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

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

also seems like its a high parity year so the edges are small, suns are kinda just in the mix with the rest of the teams in the west they ran hot for a while and now theyre not

hes just done, stats way down from last year, hes 37, so it goes

rip little bastard

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

― k3vin k., Monday, January 2, 2023 3:54 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but were they really better with Cam Payne starting... i guess so?

ayton wasnt even playing that well to start the year. booker more or less who he always is, bridges was playing better. idk maybe just catching teams early in the season working through their kinks.

CP3 just hasn't been the same since Kanye posted about him and Kim

Some trade rumors bubbling on Wolves Twitter, Naz Reid and D-lo late scratches for back spasms and unspecified illness. D-lo unfollowed the team on IG.

hell yes, vigilant social media rumor millers are my shit

when dejounte was posting 👀 on everything this summer it was a SIGN

unfollowing yr teams instagram account is such a funny thing to do

Wolves Twitter is highly attuned to it because that's was happened three days before Wiggins was traded

It is the best form of NBA rumors for sure

when dejounte was posting 👀 on everything this summer it was a SIGN

I actually like Naz and would like to keep him but we do have 87 big men

I am deeply bone tired of D-lo I don't even care if it's as good deal, he's one of the most frustrating players

i guess the nets are just good now bout to be 12 straight wins and 16-1 in their last 17

yeah theyre playing good, im skeptical that they can keep it up but you gotta keep an eye on them the nets are officially in the mix

obviously it's all due to mercury in retrograde something something Pisces occluded something saturn rising in the second house and whatnot

thats big stuff wow

Donovan Mitchell’s 71-point performance is the highest-scoring game in the NBA since Kobe Bryant’s 81, per @StatsWilliams.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) January 3, 2023

whoa, that a pretty small crowd of 70+ scorers. booker, drob, kobe, wilt...is that it?

+ david thompson elgin baylor david robinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_single-game_scoring_leaders

luka's gonna go for 80-40-30 next week

Might as well

i finally watched an edited version of the doncic 60-point game.. what's funny is that he starts pretty slow! a missed layup, a missed free throw.. it doesn't really feel like he's dominating until midway through the 4th. and wow what an all-time insane finish. the excitement fizzing from him after he actually executes the play every kid anywhere has practiced in their own backyard hoop a million times.. just out of his mind with 7-year-old excitement

on the other hand i decided i would also pay attention to what he was doing on D and friends.. it's best not to look

crazy that both the luka and mitchell games involved them pulling off an intentional missed free throw getting the rebound themselves tying it up and then piling up a bunch more numbers in ot

luka's little celebration dance was so funny

Xpost it was definitely a hard fought game and you could make the argument that the Knicks deserved to win

knicks have bad luck thats why their owner sings the blues

there have been more insane stat lines over the last 2 weeks than I can remember in a full season. even Lebron putting up 43/11 last night at his age is crazy

Joel Embiid has been named Eastern Conference player of the month, earning the award for a fifth time to surpass Allen Iverson for the most in franchise history.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) January 3, 2023

embiid has disrespected iverson, unacceptable

The city of Philadelphia is powered by spin-cross technology developed by Allen Iverson. Joel Embiid has developed 0 spin-crosses.

man ugh

New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson is expected to miss multiple weeks with a hamstring strain, sources tell ESPN. Williamson underwent an MRI today.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 3, 2023

aw cmon

saw someone on twitter that when a player leaves a game with a muscle injury youre almost always looking at at least couple weeks which is interesting and correct in this case

hammy tweaks are always rough

its true the hammy is so crucial theres no way to play through it

Take my hamstring Zion, I don’t need it. Take both so you have a spare.

hopefully it doesn’t go downhill if he gets a bit out of shape which makes it harder to recover from the hammy and on and on

i ripped my hamstring up pretty bad in fall of 2021 and it's SO touchy to recover from it, you have to do everything just right or it drags on forever, took me two months before i could reliably run again

Hoopin?