The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

time for some guys to see who can put the round ball into the hoop ring the most times in 48 minutes.

thats the stuff

the dunkies, the triple-doos, the buzzer buggers, that’s why we love basketballs baby

when thunder rocks the famous basketball ring thats what we live for and were crazy about it

shazaam baby, if you dont like that, you don’t like NBA basketball

hes back baby the very big man with many wounds

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will warm up momentarily with the intention of returning tonight in Game 3 against the Miami Heat, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @YahooSports.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) May 6, 2022

would be sweet if they evened this series up

I would die, lol.

does anyone (including them) have any idea how good the heat even are? feels like they havent had their full roster yet + havent played anyone good (hawks were bad, 76ers minus embiid so far). and now they have oladipo in the mix?

lowry's back tonight too

wounds are good

heat are the best team in the east its right there in the seed

will they win the nba playoffs is the question you must answer

strus doing a little too much strusing here early

lol strus on the mic is good

sweat absolutely pouring out of embiids mask

He hated it when he had one in the playoffs before. In case you forget, previous orbital injury necessitating a mask was caused by Markel Fultz diving for a ball.

cant imagine how distracting wearing one of those things must be

think philly has five straight turnovers

ah it was just four of five

philly looking a little better with embidd than without embiid

whodathunk

cant imagine how distracting wearing one of those things must be

― lag∞n, Friday, May 6, 2022 4:50 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

never understood how/why rip hamilton decided to wear one for most of his career

i always figured laimbeer wore one just to make him look more psycho

didnt rip have a chronically broken nose that was turning into mush

oh maybe

what a hideous half of basketball

yah was about to say the same thing

41-34 lol

harden looked pretty good is about all you can really say

this contract was always sus to me

Duncan Robinson is making $90 million and getting DNP’s in the playoffs and I feel like people aren’t talking about that enough.

— AlexHoops (@AIexHoops) May 6, 2022

heat playing like they did ambien as a pregame team bonding exercise, not sure embiid took more than 2 shots in the paint

one of my favorite NBA butterfly effect moments in recent history is what the east would look like if the heat had taken maxey instead of precious in the 2020 draft. there was a lot of buzz about maxey and the heat bcuz they had gotten two kentucky guys in bam and herro in back to back drafts but they passed on him. i think maxey would prob be on the raptors due to the lowry trade but lord knows what state the sixers would be in without him

Precious is a heck of a player too

didnt rip have a chronically broken nose that was turning into mush

by the end of the year he looked leaps and bounds better as an offensive player than where he was when he left miami. raptors really developed his shooting xp

pj getting cranky that slow mo of him extravagantly bumping into multiple sixers was very funny

I mean why not if they're going to call technicals on both of them.

Lowry not taking the shots on so many of these PnR reps is hurting them

— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) May 7, 2022

hes refused to shoot all year not sure what the deal is

maxey balling out here

Love that dude. He's so much fun and and NBA 1st Team Smile.

lowry has always had weird yip type behaviour. like when he would shit the bed against the pacers back in the day

Jordan's post about Philly bench is otm. They have 10 points. Niang can stay but everyone else can go.

lowry looked like someone who hadn’t played basketball in two weeks

I recommend Morey not trade Maxey if he likes Philly. Gets lonely if you can't go out for coffee.

that game was so bad on both ends that i really don’t know what to say but i’m not sure what extra gear philly is tapping into to win this series, they have 5 guys max and embiid clearly is not close to being right on the offensive end

they just needed to get this one and it didnt really matter how

now just gotta hope embiid gets back to somewhat normal soon

lowry is playing with two non shooters, so if hes not going to shoot as well it will break the heats offense

Lowrys always been thick but he just looks overweight now. Surprised he’s passed any of the weird heat fitness tests