NBA Season - now 24/25

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@mariner4life well you're too fucking depressing for a Friday night! Let's get back to talking about Lebrons greatness.

Let’s not!

On the Wall and Westbrook trade, this is the modern day NBA when two teams have to trade an all-star for another all-star, both on ridiculous contracts, to keep another all-star at their respective teams. Doesn’t make a lot of sense!

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Who won the trade???

I have no idea. Guess that makes it fair???

I reckon Wall’s contract was worst than Russ’ so does that mean Washington did better for unloading it (somewhat)....

And Wall has been injured for 2 years

A fascinating read:

Wow Ball Jnr with some amazing assists. I can't wait to see his stat lines throughout the season gonna be some mind blowing stats both good and bad. I think today was 0pts 4 assists 4 turnovers 10boards in 16 min (of a preseason which I know means nothing)

Giannis will stay in Milwaukee

The whole of Wisconsin will breathe a sigh of relief, good on him for bucking the trend and staying with his team

@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:

Giannis will stay in Milwaukee

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The whole of Wisconsin will breathe a sigh of relief, good on him for bucking the trend and staying with his team

Doesn't mean he is actually staying long term though, just means now they can actually look for trade destinations for him.

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:

Giannis will stay in Milwaukee

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The whole of Wisconsin will breathe a sigh of relief, good on him for bucking the trend and staying with his team

Doesn't mean he is actually staying long term though, just means now they can actually look for trade destinations for him.

Nah, they have him for 4 years, this ain't football. Or if he later on agitated for a trade they will at least be in a position to get something back, until his year 4 player option

@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:

Giannis will stay in Milwaukee

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The whole of Wisconsin will breathe a sigh of relief, good on him for bucking the trend and staying with his team

Doesn't mean he is actually staying long term though, just means now they can actually look for trade destinations for him.

Nah, they have him for 4 years, this ain't football. Or if he later on agitated for a trade they will at least be in a position to get something back, until his year 4 player option

My point is that having him contracted makes him more valuable as a trade asset, as any team taking him knows that they get him for 4 years, not just the remaining 1 year on his old deal. He's no longer a flight risk, and that means you are willing to pay more to get him.

Does he want to be traded? I honestly don't think so, he seems like he wants to stay from all his public noise. Be interesting to see what the Bucks do though if they fall flay in the playoffs again

Isn't there a time frame before they can trade like half the contract or something. Either way in stoked great for the game he's not ending up at Miami or GS

@Magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 20/21:

Isn't there a time frame before they can trade like half the contract or something. Either way in stoked great for the game he's not ending up at Miami or GS

I'm pretty sure it's two years, so this is a good result for the Bucks (sucks for my Mavs as I was hoping...)

It’s a massive contract, bigger than the record Harden one. I think it means that Bucks office have at least two years to get the pieces around him to make a decent run.

@gt12 said in NBA Season 20/21:

@Magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 20/21:

Isn't there a time frame before they can trade like half the contract or something. Either way in stoked great for the game he's not ending up at Miami or GS

I'm pretty sure it's two years, so this is a good result for the Bucks (sucks for my Mavs as I was hoping...)

@Magpie_in_aus @ACT-Crusader

1yr waiting period per Lowe. Have a good crack this year, then if it doesn't pan out / if he is unhappy, there is a good length contract to trade

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@gt12 said in NBA Season 20/21:

@Magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 20/21:

Isn't there a time frame before they can trade like half the contract or something. Either way in stoked great for the game he's not ending up at Miami or GS

I'm pretty sure it's two years, so this is a good result for the Bucks (sucks for my Mavs as I was hoping...)

@Magpie_in_aus @ACT-Crusader

1yr waiting period per Lowe. Have a good crack this year, then if it doesn't pan out / if he is unhappy, there is a good length contract to trade

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Seems like he genuinely likes living in Milwaukee, so they just have to make good moves and he might stay. Not everyone can win the title but he will want to be sure the organization is doing everything they can to get him there

They have a good front office at the Bucks so unless they screw it up, Giannis will be taken care of and get paid.

A small market team and he is the highest paid player in the NBA. That doesn’t happen by accident

If true Harden's lack of discipline in Houston is a real clown show, especially if it drove Westbrook away

@TeWaio thats pretty funny from Perk

Its pretty stupid the way they say they let him do what he wanted because "it didn't affect his play "

And yet he has faded in the playoffs year after year. How can there not be a clear link between looking after yourself during the regular season and staying energetic in the playoffs? You get paid $40m to prep your body all year round you lazy prick.

aaaaand we're back in 45 minutes with e Warriors and the new look Nets, then the LA derby. Pretty much everyone else is on tomorrow

@mariner4life

My Xmas holiday starts today and I was all set up to clean the house and do some boring but useful shit (like cleaning) to avoid getting yelled at by the wife (who is still working remotely).

