It's the 26-27 NBA Regular Season & Every Team is Trying(?)

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we ball

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lvoe that they put norm and his crazy bowed legs in the middle
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I'm watching Sixers-Knicks at my buddy's tonight (Knick fan) with some other Knicks fans and I'm making cheesesteaks.

Hell yeah

My other good opening day hoops deed was giving my direct report the afternoon off when his brother got last minute tickets to the DET-BOS game.

positive hoops karma

wow the hoops gods will be shining their light on you this season. the sixers will win the nba playoffs

in other news... we are so back baby

omg we got scal on the game welcome to celtics life everyone

hoops is happening

i forgot john collins was on the pistons

hoosp

some very early season basketball here

preseason extended

celtics not using tatum much as an initiator trying more to get him the ball in flow prob a good idea

im enjoying the celtics (paul george) as a team that gets steals

pg is levitating

none of the pistons main guys being able to shoot is just a problem for them

i forgot john collins was on the pistons

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 20, 2026 3:10 PM (one hour ago)

their offseason was very uninspiring

yeah they still need a #2

defense still good tho

tatum missing a bunch of bunnies

I see PG has 31/3/3 in 21 minutes. It's all going according to plan, lol.

and four steals

tatum is bad

i wonder if you combined regular season and playoffs whether duncan robinson has made more threes against the celtics than any other player since he came into the league

c'a looking so... familiar

c's

hmm my internet went out and things do not seem to have gone well for the celtics

ok ok here we go

or not

damn what happened at the end they were up when I had to leave

tatum 6/23 fg

idk my internet went out

celtics' internet basically went out too

good show everyone. time to tune out until xmas

hoops is back hooray

v weird to see these dudes in philly unis

has nick nurse always rocked a gold chain with a black sweater combo?

its new

immediately rushed to wikipedia to see if he was going through a divorce (projecting) but then i discovered this??

In 2022, after completing his dissertation and comprehensive exam, Nurse graduated from Concordia University Chicago with a Ph.D. in Sports Leadership.

AND

Filmography
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2022 Murdoch Mysteries Locker room attendant Episode: "It's a Wonderful Game"
2023 Pretty Hard Cases Officer Nick

both cbc shows obv

how did i miss that hes literally dr nick now

dr. nurse!

KAT with 3 fouls and 1 shot attempt in 6 mins of play. welcome back GOAT

possible he spent his good behavior reserves last season

I wasn't too obnoxious with the Knicks fans. Fun game that was fairly close all the way through. I was surprised how good their D was in the second half. Simmons and KCP were great off the bench in the third when the Sixers flipped the game. I wanted to murder Embiid when he chucked that 3 up in the last minute. It's going to be a fun season if they can stay reasonably healthy.

can’t believe the spurs actually used this goofy ass starting lineup

its a bad idea, i dont think mitch is a very good coach. he doesnt have to be great bc theres so much talent, but that feels more like ego management than legitimate strategy. it just makes more sense to have jules and devo on the wings as shooting outlets with two ball-handlers and wemby.

ive seen enough, fire mitch

unfortunately for them fox is quite literally undemotable, the guys who gave him the contract are never going to order him removed from the starting line up one year into the deal. he has the best job security on the team outside of wemby, so how long is harper supposed to stay a sixth man? is he just okc james harden now? they don’t have any good answers as long as fox is on the team

early returns indicating shai is still good at basketball

the fox trade (and ensuing extension) seemed like a no-brainer until the 2025 lottery. i thought the fox-to-harper transition would be smoother but harper just was so good so early and fox has underwhelmed. fox had no time to really assert himself as any sort of leader, reeks of mercenary at this point. they all seem to get along and as long as they win and go deep in the playoffs there wont be any obvious enmity. idk its not the worst problem in the world, oh nooooo we have too many dynamic guards wahhhhh, its just not the most ideal roster given the amount of money tied up with fox.

Games heating up

Mara the Wendy slayer

Mara will become a nice piece for OKC. Presti is the best GM in the league.

harper is a beast

Still can’t believe the McCain trade. the 76ers should face penalties for their crimes

unfortunately for them fox is quite literally undemotable, the guys who gave him the contract are never going to order him removed from the starting line up one year into the deal. he has the best job security on the team outside of wemby, so how long is harper supposed to stay a sixth man? is he just okc james harden now? they don’t have any good answers as long as fox is on the team

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, October 20, 2026 8:16 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the guys who signed him to the deal need to understand the team is ahead of schedule and try to trade him, even if it’s a small L

I’ve also seen others say playing the three guard lineup is the smart play so that when it predictably sucks, it will force someone to make a change

wemby was 1/13 sheesh

@ShamsCharania

Golden State has started exploring trade routes for Kristaps Porzingis, who is now seriously contemplating his future in basketball as he deals with recurring symptoms from the autoimmune condition termed as POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), sources tell ESPN.

kicking off the year in style

Dalton Johnson
@DaltonJ_Johnson

Charles Bassey (right knee) is also now OUT for the Warriors tonight
@NBCSWarriors

Center rotation will be a mix of Draymond, Al Horford, Yaxel Lendeborg and Graham Ike

The Warriors only have 10 healthy players from their 15-man roster available for the season opener

sigh

This is feeling more and more like the season when Curry and Klay and KD were injured and Nico Mannion was a featured player

Oh damn was he the redhead?

Is next year's draft going to be good?

don't think theres any big hyped guy for next draft

OKC has a top 5 pick in mock drafts, I guess depending on how the Clippers do. It's a little obscene.

forgot about nico mannion he was a big deal in high school, too small for the pros tho

plays in italy now according to wikipedia

he got some kinda like crohns type of thing too after his rookie year and lost a bunch of strenghth and that was the end for him as an nba player.

seems to be doing well in european leagues, pretty cool theres still a path to good money for these players that dont make it in the nba

Giannis in a heat uniform looks so weird

why is bobby portis addressing the fans

he's got a very exciting time share opportunity to tell the crowd about

i was accidentally watching some alt feed that was just a bad camera angle and no announcers for a min that was weird "espn unlimited" whatever that is

watching wizards on league pass and i love john walls voice, top tier broadcast voice.

did not know he was their guy now

wolves gonna easily lead the league in made-shot cellies

Ball movement

turning randle into lamelo is about as huge a ball movement contrast as is possible in the nba

theyre doing an interview with rudy gobert during the game hes wearing a headset on the bench whos idea was this

what is going on with the nets court lmao

bic'd suggs looks 5 years younger. kudos

kuminga passes up a corner three for posting giannis up and a shot clock violation

incredible uncalled lamelo travel, tv guys losing their minds

here it is lol https://bsky.app/profile/hoopinformatics.com/post/3mygft6oxj223

ffs

6 steps before the gather lol

didn’t realize giannis changed his number

here it is lol https://bsky.app/profile/hoopinformatics.com/post/3mygft6oxj223

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 21, 2026 5:32 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

amazing

non giannis minutes looking pretty rough

giannis airball ft

jalen suggs embraced being bald

I don't want to slight Heat culture and they could somehow figure it out but Bam and Giannis never made any sense to me from a spacing standpoint.

good night for the Wolves!

