NBA Basketball Being Played Today Open Thread Christmastime

Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

This is your NBA Day One open thread. This is your link to the above speech which will possibly derail your NBA watching in favor of a certain trilogy. This is a picture of a goat. This is how we do it.

Iman Shumpert. Keyon Dooling. Klay Thompson. Randy Foye. Devin Ebanks. Nazr Mohammed. Ryan Anderson. Norris Cole. Vince Carter. Brian Scalabrine.

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