NBA Season - now 24/25
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ESPN insider Shams Charamia reports that Dallas may shut down AD for the season in the wake of the Kyrie injury. D fans are entering one of the realms of Hell. Meanwhile Luka and the Lakers look to have increasingly overwhelmingly won the trade
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@barbarian said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Watching Rockets vs OKC at the moment, with the hometown OKC commentators.
It's a quirk of watching the NBA that I love - the rank hometown bias of the commentary (in non-national games). Calling players by first names or nicknames, complaining about virtually every decision that goes against them, no hype at all for great opposition plays...
In rugby we complain about bias home commentary but the NBA shows you what that would actually look like.
I quite like that about the home broadcast teams. There’s usually a former player (in OKC’s case it’s former Sonic Michael Cage, as one-eyed as they come) and a commentary man that has been a part of the furniture for eons. Their access to the team is high, some basically travel with the team, so they are just an extension of the franchise because it’s beaming into the home city.
What ESPN International / AUS-NZ does is pay rights for them. I think there must’ve been a multi-year deal on OKC because of the Giddey factor, as we get a lot of their non-national televised games.
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This is frankly ridiculous. And it speaks to just how insanely good Steph Curry is that we sort of just say "oh yeah another Steph highlight"
Off balance spinning fadeaway 3 with two guys in his face from the logo buzzer beater? GTFO Sky Fucker
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Mark Cuban screwed up letting Steve Nash leave years before. And before the Mavs' new ownership let Luka go there was Jalen Brunson.
'The Wonder Boy': How the Mavericks lost out on Jalen Brunson
An excerpt from Tim MacMahon's book "The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness," which hits shelves Tuesday.
Amazing how Cuban never learned his lesson (in the Brunson instance, Luka did not happen on his watch
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@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Mark Cuban screwed up letting Steve Nash leave years before. And before the Mavs' new ownership let Luka go there was Jalen Brunson.
'The Wonder Boy': How the Mavericks lost out on Jalen Brunson
An excerpt from Tim MacMahon's book "The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness," which hits shelves Tuesday.
Amazing how Cuban never learned his lesson (in the Brunson instance, Luka did not happen on his watch
I love reading all these pundits opinions because there’s always some truth in what they say, but purely on the eye test there’s no way they Brunson becomes the player that he has if he we’re still playing with Luka.
Brunson is ball dominant so wasn’t going to be able to settle as a catch and shoot guy or just running the second unit. Plus he’s not Kyrie in the way that Kyrie can play off the ball and that was pivotal in getting to the big show last year.
So in my estimation not paying Brunson paid off because it opened the door for Kyrie.
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Josh Giddey in a real purple patch.
Almost recorded a quadruple double the other night against the Lakers in LA - with both LeBron and Luka playing.
Backed it up today with 26, 8, 9 and the W against the Jokic-less Nuggets
Not only the numbers, but the efficiency and the fact he’s confident in taking the 3 ball despite his funky action.
They will be in the play in so who knows. Big thing is whether the Bulls will pay him because with this run there will be other teams willing to pay him.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Mark Cuban screwed up letting Steve Nash leave years before. And before the Mavs' new ownership let Luka go there was Jalen Brunson.
'The Wonder Boy': How the Mavericks lost out on Jalen Brunson
An excerpt from Tim MacMahon's book "The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness," which hits shelves Tuesday.
Amazing how Cuban never learned his lesson (in the Brunson instance, Luka did not happen on his watch
I love reading all these pundits opinions because there’s always some truth in what they say, but purely on the eye test there’s no way they Brunson becomes the player that he has if he we’re still playing with Luka.
Brunson is ball dominant so wasn’t going to be able to settle as a catch and shoot guy or just running the second unit. Plus he’s not Kyrie in the way that Kyrie can play off the ball and that was pivotal in getting to the big show last year.
So in my estimation not paying Brunson paid off because it opened the door for Kyrie.
I forgot about Kyrie. That is fair
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Josh Giddey for the game! Crazy finish with the Bulls down 1 and Giddey takes a last second shot from beyond halfway and hits it. Sent the Lakers packing after the Bulls came back from 18 points down.
Triple double for Giddey and the longest game winning shot in Bulls history. Boy is on fire and he and Coby White are playing like they are a top 5 backcourt in the league
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And for all the purists out there, the Pacers scored 162 today and beat the Wizards by 53.
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@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Duke into their first final four since Coach K retired..... They are red hot favs to win the tournament, only lost one game since November and have only trailed for 5 minutes in the entire tournament.
Their star player Cooper Flagg is most likely going to be the number one pick this year.
Watched their game yesterday against Alabama. Just too tall, too skilled, and they play as a team on offence and defence.
In the women's game UConn looked very good against Oklahoma. After trailing by 3 or 4 at the break they locked them down on D and Paige Bueckers shot the lights out to win by close to 20
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@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Duke into their first final four since Coach K retired..... They are red hot favs to win the tournament, only lost one game since November and have only trailed for 5 minutes in the entire tournament.
Their star player Cooper Flagg is most likely going to be the number one pick this year.
Watched their game yesterday against Alabama. Just too tall, too skilled, and they play as a team on offence and defence.
Hopefully Houston can give them a run for their money.
I'm looking forward to the final 4 matchups- all 4 #1 seeds made the final 4 for the first time since 2008.
All four semi finalists are also from the south, be curious to know if that has ever happened before, my guess is no, or once or twice at most. I can imagine this will be something of a new norm in college basketball as mid major programs and colleges from the north east and mid west will struggle to compete with the financial muscle of the southern schools.
Unintended consequences of NIL and the transfer portal
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