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

not a great start to the season for brad

INJURY UPDATE: The Phoenix Suns today announced that guard Bradley Beal will be out and re-evaluated in three weeks as he continues to rehab a low back strain. This timeline was determined following further evaluation and consultation on his injury.

— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) November 17, 2023

i'm still thinking about how rudy gobert said he went into the warriors game knowing draymond was going to be acting like an ass because he tries to get ejected when steph isn't playing & then people looked for statistical evidence of this claim and found that it was overwhelmingly true

i'm not sure there is a funnier sequence of events to me than

rudy gobert seeing steph isn't playing and realizing draymond is gonna be on some fuck shit -> draymond immediately trying to choke gobert out before the score even gets to 1-0 -> rudy calling out draymond for being a baby when his boy isn't on the floor -> everyone looking up the stats and being like "wait, that is actually true". it's just perfect i don't know what else to say

it’s still hasn’t totally hit me how fight broke out 90 seconds into a november school night game

they did play each other the game before had something to do with it prob

And dray and ant were chirping heavily that game

a game in which dray tried and failed to get under ants skin and came off looking like as gobert would say "a clown"

lol xp

yeah the wolves are winning the battle vs dray very clearly.

he went to the well one too many times

he forgot he was 33 and that the 22 year old super athlete was going to cook him repeatedly

there was that one play where ant spun left to right and pulled up in the lane for a fadeaway jumper and he elevated so effortlessly meanwhile draymond didn't even jump at all. i think ant's knees were at draymond's eyes

I think when he kept repeating "what are you going to do about it??" to Ant and Ant just said "Ain't nobody worried about you bruh" that hurt his feelings

that is pretty rough tbf

yeah dray was clearly testing his mettle and learned ant isnt one to be shaken. props to ant

if he had been able to shut ant down the words would be meaningless, it's ant telling him and showing him that does it

watching celtics pregame theyre doing an extended sponsored betting segment thats formatted to just be part of the show talking about the lines and so forth who they got, turn to espn pregame theyre doing same thing

hopefully once the winners and losers shake out the industry will stop spending quite so much money on advertising this shit sucks

A couple plays before Draymond choked Gobert he was loudly complaining and gesturing to the refs that Rudy was hooking him with his arm and I remember thinking "damn, Dray, the game just started, chill out"

dray had been really good this year too

scal and matt bonner in the booth together, the most not baller

the not ballin brothers

hopefully once the winners and losers shake out the industry will stop spending quite so much money on advertising this shit sucks

― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November

i would not expect this at all. all gambling products are basically the same so the only way to stand out or grow is to spend a shit ton on marketing

yeah i mean lots of industries are like that but eventually some companies win and some go out of business

between all the advertising and the intro deals theyre offering these companies must be absolutely burning money right now

thats the business model you give people a bunch of free money in the hope they get hooked. so yeah it turns into an arms race since you can't afford to not win

its especially crazy since it was illegal then one day became legal, immediate total war

celtics are good btw raps were up 6 at the end of the first celtics flipped the switch in the second theyre up 16 at the half

they're going to win the in season tournament at this rate

toronto's tournament court doesnt look so bad, gray is at least not garish

feel like the dark courts dont read that well on tv but yeah at least its not bright red

they're going to win the in season tournament at this rate

― ciderpress, Friday, November 17, 2023 8:41 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i want them to win the in season tournament best regular season record and of course the nba playoffs, we call this the nba treble since we are euros now

it's called "the hat trick" i believe because in america we wear hats

cant believe i didnt consider the stalwart hat

update the celtics have flipped the switch back to the off

that's the thing about switches

they switch both ways

hard to explain in words how good jokic is at this point

celtics have won despite the switch situation

over the summer the nuggets podcast guys were feeling themselves a little and were projecting jokic at 15-20th ish all time, which I thought was reasonable if sure to be controversial. now I’m trying to decide whether he’s like top 5 sort of stuff

looked like jaylen pulled his groin at the end there so to speak slipping on what seemed like a noticeably slippery all night in season tournament court

this has to be the first win of the season where the bench had better plus/minus than the starters

joker right now pretty much as unstoppable as a guy can be

other than jok the nuggs are getting thoroughly outclassed and down 9 heading into the 4th, but jok has 23-13-16 and is a +5

this has to be the first win of the season where the bench had better plus/minus than the starters

― call all destroyer, Friday, November 17, 2023 9:46 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hauser is going nuts

jokic 23-15-16 with 4 mins to go

looked like jaylen pulled his groin at the end there so to speak slipping on what seemed like a noticeably slippery all night in season tournament court

― lag∞n, Friday, November 17, 2023 9:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jaylen Brown says he may have hurt his groin when he slipped and fell on the IST court, and he's not happy about it.'

"The floor was unacceptable. Guys were slipping all over the place."

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) November 18, 2023

over the summer the nuggets podcast guys were feeling themselves a little and were projecting jokic at 15-20th ish all time, which I thought was reasonable if sure to be controversial. now I’m trying to decide whether he’s like top 5 sort of stuff

welcome to real hoops jaylen brown

wipe off your kicks on every possession or gtfo

I’m going to bang on about this all year, but the Pistons starting Hayes and Knox over Ivey and Sasser is not evidence of a franchise ready to turn any corners.

— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) November 18, 2023

pistons have been a dead franchise for so long it’s criminal