CLE: Kevin Love torches Grizzlies for 32 & 12 Sat. PHO: Devin Booker scores 26 in 17th straight loss PHO: Tyler Johnson scores season-high 29 points GS: Draymond Green (ankle) will not return vs HOU LAK: Brandon Ingram leads Lakers with 29 points IND: Thad Young leads Pacers with 22 points in win BKN: Happy Birthday: D'Angelo Russell scores 40 CHA: Kemba Walker scores 32 points in loss NO: Jrue Holiday scores 27 with five threes WAS: Bradley Beal pours in 35 points vs. Pacers
Lol this was Hardin throwing a tantrum because they fouled him out last game, and it bit him right on his soft little ass
Angel Walker
Was it big and useless with a headband?
Nicholas Richardson
>Lakeshits exposed Check >Softbitch exposed Check >Memeiors exposed Not so fast. They obviously weren't trying with Soften out. Why give away their playbook?
Isaiah Gonzalez
Lebron was our best defender this game. That’s how trash we are on defense
Tonight I realized Cousins literally is an offensive liability. The hatters were right.
Ayden Ramirez
cousins is the carmelo anthony of centers. your team gets better when you remove him.
John Turner
woke up this morning with lonzorrhea, have no idea why
Connor Morris
>leak laker trade rumors to ruin team chemistry >allow cousins to go to the warriors to ruin their chemistry the pelicans are the biggest threat to /wl/
Isaac Russell
Part of the problem is he actually sucks at shooting. Part of it is he pissed off all the refs, so he never gets calls in the paint. But mostly it's just him sucking & missing point blank layups.
Julian Wood
I'm sure pels fans tell themselves that. But the Warriors don't suck. And my Lakeshits just have no roster to work with.
Noah Robinson
Would rather have Paul George than Lebron, flip Ingram and Ball for whatever. Build around PG, Kuz and a legit point guard
My lakeshits have no real shot at Kd this offseason )':
Elijah Sanders
luke's rotations are garbage. it's the key reason that our lakies' have had to struggle like this. he doesn't stagger our star play-makers and that feeds into his second issue in this area: he allows wonky ass combinations for huge periods of time. you'll see rondo, lance and tyson together for 10+ minutes. then we'll get kuz, ingram and lebron coming in together
muscala was supposed to fill the role that kuz was forced to fill tonight, being a stretch 5 who can survive vs. a strong center. but moe is given minutes over muscala. it's not like zu was the absolute worst defender in the world
>stagger lebron, kuz and ingram >no rondo+lebron >let rondo let the second unit >no lance+rondo >lance gets (1) shot to prove why he's in the game
Nobody cares about Lebron's career stats except the gayest of the queers at Espn
Xavier Rodriguez
More like all the good guys...
Lefag got fucked... The kangz got away from the lakers. The east pretenders (Sixers, Celtics) got exposed once again. Bucks kept the streak towards the championship.
Perfect day.
Juan Morris
Nice false flag LeShannon
Lakers suck dick
Nicholas Moore
WHAT THE FUCK /nba/!?!?!?!?!?
YOU TOLD ME JONAS VALANCIUNAS WAS A TRASH BUST
HE DROPPED 25/11 ON 11-19 TONIGHT
WHY DID YOU NIGGERS LIE TO ME?
Mason Collins
Basedadapolous
Christopher Morris
*joins the kings for the max next season in your path*
Kek freak accident and everything and it’s nice nobody is obtusely blaming the guy but I’m pretty sure neither him nor the family of that spic want him to get applause
kd joining the kings would unironically shatter the extremely plastic warriors fanbase...he would be the king of bay and lurry would be irrelevant again.
as if the lakeshits wouldnt do the same....actually the kings would win a game or two...anyway we need lebum not to make the playoffs so hes completely removed from the goat convo...
Jayden Stewart
any man who draws nba players as faggy superheros is no true man
Levi Hernandez
I mean the class move is moment of silence and build the wall. You don't fucking applaud the guy you monsters.
Aiden Taylor
you will get that thanks to the based thundie and then get based kd next year...
he likes to get on his knees and serve curry with his mouth
Logan Cruz
Yeah he should have definitely wasted his life playing with meme heroballers who will never win shit
Luis Howard
No shit it's a highlight video retarded boomer. Cherrypicking good plays, you weren't even born to see a 70s game
Cooper Nguyen
The Kings are gonna have to pay Harrison Barnes 25 million next season if he opts in. So there probably won't be room for a superstar max. maybe a guy like Vucevic instead.
John Perry
>that granny toss.
So wholesome.