Chicago down nearly 50, Utah down 20, Miami down 30, Dallas down 30, we back baby

6:25 I to the first period and the Suns have yet to score

I interviewed a guy today to join our department and he was a genuinely great guy with an amazing CV, but he was a big wolves fan :(

so I'm not getting the job?

Welcome back Tyrese Haliburton - Pacers 1-0.

Suns down 8-38

Luka seems to love Kessler

so I'm not getting the job?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 21, 2026 7:33 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha. he was too qualified and down to earth to even consider letting my wolves beef intervene

didn’t watch the rockets game but interesting to me that reid sheppard only got 15 mins

Refs doing Yaxel dirty

wow Luka

yaxel getting into it with luka in his first game in the league maybe not that wise

luka invites that kind of enmity

Draymond looks drunk out there. it’s ugly

just watched the ty jerome highlights he was hitting some crazy shots, poor darryn peterson lol

one of the crazier career archs i can think of

yeah he mightve just been good all along but couldnt find the floor due to injuries and no believing in him cause hes so unathletic

the lamelo travel last night was one of the funniest things i've seen live in an NBA game in a while, you never hear mike breen that incredulous and negative on air. the slow mo replays where you think he's finally done gathering and then he takes like 4 more steps before shooting all as the ref standing 4 feet away thunderously shoots his arms up in the air to signal a made three, you couldn't have scripted it any better, and no other player could have starred in such a spectacle

lmao

i'm interested to see how public opinion on the wolves waxes and wanes over the span of the season. it feels like all the convos people have had about boston over the last 5 years are just going to be ported over to the wolves. there isn't any lead ballhandling duo in the league who can match ant & lamelo going pull up 3 for pull up 3 and on any night where those two guys shoot i.e. 14-30 from three they're going to be extremely difficult to beat just from a math perspective. you could feel the heat hitting a wall last night where just from a point of conception they could not keep up w/ how the wolves are built & i'm not sure there are any other teams in the league right now that has their offense programmed to operate in that fashion from a pull up 3 perspective. but they're going to run into a bunch of other games, including in the playoffs, where those two shoot 6-30 from three and lose and everyone starts questioning the wisdom of this kind of offense. last night was a fun honeymoon ride & there will be other games like that, but this style of play tends to drive people mad, and that's even before you get to the lamelo of it all

they should just not take pull up threes problem solved

def agree its gonna be a wild ride. they do seem to have good enough pieces on the defensive side to be a ~~serious team~~ but a lot of unproven dudes with questionable traits. getting white donte back at some point this year will be a boost im sure... altho he could be cooked, he'll be 30 soon and has not been known as someone to gain footing quickly coming back from injuries.

ill def be tuning into this team as often as possible

acuff was 5/24 fg lol

get those shots up rook

the kings franchise moving heaven and earth to put darius acuff in a position to shoot 5/24 every game this season... that's knowing your role

I believe Wolves have an open roster spot right now, I'm thinking another minimum contract big will be added at some point

I do also think the matchup dictated the threes to a large degree, obviously Giannis and Bam are a pretty formidable front court, the threes felt like they were largely quality shots and happening in a good flow of the game

Sixers down by 24 in the first half.

They were down by as many as 29, now up by 5.

do the cavs know another season has started and they can save their total collapses for the next playoffs?

lol, this team is fun.

unfortunately i must agree

nuggets rookie trayvon brazile had a lot of hype from preseason that I was cautiously optimistic about, but he just pulled down 8 rebounds in 9 minutes to be a +1 against the thunder’s very good defense. I am offciallly excited

trevon*

That sixers comeback was INSANE

If y'all have Hulu, they do the "Above the rim" feeds, where you get to hear Jamal Murray or SGA yell "FUuuuuuuck!" when they overspin a reverse layup

what a bizarre denver-okc game

shai was held to 0 fgs in the first half. ends with 17pts breaking his record of 20 pt games

nuggets looked pretty great in the first half despite jokic being dogshit on offense. cam johnson gets hurt and misses the second half

demar derozan was absolutely horrific. looking forward to another year of arguing with nuggets fans about his value, basically goin to be the same as the russ situation without the insane stans

that being said I thought the first half was really encouraging. brazile might be a guy

James Dolan is a monster: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7715834/2026/10/22/knicks-ring-night-assistant-coaches-msg-employees/

Ring orders, designs and measurements can take time, and not every coaching staff for every defending champion gets its rings on ring night. For instance, the assistants and even some executives for the Oklahoma City Thunder did not get their rings on opening night last season. But assistant coaches for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers received rings on banner celebration night after their teams won in 2016 and 2020, respectively.

The Knicks assistants were told they would receive championship rings eventually, but many longtime employees at Madison Square Garden, including some who work in the Knicks’ business operations, will not receive rings at all, team sources told The Athletic. Typically, most employees for NBA teams receive rings, even if they are not as fancy and expensive as the ones the players receive.

Those Madison Square Garden employees got their hopes up at the end of September when the Knicks sent an email to a long list of employees, which gave recipients a first glimpse at their would-be championship rings. Atop the email, a copy of which The Athletic has obtained, was a graphic of two differently styled rings.

“Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here,” the email read.

“(Employee name), this one is on the house. MSG is issuing a complimentary employee championship ring. The same jeweler, the same craftsmanship, personalized with your name. No cost to you.

“There are two designs to choose from: Championship Gold and Garden Classic. Reserve the one you want below.”

But the email was a fake-out, a phishing test Madison Square Garden sent to see if those employees would click, multiple team sources said.

Those who did click the link at the bottom of the message did not get to choose any jewelry; instead, they were forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class to help satisfy some of Dolan’s growing cybersecurity concerns, those team sources said.

wowww

death penalty

I salute the fake phishing attempt on some level, employees will click on anything, but damn that is cold.

death penalty

― PBUH bryson (m bison), Friday, October 23, 2026 7:38 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I salute the fake phishing attempt on some level, employees will click on anything, but damn that is cold.

saluting that level of needless cruelty being inflicted on people is pretty fucked up

if i worked for dolan id be intentionally opening phishing emails

lol

J0rdan, I work with our IT Department on cybersecurity compliance because we are in a regulated industry and it is just wild what employees will click on. It's an uphill battle and you have to test your employees all the time.

I was not defending this specific instance, more just the commitment to the cause.

I highly doubt Dolan designed the fake phishing email though he is a freak with all the facial recognition technology, so who knows.

computers are designed to click, you give people click based jobs then tell them but sometimes the clicks are traps, good luck

so unbelievably fucked up. dolan may not have personally masterminded the idea to prey on their championship excitement with a phishing email, but the kind of culture that thinks that's a good idea goes to the top for sure, and in this case there's decades of additional evidence that he's both a sociopath and a paranoid loser

i really loved watching the 76ers last night idk guys hopefully just a one time thing

im starting to think lebron can be a positive impact player until hes 48 so long as he avoids a major injury

sabonis hates acuff already, should be another fun kings season

Full Court Press @fcpnba

Domantas Sabonis says Kings are best when he reads the defense as an offensive hub.

