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>>149252551
Mald, weapskitz.

The Extender will be making a special appearance in Game 7 after Pacers win Game 6
Pacers in 7

>>149252595
>instantly replies
Nice way of exposing xirself.

* aren't real and yall niggas are childish. The bubble is the closest thing to a * but the players agreed to it so whatever

>>149252676
2024 is the ultimate *. Every team injured. Not a single healthy superstar. Then they faced a healthy team for the first time in years and the Troontics lost.

Need me a lightskin queen like rashida or sonya curry.

>0 for 6 in a finals game

>>149252617
pacers are done. hali isn't playing in game 6

>>149252812

>>149252812
>hali isn't playing in game 6
yeah, that's why they will probably win

>>149252812
That makes the Pacers better

>>149252676
>* aren't real
we know that's why they are put on fraudulent titles bozo

>>149252812
He literally said if he can walk he will play if you need it spelled out for you just wait till thursday

>>149252841
>>149252886
even if he plays hes gonna make the team worse

>>149252927
He's gonna get the injections like in the movies

>>149252841
Dort will dive straight at his legs in the first quarter and finish the job

>>149252927
He had 7 rebounds and 6 assists on 1 leg even if he can't score he can still contribute
Carlisle just can't play him for a ton of minutes since he will basically be unguarded on offense

>>149252886
He is just like LeBron and all the other frauds, as soon as he starts losing a series he screeches "OY VEY MUH BUSSY IS BROKEN" in order to make it try are seem like its not his fault his team is losing.
Its a stupid argument, because if he is a critical part of the team and they can't win without him then when he gets injured that means the loss is all his fault rather than being a team effort. His conditioning and care of his own body is his personal responsibility.
>we would've won if I didn't fail to hold up my end of the bargain for the team.
Everyone else on the Pacers showed up healthy and ready to play

>Grizzlies had it in the bag until the hit job on Morant
>Thunder barely eke out a win against the crippled Nuggets
>Ant struggled with injuries the entire series
>Haliburton out
Luckiest ring in history?

>>149252942
Dort has that dog in him.

>>149252952
>He had 7 rebounds and 6 assists on 1 leg
If he can do that then why can't he shoot? 0 for 6 is atrocious.

HaliBITCH is overrated.

>>149253044
HaliPOOPIN

>>149252570 (OP)
i admit it bros

im gonna run when it comes

>beat the shitty, head coach-less grizzlies with injured Ja
>beat the nuggets with two players who showed up to do anything
>beat the timberwolves (fake contenders who beat a curryless warriors and a geriatric lebron)
>now about to beat haliburton-less pacers

it's official

Lamelo Balls new tats.

Tat this bussy

>>149253134
why does he have the body of a fourteen year old

>>149253134
>this is some team's franchise cornerstone

>>149253125
Don’t forget
>allowed to tackle anyone at any moment with zero whistle
>SGA literally averaging double digit free throws in the playoffs

>>149253134
that shit looks fucking terrible. how do people have taste this bad

>>149252841
was hali not playing breaking news from SHAMS aka jeetslop
he's wrong again

>>149253134
>he got the trans surgery scars tattooed on his body
Grim

Scar this bussy

>>149253134
Lacholo

>>149253134
>chosen one
cringe as fuck

>>149253134
wrong kid died

>>149253214
Weapschizo, you still hate shams for breaking the news about Jimmy wanting out? Remember when you said he was lying?

>>149253288
damn man. i miss lonzo

Break this bussy

>Durant says he wants to return "home" to OKC
>oh wow haha I had no clue they just won a championship what a coincidence that's craaaazy

Return home to this bussy

>>149253340
Source? There's no fucking way

>>149253340
His home is Seattle. Sonics don’t exist anymore though kek

>>149253383

>>149253340
>he doesn't know KD hates OKC for moving from Seattle to Chokelahoma
Bigger chance he goes back to Golden State to punch the shit out of Draymond

Exist in this bussy

>>149253332
>jeetslop was tellin the truth about the nuggets 4 week injury
nah he wasn't
he must be in the same caste as u to take such a retarded defensive stance for him tho

Go back to this bussy

>>149253409
The Snake loved OKC.

defensive stance for this bussy

The Snake loved this bussy

KD for this bussy

malfunctioning bussy bot

You aren't funny

>>149253134
>lamelo balls

Lamelo Balls new bussy

Malfunction this bussy

This bussy isn't funny

the big three has been around for -8-(EIGHT!!!) years?


goddamn.

>>149253372
>>149253383
>>149253409
>>149253340
>Has 50 million left on his contract

He's such a dumbass, hes fucked over back to back franchise at this point with his age, if he ever comes back to OKC, this fucker has to be on a vet minimum he's not getting any extra cent, but his scoring would be really helpful

Iirc I did some researching, what he can do is buyout this contract, give Phoenix back 25 million and they him back, 25 mill, and then it gets Phoenix out of second apron, cause if they trade him, they have to take on his next salary with the amount with the next players they gain back if they trade him,

Buyout this bussy
Trade this bussy

the big bussy has been around for -8-(EIGHT!!!) years?


goddamn.

MVP? Brotha who give him? We have to check this moment.

i figured out why they are pushing SGA
because in professional wrestling "selling" is very important and SGA is the best at "selling"
since the WWENBA will be announcing its merger this is an incredibly important trait

Announce this bussy
Merge this bussy

>>149253332
He buckbroke him

Buckbreak this bussy

>15 point comeback in 2 minutes against the bucks
>15 point comeback in 2 minutes against the cavs
>15 point comeback in 2 minutes against the knicks
>15 points down with 2 minutes left in the finals
>UH BETTER PUT THE ENTIRE BENCH INTO THE GAME
The NBA is rigged.

>>149253855
Halibitch hurt his bussy please understand.

>>149253125
you forgot the biggest asterisk of them all:

>their kryptonite, the dallas mavericks, were all injured

He’s about to win an NBA championship with a FMVP on top.

KD is only going to go to teams that have enough cap space to afford a 2-3 year max extension.

Shai Gilgeous-Bussy

enough cap space for this bussy

>>149253125
Is this the cope BAWBS are rolling with?
>>beat the nuggets with two players who showed up to do anything
Who’s fault is that? Kiss the ring
>>149252570 (OP)
Stay there, be a man, don’t run, fight back.

Missed the game yesterday, did Australia have another melty?

