>236 cm in height
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me either future top 5 center super bust

>>146658870
something something earlyfagged

>>146658870
Get cancer faggot animal.

I dont remember Jannies being this passive about constant earlyfagging

Did betslop post xis picks yet?

Bens max runs out this summer and the nets have a max slot available. Jimmy might get it. The stars aligned for playoff piss

>>146659066
Theres no easy picks tonight. Even twolves vs wizards and knicks vs pistons can be surprises.

>>146658870
how the fuck do you even find clothes

>>146659131
he buys from ur mum when she grows out of them

>The NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards $50,000 on Monday for "making obscene gestures toward a game official."

>It marks the fifth time this season that Edwards has been fined, totaling $285,000.

what is he doing?

>>146659161
Doesnt he have like 4 kids too

we lost another /nba/ poster

Soneone needs to investigate Michael Malone. I'm convinced he's deliberately playing awful lineups and keeping unplayable players like Saric and DJ on the Nuggets roster so Jokic can statpad easier and get better advanced statistics.

>>146659406
>keeping unplayable players like Saric and DJ
That's Booth's problem

>>146659406
The awful lineups were designed to limit Jokic's effectiveness and increase Murray's iso frequency.

>>146659367
we are retarded but not deviants.

https://x.com/JoeyMistretta_/status/1878571177561501826?t=ZoILRQcVssBRvJX5uQWNAw&s=19
>Jason Kidd says Nikola Jokic is “the best in the world.”
Lukwab

Why don't you dipshits just ignore the earlyfag threads and stay until bump limit?

>>146659778
every thread is diarrhea so i want to jump ship as soon as i can.

>>146659161
It’s called being a superstar

>>146659778
if u make the other thread hit bump limit then he's no longer a shameful early fag because there's not a <500 thread sitting on the catalog

>SGAy is perfectly fine being a free throw merchant
He either goes the way of Harden and stops getting calls or playing OKC will always be insufferable as fuck. The new NBA is fucked.

>>146659778
>nu-/nba/ posters
>having discipline
pick 1

>>146659763
according to shaq (egotistical bum still salty he got buck broken by Pat), Butler is entitled to ask 100M a year just because bums like Simmons make the same ammount of money as him.

>>146659827
Whats his reply to why he keeps throwing his head back like hes having spasms

>>146659838
RIP 7KT (Sam Hinkie)

EarlyGODS own /nba/

>Brunson: “Jokić is playing absolutely absurd, but they are not seeded like last season, and people are still talking about him like being the MVP. When Luka was averaging damn near triple-double, they were like ‘oh, he shouldn’t win MVP because of his seeding”.
Jokicsissies.......

Jimmy thinking he can outduel Pat reminds of Ronaldo thinking he can best Perez. Pat has 40 years of management experience behind him. Perez is a one in a billion guy. Players be delusional, these old guys have dealt with way bigger shit

>>146659980
pat riley answers to micky arison and jews are not going to pay a 40 year old carcass top dollar

>>146659964
>now that it's convenient to my argument i suddenly think luka wuz da real mvp nigga shiet
embarrassing

Ant went from MJ's son to Isiah Thomas' son real quick

>>146659964
Jokgod unlocked Westbrook, something no other played has managed to do

Nuggets got a real shot and moving on to the top 3. Rockets and grizz duke it out in a few hours. Nuggets get a rematch against the hospital mavs. Then they play the rockets and frankly, Sengün is 5 years of development from competing with Jokic on any serious level.

>>146659066
Fuck betslop I won 1k on Aussie open picks and the ravens

>>146659778
I need to get my shit in brother

Lol butler is not getting fucking traded if the heat are more worried about their fight with him.

>>146660638
Jimmy got more luxury than he deserved. Alonzo, Shaq, Wade and fucking prime lebron had a shorter leash than him. Lebron had insane value and they still refused to cuck out to him. Fuck jimmy for this

>>146660514
foul me baby, oooh yeaaa

god I dont want butler to come back. the young core would get ruined by his ass.

>>146660692
Jaime, Bam and Herro is a very nice core. If KelEl and Jovic develop well we are one star point guard from contending by say 2027. My dream would be getting Luka, who will be a free agent in a year or two. Hope he tests the waters.

Luka Herro Jaime Bam would be insanely good.
Full on copium, impossible with salaries, we get Giannis too.
WE GON GIT

>>146660143
He has what, 3-4 years to win some rings in that case?

>>146659367
WTF? CC is getting stalked yet Paige Bueckers, Haley Van Lith, Sophie Cunningham, Lexie Hull arent

Let's go wolves. they're facing the wizards tonight

rob dillingham is back on the court but he'll be playing for the g-league affilate the iowa wolves tonight against rip city remix

go wuffs

>>146659964
Funny how seeding never mattered when Jokic was a 6th seed and got his second.

>>146658870
honestly when you're that tall it must be due to some genetic disease and prolly man doesn't have long to live
sad

Jokic fans are faggots

>Kyrie is back
Thank God

Happy for our guy desu

Yao Stringbean

>>146660362
Rockets 3-1 Nuggets last season. Them youngins finna abuse old MurBum.