Josiah Hernandez
>wholesome The tranny invasion brought this word here
No celebrating, no dancing in the middle of the game, no all star team up, no politics, no advertising film projects, no bail out corner threes from guys with no skill, no tweets being read in the middle of a play
Just 10 guys hooping
Christopher Sanders
>13 games, 26 teams playing today >every team except for 1 scores at least 109 points
SICK FUCKING LEAGUE GUYS I LOVE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH DEFENSE
Sebastian Baker
i mean idk how manys rings okc gets if kd stays but yeah they get one eventually and curry has a losing record in the finals...and yeah kd is massively hated but he just needs to win a ring outside of golden state inorder to be loved again...
The Kings should have barely enough room for a max contract since they have around $71 million in guaranteed contracts + Barnes' Player Option next season, but that also means they'll need to find vet min centers since Koufos and WCS's contracts expire this year
his rings with golden state only count 1/4 of a ring. He's only won 1/2 a ring.
Wyatt Clark
He won a ring every year he was gone because he joined a 73 win team with an MVP, all star 3 and D wing and DPOY. You’re suggesting it’s a given he’d win more on the team where he lost to the aforementioned team that he joined? There’s no merit to this argument which is why you’re doing a dumb greentext thing to misrepresent that user’s position.
wtf you guys told me hes an all star this nigga sucks
Brandon Jenkins
Honestly they should consider moving him while his price is high. That's 100.
Adrian Perry
so now that playoff mode has been activated and they lost to the pelicans, whats lefraud's next move
Jack Jackson
Are they really that bad?
>Imagine a team actually maxing Draymond
Would any team be desperate enough to do that?
Gavin Thomas
How do we fix the lakies bros
Gavin Fisher
jo mama sucks nigga dicks. don't you try to disrespect draymond again or larry and the /wl/ are coming after your ass
Jordan Davis
>“We had less teams in the league at that time and the teams were really stacked with superior talent,” said current Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who started his NBA career in 1967 and played till 1980, winning the 1973 championship with New York along the way. “The league was down in numbers and that just meant a lot of play between each team. You know, we played each team three times.”
>“We didn’t have quite as many teams, and players didn’t move around as much, so it made it a little easier for everybody to compete,” said Willis Reed, who provided one of the decade’s most memorable moments by inspiring the Knicks to a title in the 1970 NBA Finals when he came out for Game 7, started and scored two baskets despite a severe leg injury.
the pacers drafted a white dude named iverson in 2013
Adrian Turner
There's nothing wrong with being a ball hog
Andrew Sanchez
My Lakeshits losing winnable games is one thing, showing no effort on defense in a loss is another. The missed free throws and turnovers are the icing on the shit cake
Dylan Rivera
wait hold up so you're telling me LeBron is in zero dark mode and still lost to the Pelicans without AD and Jrue playing 20 minutes max?
is anyone else seeing this shit?
Ayden Taylor
obviously he needs more help
Anthony Nelson
If they can't win shit on the road every home game is a must win from now on... That Houston game they shouldn't have needed 3 quarters of play to wake the fuck up
Lincoln Wilson
explain how he doesnt without memes
Jacob Hughes
It’s not his fault, the Pelicans are too stacked and he got good stats
Agreed. Raptors should relocate to a US city so Kawhi doesn't have to deal with the shitty cold. Canadians should stick to watching hockey and cricket, or whatever dumb shit they like.
Ian Garcia
I unironically think the Celtics would be so much better without Kyrie, clutch shots are not worth sacrificing all team cohension and chemistry. Kyrie makes nice shots in tight games, games wouldn’t be that tight to begin with if Kyrie wasn’t there to blow defensive assignments and chuck shots
Chase Ross
You do know most East cities suffer through the same exact winter as Toronto and often sometimes worse, right? Learn geography dumbass.
Mason Walker
I was at 90's night for the best team in the NBA Milwaukee Bucks. Meanwhile Filthadelphia and the Celcucks pooped their pants.
He didn’t say anything about an east city did he stupid?
Ethan Sullivan
Why didn't you make some noise for Ja Rule?
Isaiah Morris
That's not the issue. The issue is the collection of talent they have is nowhere near good enough to win but is more than good enough to be overpaid. They need to dump a lot of role players ASAP.
Oliver Wilson
flyovers best attempt at 90's night was ja rule lmao
Dominic Gutierrez
Celtics should have dumped Tatum for Kawhi. Even if Ainge threw in Jaylen it would still be worth it. But generally teams would want Brown and Tatum, the Spurs did and they won't be the last
Thomas Powell
Shut the hell up retard. I eat shit like you for breakfast.
Lincoln Jenkins
He was worse than Lil Jon last year pre Superbowl in Minneapolis. It was brutal.
