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

btw huge in season tournament game tonight the celtics need to beat the bulls by 23 in order to move on to the knockout round

warriors vs kings is a big one too

The Warriors wrap up their In-Season Tournament schedule Tuesday against the Kings at Golden 1 Center. They can only advance to the quarterfinals with a win over Sacramento. Here’s how the Warriors can make it out of the group stage:

Warriors beat Kings; Thunder beat Timberwolves
The Warriors and Kings both would be 3-1, and Golden State would win the head-to-head In-Season Tournament tiebreaker over Sacramento.

Warriors beat Kings; Timberwolves beat Thunder
The Warriors, Kings, and Timberwolves all would be 3-1 with 1-1 head-to-head records against each other. The winner of Group C would go down to the next deciding tiebreaker in this order: point differential in group stage, total points scored in group stage, 2022-23 regular-season record and random drawing.

After three games, the Kings boast the best point differential among those three teams at plus-29, followed by the Warriors (plus-5) and Wolves (minus-3).

If the teams still are tied after point differential, it goes to total points scored in Group C play, which the Warriors lead with 360 points, followed by the Kings (358) and Timberwolves (332).

+ dray is back

i dont think thats how it works does it? first tiebreaker is the head to head game so theyve already lost the group to orlando they need the wild card

knicks heat and cavs are the other teams in play for the wild card, knicks are the highest at +18 and are playing the hornets which is not promising, if they blow out the hornets then celtics have to blow out the bulls by 18 more than that

also all 4 of those relevant games are happening at the same time

It's a success!

cuban is selling the mavs?? but retaining control? why in the world would you buy the mavs and the one thing you keep around is mark cuban lmao

billionaires absolutely love billionaires

guess if you just see it as an investment and dont want to bother with the basketball part, except that cuban controlling the basketball ruins its value as an investment as almost all buyers want to fuck with the basketball, feel like there must be more info that makes this make sense

really unfortunate that cuban isnt leaving our lives

in this case given that it’s the adelson family it’s not that shocking that they would look at the NBA purely as an investment vehicle

sounds like a pretty amazing deal for cuban tho... he gets all the benefits of selling an NBA team ($3 billion) without any of the downsides (no longer being in control of an NBA team)

al horford is leading the league in fg% defense

given that cuban can't own the team *forever* i'm curious what the exit ramps are for someone else to take over the team

btw huge in season tournament game tonight the celtics need to beat the bulls by 23 in order to move on to the knockout round

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 28, 2023 5:42 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

up by 19 at the half the dream is alive

don't know if it's gonna happen for patrick williams

Patrick Williams goes at Al Horford eek pic.twitter.com/oJqa9lHmRf

— ✶ Ⓜ️𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕤 ▶️ ✶ (@_MarcusD3_) November 29, 2023

confirmed bust

ll and the roots doing a whole campaign for the in season tournament based around mama said knock you out yet they didnt record any custom nba specific lyrics kinda fucked up if you ask me

xp in 5 years we'll probably be saying he's a nice 8th man on the 65-win orlando magic but as far as star/starter, it's over

missing on a top five draft pick is so rough for a team

lol he just tried to drive on horf again, and got blocked

Ball bros sad career trajectories continues

Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball has suffered a serious sprain in his right ankle and is likely to miss extended time, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Tests show Ball avoided a fracture in the ankle, which required surgery last season, and a cautious approach is expected. pic.twitter.com/kciSB72aw9

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 28, 2023

damn sucks

he should talk to steph

lavar should become a super hyped orthopedic doctor

lol

celtics up 29 after 3, genuinely interested to see how hard they try to hold the margin

would be funny if they just go to early garbage time

lol hauser put back dunk hes a beast now

they're all flying around out there

it helps that the bulls are incredibly soft

bulls are bad man not a good team

lmao celtics going to the hack a drummond up 29

he missed four in a row

one thing i'm getting is that these tiebreakers, although compelling, are way too complicated for normal people

yeah i dont really have any idea what the deal is i heard they needed to win by 23 but now im learning that might not be enough contingent on other games

i mean not that i couldnt have tried to figure it out but i didnt care enough

yeah they need to win by 23 and the nets need to beat the raptors, otherwise they would have needed to win by like 32

mazzulla white flags it at 2 minutes, seems reasonable

played the guys longer than he would have prob

it was an interesting dynamic, he was definitely seeing if the starters could blow the lead out to the mid 30s but they had a couple bad possessions and he called it

point differential is simple & intuitive w/in groups the issue with this system is that once you get to the wild card you start matching up teams in different groups & it becomes this maze of if x beats y and a beats b and d beats e etc

nets up by 8 with a minute left

posting this to main

DUNCAN ROBINSON JUST COOKED GIANNIS ONE ON ONE LMAOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/UuLGTgxTKr

— Naveen Ganglani (@naveenganglani) November 29, 2023

lol oh no

point differential is simple & intuitive w/in groups the issue with this system is that once you get to the wild card you start matching up teams in different groups & it becomes this maze of if x beats y and a beats b and d beats e etc

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:48 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup exactly

i mean not that i couldnt have tried to figure it out but i didnt care enough

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

put this on my tombstone

giannis was squared up too xp

just lazy by giannis tbh

nets won celtics are in the big dance