>>146661769
it was Bestbrook-less Nuggets though

This general would go nuts if we got an Indian superstar

>>146661820
Forgot the tweet link. Look at the comments
https://x.com/dru_montana47/status/1878618083633541241?s=46

>>146661808
Doesn't matter when Murray gonna start and be -30 trailing by 1 in the first quarter AGAIN. They ain't wearing the rockshits down into the 4th like they did with the other team.

>>146661820
>>146661833
I remember there were some Indian players in the G League

>no NugGODS game today
Boring....

>The Phoenix Suns are showing interest in Duop Reath, per @Gambo987
i thought he was alright last season but then Blazies drafted Clingan so he's now 3rd choice in C

CADE WITH THE DUNK

Niggas were calling me crazy for saying the Knicks are frauds. Look at them now.

>>146662084
Soon...

>>146660692
jimmy a playoff demon idk how heat would stand a chance without him.

>>146662105
based

can Silver refball the Lakers to a title this year? next year?

BEASLEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY AND STEWAAAAARRRRRRRRTTTTTTTT

Time for some more Rockets basketball
We played the Grizzlies a week ago and now we play them again. Lets see if we can clinch the season series tonight.

GSW has so many random niggas playing for them

>>146662755
it's the process mate

Jalen Green the based retard looks like he’s on a heater tonight. Have a whole week off must’ve been good for the boys.

>>146662802
Warriors got rid of the wrong player.

Amen Thomson is mahhh nigga

my knick

Ron Holland is pretty decent for a rookie

>>146658826
Everyone talks about wanting to get dem rangz, but WestTENNO is the only vet that has demonstrated the he is willing to take a pay cut and get paid what a guy in his late 30s is worth in order to have a crack at winning a championship. If LeBum wasn't getting paid $50 million more than what he was worth (plus another $9 million for Bronny) then the Lakers would be able to afford to bring in the talent needed to put together a championship caliber team, instead he just mouths the right words while guaranteeing the Lakers another early exit from the playoffs via his selfish actions.

>>146663175
Lebron is worth more than the entire rest of the lakers in how much revenue he brings them

Are the Lakers really playing tonight or is that game postpwnd

Hart is such a baller
Why didn’t he work in LA

I just finished this anime about working out and getting /fit/ and it was far better than I expected and the shawties were great. Carry the hell on and fuck the Lakers and fuck the Celtics...

>>146663347
they traded him for lebron

why is edey hacking at amen like a mong any time he goes for a layup and the refs arent doing shit about it

>>146663665
is he going "AYE"

Sengooner, can you stop being shit?

>9-22 fts
I want my Pistons to win this one for the sake of ethics

Rockets mascot is ugly af

>>146663665
Tbf they aren’t calling shit for both sides, it’s going to end up being a big physical game

>>146663887
ANTcels BTFO

>>146663877
Hey fuck you, Clutch is a national treasure

>>146661345
Seeding hasn't mattered since WestALLAH won his mvp

timmywoofs needing massive refball just to stay a few point in from the wizards, FT differential currently 22-10

yall lucky Kuz and Poole are playing like shit

>*whistles*
No no you can’t toucha la boll

>>146662802
drafting wiseman

>>146664252
28-10 now

>>146658870
Field Goal Percentage at the rim during the handchecking era
>Michael Jordan '1993 (79%)
>Shaquille O'Neal '2001 (79%)
>Allen Iverson '2000 (71%)
>Karl Malone '2000 (68%)

ive been loving watching the pistons this season

Knicks suck, Cunningham is goated

>Warriors hanging on against the 8-31 Raptors
Shit's gonna be funny when they lose this.

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ant dropped 41 demon fr

>>146665059
i've given up on the warriors desu, they will be a play in team until they can either find another defensive big or find a reliable 2nd option in kuminga/hield

If the Rockets had an average offense they would be the best team in the league

>>146665242
has sengoon regressed since last year?

>>146665288
Yes and no, he’s very streaky

>>146665348
is he playing tonight? ill try to bounce between this game and the pistons knicks game

imagine if the warriors didnt trade vince carter to the raptors. We couldve had J-Rich AND VC on the same team

>>146665425
sounds infinitely worse than VC and tmac

I want to watch the Warriors but the announcers are just downright horrible.

>>146665454
im talking in terms of entertainment value with their insane dunking abilities. Tmac wasnt the same kind of dunker Jrich and VC were. And plus, Tmac didnt become tmac until he got to orlando

>>146665404
Yeah, we’re playing the grizz

cade!!!

>>146665469
there's only a few commentators i will bear to watch just because they are somewhat funny

>Timeout
>Warriors go back to being shit
Like clockwork

>>146665469
The Warriors commentary team are a bunch of whiny faggots like their faggot of a HC

>>146665614
its because they go to the bitch ass motion offence where they don't lean into their strengths, also doesn't help that their shooters, hield, waters and curry are shit from beyond the arch recently

Cade Cunny. That's it, that's the tweet.