Asher Powell
>I think *team* would be better without their best, top 10 player
They need to dump Hayward and add a true star and they could compete. Think they have enough trade capital to make a move, but don’t think that they will.
LOL whatever helps you sleep at night igloo dweller
James Davis
Kyrie isn’t top ten
Samuel Lewis
> dump the worst contract in the league Lul
Everyday that goes by is a day the league realize that the Celtics young core just isn't that great.
Xavier Campbell
Any team would take Tatum especially on his rookie contract
Lincoln James
No way it’s worse than John Wall or Chris Paul’s deals. Celtics have a wealth of first round picks going forward and could easily provide a tanking team with their own war chest and young prospects for what amounts to salary relief.
Time and time again amateur pundits have been proven wrong in that their is truly no unmoveable contracts.
Tatum is a worse version of Brandon Ingram. They score similar points on similar true shooting percentages except Tatum is assisted on twice the rate. Tatum is gifted field goal makes and he still can't pull away. No one is making Brandon Ingram out to be some stud trade asset. Because he isn't. And Tatum, the worst player, isn't either.
Interesting that he's the only Celtic that you decided to defend though. It's almost like you know the whole roster is ass and they better sell high while people still think they're worth anything.
Josiah Parker
Only vaguely. Really vaguely. I can't remember if that was when his career died in Brooklyn or when the Celtics tormented the Hawks in the playoffs with Iso Joe and Josh Smith
James Martin
Uhh I am a huge Lebron fan but PG3 KD Curry Giannis Harden Are all playing considerably better than he is
Landon Morales
What volume of threes do Ingram and Tatum take and make? Ingram is also a younger player with more years on his rookie scale deal >Tatum, the worst player The number two on the better team?
John Peterson
>Brandon Ingram
Leo Rogers
*Tatum the younger player with more cost controlled years
Jeremiah Jones
>Lonzo Wot?
Samuel Harris
it was the summer of 2010 with lebron, d-wade, and bosh
You what faggot? He was the only one playing well and he kept them in the game.
Brandon Allen
> muh 3s You retard, true shooting percentage takes muh 3s into account. The fact they score similar numbers on similar true shooting percentages while one being assisted twice as often as the other makes the latter a better offensive player. This is not hard to understand. > team success Useless
Isaac Sanchez
Yeah just dropped 29 shooting over 50% from the field, nigga is trash
Volume of threes is totally relevant in a three point league, if you’re building your team around a player you probably want one that can shoot and is a willing shooter. Ingram has taken less threes per contest (think he’s at one a game now) and does so on mediocre efficiency
That’s the difference between a player that can play within an offense and one that needs to create offense for himself off the dribble. You want assisted field goals, what NBA have you been watching the last decade?
>team success is irrelevant Not if you’re the second best player on your team. Brandon Ingram stars alongside Lebron James and has not secured a playoff spot late into the season. The Celtics have an .800 record or so with no Kyrie Irving, they’re the better team because Tatum accounts for a better sidekick and better prospect. Tatum was the leading scorer on an ECF team, when Brandon Ingram was the leading scorer and team captain they gave Philly the #10 pick
Ryan Bailey
Volume of threes is totally relevant in a three point league, if you’re building your team around a player you probably want one that can shoot and is a willing shooter. Ingram has taken less threes per contest (think he’s at one a game now) and does so on mediocre efficiency
That’s the difference between a player that can play within an offense and one that needs to create offense for himself off the dribble. You want assisted field goals, what NBA have you been watching the last decade?
>team success is irrelevant Not if you’re the second best player on your team. Brandon Ingram stars alongside Lebron James and has not secured a playoff spot late into the season. The Celtics have an .800 record or so with no Kyrie Irving, they’re the better team because Tatum accounts for a better sidekick and better prospect. Tatum was the leading scorer on an ECF team, when Brandon Ingram was the leading scorer and team captain they gave Philly the #10 pick
Juan Hughes
Sure do
Luke Garcia
Fucking Lebron James moving to LA so he can work on filiming Space Jam while he part-times it in the NBA what the fuck is this shit
I love the dude but he was the only hope for stopping the Kevin Durant era Meme Chuckers
Jonathan Turner
I remember when baseball was the highest paying league by salary at least
Colton Ortiz
Was. But now new challengers emerged
Ayden Cruz
The only person who can stop the Warriors is KD, who are you fooling if you think some combination of Lebron and other players could beat these Warriors unless one of those other players on Lebron’s team was a star directly departing from the Warriors?
Tyler Harris
Just wait till Zo is back
Jacob Collins
Since when is dropping 20 something to be proud of for an mvp caliber player?
