There was a time
when Elements were the standard for team
excellence. They brought the crowd, produced
highlight videos, and the General Managers won
several GM of the Season awards. Former
teammates made their own teams and currently,
Elements have yet to win this season. Will
Elements defeat #2 LeBronze team, Decepticons?
SCOREBOARD
CALENDAR
Hanz Jimenez
Commish OVERTIME 6.12.09
No I'm not talkin' bout the Lake Show.
It's Friday and now I have people disputing
their balances.
You had a chance to meet with me on Wednesday to
pay it off.
You had a chance to e-mail me...some even
Instant Message'd me to get
it squared off and that's fine and all... but
now.. it's Friday. I'm Filipino and all but is
everyone on here on Filipino time?
Balance sheets were sent out. If you
didn't email me or show up on Sunday, you will
get ignored. Please have the league fees and ref
fees in full on Sunday or it's an automatic DQ
plus 80's List.
RECAPS AND SSTV
...are all late. Remember back in the 80's, WWF
had this
guy.
1 Man Gang. Yup. That's pretty much me right
now, except I'm not smiling.
Between recaps, SSTV, getting gyms, working on
the website...blah blah blah...you might as well
add bill collector cuz that's what I've been
doing late this week. The league is what you
make it out to be. If people are late, it
affects everyone. Some more bad news...
POMONA HIGH SCHOOL
...is a no go this weekend. We will probably
have another facility but we'll get it squared
away. Schedule won't be final until Saturday
morning. Your schedule requests are out the
door. All the Laker Haters are playing at 7 - 8
p.m. No requests.
SOME GOOD NEWS
...we hooked up with some good people. We're
starting a Varsity Division next season and a
7th division for Year 4 is a great way to open
the new Year for us. More info will be
available.
PROFESSIONALISM
...so this is how next season will go.
We may potentially have scouts that will be in
the stands. We have kids playing in the league
this summer and we may have NBA talent on the
gym floor. The New Year (Year 4) marks our
transition from being one of the premier leagues
in So Cal to being the best basketball league in
Southern California. How do achieve that in just
3-4 years?
The website will go up in quality, the schedule
will be done on Wednesday, and profanity will
not be tolerated on the gym floor. Teams with
nice looking uniforms will be scheduled during
the gyms busiest hours will the scrubby looking
teams w/ no jerseys can play at um... =X. A
mandatory Ref Meeting with the GMs will be set
up so that GMs have a better understanding of
how calls are made. Taking this one step further
next season...
MEDIA DAY
Please fill out the Exit Interview and take your
team pictures at half time. Thank You.
+
PLAYER OF THE
WEEK
Diamond: Sean Marshall, Nazo
Platinum: Rahsaan Reyes, GG
Gold: Chris Ostos, Hoopaholics
Women's: Brenda Chavez, LBC
LeBronze: Desmond Ann, Bad News
San Diego: Amos Battle, LA>SD
6/6/09
+
PLAYERS Obinna Agu (Ninja Turltes) and Matt Virata
(suspended 1 game for double tech)
01 - T.I. - What You Know (Instrumental)
02 - Dr. Dre - Still Dre (Instrumental)
03 - FM vs Danity Kane - Damaged (Blend)
04 - Rihanna - Disturbia (Instrumental)
05 - Rihanna - Disturbia (Blend)
06 - Nas - Hate Me Now (Instrumental)
PAYPAL > NEW TEAM - $380
> REF FEES - $280
> RETURNING TEAM - $340
> EARLY DISCOUNT - $600
> WOMEN'S TEAM - $280 (7
GAMES)
> WOMEN'S REF FEES - $245 (7
GAMES)
> WOMEN'S LEAGUE + REF FEES
- $525 (7 GAMES)
REFEREE FEES
8 Games x $35 per
game
$280.00 - Men's,
$245.00 - Women's
Avoid the
hassle of collecting
referee fees during
games. Pay in
advance. We
recommend paying in
advance because even
when your players
miss their game,
they're still paying
for their ref fees.
* $600 discount only
available for teams
currently registered in
WINTER 2009 season.
Hanz Jimenez
Commish
MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS 6.11.09
Only a handful of you guys showed up.
