NBA 2025-26 Season Thread: THE NY KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS! BING BONG!

He has been lately. The thing is that the 3 of Reaves/Doncic/Lebron is hard to maximize all at once. If you lose one of them, it's not the biggest loss. But nobody else on the Lakers does what Smart does. For the same reason Ayton and Hayes are really important. You need both of them otherwise you get stuck using Lebron as the big or having to use Kléber. But when you lose one of Reaves/Doncic/Lebron the other 2 can easily play the ball more and guys like Kennard and Hachimura can get a little more action and it's not such a big deal.

Appreciate the sentiment, but the Hawks haven’t won anything yet. Every game’s come right down to the end. I expect that to continue in the rest of the games.

Kerr is trash with player development

It is known.

If I'm a Detroit fan, I'm not feeling great. This hasn't been a case of Detroit getting good shots and just missing them. Detroit has had a tougher time getting good shots than Orlando and has been very sloppy.

Kerr is good with shitty player (but are willing to try hard) development,

Kerr is not good with high end player development.

Clippers are going to "win" the lottery which will go to OKC, they'll draft Dybantsa and trade JDub for draftpicks.

SGA's got that Barry White voice going on.

I really wish we had Donte "The Big Ragu" DiVencenzo instead of Mikal "nothing but cardio" Bridges

4 My Town(s)

Take yourself a picture when I'm nailing a 3 from downtown
- Towns

Knicks in 6.

There's the Kaminga I remember.

Looks like things falling in place for Joker to make it past the first round.

Well about that ...

God MN sports are cursed.

I see Donte was a GTD with "Lower Leg". I wonder if it's one of those calf injuries that became Archilles?

Almost certainly

This has been an unusually chaotic first round of the playoffs.

I said it was going to be a boring first round! 😃

Gobert’s fault.

Steph was getting ready to pop under MJax.

I think I could have coached Steph into being a good player.

"Go shoot from anywhere".

more like chokic amirite

Wolves just need to spam 3’s and hope to run hot to win 1/3 games.