/nba/-rings edition

>>74555622
>1 ring
>talking shit about ringless teams

>"One thing I'm not celebrating is that shit second half"

lmao Carlisle

>>74555696
Spurs stopped being contenders when they traded away Boris Diaw

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>tfw too intelligent to make my free throws

stepehen curry

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go wizards!

>>74555820

The GOAT

>>74555820
>this webm
>that filename

You cannot be this fucking casual. That's not the dream shake and Hakeem wasn't a jump shooter.

Ingram scored in double figures tonight

>>74555848
interesting pattern...

>>74555823
taytay's sweaty pussy and asshole

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>You cannot be this fucking casual. That's not the dream shake and Hakeem wasn't a jump shooter.

Hakeem jumped when he did a hook, that's a jump shot hehe

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>>74555807
>boards.4chan.org/sp/thread/74555622

>mfw we have newfags that can't even link properly posting among us

how high in the all-time scoring list will lebron realistically get

reminder this year's draft class is going to btfo last year's.

the top 17-18 projected picks are freshmen or of the equivalent age.

>>74555885
top three 100% guaranteed

>>74555884
links fine for me with 4chanx and in clover

>>74555884
Fucking hilarious all these casuals. I'm done posting here

Another example >>74555871 >>74555820

>>74555885

#2

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>reminder this year's draft class is going to btfo last year's.

>>74555884
works fine for me m8

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>>74555850
I was gonna type GOAT foreign player but then Hakeem popped in my head

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>>74555909
>tfw you win the genetic lottery for looks but not basketball skills

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>>74555884

????

its work what are you talking about

>>74555928
>win the genetic lottery for looks
>this image

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Reminder that it takes at least 3 years to properly evaluate a draft class and you can have discussions without abusing hyperboles

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REPPIN' /BTC/ OUTCHEA

>>74555939
compared to his brothers he came out pretty good, older one has a triangle head and the young one looks inbred

>>74555939
didn't need 3 years to evaluate kwame brown or candy man

>>74555965
>can't even quote the right person
embarassing.

>>74555961
He has a pyramid head, not a triangle head. Triangles are 2D.

>>74555909
What's wrong with him?

>>74555965

Candy man had genuine talent. He just couldn't put it all together for some reason

Kwami never recovered from MJ and could have been a decent backup or fringe starter

How will Ingram look next year?

>>74556002
Kwame wasn't even that bad. He was an NBA talent but 1st pick overall was a stretch. At least it wasn't like Anthony Bennett

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>Check nba standings for the 2nd time this season
>See Utah in the 4th seed even better than the Clippers

What just happened? Can the great white hope Hayward actually win the ship even if its a one time fluke?

>>74555977

Pyramids have a square base. You mean tetrahedron you pleb

>>74556037
if the clippers finish 5th behind Utah they're going to exit the first round lmao

>>74556037

Short answer: no

Long answer: no because their already suspect offense will fold to any bo7 gameplanning and they get lit up by super meme spammers like GS and Houston. The jazz are basically a suped up memphis. They might steal a series if they get home court but are 2nd round outs at best

>Mavs somehow claw their way to the 8th seed
>knock out the GSW in the first round

Is it.....possible?

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>>74556045
>>74555977
>>74555961

nigga i dont give a fuck what you call it, i dont want this phineas and ferb looking nigga on my team

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>>74556074
like poetry

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>>74556074
>GSW
>1st seed

How do we stop John Wall from statpadding?

>>74556037
>Clippers have beaten Jazz 17 of the last 18 times

Wew

>>74556090
>he doesn't want to see Dirk get revenge for 07
>he doesn't want to see Barnes get revenge for himself and Bogut
>he doesn't want to see Seth outmeme Steph

>>74556105
I'd love to see all of that, but Spurs are finishing first m8

Its gonna be OKC v GSW first round

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>>74556094
Kill him

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The call that killed John Wall

>/nba/ sucks westbricks dick
>chucks 58 with a good % but still catches an L
>needs at least 7 assists next game to keep averaging trey dub

>/nba/ memes that Wall is shook
>25/4/14/3/2 and a W

>>74555885
Depends on when he retires
He'll be 3rd minimum though

>Hating on Dirk

Is there anything edgier than this?

