part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

Jon K. is pretty plugged in as a wolves beat reporter

yeah i trust him completely. also the league is going after expansion fees, not moving existing franchises. this has been pretty well-known for a while.

in other words i think this ownership group may absolutely suck but i don't think they will move the team.

a-rod doesnt seem like a person who is associated with a place anyway, idk about his rich friend

he's a florida man

matt what’s your ranking of 5 worst owners in league history

a-rod is particularly unpopular here, for whatever reason, the yankees have bounced the twins from the playoffs like 12 times and there's actually pretty big hatred of the yankees here

people who hate the yankees hate arod, yankees fans hate arod, everyone together hating aron

Sarver and Gilbert gotta be up there

Remember the Hawks ownership group that fought over maxing out joe Johnson and then hired racist Danny Ferry for a minute? They were bad

weird end to celtics nuggs with jokic trying and failing to get thrown out of the game then getting benched all while the game wasnt out of reach

Jokic wants no part of the #Nuggets huddle during the timeout. #Celtics pic.twitter.com/BqygoDI2Wf

— gary washburn (@GwashburnGlobe) April 11, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyuCbciU4AEpsI7?format=jpg&name=900x900

the celtics blew out a good team in the 4th quarter? that is quite a change.

I’m losing my mind watching this

MOTHER OF GOD pic.twitter.com/zYN6k99zEO

— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) April 11, 2021

Hornets have the best photographer in the game pic.twitter.com/0dMMvagkGy

— Pull up shoot (@NElGHT_) April 11, 2021

the celtics blew out a good team in the 4th quarter? that is quite a change.

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theyre showing a lil life, its too bad fournier is in the protocol thoo

What a call on that dunk

There aren’t really any dunks better than that

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31238873/brooklyn-nets-guard-kyrie-irving-miss-monday-game-due-personal-reasons

this feels somewhat unprecedented? not sure i can think of any other player taking multiple games off for unspecified reasons, much less a player who is in the mvp conversation.

kyrie has cracked the code, he is seeing in twelve dimensions

Golden State Warriors rookie James Wiseman has suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 11, 2021

forks: rodman seems like an obvious precedent

i guess i don't think of kyrie as unwell in the same way that rodman was but maybe i'm fooling myself

ESPN Sources: Former UConn coach and 13-year NBA veteran Kevin Ollie has been hired as head coach and director of player development for the Overtime Elite, a new pro basketball league for top prospects between 16 and 18 years old: https://t.co/RJjM7a3wgU

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 12, 2021

Difference between rodman and Kyrie is that we always knew what Rodman was doing (partying)

it seems like kyrie is well liked in the nets locker room -- i can't remember having read anything to the contrary -- and i'm sure like rodman his teammates are like, look if this is what you need to do in order to be ready for when it matters then go ahead. rodman had also proved it on the court w/ the bulls specifically before he started going off to vegas and stuff where as this nets team hasn't done anything together but kyrie has always had a lot of equity among players across the league and the franchise was handed over to him and KD anyway so who is going to stop him, really

whats going on with oladipo?

hurt his knee on a routine dunk. non-contact knee injuries are pretty much always bad. they're saying he's out indefinitely w/ knee pain, whole thing is kinda weird

The Heat and Victor Oladipo have not ruled out the injured guard playing again this season, but a final decision hasn’t been made and Oladipo continues to seek input on how to deal with right knee soreness stemming from an incident in last week’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers, multiple league sources said over the past two days.

An MRI of Oladipo’s knee revealed no new structural damage like a ruptured ACL or torn ligament, Five Reasons Sports Network reported Sunday night. An NBA source did not dispute that report but said additional medical opinions are being sought.

Whether the Heat calls it soreness or a sprain is semantics. The larger issue is whether Oladipo, in the next few weeks, feels comfortable playing on a knee that already has been surgically repaired following a significant 2019 injury.

That’s an issue both sides are discussing, as Oladipo —with the Heat’s blessing — continues to seek additional medical opinions on the best course of treatment. Both the Heat and Oladipo want to be cautious.

To be clear, this is more than a pain management issue. This is also a question about whether he risks further damage by playing on the knee before the soreness dissipates and whether he can be effective if he plays in the next few weeks.

Sounds bad

he rejected a 4/80 extension by the pacers

dipo very weird vibes

i've never had a sense of the guy

i think the reports were that he had great intangibles coming out of school. seems like getting bounced around plus the major injury has maybe made him a little distrustful of teams.

word in indy is that he got a big head after his one good season, then burned his bridges by cosying up to heat players while getting swept out of the playoffs

this ESPN broadcast team is weird

3 liters of soda a day

oh shit Murray looks like he's really fucked up

yeah, that looked really bad. non contact seemingly

it was a fun curry game until that moment

yikes that one seems like bad news... planting like that and immediately grabbing the knee, looks like a lot of ACL type injuries of the past

just caught this and oof my condolences to our nuggets friends here at ilh

Horrible

fuck

injuries suck, should be illegal

Jamal’s game puts so much stress on his knees and this was probably inevitable

murray acl confirmed. that really really sucks.

Mad scientists have come up with some thing where ACL injuries barely matter but this sucks for the entirely plausible 2021 playoff run the nuggets could have had