2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

its been great. might be the last time the nba has a platform to honor some of these guys who are from the first couple of decades of the league.

i checked out the TBS simulcast with the inside boys and had to tune away bc shaq wouldn't stop eating on air

lmaaoooooo

Even in this very silly forum, steph is so much fun to watch

gotta be giving this Cleveland crowd flashbacks right now

hot dog vendors offering the crowd xans rn

I really really like the ASG "target score" idea and would love to see the NBA adopt it for a full season

would be good for this extracurricular tournament silver keeps teasing

target score/Elam ending even made the rising stars games almost watchable

chris paul thing is so depressing

nba games should just be first to 100 solves the same problem much cleaner

wow i guess while we're at it we just make it like cricket where one team gets 100 possessions straight on offense and then they switch to defense and see if the other team can match their score *boing* sike

(i enjoyed the all star format and this year's all star game, the mvp was Hoisting)

wow i guess while we're at it we just make it like cricket where one team gets 100 possessions straight on offense and then they switch to defense and see if the other team can match their score *boing* sike

― class project pat (m bison), 

i would like to see this for maybe one game tbh

mj going soft??

🌟 @luka7doncic and Michael Jordan at #NBAAllStar! pic.twitter.com/v89Y4tTrtR

— NBA (@NBA) February 21, 2022

or he knows being an ultracompetitive psycho repels free agents

maybe altho... he prob shouldnt have bought the hornets if he was worried about attracting free agents

he either seemed kinda sauced up or just like he’s maybe softening a bit with old age, it was cute

no ball… i miss ball

^

need ball

yeah this sucks.

whered the ball go

personally I think there should be ball

this scheduling error is extremely unprofessional

like 500 nba players only 30 or so are all stars, the math aint mathing rn

apparently CJ mccollum & zion haven’t talked once since he was traded there, i liked JJ redick’s perspective on it at the beginning here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtNWB3z0xw

Time to boot up the trade machine: http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ybuwgphj

knicks trading all their picks for zion then handing him over to thibs............

lol charles

"He's gonna play half the games."

- Chuck didn't wanna draft John Stockton 😅 pic.twitter.com/JBkpjq5PK8

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) February 19, 2022

wow that JJ clip is SPICY

kinda funny how they neglected to mention jjs own beef with pelicans management there

i kinda think if anything the fact hes going at zion that hard despite having no respect for the organization is even more damning of zion

yeah i took it to be how you're expected to treat your coworkers even if the boss sucks

should we poll if zion ever plays another game for NOP? i feel like we're headed for he never suits up this season, offseason full of messy drama, plays 15 disengaged games at the beginning of next season before forcing a trade harden-style

idk zion is obvs being very shady here but jj is grandstanding when he couldve offered some insight into player he played with and an org he himself had major public issues with, and stephen a, who knows something about grandstanding, is dickriding him for it

he was insightful enough--"detached teammate" says plenty

nah that was just some ol espn boilerplate, couldve just as easily been delivered by perk, with better energy too

i dunno that said enough to me. also breaking the 'teammate code' to say anything is eye opening

jj pretending to be a stephen a (i only ever watch him in viral clips, i have no idea if jj is a reg) isn't needed for my pessimism, zion's extreme shadiness can do it easily on its own. it's more the antidotal griff quotes and the like that make me think things are a lot more broken than we imagine. it also reminds me of the playbook kawhi used to leave the spurs. but obv zion is at a different stage in his career such that the pels have more leverage, but i and am unclear exactly how they should use it so it actually gets him back on the court and such

i don't think JJ said anything crazy i just thought his perspective as an ex player was useful & calling zion "detached" was very subtextual if the subtext had a neon sign reading "SUBTEXT" with an arrow pointing at it

has anyone else considered the idea that maybe zion was kidnapped and is being held for ransom and the pelicans are hushing it up while the fbi looks for him?

zion is obviously detached we know that already i mean hes living in portland when the team he plays for is in new orleans tell us something besides that you called free agents that doesnt make you a hero mr jj redick natures perfect boy why did you want to not play for the pelicans so badly too whats going on there

well JJ allegedly wanted to be somewhere in the northeast near his huge apartment in beautiful brooklyn new york check it out here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDNGVmHxn4

Well I practically almost live in Portland and I haven't seen him. And it's a well known fact that NBA players who weren't drafted by or traded to portland stay tf away from here. How can we be sure this isn't just a cover story?

should we poll if zion ever plays another game for NOP? i feel like we're headed for he never suits up this season, offseason full of messy drama, plays 15 disengaged games at the beginning of next season before forcing a trade harden-style

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, February 22, 2022 2:13 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

it's gonna be interesting if it keeps going down this route, it will be the most high stakes game of chicken that two different sides have played in the NBA in a long time. zion's ppl will prob make the argument to the pelicans that they should get value for him now before he walks in free agency, the pelicans will put a max on the table and dare him to turn it down and take the qualifying offer. i believe his QO is like $17 million so even tho no one picked anywhere near no 1 overall has ever turned down their first huge extension to take the QO, zion's ppl could say that 1 year $17 million and is a nice year for him, plus he has big endorsement money and would still get a huge contract on the FA market even if he had pouted for 2 years and there were questions about his health. and they would prob be right. moral of the story is that the pelicans need to be moved to a city where they aren't the subsidiary of a football team

JJ said reaching out to a new teammate is the bare minimum, not patting himself on the back for it

lmao dumbo is the perfect neighborhood for a rich herb like jj

if i played for the nets id live inside the clock of the williamsburg bank building descending for games like the phantom of the opera

i'm starting to feel like an offseason trade is on the table. that season ticket thing isn't an accident.