-phot?urn=nba-312561

Ya.

What is ol boy doing splashing water smh

[Punk]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Inside-Chris-Bosh-s-ridiculous-Maxim-phot?urn=nba-312561

Ya.

Thank god we didnt sign him. What a diva.

[Im Coming Home]

F U C K THIS SNOW, ITS SNOW ON TOP OF SNOW, ON TOP OF SNOW. WE HAD THE FIRST STORM, WITH 1-2 INCHES LEFT, THAN THE 2ND STORM CAME IN AND THAT NEVER MELTED AT ALL SO IT WAS AROUND 12 INCHES LEFT OR SO, AND NOW WE GET 9-14 INCHES ON TOP OF IT. F THIS SNOW, I HAVE TO GO SHOVEL 26 INCHES OF SNOW TO GET MY DRIVEWAY CLEAN.

[knicks742]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Inside-Chris-Bosh-s-ridiculous-Maxim-phot?urn=nba-312561

Ya.

Words cannot describe my reaction. He is lucky he has money or this dino looking fool would be single for the rest of his life.

[atribecalledrch]

F U C K THIS SNOW, ITS SNOW ON TOP OF SNOW, ON TOP OF SNOW. WE HAD THE FIRST STORM, WITH 1-2 INCHES LEFT, THAN THE 2ND STORM CAME IN AND THAT NEVER MELTED AT ALL SO IT WAS AROUND 12 INCHES LEFT OR SO, AND NOW WE GET 9-14 INCHES ON TOP OF IT. F THIS SNOW, I HAVE TO GO SHOVEL 26 INCHES OF SNOW TO GET MY DRIVEWAY CLEAN.

Yea man and I keep hearing about Saturday. The snow yet again thwarts my plans to get me some pussy. This is bull. If that damn groundhog sees it's shaodow I will stangle it and feed it to some hungry dogs. Or should I omit the strangulation, and just kidnap and feed it them live? hmmm.

[magnumt]

It took me an hour to drive home from work today. It was a total icestorm and there was even some lightning.

Phuck this weather.

It'll snow again tomorrow (slightly) they said.

[Subway Token]

It took me an hour to drive home from work today. It was a total icestorm and there was even some lightning.

Phuck this weather.

It'll snow again tomorrow (slightly) they said.

[magnumt]

^

[Knicksfan20]

Poor Polar Bears

[magnumt]

Some Nostalgia and RealGM PR for the newbs:

LINK

An Unlikely Sports Business Success Story
Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008
Posted By:Darren Rovell
Topics:Internet | Media | Marketing | Sports
Sectors:Media

This post is from CNBC sports producer Tom Rotunno:

It’s the unlikeliest of business success stories. Three complete strangers meet on an NBA message board and decide to start an Internet site. They don’t live on the same continent. The timing? Couldn’t be worse. It’s June 2000 -- the year of the dot-com bubble burst. They love the NBA, yet two of the three have never seen an NBA game in person. They won’t meet face to face until their first pitch meeting. None of that will matter. Over the next couple of years, they will create one of the most popular NBA web sites and a software program that many league general managers fully admit they couldn’t live without.

For Ryan Hoak, Michael Benbow and Todd Essman, the idea for RealGM.com was simple. Instead of just debating potential NBA trades on a message board, wouldn’t it be cool if there was a software program that let you find trades that would work under the terms of the actual collective bargaining agreement? The site could also be a source of NBA news and information, but the trade simulation program would be the thing to set it apart.

So despite the fact that Hoak was in southern Illinois and Benbow in Australia, RealGM.com was born. Essman, from San Francisco, would join later after reading about RealGm.com on, you guessed it, an NBA message board. As the site and software developed, it became apparent the group was putting together something that league professionals might want to use. “We intended to create a more advanced program for teams later but it turns out they began to use it before we even started creating the more advanced stuff," says Essman.

The group started to pitch NBA teams to license the software. Indiana Pacers GM David Morway was the first general manager to return their call. “I was sold on the concept I just didn’t know if they’d be able to execute it," Morway told us.

Execute they did. Working with Morway and others, they began to tweak the software to fit a GM’s needs. The result is a comprehensive program and database of the CBA and other insider NBA info. Team officials can enter specific conditions, limitations, and deal parameters and the system generates a comprehensive and complete list of deals and players that fit within those conditions.

Want to know how much money and years are left on a particular players contract? Easy. Want to see mid-level exceptions and how teams have used them? No problem. What about how many players have suffered Achilles injuries in the last two years? Done.

The software is now used by more than half the teams in the NBA, with teams paying $30,000 to license the program.

Morway says he checks the site five to six times per day and admits that, while all the information is available elsewhere, RealGM makes it easy to find and use.

