NBA 2024-25 Season Thread

hey, not bad, how's everything with you? typically try to stay out of these threads, generally been too busy to be active on 2p2 for the most part but couldn't resist some doc rivers slander given the news haha.

The Knicks could be a serious contender if they can snag Caruso (or maybe Lavine?) before the deadline.

Suns 80, Pacers 70 at half.

Book with 37..

luka saw this and had to do one better he has 41 at the half.

Upon further review, **** Booker. Just threw one of the most egregious elbows to the balls you'll see in a game.

cp3 taught him well

double OT one time in Atlanta?

hundo for looka

Booker now has the scoring record at 4 arenas...at least according to the Suns broadcast.

HAHHAHAHAHHAHA Pacers 133-Suns 131

Booker finishes with 62, despite the loss

I only occasionally watch Hawks games, and breeze in here even less,

But once again, tonight I find myself haunted by the Luka Doncic/Trae Young trade.

Still.

ngl i see your 62 pts on 37 shots and raise you 73 points on 33 shots + 10/7 is quite ill, even in this lolregseasonzerod era

that trade was wild bc trae is what he thought he was (quite good) and it was still such a big mistake. also never forget that the suns could have just taken luka after hiring his coach but opted for ayton instead
(i also legit forgot that the kings passed on him as well for bagley 3 lol)

anyway shoutout to everyone who said he was too slow and white to be any good

Pretty disciplined basketball by Indiana to not commit a foul the whole 4th quarter. That's tough to do. Tip of the cap.

clips beat rapz by 20, kiwi quarter-heartedly dapping up a bunch of dudes he never played with. wild that entire team has been turned over since they won in 2019

Pacers just channeled the same discipline that helped the Suns commit zero fouls in the whole 1st quarter.

It was a strange game that way. Balls shots and elbows and all that.

Raptors are a dead franchise. We had our run and many good years. Time to return to the Earth.

Looks like 6 of the top 21 scorers in the NBA went to UK. I wonder what kind of comps there are for that over the years. Gotta guess maybe North Carolina or UCLA as candidates.

lol welcome back Cade, 10 assists and 7 TOs so far, game in the 3rd Q.

NBA regular season is devolving into Harlem Globetrotters/Washington Generals territory

I'm not 100% sure but I think Luka and Josh Green tied the modern record (and maybe the record for any game not involving Wilt Chamberlain) for most points scored by teammates (94) last night. Any guesses on which two players they now share the record with?

Kobe and Smush

correct! I wasn't sure if someone would immediately go to that game or guess something like KD/Russ (they had 51/40 in a game).

Wilt (73) and Arizin (26) combined for 99 which is the highest pair of teammates I could find excluding Wilt's 100 point game. Those two also went for 78 and 19 in a game against the Lakers where Baylor (63) and West (32) combined for 95. Those were the only 3 instances I could find where teammates scored more than Luka/Green last night and 2 of them were from the same game.

I just figured Kobe was the last person to score 80, and I let Google do the rest.

knackz like 2 games out of 2nd in the east, anyone wanna get on record on how this ends for them? celts/bucks/sixers/pacers is tough. and are the cavs Actually Good?

lol. i thought he was a meaningful part of that team ... but only played 100 minutes all season, and like nothing in the playoffs

he's had a solid career though, useful player. $40m in earnings, not bad

Made plans to watch Joker vs Embiid and instead have to watch a starting lineup of beverley, oubre, batum, morris and reed

Going from a 4pt play to an offensive foul for that slight kick seems crazy harsh