NBA 2024-25 Season Thread

I just hate betting on the health of Kawhi/PG13. Otherwise +1400 seems like value (on FD, best odds aorn).

SGA is playing incredibly on both sides of the ball. Adv. Stats don't vote, but he's got a top 3 MVP case now amd it's only getting stronger.

Speaking of Haliburton, in his last 3 games: 66 assists, 4 TOs, 3-0 with wins over the pre-OG Knacks and Bucks twice.

Also, Pacers are 13th in defense since their starting line up shake up 4 games ago. Very interesting.

Is there somewhere you can bet on finals matchup futures? I want to collect some free money on the inevitable 2012 finals rematch.

Another Lebron team having locker room issues, really hate to see it. AD surrounded by bums.

You can just parlay Eastern and western conference winners, you can get +11800 for Mia+okc on FanDuel right now

If SGA can turn himself into a 38% 3 pt shooter, I think that he is a perennial MVP candidate. And if I had to pick the next player to win an MVP who hasn't won one already, I definitely would pick him.

saw darvin ham, read darwin moon

Steph above SGA? Dame above Trae? I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy doesn't work

Jordan scored 63 in a playoff game in the Boston Garden at the age of 23.

WholesomER Triple Doubles

(Also Wilt haha)

Could it be explain by so many 3pts missing today ,
like it was back in the day when they miss so many 2pts ?

Just read today Embiid currently isn't on track to clear the new 66 games minimum to qualify for awards. Maybe SGA is going to win the MVP lol

Fwiw I think it’s a good thing .
It’s should be hard to be employee of the month when u work once a week.

That wasn't Michael Jordan that night. That was God himself, just ask Larry Bird and the rest of the Celtics. They'll tell ya.

That was a Godlike comeback by Denver and speak of an otherworldly shot by Jokic!!!

Jokic is incredible.

He looked like the 65 year old guy who’s has 7 knee surgeries at the Y on that last play. And you just knew it was going in. GOAT

steph wishes he could do that, and just generally be joker

If you believe in such mythical entities, then young God himself, at age 23, was likely better than young SGA.

Jordan basically went Maravich circa LSU that day and it was double overtime. Yeah it was amazing but he basically could have done it any time he was fresh and hitting. 41 shots, 21 FT's. He basically doubled his shot attempts and doubled his scoring in a game that had an extra quarter.

Looks like Jokic is 39-44 on FG attempts the last 4 games, and 4-4 on threes. How is that eFG%??

Maravich's collegiate exploits compared to Jordan's NBA playoff game results feel like an apples to oranges comparison. 63 still stands as the single game playoff scoring record, and it came against one of the NBA's greatest ever single season teams.

That Boston squad featured five hall of fame players which lost only one home game the entire season, playoffs included. Excluding the double OT four point win in Jordan's 63 game, Boston won their home games by an 18.8 points per game differential average during the playoffs. The double OT game was the only game in the Garden that Boston won by less than 11.

The 63 came after Jordan put up 49 regulation time points in game one. Boston finally forced the ball out of his hands in game three - holding Jordan to 19 on 18 shots but with 10 boards and 9 assists. The point in this on-going discussion is that "young" Jordan was Jordan - age irrelevant.

Jokic is incredible, but this loss was on Kerr. I'm done with him. He needs to retire or take on a different role in the organization a la Brad Smith.

He is constitutionally incapable of playing young players at the end of games. Finishing that game last night with a lineup of Curry, Klay, Chris Paul, Looney, and Wiggins was absurd. That team looked old and played old down the stretch. We can debate whether that lineup is the Warriors best defensive lineup against the Nuggets. I don't think it is, and that lineup got torched on defense in the last half of the fourth quarter, but it is at least debatable. But it certainly isn't the best offensive lineup. And all the Warriors had to do to win a game where they were up 18 points with 6 minutes to go in the fourth quarter was score a couple of times.

If Kerr can't reconcile himself to playing Kuminga and Podz in crunch time, especially in games where they are playing great (as both did last night), then he has to go. Kuminga barely played at all in the fourth quarter, which was borderline coaching malpractice.

P.S. -- I just looked and Kuminga only played 19 minutes the entire game. That's terrible. That's ****ing terrible. **** Kerr. He has to go.

Lol. I started wondering if it was just me, and then I googled "kerr kuminga". It isn't just me. Everyone agrees that Kerr's rotations were criminally insane.

Then Kerr talks after the game about how it was a gut punch. It was the same sort of gut punch you get if you fire off a roman candle while standing behind a donkey. Yeah. You got kicked in the gut. But you did that **** to yourself by being an idiot.

😮 That is completely insane!

This is the most predictable development imaginable.

https://theathletic.com/5181608/2024/01/...

Unreal.