>>74556248
Howdy Reddit

>>74556269
Liking Reggie Miller is pretty edgy

>>74556269
N
No reason to hate him
The only team he's cucked is the Heat, and they won the next two rings, not to mention robbing Dirk of a ring in 06.

>>74556269
Hating on Kobe

>>74556269
Hating on Steph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7_hVKISh4

skip to 14:13

Ingram is the GOAT lmao

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>>74556269
hating on the goat

>>74555960
>Wolrd

Reminder that Kyrie has 85-90% of the ability that Lebron has while being 8 years younger as well as a being a flat earther
He's /ourguy/

Is there any doubt the Mavs will be the 8 seed again?

>>74556368

kyrie is the most overrated player in the nba

>>74556385
He doesn't deserve his shoe deal either

Drake the kind of dude to fall in love with a pornstar.

Like this post if you think Kawhi will be MVP

Comment if you think Harden will be MVP

;)

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>>74556415
>mfw Kyrie has a sig shoe and Westshook doesn't

>>74556439
Westbrook is signed by jordan....

>>74556475
Where the sig shoe at doe?

ayyyyyyyyyyy

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>>74556517
Any questions?

Wow Westbrook might not be able to do this triple double thing

>>74556526
They're not basketball shoes.

KEK.

Melo and CP3 are both Jordan guys and they have sig shoes, and they're two of the most JUST guys in the league.

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>>74556385
>Ay yo anon ready to play ba- wait hol up, you think the the Earth is round? Mind explaining?

>>74555885
Realistically? #2, I'm hoping his age comes quickly but even then he'll still end up at like 4 or 5

>>74556535
He's already behind pace to break the single season record. He needs to get more assists if he wants to keep up the pace. If he doesn't get 8+ next game he falls to 9.985 per game

Can we all now admit Westbrook is a cancer? He doesn't make his teammates better like LeBron does. Statpadding does not win titles its a proven fact

>>74556547
>N-no Kyrie

Just dropping by to say a certain Laker got a triple double, and his name is not Brandon Ingram, and for the faggots, his name is not bust either.

>>74556555
so clowse

>>74556560
This

>>74556555
But triple dubs

>>74555885
Assuming he plays an average of 103 Games a season (21 playoff games) and averages 30 points per game that's 3090 points per season. So if he lasts till he's 36 with those stats he's at 40,000 or so

>>74556574
I just wanted to prove a point

Celtics will heavily go after Gordon Hayward who has pretty good interest back in Boston with his college coach there and the team's standing in general. Then we could trade that Brooklyn pick for a strong center before the draft. Even crazier, we draft Fultz and have him, Smart, Brown and Olynk all together off the bench.

>>74556560
>statpadding in garbage time vs Mavs 3rd stringers

Lmao

>>74556586
You didn't prove anything. You're the cancer.

>>74556555
Westbrook was the only one who got an assist. He got 9, on top of that he had 58 points of great shooting (especially for him).

>>74556596
God Damn man.... You didn't need to scorch anon's ass like that....

>>74556597
>great shooting
he bricked them when it mattered

You can only reply to my post if a player on your team has recorded a triple doublay. who /tripdubclub/ ?

>>74556586
I was making a joke

>>74556596
This post perfectly describes modern /nba/

I wish this whole general could take chemotherapy and pray the gay away.

>>74556611
TRIPLE DUBS

>>74556614
Why do people pretend like /nba/ was ever good? Generals have always been a cancer on /sp/.

>>74556584
Playoff points count separately.

>>74556597
No, Westbrook was the only one who got more than 2 assists. Christon had 2, Kanter, Gibson, McDermott, Abrines and Cole had 1 each.

>>74556614
>I wish this whole general could take chemotherapy and pray the gay away.

>you now remember the whole season where all the rockets fans were gay and posted gay dwight, harden, and mchale gay fan fic.

>>74556599
He shot over 50%, he can't be blamed for regression to the mean at a certain time, he was without a doubt the best performer and put the ball in the hands of the team plenty and in good position and they failed, mostly defensively however

>>74556629
and now it's canadians with drake and guy fieri.

>>74556628
Well then 82 makes 2400 so 9600 puts him around 37000, putting him in first place

>>74556629
I totally forgot about that, Lmao.