Thanks.
It's your league. I only run it.
Don't be surprised if we don't have Walnut this
weekend.
We have confirmed hours at Brea Canyon and
another facility. The last thing you want to do
is lose Walnut Rec but no one is stepping up to
the plate.
Having to double check figures and looking at
the amount collected for 70+ teams... to top it
off, the file I created was corrupted when my PC
crashed so I basically had to re-do it. F
M L
DIVISION REPORT
There's a huge balance in Diamond Division.
Platinum Division - half are Fully Paid.
Gold Division - believe it or not, the league's
most popular division has a lower balance
compared to Platinum and Diamond.
Only 2 teams have a balance in LeBronze.
Only 1 team has a balance in Women's.
WORKING FOR US
...is a privilege. Taking stats, working for
Superstar... is a privilege.
I can do stats myself.
Sad to say but other players take the
opportunity to try and get a free season and
they expect their GM, the person working for us,
to pick up the slack.
NO NAMES MENTIONED.
Let's say uh.. "Bobby" or "Anna" works for the
league. The rest of his teammates end up
expecting "Bobby" or "Anna" to pay their league
fees. This is an adult league. Pay to play. Man
up and handle your own. It sucks that some
people have excuses for everything but I got my
Ipod on and I'm not hearing it.
Bottom line is we need gyms to be paid.
Thanks.
Hanz Jimenez
Commish
FEES 6.8.09
The last day to make a payment this season is on
Wednesday, June 10.
I will be at Walnut Rec from 7 to 8 p.m. If your
team has a balance, you will not be scheduled
for Week 8 and your team will be disqualified
for Playoffs.
Gyms need to be paid. Please have the fees, and
save the story for someone else. We've heard
every story in the book. If you are a veteran
team, then you should know to pay the fees in
due time.
Thanks.
Hanz
Jimenez
Commish
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES PART 2 6.7.09
When your computer goes down, you need to update
software, get used to new settings... and blah
blah blah.
I updated Standings, sortable stats, wrote
previews, added POW, and uploaded a new SSTV.
That's two episodes this week. I'm catching up
on work...thanks for being patient.
If you follow me on Twitter or you read up on
MySpace, you would know that my PC took a dump.
Make a long story short, It's 10:25 a.m. and I
finally recovered some of my files. I have to
re-install a lot of programs. For this week, we
will finalize schedule as of 5 p.m. SATURDAY.
All the General Managers should receive an
e-mail as well.
Thanks.
PS. Those Mac commercials are right!
Hanz Jimenez
Commish
WAITING GAME 5.26.09
We are close to acquiring a gym in the Pomona
area (Pomona High School). The tentative
schedule for Week 6 will be updated as soon as
we get the green light. For now, please make all
schedule requests in the forum. Thanks.
HORRIBLE OFFICIATING
If you've been watching the NBA Playoffs, you
know there's been some questionable officiating.
If you follow me on Twitter, well you can pretty
much see all my rants during the games and half
the time, I'm questioning these calls myself.
1. I don't know what a flagrant foul is anymore.
2. I don't know what a technical foul is. How
are you allowed to trip someone or push them on
the back and let them get away with it. When a
player throws the ball at another person, isn't
that a technical foul?
3. I'm not going to cry about how biased Game 4
was because Nuggets came out with aggression.
What I did learn was that the more aggressive
team will get the majority of the calls... and
refs still hate Kobe Bryant. JK.
FOLLOW THE SCRIPT
If you're an Internet junkie or you're just
constantly talking about these Playoffs, well,
the consensus on the NBA is that it's fixed.
That is probably the stupidest thing I have ever
heard and there's just no way David Stern could
be Vince McMahon. There's only one Vinny Mac.
1. The hottest topic right now is Lebron vs
Kobe. The NBA is going to ride with it, Nike
Basketball is going to ride with it, and Vitamin
E is going to ride with it.
2. Cavs and Lakers had the two best records in
the NBA. Regular season doesn't matter and
anything can happen in the Playoffs. Cavs and
Lakers have two of the best players in the
world, the storylines are great.