Domantas Sabonis: “Move the ball. Get me the ball more so I can swing it and get guys open. You know, we took a lot of one-pass shots, pick-and-roll shots without passing the ball, you know, those numbers are really high and I feel like we're best when we kind of mix it up - point guard shoots, point guard hits the corner, point guard hits me, then I can make the read - that's where I'm best at.”

lol man

nice.. vibes thread check should be poppin this season

lebron can be a positive impact player until hes 48 so long as he avoids a major injury

that's what he'd like us to think. but lebron's impact games are going to be fewer and fewer and he knows this. his best bet is to ration them carefully and pick his moments, and that's what he's already been doing for a while. that will only get more pronounced. his major problem with that approach is that he wants to be on successful teams and gets frustrated with losing, even while he's progressively (and deliberately!) less capable of helping his teams win consistently.

light the beam seems like it happened a million years ago

it is crazy how quickly they turned a season with real momentum into complete despair again

Dolan's phishing training gambit really made me laugh... he's not wrong to do it but that's cruel as hell

I would argue that he is in fact wrong to do it

are companies trying "your children have been kidnapped, click here to save them" emails as phishing lessons

look guys, this will make a great story to tell at his memorial service

I would argue that he is in fact wrong to do it

Having been on the wrong end of some c-suite moron clicking on a phishing attempt and fucking up my taxes a few times, it's personal for me I guess

you can create phishing tests that are not emotionally manipulative towards employees, it’s actually very simple

the fact that the knicks have already publicly apologized for this when dolan would rather be dragged over hot coals than ever say i’m sorry about anything should be a tell here

now, the part of the original story where the jumbotron cameras were positioned to show roger goodell the whole ceremony as adam silver sat 20 feet away. that part is funny

yeah beyond the pointless cruelty I just don't believe this is an effective way of preventing phishing

if the emails came from an address within the organization or from a known vendor associated with the rings, then it was a horribly malformed 'test' altogether. I would hope the sender's address and link address were obviously from a scam source, so that ordinary phishing precautions would have been indicated. no matter what, the bait was shameful.

yeah phishing simulations need to resemble normal business emails the associate would get

phishing emails should come from horny milfs in your area

jason tatum just gave a speech to the boston garden crowd for some some reason. don’t quit the day job jason

omg i forgot we’d all be getting new hype videos

i want a hype video just for me, where i scowl at the camera a lot and escape from neon rooms

celtics dont foul challenge

knicks offense still crisp

wolves up 12 at half with Ant playing like shit I'll take it

tatum kicking some ass rn

hes slicing em up

they really need him to break down the defense this year cant be chucking too many iso threes

Ok, I'm going to apologize for even the appearance of giving James Dolan the benefit of the doubt.

man mitch rob has been rough in these first two games

just had an....eventful sequence

he made two good plays hes good now

maybe foul a lil less

three celtics passes thrown into the stands tonight, gonna take a min to integrate the new guys

celtics offensive execution late has pretty much sucked

great win for the Wolves, Ant and Lamelo were both off, bench really came through including some good play by...Trey Lyles

celtics offensive execution late has pretty much sucked

― call all destroyer, Friday, October 23, 2026 9:36 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup, tatum bailed them out with three ridiculous shots

gotta say i'm enjoying this experiment in basically beginning the nba season with the playoffs

celtics are champs now

he made two good plays hes good now

yeah mitch rob earned a good chunk of his contract right there

celtics are champs now

true which means they are now obligated to phish their staff, and probably some of their bench players too

steal the identities of their g league guys

as you said we've gotta get some hot milfs to email them

carrie from old orchard beach wants to talk to you right now

i'd probably fall for that one

lol

I love watching dylan harper

spurs just got a stop with like 8 seconds left down 2, wemby rebound, everyone pauses for a second I guess expecting a timeout to be called. no timeout called so wemby dribbles it up the court and hits a 35 one-legged bank shot, only for the whistles to blow as mitch has called a timeout with 3 seconds left when wemby was near halfcourt

wow wemby stuffed by amen thompson on the game tying shot

that was really close to a goaltend tbh…

well I tried but it is not in me to not root for the blazers, tiger can't changed its stripes! I guess I can just be like 90% of others ports fans and be completely disgusted with the subhuman billionaires in charge of the team and not support them financially in any way. sorry! I love you, the portland trail blazers

<3 clay

just flipped on the GSW/MEM game after the spurs game needed. memphis scored 17 straight points in the final few minutes to take what is likely going to the the lead for good, crazy

spurs 0-2, granted against two very good teams but not the start i was hoping for at all. still missing tobias harris, have to think this team will make more sense with him in the lineup.

just flipped on the GSW/MEM game after the spurs game needed. memphis scored 17 straight points in the final few minutes to take what is likely going to the the lead for good, crazy

Good game overall, warriors just went cold but had good looks i thought

Boozer looks really good, kind of a weird roster, a major part of their offense is Ty Jerome floaters

Yeah can’t tell if Coward is a real one yet

League Pass is $8 a month in Cambodia btw

Acuff 50fga in his first two games

i wonder when domas will finally snap

got to the line 12 times

sabonis needs to worry about staying healthy and getting traded he cant care about what happens on the kings thats a dead end

Yeah can’t tell if Coward is a real one yet

― Heez, Saturday, October 24, 2026 3:52 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i like him i like the way he slithers around the court hes super flexible and fluid plus hes a shooter

Boozer looks really good

― Spottie, Saturday, October 24, 2026 3:17 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

most sure thing going to be good right away one and done guy i cant think of, he played like a 8 year nba vet in college

i wonder when domas will finally snap

Can’t remember which pod it was because I’ve been binging them like a madman, but apparently at a preseason game Draymond was telling Acuff that he needs to pass more and be more of a team player otherwise he’s gonna burn the bridges with all his vets. Doesn’t look like he’s quite internalized that message yet lol

lmao classic draymond

knicks swapping mitch rob for drummond is a brutal defensive downgrade they just dont have a rim protector now, letting mitch walk for $15m/y is a really poor decision imho preserving a championship roster is the good reason to go into the second apron, dolan would rather spend his money on cyber security i guess

id guess the knicks are going to have trouble with quick guards who can get past the first level of d, obvs they have great perimeter defenders but is that going to be enough against the tyrese maxeys of the world

I personally love it. I was watching opening night with Knicks fans and they were all giddy with Drummond in the first half. I said, "you know he doesn't play any D?" but they wouldn't hear it.

if you dont know that drummond doesnt defend then what do you know

yes this is some good stuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/memphisgrizzlies/s/qmhyfbBIxe

Yaxel burner Twitter

yaxity sax

Shams:
Orlando Magic star Paolo Banchero has sustained a low-grade right high ankle sprain, sources tell ESPN. This injury diagnosis typically carries a timetable of 4-to-6 weeks.

guy can’t catch a break

low high sprain

didnt watch but he had a good first two games someone was saying the new coach has him playing in a manner that more suits his skills bowling balling his way to the rim

watching bulls wiz and the bulls commentators will speak of nothing but caleb wilson

the heat lost to the hornets they are 0-3 featuring giannis

Was he injured? He scored 14 points in 24 minutes.

fouled out

I hate demar derozan so much

did not take long

I didn’t like the signing to begin with! guy is a sieve on defense and passes up open threes to take 20 footers

zach collins is on the bulls

im being informed that this is in fact his third season with the team

learn something new every day

tbf hes barely played, which also tbf is the zach collins signature

Embiid 28/11/10 and looking more spry than he has in years. He's playing too many minutes though.

the nuggets are nuggetsing

rotating a nugget in my mind

as I was saying, the nuggets are amazing

this trevon brazile kid might be something

This Sixers lineup with LeBron at the 5 and no Embiid, VJ, or Parker doesn't look like it's going to get the job done (down 18 in the first).

gotta have your guys, especially parker

that will be challenging since there is no parker on the roster

(i knew who you meant though pbkr!)

