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Post by haisan on Feb 9, 2023 4:45:44 GMT -5
Glad Durant is going West. Less competition for us, and maybe will further the bidding war between Memphis and New Orleans for OG (if there really is one).
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Post by sandman on Feb 9, 2023 8:20:53 GMT -5
The Jazz are loaded with a bunch of 1st round picks.
Not sure what Minny is doing...
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Post by scully19 on Feb 9, 2023 10:07:21 GMT -5
The Jazz are loaded with a bunch of 1st round picks. Not sure what Minny is doing... It's a great question. They effectively traded Russell for Conley and some 2nd round picks. Conley is probably a better fit for the team but also way older and could be done next year. It seems like this is the trade before the KAT trade after a slew of failure with the Rudy trade. Conley as a true PG can setup teammates that are better than him at scoring as well as have Rudy get easy baskets. If that doesn't work then they move KAT to get back all the draft capital they lost and build around ANT plus leftovers.
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Post by kap on Feb 10, 2023 11:13:22 GMT -5
The NBA store has some deep discounts on Durant jerseys if anyone is interested.
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Post by scully19 on Feb 10, 2023 21:25:36 GMT -5
Holy shit, apparently Gary Payton was playing through pain at the behest of the Portland staff and was given shots to be able to and none of this was told to the Warriors before the trade. The whole thing might end up getting reversed or some sort of penalty gets added. Crazy.
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Post by scully19 on Feb 16, 2023 9:00:44 GMT -5
Some people might not feel the same way but I forever love Kawhi and want him to succeed where he is now. I don't harbour any hard feelings that he left, dude brought us a championship. So there's an article on The Ringer about him being back to his old self and showing a bunch of clips of Kawhi being Kawhi and I enjoyed it so thought I would share it here: www.theringer.com/nba/2023/2/16/23601593/kawhi-leonard-los-angeles-clippers
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Post by scully19 on Mar 7, 2023 13:24:13 GMT -5
This Ja Morant having a gun thing I thought was less of a deal that it clearly is. I figure guns are everywhere there that it is more accepted but wow was i wrong.
The police are investigating because Colorado law says to not have a gun from another state which this clearly would be. Marc Stein reported that there is a clause in the CBA that if there is a firearm on team premises/place at all, immediate, no arguing, no decision making, 50 game suspension. So the league is looking into if it was there and if they find it is he is done for this season, i assume all the playoffs (they do treat playoffs somewhat different but i imagine they won't in this case) and then a chunk of next season. This would likely also come with unpaid suspension, so he might be losing like 20 million? Same day this was released it was earlier announced Powerade, which is spending a huge amount to try to get into Gatorade share, picked Ja as an endorser, so he might lose that too.
As a side note he also went against what Steven Adams told him and the entire team to do like 2 days earlier which is to stop going out to dumb places on the road and you do not want to mess with that guy.
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Post by freewheel on Mar 7, 2023 15:06:48 GMT -5
Well the guy appears to be going through a bit of a lifestyle meltdown. Probably from too much too soon. All that really matters is whether getting caught happened in time for him to recognize, recover, and change. Its unfortunate for him that it had to be a public intervention but he was the one advertising his issues. Mostly he needs to become an adult.
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Post by scully19 on Mar 7, 2023 15:45:42 GMT -5
Ya for sure. A whole lot of 'he hangs around with the wrong people' stuff because of where he grew up that this is what he was around. Well now he needs to make smart life decisions because where he is now is not there and if those friends still want to suckle they need to step into his line or they could lose their ticket too.
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Post by fenris77 on Mar 14, 2023 3:28:50 GMT -5
I have no sympathy for guys who can't manage to figure out that aren't actually gangsters, or indeed to what extent pretending to be one will mess everything up. Maybe that makes me not a nice person, but there it is.
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Post by sandman on Mar 14, 2023 8:18:31 GMT -5
Is counselling program basically just team suspendeded you without pay to go think about yourself and come back when you matured?
It's gotta be, right?
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Post by scully19 on Mar 14, 2023 9:43:00 GMT -5
Is counselling program basically just team suspendeded you without pay to go think about yourself and come back when you matured? It's gotta be, right? In listening to some podcasting about all of this, it sounds like Memphis has been well aware of the Ja problem partying/reckless attitude and were afraid to actually step in on their own and potentially disillusion their main player. By all accounts for them this is actually a godsend because now they get to do whatever they wanted to then now without the consequences because they can now point to the league and say they'll suspend you without you doing this stuff. I think they have a real hope that it helps. For what it's worth, Kendrick Perkins was on Lowe Post talking about his book and talked about a period where he was just angry all the time and the team told him to go to one of these courses for anger management and he went there (angrily) and then found it was a bunch of very serious professionals (doctors/lawyers, etc) and said while he had to be there might as well try and that he found it actually helped him. I think this is what the team is hoping for.
