NBA 2024-25 Season Thread

Been watching NBA, but injuries have become a big part of the game

Lakers - Not confident in Lebron or AD
Suns - Not confident in Beal, Durant kinda iffy,
Clippers - Kawhi and PG13 always in and out
76'ers - Joel Embiid

For these reaons I have to pick Nuggest and Bucks in the finals.
Boston is dangerous

Haven't watched the timberwolves, dunno if there legit.

I can see them being the highest bidder but that’s insane.

2 years/30 at the most

Looks like Jokic is 26-28 on FG's and 22-22 on FT's last three games if it hasn't been noted.

Brunson shot 5/23 from FG (anomaly) and they still beat the Timberwolves in the Knicks first game with OG Anunoby.

Knicks are FOR REAL! Also they might trade Grimes/Fournier/Picks for Dejounte Murray before deadline.

True that.

Really nice first game for OG Anunoby.

He could really give them some depth.

Congrats to the Knicks locking down that 4 seed and all, but they’re still staring at a 5 game loss in Round 2.

He's a beast

Is he the MVP right now?

I thought is was Embiiid about 2 weeks ago, but he's been out injured.

Maybe but 2/30 is insanely lowballing him as well and organizations just take care of their legends in those circumstances. That's why Draymond is on 4/100.

No way he gets paid only 15M/year on a short term deal and yes i will be on it

SGA gotta get some love one of these years

Best I can do right now is Player of the Week:

But, yeah, he should absolutely be up there. If you factor in voter fatigue and Embiid's injuries, he's got a shot. Only issue is how good the OKC supporting cast is playing.

SGA get a top 2 seed in West and he keeps up this level of production and he’s got a real shot.

WOW Monster 36 points for him tonight to beat the Celtics

You guys might be on to something.

He's Canadian too I think

Draymond is a valuable basketball player

Not so much anymore. He's nowhere near a max player now.

To give Draymond credit he accepted his role and the Warriors needed that.
Draymond is the Warriors Dennis Rodman imop. He does good things
on offensive too. Sets screens etc.

He's lack of emotional control has gotten him in trouble some, but its always
close to being real bad but his punishments are acceptable i think. But
he's close to crossing the line that could really hurt the team sometimes

If Okc gets top seed in the west at the end of the season then I think Shai MVP is a lock.

It would be well deserved.

True story. The Hornets were the original drafters of SGA.

Pacers go 4-1 against Milwaukee. MIL's perimeter defense is as fraudulent as it gets.

That TOR-NY trade is looking like a win-win thus far : 4-0 both teams combined

Brunson 13 assists tonight. Guy is ALL NBA!

As I said, OG fits like a GLOVE!

Gilgeous-Alexander continues to put up Jordanesque type numbers, but a little better. Not that he's that good, but it's scary. I don't remember him standing out with that kind of potential in his brief UK stint.

SGA is better than a young Jordan.

You guys know that he's 25 right? That's 6 months older than Luka. A year older than Giannis was when he won his first MVP.

He's having a great season and all but lets not act like he's an up and comer with some limitless ceiling.

Save that talk for Haliburton 😉

Betting against Jokic team to win right now is just stupid.

If Clippers can hold it together and avoid a Russ explosion they might be the next best bet. Since benching Russ they look really solid.

Embiid will break. He always does. It's a shame.

Bucks no longer play good defense. Jrue > Dame.

OKC and Minnesota are the biggest wildcards for me. Both look really good but are probably regular season wonders. I see more will to win in Ant than in Shae, as a big a shitbag as Ant is (that might be a good quality from the point of view of winning).

Team Luka can only beat bad teams, but they could take out a better team in the first or second round.

Don't believe in INdiana or Donut Team.

**** Boston.