NBA season 2019/20

Bovidae

Aiming for a July 31 start.

The NBA board of governors voted Thursday to approve a 22-team format to restart the 2019-20 season in Orlando, Florida, the league announced.

Under the plan, 13 Western Conference teams and nine Eastern Conference teams will play eight regular-season "seeding" games, a possible play-in tournament for the eighth seed and playoffs at the Walt Disney World Resort.

The top 16 teams in the Eastern and Western conferences will be joined by teams currently within six games of eighth place in the two conferences -- New Orleans, Portland, San Antonio, Sacramento, Phoenix and Washington.

The play-in tournament will include the No. 8 and No. 9 teams in a conference -- if the ninth seed finishes the regular season within four games of the eighth. In that case, the No. 9 seed would need to beat No. 8 seed twice to earn the playoff berth, while the No. 8 would need one win from the two potential games.

https://www.espn.com.au/nba/story/_/id/29267294/source-nba-approves-plan-return-orlando

mariner4life

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Smudge

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

mariner4life

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

voodoo

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

I'm all Lakers this year. My man Alex Caruso is going to lead them home.

If not them, I'd be happy to see Giannis get a ring. Not the Clippers, not Houston , and certainly not Philly

Can't see anyone challenging the Lakers , Clips or Bucks really.

mariner4life

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

I'm all Lakers this year. My man Alex Caruso is going to lead them home.

If not them, I'd be happy to see Giannis get a ring. Not the Clippers, not Houston , and certainly not Philly

Can't see anyone challenging the Lakers , Clips or Bucks really.

If the Clippers get up, does that mean Kawhi is really the best player in the league?

Bovidae

Even though I have been a Lakers fan since Showtime I would be happy if the Clippers won it. I'm all for a team to win the title for the first time.

canefan

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

I'm all Lakers this year. My man Alex Caruso is going to lead them home.

If not them, I'd be happy to see Giannis get a ring. Not the Clippers, not Houston , and certainly not Philly

Can't see anyone challenging the Lakers , Clips or Bucks really.

If the Clippers get up, does that mean Kawhi is really the best player in the league?

He will be the only man to win the title with 3 different teams I believe (LBJ is on two teams as well). If he isn't the first the club must be pretty damn small. I can't think of any other centre piece player in their prime that has done it

mariner4life

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

I'm all Lakers this year. My man Alex Caruso is going to lead them home.

If not them, I'd be happy to see Giannis get a ring. Not the Clippers, not Houston , and certainly not Philly

Can't see anyone challenging the Lakers , Clips or Bucks really.

If the Clippers get up, does that mean Kawhi is really the best player in the league?

He will be the only man to win the title with 3 different teams I believe (LBJ is on two teams as well). If he isn't the first the club must be pretty damn small. I can't think of any other centre piece player in their prime that has done it

he'll get finals MVP if they win too. 3 rings at 3 teams with 3 MVPs? that's unreal.

And lets not forget, one of those teams is in fucking Canada!

Bovidae

@canefan You mean the only STAR player to win on 3 different teams.

Horry
Salley

canefan

@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:

@canefan You mean the only STAR player to win on 3 different teams.

Horry
Salley

Yeah that's what I meant. I did think of big shot Rob....

Bovidae

To be fair Horry contributed more to his championship teams than Spider Salley.

voodoo

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

I'm all Lakers this year. My man Alex Caruso is going to lead them home.

If not them, I'd be happy to see Giannis get a ring. Not the Clippers, not Houston , and certainly not Philly

Can't see anyone challenging the Lakers , Clips or Bucks really.

If the Clippers get up, does that mean Kawhi is really the best player in the league?

Nah, it doesn't in and of itself, but he is certainly close, especially if 100%. 1a and 1b maybe. That said, the guy is 28 with just 20k minutes on the clock which is baby fresh legs when compared with LeBrons 35 years and 58k, so that's a massive advantage already!

But mostly I say no because the Clippers are clearly the deepest team in the league. If you say Kawhi and LeBron cancel each other out, then AD is marginally ahead of PG (some would argue AD's playoff record says otherwise), then compare the rest:

Harrell, Lou Williams, Beverley, are all first rate. Shamet, Morris still add value as do guys like Zubac (why did the Lakers give him up?) and Harkless.

Lakers have a chasm of a drop off from their top 2. Kuzma shows flashes, but KCP and Bradley are average now and Danny Green is pretty old. Nobody is creating offense in that group. They have no PG (Sorry Bald Eagle and 34yr old Rondo), and their backup bigs of McGee and Dwight are prone to break/implode at any point.

You'd never dismiss a team with LeBron in it, especially one with AD there too. But over 7 games, and with that Clippers D, it's hard to go past them.

mariner4life

voodoo

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Smudge said in NBA season 2019/20:

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Bring back the Providence Steamrollers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Steamrollers

random. But better them than the lakers.

I'm all Lakers this year. My man Alex Caruso is going to lead them home.

If not them, I'd be happy to see Giannis get a ring. Not the Clippers, not Houston , and certainly not Philly

Can't see anyone challenging the Lakers , Clips or Bucks really.

If the Clippers get up, does that mean Kawhi is really the best player in the league?

He will be the only man to win the title with 3 different teams I believe (LBJ is on two teams as well). If he isn't the first the club must be pretty damn small. I can't think of any other centre piece player in their prime that has done it

he'll get finals MVP if they win too. 3 rings at 3 teams with 3 MVPs? that's unreal.

And lets not forget, one of those teams is in fucking Canada!

BUT, like every stat, we need to add context. He shouldn't have been MVP in San Antonio, Tony Parker was way more valuable. It's not as bad as Iggy's one, but it's up there.

Then he goes to Canada and everything falls into place. Siakim makes a ludicrous leap, FvF starts playing like a man possessed, and the Warriors lose both KD and Klay for the finals!

There is always luck somewhere in a title run, I don't begrudge him any of his success (even the game winning 7 bounce shot against Philly). But you cant just say 3x finals MVP's elevates him over others on their own.

voodoo

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

Ha, yeah I'm a bit excited about the season resuming. Even the reg season play-in will have plenty of juice. Eveyone should be rested, and we get to see Zion play again finally!

mariner4life

look, fuck Kawhi. He's weird and he left my team in the lurch and we have never recovered

I'm just chucking out arguments that upset LBJ stans (like yourself )

Bovidae

It is going to be an interesting post-season with no home court advantage, unless you believe the Magic will make a deep run. The best teams should rise to the top but no team has any momentum and even the Lakers, Clips and Bucks need to start again.

voodoo

@mariner4life Bah! I think I've said this before, but I don't love the guy, I just don't get the level of hate thrown at him (that's not pointed at you, I know you're just stirring), especially from our generation of fans. Guess its annoying having the young kids call him GOAT, but it doesn't make me dislike the guy, its hardly his fault. At the end of the day he is a bit of a douche and a try-hard, way too brand focused - but if that's the worst thing we can say about him, then he's going alright. He does so much awesome stuff for kids, seems like a happily married dude who gets off on seeing his kids be happy and succeed.

shark

@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:

yay!

Now to find a team that's left that i actually want to win

Get on board with the Suns. Duh.

The Silver Fern

NBA season 2019/20