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.

Herro making the ASG ahead of both Scottie Barnes and FLYNN?

Is it a big deal that Wemby is a reserve and not a starter for the ASG, or is it more about the overall talent level?

Lebron got the start in his 2nd year. Just doing a side by side comparison, a lot of the major stats are similar (Lebron avg 27 pts and Wemby is at 24 pts). But Wemby is also playing like 9 or 10 fewer minutes a game.

Aren’t the starters determined by votes? Or did they change that

@McLovin

If Adam Sliver gets his wish of 10 minute quarters, the Knicks would only need to roster five players. The whole team could be max contracts!

LeBron should give his starting spot to Wemby.

And they should have a chess tournament pre-game (Wemby wants an NBA only chess tourney).

Yes they changed it:

Starters were chosen via a vote of fans, players and media.

Don’t you think I already thought of that!?!?!?

Thibs’ dream team!!!

Rockets vs Grizzlies

Grizzlies on fast break, leading to a wide open dunk (12 seconds left) down by 1 to be up 1.

Except the referee thought Taylor Jenkins the coach called a timeout… he did NOT. So no basket…

WTFFFFF

GriZZ Moneyline never in doubt

anyone got any MVP takes? bb ref mvp tracker has jokic 59% but the betting markets have him like 25-30%

i mean he is undeniably the best player in the league, seems like it is atleast closer to 5050 and OKC is gonna have to win double digit more games than Denver for SGA to be live

Jokic is averaging 30-13-10 lol

I’m rooting HARD for Fox to land in San Antonio.

I threw some fun money on them at 600-1 to title. YOLO!

Gotta factor in for voter fatigue, which is silly because this is clearly his best season so far.

Kings has Shai -500, Jok +350

The ASG should have a world team and two USA teams divided by age

World
Jokic
Gilgeous-Alexander
Antetokounmpo
Wembanyama
Siakam
Towns
Sengun
Herro

USA Vets
James
Curry
Durant
Davis
Harden
Mitchell
Lillard
Brunson

USA Young bucks
Tatum
Edwards
Brown
Williams
Jackson
Garland
Mobley
Cunningham

it is a glorified pickup game, dont think it matters much

Which country is Tyler Herro from?

White America (he could be one of your kids)