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

while we're baselessly speculating "a counseling program in florida" sure sounds like alcohol rehab

could be any number of things but that does seem the most likely

oof

With news that Ja Morant has entered counseling in Florida, it's hard to imagine him making All-NBA, which I think would have been likely without these incidents. Not making All-NBA would cost him about $39 million, reducing his contract from a projected 5/$233m to 5/$194m

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) March 14, 2023

expensive rehab

Have been speaking with Ja throughout this & it’s really great to see he’s working through being better in counseling. Last week he texted me this clip we did in 2021 and we talked about the need to take care of yourself.
Passing along that he sees the support and is thankful. https://t.co/tUp0zGnZjc

— Taylor Rooks (@TaylorRooks) March 14, 2023

good lord what are the Warriors doing to the Suns right now

bucks-kings is the far more interesting game tonight

yeah it's been an exciting one. they have a great crowd huh

I'm going to tell you guys when I'm just about to throw the Wolves in the dumpster and then you bet on them to win that night, you can't go wrong

conversely when I get the slightest bit of hope you can bet against them

Klay 8 threes in the half, so glad he's back

damn remember when this board was declaring him dead

How to tell when you’re on a heater: off the dribble, stepping to your right, going R-L, with a defender within 2 inches of blocking the shot. Doesn’t matter. pic.twitter.com/Rx1DUlgQ4T

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) March 14, 2023

Big early leads don’t mean much

trey lyles!

Random little scuffle there

"There's things I'm hearing that I'd rather probably not say on this podcast… My guess now is that he doesn't play the rest of the season."

- @MarcJSpears on Ja Morant

(Via The Hoop Collective) pic.twitter.com/7ATA6hjjo9

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) March 14, 2023

other shoe on its way

would love to be a fly on the wall at the meetings with the TV and nike execs, branding professionals and so forth figuring out how to best message this disaster

we’re hearing that wellness culture is really big with our audience

they just had to dump kyrie too tough time for the brands

kyrie was publicly lighting nike up tho lol. theres no coming back from that. nike is already planning the redemption story for ja im sure .

nike has been through waaaay worse than this... kobe, tiger woods, a rod etc. the best PR crisis consultants prob don't even need to move off the couch to deal w/ ja's level of offenses

other shoe on its way

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 14, 2023 11:09 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)

idk if there's another shoe on its way i just feel like "i'm taking time to address my mental health after several high profile incidents of increasingly concerning bad behavior but i'm all good now just in time for the playoffs" is not really a tenable position if we're supposed to believe that any of this is being taken seriously on ja's and memphis' side

seems like spears was hinting at the other shoe tho

true xps

cant believe they would let this negative energy in when theyre rolling

ESPN Sources: Seven-footer Meyers Leonard is signing with the Milwaukee Bucks for the rest of the season. Leonard’s second 10-day deal with Bucks expired yesterday and now he remains with the East’s No. 1 seed through the playoffs.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 14, 2023

one of our most exciting young fascists

he's pretty dull afa fascists go honestly

i guess he makes sense there as a homeless man's version of brook lopez

it seems like he's genuinely done whatever work has been asked of him to repair the situation, i don't really have an issue w/ him getting another job in the NBA

you cant reform gamers

btw did you see the tear jerking video his wife made about how hed been out of the nba cause of a misdiagnosed knee injury and their struggles to get back to the league, all of which mightve been true idk but she didnt mention the twitch incident

https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/portland-trail-blazers/meyers-leonard-gets-100lb-thor-hammer-because-course

you will never be able to think leonard is an okay guy after seeing his personally branded thor hammer

60lbs tops

"Hey honey, your hammer's here!"

nuggets getting their butts kicked in toronto… jokic was not happy with a lot of what was going on defensively

haha was he including himself in that?

MPJ mostly

watching the bucks smother devin booker and chris paul… their defense is hellacious. sometimes a guy is trying to score on jrue with giannis and brook helping, it’s an impossible task. in games where crowder is hitting threes jrue-middleton-crowder-giannis-brook is prob the best 5 man line up in the league. maybe in games where they aren’t shooting well they can be got… jrue and crowder do run pretty hot and cold. but that’s still a really solid amount of shooting around giannis and on defense they completely suffocate you

my money is still on the bucks for sure

suns will win games but the huge question as to who their 5th guy will be on any given night is a major red flag. okogie and craig and ish are gonna get a TON of open looks.

i think they'll find some ring chasers this offseason but i just dont see it coming together this season for them. its possible cos the west is open and they have the top-end talent, but unlikely without time to gel.

ESPN Sources: Grizzlies star Ja Morant met with NBA commissioner Adam Silver in New York today. Morant has left a counseling program in Florida and moves closer to ramping up for return to season now. He must wait on league announcement of findings in probe, expected soon. pic.twitter.com/zAVxrPsMWQ

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 15, 2023

It's a league that relies heavily on star power to generate its revenue. Ja is a star player and the playoffs provide the biggest payoffs.

...is how I break it down to an extent.

having trouble reckoning the two different parts of this tweet

perhaps the findings are known

me after a couple days of rehab: I am fine now

thats what it's for