The Official NBA Season Thread: Sunday Scaries

[dmbrhs]

Top six protected. Goes to the Thunder (lol) if it falls out of the top six.

There's a very hilarious and real scenario where the Sixers have a bottom six record, and the Clippers do well enough to get, like, the 10th pick (unprotected and conveys to the Thunder). I, for one, am rooting for that. The Sixers pick is unprotected next year, though.

 

[dmbrhs]

Y'all still riding the Kings bandwagon or is that over?

I feel like the Warriors broke them in that playoff series.

 

[freeze]

I feel like the Warriors broke them in that playoff series.

curry went full psychological warfare. now he got fox wearing his shoes.

 

[dmbrhs]

If all the Thunder picks got top of the draft protections they won’t be getting Flagg

Clippers 2025 pick is unprotected and OKC can swap. But, it's looking more and more like that pick won't be anything worthwhile. Even if the Sixers put it together a bit and land outside the bottom six, there isn't anyone to be excited about.

OKC has both Philly and LAC's first rounders in 2026 that convey automatically. Congratulations on that, but it's another year burned waiting for them.

This is why I never bought into the hype of Presti stockpiling these picks. The NBA draft is a crapshoot. Having the picks doesn't mean anything.

 

[dmbrhs]

curry went full psychological warfare. now he got fox wearing his shoes.

Reminds me of the Sonics in 1995. The 1994 Nuggets series lingered and they fell apart against the Lakers in 1995 (the Nick Van Exel game lives rent free in my head). The fact they came back and got to the Finals in 1996 was really unexpected, even with their record. They still barely made it out of the first round, but once they did, they swept Hakeem's Rockets. That team could have folded and never even sniffed a conference finals again.

 

[a-friend]

And we thought Steph was to blame for the infusion of the 3ball from way back there…..15:35 Katt says different

 

[dmbrhs]

And we thought Steph was to blame for the infusion of the 3ball from way back there…..15:35 Katt says different

Hilarious. However, it does remind me of a dude who played high school ball in Washington back when I was in high school. This was in 2001. He would pull up from about 25-30 feet and just drain threes. His team won a state title, and he was player of the year (all classifications). His team also beat Brandon Roy's Garfield squad in the state tourney in one of the best state tourney games ever. But, that dude would just launch deep threes with no hesitation. It was wild to see at the time, but he won a state title doing it.

 

[Dark Brandon]

Reminds me of the Sonics in 1995. The 1994 Nuggets series lingered and they fell apart against the Lakers in 1995 (the Nick Van Exel game lives rent free in my head). The fact they came back and got to the Finals in 1996 was really unexpected, even with their record. They still barely made it out of the first round, but once they did, they swept Hakeem's Rockets. That team could have folded and never even sniffed a conference finals again.

If Mitch Richmond doesn’t get hurt that might’ve been a different series. Kings really had them in their crosshairs that season. Kinda crazy to think that 39 win Kings team could’ve made it to the WCF if they got past Seattle, the ‘96 Rockets were defending champs but they played some of the sloppiest and reckless basketball ever from a team with that much pedigree and experience.