8 games, but only two at Target Center.

If anyone cares:

twolvesblog.com/201008173098/minnesota-t...le-team-turmoil.html

So real NBA news starts again the first week in October. Having those first two games in Europe should be fun. If Kahn is smart he'll talk Rubio into being in the crowd at one of them.

Man, no Mankato game this year...I made the trip with some buds last year and it was a blast.

I personally enjoy going to the preseason games. Target Center is even more empty than normal, which in a way is interesting for a meaningless game. Last year I sat ON the Raptors bench, directly next to Reggie Evans. Very interesting experience.

WallyWorld wrote:


I remember you telling us about that Hahahaha!

Yeah, I did, didn't I? It just reaffirms that no matter how nice or friendly you WANT athletes/NBA players to be, 85% of them are completely mind-warped assholes.

WallyWorld wrote:


It is probably the same 85% who have been told they were the greatest collection of cells to ever be born since they were 12. The bizarre world of elite youth sports and AAU is basically a science experiment in self-absorbed dick-head creation.

I think your 85% is a bit far fetched. It's hard to judge people from a distance. Some athletes yes, they are jerks but I think there are a lot of good people out there. Maybe I am naive but I like to think pro athletes are like everyone else. There are the assholes that give the rest of us a bad name. The problem is you never hear about the good people/athletes are doing but instead you hear only about the negatives. Sounds like all the news stations accross the nation, only focus on the negative things people are up to, never the good.

Just my opinion, no clue if it's true or not

The concentration of assholes in sports is like the concentration of jerks in kids who grew up with filthy rich parents who ignored them. No rules + everyone telling you how right and great you are = self indulgent asshole. 85% might be high but it certainly skews much much higher than the general population.

pants wrote:


Tough to put an exact number on it, but I think we can all agree that its a MUCH higher number than the general population (as Pants just said.)

Perhaps our sister site would be willing to implement a regression analysis to determine the exact % of anus-holes in sports with at least an 85% or 90% confidence level.

WallyWorld wrote:


Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

I bet it will get a ton of responses, just like this post:

http://www.canishoopus.com/2010/8/18/163...nx-playoff-scenarios