Missed this bussy

>>149253855
Pacers winning the next 2, no way they let FTA win a ring when he's the most unpopular star player in the last 10 years

>>149253944
yeah. and right now he's on his vpn talking about bussy.

>>149253944
Nope. He was MIA. He ran when it came.
>>149252570 (OP)
Stay there, be a man, don’t run, fight back.

>LeMickey missed the playoffs then got swept and gentleman's swept the next three years

>>149253951
>no way they let
this is not WWE. silver isnt booking who wins the game like tripleh books who wins in john cena vs cm punk

Gentleman sweep this bussy

Stop saying bussy this bussy that

Stop this bussy

>>149253976
Scott Foster turned a 10 point Pacers lead into a Thunder win

national bussy association

Mike Malone coached LeBron on the cavs
Mike Malone coached Jokic since he was a baby
Nikola Jokic is best friends with Luka Doncic
Austin Reeves wants to stay in LA

LeBron James
Nikola Jokic
Bronny James
Luka Doncic
Austin Reeves

Mike Malone coached this bussy

>>149254011
this cope sustains me

LeBussy

Sustain this bussy

>>149253976
>earl hebner is the only ref who fixes pro wrestling matches the rest of the refs aren't in on it, vince mcmahon said so
roflmao
>tim donaghy is the only ref who fixes pro basketball matches the rest of the refs aren't in on it, david stern said so
so heckin true!

>whining about FT's
>IND:30 OKC:32

>22 Indiana TO's
iT's riGGeD!!!

Rigged for this bussy

>>149254201
wrestling is a work you mark. nba is a shoot

>>149254034
>ignores the part where doncic opts out of his player option and becomes an UFA, leaving the lakers high and dry

Tatumfags have been melting down and saying Jdub should be finals MVP over SGA because they dont think SGA should get one if Tatum didnt, despite SGA averaging nearly 10 PPG more on better efficiency. Lmfao

>>149254232
they're both sports entertainment companies
u thought u was a smark but u's just a mark

Mark this bussy

>>149254232
>nba is a shoot

>>149252570 (OP)

LeBron James SOUNDS OFF on Ring Culture:

The self proclaimed “king” has once again put his foot in his mouth and opened up a can of hypocrisy and blame shifting on the latest episode of his “Mind the Game” podcast featuring the unemployed and currently seeking a head coaching job Steve Nash

https://youtu.be/IamrFPYyHhM?si=aEKH4W4COD5Ho5Wx

Sound off on this bussy

i've never lost an NBA game

>manufactured superteam ring
>manufactured superteam ring
>hospital ring
>Mickey Mouse bubble ring
How he king with no real rings?

>>149254471
SGA…

>>149254486
You’re a jealous fucking loser

Ring this bussy

>You’re a jealous fucking loser

>>149254510
Jokic...

I thought /nba/ loves small market teams? Where's the hype been?

Small market bussy

Zest Mafia we fucking won our first ever championship

The era of ZESTY ZOOMERS has begun inshallah

Giannis to Warriors.
KD to Heat.
Believe it.
>>149253134
Fucking disgusting

i believe the pacers can win game 6 even without hali

#mytruth #breakingmysilence

#breakingthisbussy

>>149252570 (OP)
I speak on behalf of all and I mean ALL /nba/ posters when I say that we KNEEL in penitence in the face of BlunderDEMON’s wisdom which we so callously mocked all season. I’m glad I jumped on the Shaivonte train after the first round of this playoffs. It’s not too late for the rest of you to join the Zest Mafia and accept BlunderMONSTER’s light. However you must lie prostrate and accept you were wrong first.

I don’t want to see anyone celebrating Shai’s finals mvp ceremony who did not first accept his wrongdoing and repent in the face of BlunderLORD.

>>149253951
the only way i see thunder losing is if silver is the true apex jew and rugpulls them game 7 so all the okc bets from the last year lose

>>149254604
Aura

Aura this bussy

Thunder in 6

>>149254411
if he believed rangz don't matter why was he ring chasing his entire career

Bussy in 6

>Nikola "The Bussy Compliance Engine" Jokic

>>149254763
he complied alright

>>149254486
>here's the superteam I was talking about

Comply with this bussy

>>149254790
Yes, a team with three hall of famers is a superteam.

Superteam this bussy

>>149254486
The 3-1 Finals comeback is a real ring Curfraud proved he's an all time choker

>>149254822
oh wow so almost every team that won a ring is a superteam?

Comeback in this bussy

>>149254853
Chris Bosh had more all-star appearances than Ginobili and Parker combined.

Combine in this bussy.

>The [hospital ring] is a real ring Curfraud proved he's an all time choker

Choke on this bussy

Hospital for this bussy

>>149254853

>all star appearances being used as a scientific and empirical measure of objective basketball skill

All star bussy

>Measure of objective bussy skill

>>149254892
>sole franchise star won lots of all star votes from the teams fans????

so is /nba/ gonna be trash until the next game

Trash this bussy

>>149255040
you dont even find this amusing. you're just doing it. like a robot or something. why

>>149254914
If he's so good why didn't he win up 3-1? Don't even bother replying by the way Curry's hamstring will tear again by the time you do

Amuse this bussy
Tear this bussy

>>149254790
2010 top leaders in PER rating
1. Lebron James
2. Dwyane Wade
3. Kevin Durant
4. Chris Bosh

>>149254692
>ireshart is a faggot bandwagon
Now imagine if the jeet didn’t lie about Jimmy and the Heat would be back in the finals. You’d kill yourself, troon.

rip

>OKC -5.5

>>149255095
He's straight up said it numerous times: his posts aren't sincere. He says whatever he thinks will get the most (You)s. This is why his opinions seem to constantly change. Almost every single post of his is trolling.
Don't reply to him. He'll go away if nobody replies to him.

>>149255111
If Haliburton wasn't injured this would be IND -5.5
OKC just got so fucking lucky with injuries for this hospital ring

>>149254692
Ireland comin up clutch with the curse

>>149255144
>0-6-aburton is a difference maker

>>149255128
What separates the amateur illusionist with the master magician is if he can outline to you in precise detail the workings of his trick, yet still fool you with it time and time again.

And I’d be a Heat bandwagon if they were a good team.

>>149255144
OKC was by far the best team this season. The only bad thing was that the real Finals was the OKC-DEN series. All the good East teams shit the bed.