Brody Fisher
Time to bust out the kyrie green with the matching air forces
Lebron and Kawhi playing together for San Antonio, or Lebron and Westbrook for OKC would have been exciting as hell.
AD moving to LA before the trade deadline would've been pretty cool too.
Obviously Lebron alone can't beat the Warriors... he proved that last year. But there are plenty of teams with great players he could have gone to in order to create a rivalry.
It will be interesting to hear what he was thinking going to LA. I wonder if he doesn't really care about beating the Warriors or if he thought he would draw talent to the Lakers.
Surely the Lakers can at best scrape 8th and then get destroyed by the Meme Chuckers so why even bother. Sit LeGroinStrain and tank the rest of the season. Hope for a decent draft pick and work out what moves they're going to make in the off season.
>yfw can't play one of these bad boys on the regular and even 9th seed in your conference is competent Hawks and season = 2004 13-69 -9.71 Hornets and season = 2004 18-64 -5.99 Knicks and season = 2005 23-59 -6.40 Heat and season = 2007 15-67 -8.68 Knicks and season = 2007 23-59 -6.61 Wizards and season = 2008 19-63 -7.46 Nets and season = 2009 12-70 -9.12 Raptors and season = 2010 22-60 -6.28 Wizards and season = 2010 23-59 -7.40 Cavaliers and season = 2010 19-63 -9.01 Hornets and season = 2011 7-59 -13.91 Magic and season = 2012 20-62 -6.99 Hornets and season = 2012 21-61 -9.23 Bucks and season = 2013 15-67 -8.18 Seventysixers and season = 2013 19-63 -10.45 Magic and season = 2013 23-59 -5.44 >AT DA END OF DA DAY, MANY PEOPLES WERE NOT EDUCATED THAT MIKE AND WILT PLAYED AGAINST SHORT WYPIPO WITH DAYJOBS LeSteroid is worse than T-Mac.
Terry Rozier. Openly jealous of Kyrie, forces terrible shots the likes of which cost the Celtics Game 7 at home last year with his spectacular 0-10 performance in a game where the Celtics were lucky to score 79 points
Mix made it to the NBA Finals four times overall, three times with the 76ers (1977, 1980, 1982), but never won an NBA title. In 1983, when the 76ers did win the NBA title, Mix was a bench player for the Los Angeles Lakers, who were swept by the 76ers.
Blake Gray
For some reason, I’m getting this strange feeling that the Mavs are gonna jump in to the top 5 in the lottery and get to keep their pick. They would be a relatively unsuspicious team for Silver to rig it for since they never once in their history moved up in the lottery.
Jace Collins
What’s the difference between the Lakers and a flaming pile of garbage? The flaming pile of garbage smells better.
Adam Bailey
not even meming here, NBA is looking like shit
Jackson Barnes
True, you should watch based FIBA
Andrew Robinson
The Pelicans are literally better without AD. I am surprised there isn’t more free agency hype for Randle. Dude is a 24 year old soon-to-be UFA putting up 20/9/3 on good shooting efficiency. That is pretty much a max contract player in almost any other year.
Nicholas Martin
I'm not saying Randle isn't decent, but are you retarded?
Daniel Moore
Nothing meming about that opinion. Real basketball doesn’t actually start in the NBA until the playoffs. Players just cruise control on defense during the regular season.
Sebastian Rodriguez
i think it should mean more when teams play better without their token superstar. cf. davis, irving.
Logan Kelly
>Ingram 43% usage rate last night >only played 25 minutes
Nathan Hughes
The Pelicans have won like 5 games without AD since 2017
Charles Peterson
They need to fire Luke Walton now, this guy is a retard.
William Gray
I’m not saying he’s actually worth a max, but that is what a player at that age with those numbers would get in a lot of years. Look at 2020’s horrible free agency pool and tell me he wouldn’t get a max that year. The best free agents that year are:
>1. Anthony Davis >2. Draymond Green >3. Harrison Barnes or Buddy Hield (RFA) maybe?
And when you consider Green is almost surely just gonna re-sign with GS, Randle is pretty much the 2nd most attractive FA after AD. He’d get maxed.
Parker Turner
well, that's the point really. they win more, but do they "win" win? as in, does it make the whole group better as a group when they are on the floor? i mean, at the end of the time it's just my personal preference, but i enjoy watching teams play more coherently and cohesively.
Henry Long
Kyle Kuzma is a center in today’s game
John Miller
Except that isn’t true of actual legit superstars (Lakers worse without LeBron, Warriors are worse without Curry, Bucks are worse without Giannis, Rockets are worse without Harden).
Kyrie and AD are just fraud superstars. Kyrie couldn’t even take the Cavs to the playoffs once before LeBron cane back, but LeBron still took a Kyrie-less Cavs team to the Finals.
