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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA Play-In Tournament, April 14-17⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If Porzingis has a good day, he is hard to stop. If Curry locks in, it is pointless to defend him because his aimbot will curve the ball into the hoop. The Warriors will have a chance to win some games. It is likely that they will get 1 or 2 wins in series and might even win more.

  Also, you cannot discount Playoff Fouls Draymond Green. It is possible that he goes off and has a Lamello Ball type game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA Weekly Game Thread: Apr 06 - Apr 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the Celtics win or the Knicks lose tonight, the Celtics still secure the 2nd seed and can sit the playoff rotation against the Magic on Sunday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(つ╥﹏╥)つ RIP MY 2026 LAKERS (つ╥﹏╥)つ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coincidentally, Thinking Basketball just posted a video about players playing fewer games. He thinks it is because players are running around the court more and having to make more sudden changes in direction, putting too much wear on their legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(つ╥﹏╥)つ RIP MY 2026 LAKERS (つ╥﹏╥)つ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the Mid-Season tournament and Play-In round, teams are playing more games without extending the season, leading to more back to back games. Players are not getting a chance to rest minor injuries before they get worse. In general, the scheduling seems so bad. One week a team will play 5 road games then the next week they will have 1 game, at home. I don’t like the fact that most back to back games tend to be away games. If the league needs to schedule back to backs, they should be home stands. A team should not be spending the few hours they get off between games traveling.

  As for players not playing 82 games anymore, I think it has less to do with players not being able to play and more with teams realizing that it is better to get a couple less wins in the regular season than to enter the playoffs with an exhausted superstar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playoff Predictions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who only pays close attention to the Celtics, I am surprised that people expect them to make it to the finals. I am guessing they will get knocked out in the second round or conference finals. They have a lot of wins, but it is because they take care of business against lesser teams. When facing another top team, they fall short. They are 0-2 vs the Spurs, 0-2 vs the Nuggets, 1-2 vs the Knicks, and 1-3 vs the Pistons, though they are 1-1 against the Thunder.

  They should be able to dominate a play-in team in the first round but after that, they are going to face strong competition and they have not shown the ability to rise to the occasion.

  Obviously, most of those games were without Tatum, but he is not fully back either. His scoring is great but his accuracy is abysmal. He is missing badly on shots he expects to be automatic, likely because coming back from his injury took a toll on his body and he is still getting used to his limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA Presents 3 Anti-Tanking Proposals to Board of Governors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the proposals. Assuming the league defines a “winning team” not as the team that wins a game but as the team that wins the championship (or the Emirates™ NBA Cup), it makes sense that the 10th worst team and worst team have the same lottery odds, since both have a 0% chance of winning. It also makes sense to let play-in teams randomly move up in the draft, since it can pull a team out of endless mediocrity. I don’t like that the 11th worst team is likely going to have much lower odds. I imagine teams that are headed for the 10th seed in their conference will try to tank down in the standings. A 5% chance of getting the first pick in the draft is probably better than getting to be the visiting team in 1-2 playoff games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE INDIANA PACERS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not been following the Pacers this year, but how are they this bad? They made the finals last year. I know that Hali is out for the year, but he doesn’t seem to be a great enough player to turn the worst team in the league into a playoff favorite.

  Did I miss the news when they sold off all of their rotation players or is the coach intentionally throwing games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA plans to enact anti-tanking rules next season, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the Lakers luck has nothing to do with league tampering and everything to do with the fact that players’ licensing income does not count against the salary cap. Do you think a guy would rather make $1,000 shooting an ad for Big Bill’s Discount BBQ or get $5,000 to make an appearance on opening night in Dr. Dre’s new club? Do you think a player prefers to spend his day off shoveling snow from his driveway or go swimming on Venice Beach in the morning and then film a fight scene in the next Fast and Furious? Do you think his wife would rather shop at the mall or Rodeo Drive?