>>149255170
Remind me who won Game 1 again when he was fully healthy?

haliburton has been trash this whole series outside of the game winner and one game. Spinny P is carrying that bum

>>149255188
Thunder gave that game away. He used up all his magic.

>>149255188
>le defense guy when he's too far away to foul you, crowd you, and hack your arms with no fouls called

Yall remember when kawhi would just walk up to dudes and rip the ball away from them touching only all ball

>choke taunt coming back to haunt Hali for the rest of his life just like it did with ReggRegg

lmao. time is a flat circle. hali choke meme going on quadruple platinum on a fake demon meme

>>149255200
It's almost like he got hurt game 2 and has been trying to manage his calf injury before it got too much to handle in game 5

I'm such a pathetic excuse of a human being.

>>149255184
Pacers have actually played them pretty tough. Better than the Wolves or Grizzlies

>>149255184
>muh record
And who did they beat? Everyone was injured all year except them. They’re a 45 win team in a healthy year.

>>149255246
boo fucking hoo. If you're on the court then you're expected to produce. If you can't then get your ass on the bench. Muh hurt didn't give embiid a pass, didn't give luka a pass, doesn't give anybody a pass

>>149255246
tyrese can sit his ass down but his ego wont let him. mcconnel is a better player than tyrese. tyrese is only good for clutch shots nigga is robbert horry.

>>149255265
Pacers are way better than Denver. Denver only had a couple of meme miracle games, they got lost by an average margin of like 10

2021 finals was the last actually enjoyable series of basketball to watch.
Subsequent ones are all boring. Giannis Vs Snus is the only good series since 2016 really.

>>149255323
I think he knows this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and he can't waste it by being a pussy and sit out thinking for the rest of his life "What if I played?"

>>149252570 (OP)
>tfw i immediately and without ever wavering said that the mavericks won The Trade
>tfw the point of "tanking" (by choice or by circumstance) is to get the #1 overall pick and the mavericks did that, further solidifying their trade victory, especially since doncic's player option kicks in after the end of next season and the mavericks just got the new face of their franchise as well as one of the best NBA draft prospects in history on a #1 overall rookie deal for 4 years

Apologize to me right now you basketball ignorant faggots. Say you are sorry for being a clueless casual and that you yield to my superior basketball brain.

I am victorious
Nico is victorious
The Dallas Mavericks are victorious

The Dallas Mavericks are picking #1 overall and you can't do shit about it but screech and cry and shit your pants. It's over. Now APOLOGIZE you fucking monkeys.

>>149255341
exactly it's his ego. the city would have won a ring if he didnt hog the ball from siakim in the fourth last game and played this game doing nothing but cardio

It's fine
They have today and tomorrow to hard reset their gameplan for Game 6 at home
They blew 2 winnable games in a row but there's no way they blow a 3rd. It really comes down to whether the Pacers don't panic and turn the ball over a ton.
No more Tony Bradley minutes, put Thomas Bryant in.
TJ starting PG.
Give Sheppard some minutes if Nembhard isn't shooting the 3 well.
This shit is winnable. Just gotta get it done. Stop giving players dead minutes on the court if they struggle.

>>149255354
retard faggot award
in a very competitive thread
>>149251605 (Dead)
>>149251653

>>149255354
Nico won the trade.

>>149255457
>i have no argument, and am instead here to punch the air and shit my diapers like a bumbling retard with a tiny, limp dick, sir

i accept your embarrassing concession of defeat, little man

>>149255354
They had a win now team and now split it up for 2 aging vets and a young rookie that won't do shit like "Mr. Generational Talent" Wemby
Have fun in the play in again this year retards, Portland will have a better record than Dallas next year

>>149255564
you get btfo every thread that you post this because you have no friends or something

>>149255341
>"What if I played?"
34 minutes, 4 points, 0-6 FG, 0-43 3PT. Halibitch is overrated lmao.

>>149255604
>the diaper shitter thinks i'm taking him seriously

lel nah, you gave that shit up when you conceded defeat like the basketball ignorant faggot you are, bitch boy

>>149255610
Fellas is it overrated to go to the Finals in your 5th year and hit 4 game winners on 4 different teams in the same playoff run while being 3-2 in the Finals against a 68 win team as a 4 seed????

>>149255639
say the line again

>>149255590
>i have no argument beyond my incomplete and incorrect analysis of the dallas mavericks, sir

now that's what i call a fast concession from a slow retard

>>149255688
If you know the Mavericks so well make a prediction then

149255678
>please give me another (you), sir

nah, you're done here you absolute faggot

>>149255658
His peers think so kek

>>149255706
wow you didn't do this reddit shit twice this time congrats

>>149255726
His peers are in Cancun right now while their front offices are about to hit 2nd aprons

>>149255688
>a rookie on a rookie contract and a bunch of injured faggots is le winning

>Tyrese Haliburton is the first ALL-NBA player to miss every shot in a Finals game since 1958
KWAB

>>149254790
People love to equate the KD and Lebron superteam situations but man they were not even close. The Heat was just a blank slate (well, the eternal Haslem was there) and after the 3 joined they just went to the garbage dump and picked up whatever else they could in 5 minutes with the 10 dollars in salary they had

>>149255734
>>149251605 (Dead)
>>149251653
so mad he posted twice. You lose
149251605
149251653

>Posts his COPE spam daily, get's BTFO daily, COPES and SEETHE's daily, now stuck playing snarky reddit games to save face
So triggered by being wrong and getting BTFO that you posted twice LMAO. Your defeat and lack of basketball knowledge has been firmly established.

>>149255759
Thst's pretty tragic desu

>>149255745
>i have no argument and will instead shit in my hand and smear it on my chest in an attempt to intimidate you with my newly found monkey war paint, sir

i have never accepted a concession so fast in my entire life

>>149255778
OH NO NO NO NO

>>149255779
>my argument is being a faggot posting the same spam that gets btfo every thread

149255772
>please afford me a (you), sir

lel the retard and his jiggling bitch tits refuse to stop crying and shitting those khaki shorts

why has this genny become so ridiculous

>>149255822
yes, that's why you conceded defeat you redundant, retarded faggot. it's over now. accept it, squirt. ya lost. you don't know shit about basketball. go get your diapers changed, little man. you're done here.

>>149255804
what the helly?
what the helly????
what the halibummy??????

