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Thoughts on the Clippers chances at their first ever championship?

>>149893595 (OP)
>pistol pete the only person bothering to make generals now

https://x.com/i/status/1947141729414725809

>>149893606
When LeBron tried this it failed miserably

POV: you just said something positive about Nikola Jokic

>>149893618
These skins look nice af

soon

>>149893715
Nigga as which is why no one will sign his ass

enough with the pistol pete

please more of pistol pete

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

>>149893606
Zero percent

>be a mediocre team full of aging players
>lose in the first round
>sign a couple of washed players looking to cash one last check
>remain mediocre

If Clipsfags unironically think 59693 year old Chris fucking Paul is the final piece they deserve their suffering. Actually, the deserve their suffering just for being LA faggots rooting for a meme team

we

It’s never been more over…

>>149893881
I will make them both love me

heil herro

>>149893881
Bueckers!

davion
herro
norman powell
wiggins
Bam adebayo

scary hours in miami..

>sign cp3 for nothing
>title odds dont move at all
KWAB

PG: Harden
SG: Beal
SF: Kawhi
PF: Collins
C: Zubac
Bench: CP3, Bogdan, Dunn, Lopez, Derrick Jones Jr
Extremely deep team actually.

>>149894076
Who cares, they all gonna be injured in the offs anyway.

>>149894076
The unction

>>149893595 (OP)
>pissy pete edition

>>149894076
Nah but seriously Kawhi had a miracle run at the end last season

If he can somehow pull that off again clippers will be in great shape. still think they're gonna struggle in the regular season without powell tho

>>149894076
Second best team in the west right now. They just need to load manage Kawhi during the regular season

one day my bullies won't be shit

I’m a white boy, retarded as fuck, gay, and no one respects me I don’t even respect myself. How’s my team doing?

>>149894133
>>149894152
they got a squad for sure. imagine they were able to keep powell over beal

I really hope Westbrook signs with the Wolves. All they're missing is a PG from staying as a top team in the West. Or he should come back to OKC and mentor Mitchell and Topic

congratulations to the 2026 nba champions the la clippers fuck KD

>>149894224
He needs to go back to the Clippers

Brick
Harden
Beal
Kawhi
Zubac

CP3, Dunn, Derrick Jones Jr, Collins, Lopez, Bogdan is way too scary for modern nba

why is the giddey contract taking so long this greedy nibba pissing me off

/nba/ has felt soulless as fuck for a while now. Will the UNCTION be kino enough to revive it?

You guys are just meming about the Clippers, right? Chris Paul will be 41 during the playoffs.

I was going for a PR on my mile time on the treadmill but the damn thing limits your speed when you start off

what does it feel like to return to a team you left 8 years ago?

>>149894268
no one is giving him offers nigga

>>149894460
oh hell nawww the best player ever is mentally retarded?

>>149894303
and he'll still be better than jamal murray

>>149894460
niggas faster than a bullet train

>>149894076
here we go again, hell even might even be 2022 lakers tier

>>149894250
Keep dreaming

>>149894460
He is just really happy he won't get season swept by the wizards again

>>149894460
Wow, he's LITERALLY me...

okay, i just sobbered up. Did we actually win something in our miserable lives for once? is this real life???

>>149894801
holy shit ur back

>>149894801
you drafted larry bird

>>149894801
summerleague champions of the world. Congrats

2026 awards predictions:
>MVP
Jokic
>ROTY
Flagg
>DPOY
Zubac
>MIP
Holmgren
>6MOTY
Reaves

>>149894990
>MIP
>Holmgren
Hell nah

>>149894990
>DPOY
>Zubac
LOL

I forgot
>"Clutch player of the year" (retarded shit award)
Luka

>>149895017
>>149895018
i couldn't think of whites to plausibly win those awards

>>149894801
hang the banner buzzbro

>>149894990
lmao more like
>MVP
Tyrese Maxey
>ROTY
VJ Edgecombe
>DPOY
Joel Embiid
>MIP
Quentin Grimes
>6MOTY
Jared McCain

>>149895043
>>6MOTY
>Jared McCain
kek be realistic

>>149895062
you think he will start?

>>149895078
nah he's gay

>MVP
SGA
>ROTY
Will Riley
>DPOY
Lu Dort
>MIP
Bennedict Mathurin
>6MOTY
Dillon Brooks

The best (non-statpadding) player in basketball right now.

>>149895212
that beard is NASTY

>>149895043
Seriously, man. What is even the point

>>149894460
I like how he stopped to let the train get even with him so they could have a clean start. That's sportsmanship

who more overrated! kobe or curry!?!

>>149895310
Kobe

its crazy to me how doug mcthunderbuckets is still in the league

>>149895310
Kobe is underrated

>>149895310

>>149895390
... on opposite day

>>149895310
easily kobe. steph is the best shooter ever. kobe isn't even top 10 of all time. steph isn't either but no one says he is.

Cloppers leaning 100% into being Team Unc. The Expendables ahh niggas.

>>149895815
PG: CP0
SG: Haren
SF: Kawaii
PF: DJJ
C: Zubac

My man Derrick finna get run into the ground trying to defend for the entire team

OFFICIAL AND OBJECTIVE GREATEST NBA PLAYERS OF ALL-TIME POWER RANKINGS

1. Wilt Chamberlain
2. Michael Jordan
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4. Stephen Curry
5. Shaquille O'Neal
6. Larry Bird
7. Tim Duncan
8. Kobe Bryant
9. Magic Johnson
10. Hakeem Olajuwon
11. Bill Russell
12. Kevin Durant
13. Dirk Nowitzki
14. Nikola Jokic
15. Kevin Garnett
16. Dwyane Wade
17. David Robinson
18. Jerry West
19. Allen Iverson
20. Charles Barkley

POWER GAP

9001. Darko Milicic
90001. LeBron "Cheater" James

honestly, some people are mocking us for being hyped about a mere summer league trophy/ring.
You don't know what it's like to be a true Hornet.
You don't know what it's like to not go to the playoffs every year and watch from the bleachers other teams being happy for at least 4 extra games.
You don't know what it's like to lose many games, only to not get the first pick in lottery.
You don't know what it's like, to be constantly mocked by others, and not being able to say shit about it because you're misery
You don't know what it's like, whenever you get a kinda talented player, ESPN and the league/commissioner actively try to get that player to the Lakers, Knicks or Celtics because muh big market, making shitty mock trades stressing you out.
You don't know what it's like, to have a shitty general manager who buys into it and make those poor choices trading your best players for peanuts/busts.
You don't know what it's like to lose your team and get it relocated
You don't know what it's like to hold the worst season record in history
You don't know what's like to have zero NBA titles.

Yet we're still here, taking hits here and there, and hated for being misery when we try hard to improve wit no progress. It's sad, but i still like this team regardles. Might be a toxic, abusive relationship of being deceived every season, but that's the choice i did when i start rooting for them.
So please, for just one time, let us being able to enjoy a little moment of peace. We won't get another one like this soon enough, let us just live the moment. That delusion. Just for 1 time.

Hell, even the NBA played into it and changed its banner and made a graphic about it. That's how sorry we are. The worst, most dogshit team in the league's history. And proud of it. No bandwagoning, here since day 1.

>>149895890
Didn't ask + didn't read + you've never been to Charlotte

>Didn't ask + didn't read + you've never been to Charlotte

my clippers are lowkey stacked

>>149895870

>9001. Darko Milicic

TYBH

>>149896059
I said that but don't look like that

>>149896082
... with bums

>>149894076
It's a good team but Kawhi needs a team good enough to get home court while he KaLoads.

