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

Sources: After bench incident, Timberwolves' Rudy Gobert and Kyle Anderson had a heated verbal exchange in halftime locker room as well, with Anderson challenging the center at one point saying, "I'll knock your a-- out."

Updated story at @TheAthletic: https://t.co/kYHEod0MJd

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 10, 2023

well at least they got him for almost nothing

I’m on team slomo lol

The most famous moment of Gobert's entire NBA career was acting like a total asshole at the very moment most US'ers really became aware of the accelerating spread of covid and its devastating effects, so it's no surprise his fan base has plummeted to near zero in spite of his belated PR efforts to reverse the damage.

The Wolves pawning their future to get him was entirely their disastrous mistake, but he's so hated now that he bears most of the blame in the eyes of most fans. Can't say my heart bleeds for him. He can already buy a mansion on the Riviera and sit in the sun for the rest of his life.

we need a report on exactly why all his teammates hate him

maybe because he's a broken, bitter, angry man

maybe idk maybe hes just really annoying we need the facts

he doesn't seem like any of those things. he's a weird version of the nba big man psychosis where he plays hard but constantly wants credit for doing so and acts like a baby when he doesn't feel like he gets it.

seems like he’s just kind of an asshole yeah

I’d wager a season of playing 4 against 5 on offense doesn’t really make you love the guy either

why? because fucking of course

rudy gobert took a pic with joe rogan at his anti-cancel culture comedy club the other day and now they're both getting cooked in the instagram comments pic.twitter.com/9CiCd9lmSQ

— jon (@deathisforming) April 9, 2023

o god

lotta things making even more sense now

Gobert later sent an apologetic text to teammates in a group chat, per Mike Conley. “We'll speak about it and move on,” he said. “We're grown men.”

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 9, 2023

Honestly tho the jaden McDaniels wall punch might be the dumbest wolves thing from today

so it looks like the clippers fucked up and got the 5 seed which pushes the warriors to the non-denver/phoenix side of the bracket. bad break for denver

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 9, 2023 6:10 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait why is this bad for denver?

Not sure why people feel so confident about the suns.

mo the best outcome for denver was a warriors-suns 4-5 bcuz it guaranteed that one of them wasn’t making it out of the first round. now it’s on the table that denver has to beat both in consecutive rounds just to make the finals
― J0rdan S., Monday, April 10, 2023 12:47 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh yeah I see what you mean. just hoping the t wolves cooperate and make the 8th spot

The Hawks’ front office has the green light from ownership to consider trade opportunities involving Trae Young, per @KevinOConnorNBA pic.twitter.com/ryLoN9Yn8W

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 10, 2023

wow, prob wise tbf

No pg to start the series

Sources: Clippers star Paul George is expected to be sidelined to begin the first-round playoff series against the Suns, but is making some tangible progress from his March 21 knee injury.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 10, 2023

who out there is signing up to give up a bunch of assets for malcontent trae young and the 4 years & 178 million left on his contract

just looking thru the standings... the wizards maybe? the lakers? the magic?

the number of teams who have assets to trade & have a hole at point guard & also don't already have a star on the team is minuscule

i think atlanta and trae are stuck w/ each other

even a lot of the bad and/or small market teams who would normally have to be intrigued by the opportunity to get a star on a longterm deal would turn that down, i think. detroit, charlotte, houston, okc... none of these teams need to be adding a ball dominant scoring PG

wizards wld be perfect lol

honestly i could see trae young for brad beal making a lot of sense for both sides. wiz would have to throw in some assets prob but the fit would be fairly clean on both ends of it. teams don't seem to make those kinda trades anymore tho

wow

Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert isn’t traveling with team to LA and won’t play vs. the Lakers on Tuesday in the Play-In tournament, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/Gey3twxchn

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 10, 2023

he can handle it. he's a grown man.

well obviously i don't care about him at all but it's an interesting organizational decision

what a disaster

you're right, ofc. they seem to have decided that his presence with the team is more detrimental than his absence. which is nagl for a team that sold the farm to get him.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtXsv_ZXoBg6uza?format=jpg&name=small

hard for me to believe they would be doing this if they were in the 9/10 game instead of the 7/8.

from an outside perspective, gobert throwing a punch (not even to the face...) seems like a fair reaction to what anderson said to him. it seems like organizationally they are taking anderson's side and kinda going out of their way to publicly shame gobert, which makes me think this isn't really about what happened in that huddle

lmaooooo

The Timberwolves had to suspend Gobert for throwing a punch, but accepted that it was a shot to chest with no intent to injure Kyle Anderson and understood that Anderson called Gobert a “bitch” repeatedly on a night Gobert was playing hurt, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 10, 2023

ahaha an absolute masterpiece from Woj

love to consume quality journalism

Somehow it makes everyone involved sound worse than everyone else involved.

Jaden McDaniels suffered a fracture of his third and fourth metacarpals in his right hand, is wearing a cast and will be out indefinitely, the Timberwolves announced.

— Chris Hine (@ChristopherHine) April 10, 2023

Somehow it makes everyone involved sound worse than everyone else involved.

Succession crossover. One thread.

Also funny that it all went down in a game that they won.

playin game 2 nite bb its that time of year when they go for all the marbles

i'm not really for the whole moving Trae thing, but i think it speaks to how much the hawks value the young guys on the roster. i could definitely see a version of this team without trae being very good under Quinn

they go for all the marbles

^ the playoffs thread title has arrived

oh yeah we do need one do the honors

No More Tankies

do we wait for after play in? i cant remember

Vague recollection we had one for the ins and one for the offs.

feel like one post season thread makes sense

i'm not really for the whole moving Trae thing, but i think it speaks to how much the hawks value the young guys on the roster. i could definitely see a version of this team without trae being very good under Quinn

― Heez, Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:07 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gotta be a lot of at play here seems so premature compared to the typical timeline of getting rid of a star, maybe they feel like trae is going to ask out, they have an owner who didnt draft him, serious questions about his viability as a star, his values prob not going to be higher than now, coach killer/bad teammate, style of play issues etc