NBA ~Vibes~ Check

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“Last year was horsesh*t. It was hard to come to work."

Draymond kept it 💯 while comparing last year’s chemistry to this year pic.twitter.com/RU86lPFG41

— 95.7 The Game (@957thegame) November 2, 2023

stuff like the bulls needing a team meeting after one game

"I don't know if was a team meeting... They were in there talking, I walked in and they did say, 'Coach can we talk?' And I said, 'sure' and I left."

Bulls coach Billy Donovan on the
players only meeting after losing to the Thunder.

(via @NBCSBulls)
pic.twitter.com/cZ60HxyVuj

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 26, 2023

Jaylen Brown and Kristaps Porzingis already look like great friends

You LOVE to see it 💚💚 pic.twitter.com/GCPODnUBol

— CelticsUnite❶❽ (@CelticsUnite18) November 2, 2023

While the proposed trade between the Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers had not become official as of late Tuesday evening in L.A., Harden and Tucker were welcomed by the Clips the moment they got out of their SUV in the Crypto.com Arena loading dock.

Team president Lawrence Frank was there to greet both players and walk them to the Clippers' locker room. Soon after, team owner Steve Ballmer came over to shake hands with Harden and Tucker.

While Clippers coach Ty Lue and players Kawhi Leonard and Westbrook said they could not comment on the trade until it is official, Westbrook hinted his approval.

"Right now, James and P.J. off-limits. I got nothing for you until it's official," Westbrook said with a smile and a grin after LA beat the Orlando Magic 118-102 on Tuesday night.

Asked if the smile means he's happy despite saying he cannot talk about the deal, Westbrook made it clear.

"Yeah," he repeatedly said. "I mean, s---, why wouldn't I be? Yeah, excuse my language, but definitely, definitely happy."

In the locker room prior to the game, Westbrook and Harden were reunited again. The two played together with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Rockets. Westbrook snapped out of his typical pregame routine and joked with Harden that he can stay on the other side of the locker room, where Harden's new locker will be situated.

Eventually, Tucker and Harden sat near Westbrook and Paul George to catch up over an hour before they faced the Magic.

Asked by a reporter in the locker room how excited he is, Harden replied, "You don't understand."

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Not blaming him for last year, but I'm not gonna lie, I feel better not having Harden on the Sixers.

im sure the vibes will stay high there all season

Chet Holmgren had an important question to begin Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s postgame media availability 🤣

Chet: “Mr. #2, how does it feel to know nobody can guard you?”

SGA: “Next question… Goodnight Chet.”

Fun things are happening in OKC folks… pic.twitter.com/LTHEHfgDj5

— Cooper Jones (@CooperJNBA) November 9, 2023

Not kidding this might’ve been the biggest power of friendship game that I’ve seen from the Heat

Pure vibes

— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) November 17, 2023

lol what does that mean?

marcus smart just gave the grizzlies bench one of the most passionate speeches i’ve ever seen a player give his team. said “this is f*cking embarrassing” several times, talked about how fans are paying to come watch them and they’re not even trying pic.twitter.com/sxv4pL3jis

— Molly Morrison (@mollyhannahm) November 27, 2023

good luck marcus

Bally Sports captures a heated exchange between Bane and Aldama at the end of the half. pic.twitter.com/BHYkWvi5CV

— Drew Hill (@DrewHill_DM) December 2, 2023

Tari Easons IG Story after the #Rockets W 😭😭😭!!! @BradeauxNBA @BiasedHouston @teroyaeason pic.twitter.com/LjgY3hI5p1

— Houston Sports Enjoyer (@ChasEnjoyer) December 7, 2023

is boban the best vibes bringer the nba has ever seen?

amazing guy, really good basketball player too, just not on defense

love that big lug

i love for boban that he got meme-ified too, i just wish the commercial with him that they play incessantly wasn't a) essential laughing at his expense, and b) so grating

Griffin entered the locker room and began harping on the importance of winning the rebounding battle, sources say.

The Pacers outrebounded the Bucks 51-46.

Portis, who scored four points on just five shots against Indiana in a near-season-low 18 minutes, quickly interjected and stressed how essential it is for Griffin to structure the offense down the stretch of games, sources said.

As one of the leaders of the team, Portis continued on voicing his concerns. Griffin welcomed the criticism and acknowledged he could do a better job being more aggressive with his play-calling, sources say. The nine-year veteran explained that it's a two-way street: direction is needed and then it's up to the players to execute, sources say.

i wonder if dame conference called haynes into the conversation or just gave him the rundown after

lmao yup

trying to force the coach out and bring in stotts?