>>149895890
Talk yo shit summer league Kang

how come this general sucks

>>149896180
It’s the middle of the off season

>>149896180
Offseason + low-IQ sport + zoomer sport (but I repeat myself) + a few prominent schizos dominate the thread

>>149896207
stop the cap. It's just as bad or worse in season and during the post season.

>>149894990
>MVP
Doncic
>ROTY
Kon!
>DPOY
Amen
>MIP
Shaedon
>6MOTY
Norman Powell

>>149896441
amen dpoy would feed generations
surely powell starts though?

>>149894801
CHARLOTTE ON TOP-- WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK!

BEATING NIGGAS LIKE IT'S A SECOND JOB, KEKS!

>>149896501
I guess I'm a newfag I didn't know you can't say the c word. It's pretty much over for my 4chan career. Sorry guys. Bye.

>>149896485
presuming the Heat start Davion and/or trade Norman away to a contender some time to give Kasparas more minutes

>>149895815
Go back to TikTok

>>149893869
was Mitchell traded?

>>149896783
Apparently MSG thinks they will start Robinson at C and KAT at PF, which they barely did at all last year with Thibs.

*wins the offseason again*
yall niggas better pray Kawhi gets hurt

>>149896830
>pray
nigga you can set your watch to Kawhi getting hurt

>>149896830
He was healthy last year and you still sucked

Dougie McBuckets will be in the league for one more year, today is a good day

>>149896818
Thats a pretty good lineup but I dont see KAT being a good defensive 4

>mj not no. 1
i hate hipsters so much

I always thought KAT would be a great 4 if he cut a lot of weight, would be more mobile defensively

>>149896870
He missed half the season and was coming back from surgery

>>149897349
He was the 4 on the Wolves after the Rudy trade, it's where he's most effective

my 40yo goat looking good

>>149897412
damn i didn't know he was older than i am
time flies

>>149897385
Exactly. The Twolves feeling like they needed to trade for Rudy and move Kitten to the 4 was a direct indictment on Kitten's defense.

>>149897412
If I was a girl let him fuck me.

Thinking of putting a few bucks on the Clippers to win it all

>>149896830
It would mean so much more if they won it this year. I am a literally Clippers lifelong and this is the first time I think they may do it

>>149897628
denver vs. new york is the final next year

>>149897628
Always bet on younger teams. These old fools will not make it out of the first round

At the end of the day the healthiest team always wins the championship

.

>>149897743
Russ needs to sign back already

My GOAT can't stop winning

>>149896818
He played the 4 on defense in Minny after the Gobert trade and they were top 5 like 2 years in a row.

The theory is that Mitch is similar enough to Gobert that they can make it work in NYC. Thibs didn't even try it until the second round of the playoffs (to be fair to him, Mitch missed the first 3/4 of the season).

>>149897852
Tim Hortons bout to go crazy

>>149897377
people will say shit like this, but pretend curry coming back in the middle of the playoffs off an emergency surgery acshually didnt mean he was injured in the finals

>>149897852
What is the American equivalent of Hamilton?

>>149898038
wyoming

how many wins?

Is Westbrook gonna retire from the NBA? Why does he still not have a team

>>149898124
I don't care how unreasonable or unrealistic it sounds. If my Celties get Ben Simmons they are going be champs

>>149898145
blud still can't accept he's only worthy vet minimum at best

>>149898145
He'll come crawling back to OKC on a minimum.

>>149898124
35ish uf they play that roster but they'll probably say Brown is injured for most of the season and drop below 30

>tfw the nuggets sweep the la lakers and clippers back to back in the playoffs

>>149894301
Jokic will revive it

>>149898607
I wonder if it's possible for the Nuggets to play Mavs-Clippers-Lakers so Jokic can heem AD one last time as well

West next season gonna be a movie
>last years of jokic prime + new coach and roster
>okc trying to repeat before the tax
>clippers unction
>flagg mavs
>KD rockets
>wembanana back
>steph last dance
Name a more kino recent season

Lowlights live roasting my warriors roster...

>>149898738
The whole drama with the Luka trade last season mogs every single thing you listed

yall niggas remember when Lebron got outplayed by Julius Randle?

>>149898967
yeah it was pretty recent

>>149894460
corny

>>149899548
A canadian talking about corny. You fuckers still bow down to an english crown and are slowly becoming a punjabi state lmao wtf you acting like you aint a corny ass country

>>149897852
AVRA

>>149897852
aura

>>149899572
He is the Punjabi lol, see >>149893685

The 'cord really moved on from gaytum to sga in less than a month

the NBA is fucking starving for actual talent, i hope this class will turn out to be the best since '03

>>149895870
Jokic over David Robison one of the best centers in history who played against actual defense not like Jokic? Also Wade and Iverson?
This is super disrespectful you are disrespecting greats. You are either a zoomer or just retarded
Also were is Ben Wallace?
Alao Kobe over Magic Johnson and Bill Rusell? Super disrespectful

>>149899699
Once Gaytum got hurt Gatorade stopped showing his lame ass commercials. Now no trace of them. Funny how they forget so quick

SGA is the only player in the NBA I could actually sub in and do what they do.
>get ball
>put head down and just blindly charge to the basket
>when anyone gets near me flail my arms around and yell “aye!”
>just throw the basketball literally anywhere
I’m a quite good ft shooter, I could literally do his job, and I’m not trying to be funny whatsoever. I couldn’t make a d1 team but I could easily do what the supposed “mvp” does. They really should have given that trophy to the refs

>>149899935
Now how you gonna score the other 24 points a game without them clown? Bitch ass clown boy.

>>149899935
team has like 9 starters on it but he gets mvp. hilarious shit.

>>149899946
>SAAAR SGA I'M BIG FAN

High basketball IQ top 15 of all time
1. Jordan
2. Kareem
3. Magic Johnson
4. Shaq
5. Bill Rusell
6. Wilt
7. Bird
8. Hakeem
9. Timmy
10. Kobe
11. David Robison
12. Moses Malone
13. Wade
14. Dirk
15. Garnett

>>149899973
should have saved this post for the post season. imagine the yous.

>>149899971
Cope
Seethe
Dilate
The best player in the league sent your fraud statpadder back to sombor serbia to suck his favorite horse cocks.

>>149896830
kyle lowry will join them mid-season

>>149899992
I will don't worry. I am going to post this every thread so bum casuals born in 2009 raise their basketball IQ

>jokic out of nowhere

>>149900011
i look forward to it

>>149900014
Seethign about MVPs is textbook jokicel behavior, since Chokic is a regular season player and can't perform in the postseason.

You just know chokicels cry themselves to sleep knowing that the stapadder's "greatest offensive season ever" (where he was swept by the 17 win wizards in the regular season and then choked and quit on his team in a game 7, again) will forever be overshadowed by SGA having one of the single greatest seasons in NBA history. Jokic really was just a propped up stepping stone for the future faces of the league (ANT, Wemby, SGA) to take down and surpass.

ranjeesh is talking to himself again

>>149900110
amazing what a diet of cow shit and tim horton's does the brain

every time one mental illness dies another pops up

>>149900119
the offseason makes fools of us all

Is Mark Jackson black balled? why do they have to keep him down, /sp/?

All these niggas can do is cope and rope, never disprove the truth nukes.

>>149900082
LMFAO they didnt like this one

>>149900127
"I'd hit her out of the park"

>>149900127
his coaching ability was questionable to begin with and he spoke badly about the gays in san francisco which is straight up bad decision making.