Tyler Reyes
He plays 15% of his minutes at center this year, 1% at SF
Yes, they do? What kind of question is this? They play better and as a result they win more. He misses a lot of time and they went a whole calendar year without winning while AD was out
Juan Anderson
>That 30 year old boomer who set his alarm to 1:30 a.m. so he can post fossilized pictures on a Cambodian Painting support forum
i'm not debating that at all. in fact, i agree. it's why i think it should matter how the superstars actually impact their teams, and not just in the total wins/losses column.
>Sergey Karasev Lol at the Cavs for drafting this guy at all no less the 1st round
Tyler Davis
When was the last time the kings made the playoffs?
Asher Clark
>three point league It's not a 3 point league. Stop watching ESPN. The Warriors score more points in the paint than anyone.
Also Tatum is not the second best player on his team. That's Al Horford. Again, I don't think you actually watch basketball.
The second best player on the team cannot be a player who doesn't initiate any all fence, does not play defense, and scores on average efficiency given his assisted shop selection rate.
Please start watching games.
Parker Hernandez
Still though, any real superstar should at least be able to at least carry a team to the playoffs in the horrible East. Kyrie can be a good #2 or #3 guy, but he is not a real “can carry an entire team on his back” superstar.
Jacob Lopez
Kyrie was 23 when Lebron returned to Cleveland, I don’t think he’s one of the best players in the league or in history but I think it’s plausible if he got league average talent around him they’d have made the playoffs without Bron. Can’t judge an entire player’s capabilities off of how far they take a bad roster at 19-22
Elijah Wood
It's important that they make the playoffs said that they can inflate the value of their doo doo platter of assets. Neither the Celtics nor the Lakers have a young core like the 76ers / Bucks - a core gesturing two bonafide stars, 1 being a legit superstar. The last thing either of the lakers or the Celtics want to do is roll into 2020 with the same roster except now it actually costs money.
The easiest way to dump your assets is to have them play well in ONE playoff series and sell them while they're hot. The problem is no one's really taking the bait.
> you now remember Terry Rozier > you now remember the Boston-friendly media saying he's top 10 guard in the league
John Ramirez
The Bucks don’t have a young core
Joseph Reyes
No, they refused to trade Tatum or Brown. Stop being a misinformed retard.
Blake Roberts
these...kings dynasty so so soon.
Asher Rodriguez
Been getting hard cyst all over my body since I swallowed two pill bottles
Charles Butler
The distinguishing trait of a genuine superstar imo is that you can actually build your entire team around them and expect to compete. They are the players which possess some wildly unique skills and strengths that you simply cannot find with anyone else.
To that point, what exactly do AD and Kyrie have in their game that no other player can replicate? They are the very epitome of a generic C and SG, albeit above average ones, but when you talk about actual greats you talk about the shit that they could do that no other player could ever do better like Kareem’s skyhook, or Dirk’s unguardable one legged fade-away. If a player does not possess some GOAT quirk, they are not a superstar.
Colton Collins
Nobody can handle the ball like Kyrie
John Edwards
KD will end his career with 6 rings...Curry will end his career with 4...
That makes for a great globetrotter, but not so much for a great NBA player.
Xavier Hill
AD fuckin ugly, does that count?
Caleb Brooks
my dick a superstar. she can single handedly carry my gf
Adam Jones
if not for kd joining the warriors curry would have 1 rings and potentially 3 final loses....I don't feel like this gets highlighted enough...
Camden Brooks
The crazy thing about Anthony Davis is that early in his career he actually was a pretty unique player. He was a big man who can handle the ball like a PG, but he just kind of slowly evolved in to a cookie cutter big.
Juan Cruz
>if
Kayden Wood
How?
Anthony Perry
Is there any team the Lakers WON’T lose to? What an embarrassing organization. If I were a spic fan I’d never post on /nba/ again after the absolute humiliation the Lakers have experienced at every turn
Nicholas Perez
AD has progressively gotten less ugly over time desu. You might be on to something though, like said, he’s inversely gotten worse at basketball at the same time he’s grown more handsome, so maybe ugliness is the source of his power.
Jaxson King
Last 2 digits is how many games the lakers win next season. We back baby
Cameron Sanchez
my lakeshits :)
Hudson Wood
Last 2 digits is how many games the raptors win next season after kawhi leaves
Hudson Parker
Pathetic seething spics Lakers ain’t making the playoffs if they can’t even pick up an easy W against the Pelicants less Davis Go Kings!
Owen Cook
How certain do you guys feel that KD leaves the Warriors after getting ring 3?
Jackson King
What are some teams that swear they’re not tanking but are obviously tanking?
