2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

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

i keep hearing ppl bring up westbrook for wall but i have no idea why the lakers would do that

a driving sense that they have to do something, anything

you know it's really too bad the lakers won that fake championship a couple years ago, would prefer the story of lebron's time in los angeles being an unmitigated failure but i am a cruel and unyielding man

its kind of funny this way too tho

lol i kind of forgot that happened

i have fond memories of the bubble, so much ball, a radiant light during a dark and troubling time. here's a clip from the bubble that some posters might enjoy reliving, just to jog the memory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSwLNTlNHv0

If you want to get freaky, how about Russ and Lebron for Simmons and Harris?

hmm i dont remember that block did the bubble even happen seems weird idk

really impossible to say from this distance if it was a collective hallucination or not, i prefer not to reflect on that time

oh hey this is out of character

🚨 Grayson Allen alert 🚨 pic.twitter.com/35FNWbcHoU

— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) January 22, 2022

a normal cool role player

Has there been a douchier player?

some really bad basketball being played in this game. Both teams are shooting like 20% from 3 and DeRozan is on pace to shoot 70 free throws

Giannis and Portis like Batman and Robin out there