Gooning to Nukitashi the animation. Carry the hell on...

>guptek started replying to xherself
man I've never seen someone cope this much over a one and done

>>149898296
He is loved by the fans and the owners but his play style doesn't fit the Thunder at all but they might let him play his last year in OKC if he was retiring just because he started his carrier there and play so long for them.

>>149898145
if the clippers hadnt scapegoated him, he would have fit perfectly in with that geezerly squad they put together

I believe in the Jae Crowder breakout season

>>149897743
Kek

>>149899946
Because no one is allowed to guard him or they get called for a foul. I can shoot 50 percent totally uncontested too. That’s not hard. If someone like Steph had sga whistle he’d shoot like 90 percent.

So is the rule that this general must have at least one mentally ill poster at any given time

>>149900466
>Because no one is allowed to guard him or they get called for a foul
Nembhard and Scotty Pippen Jr did it just fine, Siakam and Russ in spurts as well. He only draws fouls when undisciplined defenders like Aaron Nesmith or Jaden Mcdaniels try to guard him illegally. There's nobody out there putting their hands behind their back like they were with prime Harden. It's always hilarious hearing guys like PG, Lebron, Nash, and Kyrie talk about how good Shai is, and then reddit and twitter narrative losers who don't know ball try to discredit him.
> If someone like Steph had sga whistle he’d shoot like 90 percent.
You're talking about the guy that's benefitted from illegal screens his whole career, you know that right? He should memechuck less if he wants a good whistle, or kick out his leg more and pretend to fall over like Harden Dame, and Trae do.

>>149900477
depends on if you count samefagging themselves or not

Maybe one day the 76ers will stop being the most embarrassing sports team in the city

>>149900560
still the flyers

I need a crazy bitch that like nigga scarlet witch man she crazy

>>149900589
the only men who fetishize crazy women have never actually been with one. learn from our mistakes. its not worth it. its hell. get a normal girl. seriously.

SGA fans will look you in the face and unironically say shai doesn't have a good whistle.

>>149900711
What star has the WORST whistle in the league? Ant?

>>149900711
i dont even care about that as much as their molestation tier never caught a case defense playing with a different rulebook than the rest of the league

>>149900714
Curry is up there but the jeet was right the illegal screens cancel it out a bit

>>149900589
no you dont. a crazy bitch will literally kill you cause she had a dream you were in the vicinity of another woman.

>>149900711
He averages less FTA than Harden, MJ, Kobe, Russ, and even KD during their MVP seasons, even less than Luka did last year, all while leading the league in drives. He has the same whistle all superstars get, the only difference is that'll he'll exaggerate when he's actually getting fouled, while other "pure hoopers" like ANT or Kyrie would just play through or yell AYY and hope they get the call that way.

>>149900714
lebron
jokic

>>149900854
>jokic
LOL

>>149900835
SGA had more FTA in the first two games of the WCF than Steph had in the ENTIRE playoffs

>>149900921
Shai drives 20 times a game to Curry's 6. People crying about Curry not getting free throws ignore that all the supposed "fouls" he's getting are when he's off ball, and refs will always allow more physicality there and let players fight for positioning. I don't know where people think Curry is going to get free throws when a good 80% of his possession are getting a dribble hand off from Draymond and then immediately shooting a 3 pointer.

>jeettranny

Why are people shilling a jrue buyout? Blazers traded for him and already bought ayton out

>>149901047
we gon git

The league is so dead. Clippers signed bradley beal and cp3 and no one gives a fuck. Chris paul reuniting with harden and no one gives a fuck

>>149901696
Beal just played with Durant and Booker and it didn't matter, why should anyone get wild that he is playing with the Clippers?

>>149901791
Because he doesn't have a team crippling contract to go along with his production anymore.

Oklahoma City Thunder+260
Cleveland Cavaliers+750
Denver Nuggets+750
New York Knicks+750
Houston Rockets+800
LA Clippers+1600
Los Angeles Lakers+1600
Minnesota Timberwolves+1600
Orlando Magic+1600
Reminder that in the last 40 years no team with odds lower than +2000 has won a title with the exception of the 2015 warriors who changed the games meta.

any way the warriors get giannis without losing out on green or butler?

>>149901825
Curry’s 5th loading

>>149893606
Beal already looks like he is completely checked out.

Silver needs to make a tournament in the summer where all the benchwarmers can play. Give them money just tor participating and a prize for the winners. They are still NBA players, it will be a good product

>>149900993
>drives
he drives to the elbow not the basket it is disingenuous

Clippers sign Westbrick, make the WCF game 6 but Harden chokes

>>149903340
clippers would have a 12 man roster if they get brodie

Why’d the Lakers get Smart?

>>149903363
he slightly covers luka and reaves weaknesses on defense and hes better than shake milton and the other dudes anyway

wtf luka got traded to the lakers???!

>>149903917
for cooper flagg, yeah

>>149901825
>Reminder that in the last 40 years no team with odds lower than +2000 has won a title with the exception of the 2015 warriors who changed the games meta.

how were they that low when they won 51 games the previous year

oksisters the serb has an actual team with basketball players this year how will we compete....

>>149904300
lmao are you joking? We got Topic

>>149901825
Knicks/Clippers finals Clippers in 7 cap this

>>149904323
Casual low basketball iq take

>>149904323
im excited for the cripples season i think the can go pretty far
>>149904267
they had just lost to the clippers in the first round and were supposed to compete against the clippers, "just own mvp" kd+westbrook, the title spurs, harden x dwight and the mavs with chandler and rondo.

nba 2k inflation has gotten out of hand theres 28 players rated 90 or above. 90 means youre a godly player wtf is this

>>149904386
>paolo banchero is rated 90

Why hasn't Croatia produced a good player since Kukoc?

>>149901696
Nobody cares about washed bums just like when payton and malone team up with shaq and kobe or when hakeem joined the craptors with carter and antonio davis

>>149893678
Except Lakers won in 2020 and unironically would've gotten another ring in 2022 or 23 if they kept McGhee and Caruso around and didn't trade in Westbrick

>>149904569
Luka is Croatian. Also Jokic is ethnically from Kosovo.

>>149904386
true, meanwhile fifa only has 7 players rated 90 or more and nobody rated is rated over a 91.

>>149904602
>Luka is Croatian
Luka is Slovenian with a Serbian dad.
Kosovo is Serbia.

>>149904579
Payton and Mourning won old as fuck in Miami thoughbeit

>Kosovo is Serbia.

>>149904651
retarded state department meme

>>149904386
Nobody takes 2k serious

>>149904671
time to go back to Russia mate

>>149904300
It doesn't matter
The end result remains the same

>>149904735
go back to israel

Amen

silver will need herculean refball to keep the warriors relevant this year

>Josh okogie to Houston on 1 year vet min

>>149905187
>Thinking they’d let Steph get any chance at 5 rings when LeBron will retire with 4*

>>149905378
I remember when Okogie was “a jumper away” in Minnesota, now he’s Torrey Craig/Jae Crowder. Time flies

>>149904618
there used to be higher ratings but in the "modern" era of fifs games both ronaldo and messi peaked at 94. mind you tatum is a 95. i think for every 2k player youd need to reduce ratings by 5. though 93 for the likes of giannis and jokic feels low

>>149906034
Jokic should be a 90

>>149901791
Because the suns didnt have a point guard. Literally everyone said this was a problem when the deal got announced in the very first place.

