2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

if the 8 east playoff teams end up coming from the group of miami, milwaukee, chicago, philadelphia, cleveland, brooklyn, toronto, boston, and atlanta i don’t think there will be a single bad east playoff series

i plan to watch all the east ones and none of the west ones until the conf finals

going to be a bloodbath in the east

Unless Dray comes back with a healthy back, Suns are going to have a pretty easy road.

Hawks/Celtics has been fun so far

THE FLYING ANT!!@Timberwolves | #RaisedByWolves pic.twitter.com/e51Yo3KtlD

— Bally Sports North (@BallySportsNOR) February 13, 2022

norman powell broken foot

east is full of solid teams that as currently playing are not really impressive championship contenders

i need that lakers hbo series now

otm, i was getting pumped during that ad

Suns are going to have a pretty easy road.

Seems like for most of a decade whichever team came out of the east had a virtual cakewalk to the Final, while the west team had been battered in at least two hard-fought series. This would be an interesting turnabout.

wait till you find out how the suns made the finals last year

its a real injury?

The Sixers say James Harden is out through the All-Star break as he continues to rehabilitate his left hamstring, and that he won’t play in the All-Star Game.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) February 14, 2022

it was a hamstring in the playoffs last year right? i kind of assumed it was real because if you're going to make up a fake injury just do something that doesn't suggest a chronic issue.

oh please they’re running cover for him by letting him miss 2 games before the break

i mean obvs nothing is too weird for james harden but taking a vacation immediately upon forcing a trade to a new team would be pretty weird

the nets TV commentators were saying during the heat game on saturday that seth curry & drummond would’ve been available except there was an unexplained “delay” in getting harden’s physical done in order to complete a trade, the implication being something nefarious was happening in order to further screw the nets lol. the relationship between these two teams moving forward should be very fun

jordan otm. another week to lose a couple more lbs too

Harden is supposedly not limited at practice, so I am not worried. I’d also rather he have the ASG break to heal aka party.

i wonder if james harden would be attending the all star game if it was happening in a city that isn’t cleveland

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLk_y-MWUAQxiU6?format=jpg&name=medium

if den gets porter and murray back with the way jokic has been playing

Michael Porter Jr. update.

This is apparently his second pregame workout today. pic.twitter.com/YIHtTO6G8H

— Ryan Blackburn (@NBABlackburn) February 15, 2022

Portland has been uhhh pretty impressive these last few games

should have traded dame

anfernee simons has done a crazy amount to high quality hoisting since hes gotten minutes

they can always trade dame when they need to. but apparently dame's been playing hurt for almost six years. he may be worth keeping now that he's fixed that problem. the guy's a stone cold killer.

a reasonable question is who would you rather have than dame that you could trade dame for

idk, 3 first round picks?

Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine has privately told people that he feels tightness and almost clicking at times with his left knee, per @KCJHoop on the Bulls Talk Podcast.

— Daniel Greenberg (@ChiSportUpdates) February 15, 2022

that didn't stay 'private' very long, did it?

I have the same problem!

man that sucks... sounds like it might be headed to surgery

I love this kinda shit:

https://covers.slamonline.com/slam-75-before-94

That's cool

Mark Thiessen does not know ball:

"The reason he no longer plays basketball has nothing to do with his performance on the court. In his last game as a Celtic, Freedom had seven points and 12 rebounds in 12 minutes of play — including a beautiful three-point shot. What more likely cost him his career is his criticism of the genocidal Chinese Communist regime, and its brutal suppression of freedom in Tibet, Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/15/enes-kanter-freedom-nba-china-rockets/

just another prop for their weird bullshit, forgotten by this time tomorrow

Just setting him up for his new career in media. I'd hate to see him devolving into the warm up act for Kyle Rittenhouse at gun shows, but he seems headed that direction.

enes can't stop xi jinping from getting to the rim in the pick and roll

joel fouling the celtics out here theyre going to have to put marcus on him

That was not a foul on Tatum - both guys got ball.

I'm at a loss.

celtics are shooting into the ocean lol wow

Refs aren't helping, but you gotta tip your cap if they're going to make shots like that Brown deep 3.

refs def overactive but its going both ways

wouldve liked to see harden tonight but rob is out too so its even

ok, lol, Brown getting Jordan calls now.

honestly its about time the league started showing jaylen some respect

lol embiid cmon

lol

Sixers center Joel Embiid trying to James Harden’s trademark step-back move. Assistant coach Sam Cassell keeps saying Embiid is taking four steps, tho. Harden shows him how to do it with two steps. pic.twitter.com/f5l9Vq8gyn

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) February 15, 2022

yes james, teach joel how to take step back threes. very good.