  The Lakers don’t get players gifted to them, they sign big name free agents at a discount and trade for expiring contracts knowing that the player will take an extension. They get traded so many players because they are on every players’ preferred list of destinations because every agent makes sure it is there because the agent wants a cut of any Hollywood cameos and rap album features their player gets.

  The Pau Gasol trade is a perfect example of this. He did not get traded for nothing. He got traded for his brother, Marc. Pau wanted to get out of Memphis, so the teams made a deal with him: if he could nag his baby brother into moving from the Euroleague to the NBA, Pau would get to win a ring with Kobe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA plans to enact anti-tanking rules next season, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of allowing more teams to be draft eligible, since it gives hope to teams stuck in purgatory, not good enough to seriously contend for a title but too good to draft guaranteed talent in the draft.

  I don’t like the idea of limiting the lottery eligibility of a team that finishes at the bottom for consecutive seasons (if they are not already ineligible for getting a high pick). It seems like unnecessary cruelty for a team to finish in the basement (because their best players all got old or left in free agency or something), then they lose the lottery despite good odds, and get told that next year they won’t get a good pick either. At that point, the team would have to spend 2 years with a roster of bench warmers.

  Hopefully, if there are more strict anti-tank rules, they can get rid of the rules against resting star players. The restrictions are arbitrary and enforcement is random and unpredictable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performance enhancement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, actually. Michael Phelps (American swimmer) was rumored to smoke weed so he could get the munchies and consume more food, giving him extra calories to burn training.

  It could also be that they were using marijuana as an illicit pain reliever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trade Deadline Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the Warriors trading for Porzingis. Curry and Draymond (and Butler) are on the wrong side of 35, so their time in the league is coming to an end and injuries are going to keep increasing in frequency. A sensible move would be to build a consistent core that can go on win streaks when the veterans are able to suit up and keep the ship afloat when they cannot. Porzingis is a very gifted and skilled player, but the only thing consistent about him is his ability to find his way onto the injury report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giannis ready to get traded before trade deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the Celtics decide to go all in on winning a banner or two and then blowing it up, Giannis for Tatum could work, salary wise. The Celtics don’t have to wait for Tatum to fully recover and avoid the risk of Tatum losing a step due to the injury. Beyond that, Giannis has always been better than Tatum. The big downside is that Giannis is a few years older and has played a lot more professional games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clippers Send Chris Paul Home⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The important bit is not that Paul was “sent home”, it is that “he will no longer be with the team”. In other words, he is fired.

  The team is not “blaming Chris for [their] underperformance,” so there is likely something else going on. Did the Clippers get tipped off about a controversy involving Paul and want him listed as a “former player” in the news story?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggs tossed, 4 others T'd up in Magic-Sixers tiff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He did briefly take up a boxer’s stance with his fists raised but dropped it before the shoving started. It was a threatening gesture, but I am sure other players involved made equal threats with their words.

  If he actually threw a punch, it would be an ejection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggs tossed, 4 others T'd up in Magic-Sixers tiff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The incident: youtu.be/ojZSyVw4-sQ

  Not sure why Suggs was the only one tossed. Nothing about his behavior seemed particularly worse than what the others were doing. Maybe it was because he was the last one to let it go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-NBA guard Beverley arrested on assault charge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  According to TMZ, Beverly’s underage sister was caught sneaking out to go on a date with a boy. Beverly’s mom called Patrick over to teach the girl a lesson and he beat her half to death.

  Looks like the rotten apple rolled back to the diseased tree. I just hope that the poor girl is able to get out of the broken house without too much more physical and mental trauma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draymond confronts fan over 'Angel Reese' chant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with Green. It is an insult to Angel Reese to be compared to Dray. There should be no tolerance for sexism at NBA games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA Europe-based league may launch October 2027⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article does not explain why the NBA Europe should exist. What does this new league offer not currently provided by European leagues?

