He’ll prob average like 3-4 blocks a game for the first half of the season
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Saturday, 21 October 2023 03:52 (eight months ago) link
nba starts soon
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 October 2023 14:29 (eight months ago) link
couple nice match ups lakers-nugs suns-dubs
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 October 2023 14:31 (eight months ago) link
Grizzlies center Steven Adams will undergo season-ending surgery for a knee injury, team says.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 22, 2023
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 October 2023 16:41 (eight months ago) link
dang sucks
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 October 2023 16:42 (eight months ago) link
damn, he'd been pretty durable up until now
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Sunday, 22 October 2023 16:53 (eight months ago) link
aw man. that’s pretty big for them especially with ja missing the first 2 months
― k3vin k., Sunday, 22 October 2023 17:32 (eight months ago) link
investigation of ja handling fame poorly
Before being drafted by the Grizzlies with the No. 2 overall pick in 2019, scouting reports on the high-flying point guard out of mid-major Murray State revealed little in the way of red flags.
"Zero," said one veteran NBA scout who scouted Morant for a lottery team in position to draft him. "He was the consummate coachable teammate, a choirboy. Underrecruited. Didn't have many scholarship offers. Played with a chip on his shoulder. Glowing stuff. Nothing. There was absolutely nothing."
Said a second veteran NBA scout: "I studied him inside and out. There was not one person who had a bad thing to say about him. Very much a late bloomer. Good family. Had a work ethic. Humble. He checked every single box."
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38674600/then-alligators-got-memphis-grizzlies-star-ja-morant-18-month-downfall
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 October 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
yeah read that piece, pretty classic too much too soon situation. i hope he gets over himself.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 October 2023 19:33 (eight months ago) link
a guy who is constantly beefing with randos naming his boutique streetwear brand “my brothers no others” seems a little too on the nose
― circles, Sunday, 22 October 2023 20:08 (eight months ago) link
Hopefully he’s not in too deep
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 23 October 2023 02:35 (eight months ago) link
Signing Rose to mentor Ja is like, uhhh...
― Jane Eyre Jordan (Leee), Monday, 23 October 2023 02:53 (eight months ago) link
will derrick rose be the first NBA MVP *not* to make the HoF y/n
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 October 2023 04:52 (eight months ago) link
he should be the first for many, many reasons
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Monday, 23 October 2023 11:06 (eight months ago) link
westbrook should be the 2nd
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 October 2023 12:43 (eight months ago) link
jk i don't particularly care about the whole hall of fame thing
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 October 2023 12:46 (eight months ago) link
“It was anything to go against what I would have wanted,” Lillard told The Athletic, “That part was irritating. Just based off how it was happening, I knew (it wouldn’t be Miami).
“(The Blazers) hadn’t talked to Miami. So once it started happening like that, then I started hearing about all these other random teams, I was like, ‘I’m probably not going to Miami.’ So I wasn’t holding on to that too (much).”
What he had done, though, was green-light a message to Milwaukee in mid-September that would have everything to do with what came next.
When Lillard was convinced that Miami was off the table, Goodwin wanted to know if the Bucks were among the teams in serious pursuit of his seven-time-All-Star client. They weren’t.
But when that backchannel blessing was given, with the Bucks learning that Lillard would be excited about a possible partnership with the Bucks, the chase was on. And so the work began for Horst and his small group of trusted front office associates.
https://theathletic.com/4982925/2023/10/23/bucks-damian-lillard-trade-giannis-antetokounmpo/
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:07 (eight months ago) link
btw hes not shams level but sam amick is a really bad writer
A businessman who was part of the group that bought the team for $550 million in 2014 and sold at a valuation point of $3.5 billion nine years later.
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:11 (eight months ago) link
the nytimes should give the athletic some editors just an idea
https://i.imgur.com/a430Ioi.png
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:16 (eight months ago) link
seems like a lot
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels has agreed to a five-year, $136M contract extension, his agents Nima Namakian of @InnovateSports and Bill Duffy of @WME_Sports tell me and @JonKrawczynski.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
One year for each finger he broke when he punched the wall and fucked his team's playoff chances
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 23 October 2023 18:37 (eight months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:41 (eight months ago) link
ok who’s starting the new thread
― k3vin k., Monday, 23 October 2023 18:49 (eight months ago) link
2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:57 (eight months ago) link
last of the stashing - hawk's extend Okongwu's rookie deal, 4yr 62mil but do not extend Bey who will now be a free agent this offseason
― Heez, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:22 (eight months ago) link
that could be a steal of a contract for okongwu
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:24 (eight months ago) link
agreed he fits a whole lot better in Snyder's scheme. replacing Collins and Capela with Okongwu and Johnson is going to make the hawks really fun
― Heez, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:32 (eight months ago) link
locking up a young guy on a cheap deal usually works out pretty good if theyve any promise
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:41 (eight months ago) link
i guess thats not totally a cheap deal but it seems pretty reasonable
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:46 (eight months ago) link
in *this economy* thats a great deal
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 03:01 (eight months ago) link