2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

i appreciate hollinger consistently laying out the real front office work even tho its basically irrelevant and tedious

Lakers cost themselves roughly $5M in tax payments and a small trade exception by not just sending cash to another team to take DeAndre Jordan at the trade deadline. Hey, it's the Buss's money, but that's some FO malpractice right there.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) March 1, 2022

AND NOW MORANT THE BUZZER. IMPOSSIBLE pic.twitter.com/1XCSnM4k2j

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 1, 2022

Fultz hits the acrobatic layup 🔥 pic.twitter.com/QLkkvkCHsl

— NBA TV (@NBATV) March 1, 2022

the pass on that morant shot

Uhhhh this too

Ja Morant just had the dunk of the year

Oh my pic.twitter.com/mzgJVlcOKR

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 1, 2022

UNREAL BUZZER BEATER BY JA 🚨 pic.twitter.com/ngxXk8w5xM

— ESPN (@espn) March 1, 2022

Ended with 52

"the thing with ja is he seems like a gamer."

Left to go hike before Spottie posted that but somehow started thinking of the Ja talk here while I was on the trail, and that's what I was gonna say. Idk if anyone here has made D Rose comparisons but I think Ja is even more of a gamer plus more intelligent. It was kinda easy to befuddle Rose st crucial moments w defensive tactics. Guess the advantage prime Rose had was that big body.

just realized ja is coming up here on thursday. i'm not working this week and should probably just go.

"the thing with ja is he seems like a gamer."

Left to go hike before Spottie posted that but somehow started thinking of the Ja talk here while I was on the trail, and that's what I was gonna say. Idk if anyone here has made D Rose comparisons but I think Ja is even more of a gamer plus more intelligent. It was kinda easy to befuddle Rose st crucial moments w defensive tactics. Guess the advantage prime Rose had was that big body.

ok that buzzer beater was amazing but uh the pass by Steven Adams is also insane

def go xxp

my god tickets for this are straight down the road of temptation...i could legit sit courtside 2nd row for 500 bucks which yes is a lot but in the scheme of historical nba ticket pricing is also not a lot

feel like we should change J0rd’s name to J4

Just watched Memphis recap, that dunk from Ja whoaaa

interesting heat-bulls game tonight. the heat threw a bunch of different looks at the bulls… had bam on demar, butler on vuc, then started hard doubling demar and lavine off pick and rolls and making anyone else on the floor beat them. held them to 99 points.

fuckin ja

heat have kinda flown under the radar this season. pretty much all their main guys have missed like 15+ games and theyre still the #1 seed. getting healthy and gelling at the right time. lets just ffwd to the playoffs already

the rest of the season in the east should still be pretty good, everyone is so bunched up and the seeding is gonna be really important. there's a scenario where, like, the heat get the 1 seed, philly and milwaukee go 2/3 and the 4/5 is cleveland/chicago w/ the 7 seed being the nets. the heat would only need to get thru the 8 seed and then one of the bulls and cavs to get to the east finals. there's also a scenario where the nets are the 8 seed, the bucks are in the 4/5 and they have to get thru both of them to even get to the east finals. the permutations are gonna have a huge effect on every team.

the rest of the season in the west might be a bit snoozy tho it seems like everything there is just a prelude to the playoffs at this point

yeah the rest of the season should be fun just no more injuries is all we ask

bill simmons floated an interesting educated theory on his pod w rusillo that the league is going to expand to seattle and vegas, with fenway sports, who is already in business with lebron via his part ownership of liverpool, being the leaders to buy the vegas team, and lebron going to play there w/ an understanding that he will get an ownership stake once he retires. and they would prob draft bronny to make it happen. i love it

oh thats juicy

+ return of the supersonics??

just realized ja is coming up here on thursday. i'm not working this week and should probably just go.

