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

Why are they talking about the ACT 🤣 pic.twitter.com/LdLKeaBrpH

— heavyditisoul ☘️ (@heavyditisoul) October 29, 2024

Lol! Who even remembers their act and sat scores?

lol nerds

Rudy didn't get the pass from Randle despite calling for the ball and was then hit with a 3-second violation...

Ant was not happy 😬 pic.twitter.com/Yf0BYnKKZ7

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 22, 2024

Rudy should know better than to call for the ball when Julius Randle is cookin' (i.e. dribbling aimlessly up at the 3pt line with 6s on the shot clock)

spurs get minny's 2031 1rp unprotected and a top-1 protected swap in 2030 and i think those are going to be good picks

gobert calling for the ball in the post one of the nbas great running bits

Uh oh

Anthony Edwards says he feels like the T-Wolves have been “growing apart” and that they can’t talk to each other anymore, per @ChristopherHine.

Ant claims everyone has their “own agendas” right now 😳 pic.twitter.com/XncVHeQvLe

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) November 28, 2024

shoulda traded gobert while he still had value

ant edwards, team leader seems like a real experience

not even sure what to call this apart from nightmarish vibes

How many championships would we have won with @ElonMusk? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Qp0lXZgLLN

— Scottie Pippen (@ScottiePippen) December 1, 2024

was scottie hacked

😬😬 https://t.co/AVKBl3HTsy pic.twitter.com/IRwuz0TdaP

— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) December 6, 2024

not great

Kings are back baby

If you don't have time to watch the full press conferences, I got you.

This right here sums it up. pic.twitter.com/PFy9HkyYog

— Matt George (@MattGeorgeSAC) December 27, 2024

their roster seems not in a great place

who knew that swapping an offball floor spreader (barnes) for a ball-dominant midrange messiah (demar) would make them worse, its a mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkSXlGe899c

Embiid should not be telling anyone to play harder. I don't think I've seen him drive to the basket on anyone all season.

after years of getting away with it everyones finally tired of embiids bs

Watching these Dubs with Jimmy and it's like nothing's changed lol. Really need Kuminga back

Oops should have posted this in the main NBA thread

A visibly annoyed Ja Morant said “Go ask the coaching staff” when asked about what went wrong for him tonight.

Asked what the team could have done better, he said “according to them, probably don’t play me,” apparently alluding to something that had been said in the locker room

Ja turning into a heel has been a bit of a bummer.

def sucks massive fall from grace

nah morant

blake griffin did a whole thing on the postgame showing ja openly not trying, like protest level play. feels like the camel’s back is like one or two more pieces of straw away…

Yah lots of clips floating around and people questioning what’s going on. Bordering on suspension level of sabotage

ja seems like a guy who needs enemies and he makes sure he always has a large and growing supply

Shams

Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant has been suspended one game for conduct detrimental to the team

the grizzlies chose ja over the coach in last year’s power struggle but you can’t keep doing that repeatedly so now they’re sorta stuck with this situation and have to i guess hope that ja matures really quickly or just decide to trade him at the lowest ebb of his value

what exactly is jas deal

i think he's just kind of a dick

Ja to the Pelicans? Who says no

i think he's just kind of a dick

― Jizzle James (Clay), Saturday, November 1, 2025 4:03 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

right, not super complicated I don’t think

idk this is some pretty serious self sabotage

maybe this is splitting hairs but i don't know if he's a dick as much as he sorta clearly deals w/ problems on and off the court in very immature ways i.e. doing elaborate gun salutes immediately after coming back from a gun related suspension. feels of a piece w/ the pouting we saw last night, it's all very childish it feels like dealing w/ a teenager

don't know much about how iisalo is supposed to be at dealing with players but i'm guessing he comes in without a lot of baggage about nba pecking orders, and also aren't finns among the bluntest people on earth culturally? i bet ja got honest feedback for the first time in a very very long time.

i think fins are avoidant its the dutch who are blunt

oh yes that rings a bell, apologies for mixing up my europeans

but i think all northern europeans kinda dont have the social skills

so i could see it going how you said

don’t mean to repeat myself too much here but a guy who has an unhealthy relationship with guns, assaults a teenager who he feels disrespected by in a home pickup game, and otherwise menaces his own community like a wannabe mafioso is probably just telling you who he is

i'm at the age now where i think punching teenagers might be a net positive for society

we are aligned there lol

all seems a little more than just being a dick, also ja was universally considered a good kid before he went pro, everyone said there were zero hints of this sort of stuff

it's also never just one thing....like even if he's cleaned up his life somewhat he's nowhere close to the player he used to be, and grappling with that might be causing him to act out again.

it also just seems like there's a lot of baggage now for him and that organization. i rarely grasp what the grizzlies are trying to do and ja isn't tradable per se but seems like a fresh start might be good for everyone.

Mavs Film Room @MavsFilmRoom

.@RonKnowsSports said that the Mavs were playing “Marvin’s Room” by Drake at shootaround yesterday 😭

While he said the players still seem to enjoy being around each other, he said the vibe felt “sad and dark”

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 :((((