>>149906334
that was when booker played the point well enough and they had tyus. front office thought those 2 could cover it

2k ratings make no sense at all. They have rated top 100 players all time, and somehow, Scottie Pippen is rated higher all time than David Robinson. Anyone that knows ball would understand how ridiculous that is.

>>149906590
Scottie Pippen has been the best player on a championship team

>>149900082
>ANT
already peaked. His ceiling was the conference finals and the team had to mortgage its future just to get him that far. Just another athletic retard who think he's better than he actually is and memechucks his way out of games
>Wemby
For a supposedly generational talent, he has made almost zero fucking impact on his team's ability to win. They sucked without him, and they still suck with him. Of course, the fact that he lasted one whole season before the weird health problems associated with being a freakish mutant skeleton manifested might have compromised the team's development to some extent. But I'm sure it'll be fine. He's an eight foot tall beanpole whose body can't even circulate blood adequately, what could possibly go wrong? And he's French. They're known for being tough and resilient, right?
>SGA
Got refballed to his obligatory asterisk championship that no one respects, will never win another because OKC cant afford to retain their depth and Chet will not be consistently available

>>149901696
And no one should give a fuck

So they signed a guy so fucking useless and toxic that his former team paid him 90% of his contract to just go away because the literal nothing they got in return was more valuable than he was, and a guy who is a running joke for constantly failing in the clutch, laying like a bitch, and who also happens to be 5,000 years old. These are decisions driven entirely by name recognition that have absolutely fuck-all to do with actual productivity or potential, because there is no potential.

The Clippers are a fucking joke and an unserious franchise. We regard them accordingly

are we currently witnessing the renaissance of white american basketball

>>149906934
given cooper is the only white american with a shot of ever winning mvp, no.

Ayo why can't I connect to 2k server?

>>149906963
submit, nigga

>>149906934
how do you feel about being kicked out of the chan in a few days?

>>149907036
i feel like winston in 1984
i downlaoded reddit a couple days ago to find some porn and it asked me for my ID for age verification

>>149907036
is it this friday?

>Paul George shits on the Hornets
>Hornets win their first trophy

>>149906774
>ANT
>already peaked
Stopped reading here. What is it with Chokicels and not knowing ball?

>>149907203
Pandemic P embarrassing himself as usual

>>149907335
if it wasnt for him leading the clippers to a wcf in 2021 hed be a contender for KWABOTD

remember when brunson was benched late in the 4th cause kat was ballin and he looked like some scared kid worried if he was gonna get put back in

>>149907357
Embiid got that title on lock

>>149907679

>>149907694
lol love how you are always ready with that. His failure will never stop being funny to me

>>149907772
will you cry if he wins a ring?

>>149908064
he hasn't been past the second round. thats not happening. fucking trae young went to the ECF on his watch and Hali lapped his ass as well.

>>149908104
sixers never played hali in the playoffs

>>149908136
they played trae young tho. do you how embarrassing that is for trae young to make the ECF on your head?

>>149908064
It might be okay because he will eventually go team hopping trying to get a pity ring by being around actual winners

>>149906590
Which player carried Michael Jordan to 6 championships? Right.

>>149908153
>your
I never lost to Trae Young in the playoffs. What’s Trae done since 2021? Embiid won an MVP and a gold medal.

RIP Ozzy, mane...

>>149908210
Let's not stray from the point, Embiid has not been past the second round he will never win an NBA Championship. I sleep well knowing this. keep nit picking my sentences though to avoid the fact that Embiid hasn't been to an ECF kek

>>149908270
rip

general so dead im starting to miss the celtics-heat wars..bulgaria still banished because he couldnt stop chudding out...

Heard you lot really think Cam Johnson moves the needle for the Nuggies kek

>>149908663
for a 5th option who can score regularly, yes. MPJ was useless last year. They also added Jokic's backup and 2 bench players so they have more than 4 players this year

>>149908868
Marginally better. I’ll give it to you that Valanciunas means Jokic can rest a bit more so that he doesn’t stink up the series against OKC again, but it’s still completely on him.

>>149908663
they dumped MPJs huge contract for a player that is just as good so they could use that freed up money to actually sign a bench (an additional 3 new players). in what world is that not moving the needle.

>>149909073
In the world where they still lose to OKC

>>149909208
is this the world where they, with no bench, not even a full starting roster, went to 7 games with okc wherein the refs rigged 2 games for okc? that world?

>>149909252
lots of words to describe a loss.

>>149909252
This is cope, Nuggies were lucky to be in game 7, not OKC. Jokic played poorly

>>149908969
Marginally? They got a healthier replacement for less money that produces similarly to MPJ, and a full bench

>>149909286
no words required to describe a rigged game in a series that got taken to 7 games with only 1 rigged game before game 7

>>149900714

>>149907256
His game is 90% athleticism and he's as athletic as he's ever going to be. What's he gonna do, get younger? Grow a brain? As his explosiveness inevitably declines he'll just chuck more 3's and when his productivity diminishes he'll throw teammates and coaches under the bus to explain away his own shortcomings

>>149908064
What scenario are you imagining where that actually happens? He doesn't even have a future as a backup because who the fuck wants a chronically inured and unreliable backup? Dude is unironically out of the league once this contract is up

>>149909295
>healthier
Cam has missed more games than MPJ since their rookie season

what are some rules should we change to make basketball watchable again

>>149909871
teams only have 2 timeoutz the entire game

thats it

>>149909871
the closer you are to the basket the more points you score

>>149909871
FIBA goaltending/basket interference rules
Call carries and double dribbles appropriately.

you americans cant see cause your used to it at this point

but the number of timeouts/ads per game is almost unbearable specially now with challenges

>>149909986
Grow up

>>149909417
ANT started playing basketball at 15, he's still new to the game and understanding it better every year. He also has yet to reach his athletic peak, and is nigh unstoppable at slashing unless you have a team of 3+ all defense caliber players like OKC does. Even without a starting caliber point guard he was able to sweep the supposed "best player in the world" and split the season with OKC, ANT is only scratching the surface of his potential.

>>149910092
Too bad he is like James Harden in the playoffs

>>149909252
>with no bench
Needed Russ scoring 18 and Strawther scoring 15 to win 2 games
>not even a full starting roster
All 5 starters played, while lying about the severity of their "injuries", when the only person on their team with an actual debilitating injury was fucking Westbrook on the bench with a fractured hand. Meanwhile Jalen Williams had a torn wrist ligament in his shooting hand and Hartenstein was playing on a sprained achilles but you didnt hear a peep from them because they arent bitches using gamesmanship to try and steal games.
>refs rigged 2 games for okc?
Refs didn't force jokic to play like a G-leaguer for half the series, he did that on his own

ranjeesh is coping over the one and done again

>>149910122
Hes been a playoff riser every year until this one.

>>149910092
>he's only been playing basketball for 8 years
>he hasn't figured it out yet

You realize this just validates my "he's a retard who depends entirely on athleticism" argument? How many years is it supposed to take to figure out one guy picks and the other guy rolls?

and as for
>is nigh unstoppable at slashing unless you have a team of 3+ all defense caliber players like OKC does
Did Dallas have 3+ all defense caliber players when they stopped him?

>>149910139
>one and done
Nuggets out of nowhere

>>149910184
we talking about okc

>>149909986
No we see it. The ratings go down every year for a reason and it's not because of streaming despite whatever cope Silver wants to serve up.

