Pro-Basketball Today

[Scallop Industry Thug]

I remember I was so excited to get this every Thursday. I'd rip through it in an afternoon when i got home from school. Id even pore through every box score.

Im 99% sure its dead as I havent seen it for years, and i guess the rise of the internet killed it.

Anyone have any details of its demise?


mwah

xoxo

HK

 

[Alex99]

I remember I was so excited to get this every Thursday. I'd rip through it in an afternoon when i got home from school. Id even pore through every box score.

Im 99% sure its dead as I havent seen it for years, and i guess the rise of the internet killed it.

Anyone have any details of its demise?


mwah

xoxo

HK

Yeah it died years ago. I loved it; i used to buy it every week without fail.

High costs for publication and the lack of circulation lead it its demise. There was never anything official released, they just said a few weeks before hand that it was going to be stopped.

 

[peternorth]

it's demise would have had much to do with the interweb.

 

[Renegade]

Ah how i loved PBT. I'd almost break into a sprint to the newsagent on a thursday to grab a copy. Then came the internet.....

 

[peternorth]

Ah how i loved PBT. I'd almost break into a sprint to the newsagent on a thursday to grab a copy. Then came the internet.....

the interweb is also responsible for the demise of The Truth.

 

[Alex99]

the interweb is also responsible for the demise of The Truth.

Na i blame Bay 13 for that phenomenon.


Wasn’t it gone way before the internet become popular? From memory it was gone by about 1994/95 and the internet was still small potatoes back then.

 

[BigA.G]

ive still got copies at home...i re-discovered them recently..as well as One on One and Beckett mags.

 

[peternorth]

ive still got copies at home...i re-discovered them recently..as well as One on One and Beckett mags.

hahaha i have some somewhere as well. funny looking back at the box scores and the names back then!

i also have heaps of papers (LA times) from the day/week Magic retired (first time) cause of teh AIDS.

 

[Alex99]

hahaha i have some somewhere as well. funny looking back at the box scores and the names back then!

i also have heaps of papers (LA times) from the day/week Magic retired (first time) cause of teh AIDS.

Well HIV....not the AIDS virus. Without being majorly pedantic, there is a difference.

 

[Alex99]

ive still got copies at home...i re-discovered them recently..as well as One on One and Beckett mags.

Loved that magazine. Had maybe over 200 editions at one stage.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

I had about 250 PBT's a few years back (Saved for about 5 years I reckon). I wish I never threw them out

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Back before the days of the internet this paper was our source for NBA stats for our fantasy ball leagues.

 

[Vegas.]

Dost mine eyes deceiveth me? Funky...?

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Dost mine eyes deceiveth me? Funky...?

Your eyes doth not deceiveth you, pal.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Back before the days of the internet this paper was our source for NBA stats for our fantasy ball leagues.

It sure was.

Before Dirk and Nash came to the Mavs I was a fan of Glen Rice and the Charlotte Hornets.

That entire 97/98 season I was filling up a scrapbook of Hornets' stats that I got entirely from PBT.

There was something special about this paper for me because I didnt have the internet (yes, a world did exist Funkyzeit mit Matt was born) and these precious stats were so inaccessable.

I remember there used to be a 0055 numbers that was like $2 a minute that I would ring up every night getting scores and stats

 

[peternorth]

I remember there used to be a 0055 numbers that was like $2 a minute that I would ring up every night getting scores and stats

yes i also rang those numbers to get the stats.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

yes i also rang those numbers to get the stats.

Amazing to think we can just watch it live over the net now.

Kids these days don't know what we had to go through

 

[peternorth]

Amazing to think we can just watch it live over the net now.

Kids these days don't know what we had to go through

yes, um, i used those numbers to access um stats and um watch that stuff over the net. um.

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

It sure was.

Before Dirk and Nash came to the Mavs I was a fan of Glen Rice and the Charlotte Hornets.

That entire 97/98 season I was filling up a scrapbook of Hornets' stats that I got entirely from PBT.

There was something special about this paper for me because I didnt have the internet (yes, a world did exist Funkyzeit mit Matt was born) and these precious stats were so inaccessable.

I remember there used to be a 0055 numbers that was like $2 a minute that I would ring up every night getting scores and stats

I remember winning a fantasy roto comp with Dana Baros, Derrick Coleman, Vlade Divac, Karl Malone and Clyde Drexler

Baros shot the 3pt lights out that season.

 

[peternorth]

I remember winning a fantasy roto comp with Dana Baros, Derrick Coleman, Vlade Divac, Karl Malone and Clyde Drexler

Baros shot the 3pt lights out that season.

best think about dana (other than his name) was a buzzer beater from mid court i remember seeing on the nba highlights show back when.

 

[BigA.G]

yes i also rang those numbers to get the stats.

same here. my parents really loved me calling that number...not

 

[peternorth]

same here. my parents really loved me calling that number...not

which sex line was it?

 

[Magnum27]

I still have a couple of issues, the ones that were published when the Wildcats won the titles in 1990/91, and the issue when Larry Bird retired.

Did anyone buy the one on one magazines?

 

[peternorth]

I still have a couple of issues, the ones that were published when the Wildcats won the titles in 1990/91, and the issue when Larry Bird retired.

Did anyone buy the one on one magazines?

hell yeah! with the free posters and all! loved it!! still got some somewhere i think.

 

[Magnum27]

hell yeah! with the free posters and all! loved it!! still got some somewhere i think.

I had the whole lot from edition 1 until they stopped, when i decided to move to Melb 2 years ago i threw them all out. Didn't have enough room in the car for them