>>74555850
Funny you say this because Dirk has literally called his signature fade away "the white man dream shake" because the dream shake required too much athleticism for him to do.

Should shitty franchises like the 76ers and Timberwolves be forced to give up their talent to competent franchises?

Go lakers, Leltics suck ass

>>74556672
i agree, we should call the Lakers the Wakers cause they get W's.

>>74556664
>76ers
>shitty franchise
They're the 6th best franchise in terms of championships, tied with Detroit and Miami. In other words, they're better than 22/30 teams

Minny I can see since they have the lowest all-time winning % out of every team.

>>74556696
i think he meant currently, not all time.

>>74556664
What if we combined shit teams?

Dlo
Lavine
Wiggins
Randle
KAT

Would this make the 8th seed?

>>74556726
No

>>74556726
thats great teams, shit teams would be

IT4
Curry
KD
Horford
Mcgee

So Cavs are winning again right? Now that Durant is out GSW are fucked and there's no one else except maybe the Spurs that could take them to 7 Games

>>74556740
All depends on whether Durant comes back in time in good enough shape and whether Kawhi and Pop can rally the troops to make up for the last couple disappointing playoffs.

>>74556740
Who is Kevin Love?

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>>74556775
he'll be back this month mate

>mfw we get one last Mavs-Spurs ploffs

>>74556775
WHAT IS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>74556726
in 4 years probably

>>74556796
>Not Warriors/Mavs

Mavs could actually beat the Warriors.

>>74556800
Baby don't hurt me, no more

>>74556793
>bad back and knee
Lmao

>drafted to play with and get trained by a Spurs legend
>one of the only wing players ever to get DPOY
>starts in his first two all-star appearences
>lead the league in steals at a young age

who am I describing?

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>>74556820
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma24wmAjRGo

LEL

>>74556818
I'd much rather play the Clips, Grizzles, or Thunder in the playoffs than the Mavs right now.

>>74556560

he was stat padding near the end in a 20 something point game though, doesn't really count

he'll be gone soon enough, probably packaged with deng in order to move his contract

>>74556839
I WAS DESCRIBING MICHAEL JORDAN AND KAWHI LEONARD

>>74556863
oh! cause there is noy way Jaylen Brown is ever going to amount to that playing 2 minutes for the rest of his career.

>>74556871
atleast you can admit it

>>74556587
>draft a #1 overall pick
>trading away the 2018 Brooklyn pick
>trading away a chance for the 2018 big guy sweepstakes
>drafting a chucker and demoting him to the bench

If they're taking Fultz/Ball/Smith they should dump Bradley, Rozier, Young, etc.

If they're taking Jackson they need to dump books nigga and pray he does not become another Joe Johnson who flourished in another team

>>74556890
why don't they just trade for Devin Booker, isn't he Kobes son?

Lol stats

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How funny would it be if the warriors and cavs didn't even make it to the finals? Would /nba/ be great again?

Lebron
3-4 in Finals
3 MVPs
Jordan
6-0 in Finals
6 MVPs
Will Lebron get his dream of surpassing him?

>>74556900
they won't
it'll be Celtics v Spurs and it will start a rivalry that ends with Kawhi open hand slapping Isiaiah Thomas in the face

>>74556900
Cavs will almost surely make it, but the Warriors definitely look vulnerable.

>>74556904
>Leshit

>>74556904
LeBron is the best regular season player of all time
Jordan is the best post season player of all time
discussion over

>>74556916
>best anything but flopper

>>74556916
So Jordan is better than? Postseason wins are worth far more than regular season

>>74556931
yesh

Pretty crazy how much hate Westbrook is getting this season.

Its like every smart-dumb person picks on him to prove they are knowledgeable.

>>74556904
Nope. Eastern Conference teams suddenly have potential in the next few years. Doesn't help LeBron is declining.

>>74556904
lets be realistic lebron should have way more mvp's than that

like d fucking rose even stole one

>>74556958
Those are finals MVPs. Regular season Jordan has 5 and Lebron 4

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>>74556945
>Lebron
>Declining

>>74556958

Voters have this dumb habit of getting tired of voting for the same player over and over again even if he clearly deserves it. Jordan should have like 3 more mvps and Lebron should have won it every time since 2007 except last year

>>74556973
MJ should have one of Malone's MVPs
Lebron should have Rose and KD's MVPs

>>74556973
>>74557082
they should take back Nash's mvp and give it to kobe. and also make it that kings fans should never complain about the 2002 WCF finals ever again.