>>149909871
make it so you can be as physical on the perimeter as you can be when it comes to post ups to lower the amount of easy meme shots and FTs

>>149906171
Jokic isn't the best defender but his defense is underrated. his team defense stats and advanced defensive stats are all near the top. him being a bad defender is a meme from espn and analysts who don't know ball. they think the only good defenders are lanky dudes, overly aggressive guys and rim protectors

>>149910168
He has completely disappeared in back to back conference finals. He is not a playoff riser at all

as long as Jokic and AG are healthy for the playoffs, this Nuggets team will go far, probably into the finals

>>149910351
im ready to call aaron gordon a super star idgaf

>>149910376
>PF who can shoot and hit 3s regularly, be a playmaker, and defend the best player on the other team

Yeah, hes the 2nd best player on the Nuggets

>>149910376
hes literally chris bosh. needs way more touches. jamal can fuck off

>>149910169
>How many years is it supposed to take to figure out one guy picks and the other guy rolls?
Did that well enough to BTFO the Nuggets. You're acting like the Wolves didnt just massively upheave their roster and completely change the way they played with Randle's trade. Forcing a guy who's been score first player his entire career to try and be a PG is going to take time, or they will just get an actual PG and let him do what he does best, since doing that is clearly good enough for him to humiliate and embarrass the supposed best player in the game.
>Did Dallas have 3+ all defense caliber players when they stopped him?
He averaged 24/8/7 down from 26/5/5 in the regular season. All they did was take the ball out of his hands and watch KAT, McDaniels, and Naz Reid lose the series for them. Thinking a 23 year old 2 years out of being in the playin has somehow peaked is the must braindead, delusional, and biased take imaginable, but you BAWBs are fueled more by emotion than actual basketball logic, and you'll never forgive ANT for taking out your DEI MVP in the most embarrassing way possible.

>>149910422
>All they did was take the ball out of his hands

Weird that they were able to do that without 3+ all-defense caliber players. What With ant being unstoppable and all

>>149910327
>but his defense is underrated.
Its not. He plays the most important defensive position and offers zero rim protection, is awful at close outs, and gets targeted in pick and rolls almost every game.
>his team defense stats and advanced defensive stats are all near the top
Because he only ever plays with 3+ other starters and almost always with Braun, AG, and PWat, the 3 best defenders on his team, which massively skews his stats.

Ricky Rubio is returning to his first team, Joventut Badalona.

>>149910450
>Weird that they were able to do that without 3+ all-defense caliber players
And Him averaging 24 PPG wasnt stopping him like you want to pretend it was

>>149910472
good for him. i know it's an obsolete player type, but i still love traditional point guards, and ricky's a pros pro.

>>149910472
I thought he retired because he was mentally ill.

>>149910486
Same, always enjoyed watching him play. Might watch one of his games in the future to see how he looks

>>149910484
>Edwards Averages 24/8/7 and loses
>he played great, his teammates lost the series

>Jokic averages 29/11/8 and loses
>lol BAWB choked

Kind of logically inconsistent, aren't you?

>>149910509
He retired only from the NBA apparently, he was playing last year for Barcelona

>>149910552
And then Minnesota went on to win the NBA championship, I assume.

I mean, it would be embarrassing if you were gloating about him beating a bawb just for him to go on and lose to a different bawb the very next series

>>149910524
>Jokic averages 29/11/8 and loses
>lol BAWB choked
Well yeah. Singlehandedly chucked his team out of the game 7 and was outperformed by Murray in a game he should've taken over. Needing to compare a 3x MVP and defending champ to a 22 year old (and not KAT, who actually lost that series for the Wolves) just speaks to your bias.

>>149910584
>bottled by batum
>held by hartenstein
>canned by caruso
I KNEEL VORPLORD

>>149910584
Luka's loss was even more embarrassing than Jokic's

>>149910602
>You cant compare ant to Jokic because Jokic is clearly the better player

Hey, you're right for once

>>149910199
This. We complain about it all the time and it contributes to people watching less and less and just watching memes and highlights instead or moving on to other sports or entertainment. And when it comes to the challenge, I think I complained about it in literally every playoff game thread.

>>149910670
I guess ant's finals loss was more dignified? What year was it that he made the finals, again? I can't seem to remember

>>149910714
More like the media pretends he's a better player, and thus should have higher standards for him. Instead, he constantly dissapoints and his fanboys like you make excuses for his chokes. He truly is "despite the loss"man and his superpower is choking double digit leads.

Streets are saying they're done with bron

>>149909338
Why did jokic take 9 shots all game anon

>>149910743
>pretends

Probably the dumbest sport

Remember when jokic dropped 61 and Westbrook missed a layup to lose the game?

>>149910828
that was jok's fault according to the jeet

Nikola Jokic got to play an 8 seed in the finals whose best player was Jimmy Dogshit and in his 10 year career he's made the conference finals exactly 1 other time.

>>149910828
missed the layup then fouled on a 3. He went full brick

>>149910785
Yes. A man with the same resume as Moses Malone gets put in top 10 and top 20 conversations he doesn't belong in, while only having a single deep playoff run to his name after over a decade.

>>149910828
basketball terrorism, that's what that was

>>149910828
my favorite part is that there was still a chance if the retard hadnt fouled a 3 pt shooter with 0 seconds left as well

>>149910838
He was the cone the Wolves were attacking every possession so....
Nevermind the fact that there was blatant no call on one of ANT's buckets in the 2OT where he drove right into the fat fucking standing under the basket that should've been an And-1

>>149910850
It helps when that one deep playoff run consists of you winning a title and leading the entire postseason in every individual offensive category, which no one had ever done before.

Also, Moses Malone is a top 20 player or very close to it so I'm not sure what your problem is there

>>149910828
>be westbrook
>permanently damage your hand by dunking the shit out of the ball for years
>years pass
>you arent as athletic anymore so you cant dunk as much
>cant make layups cause you have the things rock hands
He needs to retire

>>149910828
personally my favorite is kawhi dropping to his knees before westbrick even missed the game winner
https://youtu.be/Q-r1njWu5jE?si=u-4ShMeIHDr_VZFo

If im the Bobcats I move on from this goofy nigga asap and scam some retarded GM for him. He gonna be missing a leg like his dad or lonzo will in 5 years

>>149910901
>which no one had ever done before.
Wilt and Lebron have both done that before, they just never won while doing it because they didn't have Jamal Murray scoring 26+ PPG to play with

>>149910914
his knees saw that shot and was like nah I aint carrying this shit no more.

>>149910931
Adding to this, letting Chokic win the easiest championship ever while being a heliocentric statpadder was a crime against basketball the league will never recover from.

>>149910901
>which no one had ever done before
lebron did this shit multiple times on the cavs yet this place acts like he was a detriment to the team

>>149910862
Honestly might be the most brutal series of plays anyone has ever had. Complete and total fuckups at both ends and not in the sense that he just didn't make a clutch shot or whatever. He fucked up basic, fundamental shit. You make your layups. You don't foul 3 point shooters making last second heaves.

There might not be another basketball player on earth who possessed both the incompetence and stupidity necessary to fail so spectacularly on both sides of the ball in a clutch situation. I never want hear about Westvishnu again. The man is a fraud and a hack

>>149910997
Graphics designer did him dirty here

>>149910999
>You don't foul 3 point shooters making last second heaves.
It wasn't a heave, it was a literal open 3

>>149910922
Who you gonna scam though? Every team either has their star PG or young PG they want to develop. The PG market has been flooded for years.

>>149911050
Probably could get like 4+ frps cause the market is busted. not like anybody is expecting them to compete anyway

>>149911050
ngl I think the clippers would be dumb enough to try and trade for him
their backcourt is made up of old guys and literal fossils, kawhi is getting up there too so they're going to need a new star soon

>>149911099
oh and also lavar has talked about melo playing for la even before he was drafted, but considering luka is on the lakers I don't think that would even be considered

>>149911050
lakers...

