NBA 2024-25 Season Thread
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
I still have no idea how the trade ever happens. The only scenario is where the owner would unilaterally decide something. I know at the company I work in, something as big as what a trade is for an NBA team would have numerous employees involved.
Like I get Nico just wanted to do this, but why doesn't the NBA require ownership to sign off on deals? How is Nico not instantly fired for this by the Mavs? Does Nico get to make every decision like this on his own without any meetings with Mavs execut
was just listening to an interview with the guy who owns the dallas stars, and he was saying the idea that literally any move happens on a whim these days is ridiculous. lots of study, a lot of meetings, etc. think he said that some minor moves might happen without his involvement, but anything major with basically any team ... yeah the owner is almost certainly in there signing off. some owners require their approval for everything. i find it literally not believable that an owner wouldn't be involved in something like the luka trade, and it was previously reported that they were:
It was Adelson's son-in-law, who as team governor officially signed off on the deal because he reportedly appreciated the "financial flexibility."
are they now trying to throw this guy under the bus because it predictably blew up in their face?
I still have no idea how the trade ever happens. The only scenario is where the owner would unilaterally decide something. I know at the company I work in, something as big as what a trade is for an NBA team would have numerous employees involved.
Like I get Nico just wanted to do this, but why doesn't the NBA require ownership to sign off on deals? How is Nico not instantly fired for this by the Mavs? Does Nico get to make every decision like this on his own without any meetings with Mavs execut
Because their cheap ass owner didn’t want to pay Luka all the monies. Gotta leave some of that money to make America great again
Payton Pritchard on fire
What a pathetic product for this sixers celtics game. Take Tatum off the court and it's a G league all star team. Yea, I don't care about White.
It hurts to see the camera pan to the benches and see dudes that are "hurt" standing up and cheering in street clothes. Like mother fucker, if you were truly injured you shouldn't be there. If you can show up, get in the game.
People hate on the players but it's largely the teams that load manage
I also think Embiid has clearly been milking it and he's most likely fine now or close to it. He should be playing, it's a slap in the face to the season ticket holders for him to just "shut it down " the last 10 home games instead of giving them their moneys worth.
Ok end rant about this shit
I don't buy it. I think if the player said nah, I'm playing the team can't stop them from doing so. They might say "we prefer to keep you from injuring yourself and you can be fine next season". But they can't stop the player. Plus, ok, the team is equally as complicit. That's fine fuck them too
Also, then why would there be top players who play 75ish games. Lebron plays a lot and despite my hate for the dude I'll give him love for that. He's always played (within reason I understand the occasional back to back when you're 35+) throughout his career.
Btw Dodger, I'm speaking of this shutting it down shit. But I also don't like sitting out multiple stars either.
Is Charley Villanueva on the court right now? Isn't he like 45?
There was some minority owner of the Rockets back during their championship(s) run during the 90s on NBA radio recently. I think he owned like 20 something percent and shortly after the Luka trade they asked him "did you ever think about the financial implications when making basketball decisions?". His response was something like "you don't buy an NBA or any sports team unless your goal and only goal is to win championships. I'm not considering whether this players contract is costing me money, I'm only thinking whether it's the best decision to win".
Given that, I certainly wondered how much the cunt Adelson was considering her pocketbook when agreeing to trade a top 5 player in the league. I'd bet a lot she was.
Ya, I'm talking about this.
When teams sit healthy young guys on one end of the b2b I don't think it's the players prompting it.
Teams care way more about trying to title (by being fresh/healthy for the playoffs) or draft position than they do about the nightly paying customer.
We live in a RANGZ culture.
The Adelson family should be forced to sell the Mavericks.
Dodger you're right. I'm sure some statistical breakdown has been done about this and whether it works. I know i sound behind, it was just that game that spawned some anger for me i guess.
It's amazing, it seems every team that plays the Lakers completely fails and rolls into a ball of being terrified. Knicks were completely beating them up and all of a sudden....Lakers hit a couple 3s and it's over. It was so predictable.
I got me and my buddy that Lakers title odds way back when, I honestly don't think it's looking too bad right now. Celtics only team I feel confident will be a real favorite over them.
Lakers Defense is real life.
I jumped on their title odds at +2100 as soon as Luka was traded there.
Now they’re in the +900 to +1300 range.
There was some minority owner of the Rockets back during their championship(s) run during the 90s on NBA radio recently. I think he owned like 20 something percent and shortly after the Luka trade they asked him "did you ever think about the financial implications when making basketball decisions". His response was something like "you don't buy an NBA or any sports team unless your goal and only goal is to win championships. I'm not considering whether this players contract is costing me money,
You’d think these supposed business geniuses buying a team would think about the long term impact to all their income streams beyond just the salary when doing something like this.
Like all their ticket sales, concessions, merch, etc prob gonna tank more than whatever they pay Luka.
I also think Embiid has clearly been milking it and he's most likely fine now or close to it. He should be playing, it's a slap in the face to the season ticket holders for him to just "shut it down " the last 10 home games instead of giving them their moneys worth.
Ok end rant about this ****
Have you watched Embiid this season? Dude is broken.
Mavs should trade AD now but I dunno how that would even work because whatever they get for him will be what they ended up getting for Luka and it won't be close to good enough
Joker with the 30/20/20
MVP
2 Triple doubles in the same game, video game ****.
Im saying when push comes to shove the only team as of now (and I still feel confident lebron and Luka will break down by the conference finals especially as hard as lebron is going now) I'd take in a series confidently is celtics.
The cavs, okc, nuggets, and I know I'm in the minority but I believe Milwaukee would beat them cause the Lakers match up terribly against them should all beat them.
Edit: the best thing would be warriors meet Lakers in the 3/6 and steph and playoff jimmy go gangster on them and upset them.
