NBA 2024-25 Season Thread

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Why the hell are NBA guys taking peanuts for this ****.

And why don’t they just not try and not shoot instead of faking an injury? That’s gotta be way harder to catch right?

I also don't hate the idea of 5 of the 7 games being at home to help with the urgency of playoff seedings.

Rozier thing seems like fake news....basically some people got word he was gonna possibly have a quick night and they fired it

meh, manage your way out of it with good GMing, OKC picked really high basically once

dont really care about that

dont even care that much if bad teams stay bad for awhile, that is part of sports, too much parity is a bad thing

The Hornets have been bad since 1988.

As far as the Terry probe, seems pretty legit to me. The NBA was alerted to unusual betting activity back then, investigated, and decided no wrongdoing. Now the fact the US Attorney's office is probing doesn't seem great for Terry. It's lumped into the same probe as Porter.

So, like, this is probably not great for the league right? Especially with out David "The Don" Stern around anymore to stop this ****.

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier under inve...

And while I'm sure this guy is just ****ing around, guys leaving games early with unexplained minor injuries happens enough that you can probably think back not too far to the last time you saw it. Guys are going to keep popping up in things like this. Not that throwing games/point shaving hasn't gone on since like 1919, but the absolute tight nit nature of sportsbetting and the NBA isn't going to help perception.

If I'm a league vet on an awful team, nothing would make want to play harder at the end of an impossibly long season than helping to draft some 18yo kid that the media is sucking off as my replacement.