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

reasonable point

oof Grayson's ankle sprain didn't look good. I know he can get cooked in the playoffs but still he's an important piece

yeah he looked pretty hurt, tho the injury didnt look bad his ankle didnt turn that much

also I'm confused why Connoughton hasn't been playing at all even after he left

I see embiid showed up to work today, got stomped by giannis tho

nuggets beat the warriors without jokic, I’m wiring adam silver a lot of money to erase the tape of the last 2 mins though

nice statement win for the Bucks coming off what might be the worst game I've ever seen them play since Jrue joined the team

still waiting for someone, anyone in the media to point out that the mavs turned their team over to a guy whose sole professional experience was working in marketing at nike and maybe that's the entire explanation for this mess

― call all destroyer, Sunday, April 2, 2023 8:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

more of that disruptive innovative thinking u get when u think outside the box my friend #techwisdom #bitcoin #moneymotivation #alphamentality

nuggets beat the warriors without jokic, I’m wiring adam silver a lot of money to erase the tape of the last 2 mins though

why cant the dubs win on the road its so weird, coach nick has a video where he says theyre basically just not defending the corner 3 on the road??

it’s haunted, only the corner in their court has been cleared of the spirits

why cant the dubs win on the road its so weird, coach nick has a video where he says theyre basically just not defending the corner 3 on the road??

― lag∞n, Monday, April 3, 2023 7:45 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems right, theyve always kinda of done this but teams are making their shots so maybe adjust idk. theres a lot of dubs storylines this year.

lol

The Mavericks are ‘seriously considering’ shutting down Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving to push for a top 10 pick, per @ShamsCharania

(h/t @RealGM) pic.twitter.com/VwHMSZsVzV

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 3, 2023

69D chess

Watching Cuban, Kidd and the Mavs FO sell out in order to bring Kyrie on board, then instantly exploding into tiny fragments has been the greatest satisfaction of the regular season. By far.

great franchise doing normal things

xpost agreed, just wonderful

I’d love to fire up the ol arg with Jordan about how Dallas is a poorly run franchise and the hawks have a better future but currently a 30 yr old son of our owner is chilling with his buds, secretly running the team.

Snyder’s got a pretty great lineup to work with so we’ll see. Trust no one

Report: Kyrie Irving expected to test the free agent market https://t.co/zteV5TqBtX

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 3, 2023

really glad this is happening to mark cuban and not a team i care about at all

still seems mostly likely hell resign with dallas which wld be funny in its own way

it's a total lose-lose for dallas. they let him walk, they gave up draft capital and iportant role players for nothing. they re-sign him, theyre doomed to underperform. it's perfect.

yup

sign and trade might be best if anyones interested

can you sign and trade someone to another universe

trade him to the Packers

kyrie irving has been traded to... fuckin antarctica

antarctica doesnt exist tho

its where the government is guarding the edge of the flat earth

it would be great, he could do some of his own research

kyrie live streaming from the so called south poll

this is your boy kyrie i'm in space now because i fell off the earth remember to subscribe for notifications because i'm probably gonna die from lack of oxygen

only team imprudent and desperate enough to try and deal with his bullshit is the lakers at this pt

antarctica doesnt exist tho

it's like chile laid sideways

only team imprudent and desperate enough to try and deal with his bullshit is the lakers at this pt

― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, April 3, 2023 10:26 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

just wait until someone doesn't have the playoff run they were hoping for, there are a lot of teams with high expectations at the moment

feel like at some point teams will get wise to the fact that its not good to have kyrie on your team but it hasnt happened yet

i think we're one new stop away

Feel like this has got to be it tbf

you only get to wreck 5 teams that's the max

its awesome Dallas were already in a spot where it was gonna be hard to get better and they actually made it worse

fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, thats still you, fool me 3 times, its like 50% you 50% me, but the fourth time? that's still some of your shame, but the fifth time?

xp

every time they see Kyrie drop 26 in a 4th quarter (and still lose) its like when you dangle your keys in front of a baby

they see the bag and cant help but offer him a bag

the thing in kyrie's career narrative is that he hasn't tried being the main guy on a shitty team as a veteran, he has to do that before all is said and done

and there's probably a shitty team out there willing to bring him on and pay him to put up all-star numbers -- while still remaining a shitty team

he's already on it

lol

there are really almost no teams with the combination of positional need and sufficient stupidity. would the bulls be that dumb? otherwise yeah it’s stay in dallas or i guess bron summons him to la

feel like these guys somehow end up on the wizards for two years before getting bought out

I’d love to fire up the ol arg with Jordan about how Dallas is a poorly run franchise and the hawks have a better future but currently a 30 yr old son of our owner is chilling with his buds, secretly running the team.

Snyder’s got a pretty great lineup to work with so we’ll see. Trust no one

― Heez, Monday, April 3, 2023 3:03 PM (yesterday)

i was optimistic about the state of the mavs franchise last summe because the porzingis trade went so well for them. but i hated their offseason and i didn't like the kyrie trade at all. so i don't feel great about their future going forward. i'd still bet on them being better over the next 5 years than atlanta because of the historical precedent and because of luka.

but no doubt they fundamentally misunderstood their team this offseason in a way that is alarming. i honestly don't even think the grave sin was letting brunson walk, it was ***not even attempting to replace him***. i don't think people talk about this nearly enough. the mavs not only bungled the brunson contract and let him walk they also were like, yeah we don't even need to replace the guy let's go get christian wood and javale mcgee. i thought they had a clear identity coming out of the playoffs and if they had taken some of the assets they've sent out in deals and used that to acquire another high level scoring guard this summer i think they would be fine right now. it was so obvious watching them last year that what made them dangerous was having 3 guards who could all score off the dribble at a high level bcuz they never had less than 2 on the floor and could really go for high level offense w/ all three on the floor. they weaponized the spacing of going small in a real way. so of course they completely go away from that for whatever reason and never at any point this season have had two high level reliable scoring guards out there w/ luka. trade for kyrie but give up dinwiddie in the process. go figure.

the fact that the mavs hired a sneaker executive to be their GM may have been a really bad idea. certainly wouldn't be a shock on its face. on the other hand, they've still done a good job of developing josh green and jaden hardy this season after developing brunson, DFS, kleber etc. so there still may be something about the organization that works on its own even if the front office is chaotic and poorly run. we'll see how griffin and johnson and whoever else end up developing for the hawks.

the hawks definitely could end up being better than them over the next however many years. their front office structure is concerning as you say but the bey trade was pretty good. i would point out that the hawks are on two straight years of middling 8 seed level seasons where the mavs are only at 1. based on last offseason and where they are after the kyrie trade i don't have much faith in their front office but it's not inconceivable that they make some changes to the roster and are back in the 4-5 discussion next year. it's not like the distance from 11 to 4 in the west is very far. so we'll see. if they're a .500 team again next year it will be one of the biggest stories in the league.