Woah nelly!

LAMELO ALLEY OOP TO JOAN BERINGER!!! pic.twitter.com/nxRqHVBWi9

— GUCCE (@gucceCU) October 26, 2026

melo maybe the second best passer in the league

Jalen Williams just carted off on a stretcher, lower leg injury

Wolves absolutely dominating

i guess jalen suggs had a bad injury too

bad night for jalens

if jalen williams injury is as bad as it seems it could tip the balance of the league for the next two seasons

He ankle was sideways. Like Gordon Haywards

hopefully its a break or a dislocation rather than a tear or rupture

ugh brutal the guy was just getting healthy

knicks lost again champs 0-3

big mistake thinking that just because you won the nba playoffs you have what it takes for the nba regular season

grizzlies 3-0 theyre the champs now

ty jerome leads the league in scoring, cam boozer is 4th in rebounds

it's pretty hard to overstate how good the wolves have looked in their first three games

they are rolling hard, crazy considering its their first games with melo

melo has exceeded all my expectations so far, the ball movement compared to last year is just a joy to watch compared to watching randle push a guy with his butt while dribbling high for 18 seconds

other smaller but crucial things:
team rebounding, which i was worried about, has been excellent
terrance shannon jr seems to have shaken off a bad preseason
trey lyles off the scrapheap has actually been a solid low minutes rotational guy
kuminga seems to be really buying into his role
ayo is just a flat out great player

we all learn so much from the first 8 or 10 games of the season! then by the All Star break we have to revise it all to fit what we learned later on.

is it ok for me to make observations on basketball games or

was more of a comment on the posts by lag∞n and ciderpress about the knicks and grizz

Not sure where the Lakers will end up but I already enjoy watching them more than last year.

with the knicks, whether starting 0-3 is meaningful in a basketball sense or not, the potential for things to blow up with dolan and the media is always a ticking time bomb. he's already worked hard to make kat feel unappreciated, they're a couple more losses and a couple choice quotes away from showing up in the vibes check thread

suspect the lakers will win a lot of reg season games cause theyve got luka then their defense will be exposed in the playoffs and theyre out in the second, mirror image of the celtics where im thinking their lack of offensive juice will show up in the offs

west feels very wide open to me w/ jalen williams leg injury now, i don't think a team as young as the spurs is just a stone cold lock to return to the finals. i agreed w/ everyone before the season in taking OKC/spurs over the field in the west, i think now i would take the other side of the bet

okc basically didnt have jwill last season and they were a tough conf finals out

they did did lose dort tho so no jwill no dort their defense will prob suffer

they can always do trades tho what with all their picks

jdub apologies

i would still buy them as a tough conference finals out ofc but that's a big shift in the discussion, also they decimated their depth behind him this season in order to fund future rosters

OKC basically has zero wing depth. their roster right now is essentially

guards

shai, wallace, caruso, mitchell, mccain, stirtz

bigs

chet, ihart, kenrich, jay will, mara

they'll obv piece together wing reps w/ guys like caruso, wallace etc but their other starter level wing players are currently on the hawks

minny def throwing their hat in the ring but untimely i just dont like their 4-5 rotation, kuminga isnt a championship starter and then the bench is even rougher, plus melo has all his bad habits to clean up and particularly has a long way to go to be a break even defender, next year maybe tho, when do they move to the east

i think at the very least we have to say it looks realistic at this point for the wolves or lakers to potentially break into the regular season top 2 and force a potential OKC-spurs second round match up

yeah def possible

their other starter level wing players are currently on the hawks

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 26, 2026 1:20 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe they can ask for dort back

Nikola Topic and Thomas Sorber are available to play tonight vs the Suns.

There's also a Presti press conference in a few hours which sounds like bad news for JDub.

Update, there was a clerical error, Sorber and Topic aren't available. Also concerning that there could be bad news for other injured players like Wallace.

Shams: BREAKING: Oklahoma City's Jalen Williams has a dislocated left ankle and fractured fibula; Cason Wallace has a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Both will undergo surgery and be sidelined for several months -- most, if not the entire season.

man alive

can caruso hold up for `35 minutes per game?

i guess this is where the 17 first round picks come into play

Not ideally for Caruso, usually he plays really limited minutes in the regular season, so he can be unleashed in the playoffs.

damn that fn blows two starters down in one game

at least no soft tissue damage for jdub

i guess this is where the 17 first round picks come into play

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 26, 2026 3:46 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup. but they’re already pretty expensive and made some cost cutting moves this offseason, so let’s see if they’re willing to spend

ive watched caleb wilson two nights in a row and it was well reported that he is an absolute freak but i feel like thats somehow still understating it his combo of length athleticism motor and movement is some real made in a lab to play basketball type shit, on the other hand im not sure that he has any discernible basketball skills or idea whats going on, but hes still putting all these numbers up just by running around which i mean you have to be very physically gifted to do that in the nba, and i think he does have some good basic feel and touch, so thats a good place to start now he just has to get good at basketball and he will be a mega star

hes been chucking threes too and just not hitting any of them it seems like he doesnt know that hes a bad shooter, theres some combo of enthusiasm and naivete operating, a pure rookie

the bulls despite having a bunch of new guys and a new coach still do not care much for defense

pritchard is destroying them lol

tight one in Cleveland tonight

theyre saying that iverson told pritchard that hes the coldest white boy ever, so hes got that going for him

terrible defense by ant to let harden stroll in for the floater there

feel like ant is still pretty mistake prone and it never really gets mentioned

what happened there gobert stopped playing then was pointing to his ears did he think there was a whistle

podz is such a fucking loser man. cops curry’s entire style and is a flopping freak

guy literally walks around like he’s curry’s clone chewing on the mouth guard and everything. corny

3-5 years away from hosting "the podzcast"

I’m just mad because the nuggets suck shit but its objectively true that podz’s thing is corny and weird, blaze your own trail brother

Jalen Johnson and Okongwu shooting 14% and 15% from 3 respectively so far this season

Yaxel Jimmy

People really hate podz lol

Heat 0-4 oof what’s up w Bam

giannis stealing his swag

giannis bam is a weird fit giannis is standing in all of bams spots

I never really understood how Giannis in Miami was supposed to work

Toronto's Kawhi Leonard is expected to miss a period of weeks due to swelling in his left knee, sources tell ESPN. MRI on Leonard's knee showed no structural damage, but sides will use the shorter term to ramp him back up after the stoppages during the offseason.

which is more predictable, kawhi getting injured or shams' unique approach to the english language

well it was a great first two games

I'm also using the shorter term to ramp up

giannis bam is a weird fit giannis is standing in all of bams spots

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 27, 2026 8:21 AM (four hours ago)

davion mitchell said this exact thing last night. they have two teams right now, one w/ giannis and 4 other guys that has looked pretty great bcuz giannis has been pretty insane. and then they have the team w/ bam on the floor where everyone stands around looking at each other like they don't know wtf is going on. people have also pointed out that on offense the heat want to play really fast, but their roster is probably more geared to ugly slow defensive games. i'm still fairly optimistic that they'll be able to figure it out however there isn't much margin for error in the east this year

the heat have a pretty consistent pattern when they acquire a star like this of turning the rotation over by the first trade deadline. w/ the heatles they had carlos arroyo and eddie house as their main guards to open the season, by the playoffs that had become mike bibby and mario chalmers. w/ jimmy they had justise winslow & meyers leonard in the starting line up for most of the season before making the trade for igoudala & jae crowder. i always assumed something similar would happen w/ this roster bcuz hardaway jr has too big of a role & klay looks totally and completely cooked to me. but they're working w/ limited resources in a pretty stacked conference

i totally got why people were picking the raptors to win the east this year bcuz it is such a hard conference to read, but it always seemed way too good to be true to me

jjj on the shelf with a meniscus injury

wtf

@ShamsCharania

32m
Just in: Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards will undergo an arthroscopic procedure on his ailing right knee and miss up to two months, sources tell ESPN.

these injuries really suck

it's week one! fuck!

