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Punish Kawhi

no one would care if kawhi won a ring during this clips stint

Silver can’t ignore this can he? Will the NBA be exposed as a 60s tier mafia Ponzi scheme?

>>150756130 (OP)
Joe Ingles and Zaza seem like good guys after the Kawhi news dropped.

>>150756235
Cuban exposed himself by coming to Ballmers defense so quickly. Dirk was 100% getting money under the table from “sponsorships”

>>150756130 (OP)
not a bad starting 5.

>>150756192
>>150756235
How will the clippers and kawhi be punished
>take away draft picks
Lmao the Thunder own 90% of them. Only thing you’d take is a 1st 10 years from now and a random second 3 years from now
>force ballmer to sell
You can’t do that, the older racism clippers owner wasn’t even forced to sell technically

>>150756130 (OP)
This starting 5 is very republican coded and I don’t like it.

Billionaire bros how do we explain this one?

>>150756505
It's time for the billionaires to pay for their sins and then....continue to be billionaires

>only reason the nba is relevant anymore is to discuss the declining ratings, how players don’t give a shit about playing anymore, how horrible the commissioner is, and now about teams circumventing the salary cap to pay their insanely overpaid athletes even more money illegally
Why is this league still relevant?

>>150756352
The clippers picks in '27 and '29
The '27 pick will be swapped with OKC's but the league can take away the OKC pick.
Philly has the right to swap their '29 pick with LAC but who knows which team will be better at that point

LAC then has their own firsts from '30-'32.

I think the league taking all five of those picks should be on the table, plus voiding Kawhi's contract while keeping the money on LAC's books.

Meal.

I miss lob city

>>150756505
this is such a blunder since the company was just about planting trees
all they had to do was plant some trees and not go bankrupt

>>150757342
Lmaoo

>>150756281
She’s fine asl

https://youtu.be/P28qO0IAWsA
I miss them, I miss my goats, my unique and special dynasty that did everytbing different and stood out, and wasnt just a generic team, with da big guy, the other slightly smaller big guy, the good gaurd defender, the guard that gets to the free throw line, and one or two shooters. Basically, im saying that OKC are boring frauds

They were special when they were good :'(

>>150757908
they were kind of stupid and faggy

>>150757908
*when they were playing against Gaytum and Gaylen

This shit is open and shut. Nobody can even begin to explain why you would pay somebody almost 50 mil to do literally nothing. Said payment is by far the biggest cost to the company and worth more than all the other "endorsements" combined. Drop the hammer

>>150756130 (OP)
gobert is based

>>150758422
That was a top defense team that washed everybody else in the east except the heat most of the time, and washed Kevin D's ass.
The hardest championship finals of the 2020s so far, other than maybe 2020 Lakers

>use exorbitant wealth to break the rules of the league, shifting competitive balance
>lie about it, get caught in said lie, double down

vs.

>say a no-no word in private while being secretly recorded

Guess which one results in you losing your team?

when some white guy wants to be an NBA star
>he must have been training since the age of 3 and have a wealthy, committed family that will finance and support him
when some black guy wants to be an NBA star
>they just take him as a teenager from a refugee boat or some african village and give him good food and steroids
it's a bit unfair

just spent $500 on a ticket to the laker opening... what the fuck even nose bleeds were like $300 minimum

is this normal?

>>150759035
>lakers
>opening day
yes

The other thing that this Ballmer stuff has exposed is that all these environmental "companies" are just ponzi, laundering, etc. schemes. I'm really starting to think catastrophic climate change is fake and gay.

>>150759035
Lakers are the most expensive tickets but yeah NBA games are not cheap unless you are going to a tanking team game. I used to go to local Gleague games with frens because ticket prices were dirt cheap so it was cheaper and funner than the movies sometimes.

>>150759688
Knicks are the most expensive by far.

>>150758614
>That was a top defense team that washed everybody else in the east except the heat most of the time, and washed Kevin D's ass.

Is that supposed to be impressive? It's the fucking East, they are always trash

>The hardest championship finals of the 2020s so far, other than maybe 2020 Lakers

The Bucks one was more impressive than the Warriors one or at least equal. Also the mickey mouse ring is an asterisk, it's not even a real ring let alone a hard one

>>150760321
That Suns team was completely fraudulent. Ayton just got bought out, CP3 was borderline washed.
Those Bucks will probably be the weakest champ of the 20's.

>>150756407
well you got a lot of ringless freaks on there so don't feel too bad

>>150760421
That Bucks team wasn't a dynasty with multiple All-Stars and future hall of famers like the Warriors were. It was mostly just Giannis and a few good role players. That's why it's more impressive

>>150760421
also booker's hammy was falling apart
>>150760608
we don't disrespect khris middleton here

>>150760608
>That Bucks team wasn't a dynasty with multiple All-Stars and future hall of famers like the Warriors were.
Retard. You should kill yourself

Luka will not carry Bron to another chip
Sorry bronsexuals

>>150760777
Lakers have to wait for Bron to retire or request a trade to contend again. You simply can't have a 50+ mil a year player who is 40 on your roster and build a championship level team at the same time.

