NBA Season 22/23

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I agree with the sentiments here about the current/recent All Star Games being soft and uninteresting. Does anyone care about team captains and squads of random players with nothing on the line? It's clear the players don't care, so why should the fans?
 

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AS game is worse than the worst team's practice/scrimmage.
 

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While I'm not all the way in the Fami camp of "All Star games are universally shit", no one should ever watch the All-Star event in any sport and expect a competitive game. It's an exhibition/celebration. They're being rewarded for their hard work during the season by getting a weekend to hang out with their friends on other teams they don't get to see often and fuck around for the benefit of the live audience. Guys are going to quarter-ass the effort, they're not going to play any defense (because defense requires hustle) and nothing's going to change that outside of adding artificial stakes to the game like baseball did which is still kind of shit. The format doesn't matter, the scoring doesn't matter. The level of effort isn't going to change. At least basketball players still bother to show up... the Pro Bowl is now flag football and they still can't get their fourth and fifth picks to show up.

It's certainly worse now than it was thirty years ago because the mentality of the average all-star player has definitely changed. Everyone is super buddy-buddy these days because they're more interested in getting other great players to play with them in free agency than to kill them on the court. So you're way less likely to get some psycho like Jordan to take something personally and decide to clown on someone during the All-Star game. Or Larry Bird embarrassing people during the 3 point contest by not bothering to take off his warmup jacket and asking who everyone thought was getting second place. Dudes just aren't built that way anymore because no one wants to piss off somebody who could potentially be their teammate in two years.

So yeah, all star games aren't good games. They never really were but the difference now is that even the excitement of having the best players in the league play next to each other just isn't that interesting anymore. They do it in the Olympics every four years (and in international exhibitions between then) and people switch teams and conferences all the time so the allure just isn't there.
 

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Nuggets can essentially wrap up the 1 seed tonight with a win over Memphis. At that point to get caught they'd have to go like 10-11 in the last 21 while Memphis goes 19-4 in their last 23.

Then it's all about getting everybody healthy for the playoffs. Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. seem to be doing well enough now. Injury report is:
Aaron Gordon - day to day with badly bruised ribs (has been out over two weeks at this point and won't play tonight)
Zeke Nnaji - day to day with a shoulder sprain (also been out over two weeks, also won't play tonight)
Collin Gillespie - hasn't played yet this season after breaking his lower leg right before the year started. He's on a two way anyway so he can't play in the playofs.

They really need Gordon. He's been their second best player all year long.

Nnaji is a fringe rotation guy, but missing him now when Gordon is also out hurts because they're both power forwards. Right now we're starting Vlatko Cancar with Jeff Green as the backup and rookie two-way guy Jack White as the only other option. Depth chart should be Gordon/Cancar/Nnaji/Green/White.
 

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Maybe they felt not enough people watched the All Star Game :tickled:

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Lakers came back from 27 down in the second to pull off a win against the Mavs.

Mavs hit 20 3's, but fizzled at the end.

Jarred Vanderbilt had a great game for the Lakers with 17 rebounds, 15 points, 4 steals, and most importantly made life hard for Luka.
 
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Lakers came back from 27 down in the second to pull of a win against the Mavs.

Mavs hit 20 3's, but fizzled at the end.

Jarred Vanderbilt had a great game for the Lakers with 17 rebounds, 15 points, 4 steals, and most importantly made life hard for Luka.
and more importantly, undefeated in the post Westbrook era while being actually fun to watch again
 

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and more importantly, undefeated in the post Westbrook era while being actually fun to watch again
Lakers came back from 27 down in the second to pull off a win against the Mavs.

Mavs hit 20 3's, but fizzled at the end.

Jarred Vanderbilt had a great game for the Lakers with 17 rebounds, 15 points, 4 steals, and most importantly made life hard for Luka.
JV is actually a better Value then OG anunoby , top notch defence and scrappy on the board , the trades the laker made are all in their favour seem like the GM in these trade are making some back room deals .
 

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Back in Reality Land, 38-year-olds have a hard time staying on the court.
 

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Durant's first game as a Sun is tonight.

My prediction is he scores less than 15 points, the Suns lose, and Suns fans all lose their collective shit in epic fashion.
 

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Enjoying Luka and Kyrie. So far they're 1-4 when playing together and the win was against the Spurs at home.

Nugs starting to develop some chemistry with Jackson and Bryant. Jackson had a great second half yesterday.

Jokic had a triple double in the third quarter, sat the fourth. His 100th career triple double. Kendrick Perkins has been going insane on TV calling Jokic a stat chaser and saying he only won MVP because he's white. Jokic is the opposite of a stat compiler; he literally doesn't give a fuck. Luka, now there's a stat compiler. Demands to take the technical free throws even when he has the lowest free throw percentage of anyone on the court, literally rips rebounds out of his team mates' hands, screams at the scoring table to give him assists while he's supposed to be playing defense, takes contested two on one shots with better shooters wide open, etc.
 

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I wish I liked anything even half as much as Fami hated Luka
 

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I wish I liked anything even half as much as Fami hated Luka
Part of the reason I hate him is he should be so much better than he is. He's a top 10 guy as is but he's a fat, lazy, selfish, stupid drunk. If he had the same attitude as a guy like Jokic, Curry, or Giannis he'd be on their level.
 

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Durant had a solid debut with a win over the Hornets. Booker still outshined him with a nice 37pt performance.

Kyrie and Luka being oil and water on the court is so completely satisfying.
 

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KD sprained his ankle during warmups thanks to moisture on the court. Fucking figures.

On the plus side, there was a woman that sat behind the Suns' bench that had absolutely massive milkers, and is now Twitter famous.
 

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KD sprained his ankle during warmups thanks to moisture on the court. Fucking figures.
Latest news is Durant will be out for 3 weeks. The Suns curse strikes again :tickled:
 

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It wasn't a curse, I told you this would happen when they made the trade. Kevin Durant has been hurt for most of the last five years and you usually don't get more durable when you reach your mid 30s.

With a three week recovery there's probably time for him to come back and get hurt again.
 

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It wasn't a curse, I told you this would happen when they made the trade. Kevin Durant has been hurt for most of the last five years and you usually don't get more durable when you reach your mid 30s.

With a three week recovery there's probably time for him to come back and get hurt again.
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