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

harden is now up to 34.8 points per game

I mean if capela and paul are out a while...he could challenge jordan right?

the 32 ppg club (since merger)

http://bkref.com/tiny/LhiKk

Probably xp

Forgot about that tmac season where he was way efficient from 3

i welcome this, and the resultant "harden is gassed in the playoffs" content

He really needs a signature playoff run

lmao grayson allen just blocked the shit out of stanley johnson, if you were in on stanley before tonite well let me tell you it's not looking great

graeyson alien

dubs/nuggs starting now

worst 3 minutes of jokic's year to start...

this could be a klay game...

i'm back on the hawks/thunder and really impressed by deandre bembry's activity level. he's in the middle of everything.

dubs are gonna hang 50 on us this quarter cool

Uh 51-38 at the end of one?? What?

nice 3 from murray at the buzzer though

i feel like a team is gonna score 160 this year

― ciderpress, Tuesday, January 8, 2019 11:36 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow some absolute beatdowns tonight
http://i67.tinypic.com/213m7mt.jpg

warriors are 19/34 from 3 which is a little unfair

the very rare unicorn game when klay steph and kd are all feeling it

some huge numbers gdamn

warriors scored 51 in a quarter and might not even be the 2nd highest score tonight

that 51 was an NBA record for the first quarter

wow.

somehow the hawks hung two 45 point quarters on the leagues best defense

trade Cousins

somehow the hawks hung two 45 point quarters on the leagues best defense

― marcos smart (Spottie), Tuesday, January 15, 2019 11:23 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the way the game is called now idk if sustained defensive dominance is really possible, if the other team starts heating up yr just gonna take the L

good D these days i more abt playing the percentages than just coming out and shutting teams down

we're in the pop-a-shot era

good D these days i more abt playing the percentages than just coming out and shutting teams down

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:31 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

true. good sounds basic habits are gonna win out in the end

much more normal 44-43 halftime score chi vs lal

i love practice footage and i love melo teaching blake midrange iso moves lol

Carmelo Anthony teaches Blake Griffin some moves. (2012) pic.twitter.com/zLUQogk7av

— ThrowbackHoops (@ThrowbackHoops) January 16, 2019

really impressed by deandre bembry's activity level. he's in the middle of everything.

― call all destroyer

yeah he's the best. surprised lowe or any other nba heads haven't written about him yet

John Collins seems really good at getting buckets and boards. his raw defensive numbers arent great this season but he's only 25 or so games into it. you gotta be encouraged by a dude drafted in the late first round doing 19-10 this early in his second season

Huerter was the 19th pick too and he seems like he's gonna be good. Hawks trending the right way for sure.

i watched most of that game last night and man the hawks sure were fun to watch

i like collins hes def got some upside xp

hawks r in good shape, wldve been better if theyd taken luka tho, cp3 part 2 type scenario developing here

there's definitely some talent within their group of young guys. not sure there's much defensive potential there but that's a bridge to cross later on.

yeah they will regret that xp but trae could still turn into what they expect him to be. hes been shooting the 3 much better since December.

there's definitely some talent within their group of young guys. not sure there's much defensive potential there but that's a bridge to cross later on.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 16, 2019 9:57 AM (thirty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they gotta hang on to bembry for sure.

#ballislife
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-honeymooners-13-games-in-13-nights-in-13-cities-11547652076

i'm still willing to suspend judgement on the trae/luka trade until we see who the hawks get w/ the mavs pick but it won't be very high so odds are that won't end up looking great for them. if they nail their own pick this year tho it may end up turning out ok

i do think trae young's size kinda caps his ceiling tho and you prob want more from a player you gave up luka for

found a good graphic to get everyone psyched up for basketball

https://i.imgur.com/vz9GkuK.jpg

what does cp3 part 2 mean?

https://fansided.com/2017/08/23/hawks-chris-paul-draft-marvin-williams-butterfly-effect/

ugh I wish paul had been drafted into the east

#ballislife
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nba-honeymooners-13-games-in-13-nights-in-13-cities-11547652076

― marcos smart (Spottie), Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:07 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i really want to read this, can any wsj fans c&p?

Yuki and Yumea Nakagawa were married a few months ago at their local city office in Japan and waited until last week before embarking on their honeymoon. They flew to Phoenix from Tokyo for the first leg of their adventure. They were not there for long. The Nakagawas were on the road again the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that for a series of experiences they can’t get back home.

The newlyweds are honeymooning with an attempt to attend 13 NBA games on 13 straight nights in 13 different cities.

They’re going from Phoenix to Salt Lake City to Denver to Washington to Miami to New York to Brooklyn to Philadelphia to Boston to Charlotte to Orlando to Atlanta to Minnesota before they finally head back to Tokyo next week. They know how this sounds.

“Many people think we are crazy,” Yuki said.