For me it’s the Mavs.
Christian Butler
They're not winning this year
Asher Lopez
He’s either staying or going to the Knicks. Too much smoke there
Gavin Morales
Lauri>memezingis
Isaac Walker
I'm thinking he stays on the West Coast...Suns, Kings, Clippers, etc.
Kayden Torres
If Drayboon goes to the Lakers then I’d bet KD stays at least one more year. Otherwise he’s Clippers-bound to continue the endless humiliation of the lose angeles lelkers
Isaiah Hall
Maybe? Kings and Thunder are the only teams that can possibly challenge them from either conference...The WCF will be the real finals anyway...The Warriors will destroy whoever they meet up with in the Finals.
Jace Richardson
I can't wait for this meme to die
Caleb Cook
What a joke, I like the Thunder but come on now, after the Warriors the next best 3 teams are in the East and it’s not close
Adrian Anderson
That and the Kings are a meme
Jack Davis
I would be down for that. We all know KD has a deep-seated hatred for Drayboon so he'd like to destroy him on the court for an entire season with his old team...KD to the Clippers seems really likely given KDs relationship with Jerry West but KD to Kings seems possible with the way KD keeps bigging up the young team...Should be an interesting offseason...
Justin Anderson
Rachel Nichols is ugly af.
Zachary Baker
A hypothetically healthy KP > Lauri > KP with the normal expectation that he’ll run out of gas 20 games in to the season and get injured a bunch
Lauri is good, but KP can straight up flash some superstar potential when he’s at the top of his game.
Owen Peterson
Do you really expect the 76ers/Bucks/Raptors/Celtics to win more than 1 game against the Warriors?
Sebastian Mitchell
Celcucks and Philly are a joke, how are they still behind the Pacers and their hard schedule
John Campbell
Is there any scenario where the Warriors move on from Curry and make KD THE guy going foward? Frankly I think KD is a better face of the franchise and the better player to build a team around...This would be the best timeline.
Nah, although I agree kd is the overall better player Curry is the face of that franchise and probably will retire as a warrior.
Jackson Rogers
Do you think Lelbron regrets going to LA yet?
Michael Walker
No because la is the best city in the world
Gavin Parker
Slip into a coma
Jose Nelson
Obviously
John Brown
>I like the Thunder but come on now, after the Warriors the next best 3 teams are in the East and it’s not close
I’m amazed that you are so confident about something that is just flat out wrong. The Thunder are the only team that I can possibly envision giving the Warriors a tough out in the playoffs. They have a veteran chemistry established team with a really nagging down-and-dirty playstyle that tends to show up well in playoff games.
Leo Evans
No. He didn't go there to win. He went there to raise his star status for (((hollywood)))
Aaron Ramirez
Space Jam 2 >Lebron trades everyone except kd on his team and both end up leaving to join the monstars They’re taking their talents to outer space
Ryder Mitchell
Lebron talking mad shit about Kuzma in the post game
Aiden Moore
I like KD because hes basically an incel with talent and money.
Aaron Ward
I say him leaving is at ten percent
Connor Fisher
Swap LeBum with KD and the Lakers are top 5 in the West....If Magic had half a brain he'd trade LeBum this offseason for AD and throw Kawhi and KD offers they can't refuse...
Enjoy losing KAT like KG you're literally the most pathetic franchise in NBA history
Easton Allen
Zubac, KD, Kyrie, and Kawhi...Clippers gonna be real scary next year...We back Clps4lyfe...
James Bennett
I didn't, fuckwad. I was the guy who said he'd be Pau Gasol with more minutes and possessions but DeRozan and Lowry and Casey didn't want a European to be part of a hypothetical Raptors Big 3. It was apparent that Casey was sabotaging his career by restricting him to 25 minutes and below on average and not drawing up plays for him despite his MUCH more efficient conversion rate.
Hunter Ortiz
I don't want to admit that you're right because of the overtones of implication present, but when you're right, you're right.
Nathan Gonzalez
On Court NetRtg Since LeBron “Activated”
Young Core Hart: +7.6 Ingram: +3.5 Kuzma: +3.1 Wagner: 0.0
Uhh imagine if Leshit and Kyrie just stayed in Cleveland and traded Love for someone like Beal or Mccollum they would be winning a bunch of games...
Ayden Gray
>Playing with the lottery simulator >Cavs keep getting the #1 pick
Silver needs to officially step in and put and end to this bullshit
Bentley Turner
The odds are even for the 3 worst teams stop being a huge fucking retard for 1 second of your life
Luke White
forget it. /pol/ has bed an entire generation of internet denizens like that kid. basically conditioned rats in skinner cages.
