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

wonder what theyll do if they lose this series

lol what was this

Rondo mad as hell. 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Oq6hb7Xl3w

— Big Boss (@LordBalvin) June 3, 2021

cursed franchise

Apparently the mAvs only made 3 shots the last 8-9 minutes and still won.

road team has won all the games

― lag∞n,

was wondering if i had this right in my head, this has a bad unnatural feel to me when it happens

Put Dirk in Porzingis's jersey for game 6 and hope no one notices IMO.

i feel like the clippers having not even an ounce of a home court advantage is not conducive to them winning a title

Cheerleader (lifts megaphone): Whose house?!

Clippers fans: Management has entered into a contractual agreement allowing our team to occupy this house!!!

Cheerleader (cupping hand to ear): I can't hear you!!

Clippers fans: Fuck off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biE05lUma1A

throwing this here for posterity as it should not be lost to time

Shaq: "Think they need 4 or 5 more players" pic.twitter.com/L716GbImBF

— CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) June 3, 2021

kenny’s reaction to that was really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lmDcQae4F4

Shaq and that jacket is a journey

i know it's not a great stat but there were some wild +/- numbers in that game, like PG +17 and rondo -19

clips need dame rn

― Clay, Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:44 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sixers, baby. Just do it and be legends.

lol at the new yorker description of Trae: "Young, who, in every other particular, looks like a teen-ager on perpetual spring break, has a weirdly wispy nest of hair, staticked to attention as if run through constantly by a freshly inflated birthday balloon."

his hair situation is pretty unfortunate

it renders him kind of undeniably an odd looking dude which surely adds to the appeal

Lillard on the Sixers does make a lot of sense honestly

lillard anywhere

def a regular season maximizer

With the Knicks loss to the Hawks, this is the third time a Tom Thibodeau team has lost a series in 5 with home court advantage. His teams are now 3-4 in series with home court.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) June 3, 2021

draymond said last night that the knicks played super hard every game in the regular season but every team plays super every game in the playoffs. kinda sums up the thibs experience

yup, play your best players the most minutes and play hard and there you have your ceiling. there's no other gear to go to.

meanwhile everyone else is resting bringing players along testing different rotations and so forth

yup

I like dray, it’s good having people who watch/understand basketball on tnt

ESPN is really all in on Kendrick Perkins

it's rough

listening to him speak is pretty amusing but the things hes says are pretty lame

hes on every celtics halftime show if espn viewers think theyve got it bad

he just spent five minutes explaining this tweet to Mike Greenberg

Luka jump on over the fence and found out the dog that was barking wasn’t nothing but a damn Pomeranian and went got his ball! He served the Clippers a church dinner tonight that included an family order of 42 leg quarters , 12 pieces of cornbread and 8 slices of pound cakes!

— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) June 3, 2021

I do love his accent

lmao if perk just said stuff like that tweet he would be pretty good its the trenchant tough guy opinions that grate

all nba rookies are given lessons on how to deal with the media, the first lesson is to conceal your real thoughts and substitute a platitude. it becomes second nature.

it wasn't the tweet so much as Mike Greenberg is apparently brain damaged

lol i didnt even consider the possibility that perk was explaining the tweet because it needed explaining figured he was just talking

mike g is awful. espn is a cesspool of talent atm

somehow they have pretty great writers, podcasters, play by play, and game analysts but their talking heads/studio shows are like descended from the ninth circle of hell

https://theathletic.com/2629290/2021/06/03/how-will-the-bucks-defend-the-nets-examining-potential-matchups-and-how-giannis-antetokounmpo-will-guard-screens/
this matchup is gonna be fascinating.

Lillard on the Sixers does make a lot of sense honestly

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:11 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ben simmons + what gets portland to listen?

embiid

lol

the blazers F.O. is not trading lillard unless he puts a gun to their head

they just need four or five guys

he is literally the most beloved player in the history of the franchise xp

yah something around CJ and Simmons makes more sense

yeah both team has dupes

there's no way daryl morey is trading ben simmons for cj mccollum and anfernee simons unless someone put a gun to *his* head

even with picks involved

j0rdan gets it

re: dame there's also the not insignificant matter of his being owed *200 million dollars* from next year through '24-'25, when he will be in his mid-30s