Reffie time LETS GO

>>146665675
Uohhhhh

SASSSSEEEEEERRRRRRRR

this sasser nigga different

man Clyde Frazier is on one today. good lord

uh oh stinky rockshits

Chris Boucher da GOAT

Take Dillion out of the game, he’s missing every shot and getting aggroed by that Bane faggot. Unless you can cause Bane to tech out, then keep him in.

Rockets getting cooked by a nigga with negative wingspan

Duren is such a disappointing player. All that physical talent but negative bbiq. Hopefully he'll get smarter as he ages

>>146666050
crashing this rocket with no survivors

uh oh Cade might be him knickbros

>>146666170
Cade is gud
Hope he doesn’t get injured

>>146666152
thats a jerry stackhouse line

There we go Rockets, get that momentum going into the 4th

>>146666130
buddy would've shot out of the plane like a rocket since his arms wouldn't reach the seats

Warriors sucks so much that they can't even let a tanking team lose.

Christ Boucher legacy game

refs sold knickbros

good call ref, kat acting surprised lmao

Amen on 5x5 watch

omg knicks got victimized

Let's go home, fellas

told you yall niggas was sleepin

When did Malik Beasley turn into steph
Wtf

can't double Cade when Beasley is out there
foolishness from Thibs

not like this knickerbockers...

unironically Hardaway faked me to lol shit was believable.

>>146666416
him not taking that shot was so out of character that it has me shook just watching

PissGODS are too good to get refballed, it's over for the rest of the league

wasn’t expecting them to win a back to back anyways

>curry lost to the raptors
when is this washed up old geezer finally going to retire?

another win for the pistons and hopefully moral boosting for cade and em lol good shit

well played CadeGOD

>>146666457
>League actively and openly tries to fuck the Pistons
>Pistons go fuck it we won't play by your gay ass narratives
This is why the Pistons have actually cashed in Chips.

Warriors really need to make a trade happen Schröder doesn't fit their offense at all. Steph Curry has only a few post-season at a good level and this is probably their worst roster in years.

What happen to the all the buzz about them looking to trade for a 2nd star.

Stop turning the ball over you retards

are we sure these Thompson kids aren't some kind of golem or robotic construct? They're built like statues and move like lightning

gg rockets lol

>>146666601
Built in a lab yes

boii too many thugs on the court, lock these thugs up!

JA GLOCKTAVIOUS WICK

>>146666601
athletic 6'6 guards that can drive and defend at a superstar level... might be MJ desu

>>146666601
>Ausar gradually making more 3s
He's the missing piece

boucher is a champion

FIRE STEVE KERR

>>146666601
They joined a basketball academy at a young age and their uncle was on Jamaica's national team it's in the Jeans.

We have yet another dogfight between the Grizzlies and the Rockets

>>146666743
?

>>146666700
Ausar turning from what felt like a wasted pick at the time, we weren't aware of your game young man, into the missing link has been otherworldly.

MAN IF DETROIT BASKETBALL IS BACK!!!

DEEEEEEETROIT BASKETBALL!

rockets man holy shit, what am i watching

>>146666814
No clue for how long he's had a minutes restriction, but this game in particular made it feel like he was allowed to do more

>>146666814
only think that will holding them back is harris and hardaway if ivey goes down again

can all the western conference pensioners retire so we don't have teams as bad as the rockets and grizzlies seeded so high

>>146666840
It’s Rockets basketball. Play good defense or Ime screams at you in the locker room for an hour after the game

Jalen green going crazy

>>146666814
he was one of the few bright spots on the team last year before he got hurt. That was with the worst coaching and lineups known to man

>>146666870
nigga fuck you

>>146666870
Both teams leagues better than your shit team

>>146666891
no wonder mazzula is unhinged

bro how many times does Memphis allow that cut from the same place????

OMG MORANT, LOCK THIS THUG UP

grizzlies lost a 20+ lead LMAO

>>146666929
>>146666936
lol mad

how are the rockets so good?
The power of friendship?

GET THAT FRAUD OUT OF THERE

how is that a foul on edey? modern nba is so gay

>Knicks lost to craptors
But the media said they were contenders.

>The Suns are still working to get a trade done with the Hornets for Nick Richards, per
@Gambo987
(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-burns-gambo-show/id730683847?i=1000683862658).

>Charlotte has little interest in taking on Jusuf Nurkic’s contract, but Josh Okogie and second-round draft capital could become the potential framework.

https://x.com/esidery/status/1878984720182345779

>>146667041
yes

>>146667066
it was on his arm coming down on the ball that hit Green's arm as they were coming down

>>146667106
so greens stiff arm doesn't matter

>>146667041
defense wins championships.

>>146667041
Quite literally just good defense and scoring by committee.

>>146666900
The initial pick was underwhelming again we weren't aware of his game.

>>146667138
uhh i dont think so because they can argue it was impeding Green's ability to score or something along those lines

>>146667098
why would they take nurkic tho they aren't competing

>>146667269
the hornets dont want to take on Nurkic

>>146667098
do something booth!