>>150760608
>more impressive
Jae Crowder was the primary defender on Giannis. What's impressive is how the Bucks actually managed to lose 2 games.

>>150760851
With Deandre Ayton as the help defender/rim protector KWAB

>>150760608
fuck off thanASSis

>>150760851
That Suns team was unbelievably mid and wouldn't have made the finals without the short offseason tiring out the actual good teams.

>>150761503
when ayton actually gave a fuck they were pretty competitive

How many chips would this squad win?

Meal.

>>150762237
are you pre-diabetic?

>>150756281
I need a beautiful woman to feed me like that

>>150758422
There wasn't a single NBA fan aside from Curry-diehards who thought they stood a chance against that Boston squad. Don't try to switch it up now like "they only beat a bunch of bum lmaoooo" Fucking revisionist history

>>150756281
‘fraid so

>>150762888
and then gaymond made a move to make sure that he and curry got all the credit

>>150759623
imagine how bad it gets when the politicians get involved. scam city.
>>150762117
not winnin shit unless theyre facing hospital teams

My Hawks look elite this year, all lightskins and a Euro is a proven formula

>>150763546
tray dung will find a way to disappoint

>>150764524
No excuses this year, DPOY Dyson Daniels, healthy Jalen Johnson, growth spurt Zacc and maybe 40 odd games of Porzingis with a weak east. ECF or it’s time to move on from Trae

Doesn’t sound like they added anything to the MyEra/MyGM mode in 2k, can any anon here confirm they literally didnt add shit to it?

>>150764524
elite defender

This is the OKC thunder, and their offensive and defensive rating in 2025

And this is who took them to Game 7.

>>150762237
somehow these specific croissants actually look better and like they have more texture than the usual ones.

>>150765731
Stats do not tell the whole story.
That Pacer team was bad until January because of injury issues. During 2025 they had one of the best records in basketball.

It's funny because Pacers did have the blueprint for beating OKC in that last game. They were baiting Shai into taking a dozen bad 3s, but Myles Turner just wasn't a good enough rebounder to punish them for that, and Carlisle got CTE and benched Siakam for way too long in that 3rd for OKC to pull away

>>150765852
Yes, that is somewhat my point, that stats dont say much actually. Still, I dont know how reasonable "They had one of the best records in 2025 (essentially jan to may) is, because that logic just as much applies to the Warriors and that team was clearly fucking garbage without steph and went to game 7 against a Houston team that they should NOT have, being up 3-1.

Okay, because this site is garbage I had to count the amount of wins myself despite highlighting the days in orange.

But the Pacers from March to April had a 17-7 record.
From Jan to April. Its: 33-14.

Which isnt bad, but isnt some crazy dominant pace, thats still about 50% wins

17-7 isnt great because I left put a lot of losses, and the warriors had a 25-3 record when butler game in or some shit.

Gunna go count warriors from Jan to April now to equalize it a bit

Warriors are 33-18 from Jan to April. God what a garbage fucking team. So basically 4 more losses, which makes no sense to me, where the fuck did those 4 more games come from?

The 'cord wants to see Slam Dunk and The First Slam Dunk before the season starts.

>>150766862
Didn't they lose to the Nuggets without Murray and Jokic one game kek? Gordon dropped like 40 on them

I’m bout to smoke weed with three white women, what am I in for?

>>150766967
Loser. Dont insult my warriors only im allowed to.

Kek, anyway did you know that my Warriors had a winning record against OKC? Not that it means much but warriors beat OKC early in the season with THIS garbage ass team.
And before retarded kumingtard defenders start hopping about to defend him. BPodz was giving these kuminga tier points by the middle and end of the season. Kuminga also got incredibly lucky this game with a 72 FG%
BUM sucks.

God this team is so fucking garbage btw

>>150767124
Yeah, that was the game your bum ass team injured Chet and took him out for half the season.

Pablo just keeps winning lmao

>>150767016
They better not be fat

Kek and the one time OKC beats the Warriors, Curry isnt even playing.

And again, before retards start trying to glaze Kumingtard. This bum got 19 points on 38% field goal percentage. The thunder were just trash so they only won by 4 points, in part because SGA needed 28 FUCKING SHOTE to get 35 points, and 6 of those points came from 6 for 10 free throws. He shot for 46% which only looks bettee because you dont see him going 3 for 12 from 3.

To be fair, for some reason Jalen Williams takes like 6 shots the entire game, and Chet was missing, but you actually cant use the Chet excuse because their team was so good that they got the majority of their 68 win record without him.

