2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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

they shd just get brogdon already ffs

cant trade for him til the offseason cause of when he signed his extension

i agree in principle tho. can you get gordon hayward and terry rozier? something like that would make them a dangerous team

the new thing ppl are saying now is that the sixers are gonna pursue harden in the offseason either as a free agent or in a sign and trade, and deteriorating james harden playing in philly on a 45 million per year contract or whatever sounds really funny so i hope that happens

lmao yes

i agree in principle tho. can you get gordon hayward and terry rozier? something like that would make them a dangerous team

― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 16, 2022 11:27 AM (ten seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

kinda doubt theyd want to move both of those guys but hayward and pj washington...

the thing about trading simmons for "a star" is under the best of circumstances is very hard to trade a star for a star, im sure morey must know this

If Embiid is healthy at the deadline, I absolutely would do heyward plus and go for it this year.

he would be a great fit for them but on the other hand he is gordon hayward

that's been an issue his whole career

I have basically no investment in the sizers decision but I do think it would be funny to not trade simmons and make him continue to do this pouting shit indefinitely

sizers? surely you meant the philadephia scissors

what if he just sat out the remaining years of his contract and then when he was a free agent the nba has to fold bc ultra covid claims half the league and ppl lose interest in sports bc it distracts from their time harvesting at their communes/shooting each other at their compounds

rly makes u think

make him continue to do this pouting shit indefinitely

he'll pout no matter where he is, whether playing or not playing.

there was some hilarious reporting somewhere recently that it’s finally dawned on the sixers that simmons being owed a shitload of money over the next 4 years *may* be harming, not helping, his trade value.