New here. Is MVP given to the best player or is "valuable" taken in the sense that it's awarded to who was the most important player for their team?

>>74557149
>>74557149
>"valuable" taken in the sense that it's awarded to who was the most important player for their team?
this should be what it is for but sometimes it's given to who is best (see curry 73-9 season)

>>74557149
It's open to interpretation and the voters individually determine what a MVP is.

It's very flawed and changes depending on the situation and popular argument or thought.

Very dumb award overall.

>>74557095
You get 5 NBA related wishes that let you change the past. What do you wish for?

1. Nash's first MVP be given to Shaw
2. Nick Anderson makes thows fucking free throws
3. David Stern can fuck right off with the veto on CP3 to Lakers trade
4. Michael Jordan doesn't retire in '93
5. Len Bias doesn't OD

>>74557168
>wanting Jordan to win 8 titles in a row
Everybody loves a comeback. Seeing the same thing over and over though

>>74557168
1. rose never injures his acl
2. okc don't blow up the big 3
3. brandon roy doesn't destroy his knees
4. shaq and kobe don't break up
5. lebron makes it past orlando to advance to the finals in 2009

All-time MVPs if they just gave it to the player with the most win shares (Including BAA)

Most of these are consecutive because 1 guy usually dominates over a period

1947-48: Bob Feerick (2)
1949-51: George Mikan (3)
1952: Paul Arizin (1)
1953-57: Neil Johnston (5)
1958: Dolph Schayes (1)
1959: Bob Pettit (1)
1960-64, 1966-68: Wilt Chamberlain (8)
1965: Oscar Robertson (1)
1969: Willis Reed (1)
1970: Jerry West (1)
1971-74, 1976-77, 1979-81: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (9)
1975: Bob McAdoo (1)
1978: David Thompson (1)
1982-83: Moses Malone (2)
1984: Adrian Dantley (1)
1985-86: Larry Bird (2)
1987-93, 96-97: Michael Jordan (9)
1994-95: David Robinson (2; as an aside, Robinson rates extremely well in advanced stats)
1998-99: Karl Malone (2)
2000-01: Shaquille O'neal (2)
2002-03: Tim Duncan (2)
2004-05: Kevin Garnett (2)
2006-07: Dirk Nowitzki (2)
2008: Chris Paul (1)
2009-13: LeBron James (5)
2014: Kevin Durant (1)
2015 and (so far) 2017: James Harden (1+)
2016: Stephen Curry (1)

advanced stats in basketball are what they are so take it as you will

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>>74557188

>shaq and kobe instead of shaq and penny

>>74557192
Some day, someone will be bold and brave enough to publicly reopen the Jordan vs Kareem GOAT debate.

>>74557168
1. stern cp3 veto never goes through
2. celtics don't win any titles
3. shaq never leaving the lakers
4. we get westbrook, lebron, and westbrook to change their minds about the dunk contest in their primes so we can get the ultimate dunk off.
5. And desu, KD never leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder and becoming a snake. (sneak in harden never getting traded.)

>>74557205
What debate? Kareem is always justly outdone by MJ because of Magic and Big O

>>74557168
1. David Thompson doesn't get addicted to coke
2. Larry Bird never gets hurt
3. Magic doesn't get HIV
4. Seattle doesn't trade Pippen to Chicago
5. Refs can never fuck up in playoffs i.e. 88 and 06 Finals, 93 and 02 WCF

9999. Oden stays healthy
fuck the blazers

>>74557214
>9999. Oden stays healthy
>fuck the blazers
?

>>74557214
>3. Magic doesn't get HIV
Would that really change anything? Mj already has his foot over the NBA and the Lakers weren't a championship team that time

>>74557205
Jordan played in a harder era. Jordans stats are also better. I can't think of any other legends that averaged 30ppg over their entire career

haha Len Bias is an anagram of lesbian

>>74557168
1. LeBron goes to college, learns to be a man
2. Tim Duncan gets injured rookie year and Spurs draft Allen Iverson next year
3. Kevin Durant goes to Memphis in 2016 offseason
4. Kobe also goes to college, goes anywhere but LA
5. Ray Allen misses the three pointer in the 2013 finals

>>74557225
Oden staying healthy would give the blazers the best player in the NBA. I hate the blazers, so therefore I would not wish for this outcome

>>74557231
It would at least push him higher in the all-time stat counts and he's a top 5 all time guy so i thought the limiting factor in his later career being removed would be alright.

