The Official Off-Season NBA Thread

[j rain]

I don’t believe in living in fear of covid. I’m all for masks and vaccines. Just feels like we’re going backwards with all of the cancellations, empty arenas, etc.

 

[frshstunna]

same man who relocated to lick shoe bottoms for StockX, cried in his car during lunch, and quit at the end of his first day.

He's got nothing to lose with this Omicron variant.

I peeped who I responded to and just took the L for doing so …yo not the brightest cat round here and didn’t even wanna bring this up

 

[smedroc]

I don’t believe in living in fear of covid. I’m all for masks and vaccines. Just feels like we’re going backwards with all of the cancellations, empty arenas, etc.

I'm sure a lot of these guys want to play but just on a liability level you can't make a case for dudes playing when they test positive. Even if they feel totally fine.

 

[QU!K]

Somebody sign this man

Didn’t the Lakers just?

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

my god, I hope D Will doesn't get hurt on Saturday. Watched the workouts from yesterday... Gore looks like he can hit pretty hard...

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Sabonis def got his pops goggles

My God

 

[jpzx]

 

[lawdog1]

Harmless though . . .

(This isn't anyone famous. Just something that popped up right now on my Twitter TL).

 

[jpzx]

Wish I could go back to work in February instead of January… not really a difference.

 

[immaculate1]

Some food for thought since enough time has passed to really look at the numbers. Check out the difference between the orders in magnitude between the common flu mortality and the latest estimates for covid:

Estimated Flu-Related Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2018–2019 Flu Season | CDC

CDC calculates estimates of disease burden in the United States using surveillance data and modeling to adjust for sources of under-detection. Burden estimates for the 2018-2019 season found here.

www.cdc.gov

Heart Disease Facts | cdc.gov

Learn facts about how race, ethnicity, age, and other risk factors can contribute to heart disease risk.

www.cdc.gov

FastStats

FastStats is an official application from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and puts access to topic-specific statistics at your fingertips.

www.cdc.gov

Cutting the latest estimate by half is something like 400k deaths. 28k flu to 400k covid. That's roughly 1 to 14 ratio for lethality. Even if we presume that a subset of covid-related deaths are due to the common influenza, let's bring that value down to 300k. Still a 1:10 ratio.

I think there's always a healthy debate to be had regarding the delicate balance between aggressive public health policies and crippling your own economy... but to put it bluntly, this doesn't look normal to me and I'm not a medical expert. I suppose it's easy to write this off when we're living in the internet age and everyone is a bit isolated from one another in a way.

Welp Social Security is supposed to be insolvent eventually. Maybe with the old timers gone that won't be an issue. Maybe I'm a little naïve, but I'm still optimistic our society pulls through albeit not without losses.

 

[jpzx]

I’m glad you put thought into something important and not into most people commenting on Lavar or Jenner sheeeeet

 

[antidope]

I don't believe in safety is a wild take. Good luck.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Tobias been trash

 

[finessence]

I don't believe in safety is a wild take. Good luck.

...doesn’t believe in safety but cried about being on his feet for 11 hours

 

[ill steelo]

Tobias been trash

His next deal will have him at 250-300 Ms lifetime.

Amazing work, truly remarkable.

 

[xxpizzo]

SIXERS ARE TRASH

Just call the season please

 

[QU!K]

Some food for thought since enough time has passed to really look at the numbers. Check out the difference between the orders in magnitude between the common flu mortality and the latest estimates for covid:

Estimated Flu-Related Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2018–2019 Flu Season | CDC

CDC calculates estimates of disease burden in the United States using surveillance data and modeling to adjust for sources of under-detection. Burden estimates for the 2018-2019 season found here.

www.cdc.gov

Heart Disease Facts | cdc.gov

Learn facts about how race, ethnicity, age, and other risk factors can contribute to heart disease risk.

www.cdc.gov

FastStats

FastStats is an official application from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and puts access to topic-specific statistics at your fingertips.

www.cdc.gov

Cutting the latest estimate by half is something like 400k deaths. 28k flu to 400k covid. That's roughly 1 to 14 ratio for lethality. Even if we presume that a subset of covid-related deaths are due to the common influenza, let's bring that value down to 300k. Still a 1:10 ratio.

I think there's always a healthy debate to be had regarding the delicate balance between aggressive public health policies and crippling your own economy... but to put it bluntly, this doesn't look normal to me and I'm not a medical expert. I suppose it's easy to write this off when we're living in the internet age and everyone is a bit isolated from one another in a way.

Welp Social Security is supposed to be insolvent eventually. Maybe with the old timers gone that won't be an issue. Maybe I'm a little naïve, but I'm still optimistic our society pulls through albeit not without losses.

friscostylez I think you said/asked this before

 

[lawdog1]

Tobias been trash

His next deal will have him at 250-300 Ms lifetime.

Amazing work, truly remarkable.

I really thought he would be perfect as a 3rd option on the Sixers, but that was when he first got there and I thought Ben was actually a number 2 guy.

But he’s been disappointing no matter how you look at it.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Embiid

 

[brownmamba]

i guess Wetbrook is on trading BLOCK again

 

[frshstunna]

Durant really enjoying himself playing with these youngins, alotta energy tonight

 

[freeze]

They panicking

 

[HIM]

Time aint fake, it’s just frozen

 

[had pants]

 

[elpablo21]

They panicking

Keep fighting for them spots Lil Zeke