part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

idk a contenderish team that would really have space for lma that isn't gonna be off the bench

too bad the nets just signed blake lol

he'll prob go to portland and it'll be some feel good Coming Home thing and he'll suck but aww

say it ain't so, clay. but olshey might be sentimental about his past high first round picks, so I suppose it could happen.

i think he'll go to portland if he's bought out. may go back as a fa next year on a 1 year min or something.

The NBA has fined Miami’s Meyers Leonard $50,000 and he has been suspended from team activities for one week. Full league announcement: pic.twitter.com/ISEhD8pTGn

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) March 11, 2021

i dont really want to give advice to shitbag fuckheads but since i doubt theyre reading this anyway, knowing how commonplace shouting slurs is in the gaming you do with a headset, if you have a tendency to do that, and if you have something to lose in life, why not think about not streaming, then you can enjoy video games and racism on your own time with an anonymous account and still maintain good standing in your job for which you are paid 8 figures a year

but on the other hand whatever he got suspended for a week and mostly itll prob blow over for him, tho he did take some reputational damage, hes prob gonna have to do some annoying sensitivity training and record embarrassing commercials or whatever

lol must we

Udonis Haslem on the impact of Meyers Leonard's words on the Jewish community, "We apologize. That won't tolerated here. I felt that. I have a lot of Jewish friends. They call me Udonis Haslem-berg at times."

— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) March 11, 2021

lmfao

udonis has the clout in miami to get away with that one

i appreciate his dedication to corny jokes but sometimes you gotta just keep it in reserve, wouldve been perfect for an event with season ticket holders for instance

lloolll

celts seem primed for a strong 2nd half push. kemba finding his legs, j tay a couple more weeks removed from covid, marcus back, time lord gonna keep stealing bad tristan minutes, teague will get cut, etc.

that was for the celts thread but w/e

yeah if they can find some health thatll be huge, plus maybe theyll make a trade too, and the bench could maybe play better than their worst possible, tho some of that has to do with having to fill bigger roles cause of the injuries, and tbh teague and thompson have been better recently, which not coincidentally coincided with kemba playing great

Hope Meyers Leonard ruptures both achilles on his next drive. On the other hand, lol at Haslem.

the Hawks also have potential to make a little run if they get healthy. i'm talking a run at the 7/8 seed tbc

yeah the bottom of the east, unsurprisingly, is wide open

this is one of those seasons where a team at .500 at the all-star break could absolutely win the east

and that team will be the one that i like

the pacers need tj warren and levert to start playing asap and they'll probbaly get back in the mix. the heat and raptors are better than their records.

could see the knicks and hornets falling out

knicks have gotten insanely lucky with opponent 3pt shooting so far

if anyone outside of the top 3 makes the ECF this year i'd be pretty stunned, i don't think boston, miami or toronto have enough juice this year

if the celtics upgrade their bench they have a shot imo

"i don't think boston, miami or toronto have enough juice this year"

agree but wouldn't be surprised by any of these making a deep run, either. 3 of the top coaches in the league and rosters that have made deep runs in the recent past. plus all three (actually prob not the raps) could have the best player on the floor on any given night/series.

i think the raptors are about as good as their record actually

yeah the raptors roster is not that great

neither is the east

they may trade lowry tho

at the moment there are 15 teams in the league who are between 5 and 10 games back from their conferences first seed, which i think is more middle class parity than usual and is leading to a lot of churn when they play each other, fewer bottom feeders giving up easy wins etc

yah its making for an interesting season imo

i just learned via tv ad that blake griffin is the host of a new prank show

its called pranksters

wait sorry its called double cross

just saw that ad. i would never watch that show but blake seems like he would be good on tv.

where can i find a strength of schedule forecast for the remainder of the season?

this seems like the simplest possible one: http://www.tankathon.com/remaining_schedule_strength

i know this is the last thing on anyone’s mind but mo bamba looks like a completely below average player out there

doesn't seem like it's going to happen for him

he might just need some more bamba

he has that thon maker thing going on where he’s really tall but the only thing he does is shoot corner threes poorly

if i were really tall i would shoot dunks

jimmy butler has been putting up lebron stat lines practically every night since coming back from covid

warriors have had a nico mannion-jordan poole-kelly oubre-eric paschall-juan toscano anderson line up out there for several minutes now, gotta be one of the worst 5s to see the floor in the league this season

steve kerr giving off point shaving vibes

i keep looking up and seeing nico mannion and wondering if i accidentally started streaming the g league

they’ve dropped 13 points this quarter with this line up out there, legit have no idea what kerr is trying to accomplish aside from winning money on the clippers -7

the warriors are the patriots with less of a track record

some guy named Bryn Forbes went 7/7 from 3 for the Bucks tonight

The Clippers rested Kawhi on every b2b this season but this time it was because they were ducking the Lakers? It seems far-fetched to me.

― reggae mike love (polyphonic)

Okay fine, they were ducking the Lakers