***Official 2022-2023 NBA Thread***

[dirk digler]

Can't believe the regular season starts tonight. Just seemed like the Finals ended a couple weeks ago.



Philly vs Celtics: 6:30PM CST TNT

GSW vs Lakers: 9:00PM CST TNT

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Ocotillo

Poor athleticism?

He's 7-foot-3! WTF! He's probably the most athletic mother****er in the world at that height.

I take your point, but Jokic can barely jump and he is a poor lateral mover (which the Lakers would do well to exploit). On an average NBA player scale these days, he’s well below average. He more than compensates for it by having one of the highest basketball IQs of anybody who has ever lived and an insane level of competitiveness.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

We know why you don’t. The Wolves can all still taste Ja’s nuts from that teabag dunk in game 5 last postseason. I’m a Memphis fan. I don’t give a shit if you don’t like us. We’re still gonna be a force. Let’s all get to the speculating of HUGE suspensions again acting like Ja broke some sort of law. I understand he’s an idiot for hanging with kids that do the whole social media thing, but he’s going nowhere.

The NBA should drop the hammer on him and suspend him for like half a season or something (it might actually wake him up), but they aren’t gonna do anything that substantial. Not when it will be long forgotten by next fall.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

We know why you don’t. The Wolves can all still taste Ja’s nuts from that teabag dunk in game 5 last postseason. I’m a Memphis fan. I don’t give a shit if you don’t like us. We’re still gonna be a force. Let’s all get to the speculating of HUGE suspensions again acting like Ja broke some sort of law. I understand he’s an idiot for hanging with kids that do the whole social media thing, but he’s going nowhere.

Or it's because the Grizzlies are a bunch of unlikeable players who do cringe shit both on and off the court.

Keep looking past Ja's wannabe gangsta shit all because he plays for the Grizzlies, boy-o

[POND_OF_RED]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

The NBA should drop the hammer on him and suspend him for like half a season or something (it might actually wake him up), but they aren’t gonna do anything that substantial. Not when it will be long forgotten by next fall.

I’d be all for a half game suspension just to send a message to these kids that it’s stupid to post EVERYTHING on social media and that there can be consequences that come from what you’re posting. I really wouldn’t be surprised by a half season suspension either. Probably the most it will be and wouldn’t argue with the decision at all. Don’t think many Grizz fans would. I think most people just hope he has a real friend or can get one to straighten his life out before it’s too late for him and he actually does something illegal that he can’t come back from.

[KCUnited]

The league should just let nature take its course.

Plaxico Burress
Rae Carruth
Biggie/Pac
Belcher

Let Morant choose his own adventure

[POND_OF_RED]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

Or it's because the Grizzlies are a bunch of unlikeable players who do cringe shit both on and off the court.

Keep looking past Ja's wannabe gangsta shit all because he plays for the Grizzlies, boy-o

Sorry RealKaReN. I’ll let them know you don’t like them and see if it means anything to them. Maybe you should invest in a wannabe gangsta to get you back to the playoffs and not worry so much about what other teams are doing on social media.

[Pitt Gorilla]

So, that's the MVP?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

So, that's the MVP?

Embiid has always has been an injury prone, playoff fraud. He's also terrible to watch and his MVP was a pity award.

He's nowhere close to Jokic so stop comparing the two please.

— Barry (@BarryOnHere) May 14, 2023

Still can't believe anybody here tried to defend those voters.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

Sorry RealKaReN. I’ll let them know you don’t like them and see if it means anything to them. Maybe you should invest in a wannabe gangsta to get you back to the playoffs and not worry so much about what other teams are doing on social media.

Can we just all admire how much you reached on that name call? You only used two letters of my username, had to switch them around, replaced one of them, and added two more letters, and then used weird capital/sizing to show how uncreative you were with coming up with that nickname.

No rhyming, alliteration, or even simple similar sounding words were used. You picked Karen and tried to pound that square into a round hole like a reeruned 3 year old who can't figure out the plastic shape puzzle toy.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by tyecopeland

Wasn't interesting to me then, is not interesting to me now.

Agreed but looking at the current state of the NBA you can't really find any interesting match-ups. There aren't any great teams.or story lines.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Agreed but looking at the current state of the NBA you can't really find any interesting match-ups. There aren't any great teams.or story lines.

That is not true at all.

There’s a potential Lakers-Celtics rematch for the finals. Heat-Celtics and Nuggets-Lakers rematches from 2020.

Jokic and Tatum chasing their first ring.

LeBron trying to get another ring.

Those are all fun storylines to follow.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

That is not true at all.

There’s a potential Lakers-Celtics rematch for the finals. Heat-Celtics and Nuggets-Lakers rematches from 2020.

Jokic and Tatum chasing their first ring.

LeBron trying to get another ring.

Those are all fun storylines to follow.

Yes...I want another Lakers-Celtics final.like I want to see Tom Brady in a Superbowl. I miss the Spurs/Lebron Super Team series. Those were fun.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

Yes...I want another Lakers-Celtics final.like I want to see Tom Brady in a Superbowl. I miss the Spurs/Lebron Super Team series. Those were fun.

Celtics-Lakers is one of the most storied rivalries in the NBA. I’d like new blood (Bucks-Suns was a fun series, as were all of the Heat series with LeBron, and Warriors-Raptors), but that is a storyline.

I don’t want the Celtics to advance, honestly don’t care for the Lakers either, but I have no qualms with watching any of these 4 teams.

[dirk digler]

The 76ers getting blown out and Harden no showing a Game 7 was the least surprising thing ever. You could see that coming from a mile away.

As far as Embiid is concerned, yes he is injury prone but I am not going to pile on him. He was playing on a knee that might require surgery. He clearly wasn’t playing like he was prior to the injury. He gutted it out when he probably shouldn’t have so I respect that.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

There’s a potential Lakers-Celtics rematch for the finals.

Lakers would be going to the finals for the 32nd time. 1/3 of the NBA finals since 2000 have had the Lakers.

A Lakers/Celtics series would be the 13th time it’s happened.

The NBA is boring compared to the NFL. There’s so much more parity in the NFL and that makes is great.