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

yeah as soon as grant got the ball outside the arc it was all over

lol passing the buck

Joe Mazzulla said he thought he should have called timeout on final possession after Celtics turned down two open shots

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) February 15, 2023

next time do it joe!!!

lol that’s a great quote

happy fifth anniversary of lonzo ball's debut mixtape born 2 ball

big baller brand

big baller baby would be cooler

tonight's drip

https://bigballerbrandinc.com/collections/bbb-racing/products/bbb-motorcycle-jacket

seeing the new look nets tonight. cam johnson-bridges-finney smith-claxton is a pretty sick line up if you had a better shot creator than dinwiddie. feel like the nets should go after siakam or someone like that and try the raptors blueprint with better wing players and an elite rim protector

career high 41 (and counting) for mikael bridges

saw some of his and cam thomas intro press conference and neither of them seemed too upset to be not playing for the suns anymore

Not having to be Chris Paul’s teammate is true joy

and you dont have to deal with aytons various comedic personas anymore

Ok officially lolling about 5 picks for Sadie Bey. Wtf were they on

do you mean cam johnson? xp

bridges is one of my favorite players, he’s got winner DNA and is probably still going to top out as an elite complementary player, but it’s going to be fun seeing him do a poor man’s young kawhi impression on this team

They should just say fuck it and pick up Russ on the buyout market as a stopgap pg and see what kind of noise they can make in the offs.

well one thing that can be said about luka doncic is he is a guy who shoots a lot of free throws and scores a lot of points

seeing the nuggets without aaron gordon and zeke nnaji try to guard jimmy butler and luka in back to back games is pretty painful. meanwhile… jokic is having the worst first half I’ve seen him play in a while and somehow the nuggets are up 13

KD live introductory presser starting right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaOrAQ5N8Ms

he should sit down, say "PSYCHE" and then whip off a tearaway suns jersey to reveal a lakers uni, then run laughing from the building
then show up for work at phoenix arena like nothing happened

haha

loll friedell is at the presser "can you sum up your time in brooklyn?" then gets boo'd

kd gave him a pause and "this MFer" look but answered with a lot of emotion, got choked up

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35658669/nba-mvp-straw-poll-20-nikola-jokic-chasing-history-here-why-capture-it

jokic (the best player) way ahead in the latest straw poll

they shdve just given it to embiid last year this is going to make for so much horrible nba media

part of it is he just plays 5-10 more games than the other mvp level guys, both this year and the last two. thats a lot of value thats not really possible to make up for in other ways and all the win share type stats bear that out

yeah being an ironman (top 5 in games played) AND the best per-minute player in a league of softies is a good recipe for being the MV3

sorry, that’s games played since 2018

if he gets it again and doesnt make it past the second round its gonna be a catastrophe out there safer to just give it to tatum

once again begging SUPPOSED basketball fans to google the nuggets playoff roster last year, the results will truly appall you

im sorry i dont google its not best practices

ppl against jokic winning a third mvp are fatphobic thats my final ruling

you can talk to the search engines now and they will be your pal and maybe even more maybe try getting a little personal you might have fun ☺️ xp

I do agree with ciderpress’s point tho, when the margins are thin minutes played defintely has to matter when talking about most valuable, something that is sort of taken for granted in baseball (since WAR is a counting stat) but maybe neglected in the basketball discourse. of course it also helps if the guy who plays the most minutes also happens to be the best per minute guy

no thanks ive seen the terminator i know where this goes also ive seen t2 and some of the other less essential terminators too xp

getting the mvp isnt about "being the best player" or stats or whatever its about getting the mvp

the best player is giannis anyway

getting the mvp isnt about "being the best player" or stats or whatever its about getting the mvp

― lag∞n, Thursday, February 16, 2023 8:39 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hmmm interesting I’ve consulted with a logician and this seems to be a tautology

youll have to talk to the voters about that

Mvp discourse is always a disaster but I hope big honey wins the next 5 cos he’s a fun player also m bison otm

Tatum should simply play better if he wants it

or they could just give it to him

He’s only 20 still plenty of time

he is leading the league in points so he should get it

This really was funny to me

"I built a family over there."

Kevin Durant got emotional when reflecting on his time as a Brooklyn Net.

🎥 @SNYNets pic.twitter.com/D24B0KGQJh

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) February 16, 2023

I don’t want to spam this thread with too much MVP debate in february but as amazing as tatum is…just a totally different cut of cloth compared to jokic, at least at this point in his career. and that’s no knock against him, in a normal year he’d be a serious candidate for MVP, we’re in a truly insane era

ill guess well just have to wait until the mvp award is awarded

can i get a sidebar on how k3vin became a nuggets fan

— Who's your #1 team:
the nuggets

— Why is that team your #1:
I grew up in upstate NY and had filial and geographical connections to syracuse college sports. I was 13 or so when the carmelo-led team won the NCAA title and ended up just following him to the nuggets as I didn’t really have an NBA team. I was really into those teams from melo’s early years but only really became an every-game-watching fanatic after he was traded and fell in love with the deep, fun team they put together (especially the 2013 nuggets, my favorite team ever)
— Who's your side-piece(s):
whichever team chris paul is playing on, mid-2010s spurs for aesthetic and manu reasons, and generally any team that is good and plays fast

— How, when, why you got into the NBA:
I was only a casual fan for most of my early life, watched the late jordan bulls and the shaq lakers, but probably started the league more closely once I started following the nuggets

this is well documented in ILH lore, but I grew up in upstate NY with parents who met in grad school in syracuse. I was a syracuse fan my whole childhood and after carmelo led syracuse to the national championship, I followed him to the nuggets and have been a fan of theirs since then