2017-18 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD PART 1 ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE TEAMS ARE BACK

yeah having the right kind of loudmouthness to keep the media interested and being willing to damage yr own childs career just to get on is a rare mix, most sports dads who get to this level know enough to not publicly start shit with the team, like maybe what u get a reality show out of it, lamar cldnt even get one of those that wasnt some home made facebook shit, he already cost lozno 8 figures with his shoe deal bs, some true kill the goose shit

gotta think these attacks on the lakers are just a last ditch attempt to keep the media interested too

i thought the lakers prob should have picked lonzo but there was a higher chance of lavar poisoning the situation than with any other team

if lonzo was on the suns and lavar was calling out jay triano it would barely make the news but keeping him in LA means lavar is always going to be looming like this with a huge media mouthpiece. like imagine if they try and change his shot.

the upside of drafting him was that he might become one of the most popular players in franchise history if he becomes a perennial all star so i still get it but good luck to them

crazy to think the lakers pick the celtics might get this year was from the steve nash trade lol

the lakers fucked up p bad taking lonzo imo and even worse in imagineering the future of their team, if they just thought normal thoughts they cld have tatum and russell right now, instead they have ball and nothing

well they got kuzma from the russell trade so it prob worked out

thats a fluke man

also tatum-russell is still better

josh richardson has been really good for the heat the last month or so

When asked if he liked playing for Walton, he simply said, “I’ll play for anybody.” When asked if he needed to ask his father to tone it down, he said, “He’s a grown man. Like I said, he’s going to say what he’s going to say. I can’t do nothing about it.”

at some point this placid/passive "idk i just play ball" act is going to get old. lonzo can't just be a bystander in this.

I think that but then I think that’s a lot to ask of someone his age who likely grew up controlled by his dad

yeah fair, needs to happen tho. 20 million bucks comes with some tough choices.

def shd stand up for his coach in the media but prob better to deal w his dad behind closed doors

wolves up 20 on the cavs in the first half

i hope teague never comes back

man idk lebron just called tyus jones tyler in an interview then blew him up w a chase down block i think he has to retire

my god the cavs look drunk

69-42 at the half butler just made an insane steph lookin behind the back spin 3 at the buzzer

wolves up my 40 i cant look away

i'm not a big reference guy but this is a great reference

Isaiah Thomas ejected for E. Honda Street Fighter chop on Andrew Wiggins pic.twitter.com/iXyeuurENP

— Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) January 9, 2018

isaiah lil frusterated

cavs are going to be fine. cavs are going to be fine.

rocking slowly cavs are going to be fine

cavs need to make a trade baby

.........of lebron

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

+ nets pick --> LA

i bet that pick is basically completely off limits

i wonder if the nets separate themselves a lil from the cellar dwellers if it becomes less off limits

eek allen crabbe's knee just came real close to getting totally destroyed but he's walking.

theyre already a couple wins up on the worstest teams have a better point differential than anyone worse than them have no incentive to tank and shd be getting russell back soonish

even if the pick is like #8 they still need to keep it if they think lebron is gonna leave

i like how they play a lot--echoes of the early brad stevens years. everyone plays to their strengths, no one tries to do too much.

if they don't have that pick or lebron next year they'll have one of the worst situations in the league

sometimes u just gotta risk it all because youre the cavs

if they think bron is still convincible that trade cld do some work, and likely separates them from the pack in the east

lowry down with a back injury. rough game.

also cld see them thinking abt how that jordan love bron front line wld kill the warriors on the glass like they did the year they beat them

that trade is v intriguing

agreed, i'd do it in a second if i were the cavs.

lowry got carried off

i think they should basically just roll w/ what they have and see what happens. maybe make a smaller trade but i'd keep that pick.

My research partner @kevinarnovitz and I believe LeBron James' worst ever plus/minus in a game is -34. Tonight at Minnesota he's -39. Records are incomplete but I'd say it's a fair bet this is the worst he's been outscored in his life.

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) January 9, 2018

they cld prpb even leave isaiah and williams out of it tbh

i was gonna watch the cavs tonight, jeez i'm glad i didn't, what the fuck was that

theyre bad

need to shake things up make a trade

i heard they traded lebron

bout time

cavs currently 8th in both espn and 538s computer rankings pending the addition of tonights data