NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

I’ve said this before but if the chemistry is right and everyone is healthy the sky is the limit for the Pacers

dipo is returning to form but no one in indy wanted him

with jarrett allen gone there is no one standing in the way of deandre jordan’s minutes... nets assistant GM matt armstrong pumping his fist

With the trade, Houston will go under the luxury tax by $3.65M and hard cap by $9.95M.

Before the deal is consummated, Houston will need to waive a player (had 14 on the roster before the deal and now sending out 1 and taking back 3).

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) January 13, 2021

The chief concern of this trade in Tilman Fertitta's eyes no doubt lol

The Brooklyn Nets were always interested in acquiring James Harden but the deal became imperative in light of the situation with Kyrie Irving.

Kyrie is willing to sit out the year if need be those close to him are saying.

— Jason Dumas (@JDumasReports) January 13, 2021

if need be what

what is this need?

what does it mean to be?

What does he want lollll

yah massive move by the pacers here. i like that team but not sure what their ceiling is without a top 5-10 player?

seems like a good situation for caris, but i'll miss him in brooklyn

I’d like to see the Nuggets grab Danuel House....

Jarrett Allen is a month and a half older than Obi Toppin

— 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙣 🇨🇦 (@Cavsanada) January 13, 2021

yah massive move by the pacers here. i like that team but not sure what their ceiling is without a top 5-10 player?

nice work by the pacers and cavs jumping in on this ridiculousness

also gonna miss seeing jarrett allen at whole foods

Yeah but what if your starting lineup is all top 50 players....
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 13, 2021 3:06 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yah true could be a 04 pistons things for sure. forgot tj warren is hurt too.
brogdon, lavert, warren, sabonis, turner is real nice.

cavs gotta be looking to move drummond right?

wall oladipo boogie woulda been cool a couple years ago. now christian wood might be better than all three.

this outcome is just a bummer. three iso players taking turns and not playing defense.

Sixers are going to regret not making this trade (if it was actually available).

Now I hope the Nets end up flaming out in the second round like the Clippers.

By trading Prince, LeVert, Allen, and Kurucs for Harden, the Nets luxury tax bill increases from $57.5M to $87.1M.

They have 2 weeks to get to 14 players.

Nets don’t officially have the $5.7M DPE for Dinwiddie yet, but they should be granted it soon. It will be important. pic.twitter.com/JFruehxDqE

— Yossi Gozlan (@YossiGozlan) January 13, 2021

they need a center bad unless they want KD playing center for 20 minutes per game.

is this the ultimate emo lineup?

gotta be

James Harden, Jeff Green, and KD are reunited 🤣 pic.twitter.com/fq8Hi767Cy

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) January 13, 2021

lol look at those babies

Two of them are still total babies.

damn my homie steve nash prob goin through it right now huh

Nets’ net rating

With Allen: +10.5
Without Allen: -1.4

With Jordan: -1.4
Without Jordan: +7.6

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) January 13, 2021

steve nash three months ago: i think i can get through to these guys

steve nash now: thinking about how nice canada is

he should just go back to getting paid to watch curry shoot at practice

Durant + a bunch of guys seems like enough to beat a lot of east teams

first time i'm seeing these knicks city edition uniforms live. they look like something a big3 team or one of the teams in the basketball tournament would wear

idk how they did it but the twolves (feat. both russell and towns) gave up a 10 point lead and lost the fourth quarter to the grizz 36-16

score updated, make that 38-17

Grizzlies 118, Wolves 107.

Baaaad loss. 10-point lead evaporates. Rubio and Juancho really struggling. Culver on ice. Edwards in a big-time slump.

Offense ground to a halt.

— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) January 14, 2021

good times

brandon ingram, jaxson hayes, jj redick, nicola melli, and kira lewis is.....a 5-man lineup

my fav encapsulation of the season so far is that TNT had the heat-sixers game on tomorrow night but dropped it bcuz the heat only have 8 player. tthe game they picked up to replace it is....... spurs-rockets, lol

it sucks that according to reporting everyone is miserable this season. i myself have been miserable watching most of these games.

(this happened yesterday xp)

um the young and exciting up and coming spurs u mean

lonnie walker averagin 24.5 pts with demar sitting, could be something

(2 game sample lol)

i myself have been miserable watching most of these games.

yah i hate to say this season has been "bad" for the nba's "brand" but

saving grace is everyone is going to forget everything about the plague times when they are over

yeah otm

Otm. If leagues survived using replacement players untarnished I think nba will be fine

Who would of thought starting a season a few weeks after the last one ended while COVID still raged was a bad idea?

i wonder if we're going to look back and realize that it was extremely stupid for the NBA to conclude that bcuz covid transmission rates for baseball and football games are believed to be very low to nonexistent on the field of play that the same would be true for a sport played indoors where 10 players are constantly w/ in 6 feet of each other