2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

Two straight games to end the season, Thunder played only these six players:

Vit Krejci (min contract)
Jaylen Hoard (10-day)
Georgios Kalaitzakis (10-day)
Zavier Simpson (10-day)
Melvin Frazier (10-day)
Isaiah Roby (making $1.5M, but has only played 14-18 min in these 2 games) https://t.co/91d9CDY6o9

— Tom Ziller (@teamziller) April 11, 2022

chet holmgren come on down

There’s initial optimism that Dallas star Luka Doncic hasn’t suffered a significant injury, source tells ESPN. Team is calling it a strained left calf.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 11, 2022

Not good

Vogel canned

lol

poor guy. i first read that as 'caned'

Frank Vogel has coached his final game for the Los Angeles Lakers, a decision that's expected to be shared with him as soon as Monday

jesus show a tiny bit of respect

Frank Vogel has coached his final game for the Lakers, a decision that’s expected to be shared with him as soon as Monday, sources tell ESPN. Lakers’ search expected to be lengthy and expansive with no clear initial frontrunner.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 11, 2022

Frank Vogel: “I haven’t been told shit.”

— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) April 11, 2022

The Lakers had eight months to decide how they wanted to fire Frank Vogel and that's what they landed on. Just wow.

— Bill Oram (@billoram) April 11, 2022

i mean imagine having the entire world know you've been canned and *maybe* your boss will tell you about it tomorrow

When I see you I’m putting my hands on you. @facucampazzo

— Wayne Ellington (@WayneEllington) April 11, 2022

make lebron player-coach or gtfo

Doc is an idiot. Paul Reed was G-League MVP last year and is a super-athletic modern big who is still raw. He will likely end up being a nothing player, but Jordan is a negative player. Reed gives you a very active defender, rebounder, etc. who is at least the type of rim runner that should do well with Harden. Why not try it before you lose to Toronto and get fired?

Also, no more Australians, pls, thanks.

pic.twitter.com/wvjv7y0Q24

— Anthony F. Irwin (@AnthonyIrwinLA) April 11, 2022

nuggets have two whiplash artists on their roster now

i meant in terms of when to make the playoffs thread, i agree that its not really the offs

― ciderpress, Sunday, April 10, 2022 5:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

officially it’s this weird netherworld where the stats don’t even count. but to me the playoffs is where there are 8 teams… the play in teams are trying to get there

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 10, 2022 6:58 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is correct

― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, April 10, 2022 5:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

imo new thread once the final 16 teams are locked in

i do think its really weird that this games dont count for any stats in any way

it’s the worst possible solution

The Lakers are expected to fire head coach Frank Vogel, sources tell The Athletic. Among the franchise’s top targets for the position, multiple sources say, is Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse.

haha

amazing

https://cdn.nba.com/manage/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-11-at-12.35.42-AM-1-1568x857.jpg

im going with this to end up as:

LAC - 7
MIN - 8

BKL - 7
ATL - 8

yeah same. the clippers formula in playoff games is pretty good

did a 9 or 10 play their way in last year? i forget

9 memphis beat 8 golden state

if the 2 celtics play 7 nets this year it will be the inverse of last year when the nets were 2 and the celtics 7

which would be fun but maybe even more fun is the nets losing to the cavs

that would be so good

that would be fun for fans of the boston celtics

hear me out what if they lost their second play in game too

congratulations to the eastern conference!

The Eastern Conference won the season series with the Western Conference (226-224) for the first time since the 2008-09 season.

This is the second time in the last 23 seasons that the East won more interconference games than the West.

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) April 11, 2022

congrats!

we did it

hard to believe the east in no longer the conference of doormats

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, February 3, 2022

figured since the play in games are a weird special netherworld that we should have a weird special thread

*~*~* 2022 PLAY-IN GAMES THREAD *~*~*

we couldn't do it until Lebron left

'Discontent' between Kevin Durant and James Harden began when Harden showed up to training camp out of shape, per @kevinarnovitz

Durant was 'astonished' by his 'lack of explosiveness and sluggish play' pic.twitter.com/FwZ79buYgr

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 12, 2022

harden seems like a good teammate, solid culture guy

likable, not weird and baffling

Mavs announce Luka Doncic has started treatment for his left calf strain and there is no timetable for his return

rip

nba players seem constantly surprised by things everyone else already knows. russell westbrook is gonna shoot a lot of bad shots, james harden is going to be out of shape

ah luka that sucks hopefully its not too bad and he can get it sorted before the offs start

'no timetable' doesnt sound promising for making it back any time soon

yeah

mavs without luka yuck. that roster is already sketchy. but the jazz will probably give up four 15+ point 4th quarter leads anyway.

apparently the median time lost for a calf strain this season is 16 days which isn't good

it will certainly be quite a capper to the Jazz season if they lose to a Luka-less Mavs