2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

New Orleans Pelicans center Jonas Valanciunas has agreed on a two-year extension worth $30.1 million, his agents Aaron Mintz, Mitch Nathan and Drew Morrison of @CAA_Basketball tell ESPN.

Valanciunas is now committed to the Pelicans for $44.1M over the next three seasons.

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) October 20, 2021

lol, does seem like a pretty reasonable deal for jonas tho

this is starting to feel an awful lot like the 2016 "cap spike! no bad free agent contracts are possible!" except with extensions.

one thing you could see last night was the dubs really miss an athletic dude at the lob/roller spot. lots of great passes to looney in the paint where hed take one more dribble and kick it back out or whatever. wiseman could be that guy if he's learned how to stay sound and in position on defense (not likely).

they need to trade wiseman. he needs to go to a bad team where he can develop with the ball in his hands and this warriors team can’t afford that

you’re right that the warriors basically need like a birdman style player at center who can run around and jump and dunk but what’s the point in turning wiseman into that, just get whatever value you can for him and add to your team

yeah not trading their picks the last couple years was pretty bad

unlikely theyd get enough for wiseman to make it worth their while at this point, he has to show he can play first

if Chriss coulda stayed healthy he looked really great in that role and had good chemistry w dray and steph, but alas

yeah the wiseman ship sailed theyre stuck with him unless they sell low

Bjelica looked really really good in this system

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:11 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he looked like jokic-lite lol

The Lakers played Avery Bradley in crunch time last night for some reason? Whatever, I'll take it.

yeah that was weird. hoping he'd have a revenge game or something? he did hit a couple open threes.

i heard that it was probably because monk was getting roasted and vogel wanted to make a point

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— Dom2K🎃👻🧟‍♂️ (@Dom_2k) October 20, 2021

James Jones on @BurnsAndGambo said a 5-year max to Deandre Ayton was not something the Suns were interested in for a multitude of reasons and it ultimately came down to it not being a preference from a roster construction standpoint.

— Kellan Olson (@KellanOlson) October 20, 2021

It’s TIME for NBA Cluntdiwn. A new era begins NOWWWWWWW!!!!! On ESPN!

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) October 20, 2021

lets clunt it diwn then

lmao

hell yes we've all been waiting a long four months for the cluntdiwn

the fiiiiiinal cluntdiwn 🎶🎶🎶

just fired up nba b i t e and im watching both balls now

kelly oubre wide open 3.... airball by a bout two feet to the left

btw nba cluntdiwn is a complete travesty lmao. sas screaming and greeny just being a complete dolt. they didnt even know they were live for about 20 seconds a few minutes back

pacers looking solid. they havent had a coach of this calibre since... rick carlisle

refs letting these jump in foul begging 3s go is making me believe good things are possible

these knicks "throwbacks" are nice

jaylen brown is balling out here in the 1st quarter of the season

yeah the knicks unis are clean

Would it really be a shock if lamelo is a top 15 player by the end of the season? He’s just ridiculously talented good lord

Mods can we get cluntdiwn into the thread title

i dont think i can, but im ok with this being funny tonight only

love lamelo props to lamelo

julius randle playing some tuff ball tonight

Seen some really shockingly bad calls tonight….

Mobley looks way ahead of schedule

Brilliant decision by Tatum to fall down and distract the defense

lmao

crazy crunch time steal --> blown wide open dunk --> mark jackson: "this game has had everything"

well that was fun

3 minutes into his first run and cody zeller has already been canonized as the new fan favorite, shocking i know

spurs are 1-0 and a lot of fun. they just run all day, force turnovers, get second chance points, and they actually shot 30 3's tonight (43% to boot). devin vassell dropped a career-high 19 to lead them. 7 guys in double figures. maybe they wont be the worst team!

dame doesn't have the juice anymore

the raptors putting up 83 points on the wizards… yikes

Pels defense without Zion certainly wasn't better, the Sixers shot 52% from 3.

Interested to see if Maxey can ball out against a team that plays D.

The Lad was 6-12 from 3 last night

Perusing last night's scores... yikes Toronto, no one with more than 12 points.

https://imgur.com/Yi8XPzt

https://i.imgur.com/Yi8XPzt.png

jonas signing an extension and then going out and shooting 3-19 as the team gives up 117 points is pretty funny

devonte graham, alexander-walker, josh hart, brandon ingram, jonas v prob has to be one of the worst defensive starting line ups in the league. is there any player of that 5 who can stop anyone? they got outscored in the paint 50-36 and lost FT battle 20-9

that bench also looks pretty brutal… their leading scorer off the bench was trey murphy 6 points on 2-7 shooting. kira lewis, naji marshall, jaxson hayes, garret temple … that’s basically a summer league line up. this team might be really bad

i think of josh hart as a serviceable cog in a good defense but yeah he's not exactly going to be able to anchor that group.

i just looked up their lineup to see who else they are waiting to get back besides zion and there ain't nobody. yes they will be bad

also looks like Hart only played 10 minutes - left with a knee injury and did not return