The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

Kerr does seem like a good guy, even when watching The Last Dance I got the impression that he was particularly thoughtful and selfless for an NBA player

i appreciate what he said, he was better than most other public figures, it was also interesting to watch him clearly struggling with his closely held beliefs in real time, as im sure a lot of comfortable liberals are, vacillating between imploring sentaors to pass legislation and realizing that they just dont care

What a legend

https://sports.yahoo.com/magic-johnson-made-one-appearance-on-espn-after-being-hired-as-a-frequent-nba-analyst-204109516.html

dude really just does whatever he wants

i was gonna go on espn but instead i made a documentary about myself

got to protect the brand first

i can't speak for magic but when hbo made a trashy and inflammatory show about my early successes i just stopped going on television as a protest

i think players only voting would turn up worse results than the media being involved

Jalen Rose admitted on NBA Countdown that it was a mistake to put Kyrie Irving on the All-NBA 3rd team. #NBATwitter #NetsLevel pic.twitter.com/x5jUl5svBX

— 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣’ 𝙉𝘽𝘼 (@_Talkin_NBA) May 25, 2022

they should just decouple the all nba teams from super max contracts and then the players can go back to not really caring

true

i keep forgetting which series starts the games on time and which one doesn't and rushing home just to wait for 20 minutes

jaylen still can't dribble the ball, just turned it over two possessions in a row again

we need investigative reporting

another one!

another one

Some real poor shooting going on

what a hideous basketball game. the celts might fuck around and let the heat offensive rebound themselves into a win but i feel like the nail in the coffin run is coming here at some point

my main takeaway from that half is that something is very wrong with butler, he looks awful. he has no lift on his jumper and isn’t getting to the line at all or really doing anything on offense aside from shooting like standstill shots

feels like theres something wrong with all the scoring threats on both teams. everyone must be gassed and/or playing hurt

Espn halftime show is a joke. They talk for 30 seconds and then it’s commercial time again.

everyone looks dead. the every other day schedule is insanity at this point in the season.

ive never watched a halftime show in my life, thats posting time

my brain has an auto-shutoff feature that kicks in when mike greenberg talks

this has been the least interesting conference finals round I can remember. hope the Finals don't suck.

they sacrificed the conference finals to get more weekend games in the first round

you know how a bunch of comedies have that one frumpy depressed looking guy who's in a position of authority but clearly hates his job? Jeff Van Gundy could've played all those guys

lmao like 60% of the crowd is gone. I get that last game when the Celtics were up by like 30 but this is the first close game they've gotten!

were they there in the first place?

physically, yeah

heat using strus as a pick and roll ballhandler is really scraping the bottom of the barrel

horf coast 2 coast baby!

strus heard your comment and is making his way to the locker room

im sorry!

nice fast break moves from horford

thats spaceball baby

tucker trying to get that 3 off vs rob lmao

rob is playing his ass off

yup

i can't believe no replay of him absolutely vaporizing oladipo in iso defense

what is going on with Jimmy right now

hes injured

i mean he missed the second half of game 3 and has been awful since

he's got the corone of iris

every time the Heat touch the ball it's like it gets replaced with one of those fake squirrel cat toys that just rolls around uncontrollably

rough

The Heat starting backcourt has made a combined 1 basket in the last 2 games.

1/28 FG (3.6%)
1/19 3P (5.3%) pic.twitter.com/RBajD2jbP9

— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 26, 2022

not ideal.

meanwhile tatum's stat line will not be beautiful but he was doing basically everything on offense for most of the game.

more like min strus

Miami lowest fg pct this year: .319 tonight, .333 Monday, .346 Nov. 4 ... all vs Boston!

H/T Dick Lipe

— Abby Chin (@tvabby) May 26, 2022

i guess abby chin follows dick lipe

jb's butterfingers were driving me crazy but the third quarter was a beautiful thing to see