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

jokic has taken 3 3s in the first quarter already, they’re losing

4 threes now, unserious business, smh

yes haha yes

he only does it when the offense is cooked, I’m prob going to bed early tonight

i will check out the doc rivers bucks vs three point jokic after this celtics game is over

btw celtics have forgotten how to score a million points every game but theyre toughing this one out, big 4th quarter comeback vs the pelicans 2nite

nuggets have retaken the lead with jokic on the bench, as usual

and to pick a bit of disagreement here, if you seriously think embiid would be a worthy MVP pick playing 55 games you’re just clueless!

ok but what about 56? 57? 58? 59? 60? 61? 62? 63? 64? at what point do i regain my clue

i think it would be ok to lower it to 60 considering that playing low 70s is pretty standard these days then its like normal resting/minor injuries + one medium injury

i feel like its not being discussed much around the league that zion has totally lost his athleticism idk what the deal is maybe hes just choosing to not jump high or move fast he does look overweight but that never stopped him before

he is def in worse shape than ever before clearly struggling with conditioning out there

again, what we are discussing is a victimless crime, a hypothetical that has happened in the league one time in history, and if the rule were in place at the time the only two people who would remind us of it are named bill (walton and simmons). if embiid wants to win MVP, and I’m not convinced he does this year, he could take fewer games off. it’s not complicated. literally no one is harmed by this rule as it pertains to MVP

xp jordan

embiid has seen the rule change and decided he’s good with it. it’s fine!

He had a sick jam the other night but I’m afraid he has the same motor as Ayton so you’re only gonna see some effort when the media makes fun of him or when it’s contract time

Re zion

what we are discussing is a victimless crime, a hypothetical that has happened in the league one time in history

so you're passionately defending a rule that you're also saying is attempting to fix a problem that doesn't actually exist. ok cool got it

he just looks like a different guy out there, no pop, hes still touch tho

Yah it’s sad to see

embiid has seen the rule change and decided he’s good with it. it’s fine!

― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Monday, January 29, 2024 9:48 PM (one minute ago)

the MVP being forced by a league rule to give up caring about winning the MVP is not good, actually

im willing to trade the game limit for changing the name to the best player award

he’s not forced to do anything! he would sit games out with boo boos regardless. and if history is any guide, he wouldn’t be voted MVP anyway. the narrative is against him at this point without even taking into consideration the games played threshold. the system is working. no one who is deserving is being harmed

#1 Hooper Award

the ballingest baller trophy

it would be a shame if there were a truly arbitrary threshold like points per game or something. not suiting up because you like to take games off isn’t winning a lot of sympathy!

good for joel honestly. he’s focused on the prize. he has nothing else to accomplish in the regular season and is focused on his playoff legacy!

I feel like we’re arguing about a guy who deserves something, which is not the case

tbf to embiid he pushed for the mvp last year then he was injured and exhausted in the playoffs, also all the other years he was injured and exhausted in the playoffs

worth considering that not only is it hard for embiid to play 65 games in a season playing 40 minutes in a game is also tough

i’m pretty indifferent about all this but if embiid held on to the >1 point per minute thing while playing 58 games it would have been great to see the zach lowes of the world tie themselves up in knots over it.

the min games thing is ultimately going to lead to much wackier results on all nba 3rd team than mvp

yup

he also won't make all NBA which is just ridiculous and ahistorical but i'm being told by people who have posted to the same basketball message board for a decade that only bill simmons cares about basketball history so it's all good

Grizzlies hanging hanging with kings despite only having 8 players available and 11 players out

I do agree that since the all-nba teams are tied to salary that the games threshold probably shouldn’t apply btw, not that it matters to embiid specifically apart from his resume, the league might want to change that part

to be clear i think its fine to enjoy and care about basketball history i like histories of many types i just dont think its wise to make current decisions for the sake of history, like i think it would be good to reduce the number of games in a season even though it would fuck with the all time records, additionally i dont think awards are really "basketball" theyre some secondary lesser thing that arent that important imho

and kevin is correct that embiid could just play more games

League pass alert wolves thunder 2 point game 2 min left (now 4 cos ant dunk)

ah nice

wolves shut em down

Tune in to see Kenrich Williams airballing running hook shots through the lane

huge win for the Wolves!

nice one def

last word on this unless I am shamefully slandered again but another important part of this debate that I think gets lost sometimes is that when assessing “value” it’s not even as simple as adding up minutes and production, taking off an extra game a week compared to the competition has to have a non-negligible impact on a player’s per-minute production in a positive way. we’re always saying the product would be better if players didn’t have to play so many road back to backs, fewer games, etc, embiid is just an extreme case in point

yeah true

somehow I spoke bill walton into existence and I’m currently trapped in a stream where he and some other guys are just talking about whatever whole the beautiful game plays on half the stream, why do I deserve this

lol what

it’s true check out the nuggets stream it’s bill walton john fogarty and some other guy, there are alternate streams but I can’t switch out on my roku app

im watching the nugs broadcast on youtube tv its just the normal guys i dont have an option for the walton stream im getting ripped off over here

im finding evidence

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