2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

yeah they have a window now well see if they can uh open it

i really don’t think they have a chance to win the title this year

yeah seems pretty unlikely tho im not ready to totally count them out

i’m still allowing for the fact that KD looked like the best player in the league in the playoffs last year & nearly dragged a broken down team to the finals. but i think their supporting cast is worse than last year, their road will be tougher, and between injuries and kyrie vax business they’ll have a team that will basically have played what like 10 games together before the end of the playoffs? and that doesn’t even get into the particulars of simmons situation wrt the playoffs. it doesn’t seem realistic to me

er, end of the season

yeah all reasonable and theres not even any guarantee they get all their guys back, but on the other hand they could still make some noise, take a series from pretty much anyone

btw saw a headline that simmons is planning on being back in some number of weeks? whats the hold up here he got his trade

wld be cool if he got hugely fat

idk if this was just speculation or actual leaked info but ppl have been saying they weren't gonna play him until KD was back at the earliest

dont want to have him out there having to score points i guess lol my lord

wouldnt want to put the pressure on him to put the ball through the hoop ring or anything like that.

Can’t sit him in crunch time if there’s no one else to play.

i cant really see the nets doing it either but no one looks unstoppable in the east this season so really woudlnt be surprising if they got to the ECF. altho they need to get going quick and get out of the play-in mess.

btw saw a headline that simmons is planning on being back in some number of weeks? whats the hold up here he got his trade

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speculation that makes sense to me is that immediately playing for a different team hurts his chances to get his withheld pay from the sixers

nurkic now out for at least a month with plantar fascitis so the tank is most definitely on out there. i cant see dame coming back this season now. door is open for the spurs/pels/kings...

Why not two and let's sit the lakers
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ESPN Sources: The New York Knicks and guard Kemba Walker have agreed that the four-time All-Star will be sidelined for the remainder of the team’s season. Story: https://t.co/P98Qf8uJB6

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 23, 2022

why not just release him? sheesh hes only 31

what in the fuck. is he a stroke risk or something? why would you broadcast to the league that you are a team that would treat an immensely lovable team player this way? Fucking knicks man

this knicks season is really something

i guess from the knicks POV they have guys like quickley, grimes and reddish who need minutes, but i feel like kemba could still find some time in there somewhere. i thought they were still trying for the playoffs. i mean, they're certainly not tanking. idk, something is not clicking there organizationally. they could buy him out but i assume they want to keep his contract around as an expiring for the offseason to fit into a trade if they need it & then if he's still on the roster at the beginning of next season they'll revisit a buyout. but if i'm kemba i'd rather be playing, idk. seems more useful than "working out" for next season

i know it goes against narrative but i’m just going to note that three teams in the past year have had a chance to play kemba and they’ve all been like “yeah we’re set”

yeah hes not good any more is the saddest part.

he's sporadically good, like i feel like he could be good energy off the bench when you need to shake things up but i guess he'd feel like that was a step down? idk

Sources: Jamal Murray is set to return in the month of March. The team wants Murray to feel comfortable in not rushing the return but the medical staff is ready to clear him in this time table pic.twitter.com/kpkLuWE2UT

— Jack Settleman (@jacksettleman) February 23, 2022

these playoffs could get interesting with all these guys coming back or possibly coming back or joining a new team. the nets, clippers, nuggets, lakers(?), bulls, bucks, 76ers, dubs, etc.

maybe someone will surprise us but i still wonder how far you can really go if you're having key players getting less than 20 games in before the playoffs. i'd prob put the bucks, dubs, and bulls in a different category of that group bcuz they've had their teams together for some part this season before injuries, but the group of nets, clippers, nuggets, 76ers who are either hoping to bring guys back from major injuries after a year of not playing or trying to frankenstein new teams together in 1.5 months before jumping into the playoffs... maybe i'm being too rigid but it just seems like a really tall task to expect any of those teams to make the conference finals. some will prob win their first round series and then who knows, maybe the match ups fall right or there's more injuries... the 76ers in particular will have immediately big expectations. it will certainly make the playoffs more interesting but the clock is ticking, i just don't know if you can jump into playoff basketball with so few games under your belt from either a health or fit perspective

yeah. i don't feel like you just go from major injury to deep playoff run without getting a full season under your belt.

Idk the Nets looked pretty good in the playoffs last year despite not playing much in the regular season

east was a little weaker last year, they’re gonna be like the 6-8 seed this year, they’re gonna be fitting Ben frickin Simmons in, bench is weird, idk there’s a lot working against them (they have kd so they could make it happen of course)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/unfortunately-its-time-to-let-kyrie-irving-play-in-nyc.html

ben simmons should fit in pretty easily. kyrie and durant are an established partnership and he fills a position of need next to them.

id be more worried about the harden and embiid pairing - theyre ball dominant stars expecting to win the east without a good supporting cast. and they are both very petty

I'm sorry I cannot just drop it and not for the foreseeable future. pic.twitter.com/MOB2R4Pe14

— Spike Eskin (@SpikeEskin) February 24, 2022

sixers fans need to get over it

Lol, Sixers fans haven't even started.

Are they teaching him to shoot with the correct hand in that video or what?

does look that way

amazing

update: nba tonight

wow! it is nba games and players

theyre really doing it

its time

zion got bullied into posting about his team lol

Zion showing love to his teammates 🙌 pic.twitter.com/3SoI9hm7va

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) February 24, 2022

hahaha putting in the least amount of effort possible

lmao

Zion: I can confirm these guys wear the uniform I used to wear.

hoop is back baby

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Green getting spicy:

Danny Green says he'd be surprised if Ben Simmons plays on March 10 in Philadelphia. 🤨 pic.twitter.com/Hikgv5KvIe

— theScore (@theScore) February 23, 2022

ATL/Chicago has been really fun

Celtics stock report vs. Nets through three quarters

UP
Everyone...no really everyone has played well

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) February 25, 2022