That plan is now finished.

I’m on the sofa with a piece of toast, and I just watched Durant drain his first three of the day.

Many thanks.

Durant looks really good.

@gt12 fuck you i am working

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

@gt12 fuck you i am working

Just to let you know I'm not working today and am also watching the NBA

Regards

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

@gt12 fuck you i am working

Just to let you know I'm not working today and am also watching the NBA

Regards

sweet. enjoy that. i'm going to the pub for lunch. then later might go see some people.

I'm also going out on christmas

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

@gt12 fuck you i am working

Just to let you know I'm not working today and am also watching the NBA

Regards

sweet. enjoy that. i'm going to the pub for lunch. then later might go see some people.

I'm also going out on christmas

Ha ha, nice work.

Good(ish) news for us today, we can host 10 people per day at ours at least for the next 3 days so I'm going to spend 3 days eating, cooking, swimming and drinking.

@voodoo Rockets game postponed, but nothing to do with Harden apparently.

I watched some of yesterdays games, fuck they were boring. One was one-sided, the other was just dreary. First game of a long season featuring two teams who expect to be at the pointy end. No crowds. The crowd noise was really bad. It was a shit product.

It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.

@mariner4life the way the modern nba is played is not helping.

Limited to no offensive manipulation just constant jacking up of 3 point attempts.

@KiwiMurph said in NBA Season 20/21:

@mariner4life the way the modern nba is played is not helping.

Limited to no offensive manipulation just constant jacking up of 3 point attempts.

drive the lane, kick out for 3, or draw the world's softest foul.

fast break? jack up a 3

play it fast, have as many attempts as possible, and everyone plays the same.

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.

Totally agree with this. These players want to get paid their 20m+ per year so would be against cutting games, but then you get load management bullshit and/or meaningless games until the playoffs.

All professional sports are guilty of maximising quantity and diluting quality (I'm looking at you, Super rugby), but the NBA is by far the worst culprit.

@TeWaio said in NBA Season 20/21:

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.

Totally agree with this. These players want to get paid their 20m+ per year so would be against cutting games, but then you get load management bullshit and/or meaningless games until the playoffs.

All professional sports are guilty of maximising quantity and diluting quality (I'm looking at you, Super rugby), but the NBA is by far the worst culprit.

Baseball too

The NFL has it wired. 16 games, that's it. Every game matters

Has anyone listened to 'The Book OfBasketball' podcast. Recommended by a team mate. I've been binging it the last two weeks.

Highly recommend. Bill Simmons and others look at re drafts, finals series, his rankings of players on the all time list and why.

It's not quite jegga-iffic but I'm having Christmas dinner with Cam Oliver

@Magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 20/21:

Has anyone listened to 'The Book OfBasketball' podcast. Recommended by a team mate. I've been binging it the last two weeks.

Highly recommend. Bill Simmons and others look at re drafts, finals series, his rankings of players on the all time list and why.

Yep, some of it is pretty good. Its his follow-up to his Book of Basketball (an actual book), that is excellent. He doesn't write much anymore now that he's made $200m selling The Ringer to Spotify, its all podcasts. But he is great quality, excellent insight and unique ability to link the trends of the times.

Simmons is great. Knowledgeable and very funny

Simmons' classic movie podcast The Rewatchables is great too.

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:

It's not quite jegga-iffic but I'm having Christmas dinner with Cam Oliver

Groupie alert...

Dear Sean Marks and co

Well done bro. KD and Kyrie have made it look easy against the Celtics tonight. Please don’t ruin this team by chasing Harden. With DJ, Allen, Harris, Dimwiddie, Levert, Shamet, Prince, Green - you have a very very good supporting cast to your two superstars.

An underwhelming Chrismas Day slate of games.

Just a series of blowouts.

@KiwiMurph said in NBA Season 20/21:

An underwhelming Chrismas Day slate of games.

Just a series of blowouts.

Welcome to the NBA regular season!!!

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:

Dear Sean Marks and co

Well done bro. KD and Kyrie have made it look easy against the Celtics tonight. Please don’t ruin this team by chasing Harden. With DJ, Allen, Harris, Dimwiddie, Levert, Shamet, Prince, Green - you have a very very good supporting cast to your two superstars.

They'd be mad to chase Harden. I dont know if this team is good enough to go deep into the playoffs, but I dont think Harden will take them further. Its certainly not more scoring that they need.

Fuck harden was insane everyone was in that game the blAzers big 3 look nice. His book of basketball podcast includes the rewatchables. It's epic.

I have nba league pass this year (via Mexico sign up) been getting a hammering between cricket.