NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

he takes that huuuge stepback so so often

they seem to be the second team that has bet on josh richardson being a really good 2-way player, and like the first team it's not looking good

he takes that huuuge stepback so so often

― Clay, Thursday, February 4, 2021 11:27 PM (thirteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah the footwork is real bad, he could do so much better there

i think hes prob not an exceptional shooter besides that but then you add in these sloppy high degree of difficulty shots and hes making it hard on himself

airball ft for lebron lol

time to retire :(

relegate lebron

sigh. weird game from jokic

did he eat in the middle of the game, what happened

Luka got beat back door about 15 times tonight. Their defense was worse than advertised.

cuban looking like shit, cursing, living life

here's the clip of mark cuban telling zach lowe "fuck you, you don't know shit" in response to lowe talking about luka being one of the whiniest players in the league toward the refs. pic.twitter.com/GOttOiXe50

— Josh Bowe (@Boweman55) February 5, 2021

cuban looking like boban dad there

mark buban

can’t wait til my plan comes together and I have one billion dollars so that I can be an awful little piece of shit but also a billionaire

zion just scored his 1000th point

i keep forgetting how few games he actually played last season, he's still just an nba baby

was on a minutes restriction for the first ~half of those games too

Zion is too smooth in the post. Just matched Blake Griffin as the fastest to 1,000 career points since Shaq (44 Games).

(via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/1ModSl8cfL

— SLAM (@SLAMonline) February 6, 2021

lol, he bent the rim on a dunk attempt and they're delaying the start of the 2nd half trying to fix it.

The legend grows

hoops paul bunyan

our beautiful son

wtf is going on with this durant contact tracing thing

lol came here to ask exactly that

Very weird. He already had it and he’s also had to sit earlier this season for contract tracing

Free me

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) February 6, 2021

NBA gotta figure this protocol stuff out if they're really trying to have an all-star game this year lol

They really shouldn’t do the all star game

i'm not sure why it's any different than what they're already doing. if they can have full teams traveling all over the place they can have an all-star game. i don't care about it and i probably won't prioritize watching it but the players moaning about it to the media sound ridiculous since their union had to agree to make it happen.

Lol did not know

the players effected are a very small percentage of the union so i get why those guys are complaining about having to fly to a different city and take more daily covid tests instead of getting some time off just so the NBA can recoup some money off an event no players want to participate in and no fans want to watch. it’s not dangerous as much as it’s just useless and stupid

Casual fans love all-star games. The fact they have no bearing on anything doesn't matter to them since their team awareness or connections are weak and they get to see great players showing off their skills.

xp if chris paul and lebron james really truly didn't want an all-star game i don't think we would be having one.

Lebron kd and giannis have spoken out against it. 3 top 5 players

The Celtics are doing a very good job missing open 3s right now

Lebron kd and giannis have spoken out against it. 3 top 5 players

― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Saturday, February 6, 2021 12:01 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if only they had any influence over the players union

Tatum vs Kawhi is good hoop

pretty good game once it got going

I really don’t understand why players have a problem with the all-star game.

its worse from a virus standpoint than a normal game but also they prob all had in their heads that they were getting a vacation

if you fake an injury you still get credit for the all star selection right, seems like an obvious solution

and obvs usually the allstar game is a big party and players are mostly happy to be there but theres no party this year

they would rather have 5 days off than have to fly to atlanta and wake up every morning to get a covid test so that they can do a bunch of PR events and then play in a game they don’t care about. not very hard to understand why they are against it

feel like also theyre just not feeling very cared for by the league which is fair, like its one thing to play the season, but the all star game really doesnt need to happen

also a shortened offseason, a compressed schedule. waking up early every morning to get tested, no freedom... again but very hard to understand why they would like a 5 day break

they would rather have 5 days off than have to fly to atlanta and wake up every morning to get a covid test so that they can do a bunch of PR events and then play in a game they don’t care about. not very hard to understand why they are against it

― J0rdan S., Saturday, February 6, 2021 11:56 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this makes complete sense and again where the hell was the NBAPA on this?

apparently chris paul was in favor of it... idk he seems like a stooge. the players union is pretty weak generally

yeah wld be curious to hear how the decision got made / generally how the union operates

it seems like the handful of guys at the top make the decisions and also that most stuff gets run by lebron

cp3, kyrie, and jaylen brown are in the leadership and will probably have to play in the game.

i mean lebron said this whats going on here

“Zero energy and zero interest”

LeBron on playing in the All-Star Game pic.twitter.com/iqQhsOTYeV

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) February 5, 2021

is it just the union suits talking to the league suits then the union suits go to the players and are like sorry this needs to happen suck it up and the players are like groan ok whatever