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

good luck clay! thinking of you!

ilh stands for i love hclay now

yes otm

Good luck, Clay! Hope the surgery is a slam dunk!

Damn. Dave McMenamin says on NBA Today a source told him that trading Russell Westbrook removed "a vampire from the locker room"
— Jacob Rude (@JacobRude) February 9, 2023
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, February 9, 2023 1:29 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

one malcontent, ah ah ah

― sault bae (voodoo chili), Thursday, February 9, 2023 1:31 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

all this kicking russ on his way out is really bad form lakers are shameful

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 9, 2023 1:32 PM (four hours ago)

obviously lebron has the media licking his boots, but in a normally functioning media environment there might be more written about what an insufferable narcissistic meangirl he is. that said it being russ specifically in this instance is funny

yeah cant imagine they have much of a relationship after this. russ is weird tho i wonder how many dudes are actually tight with him

Best wishes Clay.

As a keen observer of the Thunder and 538, I find 538's Thunder 2022-23 model curious.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2023-nba-predictions/thunder/

Their model applies a penalty because two-way player Eugene Omoruyi is playing more minutes than expected. The model has him playing 13 mpg instead of 12, yet he's only played 9 minutes for the Thunder since 11 January.

doesnt seem like a lot of minutes i have chosen to not penalize them in my personal model

whats the rationale there is it supposed to like account for a coach stubbornly playing the wrong guys?

yeah if you dont play yr best guys nate silvers got no choice but to give you a ticket

They've altered it since my post and it looks more reasonable now, although starring Kenrich Williams for playing 27 minutes is a little weird.

It's tough for the model to keep up with injuries, trades, and Thunder players like Giddey and JDub developing rapidly.

the transitional nets just took out the intact bulls convincingly. people are getting fired over this bulls team soon.

how did they just stand pat today

i have no idea, you could try going one way or another but i would recommend either over keeping their current team together

There was some Lavine the to Knicks stuff swirling but prob nothing. Weird team really hampered by the lonzo injury

that’s a roster that needs fumigation

they should’ve put derozan on the market but that’s the one thing that front office has done right so they’re prob clinging to him like a life raft

could you trade lavine for value? i’d be fascinated as to what those discussions were like. i’d want stuff from the bulls to take that contract on but they were prob looking to get two firsts or something

exactly, seems like there would be a gulf in valuation for him. if he puts up numbers for the rest of this season they might have a better chance over the summer to move him for at least neutral value.

Yah he’s been rounding into better form, started the season slow due to recovery but those knees might be cooked

four more years of the max left

guy who is likely never gonna make another all star game, who only plays one side of the court, has degenerative knees, and makes over $40 million per year for 4 more seasons. what’s not to love?

wow Lakers are feisty tonight

The power of exorcising your locker room of vampires.

its hard to play when someone is stealing your blood

no more "DNP-dangerous blood loss" on the box score again

I’ve never felt bad for Russ once through this lakers run but they really did him dirty in the media today pretty uncool imo

And he was the only one who looked like he was trying to actually win that game against the thunder

Late good luck to Clay and hopes for a fast recovery!

very drowsy bc of DRUGS but wanted to say thank you all again and surgery was a near unprecedented success and I love you all and thank you!!!!!

yes!!!

good shit man

Pumped to hear it!

Oof

https://t.co/wLWpdMHdoF

— Zach Rudeen (@CountryTwolves) February 10, 2023

Happy for return of Clay.

Congrats on successful surgery Clay! Addition by subtraction in the grand tradition of dumping those problematic players/lungs on trade deadline day

yeah baby!

great to hear, clay!

Congrats, Clay!! Hope you're back up and about in no time!

thank you everybody! Really enjoying sleeping three minutes at a time due to just general hospital shit and also dilaudid is weird for me turns out!

factoring in the news about Clay this was definitely an A+ trade deadline

i think you mean “dilawesome”

xpost

congrats on getting that nasty lung out and being high as shit clay

congrats clay glad to hear it went well

Here's to a speedy recovery, Clay!

if someone offers you some post-surgical complications kick them out of the room!

Get well soon Clay and hoping for good health for you moving forward!

wemby game on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIKF9LzSQ7g

people still saying 'no homo' in 2023 huh

NBA fines Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas $40,000 for using derogatory and disparaging remark during last night’s postgame interview.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) February 10, 2023

joakim noah is on the broadcast talking about wingspan