>>149255869
tell me what seed the mavs will be next year

Reminder that Nesmith won Game 1 against the Knicks with 18 points in 5 mins in the 4th quarter when the Pacers were down which led them to gaining momentum to get into the finals

>>149255846
That’s what happens when there aren’t actual teams in the finals.

lowkey, i think OKC is going back to back. it doesn't look like anyone next season is gonna get any better.

Da Bulls

HaliBITCH

>>149255964
Healthy Mavs and Spurs could give them problems. Rockets too if they get a superstar

Karl Malone

>>149256094
mariah may is the only reason i watched aew sometimes. now that she signed with wwe i have zero reason to ever watch that shitty show again

>Hali this Hali that
>Meanwhile EVERY possession on SGA with the refs on his side

>>149256159
tranny simp

>>149255964
>Luka with a full offseason with LeBron
Wow, you are next level stupid lmao

>>149256161
Reminder that he’s averaging 13 FTA/G in the finals, but this isn’t a rig job at all

>>149256246
you actually trust that experiment and you're calling me stupid? kek oh man, laker fans are in for a very rude awakening. almost feel sorry for you guys

>>149255964
highkey, you're a casual who fails to realize that the mavericks went 3-1 against OKC this year where *2 of those wins were without doncic anyway*, and the mavericks will once again clear the thunder out of their way in the playoffs. sorry about your shit take, but you can still delete the post and i'll let it slide.

>>149255964
Pacers could have beat this team in 5 if they could hold the lead for like 5 damn minutes

>>149255964
Unless the Nuggets get Jokic two more 3 & D players and a backup center or PF, the Thunder have a free pass to the finals

>>149255964
every year people say the winning team will repeat or threepeat and it never happens

>>149256287
I trust it a lot more than the astroturfed zoomers in OKC

>>149256375
PJ Washington still plays for Dallas.

>>149256375

>>149256310

>>149256436
this is the worst okc will be for the next 2 years

>>149256436
Nigga speaking facts. Even before the playoffs, people were saying the ecf is gonna be between cavs and boston, but we all know how that turned out.

>>149256310
>regular season
celtics swept the knicks, 3 were blowouts

>>149252570 (OP)
>jdub has better stats than tatum in the finals
grim

>>149256534
they also beat them in 6 in the 2nd round last year WITH an injured doncic, casual. you also cited yet another INJURED team to make your failed point, which very much lets me know that you're the kind of casual to whom i referred. truly an embarrassing post from you. i'd delete it as soon as you can. failing that, a shit hole like redddittt is probably more to your speed.

>the finals is so fucking boring and irrelevant lebron james is taking fan questions on his podcast instead of talking about the finals
LMFAO

Did everyone else know that a 6'2 white boy was the third pick in the last draft? He played for the Houston Rockets. What a dud of a draft class lol

>>149256310
2 of those wins were when OKC was missing Chet and Hartenstein and were running Jdub at the 5

>>149256246
>Luka
stopped reading right there ant owns him

>>149256514
they're all gonna be looking for bigger contracts in 2 years and the group will disband

>>149256246
based
LukGod is going to rape the west next season

>>149256310
go to sleep nico...

>>149256604
the mavericks were also missing irving AND doncic for a winning effort, so nah, comparing your role players and a charity all star to a healthy mavericks holds 0 water and is thus not an argument. i'll go ahead and accept your cluelessness as a concession of defeat to spare you further embarrassment, though.

>>149256727
Kyrie played all of those games, and you reminded me that SGA also missed one of those games. The only game tubby played was the one the Mavs lost lmfao

>>149256774
didn't read because you already conceded defeat, squirt. sorry, but you're all done here.

>>149256588
Lebron becomes washed and the league falls apart and becomes boring.

>>149256641
they can keep this same exact team together for 2 more years and still be under the 2nd apron. It's not a problem until SGA's mvp extension and JDub/chet projected extensions all kick in 3 years from now. That's a damn good position to be in and plenty of time to figure out something

>>149256864
u dumb as hell
u really really dumb

^ lel the retard is still shitting his diapers because he got exposed as a casual

>>149256932
Just ignore that guy. He's that retard who always spams the "Mavs and Nico won the trade. I am right, everyone else wrong" ragebait. And then when you disagree with him, he'll just say, "Didn't read, I accept your concession of defeat." That retard doesn't even watch basketball. He's just a troll from r/whitepeopletwitter.

shai~sistas... i dont feel to good

>>149257062
blue really tried to sneak curry in there kek

>>149257062
>The real reason OKC wins the finals

>random 3rd world casual shows up to shit his pants and refute nothing, as well

>>149257062
modern nba fans are so damn whiny. Injuries are part of the game. Get over it

Desmond Bane= 4 unprotected 1sts and a pick swap
Rudy Gobert= 5 first rounders and a pick swap
Mikal Birdges= 5 first round picks and a pick swap

Luka Donic= Anthony Davis (injury prone second option) and a first

The trade market is completely fucked up

>Kevin Durant reportedly had interest in joining the Celtics at the trade deadline, per @KevinOConnorNBA

>“Durant has already been denied by his top choices. There were rumblings at the trade deadline KD wanted to land with the Celtics or Knicks. New York’s interest reportedly isn’t mutual anymore. Boston’s cap sheet and trajectory make that scenario highly unlikely.”

https://x.com/thedunkcentral/status/1934972342301573275?s=46

no one wants KD LOL

>>149257010
Nico won the trade though.

>>149257170
KD stuck in phx then going vet min next season. kwab

>>149257010
>>149257170
The nuggets need to take a swing at him asap his value might be tanked enough for MPJ + picks to go through

>>149257163
>implying doncic isn't even more injury prone than davis

this is your brain on ESPN's slop takes

>>149257170
>The hardest road
kekw

>>149257170
Suns traded 4 first rounders and swap for KD. They want close to the same amount of picks back to reclaim some value.

>>149257288
Didn't AD get injured the very first game he played for the Mavs and was out for like month?

>>149257163
AD is a top 10-12 player in the league and the amount of disrespect he gets is absurd. Those other teams got nothing of substance except a dream

>>149257223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Don%C4%8Di%C4%87%E2%80%93Anthony_Davis_trade

A trade so bad that it has it's own dedicated wiki page lol

>>149257170
Can he take a Vet Minimum and go somewhere else

>>149257279
if phx isn't accept trades from san antonio why would they accept a shittier trade from denver kek

>>149257386
Suns have no leverage

>>149257335
yet he still played more games up to that point in the season than doncic, who was for about 20 games, so your false equivalence doesn't work here, slugger.