>>74557233
>Jordan played in a harder era
Debatable. No team was a clear favorite at any point during the 70s and the 80s was stacked full of championship-level teams

>any other legends that averaged 30ppg over their entire career
Wilt Chamberlain did

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>>74557249
>4. Kobe also goes to college, goes anywhere but LA
>enters the 99 draft
>gets selected 1st overall by Chicago

Damn....

>>74557280
plus he wouldn't have the slump he did the first few seasons getting adjusted, and know how to deal with big games
and MJ was working out with players after he retired to keep the winning tradition alive
Kobe would've been the mamba about 13 years earlier

>>74557214
Also honorary mention to T-Mac and Grant Hill never getting injured

>>74557168
1. Bynum doesn't get injured in 08
2. Bynum doesn't get injured in 09
3. Bynum doesn't get injured in 10
4. Kobe doesn't break is fingers in 08
5. Odom's relative does not die in 10

Lakers literally foreverpeat under these conditions.

Imagine kobe being mentored by Jordan!? What would have happened /nba/? Zen master stays with chicago. Imagine Kobe getting a Young lebron james the one that took cleveland to the finals in his early years, fugg, kobe and young bron in chicago? RBL haters are shuddering at the idea, memeships BTFO.

>>74557334
if Bynum never got injured once, the NBA would be a very different place

>>74557361
- Bynum
- T-Mac
- Grant Hill
- D Rose
- Brandon Roy
- Greg oden
- Yao

You get to stop one of these guys from getting career-affecting injuries. Who do you pick?

>>74557379

Rose easily. He had the athleticism of Westbrook combined with retard strength that made him unstoppable.

>>74557361
>>74557379
bynum, oden and yao, if they did not get injured small ball would not be this prominent and Dwight would never be the best big man in the NBA. But to answer the question, if I wasnt a Bynum homer it would be Brandon Roy

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>Name is Ingram
>Can't shoot

Top Kek

>>74557397
He was fast but he didn't jump as high or have as much power as Westbrook. Rose stuck to layups most of the time and when he dunked it wasn't near as powerful as Westbrook.

Rose had more finesse to his game mixed with the speed using acrobatics finishing moves.

>>74557379
Brandon Roy was the only one to me who seemed to be the real deal.
Grant didn't get to go all out, but he still played almost 20 seasons
T-Mac had a pretty great career, he happened to get better with age, like all great two-guards. Still had a good career.
D-Rose was cool, but his team was better than him. They were kind of like GSW, but never got to play a LeBron team full of injuries like Steph and them did.
If Bynum got all the experience that he ended up missing, and then still got traded for Dwight Howard to the Sixers, there would be no Trust the Process because he'd be killing over there maybe still today.
Yao did as much as his body allowed.

So, Brandon Roy.

>“I am addicted to the process. I’m addicted to the process,” James said. “It’s so funny. I just told my wife the other day, I apologized to her. She was like 'What are you apologizing for?’ I said ‘Because the journey that I’m on to want to be the greatest to ever play this game or to the point where no one ever forgets what I accomplished, I’ve at times lost the fact of how important you are to this whole thing. … I want you to understand that along this journey while I’m playing this game there will be times that I lose the fact of how important you and my three kids are – my babies are.’ ”

apparently he was paid to say this as part of this YouTube shilling shit, go ahead and check it out, it's on the top left of the homepage

>>74557454
we already saw what tmac and yao could do. as fans we werent robbed from much except for an even more comperitive western conference.

Roy we did not see the whole thing yet. he isnt even 30 now. and he is a really good hs coach. goes to show his bbiq.

rose we got robbed of 10s lebron seeing the only legit competition in the east.

Only Lakers fans will care about Bynum. Even then not all Lakers fans.

