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

tbf he did put up 19-20 tonight albeit not efficiently. and whoever that was on the suns knocked the rebound out of his hands like an idiot

javale mcgee with a DNP-CD tonight that was mayan the single worst signing off the offseason

maybe*

tbf he did put up 19-20 tonight albeit not efficiently. and whoever that was on the suns knocked the rebound out of his hands like an idiot

the raptors are currently the worst team in the NBA among teams that are trying (excluding magic, hornets, pistons, rockets, spurs)

bottom 5 records excluding those teams

toronto raptors 22-27
chicago bulls 22-26
washington wizards 22-26
los angeles lakers 23-26
portland trailblazers 23-25

Beat! - L! - A! - Beat! - L! - A!

jokic with the upper hand over embiid to start, you love to see it

i’m not sure that’s quite the case but i’m gonna let you cook

the control jokic has over the game is just at a different level, it’s pretty obvious if you watch the games, don’t know what to tell you!

i’m watching the game my friend :)

PJ tucker just kinda runs around doing nothing out there

yeah tucker is just a limited player at this point

pretty much an ideal half for the nuggets, everything is flowing. the bench did a serviceable job in the few minutes with embiid out there and jokic sitting

this game is instructive insofar as the sixers were hailed as having the consensus best offseason in the league when it was clearly the nuggets who did

ok now everything is not flowing

nice adjustment from doc to put tucker on jokic and let embiid play safety. disrupting a lot of denvers preferred actions in the paint

jokic needs to respond by just trying to score a lot now I think

feel like hoops is more 'a game of runs' than its ever been. seems rare to get a game with a ton of lead changes anymore

i’ve been watching for the last 20 minutes and i don’t think the joker has scored a bucket? fun game though

sick embiid reverse jam

lotta thicc boys on the sixers

lol what was bruce brown thinking embiid was foul hunting and not even interested in shooting

god I need a cigarette

embiid coooking

embiid is on one

when embiid is hitting his mid range shots, blowing by the other center for dunks, hitting multiple step back threes, shooting double digit free throws and getting close to 20 rebounds he looks completely unstoppable…

yeah, he was incredible today. jokic was way too passive in the second half

Today's bleak Lonzo Ball update: Billy Donovan said before tonight's game that Lonzo is still "nowhere close" to returning.

Still no formal conversation about a cut-off date, but Billy said the Bulls will have one after the All-Star break if nothing improves by then.

— Julia Poe (@byjuliapoe) January 28, 2023

Didn’t look like he was in the mood to match embiids aggression tonight xp

Brutal lonzo update sheesh

Myles Turner and Pacers reach agreement to keep Turner under contract through 2024-25 season, salaries as followed, per sources:

- $35 million this season ($18M salary plus $17M of Pacers’ salary space)
- $20.9M in 2023-24
- $19.9M in 2024-25

Total: 2 additional years, $58M.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 28, 2023

good deal

can still be traded as well

wow good deal for the pacers

hadnt heard of that trick before of just doling out excess cap space

Yeah that's a pretty smart trick

i think most teams that are under the salary floor just end up taking on some other team’s bad deal for picks or whatever. can’t remember a team just cutting a player on their team a $17m check midseason lol

or maybe they aren’t under the salary floor but same difference

Pat Bev jamming on the Cs lol

I hate to say it but some times you do, in fact "gotta hand it" to Pat Bev

well that was a lucky break for the Cs

The full pat bev experience

god I wanna see it go to Westbrook

holy shit clear foul on LeBron

That should be reviewed automatically

So annoying that because the refs swallow whistles at the end of games that the best shot it a one on one jumper

yeah hate to see that but on the other hand LeBron just made 3 classic gifs in the span of 30 seconds of game time, real impressive

that reaction was incredible

even tho the missed call was wrong it was right in the bigger sense because pat bev cannot be allowed to prosper

Thought he got lightheaded and had to drop to his knees haha

NICE MELTDOWN LA

were being lead to believe that pat bev got a technical for "approaching the refs with a camera"