>>149257357
AD never became the first option on the Lakers even with Lebron deferring more to him. AD disappeared in late game situations. He's a bonafide sidekick

>>149257382

>>149257382
yep, that's what happens when one team gets fleeced hard: it gets its own wikipedia page, and the lakers have to live with the shame of having been worked by the dallas mavericks forever.

>>149253134
The last 9 MVPs have had no tattoos

>>149257425
Why are you looking at 1 season instead of the general trend over the last few seasons of AD being injury prone?

>>149257163
Those guys are more valuable rotation pieces than Luka and they had more years left on their contracts

>>149257385
From what've read so far, it's basically:
>KD only wants to go to spurs, miami and rockets and sign an extension
>Spurs not that interested in giving away everything for him
>Wolves desperately want him, but he doesn't want to go to Minny
>The 3 teams are waiting for the Suns to lower their demands

>>149256210
shes hot. you’re gay

>>149257602
Suns have openly said they might send him to a team not of his choice

>>149257602
>>149257622
A player like KD should get to go where he wants this late in his career. The league is evil

>be jj reddick
>don't play bronny james
>still get bounced out the first round
COTY

>>149257498
>from a false equivalence to moving the goal posts

i tried to entertain your ability to make even a single argument, but you're simply too much of a casual, so i will pre-emptively accept your concession of defeat to spare you further embarrassment.

>>149257469
That sounds like cope. The Mav's didn't get good value at all for Luka and got fleeced hard. Getting the first pick in the draft months later doesn't count because the league will never admit to rigging the draft as part of the deal.

>>149257690
You don't know what false equivalence means. Your entire argument is that AD isn't injury prone but you're refusing to look past this one season, even though he only played 9 games with the Mav's after immediately getting injured.

>>149257645
o no that sucks
sounds like he shoulda got himself a NTC

>>149257702
if it's rigged then it counts cause that was part of the trade

>>149257619
trans avatarfagging simp

>>149255323
The overrated meme was true and real

>>149257785
shes about to show up on NXT right now. keep crying aewtranny

>>149257779
We can't fully prove that it was rigged and the league will always maintain that it was "just a coincidence". We can't officially count that as part of the trade.

>>149257779
it 100% counts
everybody including mark cuban was involved with greenlighting the trade
some larped so they could keep their public image (also cuban)

>>149255341
>thinking for the rest of his life "What if I played?"
so he'll be thinking "what if I didn't play and TJ brought me and the rest of the team a ring?"
he didn't ming getting a gold medal without playing, why is this any different?

Why is WWE promoting boxing now? Some TKO deal?

>>149257827
>simp watched gayew
>NOOOOOOO YOU'RE THE AEWTRANNY I SWEARRRRR YOU JUST ARE OKAY???
holy simp

>>149257702
didn't ask, retard.

>>149257736
see above. you've conceded defeat so you're done, just like the other retard.

>>149258018
wrong thread damn my bad
>>149258032
want simp watching nigga

>>149257779
it doesn't because the actions taken after the Luka trade don't make any fucking sense. Nico failing upwards is a much more believable scenario since that's been his whole career

he cant win with them cats

>>149258032
Meant wasn’t. But yeah i only would watch cuz she’s got that not a simp

>>149256717
lmao you can see reffie going for the whistle in slow mo

>>149258018
yeah plus Saudi, wish they invested the advertising money into music though
>>149258068
deranged troon company watching simp, no wonder you like nxtroons too

>bad guys win AGAIN
when was the last time this didn't happen?

>>149258160
2019

>>149258160
2019

>Looks like that delusional Nico cocksucker is still here throwing his shit at everyone
KWAB

>>149258150
Figures its some Saudi stuff. Thanks for clarification. Also im gonna goon to mariah may and there’s nothing you can do to stop me.

>>149258217
He’s still trying to convince himself that reading luka made any fucking sense whatsoever

NICOGODS WE RUN THIS GENERAL
FUCK DEM HATERS

>>149258244
goon all you want but post your trans slags In /r/ or whatever the porn board is, pip pip cheerio

OKC winning will once again prove that the NBA is the worst league in America

hooper flag is the future

What Luka done without Nico again?

>>149258641
ant victim

>>149258641
make the playoffs. What has nico done? Claim credit for the lotto?

>>149258754
lol this casual faggot thinks winning 1 playoff game with the league grandpa and a bunch of role players is an accomplishment, especially after they were embarrassed by a lower seed

>>149258366
Mariah is a biological woman unlike toni storm

>>149258827
cool. Wht couldn't Nico do it despite killing his team attempting to

>>149258875
>strokes out and posts incoherent bullshit

Nico is a bum

>>149255270
Everyone

>>149259097
Nico only got bailed out because he's colored

>>149258850
they're both troons but im sure if anthony storm came to nxt you'd call it a woman like you do with mariah man

https://x.com/brickscenter/status/1935144061415076312?s=46

these bitches going crazy lol

whats wrong wit the world momma

I predict the Pacers will have lost the will to live and get blown out on Thursday. It won't be close

>>149259576
I think they'll want to win it in front of okc fans

>>149259576
will Hali do copy it

>>149259594
You don’t fuck around like that in the finals. Especially in a series this close.

>>149259576
They're on home court and nearly won the last game when they were down 18 at 1 point they'll win by 20

>>149259280
maybe I should start watching the wnba

>>149258754
Made the wcf and the Finals, got Kyrie for a bag of chips, got Lively for a pile garbage

If it comes out I'm a closeted homosexual all my aura will disappear...

>>149259620
nigga dropped two 40 pt games to drop a dookie and lose the fuck man

>>149260031
Jordan....

>>149260031
Ja...

>>149260031
Steph...

>>149260031
LeDiddy....

jokic is only good cause he can shoot threes as good as steph curry. why doesn't every other center just practice shooting a 3?

