2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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i guess ankle vs ab is different but lebron was allegedly healthy going into the playoffs last year and looked like a shell of himself

seems like that sarver story got held up so that he/his lawyers could rebut and deny as much as possible once it was leaked that it was happening?

he's a scumbag but i'm not really sure i'm seeing the angle that ends up with him selling the team.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, November 4, 2021 3:13 PM (nine minutes ago)

i feel like it's going to come down to public pressure and whether that will get him to step away. if he wants to be litigious about it i question whether there is enough there to forcibly remove him

watching a woj thing just now and he mentioned the hawks owner who had to sell the team after his racist email leaked and floated the idea that some sort of hard evidence might be turned up in investigating sarver. (or maybe not, if no one leaked anything to baxter holmes.) the levinson thing also happened months after sarver so maybe that timing was an important factor

the article said it was hard for the co owners of the suns to remove him but im not sure what the leagues options are, maybe the rest of the owners can just vote that he violated some conduct clause and make him sell, they got sterling out of there fast iirc

but the threat of deep public humiliation via investigation might be more relevant at this point

sarver seems particularly intransigent but yeah there may be more evidence or he may just not want to deal with it, good luck predicting anything with these types of guys.

i mean if he uses email hes basically fucked

all the owners have dirt they dont want to sell eachother out i bet

yeah im sure they dont want to but there is a point at which they will

cuban/mavs gonna avoid this one like the plague

lol yeah

typography is my passion

The NBA is expected to soon launch an investigation into the allegations reported today by ESPN’s @baxter Holmes against Suns majority owner Robert Sarver … and Sarver just issued a statement in response that closes by essentially acknowledging an investigation is forthcoming: pic.twitter.com/xJswSUl3vR

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 4, 2021

sarver welcoming an NBA investigation has some real “what are you gonna do, stab me?” vibes to it

xp me when i change the font size but forget to change the line space size in photoshop

pretty funny that watson called him toxic and he yelled back im not toxic youre fucking toxic now he cant stop saying the word toxic

hes mad about that hes all i may have my faults but one thing im not is toxic thats going too far man

dude can't figure out spacing on the court or in his public statements

“i cannot believe all the inaccurate reporting in baxter holmes’ story… except when randomly i asked taylor griffin if he shaves his balls. i did do that.”

The n-word is not part of my vocabulary. I have never called anyone or any group of people the n-word

Google translate: I'm absolutely certain there aren't any emails, tapes or videos out there. At least I sure fucking hope so.

“i cannot believe all the inaccurate reporting in baxter holmes’ story… except when randomly i asked taylor griffin if he shaves his balls. i did do that.”

― J0rdan S., Thursday, November 4, 2021 1:46 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

plus panced the guy but whoops i soon after realized that was maybe not good

theres gotta be an earl watson interview coming on espn right?

i play pickup ball with a guy who worked for the suns for the last 22 years and was just canned during a round of layoffs during the pandemic. hoping to get some inside dirt from him. he said hes dealt with sarvr a lot

the part about trying to invite strippers to get impregnated so they'd stay in Phoenix is such a Nathan Fielder-level idea

pic.twitter.com/9ttEAtbeUx

— Earl J Watson (@Earl_Watson) November 4, 2021

^ great statement from Watson, but I gritted my teeth at "fulsomely". he should've searched it before hitting send.

Sixers are up on the Pistons midway through the 2nd. Embiid has 0 points and they are missing 3 of 5 starters. Pistons might be bad.

sixers have been on a real roll shorthanded tho

beyond hideous basketball between the heat & celts tonight. legit setting basketball back like 60 years

they should just stop counting the turnovers at this point

smart got a tech from the bench lol

marcus, respectfully, stfu

Duncan Robinson is having a shooting slump too. What did they do to that damn ball?

damn al horford just took it to the rack big time

love horf baby

he looks great so far this year, i'm very pleased

leading the league in blocks!

(rob #3)

Cade Cunningham shattering records for bad shooting holy shit

Cunningham is now 7/39 from the field this season

Yah lotta players shooting poorly

i was listening to something where they thought his shooting form had changed and not for the better.

is it the new ball perhaps

maybe its the curse of markelle fultz

at this point i def feel like no 1 overall picks should be banned from changing their shooting forms the summer after being drafted, just as a general rule

“Brandon Ingram and the Pelicans”

at this point i def feel like no 1 overall picks should be banned from changing their shooting forms the summer after being drafted, just as a general rule

― J0rdan S., Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:44 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes and more generally, if you're decent at shooting, maybe don't change your form

Duncan Robinson 4/15 from 3 in this game.

celtics defense was bottom 5 for the first seven games then the last two nights theyve held teams to sub 80 points before garbage time

Again all logic tells us that MPJ, lillard and Duncan Robinson will start shooting 3s well very soon but GEEZ

i think the physicality is throwing guys off

tatum also didn’t make a FG until well into the fourth quarter