>>146667286
oh i misread it i thought it said a trade including nurkic, okoge and a 2nd

>Morant
KWAB

JA "HEROBALL" MORCAN'T

>>146665242
And if my aunt had stones she would be my uncle

KWAAABB

Ja "the lights are bright" morant can't even get one down

it's over

HE MISSED BOTH

is ja not like that for real?

KWWAAAABBBBBB

Morantie?

>>146667411
owari da!

Hol' up

remember grizzlies had a 15+ lead and decided to be bitch made by green and thompson

HOLY KWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB

Imagine getting cooked by a nigga called Amen XLNC

Rockets win!!!!!
ggs Grizzlies
Holy shit another certified classic between these two teams in the span of a week. Jalen Green absolutely popped off and Amen Thompson is the future. Whee Rockets are such a fun team man.

sit the fuck down, memphis
Fuck

>>146667311
yea its saying hornets would do an okogie + 2nd round trade for Richards but they arent taking Nurkic.

LETS GOOOOOOOO

but ja a shoota for real.... he a thug....

>>146667509
His house

>>146667287
Nugs really should go for Duop Reath i think, Blazies have a lot of bigs to spare and Reath was averaging almost 14pts and 6 rebounds last season when starting in 20 games. for some reason he's just not used much. his contract is also very cheap at 2m.

what game we watching next bros

>>146667562
Watching the lelkers lose is always fun. Something about LeBum crying is magical.

>>146667562
lakeys ^_^

NOT HIM.

Rockets about to break the nuggets B2B game winstreak in a blow out unless someone breaks Murray's legs, preferably skull.

What is this stance called?

>>146667562
Thought this was a /heat/ general

>>146667785
apparently not lol, ill be switching in between just to see if jimmy actually does his job

lol totally forgot james harden is on the clippers. Lol if you go there you are pretty much in siberia

Choke job

be honest, did you think this kid would be a key piece on an NBA Championship team?

https://youtu.be/CYLg7TmIW0Y?si=cfgw-434RtZ9eBnW

>>146668539
so what you're telling me is that kid that I play against at the Y is a future Denver Nugget?

>>146668539
>little white boy dunking in game
Should have been a sign.

>>146667735
delete this

>>146668539
Why does he look painfully average here?

>>146658887
he is shawn bradley lite

the fuck is this

>>146668898
EA paid for advertisement for NBA2K

>Jimmy Butler reportedly skipped the Miami Heat shootarounds and requested to fly on private planes away from his teammates, per
>@JakeLFischer

screenshot since retarded 4chan thinks my post is spam

>>146668950
W hy did they think it was spam

>>146669133
I tried pasting the text and greentexing it and no matter how much I reformatted it it said it was spam.

oh but lee is still terrorizing every board he touches!!!

MVP Rankings. Shai stays at #1. KAT enters top 3.

Clippers and T Wolves look real stupid right now.

>>146669211
forgot picture

>>146668950
butler being a bitch during the twilight of his career sure is something

>>146667086
>Knicks lost to craptors
???

>>146669227
>>146669211
>Giannis on 5th
>Bucks did not even get a christmas game
>never see his Highlights posted anywhere
Is the league done promoting GIannis?

>>146669227
>lebron james
what a joke
doesn't he have the league worst +/-

>>146669313
they are grooming him to leave but I dont think Giannis takes the bait.

this heat game has been pretty good bros, i like the harden kawhi duo

Stick a fork in the weap, they're done

JJJ looking like a bust, lol

Wiggers are simply not and never will be leader material. Nobody respects a soft ass cracker trying to be something he's not. Leave leadership to real white GODS like VORP and Bird. TWD.

Wembgod and Castle

The spurs are going to win!

I get the impression that a lot of the older stars like lebron, curry, butler & KD don't even want to make the playoffs and would rather just collect their checks and have 6 months off

>>146669806
KD is killing himself trying to carry the suns this season. They just suck really hard, out of the 3 he is the one that is easily a top 10 player on every night he plays.

>>146669806
They all made a name for themselves and get to coast off it while throwing out the occasional great season game for the clip watchers. I wouldn't play too hard either and risk injuring myself to the point where I can't enjoy my riches after retiring.

>>146669227
Why is Jarrett Allen on here

>>146669806
Butler yes, but the others are definitely trying to bolster their legacies as much as they still can.

lakers suck
cant even handle hector bananarama

Is it rust because of resting for 1 week? But the Clippers won.

>Lakers trade for a good player
>he starts playing like shit and becomes a scapegoat
Wasn't LeBum supposed to make the people around him better?

>>146669924
Best player on the best team

They would've won with Dlo

We know Lebron James is washed up and the lakers roster is bad, so why are you playing down to them for 3 quarters?

>>146669983
Donovan Mitchell.

>>146670009
He's regressed this year. Allen and Mobley are the engine behind the Cavs

>>146670001
Tiring them out. I don't blame those teams since it works.

>>146669965
LeXcuse spotted

should have let sideshow junior play

Kawhi is really washed man

lakers... miami......