>>149260779
jokic aint half as good as curry frin 3

>>149253003
2015 Golden State loses in five if either Kyrie or Love doesn't get hurt.
2016 Golden State would've also lost to OKC if Draymond was suspended like he should've been

>>149253125
>Waaaa all the other teams built shitty rosters without depth, this is Okcs fault waaaa

>>149260948
yeah hes twice as good

>>149260961
You can do this shit for every ring in the history of any sport. These hypotheticals make me sick. Probably my most hated aspect of discussing sports

>>149260948
curry has never shot better than jokic in the playoffs than during his championship run. like jokic is literally only good when he's splashing 3s

>>149261052
are you dumb or stupid

>>149261073
jokic never shoots 3 at the volume of curry. there are plenty of guys with crazy 3pt% but dont shoot at currys volume.

>>149261104
im mixed

>>149261244
who is talking about the grizzlies

>>149261612
media is circling the waters fantasizing about them blowing it up

morantie one of the ones who voted hali overrated

>>149261711
wheres the fantasizing. dillon brooks is gone. now bane is gone.

Northwest Territories how you feeling?

>>149261733
>tj/siakam
lmao I agree

>>149261809
bad, dont talk to me

>>149261733
He's right too, TJ straight hooping.

AVRA NVKE

>>149261989
zero aura in this image

>>149253134
Somehow this just got into the KWABOTY nominations

>>149261733
why morant one of those pussy celebs who limit replies kek

>>149256641
Why can't they just pay the tax? As far as I can tell all it does is limit trading your draft pick 7 years out and limits the amount of salary you can receive in a trade.

Ok? Why does any of that matter to OKC? They have a billion draft picks right now to trade. They might shed guys like Dort or Caruso in a few years but that isn't exactly team gutting. They're still contenders.

>B-but muh cheap owners, muh harden trade!

They paid 200 million in luxury tax for a first round exit in 2018. Why wouldn't they pay up for a championship ring? They're more than making that up in merchandise, ticket sales and ad revenue.

Hold on I wanted Shai to do well but not THIS well this is fucking threatening lebron and jordans legacies the pacers need to do something fast

>>149256864
God I wish OKC got to play the mavericks. All their wins were flukes where they couldn't miss and they never faced a healthy OKC all season. It would've been done in four even with Luka.

>>149262482
Sga is unironically the best player in the league.

>>149262509
PJ Washington’s devil magic is better than 5 Lukas

>>149257163
Anthony Davis is worth more than any of those other trade packages. What's hard to understand about that.

What a waste of materials.

https://x.com/thedunkcentral/status/1935164001920659841?s=46

>>149262835
Gonna be a good fashion piece in Africa.

>>149262509
>retard ignores the fact that the mavericks were also never fully healthy, and were missing more critical parts, as well

yet another concession of defeat from yet another brain dead moron with casual retard standards

>>149259762
Silver made the call

they saying breen is washed...

>>149261059
Chet broke his hip and only had 20 games to recover and get ready for the playoffs. Yet the nuggets wanna act like Aaron Gordon getting a boo-boo is why they lost. Mental midgets.

If chet plays the full season, OKC wins 74 games, Chet continues to develop into the allstar he was becoming at the start of the season and OKC sweeps the nuggets.

>>149263343
he has to commentate with dorris and rj..

>>149263369
I don't get the RJ hate

Reminder Ray Allen did nothing wrong leaving that plumber franchise.

>>149261989
Why are you posting hockey players in an NBA thread?

>thread STILL not finished

Halibumton has no aura…. This thread is dead

>>149258205
>>149258209
I hate canadians one of the worst hospital rings, my warriors are so unlucky

>>149264193
Nothing sadder than bandwagon Warriors fans

8 4 7 8

>>149260261
The beautiful game...

>>149252942
You have a problem with that, mister anonymous/?

>>149263613
They wanted Allen to take a pay and they tried to trade him the season before. Leaving for the Heat was the smart move.

Meal.

>>149262482
Now show how many FTs taken.
I cant believe retards are not yet realizing that SGA is just harden if he ever made the finals. Hed break those "30+ points playoffs" records too if he did. It dont mean shit. Especially in todays league. And no im not an old head

>>149262482
Lebron put on dominating performances in the playoffs. The media keeps looking for other things to talk about than the Finals on account of how fucking boring everything and everyone is.

>>149260948
O rly

>>149263921
Those are NBA players.

I can't believe the crippled nuggets and ogaysee put up the best series this finals

>>149264300
Nice. I made some chicken and veggies

>>149262627
n3 at best

why are there so many weirdo rando curry haters. so ill. most humble player in the league that actually has shit to be humble about

Who can the Lakers realistically get as a center

>>149264714
He tortured everyone’s favorite teams and players for a decade.

>>149264809
Cousins

>>149264519
Nuggets lost by an average margin of 10, they got curbstomped. A couple of asspull fluke games are the only reason it went 7 games

lmfao ive been fucking with this thing for hours

>>149264714
>curry haters

I think you mean Curry realists

>>149264904

>>149264906
realist about what exactly?

>>149264887
They were up in fourth quarter multiple games it wasn't an unrealistic win lol

>>149264938

>>149264922
kek based ai knows whats up

>>149264904
Was the bot programmed on dwight howard?

>>149264809
McGee

>>149264967
It’ll take any image you feed it

>>149264467
Who are they? I don't recognize them

dorisbros…

>>149265038
I was gonna do Riley Curry as a shitpost but that would probably have me on a list.

>>149264519
Nuggets and Clippers was the best series

> Ballpark de Tsukamaete! just ended
Hope we get a second season and more...

>>149265126
kek you’ll be fine

>>149265137
its not surprising that the finals were a dud, the east is way too shitty to put a team that could be competitive with a west #1 seed

>>149265229
The knicks would have beat this OKC team. I firmly believe that. And Im not just saying that because im a knicks fan btw

>>149256926
in 3 years Iheart, wiggins, dort & joe's contracts all go away, and they will either sign new lower ones or get replaced by one of the 17 firsts okc has coming up.

Chess

>>149265229
Pacers won 4 games this series but choked 2 of those wins away, boxscore watcher
When they win in 7 it will be 6 total games they've won of this series

>>149264450
Jokic was so elite. Now he's fat and slow.