>>150767200
what's the excuse 68 win priveleged dogshit overrated team? retard.

especially because such a good team WITH chet went to two game 7s in the playoffs with none of their players injured. loser

>>150767343
Hartenstein was also missing that first game jeet, and Caruso and Chet were missing the second one. Take your head out of your ass and understand that your shitty warriors team is trash.

>especially because such a good team WITH chet went to two game 7s in the playoffs with none of
their players injured. loser
Jalen Williams was playing through a torn wrist ligament the entire playoffs dipshit

My warriors also beat the wolves 4-1 throughout the regular season, granted this specific game im highlighting, Ant shot 6 for 20.

But if you actually looked closely at how garbage the wolves were playing in that series, and how many shots they were missing, youd understand that CURRY, and CURRY ALONE, because he carries this ENTIRE BUM TEAM ON HIS BACK WHEN HE CARES AND BELIEVES HE CAN (which is why Jimmy was important, less because he needed him, as shown by his wins against minnesota without him) would have beat minnesota.

Btw, this game was won without Draymond playing. And Curry racking up 10 assists, so bums who say Currgoat is a draymond merchant need to hush up!

>>150767421
>and Caruso and Chet were missing the second one.
I already proved how the chet excuse is a loser excuse, but the Caruso excuse is pathetic.

Anyway, what happened here, when the warriors beat your OKC with no thunder, and SGA dropping 52 points while being gifted 21 fucking freethrows kek, and making 18.
Jdub also finally decided to shoot the ball and gave you 26 points...on 26 shots...lol.

Are you seriously fucking telling me OKC needed to stack the deck THAT hard with Chet, Caruso, Hartenstein and everybody else, just to win against a draymondless Warriors (Kuminga wasnt in this game either) letting fucking Looney score 18 on them?

What a joke. My warriors overcome odds, your OKC need to fix them.

>>150767828
>draymond and Kuminga missing counts but Chet and Caruso doesn't because.....THEY JUST DON'T OK???
Delusional.
The only odds you're hitting is Curcuck getting injured again or choking another 3 - 1 lead. You're a clown.

Why does nobody mention the surprising amount of games draymond missed early season for the warriors? Im going full copium right now but if all my old niggas are healthy, we go 2nd seed this season.

>>150756192
He dindu nuffin. But for real. This shit has been going on for ages. I don't think it's right make an example out of him.

>>150767218
>keeps winning
except nothing ever happens

>Warriors close to agreement with Jonathan Kuminga

are you fucking kidding me, entire off season and this is the biggest news

i think picrel would be a suitable punishment for ballmer and kawhi
silver will have to arrange this somehow

>>150768500
See, I don't think death is the worst punishment. Because after you die, you'll feel nothing. The worst punishment is to let them suffer forever, make them so miserable that they wish they can die but they can't.

That said, we make Kawhi play 48 mins for all 82 games until his knees fall off.

Pablo bomb.

https://x.com/pablotorre/status/1966981945767981355?s=46

>>150768201
Oh no oh man :o)

>>150756281
My mixed niece looks just like this. Shes got a nice body. Is it wrong I want to fuck her?

>>150757157
Actually, I’d argue that the league is getting more and more kino.

>>150768865
You need prison

>>150768807
I don't know why these guys keep talking. There is literally no way to explain how that deal makes any sense from the perspective of the company unless it's a mask for something else. They literally got no benefit from it at all to the point where they didn't even announce it despite it being a supposed endorsement deal

>>150768865
>My mixed niece
How does she look white?

>>150757157
We’ve never seen this level of talent or parity before, the greatest player of all time and Luka Doncic play on the same team with a DPOY/1st overall pick and they’re not even considered a top 15 roster

>>150758688
This is why Kawhi kept getting hurt though, cheaters never prosper.

>>150768807
I’ve been a clippers hate for over a decade. This is the best thing that’s happened since PG got Covid or that blown 3-1 lead vs Denver

>>150768912
Mixed genes be be anywhere, especially since most American blacks aren’t 100% black.

>>150768749
>we make Kawhi play 48 mins for all 82 games until his knees fall off
absolutely diabolical

>>150768865
I thought you hated mixed people, weapschizo?

>>150768966
most american blacks look 100% black anyway

>>150768951
Based picrel

>>150768951
something like 20 games my latest 2k17 season, the clippers fired glen rivers and i signed him to my team. for the challenge of it.

Curry fan logic

>>150768452
if they fold for this bum they're retarded

/nba/ is team crawford correct?

>>150757157
thats only when you pay attention to nba discourse, NBA is extremely kino right now all bullshit aside. Nobody even takes this shit seriously it's just funny drama to talk about because it's peak offseason and we're all just sitting around with our thumbs in our ass until the season starts

>>150770704
the only one trick pony i like is Curry

>>150770704
ye

>>150768896
People do weird shit when they're backed into a corner.

