2022/23 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "TANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

cp just got called for an 8 swcond violation ahahaa

perfect encapsulation of the nuggets season tonight. play terribly for 40 minutes, give up 119 at home to miami’s offense, overcome some atrocious officiating, then play great in crunch time and win anyway

happy new years to the fine folks of the I love hoops message board

happy new year pals, love you all and here’s to a great 2023 of ball

^^^^

happy new year, ilh bowl tonight

Happy new year, y’all! Looking forward to shooting the shit with you about many good hoops and hoists in 2023!

HNY ILH! I’ll check back once Nate’s gone

Naz Reid when asked is it a mystery to the players why the Timberwolves are underachieving:

“Not really. We know. We know. We know why. And you know, I’m gonna kind of keep that in house. But we know why.”

(Via @JonKrawczynski ) pic.twitter.com/7r7GMBl5vq

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) January 1, 2023

Happy new years my bros

matt! need your nuggie thoughts

happy new year and best wishes to all our favorite hoops teams!

that naz reid quote, yikes!

It’s so good lol. Amplifying ants backhanded disses

hny ilh

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Happy new year ILH!

Happy New Year everyone. Let the annual NBA regular season slog through January and February commence!

lfg

Celtics starters tonight:

Al Horford
Jayson Tatum
Jaylen Brown
Derrick White
Marcus Smart

Nuggets starters:

Nikola Jokic
Aaron Gordon
Michael Porter Jr.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Bruce Brown

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) January 2, 2023

why are they holding murray out tonight when he could skip the wolves game tomorrow instead

lol gordon trying to post smart up

tatum has been invisible. celtics’ head not really in this. not sure brown can keep them in it by sheer force of will

jokics nose/face around nose looks redder than usual tonight

he always looks like he just came off a four- day bender but you’re right this is worse

think boston could use rob now

Celtics win tonight and Jokic is a fraud who cannot be MVP over Jayson

Celtics lose tonight and that’s just what happens when a team is hungover and at altitude

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) January 2, 2023

wtf was the call on the rob dunk

dont know if this is the celtics night

so I was looking at the standings and as far as the eastern conference goes, the celtics are good?

kevin dont try to be rude on here its not a good way to start the year

hehe I’m sorry

I’m watching the game at a packed behan if it makes u feel any better, live irish music, people having a good time, a celtic in spirit if not rooting interest

oh nice, salute

both teams hungover now

and the refs too

I’m watching the game at a packed behan if it makes u feel any better, live irish music, people having a good time, a celtic in spirit if not rooting interest

― k3vin k., Sunday, January 1, 2023 8:51 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this sounds great, used to love catching big c's games at flann o'briens in mission hill after grad school classes. i miss that energy!

celtics getting it to single digits borderline miraculous , big lineup helped tho

congratulations to the boston celtics

for holding aaron gordon under 50% fg shooting for the first time since 10/28!

mustve been the crooked rim

Celtics are bad when their best player is bad (especially in a championship series)

omg so many haters itt i guess thats just the price of being beautiful

tbh i often find that is the case in my personal life

if you deal with the (blue) devil, you gotta listen to some fiddle

The nuggets are definitely contenders if MPJ is out there. The bench needs some sort of stabilizing facilitator but in the playoffs with 8 man rotations maybe it will be fine.

Suns down 30 to the knicks. 49 points w 2 min left in the 3rd.

The vibes gods are finally coming for them

what if they were… teammates?

Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Dončić and Washington Wizards forward-center Kristaps Porziņģis have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 11 of the 2022-23 season (Dec. 26 – Jan. 1). pic.twitter.com/6dRv1EbVjK

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) January 2, 2023

so crazy it might work

the suns falloff is pretty astonishing

this is what i wrote about them in the prediction thread

i had no idea what to do w/ phoenix, putting them at 6 is basically me throwing up my hands. but they feel like this year's jazz to me where they start to slip down the standings as the season goes on before being embarrassed in the playoffs and then the team gets dismantled.

wow otm

the beginning of the season was just smoke n mirrors or what? i cant figure it out. as soon as CP comes back they stink up the joint

I think paul is a huge part of it. as recently as a year and a half ago he was still a guy who you could put out there and trust to keep any unit afloat. tonight he was a minus 38