  Are they going to try to have NBA level salaries, to attract NBA level players, and have high skill games? Are they going to have regular season games between NBA North America and Europe and a promise that the games will be competitive (or as competitive as a game between a Western Conference championship contender and an Eastern Conference lottery tank)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Bulls Back?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the East is especially mediocre this year. The 76ers are tied for 3rd despite Embiid being under heavy playtime restrictions and complaining that it is not enough time for him to get used to the flow of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic's Bane tossed after firing ball at Okongwu⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the outcome (that Bane deserved an ejection) but I disagree with the reasoning. It should have been a flagrant two for committing a hard foul on a defenseless, airborne player. Bane then batted the ball down and happened to hit Okongwu laying on the ground. It would probably warrant a technical foul under normal circumstances, but is a minor detail in comparison to the fact that Okongwu was lucky to have landed in a way that did not result in a serious injury.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunder's Topic in treatment for testicular cancer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine his biggest impediment is not going to be the treatment but the recovery. Chemo is very rough on the body. Poor guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Durant, Rockets agree to 2-year, $90M extension⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So are the Suns going to go into a rebuild? Their team felt like the total was less than the sum of the parts, so maybe Durant leaving will be a case of addition via subtraction (possible if they replace him with someone who is a better fit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you watching preseason games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I DVR the games and I am watching one as background noise just to get familiar with new players and get a preview of the second unit rotation.

  So far, I have watched the Celtics first game. My take is that half the players are good enough to be 3rd string players and the other half not so much. It is too bad that when I look at the depth chart, some of these players will be asked to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LeBron out 3-4 weeks, set to miss Lakers opener⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A sore nerve in his glute? Sounds like a pain in the ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all American stores have greeters?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like Massachusetts Best Buys did not get the memo. I hear all these stories about people hating Best Buy over pushy employees and have the opposite experience. The stores only have 1-2 employees on the floor and the duty of those employees seems to be to hide from customers. If I ever need help finding an item or want something from a locked display, I have to spend 15-20 minutes running around the store trying to catch a ninja.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palfarm Trailer - Palworld Spin-Off Game⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t that the Pocket Pair game before Palworld?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanasis Antetokounmpo signing one-year deal to return to Bucks - Shams⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I don’t watch many Bucks games, so I am wondering: is Thanasis actually capable of playing at an NBA level or is he just there for Giannis to get a better than max contract? 1 point, .5 points, .5 assists in 5 minutes is not that impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kawhi Leonard reportedly paid $28 million for 'no-show job' with Clippers as way to get around NBA salary cap⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the exception of the moment you sell it, owning a professional sports team is a giant money sink. The obscenely rich do it for the attention and to rub it in the faces of all their friends. No matter how rich you are, you cannot own an NBA team unless an existing owner wants to sell or unless you pay off the existing owners to allow an expansion team.

  Both attention and bragging rights increase the more a team wins. No owner wants to be in a position where they paid a lot to buy a team, have to pay a lot in team payroll, but still lose. If an owner is already heavily invested in a team and sees an opportunity to invest a little bit more for a lot more success, it makes sense to take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quentin Brown, father of Celtics star Jaylen Brown, arrested and charged with attempted murder⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, he just comes off as gullible and not very smart. He looked at the argument for a flat Earth and argument for a round Earth, could not catch that one side was using very faulty reasoning, and went with the side that had the better looking presentation.

  Does he ever speak out on any of the issues he is clueless about? The only thing I remember him being vocal about (other than basketball) is civil rights, based on his lived experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people still wear these caps in the water?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keeping skin pretty is completely out of the realm of reasons for religious coverings tho

  Is it? I assumed that that is a big reason that many religions that start in a desert demand that all members, regardless of gender, cover most of their skin in clothing

  “Son, wear your long sleeve shirt. You know how prone you are to sun burn.”

  “But dad, it is so hot outside and my clothes are so stuffy and I will only be outside for 15 minutes, tops.”

  “Well guess what, son. I just spoke to God and he told me that boys who don’t wear long clothes outside go to hell. That is why you turn red and painful from sunburn, to remind you that you will roast in hell.”