>>150769418
kys disingenuous retard
>>150770980
another disingenuous retard

>>150768951
Damn. It's cold to be a Clippers hater.
That's like hating on the kids in special ed.

https://x.com/samesfandiari/status/1966918567213101228

and it goes way past the clippers. there's a reason why Cuban came rushing to ballmers aid, and silver has been quiet about it.

>>150772062
I WANT JUSTICE I DON'T NEED ANY MORE EVIDENCE
BAN THESE NIGGAS NOW YOU SHEISTY ASS JEW ADAM SILVER

>>150772521
no
go watch some highlights

>>150772600
man, fuck this dude. I already do that, but the fact that he actually said that, i don't like it

Will my Utah jazz EVER win a championship!?

>>150772748
believe in ace

>>150772883
But the summer league, leaf. He did jack

>>150772711
we are currently consuming that free nba content he was talking about just by being even relatively on topic in this general
>>150772922
supreme dedication to the craft

>>150772947
just believe

>>150767828
You cooked here lmao

>>150767421
Cope harder retard

Insane to me OKC was 3-1 all regular season to play-in teams, one was the warriors, and the other was Mavs without Luka fucking kek lol and Dinwiddie dropped nearly 30 on them

>>150773993
>and the other was Mavs without Luka fucking kek lol and Dinwiddie dropped nearly 30 on them
Turns out it's hard to win games when you're missing your starting 4 for 50 games and your starting 5 and 6th man for 25+ games. Who could've thunk?

>>150773993
>You cooked here lmao
My theory is that something is very wrong with either that OKC team, or the regular season, or just stats in general. Because I have zero idea how a 68 win team goes to a game 7 twice with zero injuries. People cope abour Jdub, but you cant use the injury excuse when not only do you win, but Jdub is averaging 17.6 points in the denver series before he gets injured, and then fucking 23.6 points after hes "injured" in the Pacers series.

Also we talk about Jdubs injury, but conveniently forget Curries blatant hand injury this playoffs. And besides, Jdubs injury was never as bad as Curry doing the splits in 2016. Not only that but in 2016 Curry wasnt the only one injured and the most convenient finals ever on display occured for the cavs.

>>150774969
Jdub got injured against the Suns in the regular season you moron. He had to completely redevelop shit shot in the last 2 weeks of the season and was getting shots before every single game just to play.
>b-but Curcuck
Will forever be known as the biggest choker in NBA history

>>150774815
>>150775112
based leafbro, the fact people are still seething about okc is too fucking funny

>>150756130 (OP)
i can't imagine gobert being the best center my team ever had
bro literally didn't do shit or go anywhere lmao. and he still hasn't...

>>150768920
>greatest player of all time
Muggsy's been out of the league for years and Jordan sold the Hornets, who are you talking about?

>>150774969
>very wrong with either that OKC team

I think Daigneults coaching is just kinda shit at times or more accurately his assistant coach's shit the bed when it comes to what they make him draw up, Boston had arguably a better winning ratio when you consider Boston was only a 3 wins off last years record and had old ass Jrue, Horford and Vanilla Embiid on their squad,

A few things need to change if OKC wants to repeat without struggling...

No more SGA foul baiting, the refs aren't gonna let them go on anymore, players and coaches have complained, and it'll change like Larden and his arm hooking

two, more high level team basketball like Boston and Pacers, give Wallace, Joe, Topic(as well), Dub more touches, everyone should be individual playmakers more, they would've 4-0 the nuggets if they actually shot 50% from 3 like Boston was doing last year, its Daigneults job to fix that, he always talks in interviews about how teams are better when they beat OKC but I feel like he doesn't fix where they fall apart in

They rely to much on momentum and turnovers and but never closeout games, they also play like shit on the road, unlike Indy against Bucks and eventually injured Cavs and even Cavs before injuries in the playoffs against the Heat assraped Miami by 50 in their hometurf

OKC was down by 30 against Play-in Memphis, and Morant said he had them figured them out and they injured the dude, like come on...... and they only won game 4 by 2 pts against Memphis, sheesh, the team can be Wizard/Hornets level at times

People say the Rockets and Lakers loss is what kept them from 70 wins but it was the mavs and warrior losses, imagine if they won those games, they arguably could've gotten to 75 wins maybe,

>>150774815
In the words of Black Jesus

"Your just making excuses"

>>150775863
You're retarded and I got CTE from reading this post. Why doesn't every time just shoot 50% from 3 like the Celtics? Why didn't the Celtics do that against the Knicks if it's so easy?

