2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

i'm hoping this plays out w/ morey doing nothing this season and then dumping ben in the offseason for harden. as someone who wants to see the funniest most terrible thing happen to the sixers

that does feel like the right outcome

that def feels like whats happening, wouldnt be shocked if there was some morey and harden backchannel tampering going on

That's been the rumor in Philly media for at least a week or two now. Morey is keeping open the Harden possibility and so won't be making a move in until the offseason.

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Since Morey's choices around Simmons until now have been almost impossible to fathom, that rumor makes about as much sense out of what we can see as any explanation I've heard so far. Doesn't mean it makes any real sense, but it gets a bit closer to it.

Going to see the Dubs tonight, and we are going early to watch the shoot-around (the tickets came with an option to come early), because of course we want to watch the Splash Bros do their thing!

nice!

Smart move for sure, I always like checking out warmups.
Have fun!

Enjoy, i am jealous

fair

Daryl Morey says the Ben Simmons situation and how it’s gotten to this point is “very surprising.”

“I think everyone needs to look in the mirror - including myself. … this is not a good situation. We’re all responsible.”

— Harrison Sanford (@HarrisonSanford) January 20, 2022

lol…

Hahaaa

love to reflect and grow

im starting with the man in the morey
im asking him to change his ways

Morey further explained that he figures almost every NBA player would be thrilled to play with Embiid, so even though Ben Simmons repeatedly announced to the entire world that he wouldn't return to the Sixers, Morey is very surprised that he actually won't return to play for the Sixers. This indicates Morey's head may be full of sand and someone should look into that possibility.

hahaha bison

“We absolutely need to get an impact player, there’s an impact player that has to be in the top 30 of the league. Because Joel’s playing amazing and has lifted us into probably top five percent plus for the title just on his play, now we might be able to do it with a top-40 player who’s a great fit.”

this is hilarious to me

wait you're going to have to prove to me that's a real quote

https://975thefanatic.com/2022/01/20/daryl-morey-talks-about-trading-ben-and-taking-advantage-of-prime-embiid/

it's supposedly in this radio interview, the excerpt was quoted here

i love how he’s talking himself down in real time. went from star to top 30 player to top 40 player all in the span of one quote

if daryl really will take a top 40 player in the NBA then he should have no problem trading simmons

sounds like hes ready to deal!

im starting with the man in the morey
im asking him to change his ways

― class project pat (m bison), Thursday, January 20, 2022 8:36 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

A+

We absolutely need to get an impact player, there’s an impact player that has to be in the top 30 of the league. Because Joel’s playing amazing and has lifted us into probably top five percent plus for the title just on his play, now we might be able to do it with a top-40 player who’s a great fit.”

This cannot be real. I refuse to believe someone would say this under the circumstances even if it were true.

a top 50 player if hes nice

lol

a guy in the league who has scored before look that's my final offer

A top 60 player if he promises to play like a top 40 player

morey talking exactly like the guys who call into nba podcasters doing live stuff on twitter spaces is too much

a guy who will dunk once in a blue moon

awesome mavs/suns game, classic cp3 performance, solid stats but just dominated the game while in it, ended up +24. done this shit his whole career

20-5-11-2-1, 0 turnovers, +24. just another nights work for a point guard who will be 37 in a few months

and bismack biyombo coming up huge in the 4th

it’s crazy to me that bismack plays with paul btw, have thought about this several times. though they don’t play a lot of minutes together

They could have had Dejounte murray. He’s top 40 right?

he’s prob gonna make the west all star team at this rate but do we know for a fact that that he was legitimately on the table?

he still isn’t really an outside shooter at all so i could see why they might’ve turned that down, given the reasons that you’re trading simmons. same thing with de’aaron fox. but it seems doubtful they’ll get a player better than murray, just in a vacuum, back at this point, tho perhaps the overall package will be better that what they could’ve gotten from the spurs

Refs want to make this a game…

yikes what a warriors loss

Warriors missed about 25 wide open threes and turned the ball over about 25 times and the pacers g league team stuck it to em

ah missing threes will do it to you

It’s harder to see all of the sucking from the rafters.

Was always a trip for me to watch broadcast version of a game I saw in person

Yeah. Maybe I’ll try to sit through that abomination sometime tomorrow.

They could have had Dejounte murray. He’s top 40 right?

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

he’s prob gonna make the west all star team at this rate but do we know for a fact that that he was legitimately on the table?

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

he still isn’t really an outside shooter at all so i could see why they might’ve turned that down, given the reasons that you’re trading simmons. same thing with de’aaron fox. but it seems doubtful they’ll get a player better than murray, just in a vacuum, back at this point, tho perhaps the overall package will be better that what they could’ve gotten from the spurs

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

dejounte's not a "good" 3 point shooter but hes a willing one, and is taking harder (self-created) ones this year which accounts for the kinda bleh percentage. he's also got a fairly reliable midrange game (46% from 10-16 ft, KD is 52% from this spot for comp). add his point of attack d, rebounding, playmaking, and he does 80% of what ben does while doing a lot of things ben doesn't (shoot, play basketball, like basketball).

lol

The Rockets have shown interest in trading John Wall for Russell Westbrook and draft picks.

👀

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— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) January 21, 2022

sure why not

RWB's usage rate is 27.7%...he plays 35 minutes a game. how often does a "contender" (you know what I mean) trade away a player like that?

that trade would be hilarious

the lakers should trade... lebron