>>146669227
LeBum James is not even a top 50 player right now

>>146669329
He has a -11 I think. Absolute shameless statpadding, he does not give a single shit about the Lakers right now

hey guys,
its the fires.
he cant play with all these sufferings around him

Lebron is shook because of the drake threats

>>146670163
leRetirement when?

>>146670163
LeSmoked

JJJ sisters it’s not looking good…..

>>146670109
He hasn't played in a game for like 9 months now
He will get better...until he gets injured again when the playoffs start

this block was crazy

LeBum with 7 turnovers and I wonder when the Lakers will realize Reaves being their 3rd best player is a bad thing.

>leading through halftime
>never show up the rest of the game
>gaped by 24
leGOD

How long until JJ gets fired?

>>146670524
He'll go out with Lebron at the end of the year

Literally just put Bronny in the game and you win, its not that hard

Fucking retire already

>>146670524
he is already dead

>>146670524
His house already got fired.

>>146670678
"Lakers tickets? Uh no thanks, we've suffered enough"

Trade Kawhi for a haul. He's totally washed up, he's an all-time disastrous gm, utter fraud, failed leader and team cancer, and paycheck thief coasting off clout that expired like 5 years ago.
Harden with random dudes is getting it done, scam some desperate team and get him real help

>>146670678
"We're already fighting the fires out there. We don't need to watch your team getting burned again."

>>146670678
If you're smart you just resell those tickets

Latrine for Kawhi

>>146670826
They can scam way fucking more than Lavine for him, there's a dozen teams desperate enough.

eh I will take this up and down the whole season if butler shut up and didnt make a mess. lets develop the young guys

Chances of Jimmy Butler playing in China after this current contract is up?

Good morning WestScholars... Nuggets game today

cant believe Westbrook had to start from the bench so this dude could start, everytime I peeked Clippers' score last season, this dude always scored single digit.

>>146671291
That jazz game really made the Clippers think they had another JJ Reddick in this guy.

>>146671291
Wasn't he benched since he and Harden were awful together and the Clippers went on a losing streak after the Harden trade when they both were starting?

>>146659367
Angel Reese bros, we lost
how can they not stalk our girl, Angel ?
they be racist !

>>146671199
he might go to detroit

>>146670442
>Lebron has dead legs in the second half
>Even Stevie Wonder could see it
Is Klutch mafia threatening JJ Reddit or something? Why the fuck is he playing all those garbage ass minutes when he can even run?

>>146671622
Stats first. Wins later.

>>146671622
maybe the spurs are just good this year

>>146671243
the media are feeding too much into WestBITCH's ego.
He's going to drag the team down like the fraud he is in the next two week, mark my words.
Jokic will be exposed as even more of a fraud too btw

>>146672067

jokic already won a chip. westbrook has been playing better and better. you're just a hater

>>146672121
>won a chip
>*
I'll wait until he wins against a 50-win team in the playoffs.
>westbrook has been playing better
not for long. watch his ego blow up again and cringe at the egregious heroball that he will be attempting when crinch time comes in the playoffs.
nuggets should have built a good bench around Jokic. not whatever fodder they have subbing in for 5 minutes a game

>>146672146
what happened to those 50 win teams in those playoffs

>>146672182
nuggies casted a hex on them.
kind of like how the Bucks jinxed all those teams they faced in 2021 just so Giannis can win a chip

>>146671501
he better not.
Cade Cuniilingus' career eill be even more ruined if he's paired up with the weapcel

Another day another larriors L

>>146672250
>both Warriors and Suns started the season strong while Nuggies were like 11th/12th seed
>now completely collapsed meanwhile Nuggies are getting stronger, managed to string some wins and finally knowing how to use Westbrook and making the youngsters slowly getting better
Slow and steady innit

>>146672653
Even better storyline
>Cuckry showing how much of a system babby (the system being moving screens and being surrounded by underpaid allstars) he actually is
>WestYAKUB completely reinventing himself as a player and producing on an elite level

They really brought Embiid out during the finals to downplay the Celtics and claim he would have stopped them.
I've been laughing about this for a couple of days.

>>146672911
>paul george, embiid, and kendrick perkins
outstanding - the gap band

>The Suns will have a difficult time trading Jusuf Nurkic.

>Teams want to extract most of Phoenix’s draft assets to simply take on Nurkic’s contract, which becomes a $19.4 million expiring this summer.

>Phoenix could end up being stuck with Nurkic riding their bench all season.


https://x.com/esidery/status/1879161921372619009?s=46

>>146673676
Could they use they amnesty clause on him?

>>146672706
Curry is still the greatest PG of all time, Westbrook is ringless. Also Curry is still having a better season than Westbrook and Curry snatched his chain in 2016.

Where’s this Jimmy trade?

>>146673676
Nurkic has no right to be as bad as he is

>>146669227
Where’s that guy that was telling me trading Randle for KAT was a bad idea at the start of the season?

