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

some truly excellent results in the assoc tonite

starting to get some separation out west. top 3 (den, gs, okc) within a game of one another. and then...two whole games between #3 okc and #4 lal! and then...two whole games between #4 (lakers) and #11 (spurs)!!!

my main takeaway from the 4 point line piece is that if teams are painting a 4 point line on their practice courts it's only a matter of time before the league either adopts it as a rule or moves the 3 point line back

Always love to see the Lakers lose (sorry Javale)

players shd just start demanding 4 points when they hit a very deep shot

4 pointer permits is the cap and trade scheme you didnt think you wanted

i demand a five point shot (that's a dunk)

the famous dunk

many of the greats could do the move we know as the 'dunk'

rock n jock was ahead of the curve

salute the visionary dan cortese

lol the nuggets local broadcast is literally running a segment on how they're getting national coverage b/c some dude at the ringer wrote an article about jokic having a case for mvp.

jamal murray had 15 assists tonight, which has to be a career high, and 10 in the first half

no he had 16 once

Miami’s Goran Dragic will miss two months with knee surgery, per source.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 19, 2018

too late to tank too, rough. the heat need to find a way to offload those bad contracts and start over. if you have to get rid of j rich to dump a contract then so be it, he's a nice player but not a cornerstone, somehow he's the 7th highest paid player on that team and will be the 8th when Winslows extendo kicks in next season.

this is just sad
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/MIA.html

yeah miami shd get more credit for truly mastering mediocrity post bron

doubt riley has much appetite for rebuilding at this stage of his career/life

yeh he wont do it but you know... he should.

def

next year is prob more realistic to be able to do it. whiteside/tyler/dragic all will be expiring contracts

heat shd prob just kick him upstairs to some quasi retirement type position anyway

73 isnt too old! pop will be 70 in a month. the both should retire and chill but probably hard to put it all down when that's all youve known. should all just join nellie in hawaii and play poker and get blazed nightly

lol otm

lavine out 2-4 weeks with ankle injury.

it's funny i've actually enjoyed watching this team over the last few years bcuz it's so funky and scrappy. i dunno, a middle will always exist in the nba and they paid the tax (figuratively) for having bron, and the bosh stuff set off a cascade of mildly regrettable decisions. but the east is funny--in order to be bad, like tanking bad, you have to be *really* fuckin bad and it's totally understandable to me why the heat had no real appetite to do that. i think the closest analogue to them in the league is the mavs, but being in the west affords you a paradoxical sort of luxury where you can be kinda middle of the road in the context of the league but get so beat up by your own conference that you end up picking in the top 6 or so w/o ever actually having to stoop down to the level of the kings or suns or hornets or whatever.

zach lowe has been saying that the heat have the bleakest longterm outlook in the nba and strictly looking at the cap sheet i get where he's coming from, but they're a well run, non-reactive franchise and even given their state now i'd still put their chances of winning a title in the next 5-10 years above like half the league. i just think that kind of core competency matters a lot... like the wolves for instance have KAT who is 20x more valuable than anyone on the heat, but their franchise is run bad and always has been, and that history tends to matter.

btw they just went 4-2 on a six game western conference road trip w/ wins over the clippers, grizz and pelicans. not dead yet baby!

thats otm. and its not like any of their rotation players are actively bad. they're all pretty good, just overpaid.

Kings next little run of games will let us know if they are for real or just league pass darlings
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id say theyre genuinely not awful

but will prob go through an 8 game losing streak at some point this season thatll knock them out of playoff contention

theyre like worse than the pistons but better than the nets

the suns have won three in a row for the first time in forever and they have a cakewalk tonight on nbatv

kings def have a pretty competent rotation now

smh so many haters on this website xp

i didn’t think fox would be this good in year 2. he’s one of the only guys where you *notice* how much faster he is than everyone else. and he’s figuring out how to control the game with that speed.

hes ahead of sched for sure, cool player

Suns 4 in a row!

suns r good lol

that is a bad loss for the celtics damn

um no its good actually it

im worried abt jaylen brown his head seems not right

rockets nba record 26 threes on 55 attempts

they took 85 shots total jeesus

Donovan Mitchell 5/26 fg lmao. Jazz won tho

donovan stop chucking man its bad

A vintage hoister

It is the Era of Chuckers. Centers are chucking, for gawdsake.

xps that looked like the pre-streak celtics where they were just playing like shit for no reason. they're really frustrating.

i stand athwart history yelling you can probably get a better shot than that