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

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!

like half the houses near me have big old alma mater flags hanging in their flagpoles and i'm like "okay! be true to your school i guess, weirdos!"

all of this shit is kind of making me hate the nba

at first i was kind of amused by the nba social media pettiness but yeah it is pretty much just very lame

it is all 'nagl' as we say here

the fans suck, the players attitudes suck, the injuries suck. it is just a drag.

drag times

the ex-players suck, the broadcasters suck....

i wonder how much of this is just the continued hangover of the pandemic and how it's fucked with the schedule and the improv done to hang something together, and how much of it is the culture actually changing. my instinct tells me everyone is just burned out for now

yeah my feeling as well

Sometimes the games are good and that’s keeping it together enough. But feels like things are at a bit of a crossroads idk.

I expect it's mostly a hangover from the covid bubble season and this season's lack of fans, compressed schedule, the endless covid testing and restrictive league protocols.

I’m extremely tired of Kyrie drama and can’t perceive anything he does objectively anymore

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

in the NHL every locker room has a big team logo on the carpet but you're not allowed to walk on it or the other players will fine you! pro athletes are fuckin weird, but i guess this sort of thing is also a handy way to let the fans know they care about the laundry they wear and not just their paychecks

ok lol i respect that just for how extreme it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTqigT35xc

even before the covid seasons it felt like the rate at which star players were giving up on their teams was accelerating

and i'm talking about mid-contract, not leaving in free agency which is always fine. thinking about like the kawhi spurs situation

yeah definitely

we're definitely reaching a phase shift from the weird chill nba into something darker, the days of the banana boat seem distant

could be a sense of regime change w/ lebron's reign, generational shifts are almost always fucked up

nature abhors a vacuum, need transitional leadership, maybe a council formed of ppl with mvp votes get to together and drecree whats fine, like can we step on logos now and shit like that