3. Nuggets vs. Magic is sorta like... Platinum
Division Champs last season when Boss Players
played Nazo. It was great to see two teams
battle it out in the Finals but their short
history lacked storylines. Now we've seen Nazo
building on their history and they aren't
overlooked anymore. It's too impossible for
people to affect the outcome of the game and as
a Commissioner myself, I really hate how David
Stern continually gets hated on, especially when
he has plays no part in the outcome of the game.
Peace.
Hanz Jimenez
Commish
" 5.20.09
It's been mentioned that Superstar Radio hasn't
been working for awhile on some browsers.
It works well with IE and Safari but not on
Mozilla. We use this software, WIMPY Player and
their latest update was when the problems
started occurring.
Turns out I was missing a " on one of the html
scripts but that's all solved now. To make a
long story short, your browsers should have the
current podcast working which is Superstar Radio
Season 12, Week 4.
MYSPACE BLOGS
The same thing happened with MySpace. For
whatever reason, they changed their blogging
system and before I could get away with just
copy and paste.
On Week 2, everything was a mess as far as copy
and pasting went and so all the previews and
recaps are now going into Superstar Basketball's
Lifestyle.
TEAM PICTURES FROM LAST SEASON
Will be uploaded by next week. Next season,
we're uploading to Flickr or some other 3rd
party website because let's be honest - MySpace
is slowly dying. Twitter and Facebook have taken
over and hopefully MySpace comes up with
something new because they're new Instant
Message bar is straight out of Facebook.
NEXT WEEK I'm writing all the recaps and getting the
stats updated this week. Next week will be
dedicated to site maintenance and I'll get
everything updated, and then some.
NEXT SEASON We are getting a lot of questions about next
season already.
SEASON 13 starts on Sunday, July 19.
Theme is West Coast Gold Rush II.
We are giving out Gold medals much like we did
last season and EVERYONE has been wanting these
medals over team trophies.
We are anticipating a big turnout and we are
expecting 90+ teams.
Superstar TV will have an additional segment
featuring the other, other love of my life -
FOOD. We'll try out different foods from local
eateries and have segments on Kogi's, Roscoe's,
Moch's... and zzzz (food coma). Sorry Reggie,
you think every type of food is good so you
can't be one of our food testers.
PEACE
Hanz Jimenez
Commish
Yo Mama 5.12.09
Happy belated Mother's Day to all you mamas out
there. I know I'm late, but it's not like you're
reading this so... =) jk.
I've been getting a lot of questions that are
repetitive so I want to take this time and
answer some of those questions now.
+ FAQ'S 1. Who judges the Player of the Week awards
and how do you decide on it?
At our round table on Sunday night, we'll talk
about the games. We'll talk about the top
performers and we'll talk about issues (if there
are any) and everything else going on in the
league. When Player of the Week is announced, it
is based not solely on points but other factors
that may come into play. Ultimately, I make the
last call on POW
- If your team only has 4 players and you scored
30 points, and the next player scored 36 but he
played against a weaker team, the player who
scored 30 is likely to be POW.
- Your team must win in order for you to win
POW.
2. Dude stinks. Can you like, make a rule
saying that players must shower or wear
deodorant?
No I can't put that in the rules but please
people, shower before you show up at Superstar.
People talk and I know it's funny but just so
people don't talk about how smelly you are, do
me a favor and take a shower. I never brought
this up before but Summer is right around the
corner and I remember back on Week 1 when there
was a heat wave, oohh weee. We can't have the
gym hot and smelling like turd, cmon now.
3. Gold Division is too crowded. Can you
break it down to 2 divisions? No. That's what makes Gold so fun and that's
why everyone joins. It gives you that NCAA feel.
You'll either get a run-and-gun team or a team
that plays half court. Any team can win on any
given day. We've seen a lot of upsets, specially
in Gold so for now, we're keeping Gold as is.
Thanks... GO LAKERS
PLAYER OF THE WEEK - WEEK 7
Kevin
Ortiz, Flava dbl-header: 60
points,
7 rebs, 9 three-pointers
Hanz Jimenez
Kevin
Ortiz, Flava
Dedrick
Bates, USUCK
Ken
N., Phenoms
