The Official NBA Season Thread: Kings Fire Mike Brown

[king j]

Your team beat Boston yet?

Pels haven’t played Boston yet

 

[DripNick]

Pels haven’t played Boston yet

They sure as hell just lost to the Grizz tho

EYE get it

 

[king j]

They sure as hell just lost to the Grizz tho

EYE get it

No Zion or BI

 

[DripNick]

#FreeThemBoth

 

[antidope]

Chess is dope everyone should learn how to play.

 

[tay1]

My goat, king of the fadeaway with multiple defenders on him tried to warn yall

 

[IATT]

The whole ratings discourse definitely reflects all the changes in how the league is discussed and followed nowadays compared to traditionally.

So much less focus on actual storytelling in favor of attention bait and hot takes.

All the changes within media have impacted sports as much as every other venue, the NBA especially so.

RIP to Greg Gumbel, one of the last real giants to do it

I’d argue that KD going to the warriors was an inception point for the league

the league had a regular season people were heavily invested in along with a great playoffs and an even better finals

KD’s thunder team was a huge part of that.. and would have continued to be a huge part given the move they made for sabonis and oladipo

But KD going to the warriors made the league basically a foregone conclusion, when it arguably could have been at its highest points with multiple high level legit contending threats

But I don’t expect KD to speak about his role.. just like I don’t expect draymond to admit to his stupidity and costing his team probably multiple championships

 

[moe200069]

Bout to be under .500 after today.

Who had a bet on here about the Warriors being a play-in team? Was it B Sox

Me and B Sox

still.. #5 OTW!!

 

[king j]

 

[antidope]

Great NFL game on right now BTW. Superior product I was told.

Not a single one of these games has been compelling. All have been primetime games. I am glad you have a never dying fanbase cause football is all Jim-Bob and Peggy-Sue from Nebraska care about, but this is not a better sport.

 

[moe200069]

I’d argue that KD going to the warriors was an inception point for the league

the league had a regular season people were heavily invested in along with a great playoffs and an even better finals

KD’s thunder team was a huge part of that.. and would have continued to be a huge part given the move they made for sabonis and oladipo

But KD going to the warriors made the league basically a foregone conclusion, when it arguably could have been at its highest points with multiple high level legit contending threats

But I don’t expect KD to speak about his role.. just like I don’t expect draymond to admit to his stupidity and costing his team probably multiple championships

KD to the warriors was a three year stint. He last suited up for them six years ago. The league has since experienced significant parity and had the most even-playing field since many of us started watching hoops in the 80s/90s. There’s no clear dynasty and no clear favorites, just “multiple high level legit contending threats” especially in the West.

We really blaming a steph/kd run for being the inflection point for nba ratings? Iirc, ratings were not an issue then even though people knew it would just be a warriors vs cavs finals. If Bron hadn’t left Cleveland, it probably would have been a fourth match up in 2019 and ratings would have still been good that season

 

[pmatic]

 

[IATT]

Great NFL game on right now BTW. Superior product I was told.

Pats are the 2nd worst team in the league, I’d assume no league would want to be judged by that standard with 2 games remaining and multiple teams making draft decisions

 

[ALNotSure]

Draymond is the Anthony Mason of Robert Horrys

(Or maybe the other way around; I’m not good at this new game).

Draymond is the Junkyard Dog of X Pacs

 

[pmatic]

KD to the warriors was a three year stint. He last suited up for them six years ago. The league has since experienced significant parity and had the most even-playing field since many of us started watching hoops in the 80s/90s. There’s no clear dynasty and no clear favorites, just “multiple high level legit contending threats” especially in the West.

We really blaming a steph/kd run for being the inflection point for nba ratings? Iirc, ratings were not an issue then even though people knew it would just be a warriors vs cavs finals. If Bron hadn’t left Cleveland, it probably would have been a fourth match up in 2019 and ratings would have still been good that season

Definitley think the combo of the Warriors not winning the Finals after 73-9 and KD joining the following season turned off casual viewers and made them ignore the regular season even more. And then it became reality when they breezed through the league that first season and into the next season besides the Rockets WCF.

 

[ALNotSure]

I’d argue that KD going to the warriors was an inception point for the league

the league had a regular season people were heavily invested in along with a great playoffs and an even better finals

KD’s thunder team was a huge part of that.. and would have continued to be a huge part given the move they made for sabonis and oladipo

But KD going to the warriors made the league basically a foregone conclusion, when it arguably could have been at its highest points with multiple high level legit contending threats

But I don’t expect KD to speak about his role.. just like I don’t expect draymond to admit to his stupidity and costing his team probably multiple championships

Thing is the KD Warriors were a joy to watch. Besides Draymonds antics it was awesome basketball. And Cleveland beat em in the finals once.

 

[IATT]

KD to the warriors was a three year stint. He last suited up for them six years ago. The league has since experienced significant parity and had the most even-playing field since many of us started watching hoops in the 80s/90s. There’s no clear dynasty and no clear favorites, just “multiple high level legit contending threats” especially in the West.

We really blaming a steph/kd run for being the inflection point for nba ratings? Iirc, ratings were not an issue then even though people knew it would just be a warriors vs cavs finals. If Bron hadn’t left Cleveland, it probably would have been a fourth match up in 2019 and ratings would have still been good that season

You had legit stars spread amongst several teams and you would have had legit battles

My point is all that basically got erased in a single offseason.. and it’s very easy to ask what if.. and also to get interest back after having lost it

Hell it took shaq/kobe along with other high level entertaining teams to bring things back after jordan retired

But just think of how entertaining things would have been if KD just stayed with the thunder or went to anywhere else but the warriors, cavs or rockets at that point.. dude could have gone to Boston

 

[antidope]

Bad ruling

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[pmatic]

 

[antidope]

Ohhhh nahhhh

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[moe200069]

Nurk is a Karen.. getting players suspended and then gaslighting them saying they’re the ones that “need help.”

DRAYMOND WAS RIGHT

 

[DripNick]

Ohhhh nahhhh

Bro said

 

[B Sox]