2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

this fuckin guy

there was a few years there where it was cool to hate one of the sickest most exciting basketball players who has ever lived. not me.

glad to be reminded that basketball owns

Steph is just the best ima cry for a month when he retires

Poole was wild as hell tonight lol bro just needs to calm down a bit

I think they need to start Lee at the 2. Poole is a better spark pg off the bench

"I'm from the logo with it" pic.twitter.com/dCqc0Gilg6

— nothim (@notgswchris) October 22, 2021

PG did come back and hit a pretty deep one

Sources: Ben Simmons spoke to Doc Rivers, Joel Embiid and entire 76ers team today and accepted everyone needs to take responsibility, including himself — but Simmons informed them all that he’s not mentally ready to play yet and needs time.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 22, 2021

“accepted everyone needs to take responsibility” what this mean

"I look forward to being traded, expect my last name to be DNP-*.* until then"

the implication from earlier news seems like Simmons is counting on the recent press/public willingness to acknowledge athletes stepping back due to acute mental disorders as being a healthy and not a disruptive thing and he wants to say that's where he's at. Which maybe he is! But he seems to still expect to get paid, which is where he may be miscalculating league and fan response

like "everybody needs to take responsibility" is him saying that the team and player's public outspokenness about his breakdown in the playoffs contributed to his mental instability and coming back would be detrimental to his well being. Maybe so! But perhaps consider exploring nullifying/renegotiating your contract?

i don't even know why the fuck i did this but i tossed off a snarky reply to a nets fan on twitter in the replies of that crazy knicks fans video and now it's getting shitloads of likes from knicks fans and i'm getting a few replies from nets fans and i don't even care about either about these teams, all the nets fans think i'm a knicks fan i think

lol nba twitter is a dark space never respond to anything

One obvious difference I see between Steph and Dame is that when Dame makes an impossible game-winning three he stares impassively like the assassin who just took you out, while Steph just runs down court laughing, like he's the happiest man on earth.

i think simmons is using the “mental health” card because if he claimed to have a physical injury the sixers could presumably force him to see doctors, get MRIs etc that would turn up no evidence of said injury. mental health status isn’t really “provable” in the same way — i’m not sure it has much to do with the public

i mean “back soreness” isn’t really provable either, of all the shit ben and his people have thrown against the wall mental health is probably one of the ones i believe the most.

getting booed can for sure negatively impact ones mental health

getting called a crumb bum can destroy one's self worth

"Trade me to the king crumb bums of sacramento. I will buy a farm in davis. I deserve it. I am simmo the crumb bum now."

lmao

if i were simmons id figure out a fake injury that required lots of massages and sitting around in the hot tub

simmons should go full hamlet and soliloquize nonsense all day around the locker room

There’s a new fence overlooking the players entrance at the Wells Fargo Center. In the past, fans could look down and see players enter the building. This taller fence is part of the enhanced security measures due to fans outrage with Ben Simmons. pic.twitter.com/b8TXJyA6S8

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) October 22, 2021

lollll

gotta admit it is pretty ballsy to anger the Philly fanbase like that

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🚨 Breaking: The NBA is preparing for a massive story accusing #Suns owner Robert Sarver of racism, sexism and sexual harassment in a series of incidents, sources say. With enough evidence to support such claims, there’s a real chance the league would forcibly remove Sarver.

— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) October 22, 2021

as far as I can tell it's actually Giannis who owns the Suns

The Mavericks are a bummer of a team to root for now. Feels like the pre-Dirk era when they weren't complete shit but also sort of hopeless going forward.

except for the part where they have one of the 5 best players in the NBA

The mid-90s Mavericks had Kidd/Jim Jackson/Jamal Mashburn playing at a high level and still felt (and were) rather hopeless. It's the front office incompetence at drafting and building around him that makes the team a bummer. Cuban inherited Dirk, lucked into Luka and other than that the best draft pick in two decades was... Josh Howard.

oh man cancel the fuck out of sarver yes

okay

pic.twitter.com/iaINS08yUz

— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) October 22, 2021

i def was wearing a shirt that said SICKOS when I read the tweet about sarver

yes ha ha ha yes

Cavs are fun to watch now

yeah idk

Embiid addressing the Philly crowd pregame: “I urge you guys to continue to support us and our teammate Ben because he’s still our brother”

— Cassidy Hubbarth (@CassidyHubbarth) October 23, 2021

He didn’t really sell it imo

he is, presently, as of this moment, our brother

we will happily exchange him for a different brother should one become available

lol

Mark Jackson sullenly says "I'd bench my son if he made a play like that"

i caught that--who the fuck enjoys listening to this guy??

#NBAxESPN FACUNDO "MAGIC" CAMPAZZO. pic.twitter.com/2QdyTzn099

— SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) October 23, 2021

xpost he's the worst and sadly it's pretty clear he's never getting another coaching job to get him off our hands

getting booed can for sure negatively impact ones mental health

― lag∞n, Friday, October 22, 2021 1:42 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

So too can insanely cheering for some dope to shoot 50% from the line and not be a total weirdo, apparently.

What in the world

How does he...

Absurd. pic.twitter.com/UA8nmGdtgo

— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) October 23, 2021

lol two spurs startle responce

ooof that's gotta sting for brooklyn they were in control of that game for like 90% of it