>/nba/ hyped up Nicole Chokic for years
>he'll retire with 1 ring

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>150776283
Are you retarded? I said Celtics were shooting 50% from 3 last year MapleAnon,

that was good coaching from Mazzula, no egos and demands over touches, no-one could be guarded specifically and they were able to close out the finals without any stress, OKC choking game 1 against Indy was befuddling to me meanwhile Celtics swept em last year

and game 1 against Denver, with Holmgren missing FTs,

the simple truth with someone similar to Mazzula's style OKC would've won in fewer games, their 3 point volume ratio was shit and their individual playmaking was ass without Shai

>>150776571
>Are you retarded? I said Celtics were shooting 50% from 3 last year MapleAnon,
And when were they doing that? Certainly wasn't during their own finals against the Mavericks where Tatum and Brown were building houses.
>that was good coaching from Mazzula, no egos and demands over touches, no-one could be guarded specifically and they were able to close out the finals without any stress,
And the same Mazulla refused to make any adjustments to his memechuck strategy and choked multiple games away to the knicks this year. Why are you ignoring this? Better yet, why are you pretending OKC has any shooters as good as Derrick White, Al Horford, or Jrue Holiday, the latter two who were both shooting above 40% from 3 for the season in 2024. 3 point volume means nothing when your entire team is shooting below league average and your 3 best players are shooting below 30%. I don't think you even watched OKC play since every single second Isaiah Joe was on the floor that wasn't garbage time was him getting attacked on defense and him bricking 3s like the rest of the team.
>OKC choking game 1 against Indy was befuddling to me meanwhile Celtics swept em last year
Ok, you're just trolling at this point. Thanks for wasting my time.

>>150768807
OK but isn't this one of the guys who would oversee the companys many other fraudulent deals? Of course he's gonna deny going along with anything and hope for some good pr

>>150776841
In game 2 and 3 they were streaky and but everyone on the team could all hit 3s

Mavs had just 2 shooters and Luka played too much Iso,

>refused to make any adjustments to his memechuck strategy
But the games they won against New York were blowouts and they only lost the first 2 games against Knicks by a very few points

>you're just trolling at this point.
Where was the lie? OKC choked a winnable game 1 against Indy, Boston memechucks and yet always cameback and closed out games against Indiana last year and even against most teams they faced, OKC just always seemed to live and die by the whistle with SGA driving to the rim,

>why are you pretending OKC has any shooters as good as Derrick White
They don't, especially in the playoffs, Joe is ass and looked like 2011 finals Lebron, dude couldn't score like Curry or Klay,

Bostons squad was older and was more efficent at 3 point scoring, OKC was the youngest squad in a long while and many athletic wings and couldn't hit 3s to save their lives

Reminder bitch,

Boston 64-18 in 2024 , their core played like 10 games together, load management and injuries

This year 61-21, same squad aging/injured cast even more, and still a dominant season,

OKC 57-25 and choked to fat Luka and withering Kyrie in game 6

OKC 68-14, insanely young core and went 7 games with an injured weaker Nuggets that didn't have the original championship squad, and a no-name Pacers Squad that looked like Christian Varsity basketball team

injured Boston blew out Magic in game 5, and blew out Knicks in the games they won and Tatum got injured in game 4,

>>150776565
>gets 1 rang without fleeing with tears in his eyes to somebody else's team
so he's better than lebum is what ur sayin

I should have invested in a 151 Charizard card when I had the chance...Fuck the Lakers and fuck El Hijo de LeBron James.

>>150778166
LeBron and Ash Ketchum have many similarities
>Fatherless
>Their mothers bore them at a very young age
>Have more crucial losses than wins
>different skillset/team every season

>>150778260
damn...

>>150775863
>they arguably could've gotten to 75 wins maybe
would have been insanely inflated theres simply no way.

dudes lost to a draymondless warriors, with kevin looney as their 3rd highest scorer.
like what the fuck is that competition? im sus about the 2025 season in general.

i was looking at warriors games against sun, lakers etc. and the amount of times randomly that players like anthony davis, or kevin durant were missing was astonishing.

im sure in the grand scheme of things it doesnt actually come out to that many missed games, but when people are quibbling over how okc could have totally gotten 70+ wins, it has to matter

>>150778260
The similarities are uncanny

>>150778260
is there something resembling crack in the Pokemon universe? because that'd be yet another similarity to highlight in your Lebron James comparison.

>>150771791
nta but I don't like the clippers either because I'm a lakers fan and their whole identity is that "we're the edgy and gritty version of the lakers but not the lakers" at the same time
>>150772062
holy shit, forget selling the team, clippers might be the first team to get relegated or banned entirely
brunson and the knicks are probably the next team going under a microscope

>>150780668
>dudes lost to a draymondless warriors, with kevin looney as their 3rd highest scorer.
>like what the fuck is that competition? im sus about the 2025 season in general.

