The Official NBA Season Thread: Season Starts Now

[the coolness]

Congrats to Denver. They were the better team. Glad to see Jamal Murray bounce back from injury.

I'm not too hard on Jimmy. This playoff run was amazing and Miami doesn't get this far without him. I really hope he gets a ring when it's all said and done.

 

[amitt5504]

 

[Mister Meaner]

I think Pdx should try another go with Dame and retool using the pick for some ️ help.

Dame x Beal has the potential for stuff.

 

[HIM]

This is a lie. Zach Lowe, Bill Simmons, all those blog boys talked about that pick every chance they got.

This is true. When we got it, ppl said the same thing. Then it was a big deal when we traded it to OKC.

 

[lovehateself]

I think Pdx should try another go with Dame and retool using the pick for some ️ help.

Dame x Beal has the potential for stuff.

lottery stuff

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Never understood where that narrative on the Heat pick came from. They were calling it the most valuable asset in the league. Even if the Heat weren't a perennial playoff team for like the past 20 years it never made sense

 

[dman14]

guys like tristan, dwight, deandre, javale, drummond etc going to be able to stay in the league if teams are preparing to defend joker
heat got roster spot now that UD is done

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

jimmy butler is not that guy
still would love him on my team as a 2nd or 3rd option

 

[Cashflow]

This is true. When we got it, ppl said the same thing. Then it was a big deal when we traded it to OKC.

That was the stretch when people realized Spo was actually a good coach.

Turning water imto wine with the likes of Tyler Johnson, Hasan Whiteside, Josh McRoberts, Justice Winslow, Josh Richardson, Gerald Green, Wayne Ellington, James Johnson, Rodney McGruder and my favorite Dion Waiters!

 

[WASHED KING]

Season ended like GOT

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

I think Pdx should try another go with Dame and retool using the pick for some ️ help.

Dame x Beal has the potential for stuff.

basically just a rerun of mccollum and dame
if they get bael and ayton then maybe they can shake the west but even then ehh

 

[dman14]

they breaking character

 

[frshstunna]

People want to say the Nuggets playoff opponents were weak but

1. Phoenix was favoured to win the series and the Nuggets basically crushed them. seems like revisionist history to say they were a weak opponent.

2. The Heat killed the Celtics and the Bucks the two teams that supposedly were the true test for the Nuggets. and nuggets basically dismantled them .


3. While they faced weaker seeded teams, they crushed them, it's not like it was close.

The same folks saying the Nuggets faced weak teams picked those same squads to win every series against Denver…They even acted like the Nuggets were down in the WCF until it was like halftime of game 4

Shout out to the Nuggets tho, great run and glad Jokic is eligible for regular season MVP again after dominating in the playoffs

 

[lovehateself]

guys like tristan, dwight, deandre, javale, drummond etc going to be able to stay in the league if teams are preparing to defend joker
heat got roster spot now that UD is done

DH and boogie shouldve been in the league this year

 

[pmatic]

TBF, the Heat were seemingly in the wilderness before Jimmy got there. Thought Pat Riley lost touch with reality when he paid James Johnson, Dion Waiters and Kelly Olynyk.

But the Bam and Herro drafts, with acquiring Jimmy saved them.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

TBF, the Heat were seemingly in the wilderness before Jimmy got there. Thought Pat Riley lost touch with reality when he paid James Johnson, Dion Waiters and Kelly Olynyk.

But the Bam and Herro drafts, with acquiring Jimmy saved them.

Yea that's the thing. It was during the 18/19 season when bloggers started hyping the 21 pick. How could you even gauge how valuable that pick is when it's 3 years out on top of being tied to a franchise that's always in the playoff hunt. Jimmy got there in 19 and it showed how flawed that line of thought was

 

[pmatic]

 

[storm2006]

basically just a rerun of mccollum and dame
if they get bael and ayton then maybe they can shake the west but even then ehh

 

[Mister Meaner]

That show was always musty. Hard to believe they were at that for 7 years.

 

[Cashflow]

TBF, the Heat were seemingly in the wilderness before Jimmy got there. Thought Pat Riley lost touch with reality when he paid James Johnson, Dion Waiters and Kelly Olynyk.

But the Bam and Herro drafts, with acquiring Jimmy saved them.

I don’t* think he lost sense of reality as oppose to what was the alternative.

Pat Riley doesn’t like the lottery and he’s not going to tank.

As Bad News Brown as that bunch was, they closed out the season 30-11 I think. I forget who the big name FA’s were but he didn’t land a single one. So he said let’s run it back.

And then when the time came he was able to move every single one of those contracts for someone who ended up helping us make that Bubble Finals run.

 

[HIM]

No offseason thread?

 

[Arthur Shelby]

 

[pmatic]

Olivia Rodrigo, a Westbrook fan?

 

[Based Jesus]

No offseason thread?

Korofi

 

[Arthur Shelby]