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

Seems bad

What a shit show.

Luka hurt his thigh. KD sprained his ankle in warmups before his suns home opener. Ingram sprained his ankle.

kings will win the nba playoffs

Dray didn't hold back. I love it but Kerr's gotta be pissed at how much locker room material he just gave them. Better back it up tomorrow night!

“If you ever wonder why the Memphis Grizzlies is not ready to compete for a championship, look no further than this idiot right here. They’re actually depending on this guy to help them win a championship.”

Draymond Green CLAPS BACK at Dillon Brooks 😳👀
pic.twitter.com/fJMdhjZzAl… https://t.co/5767XAUreD

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) March 9, 2023

Yah Dray smoked him good.

FVV going off on the refs lol

"I'll take a fine. I don't really care. I thought Ben Taylor was f**king terrible today. On most nights, out of the 3, there's 1 or 2 that just f**k the game up. it's been like that a couple games in a row..."

Fred VanVleet on the officiating tonight 😳pic.twitter.com/uzWgII6uJd

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) March 9, 2023

draymond-brooks epic corny guy battle

ESPN Sources: There is a growing possibility that Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball will need a third surgical procedure on his right knee that would likely require another six months of recovery and rehabilitation. pic.twitter.com/pnToNKynhb

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 9, 2023

...really sad

thats not good

ah ok

Durant reportedly could miss rest of season with Grade 2 ankle sprain https://t.co/P6xhGIEBPR

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) March 9, 2023

*regular season

thats ok they'll figure it out over the course of the first round

good luck suns

The Grizzlies announced Steven Adams got a stem cell injection in his injured knee and will be re-evaluated in four weeks — meaning he’ll miss the remainder of the regular season, at minimum.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) March 9, 2023

Ja, Clarke, Adams... Grizz are done

also xps to that fvv press conference, holy shit. repeatedly calling out officials by name amidst liberal swearing. not saying the man is wrong but not sure how he expects this to lead to being officiated more fairly!

thats at least a 50k fine id think

didnt some former refs admit they called Iverson a lot tighter because he complained so much

aside from bron's second run in cleveland where the cavs slept walk thru the first three rounds pretending to care about the derozan/lowry raptors, the horford/korver hawks & those early tatum/brown celtics teams i can't remember the last time a conference rolled out a red carpet to the finals for one team the way the west is for the nuggets right now

the 2 seed is the kings. the 3 seed's best player is prob suspended for the season & two of its crucial big men have longterm injuries. the 4 seed just upended its entire team to acquire a player who slipped on a puddle before a game and is potentially out for the season. the defending conference champs might not even make the top 6. it's sitting right there for denver

yup

LFG!

lotta pressure for Milwaukee, Philly, and Boston too, no disrespect to Denver but you know if you make it out of the East this is probably the best chance you're gonna have

dubs having issues with the half grizzlies here

regular season NBA needs to be abolished

just do a best of 45 game series between the celtics and nuggets starting now who will complain?

this is random but does anyone remember in like 2003 when Hollinger used to do an ESPN live chat?

lol breen yelling look at bane LOOK AT BANE

I think most of the ESPN writers used to do semi-regular chats. Not sure if they’re still buried somewhere deep in ESPN.com or not. For some reason I remember David Thorpe’s being bad because he would give one word answers to half the questions. Like…bro, I’m not sure you understand the format.

fox and sabonis are fun

both were great down the stretch tonight in beating the knicks

fox just smokes every single player off the dribble

One time around then, hawks news was so slow and terrible that the lead story on the hawks page was hollinger’s (or was it Thorpe now I’m not sure) response to a question I asked in his chat. I think he said something mildly positive about a player. Anyway I miss those

Back when ESPN.com was cool

Grizzlies star Ja Morant was involved in a September 2022 clash in a high school gym, per a report from police in Germantown, Tenn. Morant was not charged after the incident. The report says that Morant's sister, who attends Houston High School in Germantown, got into an argument with a girl in the stands during a volleyball game, and called her brother. Morant allegedly showed up to the gym with both his parents, his daughter, and a "group of" adult men, per the police report. Witnesses said both Morant's sister and the girl had called each other "bitch."

https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/10/cops-investigated-ja-morant-assault-alleged-confrontation-student

at this point i don't think anyone should be surprised if things like this from his past keep coming out, obv this has been his m.o. for awhile. they've just done impeccable pr keeping it all under wraps. real q is can he stop now that it's out in the open and f'ing up his career

seems like a genuinely bad violent bully

foolish too

running around the most affluent suburb of memphis like you're in a gang, come the fuck on

three generations of morants out there bullying high schools kids, its completely ludicrous

KAT still a ways off :/

Little by little, a long and uncertain process is starting to show signs of progress. Towns participated in “live-action” drills on Wednesday and Thursday, Finch said, meaning that he got some on-court work with the player development staff to start to ramp up toward a return. There is still no timetable for a game, and Finch said he is still several days away at minimum from being cleared to practice fully with the team. But he is getting closer.

https://kotaku.com/luka-doncic-overwatch-gm-twitch-zarya-nba-mavericks-1850213104
Ayton needs to step up his game.

lol

“You got any hobbies, Donatello?” he asks as they guard the first point on Numbani, referring to the Zarya player in question by his gamer tag. “Yeah I play basketball,” Donatello answers after hitting the emote that makes Zarya say “privyet.” “Okay, like you go to a gym or you play on a team?” the streamer asks.

Donatello’s answer is so simple and said with such an astonishing lack of emotion and the perfect Slovenian accent that we have no choice but to stan: “Dallas Mavericks.”

No way I ran into Luka Dončić by pure chance in a gm OW game😭

“I know, I’m him” - @luka7doncic 🐐 pic.twitter.com/AIXZlmIWG9

— moxy (@m0xyOW) March 9, 2023

I love this, the vets so pissed in unison lol

Gobert got so mad LMAOOO pic.twitter.com/U1zgTNpvoe

— َ (@FeelLikeDrew) March 11, 2023

haa

Is Jokic trying to hand the mvp to embiid? The last few games I’ve seen defensive lowlight comps like this

pic.twitter.com/AccqVRguAY

— Bango Burner 🦌 (@BangoBurner_) March 11, 2023

lets give it to him cmon itll be fun

JOEL EMBIID GAME WINNER. 🔥🔥🔥

pic.twitter.com/nXsmJ6flTd

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) March 11, 2023

omg at the Jokic video - like load management except he actually suited up and went in the game.

There’s three games in a row if him like that very weird

yeah he’s completely checked out, it’s infuriating as a fan... but that’s the luxury you have when you have their lead I guess