>>149910997
Lebron has never lead the entire playoffs in points, assists and rebounds. You are talking about a single series and he is talking about the entire playoffs. Only Jokic and Luka have done what he is saying but Luka lost while Jokic won

>>149911050
Him for Gobert to the Wolves

>>149911148
>melo & ant backcourt
minnesota gold diggers and ig whores would be feasting every single night if that ever happened

>>149911148
Gobert will be on the Lakers soon

>>149910997
>>149910931
LeBron did it in *a* series, Jokic did it for the entire playoffs, aka ALL the series.

See, there's more than one series in the playoffs. You have the first round, and the second round, and then the conference finals, and then the finals.

Why the fuck do I have to explain this like you retards weren't here when it happened? It was like two fucking years ago. Every sportstalk show in the country explicitly discussed how Jokic was the first to ever do it and how no one had ever done it before. You guys didn't see it discussed during the finals, or after? Either you're a bunch of fucking liars (and some of you are) or you're a thirdie who didn't have cable two years ago (looking at you, Canadajeet). Either way, eat shit. I am 10000% right about this and you guys would realize that if you didn't have the reading comprehension of esl students.

>>149911201
I literally explained to you that others have done it before and not won. Jokic it the only one to do it and win. This is not hard to understand, you're just retarded and are glazing him for being rewarded as a heliocentric statpadder.

>>149911015
Which makes fouling him the correct play how?

>>149911240
It depends on if the coach told him to do that in that situation. He made NAW earn those last 3 points and unfortunately lost the coinflip. Same thing happened with SGA against the Mavs in 2024. Better to take the risk and make them earn it, hoping for a Donovan Mitchell-esque 0 - 3 choke, than let the guy who's been hot all game have an open 3.

>>149911222
You can't lead the postseason in total anything if you get eliminated from the postseason in one of the earlier rounds, you retarded brown faggot. Because, you see, if other people keep playing, they accrue MORE points and rebounds and assists, and if you've been eliminated, you aren't.

And before you make another retarded post just let me pre-emptively point out we're talking about TOTALS. As in, cumulative numbers. NOT averages. I just know you curry-soaked hands were prepared to tell me about some time some guy was 1st in all categories in a fouor game series where his team got swept or something. Move back to whatever shithole spawned you, suck dick, die in a fire and shut the fuck up.

>>149911299
"Okay, if the guy takes a 3 I want you to foul him" said no coach, ever, anywhere

yall niggas keep replying to leafs and it's really disappointing

>>149911320
>You can't lead the postseason in total anything if you get eliminated from the postseason in one of the earlier rounds
And where was I saying that dipshit? 2017 and 2018 Bron were eliminated in the finals and he lead both teams in all major stats. Do you even know what you're trying to argue about?

>>149911340
If Chet Holmgren is taking that 3 you would foul him every single time. You're a moron who doesn't know how basketball is actually played or coached.

>>149911370
>he lead both teams in all major stats

IN

THE

SERIES

NOT

THE

ENTIRE

PLAYOFFS

YOU

DUMB

FUCK

>>149911384

>>149911400
Yes, and he lead all players in the playoffs in both, while playing the most games alongside the GSW players. I don't know what you're not understanding about this.

>>149911419
Not an argument. If a sub 70% FT shooter is taking that 3, you're fouling him every time.

>>149911421
Me:
>You're wrong and here's why
You:
>Yes

>>149911443

>>149911452
No, you said
>REEE I SAID PLAYOFFS REEE
and I, your intellectual superior, countered with:
>Yes, he lead the entire playoffs as well as that single series
And now you have no rebuttal.

Why didnt the Knicks just sign Prigioni as their head coach

>>149911483

xherjeet don't check the 2018 finals summary either

>>149911487
I am still trying to figure out why they fired Thibs

>>149911483
volume 2

>>149911561
kek, and you know lebron on that team was a ball fucking hogging as mfer too, so its a genuine miracle he even let Kevin love play his actual role even a bit

>>149911596
>>149911561
Just more proof that Lebron plays more winning basketball than Chokic ever will. He's willing to sacrifice his rebounds and let his teamates eat, unlike the serb statpadder.

>>149911606
Is that your half-assed way of acknowledging that I was right this entire time? Because you can do better than that

>>149911613
>Just more proof

That I was right and you were wrong

>>149911185
Gooby can't catch lobs so that ain't happening.

>>149911074
lol he's not getting you multiple 1sts lmao

>>149911620
are you a dumb fucking retard? not every canadian is the same, subhuman.

I used to belong to the cp3 is a giga fraud category of people but I doubt SGA reaches those levels, if CP3 wasn’t there for a year to teach him smart ball.

>>149911591
idk man

its really not his problem they got him a new team this season

its not like he made the horrible Bridges trade or traded for KAT

he literally makes every man who he inserts in that lineup be competitive and play their best
he could insert guys like precious, grimes, mcbride, quickley, 30+ year old rose, 35+ year old taj, alec burks, and they would put their all

he literally revied the careers of players like Randle, Mitchell Robinson, Hartenstein, J Hart, and others

its not his fault he made signings like Kemba or Fournier that prevented the team from taking the next leap in the playoffs at first

or that RJ Barrett was a bust (it was not his draft pick)

he did the best he could

its also not his fault Jacquez acted retarded and ended Randle's season that year where they couldve made a run

>>149911743
ihart was on all star trajectory and thibs turned him into a rebounder

My raptors really made 0 moves

>>149911681
Bane did lol

>>149911817
bro had a career high in tripe doubles last season what are you on?

>>149911817
>>149911874
wait mixed him him up with hartenstein my bad
he unlocked his assist ability (made a career high in OKC this year) and maxxed his rebounding skill

>>149911825
This but my sixers

>>149911686
Well you can't blame me for jumping to conclusions since that some canadian idiot replied to every fucking post prior to that

Although I guess I should have known it was a different leaf since you just made a normal comment instead of some blatant falsehood

>>149911905
76ers have a solid core with PG Embiid Maxey and the McZest
They should get Ben back and their good
They should trust the process

>>149911976
Forgiven. I'm always a supporter of Lebron exposers. Besides, I hate SGA and that canadian seems to be a contrarian with all his takes, except for conveniently Lebron ones.

It's really gay that load management has gone so far flagg and other rookies get shut down after like 2 games in sl. AAU will pay for this

>>149912055
I blame MBA's taking over executive roles

>>149912023
>that canadian seems to be a contrarian with all his takes

>Rockets got okoge

>>149912087
I'm not sayin' but I'm just sayin' that multiple times this year alone, a Leaf has said they always play both sides.

>>149912071
The players also deserve some blame for being so enthused to sit out because they don't give a fuck about regular season games. They treat being in the league like it's just another shit job were you try to get away with as much slacking as possible.

At the risk of having a "get off my lawn" moment, I feel compelled to point out that he previous gens didn't think that way. Jordan and Bird had to be legitimately injured, not hurt, *injured* before they thought about missing a game, because they hated to lose so much that the idea of just forfeiting was a non-starter. Bird came back into a game after breaking his cheekbone (and he won). Stockton played literally every fucking game for like 15 years because it never occurred to him not to. Wilt once averaged more minutes per game than there are minutes per game because he never wanted to sit and apparently didn't need to. Now guys who are already on restricted minutes relative to their predecessors just routinely take powders for general purposes because fuck those tickets you paid for, Kawhi needs another 6 months off so he can be ready for the games that really matter, which aren't the ones you attend, lol.