Steph: “This is f*cking terrible!”

Visibly HEATED from last night’s game.

pic.twitter.com/bkvz3E6rSF

— WarriorsMuse (@WarriorsMuse) December 13, 2023

good win for the celtics last night down their entire center rotation against the very physical inside scoring orlando magic who crushed them a couple weeks ago they came out and just plain out vibed them for the blowout

Bro doing snow angels on the hardwood = vibes r good

JAMES HARDEN IS LOSING HIS MIND 🤯 pic.twitter.com/H3Z2vUNKEf

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) December 19, 2023

lol, I watched a few clippers games like a month ago when the vibes were iffy and hadn’t realized what a roll they’ve been on since

theyve been very good which is either not surprising (3 ostensible all-stars should make a team good) or surprising (they were bootycheeks when harden first got there). i still have hope they will flame out my season's end/playoffs.

i mean they do have james harden on the team

kawhi has played every game! i kinda cant believe it!

and PG 25/26 games.

yeah it’s not hard to believe they can put together a nice run, as always w/them it’s going to be about getting to the playoffs healthy and staying that way.

can’t look now but i’m also curious how their defense has been performing and if it’s “playoff-caliber” so to speak.

Eric Gordon would like a bigger role on the Phoenix Suns, per @ChrisBHaynes

“Lately I haven't been getting hardly any touches really.”

(Via https://t.co/ohF13xmMEZ) pic.twitter.com/EcUp5t72rD

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) December 23, 2023

ah damn

https://i.imgur.com/hrXHfLq.png

Coach? Owner?

that guys owned the team since 2011 and theyve had a winning record once since, theyve played eight playoff games and lost them all, so might as well start with him

this is really something

https://i.imgur.com/zz0jOMw.png

His interview is a lot of saying nothing. He does say at the end that the idea of selling the team is "ridiculous."

if i was becoming hated cause i owned a sports team, fans chanting for me to sell during games and so forth, if id fucked up bad enough to get to that point id just sell, its the right thing to do, who wants to be the guy ruining peoples fun, let someone else do it

also he bought in for ~$300m which is much less than nba teams are worth now so when he sells he can buy himself something nice

First, you'd have to understand that you had fucked up. I don't think that occurs to many (any?) sports team owner.

*owners

it seems so obvious, how many things in life have a win loss record attached to them, how often do a stadium full of people chant for you to do something

its silly how buying a sports team is considered a fun thing by the super rich, its like going to a restaurant then deciding that opening a restaurant would be fun, youre already doing the fun part theres only work on the other side

"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper"

exactly

funny thing is if any billionaire wants to pal around with basketball players get in the mix of the team etc can easily do it for a fraction of the cost of buying a team just get courtside season tickets go to all the team events for big wigs meet the players invite them to your white party in the hamptons or whatever, theyll prob like you better than an owner since youre not their boss

i guess is not as good as really owning the shiny object but at least no ones booing you, and there are plenty of shiny object you can get where no one boos you

The categorical mistake a lot of these squidillionaires make is thinking that, because they understood one thing enough to make tons of money at it, they understand, and are good at, everything. To admit that they don't know how to run the sports team they just bought would be admitting that that belief is not true, which is I think pretty threatening.

yeah for sure big issues with very or even slightly successful people tbf is thinking theyre renaissance man brain geniuses

Bad things going on in kangz land:

Doug Christie just pulled all his starters 2 minutes into the 2nd half. Full bench lineup in.

Devin Carter
Keon Ellis
Nique Clifford
Daeqwon Plowden
Maxime Raynaud

And Christie did like a 10 minute presser ripping his team post game

brunson left the arena in a boot and crutches :((((

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxEc7XhbIPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3yAOl8dkk

seems bad

When Ja jaws about being mistreated it's very hard for me to feel any sympathy. He has a history of fucking up, being given leeway and guidance, not caring that he fucked up or acknowledging his fuckups through his actions, even when he mouths the correct words, then fucking up again. He's not as talented as he thinks he is, and he's a selfish, entitled, repeat fuckup. Good luck, Miami.

just awful luck how he keeps finding himself in these situations!