>>74557476

LMAO i noticed that too, dude just didn't learn from last time

>>74557486
>he is a really good hs coach
>getting the best players to go to your school makes your coaching good

>>74557476
hinkie and his nephew embiid should copyright the phrase "the process"

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>Top 20 guy all time(I rank him in the low teens)
>Champ and MVP
>Never been in trouble
>Regarded as universally friendly, but competitive
Great player. Great guy. He'll do wonders for basketball in Europe once he retires and gets a job for the NBA's global initiative. This man is going to be one of the most influential guys to ever play the game in twenty years. Mark my words.

>>74557537
>This man is going to be one of the most influential guys to ever play the game in twenty years
He already is the most influential player today. He is the whole reason big men are allowed to practice the long ball.

>>74557590
>Dirk is responsible for meme ball

Fuck you Dirk

Although whenever a European big man entering the league gets compared to you, it means you did something.

>>74557662
>meme ball
Miami Heat is to blame for meme ball. Meme ball started when Spoelstra started playing small ball with Lebron or Bosh at center.

Kerr took that up a notch with the death lineup with Draymond and Iggy in the "frontcourt".

>>74557698
thats true desu. Everyone hates the Warriors for memeball but LeBron is the bigger memer

>>74557698
>>74557821

Do you even D'antoni suns? They started the whole uptempo, small-ball, meme spamming idea. They used to run Marion or that fat fuck Borris at the 5 all the time espicially when stat got hurt

>>74558025
mike said it himself, he wasnt ready to meme 100% and lost faith after a while. he thought it was too early for the NBA t9 embrace the meme. But biggest of all he could not convince stat to be a full time center while lebron held back the sex so bosh would play center

>>74557698
I mean Bosh is 6'11'' so he's hardly small ball at center like the Warriors

>>74558025
Its Run TMC Warriors.

Just gonna leave this bomb ass /nba/ related track here for you guys to digest.

No need to thank me.

https://soundcloud.com/blacbillclinton/the-intro-1

>>74558078
he's a finesse player so 6'11" doesn't really mean much. his ability to trap and switch on the pnr is what made him valuable, not rim protection.

kd is as tall if not taller than bosh

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Lebron Jizzle is the MVP. It's a shame he's been robbed of about 5 MVPs.

How would you make Brandon Ingram an all star player?

>>74559124
Well if it needs to come from a top 2 team then it's either lelbron or kawaii. Pretty sure it's going to be lelbron.

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>>74559128
make the call to activate it

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>200

>>74558025
It's funny that the two most game-changing players in the 2000s were Dirk and Nash who are best friends and both played for the Mavs.

>If the Mavs grab the 8th seed like everyone expects, they undoubtedly look like the toughest out right now of all the lower seeded teams (Thunders, Grizzles, and Clippers) and the #1 seed would have to play them

Why is this allowed? Why can't the 1-3 seeds pick their matchups? Fucking everybody would rather play a Thunder team that can still lose games when WB drops 58 points over a hot as shit Rick Carlisle coached Mavs team.

>>74559294
>the two most game-changing players

I'm sorry, how many titles did they win together?

>>74559420
>muh rings
Big men can take 3's, now. If you think the number of rings a player has changes the impact they have on the game, then you're three steps behind the best coaches.

>>74559420
I'm simply referring to how much they influenced the current state of affairs in the NBA autismo, not how good they are.

Nash's Suns teams basically set the standard for modern offenses, and Dirk was the first shooting bigman.

https://strawpoll.com/ggcdx9x
https://strawpoll.com/ggcdx9x
https://strawpoll.com/ggcdx9x

Cast your vote young fella

>>74559507
I think westbrook should win however I think lelbron will win.
1. Westbrook
2. Lebron
3. Leonard
4. Harden

>Inb4 a fucking leaf

>>74559416
> Fucking everybody would rather
you answered your own question, everybody would make the same choice

>>74556088
Pottery*

Westbrook is mvp

>>74559879
wew

Ingram went 13/4/5 yesterday

Apologize

>>74559879
Yeah of the losers club or something. The real MVPs have top 3 seeds

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Sup guys.

Just sitting here patiently, waiting for basketball.

