2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

celtics do one where they find an embarrassing old social media video of one of the players and have the rest of them comment, they found one of pritchard dancing and lip syncing that everyone seemed to enjoy

Lol, that sounds rad.
I'm kinda grateful that the teams/league don't try to milk those segments too much. The players might not play it so loose if it weren't ephemeral. I hope someone's archiving the best bits, tho.

yeah true prob best they stay in stadium

Those TO fillers are better than the "fast food products race around a track" videos, which never fail to annoy me because they usually get a bigger crowd reaction than the fucking basketball game and thus make plain just how many non hoops die-hard fans there are in attendance.

yeah they pack every down moment with something, lower bowl mostly full of corporate accounts that couldnt care less

silicon valley billionaires things of that nature

memphis vibes check

Memphis rolls deep… even in postgame interviews! Interview with Desmond Bane (and the entire team…)

One word to describe The Grizzlies? “I have two. We here.” pic.twitter.com/rZSngT8qnD

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) March 24, 2022

kinda feel like Memphis is a Top 5 team rn

i mean they have the 2nd best record in the nba. they have a lot to prove in the playoffs

theyve had a very easy sched w/o ja iirc, theyre a good team tho, they play good, but yeah prob not ready to really make noise in the offs

kd-kyrie combining for nearly 80 and still losing by double digits has to make one think about this whole nets project tho

they gave up 76 points in the first half

jjj is shooting 42/32 splits on the season. two seasons ago he was 47/40. and i guess it doesnt matter for the team?

Erik Spoelstra: “What? You think I’m going to fu*king fight you?

Udonis Haslem to Jimmy: “I’ll beat your a*s.”

(h/t @TedBuddy8)

pic.twitter.com/0lfu0xOzI6

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) March 24, 2022

more stuff on that:

I’ve watched this 35 times. Angry Spo!!!!pic.twitter.com/l91QHXisfj

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) March 24, 2022

Coach Spoelstra's full postgame remarks after an up and down night @MiamiHEAT | #HEATCulture pic.twitter.com/o10A11fQzi

— Bally Sports Sun: HEAT (@BallyHEAT) March 24, 2022

i think it's become clear to me now that UD hangs around the NBA hoping someone will agree to fight him

you just have to hope its someone from the other team tho

Kat Beverly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrXW1A-d9o

sometimes you need to scrap it out in the locker room just make sure no one has a loaded gun

haha

the reactions from the zapruder footage are really good

Look at PJ. Jimmy must’ve been saying some wild stuff lmao pic.twitter.com/BVZGiwLEr1

— heat hive (@MyHeatBurner) March 24, 2022

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— Not Terribly Productive (@802hansolo) March 24, 2022

the funny thing is they went on like a 20-2 run immediately after this happened to tie the game but then they couldn’t pull away in fourth

Yah they turned it up. Feel like they’re just one of those weird teams where this may be a shrug and move on Jimmy has to be a psycho once ina while thing

Watching a game from right behind a bench is a bucket list dream of mine

Was literally just thinking yesterday that I'm gonna do that for my 50th bday. So uh either the Suns or Bulls better have a good team in 6 years.

Time to start saving up lol

love butler getting up and walking away from haslem so dedmon can hold him back haha

https://pudding.cool/2022/02/redraft/

not sure what their formula is but lol at the Wizards being the only team in the NBA to have literally never drafted the best available player

No offense but Mookie Blaylock the 18th best player of the last 30 years?

yeah wtf that's bizarre. it looks like R-WAR has a thing for overrating PGs, but still very odd

they might be using CN-WAR (cool name war)

mookie was the best

def an underrated player

Pioneer in getting busted for weed

seems like he has some real addiction issues. i think he killed someone drunk driving

whoa that totally passed me by at the time

During the afternoon of May 31, 2013, Blaylock was involved in a head-on collision in Clayton County, Georgia. He was initially placed on life support,[9] but his condition later improved.[8] Blaylock's vehicle traveled left-of-center, causing the accident. A family member stated he had a history of seizures, and although it was unknown if Blaylock was experiencing any symptoms at the time of the collision,[8] he was under doctor's orders to not drive due to the seizures.[10] Blaylock had a history of alcohol abuse, and it was determined he suffered a seizure due to alcohol withdrawal.[10] Although initially surviving the crash, a passenger in the other vehicle, Monica Murphy, a mother of five, died as a result of injuries from the collision.[8][9] Blaylock was charged with vehicular homicide,[11] driving on a suspended license and failing to stay in his lane.[12] Blaylock had an outstanding warrant in Spalding County, Georgia on charges of DUI and drug-related offenses at the time, but "investigators did not believe alcohol was a factor in the crash."[8] However, Blaylock had a history of DUIs; at least seven of them.[10]

On October 27, 2014, Blaylock pleaded guilty to killing Murphy. Facing seven to ten years at trial,[10] Blaylock accepted a plea bargain.[13] According to the plea, Blaylock served three years in prison and the fourth as a suspended sentence, followed by eight years of probation.[14]

jfc

Aw man didn't know about any of that

always the concern with insanely athletic and reckless little guards:

Grizzlies star Ja Morant will be re-evaluated in two weeks due to tweaked knee, coach Taylor Jenkins says.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 24, 2022

Damn, hope he's back 100% for the playoffs.

always the concern with insanely athletic and reckless little guards

yep just got to hope the issues dont come up around the post season.

for whatever reason i dont have wade in this category tho. just a little too big to be grouped in the small guard archetype.

Iverson was pretty healthy throughout his career no? Not saying that refutes the concept, I just don't wanna believe it's Ja's destiny.

I don’t think it’s his destiny. Iverson can be included as far as all these guys kinda hitting a wall in their early 30s where the other guards like cp, nash, Stockton, curry kept it going into/through their mid 30s.

I do worry about ja tho he is way too reckless at this point. Needs to pick his spots better and learn how to land softly.

*very m bison voice* he shd look at how tony parker managed his career as a high speed, high collision pg imo

I think the key is to not jump too high. #Icarus

worked for tony

yeah i was gonna say, iverson wasn’t an above the rim player to say nothing of parker. dame lillard and steph curry have never had knee issues either. it’s the stress on the knees due to leaping ability i think

ja really has to develop a shot so he can at least mix it up some