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i respect cp3 for clearly being as psychopathically driven and resentful as kobe or jordan without talking about it non stop to the media / creating a dumb persona around it, instead he does backroom deals with the owners and creates and endless string of the worst commercials known to man

most small guards careers get real short once they lose a step and cant get to the rim, he just examined the situation and became the best midrange shooter in the game, he even yells layup sometimes when hes launching from 15 lol

shd be noted too that this thunder team does have a lot of talent, i think people looked at them and didnt see a star but theyre deep with quality players and have had good health too

CP3 is a jerk but I kinda love him, he's really fun to watch at least when he's not on the Rockets

Fuck him!

-signed Julius Hodge

lol

matt otm re cp3

Brett Brown on Ben Simmons' injury, wouldn't give a timeline when asked if Simmons could be out for the entire season: "Some of the information is fluid... It's just that the stuff is still being evaluated."

— Rich Hofmann (@rich_hofmann) August 6, 2020

Anything over 3 weeks is the probably the rest of the season, lol.

yeah not looking great for the sixers

i'd call them the fivers now

horford back into the starting line up?

shd be noted too that this thunder team does have a lot of talent, i think people looked at them and didnt see a star but theyre deep with quality players and have had good health too

― lag∞n, Thursday, August 6, 2020 10:03 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the thing is they do have a star, cp3. even when he’s changed his game a couple of times in major ways, he’s still been impactful in elite ways that don’t necessarily show up in the box score. his teams win, they are much better with him on the floor — but this has been the story of his whole career: quarterbacking winning teams that come up just short for reasons that are sometimes not entirely in their control. obviously things like griffin getting hurt in the playoffs in the prime of his career, paul getting hurt a couple years ago in the WCF — those things are baked into the measure of a team. staying on the floor is part of being good. but it is without question the case that he’s had shit luck and also imo certain that if he had played in the eastern conference, he’d have played in the finals at least once. I mean there are some people who still put guys like kidd above he when stacking up the greats ... his only current peers in terms of career body of work are lebron, steph, durant, and harden probably (AD and giannis will get there soon). he’s a top 25 player easily imo, too 20 probably

i found this picture of kevin

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/3e/41/dd3e41b93333ae720d917fe37e289ddc.jpg

the commercials are soooo bad lol.
I feel like as an NBA fan and as a paul fan in particular I have a warped view of his general popularity, but my sense is he’s not well-known enough for these commercials? like even lebron doesn’t have a similar personality-driven ad campaign (or does he?)

prob just kind of a random thing where the insurance company signed him up to make some ads then never stopped

theyre doing it im assuming to torment nba fans

my thought, too. the insurance company wanted a recognizable, but not too expensive, athlete for their ads placed during televised games. cp3 looked like a good deal and they signed him long term. it's about as random as Michael Jordan pitching Hanes underwear.

Kneecap things are weird because the recovery truly can go fast.

It’s possible to dislocate it, pop it back in place with no significant damage to tendons

isnt that what happened with mahomes?

big Ewing Theory vibes with Simmons out

(irony noted)

I thought the bucks would show some pride here

an interesting fact about the potential bucks-heat match up is that the bucks defense is designed to give up three pointers and the heat had the highest three point percentage in the league this year

yeah something is not right with Milwaukee

still decent amount of time before the playoffs but I'm starting to doubt that they're big favorites in the East

though I guess every good team this year has had stretches like this

guys, is cam payne a serviceable role player now?

in the bubble he's been exactly what the suns needed all season

the bucks are good again

gotta say i love that the wizards were invited to the bub and lost a bunch of games and now have a worse winning percentage than charlotte and might fall below the bulls in the next couple days

the suns look pretty damn good. they were playing fast and sharing the ball.

Has anyone written an article about the seeding scenarios? I would assume the nuggets and clippers want the 2nd seed but idk

Nurkic dunks on Bol Bol 😳 pic.twitter.com/IffR5E2mZX

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 7, 2020

an interesting fact about the potential bucks-heat match up is that the bucks defense is designed to give up three pointers and the heat had the highest three point percentage in the league this year

yea I think they really need to clean that up lest they get rocked by fucking Fred VanVleet again

lakers are not that good without bron

i think nurkic is the happiest player in the bubble. dude looks so energized to be playing basketball again.

kyle kuzma is the evolutionary jeff green

btw harden has finally transitioned to a mature hairstyle

Malone benching Jokic in the 4th could cost me a lot of money. I’m upset

matt, are you betting on bubble seeding games? do you need help?

hes playing the fan duel

btw did just regular sorts betting become legal seeing all these ads not sure how i missed that

they need to legalize online poker so i can become wealthy

sports betting is legal in oregon since january there's an app and eveyrthing, been surprised so far that it has not ruined the life of any men i know

i have a handful of vices but every day i thank the higher powers that gambling is not one of them

the few absolute degen gamblers i know are basically unsalvageable as humans

some light wagering here and there is fine but as far as something to ruin yr life with its kinda lane

betting on random prime time games makes them way more fun to watch but you have to find that middle ground between "not trivial amount of money" and "won't hurt much to lose"...for me that's about 20 bucks

Again though I have questions about all of this. I feel like there’s lots of weird jockeying considering home court doesn’t exist anymore

its all about da matchups now baby