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

Lebron JaMes

Solidarity with Anthony Davis.

are you guys sleeping on this game or

well the end of the fourth was as wild as shit gets in the reg season

That elbow that PG threw at Nurkic's head was absolutely not a natural move during a drive to the basket. He should have been called for a flagrant 2, but the refs refused to call anything at all. Shitty as hell.

Then, during the unavoidable jawing at the other end, when Nurkic leaned into PG and touched his forehead to PG's head the TNT announcer kept saying "head butt" over and over, but spring lambs literally butt each other with way more force than that. It was a technical, sure, but pretending it was violent contact was just stupid.

If it were back in 1977 and Maurice Lucas were suited up for the Blazers, PG would have been paid in kind. Those days are over. But the supposed remedy is refs calling flagrant fouls when they happen, so payback isn't needed. The league needs to look at that one hard and issue a remedy.

pg is a star, nothing will happen

neat play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlsCmpJTkdo

gordon plays that super well, will be looking for that from now on

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— GlassHalfFultz (@pickuphoop) March 8, 2019

pg is a star, nothing will happen

hmmm. I guess you mean to say that nothing will happen that is sanctioned by the league. As PG proved last night, "things" do happen in hoops. that's the whole reason why flagrant fouls were invented, to prevent one "thing" begetting more "things".

PG regression is in full swing btw

Every year I wonder if its just imaginary but it kinda checks out

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/georgpa01/splits/

He consistently forgets how to shoot threes after the asb

not the best start for denver tonihgt

Their second unit brought them back. Now they're back in a deep hole at the half. Doesn't bode well for the Nuggets in the playoffs.

Klay is having one of those special Klay nights.

And Jokic is having a poor night (for him), too.

the isaiah thomas experiment just has to end. agree with kevin devine here:

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/3/8/18255961/five-most-interesting-nba-teams

It’s been three weeks since Isaiah Thomas made his season debut, returning to the court 11 months after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on the injured right hip that sent his career into a tailspin. When the Nuggets added the former All-NBA point guard last summer, they did so hoping he could provide some additional scoring punch and pick-and-roll playmaking off the bench for a team loaded with young talent but light on postseason experience. Eight games into the experiment, though, Thomas has looked less like “The King in the Fourth” he was before injuring his hip and more like the unsteady searcher he was in last season’s aborted comeback attempts in Cleveland and Los Angeles.

The 30-year-old got off to a solid start for Denver, scoring 24 points on 17 shots in 29 total minutes off the bench in his first two games. He’s struggled with his shot since, though, making just 18 of his past 52 field goal attempts and three of his past 21 3-point tries. Since the 5-foot-9 Thomas is always going to be a dicey defender, he needs to provide surplus value on the offensive end. To some degree, then, it makes sense that he has the highest usage rate among Nuggets rotation regulars since his return, topping even MVP candidate Nikola Jokic. The problem, though, is that Thomas hasn’t been able to earn his keep as a scorer or facilitator, ranking in only the 14th percentile among NBA players in points scored per shot attempt and in the 0th percentile in both assist rate and assist-to-usage rate, according to Cleaning the Glass
Nuggets coach Michael Malone, who shepherded Thomas’s emergence during their time together in Sacramento, has made it clear that he doesn’t want people blaming Thomas for a recent rough patch in which Denver lost three straight before beating the Lakers on Wednesday. But while it’s reasonable to suggest that no one player is to blame for a skid, it’s tough not to see Thomas’s introduction as an inflection point: Denver’s bench, which had posted the league’s fifth-best point differential before his arrival, has been outscored since his debut.

An offense that had run smoothly through excellent backup point guard Monte Morris has hit some speed bumps with Thomas thrown into the mix. Despite Malone’s attempts to prime the pump by playing Thomas in playmaker-heavy three-guard lineups alongside Morris, Malik Beasley, and Gary Harris, Denver is scoring just 92.6 points-per-100 in Thomas’s minutes, 30,000 leagues under the NBA’s worst full-season offensive efficiency marks. The fluidity and ball movement that’s been the calling card of the Jokic-era Nuggets have ground to a halt with IT on the ball, trying to find a balance between getting with Denver’s program and getting back to his old self. So far, the seesaw has tilted toward Thomas gunning. That’s not what the Nuggets need.

Players need time to knock the rust off and get their legs back under them after a long layoff; after spending the bulk of the past two years rehabilitating one of the more damaging injuries a player can suffer, it stands to reason that Thomas might need a little longer than most to recover his burst, balance, and shot-making rhythm. But for a Nuggets team that’s just one game behind the Warriors for the West’s top spot, every minute and possession devoted to reacclimating Thomas is one not given to a player who has already proved he can be a productive part of one of the league’s best rotations. Thomas has just 18 regular-season games to show signs that he can be Denver’s postseason X factor. If he can’t, Malone will have to consider returning his fractured favorite back to the bench for the good of the Nuggets’ postseason chances.

he came back too late and has too far to go in recovery to help a good team. it’s a bummer.

IT2 was consistently a step slow on every move he attempted and ran into a waiting defender. he couldn't even get off a decent pass most of the time. he looked fully cooked, at least for the remainder of this season, if not forever.

OFFICIAL: Brandon Ingram, who has missed two games due to a sore right shoulder, underwent further testing yesterday which revealed a Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) in his arm.

Ingram is expected to miss the remainder of the season.https://t.co/fNr8DwUbrb

— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) March 9, 2019

given his size disadvantage, age, injury history and game, it seems pretty impossible that IT is going to come back and be effective

IT and melo both need to go to china and dominate

marbury seemed like his life really turned around there, such a cool story

yeah it sucks but i think IT is permanently cooked

friends, good news, i have acquired 2 tickets to a pivotal nba basketball game between my spurs and the knicks, the team from the biggest city and therefore the most important team

it is teacher appreciation night therefore they let me play 1 minute of garbage time, i plan on hoisting

wow very cool did you know the Knicks play in the legendary Madison Square Garden, lil fun fact

hoist away! get all the buckets.

wow madison square garden, i went to madison square presbyterian when i was a kid, are they the same place?

The garden is outside

new york knicks? more like namasticks.

lol

just noticed we get "celtics vs lakers" tonight

Kyrie vs his father iirc

there's this awful mansion which went up a block up the street, this 3 million dollar monstrosity which has been sitting on the market for a year, basically a party house in the middle of a quiet neighborhood, and everyone's been wondering who would buy it. anyway there's an open house today and in the driveway is a large black SUV with gold trim and a license plate that reads "SWAGGY" and should i be concerned?

arm DVT sounds heinous, best of luck to ingram

lol at JVG saying the lakers should trade lebron in the offseason

jvg totally insufferable these days

yeah i dont remember him being this bad even like 2-3 years ago but its awful now

He is very lol old

marcus smart on fire

Kyrie doing and 1 mixtape stuff out there tonight vs the lakers b squad

watching celtoes lakers now and bron just caught the ball at the elbow w kyrie on him and kyrie locked him up lmao

lol at JVG saying the lakers should trade lebron in the offseason

― ciderpress, Saturday, March 9, 2019 8:49 PM (yesterday)

*closes flat earth tab* is this really that crazy of an idea?

trade lebron for ad imo

it's not but it's also impossible so why even entertain it

trade lebron to the knicks

lebron for their pick. Works for me.

Should the Lakers be concerned that Lonzo has missed 40% of their games since they drafted him?