2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

Wtf is happening in brooklyn

all their guys are out

is that list of coaches ranked?

yeah doc rivers is #250 haha

nets gonna be in 8th

i guess the voting on that coaches list was the 30 current coaches and 13 retired coaches which explains the, um, recency bias of it

they couldve played this suns sixers game thats tied in the 4th

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 8, 2022 8:54 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

guess they did switch over to it lol

They even said they had a feed back like a couple minutes after the commercial break and then never mentioned that again. I call shenanigans! https://t.co/BIGo57o4yw

— Katie Morrison (@KatieMo61) February 9, 2022

i mean nobody had sabonis to the kings for halliburton but ppl have been talking about those guys in trades for months now

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 9 February 2022 10:16 AM

this has actually been a consistent (if low key) rumour for a while. or at least that the kings wanted sabonis, though getting haliburton for him was less likely than getting fox

morris bros strike again

Marcus Morris Sr. vs. Ja Morant pic.twitter.com/Nmuf9FMl78

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) February 9, 2022

nuggets bench is +20 vs a good bench, now I’ve seen it all

xp cool thing to do in general but especially cool when you're down by 22

nice lil 83 piece the nuggets hung on the knicks in the first half

giannis block on brow’s jumpshot 😍

watching the lakers struggle with half a roster didnt really do it for me. i need to see them get blown out at full strength

otm

the nuggets halftime show was amazing. thoroughly mediocre 10 year olds playing basketball. white team beats the blue team 4-0

aw lil bit sad

couple of courtside fans at the Pelicans game pic.twitter.com/PlaCXN3gZa

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) February 9, 2022

jfc Bucks save some of this for the playoffs

did Lebron just get T'd up for whining

watching the lakers struggle with half a roster didnt really do it for me. i need to see them get blown out at full strength

westbrook is missing jumpers from the charge circle far left. it's a problem.

for some reason the refs seem happier to hand bron Ts for ragging them this season. feels like it was a group decision behind the scenes to get him to back off some

that sequence by the Lakers was some of the ugliest basketball I've ever seen in my life

Lmaokers

jealous of all the Lakers fans who are getting to witness an all-time Bobby Portis game right now

it's wild that I can say with confidence: The Minnesota Timberwolves are a better team than the Lakers

Windhorst now reporting that he expects Harden and Simmons to get done by 3pm Thursday, fwiw.

it's not clear to me why the nets would pull the plug on harden at the deadline instead of just playing the season out. clearly ben simmons isn't going to be traded for anyone else in the next 24 hours

it's clear to me the deadline drama is what we here for so bring it

I think the nets might be worried about Harden acting like he did at the end of Houston, which he's basically started doing already.

Still not expecting it to get done before the offseason myself, but it will be "fun" if it does.

Yah and Harden may be making demands on the backend

That's basically what Windhorst was saying - Harden is basically screaming he wants out without literally going to the media to request it.

i dunno i mean, once the deadline passes what are harden's options? he's going to mope on the court and not try for the whole second half of the season and the playoffs? to prove what point? if he wants to go after the season he can go, but it's fair to assume if he was still on the nets he would try to win. in reality he really has no leverage after the deadline due to who has cap space in the offseason, if he wants to move to any contender incl philly it will have to be via sign and trade. the nets are holding the cards.

my only assumption is that the nets must think that acquiring simmons would make them better this season and given the circumstances i would disagree strongly w/ that reasoning

I could easily see Harden mope on the court and not try for the whole second half of the season.

Or have a recurring hamstring injury . . . .

The biggest impediment (acc to Windhorst) was Philly trying to do other things before the deadline to accommodate the Harden deal and they might not be able to get those done in time. I assume this means Harris.

Which teams have money to sign harden outright this summer? Does he really want to win? If so he should probably suck it up and stay. Maybe the urge to get tf away from Kyrie is super strong.

saw some thing that said philly can clear cap room for harden in the offseason if necessary

ppl are talking about the sixers dumping tobias harris into cap space in order to open up room to sign harden but that just feels like posturing to me if a simmons for harden sign and trade swap would be on the table which of course it would be

I could easily see Harden mope on the court and not try for the whole second half of the season.

Or have a recurring hamstring injury . . . .

― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:54 PM (one minute ago)

i don't think there's really any precedence for this in NBA history. the only time i can think of something like that happening was when vernon maxwell pretended to be injured in the 1995 playoffs after the rockets acquired clyde drexler and got banished from the team. but maxwell was a role player, not the second best player on the team and a previous MVP. for a player of harden's caliber to essentially throw a season while being on a contender as a way of pouting over still being on the team, i just don't think something like that has ever happened. kyrie's last year in boston? i don't think that's the same. i would call harden's bluff if i was the nets

I haven't been a big fan of Tobias' performance, but trading him and not replacing him with an equivalent* player in order to do the Harden trade seems like a bit of a lateral move.

*equivalent = say 70% of Harris production for a much lower cost.

Then I was just looking at Harden averaging 8 rpg and seeing that's more than Harris!

if harden doesnt want to be there and you have a deal on the table thats really the best youre gonna get and this season is looking pretty unsalvageable anyway i can see why theyd do it now, i guess the big question if if they can pry another good player off philly if so it makes it a no brainer vs this summer when theyll have less leverage

i agree there is a lack of precedent but i also think what we have seen continuously is that superstar players have gotten what they wanted over teams one way or another.

if the reporting on harden's mindset is true and he isn't traded, this is what i would expect: no way he plays hard for the rest of the regular season. he'll either stay hurt or play at half speed. the nets will end up on the wrong half of the bracket.

he would pull himself together enough to try in the playoffs but it will be a shaky team that's barely played together and they'll struggle to win more than a series based on what the matchups are. and then he'll leave.

all of that may be true and i still don't think they would be better this season w/ simmons, so what's the point. if he wants to go to philly in the offseason trade him then.

Durant's big-ass shoe really did ruin everything huh

xp yeah, i get it. i just don't think the nets can leverage harden in any meaningful way that benefits them.

Yah I don’t think the nets hold all the cards here. Sign n trades are hard to pull off. I’m sure they’d rather get the sure thing right now.

Philly certainly doesn't hold all the cards, I just think their situation has been "baked in" for a while since we know Simmons isn't playing for them again, whereas the Harden stuff is what is volatile right now.

Sign n trades are hard to pull off.

― Spottie, Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:36 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

also have weird cap repercussions

believe it has weird cap repercussions for the acquiring team but not the selling team. i could be wrong tho