2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

its funny that the lakers and the media are trying to drum up a rivalry with the nuggets, you got swept calm down

lakers brain is a bad disease

it is almost time for a little thing i like to call "basketball"

turning on the the basketball

its just commercials so far

ah here we go the instantly recognizable basketball players

if i were jokic i would be saying hey i havent seen you since we swept you haha how are you

lebron james, "the joker", austin reaves, even the famous basketball itself. folks, this is it for sure

this game really has it all

crazy bron is the oldest player now

hilarious how he has aged but i have not time is so funny

I had forgotten about this thing called hoops. Seems cool.

its probably because of the magic portrait of him you keep in your attic xp

i bet k3v is going totally wild in there

i bet hes having a great time

nugs are HOOPIN

for real they are bombs away

something very amusing about jokers ongoing owning of ad, obvs he does it to everyone but ad is the guy who should be able to guard him but he cannot

jokic is a #1 guy, ad is a #2 guy, classic math problem

God, Jokic tipping that ball to himself among three guys just balletic.

gordon doing masterful scrap work out there

kevin harlan just announced "the latest commercial from nike" guess thats life in 2023 for you

a funny early season quirk is tv guys hyping up guys like jaxon hayes

christian braun blocking bron a true changing of the guard moment

then he elbowed him in the face

I’m having a great time!

nice good stuff

love when joker does very euro incredulous gestures when he picks up a foul

ok I'm. getting the Reaves is annoying stuff

joker missed a couple bunnies and the lakers ran out on them, big swing

a funny early season quirk is tv guys hyping up guys like jaxon hayes

its silly are people really supposed to get stoked over a new backup center and once they do get stoked what happens then jaxon hayes will only let them down

gotta say for a decent team the lakers dont really have many entertaining guys besides bron theres really no one im like ah thats an amusing player to watch, and even bron its more of a connoisseur experience now that his athleticism has waned

ad has his moments but hes just kind of a weird guy idk

where the nugs have all sorts of guys i like

this has been true back to that lakers championship, when they're good it's because they've built these slow bruising teams that manage to compliment lebron and ad who as you say don't really have beautiful games at this point

feel a little sorry for the blazer fans I know (all of them) talking themselves into “we’re gonna surprise everybody! too much talent on this squad! probably a top 6 team now!” type shit — gonna be a long season that ends in 25 wins

hell, no! you're too pessimistic the blazers gonna surprise everybody and --- win 29**

**or maybe not

why is gordon dribbling so much i thought he finally figured out he shouldnt do that

why has porter jr been way, way off on a lot of his threes?

everyone prob too hyped up from getting their rings

championship hangover (legal weed edition)

reggie miller in the first game of the season why

murray and kcp combined for 16/25 from the field and pretty much got whatever they wanted in the midrange

if you were the lakers you'd probably like to clean that up

i love how the lakers fans stewed all summer vowing revenge on the nugs and they got handled on the first game of the season

the russell reaves backcourt is not prob not going to be stopping too many people

might have to give vincent more minutes

gabriel vince will be the lakers' starting pg at some point this season

russell should just embrace his destiny as a bench gunner

In all its glory 💍 pic.twitter.com/mMTMuXEpIt

— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) October 24, 2023

these rings are insane man, this one has a slide-out as well as a rotating background