When I looked at my facebook feed yesterday, the Timberwolve were all over it.  Unfortunately, not with anything that I care about.  There were dancer auditions, highlights from J.R. Rider's Slam-Dunk championship (Ok, now I know you are getting desparate), and other inanities.  During the regular season there was never this much in their feed.  I wonder, are they actually desparate to demonstrate how pathetic their "news" feed is given the absense of players?

Oh look! Highlights from 1995! Stop the presses!

As we've pointed out before on the Wages of Wins Network, the owners appear to be trying to prove that we "need" them (the players can't all just get together and form their own league, can they?  I mean, who wants to see LeBron play against Kobe?  Wait...).  Maybe this is their attempt to demonstrate their worth?  "Look, our dancers are hot!"

I honestly believe it's getting embarrassing at this point.  The owners say "We lost money last year," and the press comes along and looks at the numbers and says "Uh, no, actually you made a few million unless you billionaires all use incompetent accountants." And this is ignoring the fact that it is often profitable to own an NBA team simply by holding it for a while, and then selling it for twice what you paid for it.  The owners bitch and moan about players getting injured in European games, and we point out that if you break up with your girlfriend, she's going to see other guys and it's none of your damn business.  The owners complain about escalating player salaries, and the press points out that salaries are a fixed cost at 57% of revenue, which means that by definition they cannot escalate relative to revenue.  At some point, aren't the lawyers supposed to lean over and tell their clients to shut up and stop embarrassing themselves?

P.S. Speaking of embarassments, it turns out my player stats pages had a mixup!  The Turnover (TO) and Block (BLK) columns were switched around (which made for some weird stats with point guards having almost no TOs and a lot of BLKs!).  This should be fixed now.  And don't worry -- the points in my ugly baskets article remain solid; it turns out Kevin Love still rocks LaMarcus Aldridge's box score stats.

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