Meanwhile your precious Warriors lost to Kobe's 17 win Lakers team and the fucking Andrew Wiggins Timberwolves. Just shut up already

We gon get Wiggins

>>150780668
Again I wasn't being ultra-serious in 75 wins, but my point was, they won 50+ games without Chet to teams that beat the play-in teams they LOST to, like them beating Miami only for Miami to starch/beat Golden State a month later, and before that back in January

Which leads to me to believe the team is weirdly inconsistent, but thats def a issue where the FO needs to fix that, cause its like they choke wins in a painful way,

and other than Jdubs wrist injury there was no other injuries and no player was aging, meanwhile Boston oldest starter playing the 3rd most important role was fucking 50 year old Al Horford and their SG had a shooting finger injury and was pushing 40

Boston has excuses OKC just simply doesn't, if OKC was well coached by someone like Mazulla or Prime Carlile then they'd arguably get to 70+ ish wins, they just gotta shoot 3% and playmake individually, it cannot be Shai 24/7 driving to rim and flopping and no look passes, one of those falls are gonna hurt him eventually

66% of responders said top

What makes people this mad about the Thunder?

>>150786469
Bawbs ran when it came.

>>150786469
Seems like a continuation of last year’s reaction to the Celtics winning
>we don’t like the winner, that ring doesn’t count

>>150786469
They won before they were supposed to,before BAWB prince Luka, and cucked Chokic out of the best year of his career.

>>150786469
ring fags and all the other shit pushed by mainstream media over the years got btfo by the finals matchup. i've always hated espn but watching them not even know how to talk about the thunder or pacers was a new low

>>150786469
If it was Luka people wouldn’t be mad

Why did Curry beg KD to join?

>>150787744
I also want to know the answer to that question. People talk shit about KD all the time for joining a 73 win team but no one even asks why Steph flew from California all the way to New York to recruit KD to the team

>>150783578
Kobe dickriders, bottom would destroy

>>150783578
Other than kd bottom is better at all their positions, better defense, 2 elite 3pt shooters. Bottom team wins in 5

>my city's sports teams are better than yours, historically
Such a pathetic cope.

Meal.

>>150794304
You really eat 7000 kcal in pure carb in one sitting?

I haven't posted here in months. Since my teams season ended actually. Good to see my /nba/ friends still going along. Excited for the season to start. In fact, during the offseason I transitioned to a woman so this will be the first season in my true form! :)

>>150795199
Welcome back inceltic

>indiana fever
>atlanta dream
I guess you could say its a fever dream

>>150796032
Nigga expected us to laugh

>>150795199
What Andrew Wiggins as the franchise player does to a mfer

>>150783578
>nerfing LeBrons team by giving him westbrick
So fucking funny.

>>150783578
Bottom has 4 of the top 5 peaks ever in jordan, kg, durant, and shaq. Meanwhile you're giving lebron "wemby" "westbrook" "kobe" even wilt is laughable compared to shack. Also cp3s peak clears westbrook and it isn't even close.

>>150796246
That's Kobe's team. LeBeta is not even the second best player on that team

Kobesisters…

>>150797012
The answer is the little bitch who went team-hopping, chasing help.

>>150798504
Jordan when he didn’t have Scottie and Phil anymore to carry the load?

>>150798680
Yes, joining a team that was 19-63 the previous season is "team-hopping, chasing help."
Is you retarded? Was you educated?

I have accomplished nothing in my life during the offseason.

>>150798777
Tatum but instead of the offseason it's his entire career....

>>150798772
Prime Larry Hughes was more than enough for young LeBron to get to the Finals

>>150798902
Young LeBron was carried by Big Z.

the overlap of lil b's kd curses and durants career high and lows is mindblowing

>>150799027
>removes his curse when KD joins a team that cannot lose
What a surprise.

>>150799062
Is it a coincidence it is the same team Lil B tried out for (Santa Cruz Warriors) several years beforehand and he is a Bay Area artist as well?

LeBron's 2006-2007 path to the NBA Finals:
>a 41-41 Washington Wizards team without Gilbert Arenas or Caron Butler, the team's two leading scorers
>a 41-41 Nets team
>Detroit, who was a shell of what they were the previous year when they still had DPOY Ben Wallace

>>150799377
Michael Jordan's path to all his NBA finals
>plumber teams that would get swept by any half decent 2010s or 2020s team

>>150787265
All mainstream sports media will suck off the big market/big brand teams, but basketball media in particular is especially bad with it. Hell, they're DEFENDING Ballmer because the Clippers are in LA.

>>150795199
>In fact, during the offseason I transitioned to a woman
It doesn't really happen that fast

>>150799599
I LOL every single time this image BTFO out of the "b-but Jordan's competition" and "b-but look at who was guarding Jordan" arguments.
Nigga scored 17 PPG against JJ Barea.

My team will make the play-ins this season.

leaf jeets dad is losing his mind

>>150799599
>>150799751
Hilarious like we didnt see Muggsy Bouges lock down Jordan.