― call all destroyer, Monday, February 28, 2022 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

update: i bought tickets. going to the game, baby! i can't believe it.

boom. did you get the courtside seats!?

niice

enjoy

bill simmons floated an interesting educated theory on his pod w rusillo that the league is going to expand to seattle and vegas, with fenway sports, who is already in business with lebron via his part ownership of liverpool, being the leaders to buy the vegas team, and lebron going to play there w/ an understanding that he will get an ownership stake once he retires. and they would prob draft bronny to make it happen. i love it

I was happy the Wolves won but was such a bummer that I saw what might be the worst game Ja Morant ever played, just looked it up

Wolves won 138-95, Ja had 11 points on 3/9 FG, O rebounds, 5 assists, -31

yeah 30th metro area population in the middle of an otherwise uninhabited desert, its borderline down there with the pittsburgs kanas citys cininattis and so forth, not sure wed be showering those places with teams if they didnt already have them xp

Vegas is a strange market. It attracts tons of tourists in a spending mood who are looking for entertainment, but it won't have a strong local fan base. Would be nice to see Seattle get a team again.

yeah be curious to know if their existing teams are attracting tourists, doesnt seem like quite a natural fit but who knows

it seems like a foregone conclusion that seattle will get another team. not sure i’ve heard anyone talk about expansion without that being treated as a given

wtg cad

vegas will def be a destination for visiting fans and now that gambling is basically legal, even more of a destination for all-star games, nba drafts, and such

the vegas hockey team reports 104% capacity attendance per game this year bcuz they sell standing room only tickets. i’m sure that’s prob fibbed to some degree but based on a quick google search they seem to actually do fairly well attendance wise. the franchise did have the insane fortune of making the stanley cup in its inaugural season so i do think they were able to quickly build up a genuine local fanbase in a way that is prob not replicable. the raiders reported 93% capacity last year which was in the bottom third of the NFL.

even if it’s not lebron it feels like a vegas team in the NBA would be likely to try and lure some aging star to sell tickets to tourists instead of building thru the draft and potentially being bad for its first three years

wonder how their local tv market would compare to other cities

not sure about sheer size but last year the hockey team had the second highest TV ratings in the league

The Penguins placed themselves back on top of the NHL’s local TV ratings, with games on AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh averaging a 7.79 rating that is up 36%. That is hardly a surprise, given that Pittsburgh has occupied one of the top-two spots for at least the past 15 years. The big surprise is in Las Vegas, where Golden Knights games on AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain posted the league’s second-best rating. The 5.08 rating is up 31%.

Nice

i'd think st louis would be a workable market but maybe the nba's weird okc/memphis/indy triangulation cuts into that and kc. i dont know how regional fanbases work

san diego also obv a decently big one

kansas city has always been mentioned as being near the front of the line bcuz they have a full sized basketball arena but no team. not sure if they would still be contenders. ppl mention louisville bcuz the college team plays in a full sized arena & obv it’s a big basketball state. have to imagine they’d look at nashville too. feel like a major part of it would just be which groups of rich ppl would be willing to put up the most money & in which cities they’d be trying to do that in

xxxp the courtside seat was a single and i decided to attempt to be a normal human being and invite a friend. got very respectable lower bowl seats though.

the knights had a little bit of an advantage in getting their first, and they were also good right away which never ever happens with expansion teams.

wonder if an up and coming city like austin would be another possibility. I vote san diego tho because there’s a good chance I live there in a few years

i don’t think san diego gets brought up much, don’t believe they have an arena which seems prohibitive given the other contenders

I also assume that a lot of LVK tix purchases in Vegas are hotels having tickets on hand to comp gamblers with.

i don’t think san diego gets brought up much, don’t believe they have an arena which seems prohibitive given the other contenders

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, March 1, 2022 11:30 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its unfortunate that balmer didnt move the clippers there

the nba definitely shouldnt expand. the talent spread is in a pretty good place right now and theres already too many teams. but whatever

i agree but also i think seattle deserves a team and i dont know who you could move at this point that wouldn't leave just as awkward a hole as the seattle one