2017-18 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD PART 1 ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE TEAMS ARE BACK

lol that layup!

i want to see this

Instead of the Rising Stars game, let's have the young pups go up against the Mid-Level Exception All-Stars!

Yes, the Mid-Level Exception All-Stars! Decent veterans who never made an All-Star team or got a max contract, but got NBA equivalent of YMCA league savvy.

— Pro Hoops History (@ProHoopsHistory) January 24, 2018

#tradelebron is going mainstream

Listen to Windhorst and Lowe on the Cavs and think: It's time for the Cavs to ask LeBron for a list of three teams https://t.co/ZtztnZviWd

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) January 24, 2018

lebron to spurs confirmed

That Lowe pod is p juicy

I am looking forward to listening to it on the morrow

it’s good

it’s funny that lebron dislikes dan gilbert so much that he’s letting the franchise twist in the wind

gilbert sucks tho I can't blame lebron

draymond did pierce so dirty, pierce will never not take a shot at him when he can

Pierce: Paul George is a more deserving all-star than Draymond Green Windhorst: Now Draymond's gonna tweet at you 😳😂 pic.twitter.com/6G3mWBTIEH

— Dime on UPROXX (@DimeUPROXX) January 25, 2018

few people know more about being a borderline all-star than paul pierce

https://i.imgur.com/uhjBwjs.png

kyrie’s play has been so impressive this year. i feel like he’s simply happy.

Blake gets T'd for throwing a fastball at the referee's ankles pic.twitter.com/yMuZ3KoYYO

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 25, 2018

such a prick

Blake to ref after getting a tech: “So I gotta pay money cause you can’t f—king catch?" *NSFW* pic.twitter.com/e8r7Xnx8GW

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 25, 2018

cant even catch w his foot

lots of interesting dirt in here

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2754965-damn-this-game-is-long-the-dos-and-donts-of-life-on-an-nba-bench

Dinwiddie's not the first player to use a cup as a cloak for food. According to Miami Heat center Kelly Olynyk, Gerald Wallace used to keep Skittles in one. Gerald Green, Olynyk adds, sips coffee "with like 12 creams and sugars" while watching games. Cleveland Cavaliers forward Channing Frye says he's seen teammates—he won't name names—eat full meals behind the bench.

listened to most of the lowe-windhorst pod this morning, three takeaways

1) cavs are MESS-Y
2) lowe is bad at making fake trades
3) I really don’t see how the cavs turn this around, given the trade options apparently available

theoretically they have the pieces to improve the team a lot but it takes two minds to meet

also like bron being insanely mad about them not getting george/bledsoe in the offseason (reasonable imho) just makes it more likely hell leave and thus less likely the cavs will move any long term assets for short term help

who has value on that roster??? other than lebron and love

nets pick, cavs picks

2) lowe is bad at making fake trades

potential trades is probably my least favorite topic for all nba writers/contributors. just doesnt interest me at all.

it's insane how Isaiah has so successfully dwighthowarded himself this season.

who has value on that roster??? other than lebron and love

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:52 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IT, crowder, maybe even thompson a lil

korver has value for certain teams i'd guess. but all their best lineups include him so

the cavs really shd trade for dwight that wld be the best possible outcome lol

dwights kinda balling this year and it doesnt matter cos his team is worse as usual

https://i.imgur.com/DoDz10n.png
+ nets pick --> char

did i do this one before

it's insane how Isaiah has so successfully dwighthowarded himself this season.

― omar little, Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:53 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

depressing

Spurs are on pace for 52 wins w/ these 5 players having played the most minutes pic.twitter.com/yEF6unPZ74

— sam esfandiari (@samesfandiari) January 24, 2018

the most insane thing i just discovered, the Spurs are in their 42nd NBA season and this will be the 38th season in which they've made the playoffs.

something in the water

tacos iirc

breakfast tacos specifically

chill vibes, no messy drama, doin it for the Alamo

a real system, respect

lmao

Kyrie Irving threatened to have knee surgery and sit out if the Cavs didn't trade him. Wow. pic.twitter.com/dYIfyKkf5P

— Cleveland Sports Talk (@CLEsportsTalk) January 25, 2018

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2018/01/cavaliers_felt_compelled_to_tr.html

the only possible way for them to beat this iteration of the warriors was to pull off something crazy like getting paul george, and if that set in motion them getting a top 10 pick for kyrie in a year when they were prob gonna get wiped out by the warriors regardless then it's prob not the worst outcome despite all this day-to-day drama

they cldve got paul george! but they didnt cause they were worried abt bron leaving cause they pissed him off by letting his fave gm walk

my understanding is that they wanted to trade kyrie to the suns for the 4 and bledsoe and then trade the 4 for PG but the first trade didn't happen so the second fell apart?

iirc there was another one of love for pg that they pulled out of over protection on a pick

lebron can only blame himself no?

not retaining griffin was a huge mistake imo

griffin was prob a good GM but might also not be that great. he did trade two first round picks for timofey mozgov which got swept under the rug of history bcuz lebron supernova'd steph into a brain freeze two finals ago

i'm not sure what GM exactly could solve the conundrum of bending to lebron's whims

the conundrum of being incentivized to mortgage your longterm future for veterans up until the exact point where lebron feels like the team is carrying dead weight in the form of old carcasses and now might actually want to go play for a different team with younger players

the heat front office is one of the most respected in the NBA and got made to look like bitter dumb fools for trying to figure this out, got pantsed publicly by bron essentially for releasing mike miller and having no draft picks, and then turned once again proved its acumen by building a playoff team essentially from scratch once the aftershocks of having to revolve your entire franchise around lebron went away

yeah but imo its still worth the risk to keep bron, it wldve set cleve back a few years if they ended up needing to rebuild which is not really that big a downside