If the players don't care neither should we.

>>149912128
I'm still lowkey waiting for that "other" leaf to reveal he was just the same one the whole time.

Every Canadian who's not the schizo obsessed with Jokic should be pissed at the one who is because they're all just going to be looked at funny because they share the same flag as that lunatic.

Shaolin basketball

>>149911833
Trades are all context. Bane was the best SG on the market and the Magic don't need their 1st's right now: they are trying to prove to both Paolo and Franz they are serious next season and Bane averaged close to 25 ppg on nearly 50/40/90. This isn't some 'Bridges' trade the Knicks made. This is win NOW.
>>149912055
I agree. The fact Yang (a mid 1st pick who was projected early 2nd) was shut down is a travesty.
>>149912091
Not a bad signing. He was a former lottery pick. 7ppg in the NBA over 400+ games isn't for nothing.

>>149912255
>They treat being in the league like it's just another shit job were you try to get away with as much slacking as possible.
Facts!!! keep preaching
Jordan and Bird had to be legitimately injured, not hurt, *injured* before they thought about missing a game, because they hated to lose so much that the idea of just forfeiting was a non-starter.
I'm crying, too true
>Bird came back into a game after breaking his cheekbone (and he won).
insane, modern players could never. The mentality isn't there
>Stockton played literally every fucking game for like 15 years because it never occurred to him not to.
Simple as
>Wilt once averaged more minutes per game than there are minutes per game because he never wanted to sit and apparently didn't need to.
Wow. To be fair there weren't TV timeouts then but you're right, the heart was there.
>Now guys who are already on restricted minutes relative to their predecessors just routinely take powders for general purposes because fuck those tickets you paid for, Kawhi needs another 6 months off so he can be ready for the games that really matter, which aren't the ones you attend, lol.
*crying emoji*
>If the players don't care neither should we.
I think I agree

>>149912380
weren't you raped? you still haven't addressed this.

Does anyone here actually think the pacers were a bad team??

I felt like they were pretty decent, if they had more profoundish role players like NAW, Prime Jrue, Reid or Amen, or Dray they could've been 1st or 2nd seed

Just got my new whip out the shop

>>149912414
I want to accept your enthusiastic agreement at face value but something tells me I cannot

>>149912380
>The fact Yang (a mid 1st pick who was projected early 2nd)

His career will be wasted in Portland, noone wants to live or die in a dogshit city with terrible politics, drugs and crime and such and so..

Hansen was better off staying in Memphis given the other asian fella Edey was out with ankle surgery

>>149912414
Granted newer players are built differently, every player will play every and will play no games like Mikal Bridges compared to Bradley Beal or Marcus Smart

did lakers tranimal just take off his trip and reply to himself?

kyrie based as fuck, he out here defending kobe while the vultures are picking at his corpse

>>149912454

>>149912453
they were fucking shit. tyrese carried the fuck outta them with his point guardness.

>>149912551
'fraid so

>>149912453
They were the best "team" with by far the best coach in the playoffs
> if they had more profoundish role players like NAW, Prime Jrue, Reid or Amen, or Dray they could've been 1st or 2nd seed
They just needed to not have so many injuries early in the season.

>>149912572
>>149912656
He's too based for the NBA. I wish his shoes weren't so ugly, I'd wear them for how anti-semitic he is.

>>149912534
>His career will be wasted in Portland, noone wants to live or die in a dogshit city with terrible politics, drugs and crime and such and so..
>Hansen was better off staying in Memphis given the other asian fella Edey was out with ankle surgery
I agree generally
>Granted newer players are built differently
How are they 'built differently'? By that do you mean the game is played differntly?
>>149912485
what?
>>149912433
Yes I have: I was never raped and I mock those who claim I was as incel, brainlet types.

>>149912622
>the best coach in the playoffs

But Carlisle was a manchild retard and started sperging out and decided to not put Pascal on the floor until the end of the game

>They just needed to not have so many injuries early in the season.
So I did check and while thats true, they have too many G-League esque waterboys, imagine if Turner was replaced with a good center like Jokic or Giannis, and instead of Tony fucking Bradley, they had someone like Wallace or McDaniels to keep their defensive line impactful

>>149912582
Most of the players on the Pacers are your countrymen retard and they got fucked over by injuries early on

Just to give you an idea,

>Haliburton: sore back/ankle, missed a few
>Nembhard: knee issues, out ~10–12 games
>Nesmith: sprained ankle, missed ~30 games
>Wiseman: Achilles tear week 1, out all season
>Isaiah Jackson: Achilles tear 10 days later, also done for season
>Sheppard: oblique strain, out ~10 games
>Furphy: illness, missed a few

So they started started around 10-15 because half the fucking rotation was gone. Team only stabilized once Nesmith/Nembhard got healthy.

>>149912454
usually it's kobe shooting in the face of women

>>149912551
>>149912485
can't trust NO trips outside of space_elevator

>>149912551
I have never done that, and I would never
>>149912616
YOU however, have done that before, have no resevartions doing, and will likely do again
>>149912987
what?

If you're curiois: my recent physique mid-lift. I'm tainging for a weightlifting comp. /nba/ wouldn't be able to handle my recent meal, and that's ok.

>>149913052

https://youtu.be/1E7Rtq0_ths
bronsexual schizo live

Who is the most overrated Pacer? last year's roster

>>149913252
turner

No (you) to my post, why the fuck is this thread always dead holy shit

>>149913309
Its the deadest point of the offseason tf u want us to talk about? Kyrie twitch clips?

>>149913555
i dont want to start a discussion, but i wouldnt mind reading some cooperative whining about how easily the league got away with putting advertising patches on the jerseys

>>149913309
Some anons are playing squads in Fornite

>>149913650
I play hello kitty island adventure

one of the most perplexing posts ive ever seen

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>>149913309
/nba/ is over outside of the last few signings to come. Check back in early october and get ready for football like a normal person

>>149913309
you wanna talk about what you were jerking off to last night?

I am happy Heat gonna reach the playoffs

>>149913693
What if Luka doesnt sign the extension on Aug 2nd? I feel big moves will revolve around moving him if he declines

>>149913773
So unlikely desu

>>149913668
Pretty sure someone in the 'cord could play it with you

If the Suns trade Dillon I'm rioting.

>>149913966
He deserves to be on a contender

I work corporate for a dan gilbert owned company and it's terrifying seeing the married women flirt with guys on a daily basis

>>149913977
My Suns gonna contend now with rookie giganigga Malauch and, uh... *check notes* Mark Williams.

>>149913777
>77
verified
>>149913989
seems par for the course for the rich. everybody sharing everybodys wives.

>>149914008
they have dillon and ted cruz
the only thing they need to win the chip is the ability to flagrant foul everybody and get away with it

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>>149913555
I wanna talk about who will win a ring next season,

And debate on why OKC wont win after overpaying Shai Gilgtroon to a 70 gorillion contract and Chet fag to a 50 million contract despite not gaining any weight and being a useless twig in the finals

>>149913693
Even during the regular season there was a lack of discussion and replies, Ill type out a well thought out statement and people dont respond to it

>>149913966
>>149913977
that front running faggot doesn't deserve shit, he has no spine whatsoever
I still haven't forgotten how his bitchass was talking shit against the lakers but immediately ducked the media after mempiss got smacked

>>149913966
Imagine being the one guy on this team who's like in his mid-30s and thinks all this zoomer shit is cringe asf but doesn't wanna kill the vibe. So he reluctantly dances with them

>>149914256
>nigga i aint doin that gay shit fuck u
>*u could do the harlem shake*
>nooo that's not the same thing

>>149914213
I mean sure who do you got as your favorite? Also yeah those contracts will be debilitating in a few years but rn they don't matter.