He thinks pat Riley is gonna want him?

given what Trey Young went for, there can't be much of a market

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Off topic but if you say Dumars in an Italian accent it sounds like dumbass

its players only meeting time for the knicks

@NBATradeReport
After Monday’s blowout loss to Dallas, Jalen Brunson held a players-only meeting urging the Knicks to address struggles internally. Separately, people in the organization were frustrated by Mike Brown hugging Draymond Green after a flagrant on KAT in last week’s loss to Golden State.

lol at that last part

did he hug him like directly after the flagrant in a thank you for flagrant fouling kat sort of way or was it a while later after the game

i choose to believe it was right after lol

they hugged after the game. i mean he coached for the dubs for three chips it didnt seem weird. but dray and kat have weird beef and im sure kats feeling like no one has his back at all.

kat needs to grow up and accept the fact that his coach has other basketball friends

would be hilarious if he lands in GS after this. He'd be a terrible fit with Dray though ... Probably would crash out rather than put in the effort to shore up his defense

actually it'd probably be a good fit lol

I seem to recall Draymond hugging Brown on the sideline during the foul shots.

oh yes he did hug him during the game but i forgot when that was (found the footage and it was when he was shooting FTs) but it was more like draymond forcing a hug on him? didnt seem like mike was amused

ha draymond playing games

can't really blame dray, brown initiated the whole thing

KD is PISSED at Sengun for NOT playing defense:

“DAMN MY GOD PLAY SOME DEFENSE.”😭😭 pic.twitter.com/BK00XZ77o9

— Logion Noops (@LogionNoops) February 6, 2026

ha that was really bad

i was at that game last night and it wasn’t pretty to watch of those drives to the basket with no resistance
Hornets are pretty decent but the Rox vibes are def “ready for all star break” right now

spurs, rockets, lakers are very talented but structurally flawed teams, the vibes question is very different tho

spurs vibes seem good but there could be some weird fox stuff. rockets have KD so the vibes will never be great longer than a half season. lakers its kinda hard to tell?

well the spurs are in the honeymoon period with this nucleus, nothing really matters. if they go out in round 1 everyone will still call it a good season. not true for the other ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kur9BZz-tfA

well well well

jj prob doesnt have the disposition to be an nba coach, tbf he got put in a rough spot, tho he did agree to it

coaching no defense luka and old man bron for your first crack at it seems like a losing game.

and its the lakers

not too dissimilar to nash in brooklyn... who reeeeally didnt have the disposition (in the opposite way of jj)

yeah that one was weird we know jj really wanted to coach but did nash at all

yet both are better off as podcasters

arent we all

he's to arrogant to admit it but i wonder if some part of JJ wishes he took a more normal path....coming in as a head coach without paying any dues and coaching guys *you played with* is a high degree of difficulty.

yeah if youre gonna go straight to head coaching without being an assistant which prob isnt the best idea at least go to a more low key situation

the thing with Nash is he at least had a reputation as being a next level basketball genius who theoretically could have a lot to offer as a HC, Redick on the other hand is a podcaster

if you think people don't think jj redick is a next level basketball genius i'd encourage you to read anything that has been written about jj redick being a coach

i think he is probably a good coach i'd also agree w/ lagoon that he is going to burn out pretty quickly if he doesn't learn how to moderate his emotions, that shit wears on people and if they're contending for the finals then it can prob be accepted as part of the deal but if they're going out in round 1 every year i don't think he's going to be very long for that job

Jamal Collier
@JamalCollier
I spent some time around the Cleveland Cavaliers last week and found a team with a “renewed faith” after adding James Harden

i feel legitimately insane that this is happening again after what happened in philadelphia. how is this real?

james harden mindfreak

the mccain trade is completely breaking the sixers fanbase and also possibly the team itself, i love this franchise so much

Mike O'Connor
@MOConnor_NBA
The thing about the McCain trade is that the thought process was a disaster on every level — player eval, timing, negotiation, long term cap/money management, reading how it might affect the locker room. Not to mention the coaching side of it, who very obviously limited and misused this guy, and who was hired and backed by this front office. Like if you just had competent decision making on any of those fronts, this trade doesn’t happen.

The decision to trade McCain now, the way they went about it, and the return they got really highlights the areas of top to bottom organizational brainrot. Just an all-time fuck up, I will never get over it, and I will bet anything that it continues to look worse and worse over time.

obviously i agree with them, i do theyre overreacting but i respect it

vintage russ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbsuYwIas3k

insufferable person imo

def