I should have known nothing good could ever happen

nate duncan was point out in the preseason that only 2 of his top 50 players were on the shelf for the start of the season. we've just added like 6 more in the past couple days.

yeah little did we know the top 50 players in the NBA were about to storm the beaches of normandy

FUCK YOU GOD YOU SUCK SHIT

ant scored 47 last night

so weird! didn’t want the game, did he look like he was hurt?

he's been grabbing at his knee a bit and has seemed not quite as explosive

tatum buzzer beater for the win over the nets

What a wild ending

big win

are the Nets good now? if true, this would be a surprising development.

theyre not good but fernandez is a good coach and they play hard

hollinger on the thunder sitch, i think is fun actually

For one day at least, the Thunder looked into the abyss and found hope in the next generation of players who suddenly will be thrust to the forefront. While thrashing an overmatched Suns team 125-114, newly promoted starter Ajay Mitchell dropped a career-high 30 points, rookie big man Aday Mara had his first career double-double, sharpshooter Jared McCain scored 18 points and rookie guard Bennett Stirtz played 25 minutes in his first extended action.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7729225/2026/10/28/oklahoma-city-thunder-injuries-draft-assets/?smid=ta-android-share&source=emp_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.MFE.rI34.4CpXQzu15B9E

blazers look pretty good! dame much better than i anticipated at his age coming back from the achilles tear.

did anyone watch last night? the refs started calling flop technicals in the 4th of a tight game it was wild.

Dame's looked pretty great so far I'm happy for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUDRdQVLHoM

seems like they mightve finally figured out how to fix the famous achilles

calling flops is such a good idea they should do that, idk if they route them through the reply center but since its a tech they could just look at them there and tag on the tech whenever they reach their decision

haliburton out with a hammy flareup

typical post-achilles injury i believe

insane run of injuries this week smh

its not that cool

David Locke
@DLocke09

Right now an NBA game has 203 possessions
5 years ago was 198
10 years ago was 192
15 years ago was 186

17% of all possession are now picked up in backcourt
5 years ago was 10%
10 years ago was 6.5%

yeah the game has become so much more physically demanding so much more ball and player movement

what does that mean "picked up"

setting a pick?

guarding

Today’s players are just so lazy. Back in my day . . .

i saw nate jones mention how much of basketball has shifted to one legged actions over the years, now you have guys doing all these crazy decel maneuvers dragging their legs apart and exploding off on one leg etc. there's just many ways guys bodies are being taxed differently & greater than players from previous areas

my running theory i have is as shoe tech has gotten better its put more strain on ligaments. grip on soles / responsiveness on cuts / lighter materials are at an all time high and get more extreme with every generation. makes for some insane cutting to be available but ultimately you lose that smidge of forgiveness.

It's easy to make muscles bigger and stronger, which increases mass and acceleration/deceleration. I'm not sure how you make a meniscus or a ligament stronger to keep up with that.

theres a doctor on youtube who does technical reviews of sneakers and he says that some of the sneakers that players particularly guys who have big shoe deals are wearing are very customized versions of the consumer sneakers and one of the things they do is make the soles even grippier, basically nike is making jayson tatum bespoke versions of his signature shoe

the 65-game award rule is going to be brutal this year

aj dybantsa has played five nba minutes he has six points

its so crazy that anthony davis is still out there dribbling around taking 18 footers when hes been one of the worst jump shooters in the league his entire career

3-3 nine points in six minutes first nba stint for dybantsa

update he has missed 4-5 11 pts

must say ive already seen more cavs basketball than i prefer this season

dreadful team

theres something deeply unsatisfying about them, remember when they made the conf finals and their fans didnt care

the wizards look decent here trae and ad with a bunch of large athletic young guys and a couple washed bench vets

coulibaly had six dunks in the first half

theres something deeply unsatisfying about them, remember when they made the conf finals and their fans didnt care

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 28, 2026 5:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

cavs just one of those teams for me i dont like to watch. dont like the aesthetics. uninteresting players, bad unis/logo. uninspiring play. for me bottom tier of watchability for a solid team.

― (Spottie), Tuesday, May 5, 2026 5:15 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i've been watching the wiz for the past 10 minutes and it's decent!

i like AD and saar playing together on defense.

the fact that the cavs exist is one of the reasons it’s super hard to pick a team out of the east this year. they’d be the perfect fit as a team who finally broke thru to the conference finals, except for everything about them

theres something deeply unsatisfying about them, remember when they made the conf finals and their fans didnt care

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 28, 2026 5:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was a really incredible display of no confidence and they brought all the same guys back

bub carrington changed his hairstyle at halftime, confusing

cavs added peyton watson which is kinda cool i guess

the miami heat have won a game

the nuggets won if anyone even cares

too soon to care very much about wins or losses

kingston fleming had a really strong game tonight for the hawks tonight. maybe it’s the long hair but his game looked like the spitting image of cason wallace to me. combo guard who is just kinda good at everything, the shot falls, has sneaky athleticism on the fast break, overall has a very calm and collected manner. i didn’t lock in on his defense so that part i can’t say exactly, flemings seems smaller, i think he is prob more like a version of cason wallace where the offense/defense sliders are tuned a bit differently. but he looks like he’s gonna be a really good rotation player, perhaps soon, and he’s only 19

the west having cooper flagg thrown into the mix is actually insane

if an eastern team had gotten flagg we’d look at them as having easily the most exciting future in the conference. in the west it’s like, good luck

kingston fleming had a really strong game tonight for the hawks tonight. maybe it’s the long hair but his game looked like the spitting image of cason wallace to me. combo guard who is just kinda good at everything, the shot falls, has sneaky athleticism on the fast break, overall has a very calm and collected manner. i didn’t lock in on his defense so that part i can’t say exactly, flemings seems smaller, i think he is prob more like a version of cason wallace where the offense/defense sliders are tuned a bit differently. but he looks like he’s gonna be a really good rotation player, perhaps soon, and he’s only 19

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 28, 2026 10:46 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gonna once again namedrop that my friend taught kingston's younger sister last year bc 2026 is my year of shameless, repeated, unsolicited namedrops

I still haven’t watched the game but was glad to see he finally broke out. He’s been very passive up til now. Teams will def pick on him due to size but he’s looked good on the perimeter defensively fighting through screens and active hands.

