2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

haha

I'm crying.

honestly fuck that

i agree that it sucks this seems to have worked out exactly as kyrie drew it up

It’s an advantage. Dude hates playing and got to sit out like 70% of the season with an excused absence now he’s free.

Meanwhile they’re getting beat by the ja-less Grizz

I love slo mo

Damn, all Harden had to do was wait a month

— Ahmed🇸🇴/Not A Lakers Fan (@big_business_) March 23, 2022

one of the weirder DST adjustments for me every year before the playoffs is east coast weekday games being over while it's still light out here, it's very unnatural

you're unnatural

Udonis Haslem was just physically restrained from going after Jimmy Butler, with Butler pointing back heatedly.

— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) March 24, 2022

jimmy seems super normal

Just a great win by the baby dubs tonight

harden looks so bad

I love all the interstitial pre-recorded player goofiness that you get on streams with arena feeds. Tonight it was Bam Adebayo dressed as a doctor with a goat mask on butchering Adele's "Hello". The other night it was Wiggins and Damien Lee trying to get each other to crack by trading compliments. It's corny but a lot more charming and natural than the state farm commercials.

agreed i love the jumbotron vids, i saw that wiggins/lee bit lol, its weird that the teams dont put them online tweet them out whatever theyre gold

celtics do one where they find an embarrassing old social media video of one of the players and have the rest of them comment, they found one of pritchard dancing and lip syncing that everyone seemed to enjoy

Lol, that sounds rad.
I'm kinda grateful that the teams/league don't try to milk those segments too much. The players might not play it so loose if it weren't ephemeral. I hope someone's archiving the best bits, tho.

yeah true prob best they stay in stadium

Those TO fillers are better than the "fast food products race around a track" videos, which never fail to annoy me because they usually get a bigger crowd reaction than the fucking basketball game and thus make plain just how many non hoops die-hard fans there are in attendance.

yeah they pack every down moment with something, lower bowl mostly full of corporate accounts that couldnt care less

silicon valley billionaires things of that nature

memphis vibes check

Memphis rolls deep… even in postgame interviews! Interview with Desmond Bane (and the entire team…)

One word to describe The Grizzlies? “I have two. We here.” pic.twitter.com/rZSngT8qnD

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) March 24, 2022

kinda feel like Memphis is a Top 5 team rn

i mean they have the 2nd best record in the nba. they have a lot to prove in the playoffs

theyve had a very easy sched w/o ja iirc, theyre a good team tho, they play good, but yeah prob not ready to really make noise in the offs

kd-kyrie combining for nearly 80 and still losing by double digits has to make one think about this whole nets project tho

they gave up 76 points in the first half

jjj is shooting 42/32 splits on the season. two seasons ago he was 47/40. and i guess it doesnt matter for the team?

Erik Spoelstra: “What? You think I’m going to fu*king fight you?

Udonis Haslem to Jimmy: “I’ll beat your a*s.”

(h/t @TedBuddy8)

pic.twitter.com/0lfu0xOzI6

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) March 24, 2022

more stuff on that:

I’ve watched this 35 times. Angry Spo!!!!pic.twitter.com/l91QHXisfj

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) March 24, 2022

Coach Spoelstra's full postgame remarks after an up and down night @MiamiHEAT | #HEATCulture pic.twitter.com/o10A11fQzi

— Bally Sports Sun: HEAT (@BallyHEAT) March 24, 2022

i think it's become clear to me now that UD hangs around the NBA hoping someone will agree to fight him

you just have to hope its someone from the other team tho

Kat Beverly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrXW1A-d9o

sometimes you need to scrap it out in the locker room just make sure no one has a loaded gun

haha

the reactions from the zapruder footage are really good

Look at PJ. Jimmy must’ve been saying some wild stuff lmao pic.twitter.com/BVZGiwLEr1

— heat hive (@MyHeatBurner) March 24, 2022

pic.twitter.com/jQVEr23rjl

— Not Terribly Productive (@802hansolo) March 24, 2022

the funny thing is they went on like a 20-2 run immediately after this happened to tie the game but then they couldn’t pull away in fourth

Yah they turned it up. Feel like they’re just one of those weird teams where this may be a shrug and move on Jimmy has to be a psycho once ina while thing

Watching a game from right behind a bench is a bucket list dream of mine

Was literally just thinking yesterday that I'm gonna do that for my 50th bday. So uh either the Suns or Bulls better have a good team in 6 years.

Time to start saving up lol

love butler getting up and walking away from haslem so dedmon can hold him back haha

https://pudding.cool/2022/02/redraft/

not sure what their formula is but lol at the Wizards being the only team in the NBA to have literally never drafted the best available player

No offense but Mookie Blaylock the 18th best player of the last 30 years?

yeah wtf that's bizarre. it looks like R-WAR has a thing for overrating PGs, but still very odd

they might be using CN-WAR (cool name war)

mookie was the best

def an underrated player

Pioneer in getting busted for weed