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

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35979445/bradley-beal-police-investigation-spat-fan

sigh cmon man

everyone is so angry, jeez

it's only gonna get worse with legal gambling

hes gonna team up w kyrie next year isnt he

Jaylen Brown was asked last night about the ovation he received from the fans after he came out of the game yesterday.

His response was less than encouraging... pic.twitter.com/qpvsW0JHML

— Boston Sports Gordo (@BOSSportsGordo) March 27, 2023

that’s a pretty ridiculous homer baiting ass question lol

weird guy

it actually shows how expectant many writers esp on the local level are on rote answers to narrative building questions so that they can turn around and spin whatever story the local fans want to hear based on the player answering like "yeah it did mean a lot i love these fans" or whatever to that kinda question

I suppose correct answer would have been along the lines of "fan applause will always be more valuable to me than my career earnings potential"

jaylen so grumpy cmon man gotta play the game just say it was great i love the fans going to give one of them "i love hoops poster lag∞n" one million dollars

“In light of your recent comments does the applause mean more” is frankly a difficult question to analyse in the moment in terms of “what headline is this motherfucker going for” so I’m not surprised he ducked it

“Brown suggests he needs applause to get over trade rumors”

his energy is all off is really my biggest takeaway from recent interviews

Yeah he’s always been serious but the man seems very bummed out

i am scared it's becoming a self-fulfilling thing where doomy boston media has held for a long time that he would leave (despite no real evidence) and now the belief that he wants to leave is out there in the ecosystem and will probably drive him to want to leave

rumor the change you want to see in the world

What if the bad boy pistons were all theater kids https://t.co/gicDzdG43K

— Q and Not Uanon (@fiveninenoshoes) March 29, 2023

warrrios pels is TESTYYYYYYYYY

only because draymond green is acting like a large idiot baby

Sloppiest team ever

vintage warriors 2nd half

Good test for the theory that the regular season only kinda matters.

some extreme scab energy from breen and JVG rn

whatre they saying

luka’s body language is really quite bad. he actually seems like a good guy off the court but he’s gotta be the most emotionally immature player in the league when he’s between the lines

Very much.

In other news russ is cooking the Grizz

Covington and Russ combined 11/11 from three ok…

Seems not good

After the game, James Harden spoke of his Achilles soreness: "I don't know where it came from. It's been bothering me for some months, I would say. I just wanted to continue to play on it. There was one point in the last game I played it was just really unbearable."

— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) March 30, 2023

funny to imagine Russ suddenly going bonkers the last 10 games like he was in MVP form, like some Biblical tale

slo-mo's been really good in suns-wolves

and then immediately gets his shot wiped out by Ayton lol

Jalen Williams keeps the Thunder’s playoff hopes alive with the putback game-winnerhttps://t.co/gEVUVzNhYR pic.twitter.com/0R2cCYlLfn

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 30, 2023

Congrats to the kings for making the playoffs

i'll believe it when i see it

longest playoff drought will pass to the hornets i guess. good luck hornets

gobert is trash, killing his team with moving screens

Maybe a ball bro will play more than like 25 games in a season

Russ got another fan kicked out

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36000367/mavs-kyrie-irving-says-fighting-play-not-expected

"I didn't expect to ask for a trade at that point in the season," he said. "So I wanted to finish out with Brooklyn, finish out with the season that we had going, and I didn't get a chance to do that. So some of the goals I had previously this season had to be shifted, and I had to be more than willing, which I am, to be flexible and adaptable and live with the results, whether we make the playoffs or not.

Crazy how these things just happened to him out of nowhere

lol

i don't really have a problem w/ him asking for a trade in the middle of the season if the nets weren't going to offer him a market rate extension on the last year of his deal. that's a regular occurrence across all sports

Yeah definitely, not that the nets should have offered him anything obv. but he’s gotta do what he wants for himself.

yeah it was understandable from both sides of course. the trade should've happened before the season but there weren't enough desperate teams at that time to create a market

i think the nets just wanted to give it a shot with that team too

i think they were prob ok w/ that as the fall back option but i think if the trade they ended up doing w/ dallas was on the table in the offseason they would've pulled the trigger. it seemed like at the time that the only offer was the stuff the lakers ended up sending out to get rui & the utah guys

idk the fact that they were asking unreasonable things for kd makes me think they were committed to giving it one last shot

maybe. i think if the suns had offered in the offseason what they ended up trading for KD the nets would've done that deal then too. their trade requests on both guys turned out by definition to not be unreasonable, the market just changes midseason when teams have a more accurate read on their places in the pecking order

they were asking for like jaylen brown marcus smart four 1sts and four swaps for kd

what they ended up getting for him was more in line with expectations and yeah maybe that wasnt there in the offseason but it just didnt really seem like they were trying to get it done

what they ended up getting was not far off from that at all! xp

i feel like you can clearly see how all this flowed from phoenix and dallas' perspective

"hey we were just in the west finals, we don't need to do anything drastic to this roster" -> "oh shit we're middle of the pack at best in the west and may even fall into the play in" -> desperation trade at the deadline