>>146673956
Jimmy only wants to go to the Suns because they are the only team that will extend him

Heat want nothing to do with Beal so they have to find a 3rd party to take his contract

Beal most likely won’t waive his NTC for said team.

>>146673698
>Curry is still the greatest PG of all time
Lol
>Westbrook is ringless
For now
>Curry is still having a better season than Westbrook
Seeing him turn into a bad team mediocre stats player makes me so happy

>Dennis Smith Jr. is nearing a deal with Real Madrid, per @Sportando
League needs to expand now. Adam Silver is a shit commissioner that’s why it hasn’t happened yet. Stern would have expanded years ago.

>Ty Lue on not playing Terance Mann tonight:

>“I just wanted to see something.”

>(via @joeylinn_)
Add Mann to the trading block.

Dunno what this mumbo-jumbo means but I think this should increase the chance Westbrook winning his ring

>>146674187
Who is this Evan Sidrey guy?

>>146674187
It means you can put a washed all star tier player next to Jokic and he will shine.

>>146660143
The celtics or the pistons one....

>>146671501
Jimmy playing with Tobias for the last years of his career would be kino

>>146674187
if Malon benched Murray and started Westbrook earlier the nuggets would be fighting for the 1st seed. The most impressive win they have this season was against the undefeated OKC with Chet being healthy while Murray and Gordon were out. Russ on that win got 29 pts/6 assist/6 rebounds while only playing 32 minutes

Jokic d riders gonna cry when Shai wins MVP this year.

I just downloaded that new Chinese app.

All memes aside, how are they so good? Both by the eye test and by the spreadsheets, none of their players are that great. They legit might not have a single all-NBA player. Is it the power of friendship?

>>146674799
Mitchell is all nba

>>146674521
Sup perk you mush mouthed muppet

I LIKE IT. IT'S MINE THE PRICES BLOW MY MIND. I FEEL SO RICH!

>>146674502
>the undefeated OKC with Chet being healthy
They were missing Hartenstein so that win doesn't count

>>146674187
It means that when Jokic and Westbrook are both on the court the Nuggets have the best offense in the league and the 8th best defense in the league
The Nuggets have the best offense in the West and 4th for the whole league even when these two are not together on the court

The big difference here is their defense because the Nuggets in general have the 18th best defense in the league which is below average and worse than teams like the 76ers or the Pistons
But somehow even without Gordon playing for most of the season they are 8th when Westbrook and Jokic are playing together which is more than enough to be a contender, especially if you are 1st on offense

>>146674857
Borderline

>>146674536
Jalen Williams and Chet are on this app. It’s actually pretty chill. Didn’t know China was cool like this

I don't think anyone believes Nuggets can win another championship in their current form. They still have yet to solve the problem of other teams having 2/3 bigs to tire out and shut down Jokic, like the bubble Lakers and Wolves from last year did. They're fucked if they meets the Wolves, Mavs, OKC, and especially the Cavs.

MIGHT WIN A RING WITH NIKOLA WOOOAAAHHHHH

>>146675026
Thunder winning a ring with Shai MVP will be so kino

>>146674993
worst part of jamal is he's super lazy defender
if he can't perform on offence, he's pretty much useless

>>146675026
Hardens been on this app for years.

we need russ back at the asg
>>146675373
hardens always been involved with everything china, probably because hes the heir to the rockets and yao

>>146675373
>>146675514
harden flew out to china and publicly called daryl morey a liar. jimmy could never

https://x.com/NBAonNBC/status/1878633484639437106

NBA finally moving on from lebron, kd and steph. NBC understands. glad they got the rights for NBA games.

>>146674993
There was a game in which the Nuggets had not a single time out left on the 4th quarter with more than 8 minutes to play while trailing and both Jokic and Westbrook had to call everything.

Thre result? they got several stops, steals and closed out the game comfortably with flawless unselfish offense. People underrate heavily how good a team can look when everything clicks.

Leafs don't want to hear this but Scottie Barnes peaked his rookie year.

>>146675354
>>146675827
I'm really suprised at how athletic Westbrook is and how much enrgy he still has even at 36 years old
It kinda looks like he is the one that is in his prime and Jamal is the one in his late thirties

If Westbrook can do this all year long and doesn't get gassed he can be very useful for the team
But if he stops cutting and playing good defense and just settles for 3s this team is completely fucked

>>146670678
they're the idiots who can't put the fires out and are just letting them spread all over town.

>>146675026
Maybe it’s my FYP but the Thunder have a very huge following in China. Maybe it’s because of their SuperSonic days?

>>146676017
So they are messengers of god himself

>>146674799
tryharding during the regular season
same as OKC

>>146675929
Shut ya bitch ass up

Taking Russ over Steph rn

>Memphis last night
>Nuggs tomorrow
>not as scary week (kangz, pistons, blazers)
>Cavs
>Cavs
>Inceltics
>Memphis again
>(disregard Nets games)
>Knicks
>Wuffs
>Mavs
>(disregard tanking Raptors)
>Suns
>Warriors
Our schedule until all-star weekend is kinda scary

>>146676029
Also Paul George has a huge following among Chinese people.