the fact that the cavs exist is one of the reasons it’s super hard to pick a team out of the east this year. they’d be the perfect fit as a team who finally broke thru to the conference finals, except for everything about them

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 28, 2026 7:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i'd think the sixers but it's just so unlikely that the whole team makes it that far in one piece

east going to be tight this year, probably

reading those kingston flemmings posts like maybe ill check out the hawks tonight, and who are they playing... the cavs

in other nba news the famous nba cup starts on friday are we stoked to see the ugliest courts in the world

just secured 10th row seats to the suns/nuggets tomorrow. v excited to see the goat jokic and do some live vibe checks on two teams that may have bad vibes already

Charles Lee: "Unfortunately, Naz (Reid) didn't meet our standards in the first half, and at halftime we made the decision that he wouldn't play in the second half. But I look forward to him meeting those standards come next game."

naz reid wearing out his welcome in charlotte four games into the season after wearing out his welcome in minnesota after becoming an inspiring folk hero figure. bizarre arc

I actually like the NBA Cup courts

you must atone

just secured 10th row seats to the suns/nuggets tomorrow. v excited to see the goat jokic and do some live vibe checks on two teams that may have bad vibes already

― Spottie, Thursday, October 29, 2026 2:51 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

very sick say hello to joker

naz reid wearing out his welcome in charlotte four games into the season after wearing out his welcome in minnesota after becoming an inspiring folk hero figure. bizarre arc

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, October 29, 2026 2:55 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

did he have problems in minny dont think i heard anything thought he was just in the trade for value

also charles lee why are you telling the media that

did naz wear out his welcome in minny? i may have missed that. thought he was folk hero status til the end.

I actually like the NBA Cup courts

― frogbs, Thursday, October 29, 2026 12:05 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

mods!

did he have problems in minny dont think i heard anything thought he was just in the trade for value

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 29, 2026 3:14 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

did naz wear out his welcome in minny? i may have missed that. thought he was folk hero status til the end.

― Spottie, Thursday, October 29, 2026 3:22 PM (eight minutes ago)bookmarkflaglink

i can't link to anything specific but there's been insinuations this summer that when chris finch said "we traded moodiness for giddiness" he wasn't just talking about julius randle

he was talking about josh giddey

was thinking moses moody

xpost
Naz absolutely did not wear out his welcome in Minnesota, the fans and organization and staff loved him. Never heard a bad word about him. They just wanted LaMelo and you have to give up a player of value.

though to the new sitch, a friend of mine was out at a bar on a work trip and they ended up hanging out w/naz's mom and she was saying he was super depressed about the trade, he knows he'll never have a fanbase and org that loves him like that. he was really gutted apparently so who knows what his headspace is.

damn sucks

Julius Randle was "one of the culprits" behind Minnesota’s moody locker room last season, per
@JonKrawczynski

“Everyone immediately looks at Julius Randle and he is certainly one of the culprits... They could be Eeyore every once in a while... Julius certainly was a part of that when his name got brought up in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade talks. He didn't really like that at all and he wears his heart on his sleeve, so you could see that.”

“But Naz Reid could get moody, Jaden McDaniels could get moody. Like, there's a lot of quiet, brooding personalities that were in the locker room last year. You bring LaMelo Ball in here and he's much more upbeat and energetic, so there's definitely been a vibe shift.”

there have been other whispers to this effect. the team isn't going to trash naz on the way out given the way he was embraced by the fanbase but i don't think he was a salary piece that they just were heartbroken about having to give up. i think he was intentionally part of their locker room turnover

I mean who else do you trade in that deal

at the beginning of the season Ant said he loved the new vibe but called out missing Naz and notably did not mention Randle

feel like that post is just trying to take some of the weight off of randles grumpy shoulders cause the wolves couldnt stop talking about the vibe shift this year then everyone was like wow you really hate julius randle huh

would be nice to have him now lol with Ant's injury *laughing to stop from crying*

could have traded divincenzo and cobbled together salary. now, there's the part about the hornets probably valuing naz and not just wanting salary filler back. but there's been enough stuff seeping suggesting that the wolves weren't exactly sobbing as naz was driven to the airport

i disagree i think he was very well liked in the locker room and his teammates, i think the contract was a bit of an overpay probably so i'm sure they didn't mind getting off it in that sense

i mean the guy got benched and publicly called out by his coach 5 games into his tenure w/ his new team, so i don't think it's crazy to suggest that perhaps his public image as a saintly figure as embraced by the city of minnesota does not necessarily match what he is like behind the scenes on a day to day basis. it doesn't make him evil or something but sometimes the public attaches a narrative to a famous person and runs w/ it & it is not actually reflective of who that person really is. and if the explanation is "he is depressed about being traded to the hornets" i'm not sure that disproves what i'm saying, i think it's probably more of a confirmation, guys get traded all the time to shitty teams and don't become malcontents, kevin love & nurkic got dumped into utah and managed to not get suspended, we could go on w/ the examples

regardless not much evidence of getting run out of town

you're creating a whole narrative!

this is how they get you

here is a minnesota sports talk radio host w/ 65k followers on twitter from the day that finch made the "moodiness for giddiness" comment

Phil Mackey
@PhilMackey

People think he’s talking about Julius Randle.

He is.

But he’s also absolutely talking about Naz Reid…

someone replies

BBK
@BornBallKnower

Never heard this regarding Naz. Thought he was a great teammate

Phil Mackey
@PhilMackey
I think there’s a difference between “moody” and “bad teammate.” I don’t believe Naz Reid to be a bad teammate.

i'm not making up any narrative, as i said this stuff has been seeping out thru local sources. the wolves wanted to change the tenor of their locker room, and while randle was a big part of that it seems like naz was too

ok fucking Phil Mackay

Phil Mackay is a dipshit on Skor North 1500, he's not a reporter he is not in the locker and he's a dumb troll.

like I listen to like 6-8 of Wolves podcasts a week and read the local press, I know who all these guys are.

when the coach says something on the record it only refers to julius randle, when Jon K says he actually was referring to more ppl including naz he's just covering for julius randle, when phil mackay says it he's just a loon, when naz gets benched & called out by his new coach it's just bcuz his head is in the wrong place, when i point out that there might be a connection between all of this it's just because i'm making it up

anyway it's not that important whatever, i just thought the charles lee call out was interesting given some of the other stuff i had seen this summer and put in the back of my head, maybe i'm in my own world however

very edifying as always

very sick say hello to joker

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 29, 2026 12:12 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

can’t remember if I mentioned this at the time but I ran into jokic in an alley as I was walking to the arena a year or two ago. I already knew he wasn’t a big fan of being accosted by randoms so I just said something like you’re great and he gave me a head nod

I do recall that lol. I never know what to do in those type of situations.

