OFFICIAL NBA THREAD

Monte Morris giving the Nuggets absolutely nothing, again.

 

Bonesless Nuggets not as tight!

 

Nuggets starters good

Nuggets bench bad

 

Did Malone agree give the same team that got swept another swing today?

 

God we need bench help

 

Perhaps they should go out and get a spark plug scorer with deep range and good handles. Maybe someone that went to VCU.

 

Bones o/u average minutes per game this year: 5.5

 

Over but it won't be until like January

 

I've always been a Jeff Green guy personally

 

Barton running the bench unit is better

 

He has a good game every few weeks and it makes you think "maybe he can figure it out and put it together consistently" then you realize you've only been saying that for over a decade and it's not going to happen.

I swear one year when he got to Boston he went toe-to-toe in a head-to-head matchup with LeBron. Dropped 43 points on 21 shots with 7 boards, 4 blocks, and two steals. I thought that was it, that's what he needed to make it click. lol was I dumb.

 

Hey Dump

 

Best young cores in the NBA. Wonder who is number one?
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2021/...021-22-luka-doncic-trae-young-zion-williamson

Spoiler

1. Atlanta Hawks
Wins above replacement: 127.2
Best under-25 players: Trae Young (30.3), John Collins (23.0), Kevin Huerter (18.5)
Previous rankings: 4th, 9th

The Timberwolves haven’t won a playoff series since 2004, the Magic since 2010, the Grizzlies since 2015, and the Pelicans since 2018. Atlanta, meanwhile, lands the top spot fresh off a run to the conference finals.

The Hawks are wonderfully situated for both the present and future, not just with Young, the showstopper, or with Collins and Huerter—both recently extended—but with Onyeka Okongwu (13.2 WAR), De’Andre Hunter (13.0), and Cam Reddish (10.5) as well. That’s six different young Hawks with double-digit WAR projections through the next half-decade. They’d be in an enviable position even if they didn’t also have productive veterans like Clint Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic.

The most pressing question for the franchise is whether it can afford to pay all the promising U25 wings when their entry-level contracts expire—but if they’re all worth extending at that time, then too many good players is a good problem to have. We have a new no. 1 young core and a new, potentially perennial contender in the East all in one.

 

Hawks fans being weird this morning, shocker

 

Luka gonna be sad today realizing his mistake of wanting to go to the toxic Mavs franchise

 

Hawks looking to be back to back moral victory champs this year

 

Oh look, it is a day that ends in y

 

Lamelo > Luka and Trae

 

Durant has logged on again

 

He's saying Kyrie's a top 20 player ever?

 

Wait all time or today? Cause I mean, yeah Kyrie is top 20 in the league currently, but all time...... NO JUST NO

 

This is what I'm confused about.

 

Repsect to Kanter

 

O, boy this will be interesting

 

Adam Sliver is re-educating Enes on how much China is worth to the NBA as we speak

 

Kyrie helping to beat that Warriors team clouds Iggy's perception.

 

I would assume so, since no one ever talks about the present top 20 or 75 players. That's always an "all-time" discussion. Especially being that this is the NBA's 75th anniversary.

 

Kanter’s Candor Cans C’s in China

 

China is always so petulant. Someone said something negative about China? Time to .... erase the 3rd biggest and most well-known franchise off the internet? That will do it!

 

Surprised to see OKC only 17th

 

if Kanter says something to get the Celtics off TNT and ESPN entirely I'll buy his jersey and name my first born after him

 

If they included future first value they would be second but they don’t have much proven talent at the moment outside SGA and to a much lesser extent Dort. SGA is a great start though.

 

Kanter is so so great. Love him

 

I wonder if Kanter is misinformed.

 

Dump you now hahve ONE STRIKE for not updating thread title in 3 weeks

 

If he's playing, most definitely.

 

This was the play he should’ve made all along.

 

I'm surprised we haven't gotten a LeBron or (especially) Draymond rant about this Simmons stuff yet. Have to think one is coming soon on behalf of a Klutch client.