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

Sixers coach Nick Nurse said Joel Embiid is not playing tonight against the Celtics.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) December 1, 2023

sounds like maxey might not play either

come on

investigate the seventy sixers

maxey and batum out haha

wonder if they all woulda played if it was the I.S.T.

what they should do is rename the 'regular season' to 'in season tournament' and see if the players respond accordingly

i think this is the 15th straight time embiid was a gameday decision vs. the celtics

he is scared

https://i.imgur.com/LDuR3sH.png

rent free

in a game where embiid and maxey aren’t playing, jayson tatum just got ejected at the end of the third quarter

he must have said something bad because all three refs T’d him up at the same time, an innovation I have not seen before

great teamwork by the refs theyre really working hard tonight

not a great game you never want to see pat bev put up a career high 26

jamal and aaron out tonight, both day-to-day things as I understand it, but it’s a big day for “mike guys” (I’m a “mike guy”)

doc just said deandre jordan should be the first clippers to get his jersey retired and I agree

when the nuggets make every shot, they are tough to beat

A true formula for success most teams, but not all, should try.

clippers dont have any jerseys retired? rough, guess it stands to reason

jokic has 6-2-10 with no turnovers in the first half, playing his most effective personal style of basketball even if some posters only want him to score

any Clippers jersey retirement would feel sarcastic somehow

they should have a statue of Blake spilling water on the fans

its crazy that the suns have won any games considering their guys never play

https://i.imgur.com/VN4VSBX.png

all three still haven’t suited up in the same game

another case for nba jomboy

I wonder what Udoka told Bron to get himself ejected 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/TCfmisiKuX

— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) December 3, 2023

was thinking hes actually one of the foul baiters where i generally think ok he got fouled on that. doesnt seem as unnatural as others

― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 1 December 2023

i would dispute this

no games today then only IST games mon tues thurs sat then no games sun again, guess those no game suns are to avoid the ist teams playing back to backs, wed and fri have many normal games, which i guess they just scheduled once they found out who was in the knockout rounds

yeah weird scheduling since they cant do it ahead of time

they prob have to tell the arenas ahead of time which days there will be games so they can book other events, so the non-IST teams still end up with the IST-hedged schedule

yeah you would need one of the quarter final days mon or tues open at all arenas and then wed and fri open at a bunch of them for the normal games

was curious how many nba/nhl arenas there still are and its only 10

staples center has been nba/nba/nhl which must be the biggest scheduling bottleneck

wouldve thought it was more do nhl teams just have their own places now seems excessive they dont even have a ball

mostly theres less city overlap than you'd think but a couple cities the nhl team has their own place

6 non-toronto canada teams, columbus, vegas, nashville, raleigh, anaheim, long island, newark, buffalo, tampa, seattle...

clearly the nba should expand to all of these

ah right didnt think of canada

easy place to forget about if you dont look at a globe

i shouldve looked at a globe, or driven 45mins to the border lol

interesting how theres three ny metro area teams but only one of them is from the city

you dont get that secondary population centers in metro areas situation in other sports too much, like even when the warriors were in oakland they didnt claim it, tho the raiders did, nhl has jersey long island anaheim

columbus only has hockey even tho its bigger than cincinnati which has football and baseball, difference is columbus is a newer growing city where the cleveland is shrinking and cini is pretty stable, youd think columbus will get more teams eventually

oh forgot about the san jose sharks

cannot help but hear that name in my grandmothers olde timey despite having lived in california for almost all of her adult life boston accent, they were all about the sharks when they first got there, it was a big deal for san jose

yeah i forgot san jose and st louis in that list

also pittsburgh which is one of the few 3-sport no-nba cities

they shd get nba black and yellow is cool

seattle and tampa are the only others i think. obv tampa is because the nba went in orlando instead though

st louis used to be, twice

another case for nba jomboy

― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Sunday, December 3, 2023 12:56 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

he did it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_fFlbyjryY