Real Deal

Name changes are 1 in every 30 days now, instead of 60.

Whoa, you can make polls public AND you can allow for members to delete their votes and re-vote. Crazy.

It's those knees.

Yeah, I've had offers in the past. And Justin...you mean to help? Yeah, the last attempt, which was a couple months ago (most everyone remembers it).

Wright is nowhere near the presence they are going to need in the paint, especially after losing Shaq. That's why they were after Chandler.

We need to average almost 700 posts per day to get to a quarter of a million posts in one year. Two years, and we'll be right back at 500,000. That's pretty good, honestly. All you have to do is endure two more Lakers championships.

Phoenix will want Biedrins, though. If they trade Amare, they have nothing up front, at all. Robin Lopez doesn't even count.

Log out, close the browser, re-open it and log back in. I changed something.

What's the browser?

Clear your cookies. You may have the old OTR cookies, and the settings are slightly different here.

Anyone else?

Haha, Matt...at least we know guest posting works. I have no idea who did this, since our old host decided not to cooperate and let me read the cPanel logs. But that's irrelevant, because whoever did this took advantage of my mistake: not updating the board, not having a secure host, and enabling scripts on certain parts of the site. So really, the guy shouldn't get any recognition to begin with.

Sim League NBA Re-Draft If you can remember what forums we're missing, post them in here. I may not be re-creating a couple of them, though.

Certainly a temporary slogan, but we can stick with it for a while. I've been up for over 24 hours, absolutely no sleep. I did everything I possibly could to find a backup of our old database, but to no avail. Since it became evident that there was no chance of us recovering our 600,000 posts and 2,200 members, I've flipped the switch and made what I consider mandatory changes. We are on a new host, running the newest board software. Every player profile page I created will be checked for coding errors. WordPress will be scrapped for our homepage for the time being, and a new and very basic homepage will be created over time. A new skin will be created over time. Step by step, this place will be rebuilt over time. But my glass isn't half full right now. It's full. The way I see things, my drive to push you (as a community) straight to the top of the food chain is at its peak. Let me remind you that someone just ripped more than four years of hard work away from this site. There were around 20 members with 8,000 posts, possibly three or four over 20,000. If there is any one emotion you should be feeling right now, don't let it be anger. Be determined and focused. Every season you spent on OTR following your favorite team for 82 games or more, posting about them, commenting on rumors and big trades, following them to a playoff berth or even a championship, you made a name for yourself within our community of basketball minds. Then, disrespecting you and everyone else here, it's all wiped clean, sitting you aside as a rookie basketball fan once again and pushing you in the back to do something about it. Since January 2005, we've watched numerous sites fail. Some are hacked. Most are sold. If we're looking for something we've learned over that period of time, it's that there's no way we will break. I know I would carry this site on my back for years, even if we were down to five active posters, because I believe there's nothing that can put us to rest as long as there are leaders and dedicated members. Right now, I'm looking for leaders and dedicated members. Someone wanted you to find a new home as a rookie. I want you and everyone here to rebuild this place as veterans. There's a very large gap between coming here to stir up trouble, and disrespecting our hard work and dedication over the course of four and a half years. If you're pissed off, determined, focused, and/or upset at what took place on Friday, welcome back. It's time to do work.