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

The Rockets have confirmed that Russell Westbrook is playing in tonight's Game 5 against Oklahoma City

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) August 29, 2020

aw, uncle cliffy :(
apparently he had a stroke a few years ago, he might not have been in good health for a while.

No one played better defense on KG than Cliffy, it was such a treat to watch. All skill.

James Ennis appears to be playing this game drunk

he did try and punch someone in game 2

cliff was a big, big part of my childhood and his passing comes as yet another shock to the system and i'm getting fuckin sick of it dudes, there's just no time to deal with any one terrible thing before five more terrible things happen and that's not counting the brutal miasma of covid and idk anways rip cliff and fuck life on earth atm

<3 clay

i feel you clay

lou dort taking every shot is not a good plan

Sorry clay :(

legitimately one of my favorite role players of all time. Singlehandedly made the headband cool. Loved when he was on survivor too.

They are giving him the tony Allen treatment. Especially bad cos the rockets get to let Russ be the guy who doesn’t have to guard anyone.

Dort is just amazing, I love him so much.

Dennis Schroeder is good now

It seems like players don’t bite on pumpfakes as much in the playoffs and this is a fundamental problem for harden

Schroe has accepted his natural role as a change of page sixth man.

yeah its good for him

schroeder ejected for a nut punch... chris paul is contagious

Schroe has accepted his natural role as a nut puncher.

pj tucker ejected for head butting him in response, which feels like it should be legal in that situation

this basketball match is poorly

SGA seems like he didn’t want to resume the season

Sga def gotta work on consistency and possibly his motor.

Chris thinks we’ll hear about anfernee simons for years to come

KING https://t.co/nt14zOkAGA

— Jim Gabriel (@flipyourface) August 29, 2020

Fitting pic to go with that

thunder did bad today

Random - Thunder had 80 points on 105 possessions today.

That's the 2nd least efficient game (76.2 pp100p) of the season, regular season or playoffs. Only one worse was Bulls' 73 on 97 (75.3) on Dec. 13.https://t.co/zRuE8PADSt

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) August 30, 2020

My girlfriend wants you guys to know that russell Westbrook has very small ears. Shockingly small, to her

they are small for ears

When the @Lakers advance to the second roundpic.twitter.com/3TsRbyisrq

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) August 30, 2020

i need the other 3 west series to go to 7 games for private reasons (drama)

scandalous

i missed this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxFiOppkLA

Gary Harris back today, really hope he figured out the jumper in quarantine. Miss the old Gary

Morris should be ejected for this, it’s too much given context

Actually looking at the replay he should be suspended

Doc Rivers defending Morris here is a BAD IDEA

Morris was well within NBA standards for a clean, hard foul... if it were still 1990.

i thought it was a hard foul at first but he hit him on the head once and then basically smacked him in the face, and then shit talked him after to make the intentionality clear

kawhi too good 4 the mavs

murray doin it again

jesus murray

he is risen (jumping)

i'm not sure if god could stop murray at this point but playing normal pick and roll defense with jordan clarkson on the ball doesn't seem like an amazing idea

one cool thing about the bubble is we get to see how good guys can shoot without 20 thousand people yelling at them

it's a great point, score another one for shooting in a gym

game 7 baby

i have heard that the 7th game of the series is the last one, is the prophecy true?

only one way to find out

there are only so many truly real times where you feel like anytime a guy shoots it's going in. this was one of those times.

Players with multiple 50-point games in a playoff series:

- Michael Jordan
- Allen Iverson
- Donovan Mitchell (this series)
- Jamal Murray (this series) pic.twitter.com/B0yMnsfetS

— StatMuse (@statmuse) August 31, 2020