2nd youngest NBA team....ever.

Yes you read that right. Ever.

And that doesn't even include Chet.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;LeBron, in Year 20 at age 37, had his 10th 35-5-5 of the season. ... Right now, the Lakers are the scariest team in the Western Conference.&quot;<br><br>— <a href="https://twitter.com/getnickwright?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@getnickwright</a> on the Lakers 135-133 OT win over the Jazz to clinch play-in spot: <a href="https://t.co/saQorelvVn">pic.twitter.com/saQorelvVn</a></p>&mdash; First Things First (@FTFonFS1) <a href="https://twitter.com/FTFonFS1/status/1643698993128431618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

They certainly looked every bit of that yesterday. They couldn't even get shots off for a large portion of that quarter. Got rattled like a college team on the road.

Do you watch the Kings? Fox takes over 4th quarters, look at the stats. The fact that the Kings have Sabonis and Fox will enable them to play with any team in the league. While defense is important, it isn't like it used to be, defense is played but teams are not shut down defensive teams. The Kings get a lot of points scored on them when they have taken their starting lineup out at the end of the games.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Kings hurt some feelings in the playoffs. They have a solid team.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Kings are one and done.

In fact I'd take 4, 5, 6 and 7 over 1, 2 or 3 to come out of the West.

Defense is absolutely important in the postseason. Regular season? Nah - they don't sustain defensive intensity and it's hard to figure out defensive rotations when you play a different team each night. But over a 7 game series, defense gets more critical with each game.

If the Kings don't start 2-0 they'll be lucky to take it to 6...

Barnes and Mitchell are both excellent defenders. I don't know how the rest of the crew will fare, though.

If the Lakers win the title this year I will never post again

FYP

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When you finally ****ing trade Westbrook after almost 2 years and the team immediately goes 17-8 overall and 8-2 in games with LeBron. <a href="https://t.co/SUX1X70fBv">pic.twitter.com/SUX1X70fBv</a></p>&mdash; Barry (@BarryOnHere) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarryOnHere/status/1644565271389110272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yeah, but the Dubs have Wiggins coming back and they just might be a force in the playoffs. They sure do play team ball overall.

Jason Kidd committed the ultimate sin and said the quiet part out loud. Mavs may be uber ****ed for it.

They should tbh

It makes a complete joke of the league if one of your teams so blatantly tanks when they are a couple of wins out of the playoffs.

Sucks that Steven Adams won’t be coming back for the playoffs, but I’m not surprised. I think in the long run his injury may have been the best thing for this franchise. Finally turned JJJ into a post player instead of him wanting to just hang out at the 3 point line all game. He’s become a very dominant force in the paint as well lately. Will be hard to do much in the playoffs with 2 of our centers out now with Adams and BC, but I’m excited the playoffs are finally here and ready to see what this Grizz team can do.

Any team should be able to tank if they want to tank. It's their team. It's their fans.

Puzzling to me. If they had any confidence in Luka and Kyrie at all they would go after the play in tournament and see what happens. The West is pretty weak. Is that really more important than a 0.08% at Wemby?

Udonis Haslem is retiring at age 42. I had no idea the guy was still playing. Dude has played in the NBA for 20 years and played his whole career in Miami. That's a pretty rare feat these days.