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Post by haisan on Mar 30, 2023 20:12:42 GMT -5
So, I load up the ESPN scoreboard, to see how the Bucks-Celtics game is going. And it informs me, the Bucks are crushing the Celtics, 69-27. And I feel such a rush of joy and pure schadenfreud.
And then the website flickers and updates and I see the score is in fact 112-69, for the Celtics. And I feel sadness. Such deep sadness.
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Post by fenris77 on Mar 31, 2023 13:55:50 GMT -5
This site needs a laughing reaction emoji.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 3, 2023 9:21:56 GMT -5
I guess we need to finish at least 1 game over 500 to beat the Hawks. 2 games over would guarantee success.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 4, 2023 22:08:35 GMT -5
Boston lost, is 2 games up with the tie breaker on Philly so 3 games up. Bucks won so now 3 games up on Boston without the tie breaker so 3 games up too. Seems like barring anything weird that's pretty locked in. Does anyone keep playing? I would assume Boston rests everyone tomorrow.
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Post by haisan on Apr 5, 2023 21:24:05 GMT -5
Embiid talking about how he learned to shoot 3-pointers is one of the funnier things I've read recently.
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Post by sutureself on Apr 10, 2023 2:48:50 GMT -5
Rudy Gobert got sent home at halftime for trying to punch his teammate while they're struggling to make the play-in. Minny's Gobert trade looked insanely bad at the time and somehow looks even worse in hindsight. After a couple other moves, Utah has ultimately turned Gobert into Walker Kessler, Talen Horton-Tucker, Lakers 2027 1st, four Minny 1sts, and a 2026 Minny pick swap option. Gobert's numbers this year are extremely similar to Poeltl's numbers with us (13 & 11, block and a half per game). Except of course Poeltl is cheaper, younger, and has a better attitude. It remains to be seen still if that trade really moved the needle for us or if it just helped us stay a treadmill team, but at least we didn't mortgage the next decade of our franchise for a guy like Gobert.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 10, 2023 7:09:55 GMT -5
Insane stuff really. Many people will end up being fired for that one trade. It also made them trade away a younger guard for an older one to try to make it work. Sometimes people overreact to trades right when it happens but end up being good. Literally no one liked the trade when it happened and everyone was right.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 19, 2023 7:38:33 GMT -5
Draymond suspended game 3 for just a straight up stupid move. Dude didn't learn from getting suspended for game 5 pivotal game and is now out for game 3 pivotal. Good luck with that next contract you wanted.
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Post by haisan on Apr 19, 2023 20:41:39 GMT -5
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Post by fenris77 on Apr 20, 2023 2:19:43 GMT -5
Draymond suspended game 3 for just a straight up stupid move. Dude didn't learn from getting suspended for game 5 pivotal game and is now out for game 3 pivotal. Good luck with that next contract you wanted. Dude's been drinking his own Koolaid for years now. Meh.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 20, 2023 12:41:34 GMT -5
Draymond suspended game 3 for just a straight up stupid move. Dude didn't learn from getting suspended for game 5 pivotal game and is now out for game 3 pivotal. Good luck with that next contract you wanted. Dude's been drinking his own Koolaid for years now. Meh. He's been pretty incredible in his level of not improving. How good would he be with a really good 3pt shot? His passing would rip if you couldn't sag off of him at all, but somehow he's gotten worse. Sure seems like he was satisfied with how good he is and just stopped.
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Post by sandman on Apr 20, 2023 19:02:06 GMT -5
I hate his face.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 24, 2023 21:46:41 GMT -5
Jimmy Butler 56 fucking points tonight to put the heat up 3 to 1 against the championship favorite bucks. Obviously we wouldn't have played the same game so Giannis had the same injury, but I guess this is why you want to get in the game so you have a chance.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 24, 2023 22:33:27 GMT -5
Dejontay Murray is such a clown. I thought he was overrated his last season in San Antonio, he had good stats on a bad team. I then knew he was overated because the Spurs had no interest in paying a bunch of money long term to their young newly all star guard. Then he spent that summer as a professional basketball player trying to clown amateurs and he cemented his status to me. The Hawks were fools to give up that much for him and I'm pretty happy it's failing and that he is now suspended for the next game, their final of the year.
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Post by haisan on Apr 25, 2023 22:58:14 GMT -5
Bismack Biyombo is still in the NBA?! Feels like he was on the Raptors about a thousand years ago.
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Post by scully19 on Apr 27, 2023 1:55:45 GMT -5
Miami fucking heat just beat the Bucks. Crazy.
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Post by Pseudonym on Apr 28, 2023 19:42:21 GMT -5
I'd highly recommend listening to the latest Lowe Post episode. Zach's rant on the Bucks collapse was, uh.....GOATED.
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Post by haisan on Apr 28, 2023 23:38:53 GMT -5
Happy that we’re getting a game 7 of Kings-Warriors. Such a fun series.
Happy that old man LeBron is going to get a couple of days rest before facing the winner of Kings-Warriors.
Sad that the East has been so meh. Although the Jimmy Butler ascension has been wild.
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