nba playoffs aka the 'offs (which includes the 'ins) 2021

Can't wait for the next episode of the reality show, "The 2021 NBA Playoffs".

bcz we are all messy b*tches who love drama

that’s right

voted nets btw

i can't figure out who to vote for. what a tough year to figure out the champ.

i can't decide between the bucks and sixers, i'm very concerned about anthony davis making it through 4 playoff rounds healthy, and i think the top 3 teams in the east would be beat any remaining team in the west. i might lean the sixers bcuz they have the easiest path to the finals of any team in either conference... think the bucks might be the better team tho

can we all agree that it would be "fun" to see portland, denver or miami win?

jordan that's very much where i'm at. i don't think this is the lakers year and with that in mind the east seems stronger. i would love to pick the bucks but i was just looking at their top 8 guys and man you have to hope jrue holiday has the playoffs of his life if you want to make that pick.

they've also given themselves such a bad path compared to philly.

I also voted nets but this whole post season screams chaos to me

i would love to pick the bucks but i was just looking at their top 8 guys and man you have to hope jrue holiday has the playoffs of his life if you want to make that pick.

― call all destroyer, Monday, May 17, 2021 11:30 PM (yesterday)

i think there's a two fold issue w/ the bucks. one is giannis and middleton related, having those guys not freeze up and take a bunch of jumpers in crunch time after the offense does nothing for 21 seconds. the second is that they were a pretty deadly shooting team, but you kinda need to believe that guys like bryn forbes, dante d, connaughton, even jrue are going to be 40% three point shooters in the playoffs and weren't just shooting the lights out in the most shooting friendly season in NBA history. if the bucks can figure out how to run an offense at the end of games and have role players who make threes they might be the best team in the league and will prob come out of the east. if neither of those two things get solved they could potentially lose to the heat again

Lakers/Nets

Simmons has been very bad down the stretch. Not healthy and/or distracted by family drama. I think the Sixers could beat the Nets because the Nets are thin and don't play defense, but I think they would lose to the Bucks.

i like how everyone’s just ignoring polyphonic’s nightmare scenario, or haven’t even read it properly because it just cancels out somehow, like staring at the sun

Not healthy and/or distracted by family drama.

hmmmm?

nets officially cursed

THIS JUST IN: guess who’s joining us to set up a #COVID vaccine site outside @barclayscenter?

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— City of New York (@nycgov) May 18, 2021

this would be an amazing time for kyrie to come out with a weird anti-vax statement

Is simmons still dating a Jenner

can only assume someone mustve warned him off of it in advance xp

Is simmons still dating a Jenner

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, May 18, 2021 8:11 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no, d booker took over that one for now.

haven't watched a game in a few weeks but i'm excited for some 'ins

off to a good start

Just in: Indiana Pacers guard Caris LeVert is expected to miss tonight’s Play-In Tournament game vs. the Charlotte Hornets due to health and safety protocols, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 18, 2021

ah well

ffs!

Would be pretty wild if some star who didn’t get vaccinated manages to get COVID and swings the whole offs (not caris levert, obviously)

re: Simmons (feel bad even posting it, shits fucked up regardless), this came out in March?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9457973/Basketballer-Ben-Simmons-sister-Olivia-claims-half-brother-molested-years-age-three.html

...lebron xp

xp ugh, did not hear about that

ugh is right.

He missed 4 games in a row due to an unknown, non-covid illness right around the same time and hasn't seemed himself since.

i had no idea he posted career lows in points rebounds and assists. what an odd player.

Ny vs atl is a coin flip. exact same record and point differential. both are healthy, right? i guess besides hunter but he hasnt been there all year basically.

gritty defense vs razzle dazzle offense its the nba playoffs baby

interesting prove it series for both teams

randle gonna be played 44 mpg

might rest for zero second half minutes the whole series

"you can rest when you're dead at halftime"

The @spurs Playing Too @espn SMH!!!🤦🏽‍♂️ https://t.co/hW8vbBP0Wa

— Dejounte Murray (@DejounteMurray) May 18, 2021

I am extremely confident the hawks will win. what's the line? i might have to make some money off this

hawks are favored by a little bit

usually i think its most important to analyze the matchups in a playoff series but since i dont know who plays for the knicks im not sure

pretty sure the hawks have a better player at every position

4 out of 5 maybe

knicks had really good health this year right, and the hawks missed a bunch of games, and they ended up in exactly the same place, so if the hawks are healthy now theyre probably the better team, by a small to medium amount

knicks/hawks is interesting in being a rare series between two teams who have very little playoff experience between them. i can think of three guys who will get important minutes in this series who have played more than a dozen playoff games.

what if the refs let the knicks play gritty physical defense, could throw the hawks off, especially trae young, very small guys tend not to do good in the offs

yeah it's a big moment for the trae might not be good in the playoffs crew

Injury Report:

Brogdon - Questionable (right hamstring)
A. Holiday - Questionable (right toe)
Lamb - Out (left knee)
LeVert - Out (health & safety protocols)
Sabonis - Questionable (left quad)
Sumner - Questionable (left knee)
Turner - Out (right toe)
Warren - Out (left foot)

— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) May 18, 2021

not great

taj gibson probably has played more playoff games than everybody else combined on both the knicks and hawks.

Bucks host Suns
Won't you come

I am so excited

now we can all move on to the evening's main event, Animal Kingdom, only on TNT!

I know this is a series we were massively favored to win but fuuuuck this is awesome , did it without Giannis too

congrats to the wisonsin deer

The heart of this team in getting their heads straight and arresting what looked like an epic collapse

Flirting with an "epic collapse" is hardly the most reassuring evidence of massive "heart".

The hawks have so many good players

rip marv don’t let the door hit ya etc

Welp, at least by now we've discovered all but one of the teams who are full of losers. Should we have a new Finals thread or just ride with this one?

2021 NBA Finals: Phoenix Suns vs Milwaukee Bucks

also it's that time It's the 4th Annual I Love Hoops NBA Role Player Hollafame - VOTING & CAMPAIGNING THREAD (voting closes FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021, 11:59 PM CST)