>>150800160
Muggsy led the league in steals.

>>150800160
Muggsy was top 10 in the league in steals for three seasons.
You're referring to a single play, NOT in the Finals, whereas LeBron repeatedly refused to try to score on JJ fucking Barea in the NBA Finals.

Lucky kids. Good thing they look like Giannis clones. I would be depressed if I was the son of Giannis and I looked more like my hog mother. Ugly bitch. Good god, literally looks like an orc from WoW or one of those ugly fish from Mario.

Meal.

So...erm....did anybody notice a name missing from the All-Star 5?

>>150800358
where are the cookies

Do you really count the 2018 finals against LeBron?

Damn Turkey lost? Im sad for Goon

>>150801345
>nigga can't even have an above .400 record in the Finals despite cheating via PEDs

>>150799637
You would know

Stand by me, nobody knows the way it’s gonna be
Stand by me, nobody knows the way it’s gonna be
Stand by me, nobody knows the way it’s gonna be
Stand by me, nobody knows, yeah nobody knows, the way it’s gonna be

>>150802025
You're trans

GO! SPUDS! GO!
Rest of the NBA is learning what the Alamo city already knows. Kawhi's & his representatives are hood-rats.

>>150802368
Spurs and Craptor actually look much better as organizations after all of these revelations.

>>150802163
T he
R ealest
A non
N o
S hit

>>150802368
Fuck Kawhi and fuck uncle Dennis

>>150802678
A utogynephilic
C ucked
K nave

>>150756130 (OP)
Malone is the only good player in NBA history aside from Dennis Rodman because they are the only two who ever did jack shit in the square circle.

Put a few spoonfuls of peanut butter in a bowl.
Add some dark chocolate chips. Mix. Eat with a spoon.
NOM.
Fuck Chris Paul.

Modern day slave is your new euro champion

>>150803634
I'm not particularly pleased about Schroeder winning after shamelessly race-baiting.
But I suppose it's better than Turkroaches winning.

>>150803634
I wanted turkey to win this shit man...sengun :(
I wanted finland to win too. Life is so fucking unfair

>>150803697
Dont disrespect my center you bitch faggot

>>150803697
Him playing the victim card is exactly the reason I was rooting for everyone else except germany. That nigga can suck my dick.

>>150804003
Sengun sucks.
*Breaks spaghetti in half*

>>150804160
Rent free sengun owns you and so does amen.
Turkey shouldve won and finland too. I blame a specific group.

>>150804228
*Breaks linguine in half*

>>150804324
Man fuck you

>>150804408
*Puts ananas on pizza*
Jk pls don't kill me

>>150804598
>150804408

>>150804598
alright goddamnit this is getting out of hand

Gayson Gaytum

>>150804598
I'm quite fond of pineapple, jalapeno, and pepperoni or bacon.

Brunson

I thought it was a meme but I legit only ever see chinks and indians wearing lakers merch. What's up with that?

>>150805389
You're missing all the flips and mexicans

>>150805411
they all can be mistaken for each other

Italy is a bro. Carry the hell on...

>>150803634
>Jobber leading a jobber nation to victory over jobber roaches with only one good player
Safe to say Eurobasket is unserious and meaningless.

>>150806158
YDKB
but yes eurobasket is kind of a meme tournament

>>150806419
I said Goon was a good player Gooner simp

>>150806419
EuroBasket sucks ass the refs are horrible multiple games couldve gone differently if it wasnt for garbage officiating. Olympics>wc>>>>>>>>eurobasket

When the fuck is the new Bleach season dropping bruhs...

>>150807485
Probably April

turkbros if it numbs the pain your president couldnt use a victory as a propaganda tool so maybe youll benefit long term

Trey Lyles signs with Real Madrid/10 year vet out the league

AVRA

>>150809276
mallory :)

>>150809276
tatum is corny 4 lyfe

>>150807485
>shonenshit

>>150810448
making fun of shonen in particular means you think other anime is somehow better

>>150810491
>not my cartoons targeted at 12 year olds!

>>150810491
>>150810530
Some anime is actually targeted at Japanese salarymen and not 12-year-olds.
Not shonenshit, though. That's literally targeted at 12-year-olds.
Fuck Chris Paul.

>>150810530
ANIME IS NOT CARTOON!!!

you have to be a really fucked up guy to not appreciate shounen. There's a reason why stuff like one piece is loved by kids and boomers alike

fuck Lebron

>>150801774
Is this nigga mentally ill? Who saves something like this to throw at every Canadian percieved as queer?

>>150810530
i dont think you get what im saying
>>150810595
there is no difference between watching bleach and watching some shit about cute girls in higher school that /a/ shills. there is no such thing as high-brow anime except for some movies

>>150810717
One Piece is gay.

im back to waiting for the szn to start.
i already miss eurobasket, gonna take 4 more years. life is so cruel man

>>150811512
At least Fiba is next summer

>>150811601
2027 bro

>>150811610
what the fugg you're right. Shit that's lame

>>150811619
lame time haha...

