NBA Regular Season 2023-24 f./ NBA In-Season Tournament 2023-24

[Ryan]

You saw who won, right?

[brian]

Yes, what is your point?

[mister d]

That real sports cities equally don’t give a shit about Atlanta and Detroit.

(And that your reaction to that sentence is both right and wrong.)

[Brontoburglar]

incredibly trumpian and tiresome to complain a random chance event like this -- or any outcome one doesn't like in sports, to be fair -- is rigged

[Rex]

Why would anyone care about the Hawks getting the first pick? They’re not going to pick anyone good.

[Giff]

Meanwhile, the fleecing of the Nets, thanks to the Harden trade, continues. And will until 2027!

[A_B]

I think they fix it, too, to keep good players from having to go to Detroit. NBA humanitarianism.


BA DUM CHA!

[rass]

Hart appears to be in some gastrointestinal distress this evening. Hmmmm…

[DaveInSeattle]

Why does Dallas have guitar logos painted in the key?

[HaulCitgo]

Knicks trying to give us something to watch. Should have blown these guys out on emotion.

[brian]

Gonna laugh my ass off if the TWolves win a title before the Vikings and Wild.

[Johnnie]

[L-Jam3]

Gonna laugh my ass off if the TWolves win a title before the Vikings and Wild.

If my math is right, they’re working on 126 seasons without a title, and it’s the same drought for even reaching the final round. The last to reach the finals from the Twin Cities was the 1991 Twins.

[A_B]

I find humor in A-Rod not being able to get enough money together to buy the TWolves and now they're a series away from he finals.

[DSafetyGuy]

Everyone runs to point at Gobert and Beal, but Michael Porter, Jr. is a sleeper for "worst contract in the NBA".

[GoodKarma]

Porter had a good regular season and played the third option role pretty well. He didn't play all that well in the Lakers series (despite what Malone says) but how he collapsed against the Wolves was epic. Malone says it's because "they guarded him" but I watch every game and he played way too timid and you could see the lost confidence.

I went to the game last night...it was a real gut punch after being up 20. You could see the whole team quit in the second half. Everyone else just stood around waiting for Jokic to do something. I hope they make a few major roster changes but I think they're locked into pretty much the same roster next year so I think we'll see this group for one more run.

[Ryan]

The arc of them and the Giannis Bucks is pretty identical. I'd be proactive on some of their 2nd tier players for sure.

[Brontoburglar]

Everyone runs to point at Gobert and Beal, but Michael Porter, Jr. is a sleeper for "worst contract in the NBA".

he's 25 and shoots 40% from 3 on a high volume. there are a bunch more contracts I'd put ahead of his

[A_B]

Everyone runs to point at Gobert and Beal, but Michael Porter, Jr. is a sleeper for "worst contract in the NBA".

he's 25 and shoots 40% from 3 on a high volume. there are a bunch more contracts I'd put ahead of his

I'll take that bet.

[Brontoburglar]

Everyone runs to point at Gobert and Beal, but Michael Porter, Jr. is a sleeper for "worst contract in the NBA".

he's 25 and shoots 40% from 3 on a high volume. there are a bunch more contracts I'd put ahead of his

I'll take that bet.

LaVine
Kawhi
LaMelo
Garland
Jerami Grant
Beal
Gobert

could make arguments for a couple more too without really digging too deep

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/contracts/_ ... e/dir/desc

[A_B]

It was a betting joke about his brother. Never take me seriously.

[Brontoburglar]

lifetime ban

[mister d]

He seems too weird to invest in.

[A_B]

He seems too weird to invest in.

I'm still here, D.

[sancarlos]

Mister D is short-selling shares of A_B stock?

[DSafetyGuy]

Everyone runs to point at Gobert and Beal, but Michael Porter, Jr. is a sleeper for "worst contract in the NBA".

he's 25 and shoots 40% from 3 on a high volume. there are a bunch more contracts I'd put ahead of his

By statistical production, he is an average or worse third-best player on the average team and has three years and $115 million left on his deal. He gets taken off the floor for a player four inches shorter for defense and is a well below-average playmaker, showing no real signs of improving. This season, he reversed his downward trend in defensive rebounding for the first time in his career this season.

[Brontoburglar]

Everyone runs to point at Gobert and Beal, but Michael Porter, Jr. is a sleeper for "worst contract in the NBA".

he's 25 and shoots 40% from 3 on a high volume. there are a bunch more contracts I'd put ahead of his

By statistical production, he is an average or worse third-best player on the average team and has three years and $115 million left on his deal. He gets taken off the floor for a player four inches shorter for defense and is a well below-average playmaker, showing no real signs of improving. This season, he reversed his downward trend in defensive rebounding for the first time in his career this season.

I'm well aware of all that; but given he just played 81 games after 62 the previous year, his age, his shooting ability and size, he's far from being an albatross contract at the moment. it's not a positive value contract by any means -- he hasn't taken the leap that I think many thought he would -- but I wouldn't consider his deal close to being the worst in the league

[Johnnie]

Siakam trying to hold his shit in.

[GoodKarma]

If it's Brown flush it down...

[Giff]

"Why didn't I think of that?"

- Paul Pierce, probably

[Johnnie]

This is fantastic: