( ( ( ( ( nba bubble ball 2020 ) ) ) ) )

And Zion showed up out of shape. Not a great situation

and NO is not really playing him!

Nurkic looks great, whiteside looks like Whiteside

it wasn't about zion it was about money... they needed regular season games to generate tv revenue and salary for the players. thus you needed more than just the playoff teams there, thus the nets, and here we are. in 6 weeks nobody will remember anything about the nets time in the bubble

well the nets were one of the 8 teams but you know what i mean

all the above really

Why couldn’t you have all the playoff teams play regular season game vs each other

Tbf the wizards are the more questionable team rn

doing it this way generates more product and concocting some elaborate 8/9 play in game scheme make it less transparent that they're shipping the kings, suns, wizards etc off to orlando just to wring cash out of regional sports networks. also zion

they've also created the illusion of the restarted season having meaning... if you had the playoff teams playing vs each other simply for seeding purposes nobody would care because there's not even home court

they shdve just brought all the teams and finished the regular season, instead they brought 3/4 of the teams?

It’s a half measure for sure

Tbf the wizards are the more questionable team rn

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, July 31, 2020 1:31 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

i think this weird short end to the season is good. let the players play through the rust for a couple weeks.

Officiating has been so bad in the bubble... I had hoped it would be better with no crowds

i recognize approx half of the people in the blazer's virtual fan pool, this is my shame

love that

Jonathan Isaac refused to kneel...

nurk looks absolutely incredible

Sorry this is bullshit

Griffin: (Zion) will not play significant minutes in the next game, and he may not in the next one."

Nurkic sometimes tosses off a ferociously great game. Then he reverts to the mean, which is only to be expected.

Jonathan Isaac refused to kneel...

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, July 31, 2020 4:24 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's s trumperton, not unexpected

https://nba.nbcsports.com/2018/01/17/jonathan-isaac-in-sermon-i-invited-my-magic-teammates-to-hear-me-preach-but-none-came/

lol sad man in him prayer room

bubble hoops reminds me of olympic hoops

Me too

Lillard takes some awful shots. Paul George would agree with me.

At least there's no air horns xp w myself

This turned into a hell of a game

Melo colllllld blooded

all those techs were funny. players gonna have to bit their tongue a bit cant hide behind crowd noise and distractions in the bubble

uhhhh the blazers gonna choke this?

nothing would surprise me less

big W for pdx there.

completely different team with nurk/collins back

dame's finish on that drive w/ about 40 secs to go was sublime

Why is this court brighter!?!?

More stars!

digging the bubble games, they remind me of the preseason college ball tourneys they play in puerto rico or the bahamas, and the courts are used as convention centers and ballrooms for the other 50 weeks of the year

The fake crowd noise is so weird, I don’t know if I can get used to this

i may be starting to believe in Ayton.

Did you guys see that 4 players this season have scored on giannis in isolation

Ayton always had good potential in terms of his physical attributes. He just never had to work all that hard at hoops before he came into the league, where everyone on every team is a world-class athlete and even the superstars work their freaking butts off in order to make their way to the top of the heap.

tatum has been soo bad so far in da bubble like not just missing layups missing the rim, keep thinking about how early in the shutdown it was revealed he didnt have a hoop at his house, hope he found a way to get some shots up!

i refuse to believe any of these dudes didn't have any access to a hoop, even in a clandestine way.

one would think

Tatum and Brown been bad, Kemba on minutes limit, yet they're still neck and neck with top team in the league

pretty rugged game w one million fouls

possible hostile act...

no hostile act