Lets fucking go

>>149914278
My bad for late response anon, im about to sleep, I think Rockets or Nuggets for West and only Cavs, maybe Knicks for east are likely to end up in final finals, I just dont see OKC dominating with Houston in a logical win now mode having Capella, DFS, Amen, defenders to that parabola and meanwhile OKC has the same exact roster, because Presti is fucking retarded,

And I think Spurs win next year win a ring with Wemby hitting his prime but they make a deep playoff/play-in run this season 2025-26

Timberwolves fucked up by not getting rid of Gobert-fag, resigning Randle, overpaying Reid and letting NAW walk, they should also get rid of Finch, hes a terrible coach

>but rn they don't matter.
Okc has THIS season then next season after the contracts kick off and then guys like Ihart, Dort, Caruso have to start walking,

And SGfag regrets not taking a paycut in his typical shitty interview, so id say they hit they and fuck over the team, its Denver/Boston all over again, especially if/when Chet gets injured because the fucker refuses to gain weight

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>>149914213
At least you dropped the
>ackshually i'm an OKC fan
larp now

>>149914411
Wembanana is a bust man sorry to say

>>149914411
I'm not the highest on okc but they have a track record of developing talent well and they still have a trove of picks, if just half of their picks can turn into rotation quality role players I think it's very likely they stay in contention even after caruso, ihart, dort etc walk. Hell topic didn't play a single game and hes a top 5 pick man

>>149914421
>was an okc fan

Not anymore cause Shai cuck didnt want a take a paycut, I hope OKC loses, I would cheer for that, that shit with him and the trophy was cringey and corny as fuck

>>149914428
>Alien who avged 30 pts a game is a bust

Obvious ragebait, ive seen your posts before, saying the exact same thing, if he gets injured like Yao Ming with foot problems I could see that but overall he has a amazing career ahead of him,

A bust is something like Tacko Fall

>>149914441
Tacko fall actually just did a reason with our basketball team in the NBL lol

>>149914411
>>149914438
Spurs are still developing imo, I'm not sure castle is a longterm stay now that they got harper AND fox in the guard rotation, selling high on a bad draft roty for wings would be best imo. I fundamentally disagree on the timberwolves, gobert is 60% of their identity on the defensive side of the floor and both randle & reid's contracts are actually really good taking into account length + cap scaling, they'll be really underpaid in 2 years if they don't take a nosedive in production.

>>149914438
Overall, they're better off still keeping their OG core,

Chet being extended doesnt even make sense, hes never looked like a 3rd option to me, Dort or Caruso would make more sense as the 3rd guy,

Rookies wont make up for the team especially in playoffs, and we saw that with Lakers trying to build up Hayes and it failed and he got benched,

They should keep what they have rather than replacing everyone and everything

>>149914462
Hayes has been trash in the league for 6 seasons dude not a rookie just buns. We'll see how it goes, honestly I don't like to watch the thunder play a whole lot but their vibes are great, if they can keep turning out rotational role players with their picks and good development program they'll be here for a long time.

>>149914444
Tacko is in China and didnt last long and hops on team to team

Again not sure what point your making, Wemby has had an incredible career for his age, but had a great season ruined by a blood clot,

Free Lauri Markannen

>>149914472
He's fundamentally trash but for like 12-15 games he looked good cause his job was just standing under the rim. He's useful for keeping the load off ayton for random games in the season

>>149914452
Spurs were doing ok and finished 34-48 which isnt horrible considering they lost Wemby back in Feburary and Foxx in early March to injuries, and still managed to beat the warriors back in april with Curry, Butler and Dray all playing that game as well and Spurs didnt have their unicorn

I think Spurs should make the playoffs easily if coached right, they've made huge roster changes to help Wemby while still giving Spurs an offensive/defensive identity with Wemby off the court, everyone has gotten better I can see something good happening

>>149914213
>And debate on why OKC wont win
that heavy amount of ref bias is generally an anomaly, and unless the league wants to reverse course on its stance on dynasties, wont happen next season. if it does, the sport is dead, because that would be going directly against what the leagues stated goals are.

>>149914438
>track record of developing talent
gonna need some examples on that

>>149914452
>>149914488
My prediction is around 40 W/40 L for spurs in reg season,

I find it hard to see them missing it

>>149914494
I agree refs are an issue, but OKC style needs to change, if they played more like Indiana with the good defense but more profound offense and team ball 3 point shooting, they wouldn't have struggled at all against denver,

Cause if Houston turns out well, and guys like Durant, Amen, FVV all are chucking 3s like boston and SGA is still driving to the basket to bait a foul, it'll be an example of "spoke to soon,"

Especially to those to bragged about "Le-OKC dynasty" nonstop

>>149914537
>Amen Thompson
>chucking 3s
lmfao

>>149914560
I mean ive seen some of his training footage, the guy is a beast,

Him or Sengun, them developing a 3 point shot is a game changer for houston,

I forgot DFS is a good 3pt shooter as well, but the rooks/young core having one is important to a ring

>>149914568
Yeah, and if Ben Simmons develops a jumpshot, it's over for the league.

>>149914560
Jeet doesn't even watch Amen Thompson

>>149914583
I don't need to watch this bro.

>>149914579
he didnt even need that. if he could score inside, being a good passer and defender was enough. i get your point though just.... man im disappointed about simmons.

>>149914596
Still better than Lebum

>>149914635
He knows to score inside but he is scared for some reason. He avoids to score lol like someone is about to race him if he scores

>>149914661
same difference
>>149914502
still waiting

>>149914661
>>149914635
His back is completely fucked.

>>149914485
Yeah hes passable as a backup/3rd rotation 5 but as a starter he's a joke who only looked decent cause he played with luka AND lebron on the floor

>>149914488
I can see them making the playoff no problem as a 10-7 seed but unless wemby has a massive offensive leap I highly doubt they're serious contenders yet, the wing depth is just not there and I don't know if I trust the fox fit.

cavs got +750 odds but i cannot in good faith see them as contenders. 3 of their big 4 are frauds

It's incredible how assmad this small market team makes people. It'll make their continued success all the more sweeter.

i honestly think draymond has a bbc. sorry but it's probably true even if you don't wanna admit it

>>149914729
draypenis is available online to see

>>149914761
as well as his female doppelganger from ghostbusters snatch. same level of gross.
>>149914421
funny because leafs always come out for fellow Canadian players no matter if theyre shithead assholes. imagine if Americans defended our whole slew of lawbreaking misfits.

>>149898124
Start Schierman

>>149914761
?where?????????? asking for a friend

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>>149914669
Yeah he probably has very tiny balls and small penis.
That can fuck up the confidence

>>149914635
amen thompson is ben simmons if ben simmons wasnt a pussy

Why do blk boys have such naturally plump bubble butts?

W Chad Amen Thompson

Releasing stool like I’m Nikola Topic

>>149915323
who is this beautyful woman ?
she seems so pure and cute

Has anyone seen inceltic lately? I am worried about his mental health

>>149916178
xhe and xer 'cord are larping as Blunderskitz, Mavskitz and leafjeet.

I resent Jokic because he isn’t from the subcontinent and doesn’t have gender dysmorphia…

Spurs are gonna be a PROBLEM next season

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