The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

it’s been 1029 days since KD & Kyrie signed with the Brooklyn Nets and they have won 1 playoff series total.

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 26, 2022

“WE WANT BOSTON!”

Ah, the euphoria of winning a 7 vs 8 play-in game.

kd missing that second free throw was another clear sign that he has cursed himself and the nets

fwiw his last season in boston he had amazing first game in the 2nd round vs the bucks then dogged it in four straight losses and never looked back, he has a player option next year

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 20, 2022 11:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Kyrie Irving since Game 1:

15.3 PPG
37.2 FG%
2-11 3P pic.twitter.com/eU37scjkmL

— StatMusk (@statmuse) April 26, 2022

kyrie 100% clocked out after game 1

gonna be a fascinating offseason there. KD should request a trade to the miami heat

it's amazing, he didn't do a single thing tonight that went beyond a tuesday night in detroit in february level of effort

byrie

gonna be a fascinating offseason there. KD should request a trade to the miami heat

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 25, 2022 9:46 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

such a high likelihood of weird shit with this team will kyrie retire maybe simmons back just never gets better who knows

the sixers…

i don't know if it's possible, but if i'm the nets i'm making calls and trying to trade simmons for any actual basketball player starting first thing tomorrow

very easy to imagine them suddenly being a 20-win team next season

clock might be striking midnight on the sixers shooting

KD and Bron two worst GMs in hoops

it’s hard to quantify the impact of embiid’s injury — he hasn’t felt… present… in the second half of this game. but i also wonder if the van vleet injury might weirdly be helping the raptors. he looked really bad on defense and wasn’t adding much on offense either aside from random long threes… it felt like the sixers size was really bothering him. without him they def have possessions where they look like a team without a PG in its rotation but their defense also looks way better to the point the trade off might be worth it

Nets only team this year to not win a single playoff game

they got a playin game tho

thats an in not an off

sixers at home in game 7 trying not to become the first team to ever blow a 3-0 lead has the chance to be one of the most toxic environments in NBA history

oh that would be good

James Harden in the playoffs:
— 11/29 (37.9%) from 3
— 14/38 (36.8%) from inside the 3pt line

— pickuphoop (@pickuphoop) April 26, 2022

yeah that's something i could really get into

With the loss, Sixers head coach Doc Rivers has fallen to 15-31 in clinching opportunities in his coaching career, per @ESPNStatsInfo.

Rivers has now lost 7 of his last 8 close-out opportunities. His 31 losses in those games are already the most by a coach in NBA history. pic.twitter.com/7xfAxmzQAG

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) April 26, 2022

firmly convinced that every single person involved in the harden-simmo trade is now curséd most terrible

makes sense tbh

Yes

Luka

I know it's incredibly difficult to blow a 3-0 lead and that's why it's never happened but if any combination of people could do it it's Harden, Doc, and an injured Embiid

The three time DPOY is giving up a lot of points

Get the jazz outta here yuck. 57 points with 11 left in the 4th

at least donovan mitchell was in the game with the jazz down 26 mins with 4 mins left and pulled his hamstring

luka made some insane threes in this game

my main takeaway as far as the jazz is concerned is that donovan mitchell doesn’t wanna be on that team anymore

jazz should trade him for ben simmons obviously

honestly, if mitchell demands a trade and is able to somewhat dictate where he goes, simmons, the picks they got from philly and whatever else they need to throw in to get that done prob isn’t a wholly unrealistic scenario

I feel bad for Embiid. He is basically playing one-handed, can't dribble or play D, and he's still the Sixers best player.

They should probably shut him down for the season. There is a good chance they lose the series regardless.

Franchise is just cursed.

vibe check

Embiid on Harden only taking 11 shots: "I've been saying all season since he got here, he needs to be aggressive and he needs to be himself. That's not really my job, that's probably on coach to talk to him and tell him to take more shots"

Full quote: pic.twitter.com/vc5WIpROLO

— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) April 26, 2022

kyrie overrated

Kyrie in the playoffs
W/Cavs: 39-13 25.5ppg on 50.7 FG%

W/BOS&BKN: 11-11 21.8ppg on 43.6 FG%

— A.K (@Kungu_NBA) April 26, 2022

he might have just been a player who was amazing playing next to lebron, which isn’t nothing, but his resume outside of that is paper thin at this point. he was cooking in game 1 tho

hard to imagine a better recipe for NBA drama in 2022 than james harden needing to carry the load for the sixers in a game 7 at home to avoid the greatest playoff collapse in NBA history. it will feel like there is some omniscient hand guiding the storylines

raptors hunting joel embiid on defense for 6 straight possessions pic.twitter.com/Gse8h6FX7Z

— William Lou (@william_lou) April 26, 2022

yeah the ease with which precious in particular was blowing by him last night was shocking. putting embiid in every screen action and wearing him out is a great strategy

harden hasnt scored more than 22 in like a month.

Just got an all-time voicemail with some sage coaching advice for Michael Malone. pic.twitter.com/Q5D4R5CCRd

— Mike Singer (@msinger) April 26, 2022

RIP Bulls

Bulls say star Zach LaVine has entered health and safety protocols.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 26, 2022

I'm hardly the first person to point this out but it's fucking crazy that the 46-year old Tiger Woods - who has had 350 back surgeries and is coming off a car crash in which he nearly lost an entire leg - wound up coming back before Ben Simmons

tbf he didnt come back to the nba

This is truly a nightmare of epic proportions. pic.twitter.com/FHtIWhIp48

— Wosny Lambre (@BigWos) April 26, 2022

im scared so my back hurts?

holy shit wow its happening