Robert Gray
>draymond green on the verge with signing with klutch sports lmao its actually happening
Austin Rodriguez
Imagine listening to Ja Rule. Cant wait until 50cent tears his asshole
Easton Moore
take your gay fan fiction elsewhere
Isaiah Bennett
*carries the lurry to his fourth ring in your path* why is kd so giving bros... i guess kd will have to carry the warriors even more next year...no biggie for the goat.
>Fake (weak ass empty stats) stars: >1. Lillard Give us a definition of "weak ass empty stats" because I'm pretty sure you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about
Andrew Russell
will curry commit suicide if kd wins finals mvp again? we all know hes getting it again...
Isaiah Foster
enjoy getting spanked by based kd again in the playoffs...
Kayden Thompson
witnessed based kd doesn't looks like a sandwich anymore
no because at this point even Stephanie knows he disappears more and more as the post season moves on so he has already come to the conclusion that he's not capable of actually winning the award.
Kuzma is a selfish chucker he's not admirable at all.
Carson Russell
Considering the fact that he’s on a team filled with unbelievably awful shooters, him chucking is often the most efficient means of scoring
Benjamin Sanders
He’s an offensive and defensive liability. He misses easy layups and he seriously needs to stop taking 3s. Either he stops or draymond stops, they can’t have two shitty shooters chucking it up. Defensively, his lateral quickness is shit but you still need to consider his injury. Teams are abusing him and it will get worse come playoff time. Only thing I see he’s good for is his wide screens and rebounding, but it’s not that amazing.
Asher Brooks
if kd becomes a 3 time finals mvp with a 3-1 record that puts him right at the number 3 spot in the goat list behind kobe and jordan any extra rings makes him the goat...bye bye lebitch...
I think people seem to forget that Kuzma was taken 27th in the draft. He has by every standard overachieved expectations unlike Lonzo and Ingram. He’s at worst a decent role player and can occasionally give you nights where he outright carries the bulk of the scoring.
William Wilson
I want the Nuggets to get the first seed but the Lakers to miss the playoffs Who do I root for today
>that massive gap from Harden to everyone else who're all around 7 seconds
Jesus fucking Christ he's literal cancer
Ayden Phillips
proof me not right
Luis Clark
So the lelkers are basically guaranteed to miss the playoffs now, right?
Juan Rogers
This isn't a good thing. It shows the bulls haven't had two good offensive players on the same team in decades
Joshua Torres
damn whites really taking over the league
bulls mavs finals in 3 years lesss goooooo
Ryder Edwards
When they had a 7% chance going into all star break you didn't think that was enough guarantee?
Lucas Smith
He should've stayed with the Cavs they could have cruised to the finals every single year and probably went back and fourth with rings against the Warriors
Ryder Reed
Kyrie doesn’t attract talent around him because he’s straight up not talented enough to be worthy of attracting ring chasing oribitors. He’s basically a supercharged 6th man type player who can provide you brief periods where he completely carries the scoring load, but he’s neither consistent enough nor a good enough leader to anchor a team as “THE guy” for any permanent length of time.
Brandon Parker
Bro Cavs were finished their entire cap is all kinds of fucked up due to LeGM
Sebastian Collins
GOD DAMNIT!
Lucas Taylor
What proof do you have for this? What he's done with the Celitcs has shown him to be a great leader and the clear best player yet everyone has regressed from last year so you think this is hiw fault?
Isaac Harris
I don’t get why Boston didn’t try to trade Kyrie at the deadline. You know as of right now Boston is a step behind Milwaukee and Toronto, and Kyrie is leaving in the summer. If they know they could get AD as long as Kyrie is involved in the deal, why didn’t they pull the trigger?
Kevin Scott
Oh who gives a freak. My lakeshits have no shot at the playoffs, and no shot to land Kd. Freak basketball.
Eli Cook
Laugh while you still can, Pelsfags. Soon my Lakies are going to squeeze into the playoffs and Playoff LeBron is going to shock the world, while you'll be begging on the streets of that shithole you call a city for someone to buy your mediocre "superstar." This changes nothing.
>If they know they could get AD as long as Kyrie is involved in the deal I don't think this was ever an option. No way Kyrie would commit to resigning with the Pels.
Jordan Walker
The fact that the Celtics don’t seem to perform any worse, and arguably perform even better actually, when he’s out. When he plays, he is treated as the primary engine through which the Celtics run their offense, but they live or die on his streaky performances. When he’s out, the team doesn’t reach the highs that are possible when Kyrie is having a great night, but they are overall more consistent, more team play oriented, and less prone to losing to teams they should beat.