>>146676015
it's crazy how high he can jump still

https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/sports-illustrated/66868fe6/jimmy-butler-spoke-to-pat-riley-a-second-time-about-desire-for-heat-trade/
>Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler has "reiterated" to team president Pat Riley that he wants to be traded,according to a reportfrom ESPN's Shams Charania.

>The discussion between Butler and Riley took place in a face-to-face meeting last week, per Charania.

>Butler was suspended earlier this month for conduct detrimental to the organization. It was a seven-game suspension that will end on Thursday after Miami wraps up its road trip. It remains to be seen if Butlerwill return to the courtfollowing his team-mandated suspension, or if he will stay on the sidelines until he is dealt.

>>146676196
Kings are scarier than they look, they were throwing to get Mike Brown fired. Now they are looking like the #3 seed that they were back in ‘23

>>146676203
Why?

WestCONSIGLIERE

>>146676228
Don’t know. Also they take the Kobe allegations seriously than we do.

>>146676277
The chinese are lowkey based as fuck

>>146676216
Yeah we already lost to em, they are not AS scary as the rest, but I’m still concerned about them

>>146676277
Based China.

>Embiid is not playing again

What the fuck is going on with this dude man

>>146676015
The more praise he gets from the media for helping Joker, and the more Joker defers assists, and the more defensive rebounds teammates defer to Westbrook, the more likely the harmony continues

3 weeks and 2 days until the trade deadline

westOSIRIS thread.

Imagine if instead of Chris Paul, the Spurs added James Harden. Or Russell Beastbrook

is Westbrook finally winning a ring the best outcome for this season?

>>146674799
>basketball is just names on a roster
watch a fucking game, retard. how are they generating shots? watch the offensive playcalling. watch their transition defense philosophy. pay attention to rotations. look at a shot chart. there's your answer

I hope Kyrie goes off tonight...

>>146677665
Cavs winning without Lebron would be better

Why are the Celtics so much worse this year?

>>146678034
we got complacent. we arent hungry anymore. we got the steak dinner and arent pushing for dessert.

the west seems wide open this year if you exclude the thunder. i can see literally any team bullshitting their way to the finals excluding the bottom 4 shitters. east seems pretty clear as a two team conference with the magic bucks knicks and sixers a tier below

Is this the biggest meltdown we have seen since 2011?

>>146677683
>basketball is just names on a roster
This but unironically. It's extremely difficult to win a championship if you don't have an All-NBA level player. Not impossible, but very unlikely.

>>146676215
i thought the heat were perfectly willing to trade away butler, there just isn't really anything appealing out there among teams even able to take on his salary. and then you hear that the grizzlies want to trade for him and he doesn't want to go even though that's a potential win-now situation (he doesn't have a no trade clause btw)

>>146678053
clippers are my sleeper team to make the finals. I think they move Mann at the deadline for some key pieces that get them over the hump. The fact that they remained in the playoff picture without Kawhi proved it to me.

>>146674799
they're just making shots. they'll fall off soon enough

>>146678070
I think every championship for the past 50 years had a top 5-10 player on the team with the exception of the 2011 mavs

>>146678055
He was so fucking shit. I don't know how an injured Luka that averaged 30 took all the blame when this nigga couldn't even pass the ball properly and kept dribbling it off his foot.

>>146678081
They're old as shit and Kawhi is washed. Norman Powell is your best player.

>>146678099
if the celitcs wanted to shut down luka that series then they would've. his stats were baked in to the celtics game plan

>>146678072
he wants to go to a team that will extend him. the suns are the only team that will but the heat arent taking Beals contract, and Beal wont waive his NTC for some shitty 3rd team that can take his contract.

this reeks of dame 2.0 where the NBA has to literally put out an official notice that Jimmy has to play for whatever team hes under contract for.

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>>146676302
>based
>for hating on a guy who did literally nothing wrong
Faggot simps and bug people, a match made in heaven
>>146675026
Wow yeah China is so heckin cool and based. Also LeBron is the GOAT (your social credit just increased by 400 chingchongs)
>>146671342
He is basically JJ Redick - a guy who doesnt really move the needle. JJ Redick never took the franchise out of the second round and was always a scrub. All JJ can do is shoot off of screens and choke series leads

>>146678126
im not a clippers fan, I caught some of their game on league pass. Harden still has it.
>>146678133
teams do this with every superstar. you just let them have their dinner while stopping everyone else which is what they did. JB held Luka in check and by in check I mean Luka not putting up 34/9/9

>>146678155
>All JJ can do is shoot off of screens
anon, that was JJs job...

>>146678186
Maybe thats why he was a loser his whole career? He doesnt actually have any real game?

>>146678099
The fact that he was only bad on the road is proof that the actual Finals MVP was the Boston crowd
I don't know what they did or even if they did anything but Kyrie was shook as hell

It was obvious from the Wolves series that if the Mavs had any chance to be competitive it would be because of Luka and Kyrie and one was injured and couldn't play any kind of defense and the other one was having a mental breakdown when he was in Boston

>>146678197
he was a role player, his job was to shoot threes and nothing else. it got him 15 years in the league so he did it well.

