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

bucks have an added incentive of really needing an easy first round series since they maybe wont have giannis for at least part of it

i’m getting extreme bucks-heat post bubble playoffs round 1 vibes from the potential of a celtics-heat 1-8 series, but i guess we’d be able to savor the 36 hours of stress from celtics fans before they won by 17 in game 1

ha yeah i dont super care about it but i know many celtics fans are very traumatized by the heat, id rather not play them just cause they play hard and physical and can defend in the way that gives the celtics trouble, youd just rather play a soft team in the 1st, but id rather they play the heat than the sixers

indy is the matchup the celtics want

orlando is theoretically better than the heat but the celtics would prob rather get them than the heat too just cause theyre so green

one interesting wrinkle for the east is pacers-hawks, hawks have nothing to play for but they’re working trae back in and might treat that game as a useful warm up for the play in. heat (raptors), sixers (nets), cavs (hornets) all have cakewalk games

the knicks have been played close and been beaten by the bulls twice in the last 10 days but i have no idea why the bulls would play any of their starters

the only cross conference game tomorrow is pistons vs spurs lol the league had that one scoped out

the real nba finals

indy is the matchup the celtics want

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obvs bulls or hawks sneaking through would be great

No games today why

so that all the seeding deciding games can be played simultaneously tomorrow w/o any teams on back to backs

ah interesting

Two other related elements were reported this week, starting with an ESPN report on Wednesday that Lore and Rodriguez submitted financial projections that called for the Timberwolves to stay below the luxury tax line next season. That would mean they would have had to break up the team’s core to avoid the steep financial penalties. The report stated that the cost-cutting projections “were among the concerns that led Taylor to void” the deal.

https://theathletic.com/5411354/2024/04/12/timberwolves-ownership-fight/

Isaiah Hartenstein told Jalen Brunsonhe is black pic.twitter.com/iTJhngLAm7

— Eddie (@kameidotrading) April 7, 2024

investigating isaiah hartensteins life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Hartenstein apologies for the race science its just an interesting story, his father florian https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Hartenstein was born in german to a black american father and a german mother, seems like he grew up mostly in germany but then moved to america for high school and college where he met isaiahs mother, the family moved germany so his dad could do basketball stuff from when isaiah was 8 and he came up in various european leagues then moved on to the nba when he was 20, he seems pretty american in behavior but is also secretly german, he looks white but hes black, a international man of mystery

hes giving off strong german vibes here

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDCsWCiV0AAO-A_?format=jpg&name=medium

i love when announcers lean into the german pronunciation, like "hartenshtein"

He occupies a strange niche. There are some places in Europe where he'd be treated better as a Black man than as a German.

...where?

the rural parts of Greece definitely

oh

bad news, hartenstein has been traded to the kalamata knicks

at least he will have access to famous olives

Looks like the Regular season thread maybe won't crack 8000 posts before the playoffs start. We're slipping.

We might make it if we wait til the actual playoff teams are determined

i don't have anything to say I'm just stat padding

carry the hell on

1 post for every boneheaded turnover by the dubs this season and we’d be golden

^otm

Complete Eastern Conference Playoff and Play-In scenarios for tomorrow's games ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/zGDZlqLTrU

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) April 13, 2024

There are some weird scenarios for the Sixers and the EC in general.

That second to last scenario is PHI loses to BKN and still ends up 6th because MIA leapfrogs everyone.

miami pretty well locked into the playin but the other spot is up in the air

% making it into the top six
indy 74
orlando 56
philly 51
miami 20

via https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/playoff_prob.html

only two indy-orl combos "the celtics favor"

the west one

Complete Western Conference Playoff and Play-In scenarios for tomorrow's games ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/WQ1nLxuiIh

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) April 13, 2024

nugs need to win and minny and okc to lose to get the 1, tough spot

if all three win okc gets it, if minny wins and one of the others loses then minny gets it, weird tie breaker sitch

its funny the 1 seed is talked about as home court advantage when the bigger advantage is playing the worse teams

yeah but as the one seed you also avoid the 2/3 teams until the conf finals

yeah thats what im saying

def matters the most when theres 3 good teams

philly is sitting embiid today even tho i believe they need to win to avoid the play in, but they’re playing the nets, who stopped playing all their real players several games ago

thats weird he did leave their last game seemingly injured but then he came back

Joel Embiid sitting out today's game against the Brooklyn Nets is a precautionary measure, sources tell ESPN. The expectation is Embiid will be ready for Philadelphia's next game – either Tuesday or Wednesday in the 7-8 game, or next weekend in the first round of the playoffs.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 14, 2024

idk

maxey and friends can probably beat the nets

embiid and friends can def beat them

orlando broadcast telling us that brook lopez lives in orlando in the offseason maybe he wanted to be close to disney

some of these games are pretty tight

atlanta over indiana feels like the one that could potentially throw everything out of wack

not sure i'm ready to comprehend what happens if the cavs lose to charlotte

bucks playing all their guys minus giannis and down 5 at half to orlando

dame is 1-11 from the field