2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

oh my golly

prob hard to find a better summation of the lamelo ball worldview than a between the legs alley oop pass

LaMelo's middle name is LaFrance? god I love him

L.L. Ball, seriously?

Mavs whooped the Grizz in Memphis to end the streak. Mavs coming on

if the mavs can hold onto the 5 seed they may actually get a winnable first round match up this year

doesnt seem out of the question at all. i like the grizz but could see them sliding a bit too at some point

lamelo rules

love lamelo lamelo is love

in the past two nights malik monk has thrown an alley oop off the backboard in an eventual loss and lamelo ball had thrown a between the legs alley oop in an eventual loss

the mellow ball

lmao

you can’t say that guys aren’t out there every night trying their best to get twitter highlights

Live for the house of highlights clips

Can’t wait for Curry to get out of his slump tonight vs the lakers

lakers play the nuggets tonight im afraid

I wouldn’t count him out

Why did I think GS oh well

Nets say Kevin Durant is out for the rest of the game with a left knee sprain.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) January 16, 2022

cursed team

10 straight home losses for the hawks. fascinating run! knicks got whatever they wanted in the final 3 mins of the game

this nikola jokic guy is really something

bones hyland drilling 28 footers early in the 4th quarter with the nuggets up 30 and lebron on the floor…chefs kiss

can’t believe he’s still on the floor tbh

sort of wild to me how quickly bazemore got washed that he’s playing mop-up minutes for this lakers squad

bones just out there launching from well beyond the arc lmao

lol this lakers team

record time to gm lebron neutralizing coach lebron

i mean player lebron

not sure about coach lebron

sort of wild to me how quickly bazemore got washed that he’s playing mop-up minutes for this lakers squad

one of those guys who looked like they were on a trajectory to becoming good but never did

This sums up the lakers defensive energy issues pic.twitter.com/vuUSgZeR1E

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) January 16, 2022

Sizers have really been on a bit of a run lately, though mostly against poor or depleted teams. Sizers probably qualify as depleted sometimes as well, but one constant has been that Embiid continues to add to his game in ways Simmons never did.

Sixers

sizers

this mfer said sizers let's get him boys

the philadelphia sizers

in 1775 ben franklin was out with his friend nathaniel dogg and they discovered some poor young lady on the street in need of some desperate help and said "ooh i like your size" and thus a legend was born

Read that in Poor Dogg’s Almanak.

Talk about a well regulated militia.

embiid was insane last night & has prob been the best player in the league the last two weeks. i think they said on TV that he has over 30 points in each of his last 10 road games. the problem ultimately is i don’t think he can carry that much of a load for a whole season and then do it for 3 or 4 straight playoff series, i don’t think he’s built for that stamina wise. but he may singlehandedly drag them into the top 4

speaking of, it seems unlikely — or is at least very very tenuous — that the bucks and nets get the 1-2 seeds this year which makes the east playoffs pretty fascinating

There’s optimism within Nets that will be a four-to-six week rehab and return for Kevin Durant, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/xKYtu0l4VL

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 16, 2022

He scored 30 8 games in a row, had 25, then scored 30 again last night. Generally been making much better decisions and handling the ball a lot since their guards have been in and out for weeks.xp

I’d prefer not to play bucks in rd 1.

see what they can get for simmons, sizers could be in business

I heard Woj say recently he was thought simmons more likely to happen in off-season at this point, but who knows.

zach lowe has been saying the same thing and it’s likely true if morey really is going to refuse to trade simmons for anything less than a bonafide star. does not seem like that player is going to be on the market. but also up until like… a week ago it didn’t seem like the sixers had a chance to be competitive in the east this year but maybe embiid will force daryl’s hand.

morey is mishandling this imo, feel like hes weakened simmons' trade value by stubbornly clinging to this idea that hes a blue chip trade asset worth godfather offers.

like how necessary was simmons to their previous success if they are basically in the same position w/o him, how valuable is a guy who has not played nba ball in almost a year and when he did he was afraid to score on trae young in the post, etc etc