Logan Long
If I'm the Warriors I just eat the tax and sign Kd and Klay forever. You can drop Draymond's shit contract after next season. Keep Andre too, and just fill out your roster with minimums looking to win rings. That will keep you going another three years at least.
Carter Rivera
>The fact that the Celtics don’t seem to perform any worse, and arguably perform even better actually, when he’s out. When he plays, he is treated as the primary engine through which the Celtics run their offense, but they live or die on his streaky performances This is true for every great player on a team. That's what the NBA has been about since forever. This is true for Steph Curry, it's true for LeBron, it's true for PG, WB, etc. Because they're the most consistent players on a team.
Celtics have been awful when Kyrie is out especially Rozier
Aaron Martin
This is obviously what they're trying to do barring an injury to their big three.
Joseph Diaz
Don't worry bros I've run intense simulations and we'll finish 17-6, making us 46-36 which should be good enough for a playoff spot.
Key cog an a good Utah state team. Probably will stay for another year or 2. Promising prospect, but haven't watched any games to say how he will fare in the NBA.
David Scott
Because Magic is a fucking retard who expects players to be all stars in their second years while dealing with the dysfunction their organization causes.
Jayden Murphy
Because they hired people to run their team that've never been in NBA executive roles and have no prior experience building teams
Draymond just switched agents to Rich Paul. They're saying he gets traded to the Lakers :O
Connor Evans
Why do players think Rich Paul is a good agent?
Charles Clark
LeBron is a bitch and the Lakers suck dick
Grayson Jenkins
LeBron's anti ownership mafia posse is very attractive to braindead apes with no business experience and have only known basketball since there were 12 years old
Jonathan Gray
I'm sorry but there's no way LeBron misses the playoffs.
David Gray
>lost by 13 to the Davis-less Pelicans stay in denial lakeshitter
Jose Garcia
but they proved everyone wrong
Logan Hernandez
You tell em! We don't need arguments! We just mindlessly swallow LeShit's cum and call him God!
He is going to singlehandedly destroy the Lakers along with Magic and Rob Pelinka, and it will be spectacular.
Leo Edwards
FREE AGENTS BABY
John Diaz
Yeah, wrong about Harden carrying them and right about him being the cancer.
Jose Bell
>newfags bite on terrible trolls
Jordan Collins
It was obvious as soon as he moved to the West
Levi Martin
The Lakers ownership is honestly shit. They have skated on reputation for way too long.
Dominic Adams
Checked
Brody Long
Thanks bro. I'll refer to him as the Portuguese Freak from now on.
We never had a player in the NBA. Queta is going to be it. It has to be it
Jordan Baker
He's in the West now, the competition is heavier, and the rest of his team is not good.
Have you checked the standings lately?
Jordan Perez
Their ownership has no business experience, are spoiled kids that got handed a billion dollar franchise, older brother ran a circus for years until the young sister with the least experience had to attempt a hostile take over, then handed the keys to a former star player with no NBA executive experience to run the franchise while she sits back and watches
It's a fucking shit show
Noah Nguyen
Don't forget the actual GM Rob Pelinka was Kobe's agent as well, which basically double downs on the nepotism along with Luke Walton being a former Laker
Hudson Cook
Yeah it's grim, teams in the East are making the playoffs with records that would have em 12th in the West
Josiah Garcia
Which fanbase is more delusional, Lakers or sixers fans?
Nathan Bell
Seriously, Sneedshot this post. The Lakers will be in the playoffs. They may even get as high as 6th.
It's the reason Lebron was hiding in the East and it's the reason he's fucked now (unless his goal was just to live near Hollywood execs for his post-basketball career, in which case, success!)
Thomas Wood
My rapties are on in an hour!
Luis Gutierrez
Celshits who continue to support Danny Ainge and his genius 7 year rebuild
Fuck Danny Ainge is SO FUCKING SMART holy shit bros he's just owning the fucking league with his deals FUUUUUUUUCK
Of all the huge embarrassing failures of Laker ownership, I put hiring Luke Walton in the top spot. At least Magic brought in Lebron. Luke Walton might have been the single worst hire in modern NBA history.
Samuel Butler
Feel like last year was LeBron's last stand, he gave his all to get those Cavs to the finals, now, he's got nothing left
Sebastian Murphy
>My Your "country" needs a second team
Jordan Bailey
my lakeys are only 2 games behind. we got this
Owen Edwards
More like the East is complete utter shit, and now he's in an actual good conference.
Julian Thomas
JR Smith fucking retired LeBron, shit sucks man. That's what he gets for trusting him bum ass friends so much I guess
Adrian Bennett
Except several hundred million dollars.
Ian Morris
after goldenstate the next 3 best teams are in the east lmao
