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its so good to see them flourish and the superteams perish

turns out building and growing into something together actually works

kyrie is worth more than that

doesn't matter. what matters is who has the most leverage in the trade and if the nets are trying hard to escape a bad position the other GM would be a fool not to use their leverage by underbidding

the superteams are perishing because half the players that want to superteam are checked out of basketball

turns out team play was always more important

i had absolutely no idea that sean marks was from new zealand until i watched the clip in that tweet

same haha

pretty cool that all the teams left are filled with homegrown talent

― he was eating Vaseline like it was a bunch of cheeseburgers (Spottie), Wednesday, May 11, 2022 2:34 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its so good to see them flourish and the superteams perish

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 2:36 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

except the celtics and superstar mercenary al horford, shameful

big al is an honorary celtics lifer

the line for superteam is when you have 2 all-stars who didn't come up with the team imo

kd warriors were not a superteam by this definition and i'm okay with that. you're allowed to add one guy to your homegrown team no matter how good he/they are

see i feel like they were, being a superteam has a lot to do with just doing cheap shit stacking the deck and so forth

also kd just being there for a few years then peacing like nbd was very superteam

hmm maybe

never fully committed to the project just wanted a ring

also they way they had to gut their team to get him, being top heavy is a core superteam characteristic

actually my def would make the bulls a superteam this year so yeah let's scratch that

superteam needs two superstars i think regular allstars wont do

the only current superteams are nets and lakers. clippers kinda were but kawhi doesnt play enough. everyone else has gotten their guys reasonably

feel like the basic metric is does adding this person make the team feel less cool and a little gross, by that measure the warriors were a superteam and kd a merc

clippers are a superteam kawhi being injured doesnt matter the dead is done, and they mortgaged their future to do it which is classic

by that metric are the sixers a superteam now with harden?

kd dubs def a super team but the league was dumb and let it happen due to the cap jump and choosing not to smooth it. i think the collective bargaining agreement has worked otherwise. we're seeing it now.

id say philly are a normal team with some superteam characteristics, but if they deal for another guy theyre a full superteam

yeah the leagues in good shape only a couple big market teams feel gross and they play too gross to win so it doesnt matter much

the process had some resonance with superteamdom just weird bottom line bad vibes shit

are ratings still up for the offs or was that just the first round bc of nets celtics and such

yeah the leagues in good shape only a couple big market teams feel gross and they play too gross to win so it doesnt matter much

― ciderpress, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 12:34 PM (forty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yah the suns vs bucks in the finals while the lakers and nets get embarrassed within a year is glorious

xp the warriors vs grizz game one was massive. ja has captured the hearts of the youths (and the dubs are always a huge draw)

yeah ja blew the fuck up this year couple people who dont follow hoops have mentioned him to me which surprised me figured that wouldve taken longer

my dad calls ja “Jay Durant”

lmao

are we on the third year straight of ja having knee issues? i hope he can develop a rock solid pull up and 3p shot cos crashing to the rim/ground on every other possession is not sustainable. also he should def wear double knee pads like ewing did.

oh huh interesting. whenever i overhear kids in the neighborhood talking about ball its always giannis

its always giannis

rightly so. he's a unicorn, much better than ja, likeable, and plays the kind of game that impresses more people than jokic's game does, even though jokic's unicorn skill set impresses more hoops insiders

when i went to celtics/grizz in march there were a ton of young kids with ja jerseys

yeah hes pretty much all i hear about from casuals/teens

he has a highlight just about every game and highlights are what bring the views on social

i think the really young kids, even more than casuals, have a different kind of fanship that's got a big component of starry-eyed worship.

of course

little guys are more relatable

ja is so much cooler than giannis lol

consuming a lil punditry re kyrie and everyone seems to have forgotten that he went awol two years ago

in other words being available is about more than just the covid vacation this year

And also health which he’s never healthy either

yeah huge issue too

Nikola Jokic accepted his MVP in Serbia.

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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) May 11, 2022

oh my god

that’s got me a little misty

Sean Marks said he hasn't talked to Kevin Durant since the season ended on the state of the team. Said Durant (who has been in Monaco and Greece) wanted to get away for a bit.

— Alex Schiffer (@Alex__Schiffer) May 11, 2022