“I asked for a way to track injuries and within two months they had it down”, he says. “It is so much beyond what I expected and asked for. I can now look at all current injuries, injuries that are healed, today’s injury reports, yesterday's reports. If I wanted to look up all the guys that have had an Achilles injury, a back injury, a chest injury, I could do that, by team and see when it was first reported, the date of recovery, injuries by age, how many games people have missed, how many have missed more than 20 games. It saves you a tremendous amount of time and time is invaluable in this business and in our positions.”

Mike Winger, the basketball operations manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers is also a convert.

“In trade discussions internally and externally, it creates options for us in aggregating salaries," Winger said. "So rather than brainstorming and asking the question, 'does this work?' the software’s functionality displays all of the deals that work based on certain parameters we might select such as positions, players, salaries, etc.”

Winger says the program not only finds deals, it sometimes kills deals that would be doomed from the start. “Instead of spending time in a think tank brainstorming deals that might work and then crunching the numbers, the software displays all of the deals that do work within our parameters, which allows us to analyze them from both a basketball and economical perspective in sufficient time to negotiate– or in many cases forego– a deal.”

While the software gets the bulk of the groups attention, the web site is now the main financial driver for the company. The site contains a tweaked version of the licensed software. Once the group started formally working with NBA teams, all salary information was removed as a courtesy to the NBA league office. There is now too much sensitive information in the program to keep the exact software on the free site. Fans can use the tweaked version of the software that’s available to NBA teams.

"It's a rudimentary way to see if I can trade player X for player Y," Essman says. "It does the first step of what the advanced software does. It’s a nice fun tool for fans to use and it spurs discussion.” As a result, RealGM.com’s message boards have become some of the most trafficked NBA discussion web sites.

While the website gets the traffic and brings in the dollars, it’s the software that is a labor of love. The Pacers' Morway says it shows in the results.

“Over time they’ve continued to develop a product that has evolved to the point where the depth of information on the site is remarkable,” Morway says. It has also taken these NBA obsessed fans beyond contract minutiae.

That first pitch meeting? Where the group met face-to-face for the first time? Morway got them tickets to their first NBA game. Courtside.

--Mags

[ITGM]

Anyone tried out the Kinect for Xbox? I'm thinking of getting an Xbox just for the Kinect. Although, my boy just recommended I get the PS3 move.

I'd love to hear some feedback .... thnx

[magnumt]

Anyone tried out the Kinect for Xbox? I'm thinking of getting an Xbox just for the Kinect. Although, my boy just recommended I get the PS3 move.

I'd love to hear some feedback .... thnx

I got the PS3 Move over the Holidays (along with my Nook Color ), and yeah you're boy is right go with the PS3 Move. It's smooth, has a TON of Games to work with, and is a joy to use.

Note: the ball will light up a color depending on the lighting in your room. So your Move may have a different color than your friend.

--Mags

[kane2021]

I kid you not, some of the people who post on the forums around realgm and other message boards are the bottom of society's barrel. I have never seen so much bitching and complaining in my life. So many over the line remarks that would get your nose broke. Trolls and troublemakers that are afraid to go outside. Made up personalities. People who just browse the boards for comments to disagree with. Looking for arguments and spewing insults. Why cant people just be real and respectful? Its **** sad.

[ITGM]

Anyone tried out the Kinect for Xbox? I'm thinking of getting an Xbox just for the Kinect. Although, my boy just recommended I get the PS3 move.

I'd love to hear some feedback .... thnx

I got the PS3 Move over the Holidays (along with my Nook Color ), and yeah you're boy is right go with the PS3 Move. It's smooth, has a TON of Games to work with, and is a joy to use.

Note: the ball will light up a color depending on the lighting in your room. So your Move may have a different color than your friend.

--Mags

That's crazy, these games are getting out of control. I heard the Kinect actually takes pictures of you while your playing the game. "Big Brother" is such a pervert! lol

Yea you and my boy got me leaning toward the PS3; the free online gameplay is a nice incentive as well.

[Subway Token]

I went with the 360 because that's what most of my friends played, and I enjoy playing online with them.

I personally don't like these motion gaming things. If I'm playing a video game, it's more fun for me personally to just sit and click. If I want a workout, I'll go and play some ball.

[nyknicks2k2]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Inside-Chris-Bosh-s-ridiculous-Maxim-phot?urn=nba-312561

Ya.

What is ol boy doing splashing water smh

Girls just wanna have fun.

[H20KilledHeat]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Inside-Chris-Bosh-s-ridiculous-Maxim-phot?urn=nba-312561

Ya.

What is ol boy doing splashing water smh

Girls just wanna have fun.

[PanicBeats]

I'm so sick of these dumb PS3 software updates with nothing worth getting exciting for but a security patch. Stop Hacking you **** nerds, play fair like everyone.