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

btw can we take a minute to observe the fan who threw a water bottle at kyrie he is exactly as you would imagine him

Charles Barkley on Celtics fan who threw water bottle at Kyrie Irving "Look at that punk ass, just take him down stairs at let Kyrie handle that pic.twitter.com/b9a53BvGQt

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) May 31, 2021

Zinger’s defense just gets worse and worse.

wild the clippers were down 19 in game three after losing the first two at home thats about as close to dead as you can get without actually dying

xp with all due respect kyrie isn't handling shit himself

in related news i would like to congratulate the clippers for deciding to play hard

it doesnt even seem like they are that much

this could explain it

Almost game time, my voodoo room is ready #ClipperNation #voodooRoom pic.twitter.com/g2rvAuM3Ju

— Serge Ibaka (@sergeibaka) May 31, 2021

the main development is the clippers looking like they’ve played basketball together at any point previous to the current game which did not appear to be the case in the first two games

rondo just shouldn’t sign with a team until the last possible point in the season upon which he chooses whichever championship contender is in most obvious need of a point guard

wld keep him fresh too

congrats to luke kennard for his first minutes in this series, quite the over achievement

He’s not that talented! That’s why he’s an overachiever! He’s a slow short guy.

He also shot 48/45/84 this year

hes a great shooter, terrible defender is how i break it down to an extent

he def wouldve gotten more burn on other teams but the clips have so much shooting they cld afford to stay away from his defense

He had a really narrow path to making 10 million a year in the NBA and he made it happen. Jord thinks he’s super talented somehow because I said otherwise I guess

lmao he’s a 5 star recruit from duke who was a lottery pick and got signed to a 4/64 extension and is now getting DNPs in every playoff game unless his team is up 30. he can’t even get minutes over terrance mann who was picked 36 picks later than him. he’s an inspiring story of overachievement if you are a republican running for senator on the platform of deregulating all banks and eliminating capital gains taxes

lol wow

matt check this guy out your dick might explode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaRN4xb4b7w

wow sounds like that would... hurt

which team will be the least injured? its the nba playoffs baby!

Lakers star Anthony Davis is unlikely to play in Game 5 vs. Suns on Tuesday due to strained groin, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. There’s optimism about Davis‘ status as series continues and as he is evaluated day-to-day.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 31, 2021

AD coming back for game 6 down 3-2 is really the maximum drama scenario

true

let’s go!!

No, imo AD needs a long, long rest. Immediately. All summer would be my prescription. Bron, too. Can't take too many chances with injuries. Look what happened to Klay and KD in the 2019 Finals.

yeah they both got long in season rest and are still nowhere near 100%

wonder if the lakers wld do it, i guess they could just call them both injured and hold them out without really revealing that it was more for fatigue than acute injury, wld require bron and ad to play along tho, cant really see bron agreeing to shut it down

0.0% lebron would ever sit out the playoffs at his age and honestly there’s no reason for him to even consider it. he can heal his ankle in the offseason.

klay tore his ACL in the finals but that wasn’t because he kept playing with an injured knee or something

injuries do tend to lead to other injuries but obvs guys play on sprained ankles all the time without further major injuries, the thing that would worry me more is the exhaustion tbqh

but, if AD and Bron play when nursing injuries would it be fair to the other lakers who would lose playing time? obv, those backups are healthy and therefore deserve their chance to be playoff heroes, while AD and Bron are already superstars and get loads of money and praise. this argument seems airtight to me.

lmao he’s a 5 star recruit from duke who was a lottery pick and got signed to a 4/64 extension and is now getting DNPs in every playoff game unless his team is up 30. he can’t even get minutes over terrance mann who was picked 36 picks later than him. he’s an inspiring story of overachievement if you are a republican running for senator on the platform of deregulating all banks and eliminating capital gains taxes

Jord I know you’ve placed yourself in a prison where basketball evaluation has to advance social justice or the Miami HEAT, but thankfully I’m not there

Tbh tho I think it’s just a pathological need to disagree with me about everything and it’s wearing thin

feel like we used to have an unwritten agreement on here to not bring up each others old bad opinions, which was nice

i mean occasionally for a joke or an own whos going to complain but arguing repeatedly about if luke kennard is an overachiever is just kind of tedious

oddly arguing about it once is actually the perfect ilh conversation

Luke Canard

lol

It’s a dumb semantic thing because jord thinks “overachiever” means how highly ranked you were in high school (?) and I think it means how actually talented you are at basketball. But as I said he cannot agree with me ever and has to litigate these things for years and years, often in increasingly absurd ways.

imo we should all devote ourselves to novel rather than repeat litigation

anyway you guys want to see something so dumb, kyrie disrespected the celtics center court leprechaun logo via demonstratively stepping on it after the game and retired players are riled up about it

Kevin Durant and Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis were going at it on IG after Kevin Garnett’s comments about Kyrie Irving stepping on the Celtics logo. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/pn6C4uQcUX

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 31, 2021

Kevin Garnett did not like Kyrie Irving stomping on the Celtics logo. pic.twitter.com/R4pO9HSmUy

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 31, 2021

Kyrie Irving steps on the Celtics logo with a little extra force. 👀pic.twitter.com/qaoTB1Zy5T

— BasketballNews.com (@basketbllnews) May 31, 2021

A fan was arrested in Boston on Sunday for throwing a bottle at Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving, following the visiting team’s win over the Celtics.

"(It's) just underlying racism, and treating people like they're in a human zoo," Irving said. https://t.co/aoXKN4jVS3 pic.twitter.com/DJKxPlzrD0

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 31, 2021

Cole Buckley, the 21-year-old suspect who allegedly threw a water bottle at Kyrie Irving, is charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and will be arraigned Tuesday in Boston Municipal Court, according to Boston Police. More: https://t.co/3xJfsOq4qu pic.twitter.com/GYdVE3ICRB

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 31, 2021

some truly inane developments

stepping briefly on a leprechaun logo is inane. forcefully throwing a water bottle at someone's head as they walk past you is assault.

maybe stepping on the leprechaun is assault and throwing the bottle is inane everyone should do their own research

grown dudes taking a logo serious is so weird to me, childish and literally provincial!