>>149265389
box score watchers are the elite of hoops fans

>>149265170
Ayesha catching strays

/nba/ got too many cornballs

>>149265471
yeah and you’re the biggest one of them

>>149265561
KEK Gottim

>>149265576
dont take a screenshot of my screenshot lil bro

>Oklahoma City’s series-tying win, which peaked with 12 million in the 11 PM ET quarter-hour, was the least-watched Game 4 of an NBA Finals since Lakers-Heat in the fall 2020 “bubble,” which averaged 7.70 million on the first Tuesday of October. Excluding that anomalous circumstance, it was the least-watched in the Nielsen people meter era (1988-present).
>The NBA Finals is now averaging 9.08 million viewers through four games, making it the least-watched at this point of the series since Lakers-Heat in the “bubble” (7.06M) and the least-watched outside of 2020 in the people meter era.

thinking bout dem game 6 eats

>>149265752
luka....

>>149265752
Fat fuck.

>>149265752
I was thinking about the guy who shat himself in game 1 and posted a photo...

Best script would be Hali out for the next two games and Pacers winning in 7. Siakam and the soul role player finally win a nba champ to indiana

Has there ever been a full on mexican in the NBA?

Jokic used to look like Kevin Durant
Now he looks like Luka Doncic

>>149266158
gustabo ayon and eduardo najera

OKC in 6
I'm sad people will think it's an asterisk

>>149266274
Who cares, there won't be any excuses when they repeat next year

>>149266274
Why would it not be an asterisk. Every series except for wolves they played injured starting players. Actually i dont even know about the wolves cause i didnt watch that trash

>>149266495
Don’t try to argue with them. They’ve somehow convinced themselves that Ja wasn’t going to dominate the rest of that series.

What one month without roids does to a mf

>>149256641
They have so many draft picks they can trade for cash they're setup nice for a long run.

>>149266707
When is lediddy going to give him his roids?

>>149266274
It is an asterisk. SGA's get's 0 respect from fans and his foul baiting will be made into offensive fouls like Harden's foul baiting was. This was a fluke year where every major star got injured and the refs rigged series for teams with young rising star players

>Flagg - good
>Harper- bust
>Ace- bust
>VJ- okay
>Tre- bust
>Kon- okay

>>149266274
Ignore asterisk talk. Its gotten out of control in NBA fandom. I would say were the worst sports fans when it comes to finding ways to discredit the championship every season. At one point NFL fans were pretty bad with it, but its by far us now. Ive totally checked out of asterisk talk. I just can’t take it seriously anymore. The winner is the winner. Thats it.

>>149266274
How is it an asterisk? It's the least asterisk ring in years.

>2024: Butler, Mitchell and Haliburton all get hurt
>2023: weakest finals run since the 70's
>2022: Legitimate ring on par with OKC.
>2021: No Kyrie, COVID shortened season, KD big feet
>2020: Do I even have to say it?
>2019: No KD, No Klay.
>2018: Chris Paul injured. KD fucked the league
>2017: Kawhi injured, KD fucked the league
>2016: Legitimate championship.
>2015: fakest ring in NBA history, no Kyrie no Love.

We did it thunder sisters! We won the NBA finals!

>>149266865
>7'2
>250 lbs

>>149267043
Ja Morant injured. MPJ, AG, Westbrook, Murray injured/sick. Steph Curry injured so they didn't have to play the warriors with a Jimmy Butler. Tyrese Haliburton injured.

This is way weaker than 2023 where Denver had to face lebron, ad, kd, booker, ant, kat, butler. They actually faced the most active all stars in a playoffs run ever. And don't bring up seeding cause the W/Ls looked like this.

Ja Morant isn’t nearly as good as you people think he is

>>149267130
>Ja Morant injured

This is the only injury that actually effected a game and you're braindead if you think that series goes beyond five even with Ja.

>MPJ, AG, Westbrook, Murray injured/sick

They had normal injuries for the playoffs that literally every team had to deal with. Jokic played like shit and got carried by AG so I'm shocked that you're really trying to pass off a lie this retarded. Don't injury luck on something that roster construction issues clearly caused.

>Steph Curry injured so they didn't have to play the warriors with a Jimmy Butler

Would've been their easiest series all playoffs. Butler is not a real player anymore.

>Tyrese Haliburton injured.

They had their chance with a healthy Hali and blew it. Still not an excuse.

>This is way weaker than 2023 where Denver had to face lebron, ad, kd, booker, ant, kat, butler


The best players listed are either ancient or were injured. Jokic and current Ant are better than all those dudes.

>>149267186
nice reddit spacing

Whos the corry perry of the nba

>>149252886
If you're fucking injured, don't play.
Look at James Harden highlights before he played on his bad hamstring against the Bucks.
Fucked himself up all for no ring.

>>149267174
Ja is the best slim build black basketball player

>>149265733
If silver wants to save the dying league he needs to make sure lebron and bronny wins the next ring. Force the league to trade jokic to the lakers.

>>149267130
>This is way weaker than 2023 where Denver had to face lebron, ad, kd, booker, ant, kat, butler.
You mean the run with no Mcdaniels, no Naz Reid, no Heero, and a hobbled Jimmy? Nuggets wouldn't have even made it out of the first round if Mcdaniels and Naz Reid played.

>tyrese injured in every single playoffs
Brither this guy stinks

a trve leader and trve competitor would have let TJ play his minutes. haliburton playing and trying clutch shots on a fucked leg is small brained and cost them the chippy

>>149267043
2025 2023 2022 are legit rings. the other ones you mentioned are bullshit

would be huge if ben mathurin stopped playing like a faggot

>>149268940
hes trying

>>149267174
If youve ever actually seen Ja's layup bag, he is ACTUALLY closer to Jordan than Ant or SGA are. SGA doesn't even dunk and hes being compared with Kobe? The fuck?

SGA and ANT are the current Jordan disciples in the league
Ben Simmons and Luka are the Bron disciples

So far Jordan’s disciples have performed far better than Bron’s

>>149269873
>Tran't better than Luka
Baboon babble

BREAKING: The Denver Nuggets have traded Michael Porter Junior and Payton Watson for Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetekounmpo, Kyrie Irving and 3 First Round Picks

A Serbian film was actually a good movie, prove me wrong.

>>149270216
They're both ringless may as well go off which one didn't cry and flee

>>149270253
its a great romantic comedy

>>149270272
When did Luka "flee"

>>149270273
The ending was especially funny

>>149270297
Hahaha cryBAWBy Pooka Dumbitch got bitch slapped by Cant Man

>>149270308
Luka with moderate help buck broke that child killing thug. Acting tough when you're up

>>149269873
SGA Jordan arc incoming. This won't be the last of his Finals victories

>>149267130
Staying healthy while maintaining a high level of play is an actual and unironic skill. More skilled team won it all, cope.