But there was no way the Nakawagas from Yokohama were sitting on a beach for two weeks feeding each other chocolate strawberries. Yuki, a 35-year-old surgeon, had the idea as soon as his boss gave him two weeks of vacation, and he began pitching his wife on a trip that could have very well ended their blessed marriage as soon as it began: the NBA honeymoon.

“We have 14 days,” he said. “We can watch 13 games max.”

Yumea, a 33-year-old secretary, did not take much selling. And so they began plotting an itinerary that’s exhausting just to look at. There are few things NBA teams dread more than playing a back-to-back. The Nakagawas are celebrating with a back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Their schedule is reprinted on the enormous sign they bring to every game.

“NBA from Japan,” their poster says. “We are Honeymoon!!!”

There have always been fans who make pilgrimages to the holiest sites on their sports bucket lists. But this extreme version of sports tourism has nothing in common with a trip to Lambeau Field or Fenway Park—or a typical romantic getaway. Other honeymoons have massages and unlimited pina coladas. The NBA honeymoon has flights at the crack of dawn to watch the Orlando Magic. What the Nakagawas are doing is like climbing Mount Everest in a T-shirt. It’s tiring, often freezing, occasionally maddening, wildly ambitious, slightly insane and incredibly rewarding.

It helps that they already had some experience with whirlwind NBA escapades. Yuki, who fell in love with basketball watching Steve Nash, is such a basketball junkie that he’s been everywhere from Los Angeles and Oakland to Oklahoma City and Cleveland for games. But when he got two weeks off for a honeymoon, he wanted to take advantage and travel the East Coast, even if it happened to be the dead of winter.

His wife was game. Yumea went with her husband to Memphis last year to see the Japanese rookie Yuta Watanabe in a preseason exhibition. They were in the air longer than they were on the ground. The Nakagawas turned around the next morning so Yuki could make it back for his shift at the hospital. But not even flying around the world for a preseason game could have prepared Yumea for their honeymoon.

“She liked basketball, but she didn’t know the NBA,” Yuki said with Yumea sitting beside him. “Now she knows a lot about the NBA.”

It took months of meticulous planning to get to 13 games in 13 cities in 13 days. They were married the week after the NBA schedule was released in August. They started mapping out the perfect honeymoon almost immediately.

Their starting point was Memphis at Miami last Friday to catch Dwyane Wade before he retires. They splurged on courtside tickets—Yuki buys on the day of the game to snag good seats for cheap prices—and they even managed to get a selfie with Wade himself. They couldn’t have been happier. Yuki and Yumea are very into selfies.

But their marriage was tested early the next morning when the boarding gate for their 7 a.m. flight to New York closed in their faces. They spent the entire day tanning in the fluorescent lights of the Miami airport instead of watching the Knicks play the Sixers. They landed at 1 a.m. at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Their bags landed at LaGuardia Airport. The only silver lining to their misery: At least they didn’t have to see the Knicks.

They went back to the airport the next day—they have become connoisseurs of American airports—to fetch their luggage and finally made it to Madison Square Garden about 24 hours behind schedule. They posed with their sign and promised they would come back soon. But first they had another game to get to.

The Nakagawas took the subway to Brooklyn and shared a bowl of pre-game ramen near the Barclays Center. They apologized between slurps of noodles for not being hungry. It turned out they had lunch at Keens, the iconic, old-school steakhouse in Manhattan, and they were still feeling the effects of all that meat.

Yuki and Yumea walked over to the arena. She wore a knit dress. He wore a towel on his head. “It is striking,” Yuki said. That was the point. He was hoping that wearing a towel around his head would be enough to get them on the Jumbotron.

But it’s hard to miss the newlyweds at games. They’re the ones with the humongous sign saying they’re honeymooners from Japan. When he spotted them in Washington, Milwaukee Bucks center Brook Lopez greeted them with a hearty “Konnichiwa.” NBA players have a reason to be ecstatic when they see a man with a towel around his head: The home team has now won all seven games the Nakagawas have attended.

By the time they left the game in Brooklyn that night, they were already thinking about the next stops on their itinerary. There was Philadelphia on Tuesday, Boston on Wednesday and Charlotte on Thursday, when the Nakagawas are hoping to bump into Michael Jordan. The lovebirds are closing their honeymoon on Sunday night in a steamy way: Timberwolves vs. Suns in Minneapolis. The high temperature is projected to be 10 degrees.

Their flight home leaves on Monday and lands on Tuesday afternoon. Yumea is planning to sleep. Yuki says he’s going straight to work in the emergency room. “No problem,” he said.

They won’t have time for another NBA trip anytime soon. Yuki has to settle for something closer to home instead: He’s going to Tokyo next week to watch the sumo wrestling.

The interesting thing for the hawks will be what they do with Desmond/Lin/Bazemore. They’re all having great seasons and could really help some contenders. It’s yet to be seen if the hawk’s front office can handle a situation like that.