It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

No picks involved. Deal done. Trevor Ariza is a Wizard; Kelly Oubre and Austin Rivers are Suns. https://t.co/HkFFqoOWYx

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 15, 2018

Does Draymond still have an injury excuse or can we talk about what’s happened to him

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, December 15, 2018 12:50 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he has turf toe, might take a while

― тпсбlack (Spottie), Saturday, December 15, 2018 12:51 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

injuries tho you know and his style of play

that seems fine for the suns in the end, whereas wiz continuing to try to push this team up the hill is futile imo

i think i like oubre better on the griz than the suns tho

yeah for the grizz getting a look at oubre and maybe paying him seemed like a decent idea. he’s not going to contribute much in phoenix.

also hes a hot head and being in a dysfunctional environment prob isnt the best, tho on the other hand he is used to it

suns will prob give him some unreasonably large contract lol

Ernie Grunfeld
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Ernest Grunfeld (born April 24, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player and current franchise destroyer of the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. In college at the University of Tennessee, he set a new record as the school's all-time leading scorer. He won gold medals with Team USA at the 1975 Pan American Games and the 1976 Summer Olympics. He began his professional career as a player with the Milwaukee Bucks. He served as General Manager of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association from 1989 to 1999, and as the Bucks General Manager from 1999 to 2003, and then became the president of basketball lunacy for the Washington Wizards. In December 2018, he made a senseless trade involving Kelly Oubre Jr. (Dwight Howard best friend) and Austin Rivers, in which he acquired Trevor Ariza. This is widely regarded as one of the worst trades in NBA history.

(Dwight Howard best friend)

lol

if kelly oubre is really dwight’s best friend i’m really happy he got traded even to phoenix

i’d assume dwight isn’t going to be with the team anytime soon so i’m thinking the damage here is uh minimal

both westbrook and steven adams had 14 rebounds tonight. adams had 11 offensive rebounds and 3 defensive rebounds; russ had 13 defensive rebounds and one offensive rebound

― k3vin k., Saturday, December 15, 2018 2:17 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

adams might average 20 rebounds a game if he didn’t play with russ

― k3vin k., Saturday, December 15, 2018 2:17 AM (ten hours ago)

it is pretty rare for a player who gets as much burn as adams does to have such a high share of his rebounds be offensive: http://bkref.com/tiny/mOuqz

the 538 leaderboard is making me a little mad on account of its disrespect toward the nuggets and overall weirdness, for example the "current CARM-ELO" has them 11th in the league which is tbh preposterous, the rockets are third and the jazz and wolves are 8th and 9th, does not compute

otoh one of my favorite pastimes these days is looking at the top of the western conference standings and seeing who is #1, it is ILH's team

i have decided that 538's nba coverage and stats are bad and worthless

in keeping with the brand

538 exists to explain stats to you. W/L percentage is one of those boring stats that anyone can understand without 538's assistance.

they also exist to make up stats that have little bearing on actual gameplay and for that they should be dunked into toilets

basketball is good

amen

tough game for the celtics vs a team that wasn't under .500

haha

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool spurs won 4 in a row and then lost AT HOME to CHICAHGO

helpless in the face of (checks roster) kriss dunn

Congrats to the Minnesota Timberwolves, it takes a special team to lose to the Suns

swaggy!

mason plusminuslee

Ha

nuggs contributing to the Make the Spurs' Pick From Toronto Better Fund tonight

i'm tellin you guys the raptors are not great w/o lowry, but missing kawhi doesn't seem to bother them?

lowry the real mvp

it is v weird. havent looked at whomst the raps have lost to with kawhi in and who theyve beaten with him in. is it that they rest him against the cupcakey teams? is that siakam is doing a p good kawhi impression when kawhi sits?

my loose theory is that new coach means lowry is the continuity between systems and w/o him their offense stagnates hard

they were missing van vleet tonight, too. PGs are important.

prob not good to be relying on lowry toooo much. cos we know how that story ends every year.

hes actually been dece the last couple playoffs but also the raps drew some pretty soft defensive teams

i like him a lot better next to kawhi than demar but yeah i dont trust him at all, but whatre they gonna do u know

yeah hes fine. maybe kawhi will just sit every other playoff game to rest his hamstring.

tbh they coul afford too do that in the first round, those 1v8 and 2v7 matchups are gonna be PU STINKY

wow at this

One of the worst non-calls I’ve ever seen. Definitely the worst of the year pic.twitter.com/ds0gZd7s8i

— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) December 17, 2018

hahhaha sick

jeez

*sees laker got fouled and it was non-inurious* its fine

*INJURIOUS

Nuggets front office deserves a lot of credit for having quality 3rd stringers who are getting them through this stretch. Honestly Monte Morris probably should be ahead of Isaiah Thomas in the rotation now

IT may never be playable again, sadly

Tim MacMahon @espn_macmahon

Kings coach Dave Joerger on Luka Doncic: "Perhaps there was an idea that there was a ceiling on him. I don't see it, unfortunately for us. But he's great for them and he's great for our league."

joerger really dgaf hah

lmao

yolo

heres an insanely long piece on new york knicks owner james dolan http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/25519902/james-dolan-unplugged

short version: he's a goober.