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

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

― call all destroyer, Sunday, April 11, 2021 6:08 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

devastating news

oy, so close

this really felt like it could have been the year huh?

they had as good a shot as anybody

i'm not sure that's entirely true...........

the only way to win is not to play (the regular season games, which will tear your ACL)

they had as good a shot as anybody

― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:00 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm not sure that's entirely true...........

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:13 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

besides the lakers

i believed in the nuggets this year, they were just starting to come together. the lakers have two stars who are injured so we cant say they look dominant like they did last year (they may be fine once the offs come)

i think 8 teams have (had) a fair shot this year. especially with lal possibly vulnerable

LAL
Bklyn
LAC
Phi
Mil
Utah
Den
Phx

all those teams aren't equal, imo

imo its pretty wide open this year but i do like the lakers the best, their supporting cast is better than last year, obvs there are injury concerns but they seem pretty committed to getting those guys healthy which could turn out to be a net benefit to them

Jord thinks you can’t do well in the playoffs building around a big man, unless he plays for the Heat

i think "believing in" or not is really the point, the nuggets were set to play 2-3 massively entertaining and competitive playoff series and now that will be significantly diminished. murray is someone who you want to see in the playoffs and now we don't get that.

*is not really the point

true

Jord thinks you can’t do well in the playoffs building around a big man, unless he plays for the Heat

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:52 PM (two minutes ago)

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