Why is Mark Cuban going out of his way to defend Ballmer?

>>150812626
probably paranoid his own no-nos will be exposed. similar to how stephen king out of nowhere said the epstein files were fake when NOBODY asked him

>>150810767
>there is no difference between watching sweaty musclemen engaged in copious amounts of physical contact and watching cute girls
There is. The former is gay as fuck. The latter isn't.
>but basketball
That's different.
Fuck Chris Paul.

>>150814046
Hot

>>150783578
ABsolutely nothing is beating a shaq, KG, Jordan team, thats too much aggression

>>150814697
I know Kang Foo

>>150810917
All anime is gay post 1990s

>>150814046
Dumbass AI gave the dude jiggly tits lmao

Bismarck Biyombo is only 33 years old

What will you do when Josh Giddey leads the Bulls to the NBA Finals next season?

wouldn't shock me if he was on the Epstein list

goat team
C: Nikola Jokic
PF: Dirk Nowitzki
SF: Larry Bird
SG: Luka Doncic
PG: John Stockton
6th man: Manu Ginobili

>>150815292
>Josh Giddey
didn't this guy rape a 16 year old anally?

>>150756130 (OP)
thinking of getting into watching basketball. what are some things i should know beforehand?

brooklyn nigga here. will the nets ever be good ?

Meal.

>>150815471
>brooklyn nigga here
what's it like out there? is it really like Crooklyn?

>>150815658
Mealanon, this could be you>>150756281. You could have a hot girl give you good food on a silver platter if you weren’t a retarded autistic freak obsessed with slop that will make your heart stop.

>>150815705
Is this some sort of projection? I don’t want to be involved in it if it is.

little john stockton little johnny boyyyyy yeaaaaa with the layAyAyaYayup yeaa

>>150815471
nope. your owner doesn't care about basketball

>>150815658
brother how is that even food

coolest bestest greatest franchise of the 21st century
https://youtube.com/shorts/Nbqe9CpEf78

>release the smoking gun you faggot oh wait you don't have one LMAO get rekt
Cubes keeps obliterating us Pablobros we need something big or the billionaires are going to get away with it!!!!

>>150816234
the nba doesn't need a smoking gun. This isn't a court of law. As is there is no explanation for how any of the Kawhi deal makes sense and that's enough circumstantial evidence for a hammer. Stuff like the leafs and lakers corroborating the setup also makes it much worse

>>150816301
>This isn't a court of law
Akshually, if the NBA wants to punish the Clippers, they'll have to prove in court or before an arbitrator (if they have such an agreement) that the Clippers are in breach of contract.

>>150816234
shit bait you already got btfo last thread

Giannis be so thin skinned at any criticism man lol. Acts so humble and above it but tell him any part of his game isnt perfect and he seethes

>>150812626
They are from the same tribe

1 usa
2 germany
3 canada
4 serbia
5 france
6 turkey
7
8
9
10
No clue about the other 4 but i reckon australia makes the cut

>>150817352
Puerto rico and the dominan republic. I think theres been a global decline in basketball strength worldwide. Outside the top 10 most teams are kind of garbage. Im not even sure id include puerto rico. Top 8 seems clear though

>>150816064
nah

>>150817424
Domincan republic is pretty bad outside KAT right now. And Australia also fell off. Giddey and Dyson are not a threat as they are in any shape

Last autistic post, revised list for 2027 wc
1 usa
2 canada
3 france
4 germany
5 turkey
6 serbia
USA on top, sga and his other boys will probably peak by then. France got wemy and the others. Half of germanys golden generation will decline, the others improve. Turkeys key players will almost all get better. Serbia has good youth talent but their guys are getting older and jokic is being beaten like a horse. I dont think anyone else has a shotnat winning unless a miracle happens

>>150817609
I'd put France above Canada for now. We could very well be better but it'll all depend on how Edey develops

>>150817609
I think my post could age like absolute shit but i believe germany has peaked. Theis, Voigtmann, Schroder are at an age where will all decline. Tristan da Silva has some potential but hes been pretty bad. Germany main strength is their depth not individual player quality and the moment half their guys are gone it will be the wagners, bonga and obst.

>>150817876
Moritz Wagner, Isaac Bonga and Obst are all role players who can be great but shouldnt be relied on to carry a team. Franz, as good as he is, hasnt shown mvp level skill. To me its
America
>huge gap
France
Canada
>gap
Turkey
Germany
Serbia
>huge gap
Anyone else

>>150756352
franchise totally cleansed and put up for auction in vegas because it also cucks mark cuban's dallas masters who wanted to move there

We got Kobe Bufkin bros I can't believe it.
Netsworld we rise.