2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

knicks blew a 23 point lead to the zombie blazers today

love watching jonathan kuminga play

blazers gut their team and beat two teams desperate to turn it around, love 2 see it

I would be unsurprised if four months from now the Sixers lose a 1st round pick for Morey tampering re: Harden.

the league was really light on the bulls and heat in the tampering investigations re lonzo & lowry. only took away one second. i also heard someone speculate that given that the nets have been in the star hunting business lately they probably won’t press the league on another team’s tampering

blazers gut their team and beat two teams desperate to turn it around, love 2 see it

honestly i am conflicted, like objectively stomping on the sorrowful faces of the lakers and knicks is of course righteous, but otoh we covet the L's

xp

I just imagine given their history that Harden has a burner phone with "Morey" written on the case.

cam thomas for the nets looks like he will be a player. has scored 30, 20, 17 and 27 his last 4 games very efficiently and has 15 at half tonight. he doesn’t really do much except score (which was his rep coming out of college) but he’s looking like a really nice off the bench microwave scorer at worst

otoh we covet the L's

there's some compensating value in elevating the confidence of your young guys instead of crushing their spirit by inflicting a long painful losing streak on them when they get their big chance.

That Jokic block on OG was fantastic

JOEL. EMBIID. 😱

Dunk of the year from the Sixers' star?

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— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) February 13, 2022

the nets are the first team in NBA history to have been 10 games over .500 and then have an 11 game losing streak

only because LeBron never got injured

fun to see klay go nuclear down the stretch

the warriors almost gave away that game b/c of rebounding

they probably should have lost. brow and bron both missed point blank put backs

klay really jumped in the time machine tonight

LeBron has now scored the most points in NBA history

a decade ago I figured he had a good shot at breaking the record but it would probably be because he stayed in the league a year or two too long scoring 20 PPG for a bad team trying to goose its attendance. the fact that he broke it while still being a Top 10 player (ok, maybe 15) in the league is insane

i mean he didnt really break the record or at not least the one people care about, still got a couple few more years to go on the regular season one

I was thinking earlier today how LeBron is a one-off. His combination of size, strength, amazing athleticism, intelligence, durability, and complete skill set is unique. From the look of it he could play another three or four years at a pretty high level, if he wants. I wish he wasn't so determined to be a multi-billionaire as his only visible ambition outside of playing hoops.

What ambition do you wish he had outside of playing hoops?

Kazaam 2

he pretty much just made kazaam 2 but it was the sequel to the bball player movie people actually like instead

klay really jumped in the time machine tonight

― J0rdan S., Saturday, February 12, 2022 9:15 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes been looking GREAT. honestly looks so much better than i could have ever hoped. really fun game. kuminga showed out. russ played pretty much exactly how they need him to play. lebron was uncharacteristically bad in the 4th q.

i’m mostly wondering how he’s gonna hold up on defense in the playoffs. obviously his ability to release threes quicker than anyone in the league is still intact, and it seems like he’s been doing enough damage inside the arc to keep teams honest

injuries piling up for the bulls, kinda didnt believe in them anyway, but they are in danger

Chicago Bulls All-Star guard Zach LaVine will travel to Los Angeles to see a specialist for his left knee early this week, sources tell ESPN. LaVine has been dealing with recurring discomfort and will get further evaluation. He’s still planning to participate in All-Star Weekend.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 13, 2022

why is he still planning to participate in all star weekend…

Bulls have been terrible against good competition. Even fully healthy I don't think they have enough to truly contend.

gonna be some pretty good east teams going out in the first round this year

why is he still planning to participate in all star weekend…

― J0rdan S., Sunday, February 13, 2022 11:33 AM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe he meant the parts not on TV

gotta say seeing the heat and cavs with the 1st and 3rd seeds while the lakers struggle to keep their play-in hopes alive…that’s the good stuff

yeah lol

the bulls have the 13th best net rating and are down to 19th in defensive rating which def puts them pretty far outside contender status as far as we understand it but i do think having two individual scorers as good as derozan and lavine does make them slightly dangerous in the playoffs

Jokic got over quick for that block!

Are ball and Caruso gonna be healthy for the offs? Cos those are their defenders

Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton will undergo surgery to repair a fractured fourth metacarpal on his right hand Monday and is expected to return to the lineup before the end of the regular season, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 13, 2022

Allen probably caused the injury.

if the 8 east playoff teams end up coming from the group of miami, milwaukee, chicago, philadelphia, cleveland, brooklyn, toronto, boston, and atlanta i don’t think there will be a single bad east playoff series

i plan to watch all the east ones and none of the west ones until the conf finals

going to be a bloodbath in the east

Unless Dray comes back with a healthy back, Suns are going to have a pretty easy road.

Hawks/Celtics has been fun so far

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— Bally Sports North (@BallySportsNOR) February 13, 2022

norman powell broken foot

east is full of solid teams that as currently playing are not really impressive championship contenders

i need that lakers hbo series now

otm, i was getting pumped during that ad

Suns are going to have a pretty easy road.

Seems like for most of a decade whichever team came out of the east had a virtual cakewalk to the Final, while the west team had been battered in at least two hard-fought series. This would be an interesting turnabout.

wait till you find out how the suns made the finals last year