Edey is a feisty guy, seems like he’s always getting into it with someone

He's streamlined his body since college, too.

the grizzlebees are 5-0

cam booz trip dub

OKC must be kicking themselves now for letting Wiggins go. Dude is great

Wiggins wouldn't have got enough minutes on a full-strength Thunder team. He was great in the championship season but never got going last year. Probably better off elsewhere, although he'd be useful right now.

watching the boozer highlights hes a really good passer finding the open man as soon as the defense starts rotating he reads the game really well thats going to be huge for him

multiple hit aheads in transition too, if you run the floor he’s going to find you

boozer looks like he’s going to be a great rebounder and solid playmaker for his position, but my main concern about him was his interior scoring at the NBA level and he’s shooting 40% at the rim so far. small sample size but I’m keeping my eye on it

going to be an adjustment since he cant just do his college hulk smash routine but hell figure it out prob take him like ten to fifteen more games hes too good and smart at basketball not to particularly when he can punish the defense with passing

couple of those passes are unbelievable from a rookie bigman who happens to even be the actual youngest player in the nba

hes already very strong but hes hes got a huge frame hes going to get so much stronger, pretty obviously the next great basketball genius imho

re his scoring hes prob never going to be a #1 guy but is someone you can run offense through who will make the right play every time, shoot threes attack closeouts post up mismatches drive on slower bigmen get easy transition baskets etc and if you show him too much defensive attention hes smoking you with passing

rookie class this year is crazy good we are blessed

i see kevin love

the comps are improving lol

i said that one circa the offseason!

tho tbh with angel reese wrecking shit in the WNBA that one is looking more flattering by the day

i just didnt realize you were talking about future angel reese

me either

shoutout future angel reese

a future legend

ja out four weeks

come on

Maxey is just tearing up the Knicks.

xp at least they have 3 backup pgs

chet out for 8 to 10 weeks

They are going to have to start reporting who is not injured.

caleb wilson just had a hilarious missed dunk

apologies for tweet

Caleb is playing his heart out. But please man, just be careful lol. This team is not worth hurting yourself over. pic.twitter.com/Ig3EX6mZMo

— Ross Pins (@chisportsross) October 31, 2026

Oklahoma City Thunder's Chet Holmgren underwent treatment Friday to address a small patellar tendon tear and is expected to return to play in 8-to-10 weeks.

jesus christ

thunder should take the season off rest up for next year

celtics tv guys talking about how the celtics need to run the score up because its an nba cup game, actual celtics coast through the second half after going up big in the first, play their deep bench guys in garbage time, teams still not caring at all about this cup

this Lakers Dubs game is drunk

what the fuck Dray is still playing

Awesome game lol Steph still the goat. Bench played so good.

Nuggets Suns live report:

-Jalen Green vibes watch = VERY bad he just kinda sat around moping uninterested and was even worse on the court clearly dgaf what a horrible nba player they can’t get rid of him soon enough
-Dillon kicked Jamal in the pills and got ejected
-Jokic kinda weird body language, didn’t seem to dominate at all, very middle of the road game and effort imo
-Jamal and Braun good energy
-cam j looks hobbled at all times, and maybe a little out of shape
-not sure what’s up w book but he seems so much less aggressive the last couple seasons, vibes he just seems on cruise control
-suns really miss the shooting of Grayson Allen and Royce O’Neal
-I boo’d miles Bridges every time he touched the ball and people around didn’t seem to appreciate it. James Jones was a couple rows directly in front of me hopefully he heard it
-the orange court… looked pretty good in person, looks so much more saturated on tv maybe they should scale back the color a bit to look better on tv idk

The Sixers entered Friday ranked fifth in pace and average the second fewest turnovers per game — despite incorporating several new ball handlers and looking to create more early offense.

It's early, but kind of a remarkable stat for a team with Joel Embiid on it. Last night, he started on his bullshit: a missed call and apparent frustration resulted in few trips in a row where he tried to force offense, put up bad shots, threw an errant pass, turned it over a couple of times. The difference with this team is they have other options. He has less on his shoulders. The ball didn't need to keep finding him. I think with LeBron there it's reinforcing that it is really Maxey's team now.

Nuggets Suns live report:

-Jalen Green vibes watch = VERY bad he just kinda sat around moping uninterested and was even worse on the court clearly dgaf what a horrible nba player they can’t get rid of him soon enough
-Dillon kicked Jamal in the pills and got ejected
-Jokic kinda weird body language, didn’t seem to dominate at all, very middle of the road game and effort imo
-Jamal and Braun good energy
-cam j looks hobbled at all times, and maybe a little out of shape
-not sure what’s up w book but he seems so much less aggressive the last couple seasons, vibes he just seems on cruise control
-suns really miss the shooting of Grayson Allen and Royce O’Neal
-I boo’d miles Bridges every time he touched the ball and people around didn’t seem to appreciate it. James Jones was a couple rows directly in front of me hopefully he heard it
-the orange court… looked pretty good in person, looks so much more saturated on tv maybe they should scale back the color a bit to look better on tv idk

― Spottie, Saturday, October 31, 2026 12:39 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

was probably a pretty good game to be at! I was honestly surprised they kicked brooks out for that, but wasn’t mad. agree on jokic

the theory that the jazz would be better this year not lookin too hot

https://bsky.app/profile/cjzero.bsky.social/post/3mz7d2pubus2s

lauri has been dreadful

76ers looking lackluster without LBJ and Embiid. Maxey is the only one doing anything. JB has been a non-entity.

It would be nice if he had a big game with those guys out.

They are playing Dean Wade, Jabari Walker, and Adem Bona at the 5 tonight and it's the second night of a b2b.

This Yaxel kid is just making shit look easy.

This Yaxel kid is just making shit look easy.

I hope this doesn't mean he's going to suffer a season-ending injury and come back next year at 80% of his pre-injury level. He deserves better, but this season is starting out jinxed.

my goodness don't put that out there wtf!

knock on wood this kid can have a clean season.

all 30 teams play tonight and no games tomorrow for election day

im not going to vote in protest of them taking basketball away

Same, I'm actually not voting tomorrow whatsoever.

not voting tomorrow either

all the parties are the same, voting doesn't change anything, and also I am not a citizen of the united states

i won't vote tomorrow either. i can't...bc i already voted last week playaaaa

pacers have six guys available tonight

seems like a small number

its def less than usual

skinny luka with bangs in a lakers jersey is really upping the punchability factor to perhaps dangerous levels

A couple of the pacer dudes looked like they were pulled from a knob in southern Indiana

skinny luka with bangs in a lakers jersey is really upping the punchability factor to perhaps dangerous levels

Wish he’d shave his neck

feels kind of reassuring to have a hateable lakers team again

easy to do when they decided to morph into the la salt lakers

luka is in great shape, is playing incredibly well, the fit with kessler has been everything they could have asked for and more, reaves is thriving off that pairing as the secondary creator, their role players are getting tons of wide open threes and are shooting with confidence, all of which is bad news

skinny luka with bangs in a lakers jersey is really upping the punchability factor to perhaps dangerous levels

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.)

i just finished watching the 2nd season of white lotus and i kept thinking about how leo woodall's terrible soccer hooligan character was basically what I imagine luka is like during the offseason

dray managed to main character himself into an ejection tonight I see

and then the dubs took off and played better lol

He’s been rough this season, some solid all around defense withstanding

grizz finally lost by one point to the pelicans in a game which ty jerome scored 40

i think that is the epitome of being the good bad team

otm

Landry Shamet & Aaron Ashby connection is fun (?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwdWZeWmSU

https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/brewers-aaron-ashby-knicks-landry-shamet-share-longtime-friendship.html

the group chat between them and a third longtime friend was a suitable backup for face-to-face congratulations.