>>146678198
luka played matador defense the whole playoffs before the finals the celitcs were just the only non shit team he played

>>146678155
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_case

>>146678198
That finals was one big "what if?" for the Mavs. What if Luka was healthy? What if Kyrie didn't choke? What if they didn't blow game 3? Still stings to this day.

>>146678217
Yes, he was a non-versatile role player, and as a result his teams always lost. His ZOMG 3 pt shooting drops to 37% in the playoffs so when it really matters, hes just a guy shooting 3s off screens at an average rate.

>>146678269
the celtics still beat them. I dont think you realize how good last years celtics were. they only team that put up a fight was the Pacers and they got swept.

>>146678226
He was clearly out of gas by the finals. And it was harder to hide him and give him a break against the Celtics since everyone could score.

>>146678296
so the celtics beat the mavs because they were better and not because wittle luka had some booboos

>>146678285
everyone has a role in the NBA. JJs was to shoot threes. 15 years in the NBA is no joke regardless of his numbers
>his teams always lost.
he was a part of the magic finals team and the lob city clippers, both of which were playoff teams.

>>146678296
>He was clearly out of gas by the finals
Celtics players played the exact amount of games Luka did.

>>146678269
>>146678296
ahhh widdle baby wuka couldn't defend anyone who could drive it's so unfair he had to play a good team KWABAWB

real ones remember game 1 porzingus legacy game

>>146678317
Do you really need to write in such a feminine passive agressive way? You sound like a fag. I'm juat saying Mavs could have had a chance at full strength. Two of their best players were compromised in that series.

>>146678295
They didn't face any healthy teams man come on now
Bucks were injured, 76ers were injured, Knicks were injured, Heat were injured, Cavs were injured, Pacers got injured
Celtics still lost 2 games in Boston though somehow.....seriously asterisk ring like the 2021

>they didn't have Porzingis either
He is the 3rd option on the team, not their superstar

>>146678134
>this reeks of dame 2.0 where the NBA has to literally put out an official notice that Jimmy has to play for whatever team hes under contract for.
look back at it now, that whole situation was a hot mess

>>146678388
compromised with what?

>>146678331
Yes, their playoffs run was just as hard as the Mavs. Sure, bucko.

>>146678393
porzingus is 20ppg and the reason why we won game 1 of the finals so yes we were injuired as well and still pulled through.

>>146678393
zingus was better than any player that was injured

>>146678418
celtics played good teams. we were so good we made them look like shit.

>>146678233
Yes, not guilty, I know, it was all bullshit

>>146678412
I already said. Luka was injured and Kyrie was choking because the Boston crowd got in his head.

>>146678439
how come the celtics lost to the pels?

>>146658870
BWC is a myth

if curry is good why are the warriors a lottery team

>>146678419
>still pulled through

Yeah everyone will remember for many years the legendary title run of the Celtics in 2024 where they beat Tyler Herro, Darius Garland and Pascal Siakam to get to the Finals just to beat an injured team that had missed the playoffs last season

And all of that without their 3rd option for most of the run....truly inspirational

>>146678499
can you point out to me when we lost to the pels?

>>146678055
crazy how scared he is of the celtics
shoulda never stomped that logo

>>146678584
>le storyline
ring is a ring. dont care if you cant make an ESPN doc about it.

>>146678098
The only team without a top 10 player to win this century was the 2004 pistons and that was a monster defense with perfect teamwork

>>146678674
You could argue Ben wallace as top 10

>>146678155
You can talk about china without looking at their government.
Fact is chinese people are funny

>>146659113
Funny you should mention those games specifically, because I bet both of them and won.

>>146659113
and no, I'm not giving out my picks anymore because fuck you ungrateful bastards

Betslop went 0-3 again yesterday

>>146678584
Pascal Siakam has the same amount of rings as Jokic; one more than Luka, SGA, Ant and Kat. Put some respect on his name.

>>146678937
why are you acting like you blessed this place? if someone actually followed your "advice" than those 0-3 streaks you had would have made them broke kek

>>146678099
Luka is one of the worst defenders in the league. Only Jokic is maybe as bad.

kangz have the best winstreak in the nba right now with 7 wins. what a world

Whos better between spicy p and hali right now?

>>146679013
62% on the season last year. 61% in the playoffs. Then 68% this season up until December 1st when I had a couple bad weeks. I'm 65% in January since I stopped posting. It's not even worth the hassle. Good luck to everybody who was down with me.

>>146678739
Chinese despise blacks, they see them like vermin, literal dancing monkeys, props for their amusement, but disgusting props nonetheless.

China is a nightmare and there is nothing good to say about it. Chinese are at their funniest when they are being racist.

kill yourself

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>>146679068
When you have a Luka/Joker/Bird, you build around blow-bys.
However, the coach needs to be good, the help has to be coachable, and talented, and the tall white guy has to see the game as far ahead as he is behind athletically.