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

Yeah Nets Game 2 was this bad they’re somehow shooting even worse. Idk what’s happening they all seem so shook right now, losing the ball on virtually every possession and struggling to even hit the rim

Right, you just feel like "what's our option" because everybody's ice cold, everybody's straight dropping the ball. Maybe they should have given Thanasis a couple of minutes

Hawks are so loaded next year

bucks gonna be the first team to fire their coach after winning the championship

oh no

that didn't look good

Oh man I’m sick

We call that the Jerry Krause

fuck

hoping against hope that it's a severe sprain

shocked he can walk honestly

Hyper extension bone bruise is best case I think can’t believe he’s walking

him walking after an injury that looked that bad is maybe one of the most impressive athletic achievements i can think of

this makes me reflect on my own awful nature. i love to clown the bucks because i do think they fuck up a lot, but that's only fun to do if they're at full strength. and with giannis it is never coming from a bad place. poor guy.

bucks vs hawks without giannis and trae is … not what you’re looking for if you’re a fan of nba basketball

I'm crushed right now, that looked like a "might miss next season" sort of injury but Giannis is a freak so who knows

Yah man I really hope there’s no major damage. The way he walked and came back kinda reminded me of klay 2019 finals, which…

Bucks saying hyperextension but idk if that's just how these injuries are called at first

God no

as noted by the instreetclothes guy, "hyperextension" is a description of what happened but not of what was actually damaged.

you won’t know what’s going on until they mri him, but if he’s moving around okay that’s obviously positive. if it’s just a bruise that’s amazing

how tf did Capela make that shot

you won’t know what’s going on until they mri him, but if he’s moving around okay that’s obviously positive. if it’s just a bruise that’s amazing

feel like every time I've seen something like that it's been at least a full season but who knows

Bucks are having the kind of night where Clint Capela gets compared to Larry Bird

He is literally the GOAT star

https://www.space.com/21989-capella-star.html

they should declare this year’s playoffs a no contest and award a double trophy to next year’s winner

no, health is a skill

not sure i’ve ever bought that one

im being glib, i just think the show must go on

i don't think i ascribe these giannis and trae injuries to the season--they're high-minute, high-usage players and the playoffs have become incredibly intense.

honestly amazed that they aren't constantly landing on each others' enormous feet and fucking up their ankles

At this point I hope the Hawks win the championship this year and everybody bitches about how it doesn’t really count and then the Hawks win the the next 8 titles. That would be ideal

asterisks are a fake idea, you play it out according to the rules and what happens happens

trae is 33rd in total minutes played this season and is at 33.7pg, giannis 46th in total and at 33pg

finding a sustainable lower-risk play style is definitely a skill of some kind

Injuries happen just extra sucks it’s been so many guys that are the best or second best player on the team.

the one silver lining to this was if the Bucks lost the series Bud would probably get fired, but now I think his job is probably safe

man crazy going from "Trae's out, we'll probably clinch a Finals trip" to "they're playing terrible but it's just one game and they still have home court" to "we might be fucked until 2023" within the span of an hour is some kinda whiplash

it sucks so much

honestly amazed that they aren't constantly landing on each others' enormous feet and fucking up their ankles

― mookieproof, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 7:59 PM (two hours ago)

i think this on just about every contested jump shot, every rebound, etc. i didn't use to think this all the time, and i don't know if it's because i'm getting old and have turned my own ankle so many times i'm nervous/scared for them (not joking) or if the game has changed a bit, or both. i definitely feel like jump shooters are coming down closer to their opponents' feet - and more often - than they used to.

anyway ... sucks about Giannis.

i'm nervous/scared for them (not joking)

i know *exactly* what you mean. can't even really think about it, let alone see it

alright time to watch the giannis injury i guess

looked bad

asterisks are a fake idea, you play it out according to the rules and what happens happens

sometimes the bad looking injuries are the ones that end up ok and the innocuous ones where a ligament imperceptibly tears like kawhi’s are the actual bad ones

yeah the one thing keeping me hopeful is the feeling that I've seen these sort of gnarly knee injuries in football before and they're usually not as bad as they seem. also Giannis is kind of a freak of nature who is rarely hurt so maybe his body is just resilient. still I'm bracing for the worst right now

its not too different to what embiid did a few weeks back if i recall. not gonna watch either again to verify.

freak of nature

I mean it's right there in his name, time to cash in on the freakiness

It looked like a classic hyperextension, sometimes that can get your ACL but usually not

!!!!!!

There is no structural damage to Giannis Antetokounmpo's left knee after his awkward landing last night in Atlanta; ligaments are sound, sources tell @wojespn and I. Timetable to return is unclear.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) June 30, 2021