We’re going to find out one day that third person is some as random golfer who shows up in next year’s Ryder Cup and dog walks team Europe

interesting! i didn't even know shamet was from kansas city until i heard him being interviewed during the playoffs and looked up where he was from because he sounded just a little too familiar.

msnbc interviewing a young woman at hinojosa hq and she just yells im so fucking happy into the mic and turns around to hug her friends

sry

you're allowed to lib out in non-political threads, it's blexas now babyyy

No NBA today, this is the politics thread now

dems running up the score in garbage time

gina for most improved player

ban lagoon for libbing out go trump

woww

I’m independent sorry you don’t get that I don’t just go along with what others say especially moderators such as m bison who are BIASED against the denver nuggets but that’s a separate issue

just kidding go democrats also dylan harper wants to play for the nuggets he told me

lol wow

its inside info but its true

Democrats flip the GA House

Oops

alley oops

yall san antonio is honking downtown like the spurs won

spurs have won the nba playoffs

wemby blue waaaaave

congrats bise, texas always deserved better than being chud central

wemby is at voting polls in san antonio taking selfies with those who vote BLUE

wow Dallas came all the way back

Wemby could have a 50 spot tonight

early returns on the hornets post melo... not good.

meanwhile melo is doing a good job of keeping the wolves afloat in ant's absence

huh weird

ive watched wemby a fair amount and it still fucks with my head hes always doing thing that seem impossible

boozer is at 36% fg

early returns on the hornets post melo... not good.

― Spottie, Thursday, November 5, 2026 2:01 AM (ten hours ago)

in fairness they just got coby white back & kon came back last night and immediately got hurt again. their guards are schroder, sion james & grayson allen. i don't think it's a very representative sample of what their team is supposed to be

kon clearly rushed back from his hamstring injury tho

kont do that

that's not konducive to a successful rehab

when the creative team behind mortal kombat creates an nba persona

hornets def wont be this bad but its rough optics for sure. brandon millers splits of 36/27 will normalize but i think we're learning he's not someone that can lift a team to competitiveness without the full supporting cast

boozer is shooting 44.8% at the rim

very bad

let him cook

based on what he showed in college i can’t imagine him ever being good at rim finishing unless he completely alters how he plays down there. but he is shooting 37% from 3 on six attempts & is at 95% from the line so there are pathways for him to score

i haven’t seen much of them this year but figuring out ways to get him on smaller players to at least increase his FTA would be one step, imo. being a 6’ 8” offensive engine who only gets to the line 4 times per game doesn’t really work. looking back at guys like blake griffin & kevin love they were getting to the line 7 or 8 times per game. obv the issue with boozer is that big guys can guard him easily but it just feels like leaving a lot of points on the table to shoot that well from the line at that size but only be shooting one FT per quarter basically

hes the youngest player in the league two weeks into the season prob not worth worrying about

it's stuff that's intrinsic to his game tho, i wouldn't say it's worth worrying about but i don't think the grizzlies are just like "well he's young it will all work out." in the sense that he will be some level of good player, sure, but there's some problematic aspects of his game that prob need to be figured out

Mike Vorkunov
@MikeVorkunov

The Bulls are 1-7 and they've had one of the worst starts to an NBA season ever. The Bulls have been outscored by 144 points over their first 8 games. Only the 1997-98 Warriors (-148 point differential) and expansion 1988-89 Heat (-147) were worse, according to
@bball_ref

Ricky O'Donnell
@SBN_Ricky

It is perfectly Bulls that they have finally committed to tanking just in time for it to be actively disincentivized by the league for the first time ever

it'd be hilarious if they got the #1 pick in a weak draft, too

bulls thinking buzelis was going to break out this year but instead hes been awful

looking at it, it's just a really messed up roster, idk how anyone would be able to make successful lineups out of this group of guys

they played the knicks last night and bcuz i have youtube TV i cant get MSG and don’t see non national TV knicks games but i was at the gym and was like, oh cool the knicks game is on. and then i looked at the score and it was like 59-26

Draymond defensive masterclass on Giannis tonight. 6 in a row baby

it'd be hilarious if they got the #1 pick in a weak draft, too

― PBUH bryson (m bison), Friday, 6 November 2026 00:15 (seven hours ago)

There’s nothing funny about picking between Risacher and Alex Sarr

le french conundrum

hornets are bad man

why are the celtics being so mean to them

idk what to say theyre just rude dudes

This Sixers team is so much fun. Embiid 0 for 9 from the field, LeBron has 2 points, and they're right there with the Cavs. They have so many guys you have to account for on offense.

sixers offense hasnt been that good so far this season theyre 20th in offensive rating but on the other hand they are 2nd in defense, one would think their offense can improve a lot considering all the guys they have, but its maybe trickier than it might seem cause they dont have an absolutely dominant guy you can just run the offense through its more of a bunch of very good guys which means their advantage is really in the 3-5 spots requiring them to play good offense to exploit that, theyve got to find the mismatches to pick on, will prob take a lil time considering all the new guys good thing is theyve got lebron who prob already has it all figured out, on the other hand embiid and jaylen can be a little sticky with the ball which isnt what youre looking for here, maxey obvs a great scorer but could stand to be more of a playmaker in this situation, anyway will be interesting to see what happens, dont really have a sense if the defense is for real

they’re 14th in schedule adjusted net rating, they’ve been benefiting from shooting luck and crunch time luck, some of the latter might be real considering their personnel but I haven’t changed my priors too much on them so far despite their record, also they’ve been healthy which won’t be the case all year

Yeah, defense has been surprising. A lot of their easy offense so far this year has been in transition off of turnovers.

xp

opponents are shooting 34% on midrange and 31% on threes, regression to the mean is going to hit hard

theyre saying mario hezonja has put on 70 pounds since he was a rookie what

Now they're down 17 all if sudden.

cant believe im watching the cavs again why does this keep happening

LeBron having a terrible night. 2 of 9 5 to.

watching bron brick several layups and seeing he’s shooting by far the worst at the rim of his career

gotta think hes going to put up some stinkers eventually what with being the oldest player in the league, also his hair is gone now

I will always wish peyton watson the best but hes been awful this year, hope he turns it around

lebron just passed it to a ref lol

It's possible LeBron wants the Cavs to win.

b2b 10k halfcourt shots in cleve https://bsky.app/profile/ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social/post/3mzovbgtvxs24

Kuminga has been so good for us this year, just doing the dirty work and buying into his role

Sometimes it takes a second (third?) chance to take things seriously.

But also keep in mind I nearly crashed out raving about how good Kuminga was for the warriors last year around this time. Let's see him continue to do this in December let alone February

he's definitely on a prove it deal so he needs to lock in all year

it also seemed like that whole situation was pretty toxic, at least what I gleaned, so maybe a change of scenery is doing him good

Needs is one thing, is capable of is another. Time will tell either way

Mara sunk a three. OKC have figured things out after the injuries- even without three starters they still look like one of the stronger teams in their conference. Ajay Mitchell is making $3M/year and looks like a good second option, while their rookies (Mara and Stirtz) are already useful.

lakers pistons this evening could be a gg flaming hot luka vs tough d

I’ll hate watch

OKC got Nique Clifford from the kings for a couple 2nds

luka not playing smh

not the prettiest but we got the room win
Ayo has been so clutch

in the first season where everyone is supposed to be trying weve still got five one win teams maybe theyre trying but are still bad