>>149270366
Give it a rest Inceltic no one respects it

>>149270317
>no i need more GOATs or else Jaden McDaniels and Derrick White make me cwy :((((

Lucy needs to lose some weight and put a tampon in

Prepare your anus next season. San Antonio Sperms in 6

>>149270420
truth nvke

lebron averaged a 30 point triple double for 4 years im pretty sure his numbers are better than mjs

>>149267186
Lot of words to say “yeah, everyone they’ve played has been injured”. You can make all the excuses you want, but this ring is so lucky it hurts. The fucking Wizards could have won the finals with this kind of competition.

The game that saved an entire legacy. The next year makes it pretty obvious the shitty superteam carried lebron was supposed to lose this finals.

>>149270904
>DOESNT COUNT Z PLAYER WAS INJURED
>DOESNT COUNT YOU HAD A SUPERTEAM
>DOESNT COUNT Y PLAYERS WIFE DIED SO HE WAS DEPRESSED AND UNDERPERFORMING
>DOESNT COUNT THEY LITERALLY JUST FIRED OUT COACH WE WERE STILL ADJUSTING
>DOESNT COUNT THE REF MISSED A CALL

Asterisks and excuses have permanently ruined basketball discussion

this nigga quit on his team in the biggest games. He's so lucky Jordan saved his legacy

>>149270904
U lnow lebron hit two or three clutch 3s right before that to even bring it that close right

>>149271217
so what youre telling me, is that he should have ABSOLUTELY lost and just got lucky

I've been watching left hand layup, much better than this year's finals

>>149271554
Jordan had weak competition in the expansion east, LeBron beat the only 73 win team in history with 4 hall of famers and led every statistical category
Jordan couldn't do that

>>149271651
true

>>149271651
Eastern conference competition has been weaker most of the time

>>149271651
TRUTH NUKE

>>149270431
Get this bandwagoning bum out of here

>>149271651
what teams were expanded in the east that were bad? charlotte miami and orlando were all good from 95-98

>>149271651
How's LeBron been since he joined the Western Conference? One Finals appearence in 7 years? Compared to 10 in a row in the East. East is a joke, always has been. Only contenders for GOAT are Western Conference players. The Western teams go through a blood bath just to reach the Finals whereas the Eastern rep cake walks there.

>>149272103
one finals appearance in 2 years actually. then silver forced the goat team to blow up to force meme parity cause silver wants records.
>le new champion every single year it never been done before what a great commisioner
dei league

>Nick Kerr is back

how are you guys coping with the season being over tomorrow

>>149257480
Acts like an infection that the immune system always tries to fight.

>>149272222
by watching caitlin clark kino

The Spurs have 0 real rings
1999 shortened season and Knicks were injured
03 Dirk was injured
05 Malice at the palace, Pacers were best team in the league and got nerfed
07 rigged Suns series
2014 Bron ring, anyone can eat off of Bron

Bought tickets to a Drake show.

Adam Silver gets what Adam Silver wants. Game 7.

>>149272316
even if old man Ewing played, the knicks wouldve still lost

>>149272316
lel he's still mad because the spurs got wembanyama and insists on crying and shitting his pants about it

theres only 13 teams in the wnba lol

I quit my job today so I could watch the Finals tomorrow.

How do basketball players get injured so often that anons have to make excuses for rings?

>>149272735
More lateral movement than ever with players being expected to guard the perimeter regardless of height/weight and switch on bigger or faster assignments. That’s why 90s rings don’t count

>>149272749
>That's why the 90's rings don't count
This but the 80's rings do count because pace-wise they were actually faster than the 90's and began experimenting with faster pace/offensive sets. SOME early 2000's rings count but not all.

>>149272749
they jump and run on hardwood floors. retarded ass prison sport.

>>149272749
Switch spamming is a strategy to deal with moving screens and unmotivated defenders, and lateral movement is unquabtifiable. So we don't really rate chips in the moving screens era cause that ain't basketball

this is the dumbest sports conversation I've seen in a minute, all strangely enough associated with the nba. Bring back wilt posting

>>149272749
Lame excuse. Soccer players have much vigorous movement and contact too.
Same with ice hockey.
They also cover a lot more distance. Are NBA players just too lanky ?

In Jordan’s era a 5’3 player could get drafted top 5

i fuck so much pussy i might switch to bussy

>thread up for 23 hours during the FINALS

tv ratings chads were right. Parity era needs to end if this league is to survive. Never send small market cucks back to the final, silver. Bring back superteams.

shatafakap ireland

>>149273318
Based fellow antiracist king

>>149273279
serbia checking in...

>>149272749

>6'6
>6'6
>6'6
>6'5
>6'2
Hold up that lineup won 73 games in bron's era?

>>149273387
Still Vince…..

>>149273405
>Having to run more, fight through screens, be able to switch onto and guard 6'6+ roided out nigs and take nothing but jumpshots while playing every other day
>"Why are players getting hurt more?!?!?!?!"
retard.

pussyyyyyyyyyy asssaaaaaaaaaaa dead league

>>149273093
This is the point that should be emphasized. I played both soccer and bball in highschool, soccer is definitely more demanding in every way

>>149273326
> Radio Free Europe
> Harvard

So lefties make propaganda and the righties use it as evidence?

Three gap between games is fucking retarded

>>149273093
Bums are getting generational wealth now in the NBA, soccer players are paid way less on average. There's not as much motivation to play through stuff or be well conditioned when you're basically set for life with the one contract.

post your top 10 favourite nba players list

i'll start:
1. jokic
2. doncic
3. reaves
4. herro
5. pritchard
6. buzelis
7. wagner
8. knecht
9. holmgren
10. porzingis

a joke of a fucking team

>>149273911
I have the same experience
>>149274104
So basketball players truly are BABBs and BAWBs

Go thunder

Nothing get's BAWB twitter more riled up than Caitlyn Clark getting fouled hard lol. The latest game saw her getting fouled by 2 white girls and yet the league is still racist against her or some shit

New
>>149274676
>>149274676
>>149274676
>>149274676

>>149270554
No one needs to worry about an OKC dynasty. The moment the SGA turns down a White House visit, his ass is being shipped out of town for peanuts. The fanbase wouldn’t tolerate anything less

>>149274385
what about it is a joke?

>>149272506
13 too many