ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

like what’s gonna happen, James harden is gonna make a shot I don’t think so

New record for most Game 7 points in NBA history: Jayson Tatum – 51 on the 76ers.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 14, 2023

gonna put up 60 before it's over i bet.

lol tatum feeling himself, salute

okay they mercifully took him out lol

Jayson Tatum has 67 points in the last 5 quarters

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) May 14, 2023

bubble conf finals redo coming up

We thought Jo was going to be Dream or Shaq…but he’s going to be Ewing.

— The LeBron James of Pig Feet. (@GeeDee215) May 14, 2023

dire lol

congrats to the boston celtics "they did it"

great win good stuff gotta love it

doctors rushing gurney-bound james harden into a strip club

— mangaman nick (@JucheMane) May 6, 2023

evergreen tweet i'm afraid

Doc Rivers has now blown 7 playoff series with a 3-1 or 3-2 lead. pic.twitter.com/F6drtQco0V

— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 14, 2023

gotta admire that sort of consistency.

i love it but i won’t be satisfied until i see the magic tweet sometime in the next two days

Celtics still have to get past the Heat. Should be a good series.

not sure why my normal x-post warning isn’t operating

xpost lol that is a good placebo anyway thank u aimless

lmao

to be serious-- i'm hoping for at least a 6 game series. i mean, nobody thought the heat would get this far, so who knows?

lol

cant believe this is still ongoing

Al Horford held Joel Embiid to 3-of-16 as his primary defender in game 7, per ESPN tracking

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) May 14, 2023

Sorry to pkbr but the way they lost is too poetic. Doc choking again. Embiid running out of gas again. Harden completely falling apart again. Glad embiid got his personal chip tho.

embiid the mvp back to back scoring champ horf is 36 years old and still owning him lol

are we sure the simmons situation wasnt some sort of curse

Harden in the 4Q of Games 5-7:

0 points in 32 minutes pic.twitter.com/eNDqTFUL6Y

— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 14, 2023

crazy the celtics got wrecked in game five played bad for three quarters of game six then pulled out the series at the last possible moment

are we sure the simmons situation wasnt some sort of curse

🐦[Harden in the 4Q of Games 5-7:

0 points in 32 minutes pic.twitter.com/eNDqTFUL6Y🕸
— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 14, 2023🕸]🐦

harden one of the most baffling players of all time

I knew on some level this was going to happen, but hard not to hope, so it still does hurt. Ride was kind of fun.

I think Celts are going to throttle the Heat, but rooting for Jimmy.

My M.O. is rooting for losers. Always have, always will.

heat always play the celtics tough, celtics should win but doubt itll be a walk

Heat will win a close game or maybe two, get demolished the other four would be my bet.

A Sixers team in the state that the Heat are in would struggle would get mopped like a sweat spot following a dive ball.

struggle

hard to imagine a way in which the sixers could have inflicted more pain on their fans so for that i tip my cap. it was memorable if nothing else

should be a fascinating summer there… embiid isn’t beating the allegations anymore. and that feels like it was harden’s final game in a PHILA uni

This is like the third or fourth time but Harden is passing out of layups pic.twitter.com/nyUlJZnoP4

— Mo Dakhil (@MoDakhil_NBA) May 14, 2023

I knew harden was cooked like 2 min into the game he tried to foul bait on a drive and refs didn’t bite. As someone who’s been cheering against him for more than a decade there’s not many things more satisfying than refs not calling a harden foul bait drive and he ends up on the ground while your team runs a fast break the other way.

Didn’t even have the legs to get to his sidestep three all game.

ecf will go to 7

I wouldn't bring Harden back. That's just locking you into diminishing returns.

Agreed Embiid is gonna have to face some music. Philly loves their guys, but can turn on them.

🐦[This is like the third or fourth time but Harden is passing out of layups pic.twitter.com/nyUlJZnoP4🕸
— Mo Dakhil (@MoDakhil_NBA) May 14, 2023🕸]🐦

crazy he basically gave it like 5 attempts at the basket in the first quarter and then immediately reverted to passing the ball at the earliest opportunity. he also just straight up threw two passes out of bounds. i don’t think a real team will ever trust him again

philly in a tough spot now morey strip mined another team

I knew harden was cooked like 2 min into the game he tried to foul bait on a drive and refs didn’t bite. As someone who’s been cheering against him for more than a decade there’s not many things more satisfying than refs not calling a harden foul bait drive and he ends up on the ground while your team runs a fast break the other way.

― Spottie, Sunday, May 14, 2023 6:44 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol yeah i took note of that play def

Embiid should stop trying to win the chip, just concentrate on playing 60 amazing supernova games, might be fun.

James Harden says he hasn’t thought about what will go into his free agency plans this summer.

Harden says he believes in this group’s potential. “It’s only Year 1 for us together.”

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 14, 2023

harden should just chill in houston for the rest of his career

today i’m also thinking of the PJ tucker voodoo magic the sixers deluded themselves into thinking would fix all their problems. and he was actually pretty great today!

Joel Embiid: “That’s the best team in the league. … losing to them, seven games, I thought for the most part we played hard, and we came up short.”

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 14, 2023

just watching the highlights and the adjustment to get embiid switched on to tatum turned out to be brilliant.

joel will skate as usual but the sixers are built around two guys who have literally never done anything meaningful in the playoffs, and have been at it for long enough that it's not a coincidence. like the fact that james harden's best playoff game will likely be a game 1 in a round 2 that he ultimately lost couldn't be more perfect.

actually think the crows are coming home to roost for joel this time, getting the mvp then shitting the bed in game seven is too much to overlook, bobby marks does these off season guides when teams get knocked out thatre usually pretty dry front office stuff but he just gets madder and madder thinking about embiid and the sixers here lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjqJPg7Ywo

embiid might skate in philly bcuz if they turn on him what else do they have left? they have to hope he’s their version of dirk where one year it all just clicks. but i think nationally it’s going to take a while for his reputation to recover to where it had been. PJ tucker getting in embiid’s face was spun as some awesome galvanizing moment that showed how this year was different for the sixers, but that image takes on a different tone given today & i feel like that’s gonna be the lasting memory that most ppl have of him from this series. there’s nothing he can do in the regular season at this point to change anyone’s mind about who he is as a player, and there is going to have to be a noticeable shift in how he plays not just mentally but in terms of his game in order for him to reverse the trajectory of his career on the biggest stages