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

really no teams should trade for it now but they would they cant resist

i would resist. but thats why i'm not running teams

some teams can resist but there are a lot of teams

if he legitimately put the acquiring team over the top and won a title you'd prob happily eat the end of that contract but it's pretty hard to find that fit. maybe philly? miami? dallas?

miami is a long way from being a dame-sized piece away. dallas just seems like a bad fit with luka. philly would be interesting, they seem like the sort of put up or shut up franchise that should be willing to take a swing, but then again they’re playing pretty well right now and I’m not sure what their package would look like

philly was dying to get dame a couple years ago when he was playing chicken with the blazers (both sides lost in this game)

the master weighs in

I like the Lakers trade for Rui Hachimura. He’s long, athletic, and smart but has to get more aggressive on both ends of the court.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) January 23, 2023

honestly seems like a fair assessment

hes def long

feel like the philly thing doesn’t really make sense bcuz a harden-dame backcourt is prob too flawed to put you over the top. and you’d have to assume maxey is in the trade and a maxey, simons, sharpe core feels like creating a new set of problems. and philly is already down two firsts for harden. feel like maybe this offseason is like the final showdown on this matter if the blazers crap out once other teams see where they’re at

important lesson here is to always trade yr guys when their value is topped out and also not give them $121 million in their year 36 and 37 seasons instead

i can understand not wanting to trade yr guys but that contract was just unnecessary

similar sitch with beal tho in that case they really did need to just trade him

instead of giving a guy that much money on the books they should just write a nice check and in the memo line put "buzzer beaters"

at least dame accomplished stuff in portland and even more to the point is actually a really fun player to root for. the wizards were paying for… i have no idea really. seems like they were almost being stubborn more than anything… “oh you think we should trade this guy do ya? huh? well how about we max extend him and give him a no trade clause? then what?”

i can’t remember the sources now but i do feel like i’ve heard stuff on various podcasts & such about dame and his agent using the power vacuum in portland after paul allen died to… um… assert their voice w/in the organization, perhaps leading directly to the 2 year $120 million extension tacked onto his existing contract. so i think if you were gonna make the argument for portland not viewing dame thru rose colored lenses, you’d point to that as well

alert jonathan isaac is playing tonight

orlando’s announcers referred to isaac as the minister of defense. made me chuckle.

This is a brutal loss for the Timberwolves

— Jimmy (@_JimmyMcCormick) January 24, 2023

jalen green went off

Kings went 12/13 from 3 in the first q vs the Grizz just now. Harrison hit 8 I think lol

variance can be a bitch

Ok Harrison and Murray hit 8 combined

some of these teams should consider winning some games

Seeds 5-13 in the West all have 23, 24, or 25 losses.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) January 24, 2023

cant believe the kings are above the fray

salute to them

the beam rises above

Just got to New Orleans today for a little vacation, sitting at a bar watching the Nugs/Pels, life is good

Sweet, gonna be able to catch a pels game live?

love new orleans amazing place

ILH retreat 2023

otm

ILH retreat NO would rule

The Wolves are actually playing tomorrow night here but we got Preservation Hall Jazz All Stars tickets which tbh are probably a better basketball team than the Wolves at this point

Lmao

We woulda revoked your ILH card if Zion was playing and you missed out

Lebron working on a 50 piece

kawhi & PG playing on the same night in order to smoke the lakers is pretty funny

Prob both take a couple weeks off until they play warriors or something

cavs are now only 2 games ahead of miami in the 5 seed and 3 games ahead of the knicks in the first play in spot

mavs lost to the wizards at home tonight w/ luka scoring 41 and zinger hurt

patrick williams is averaging 10-4-1 this year

*Simmons guarding Embiid*

Sixers scored 75 in the first half.

nets without kd are not too good

Listening to the Nets announcers exhorting Simmons to take it to the rim *shivers*.

this is really the perfect embiid game. he gets to do literal wrestling taunts vs a team missing its best player on a wednesday in january

embiid dogging it up and down the floor as the nets hack away at the sixers lead. playing all the hits in just the last 10 mins

jose alvarado goes right at rudy gobert pic.twitter.com/pZoyVRqlzd

— James Herbert (@outsidethenba) January 26, 2023

ben simmons scores his 8th point of the game and does an exaggerated pull up on the rim. this game is very funny

doc sitting embiid and harden at the same time as the nets just kick the sixers back ups’ asses up and down the floor. everyone is bringing their A game tonight

iverson is uh retaining a lot of water in his face