>>74560109
And DeAngelo Russell scored 22 points, and Randle had a triple double, but none of it is remotely worth gloating about because the Mavs fucking reamed the Lakers.

steph

How do you think Dirk feels with all those young undrafted players on the team? I feel like they all look up to him

Goongrats to Weststat on another impressive box score

>a subpar statline is now an impressive for Ingram

Wow. Talk about bust. A non bust #2 pick should be putting that on a nightly basis.

>>74559507
how the FUCK will anyone but westbrook win?

the guy's averaging a triple double and is singlehandedly carrying his joke of a team to the playoffs

>>74560113
didn't stop kobe

>>74560286
He wasn't even the best rookie in that game. Yogi outplayed him.

>>74560301
When was the last time the 7th seed had a player winning MVP? Westbrook is just Kobe 2006 2.0

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>>74560301
>didn't stop Kobe

You talking about his MVP season? Lakers were #1 in the west

>>74560286
Ingram has basically no help though.

And his +/- was decent compared to the other starters.

>>74560301
Cavs w/o Lebron are a trash fire.
With him they are championship material - he should win it but he wont.

How is Brandon Ingram's PER only 7.30?

>Nick Young is Kendrick Lamar's cousin

Probably the weirdest shit I'll read today.

>>74555622
That's a vert classy ring.

Where to cop?

>>74555622
>>74555674

Breaking the Cleveland curse is worth 52 rings anywhere else.
Being the only team ever to win the finals down 3-1 adds at least 10 more rings.
LeBron fulfilling his promise to bring the ring is worth 5.
Beating the Warriors and showing they didn't deserve to win in 2015 adds that ring.

>>74557379
Can we replace Curry's career to get one of these guys back?

>>74560367
>And his +/- was decent compared to the other starters.

Jesus Christ he was tied for the 3rd worst +/- in the game lmao. The excuses for Ingram have reached retarded levels.

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>mfw Kawhi hits a wet ass game winner and recreates the 2014 block this on the thunder this Thursday

>>74560928
http://hoopshabit.com/2017/01/27/los-angeles-lakers-ingram-looks-like-a-bust-but-he-isnt/

Sure.

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>>74561058
>Some Random blogger for the Lakers proves Ingram isn't a bust

holy kek Bogut

Haven't watched the kings since the trade? Are they good enough to beat the Spurs without Kawhi and Aldridge? They're resting tonight.
WE NEED THAT 1 SEED

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>>74561210

>>74561210
they're like 1-6 since the trade, spurs probably still win easily

Rockets changing their lineup.

>Eric Gordon will start over Ryan Anderson and James Harden will guard the power forward position.

>>74561331
Nice

>>74561331
FUCK! This ruins Ryan Anderson's fantasy points. Fuck the cockshits.

>>74561331
why would they want harden getting banged by the likes of AD, blake, and aldridge

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John wall>russell westbrook

>b-but wall just chucks it to open guys in the corner all the time
>b-but walls team takes more 3 point shots

>Ty Lawson broke the terms of his probation by testing positive for alcohol THREE TIMES over the past 7 months ... this according to court docs obtained by TMZ Sports.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/03/08/nbas-ty-lawson-tested-positive-for-booze-3-times-officials-say/

>>74561393
Harden is very powerful and lateral quickness is his weakness

He's actually probably better at defending PFs than shooting guards

>>74561331
>>74561430
>Harden in the post

?????????

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>>74561331
Source?

>>74561474
https://twitter.com/calvinwatkins/status/839519911928016897

>>74561430
he's still trying to guard guys 5-6 inches taller every game

they're gonna get smashed on offensive boards

Does OKC retire Ray Allen's jersey?

Lamarcus Aldridge seems like the kind of guy to be silently suicidal

>>74561529
He seems like the guy who likes to be loved but gets mad when he's not and doesn't make en effort to go and find love

Kanye Westbrook is a bum.

>>74562061
The fuck you doing here Colin Cowherd?

>>74561529
>>74561743
Do you think Pop's tough love has made him depressed?

If you have to redraft, where would you draft Brandon Ingram?

>>74556597
He bricks shots when it matters, not to mention the turnovers in which James Haren is #1.

>>74562208
14th

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>Boston is 18-6 with all starters
>literally the third best winning percentage in the NBA

/nba/ is NEVER right

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>>74563006

>none of this matters cause they still wont make it out of the east

>>74563452
>none of this matters cause they still wont make it out of the 2nd round
FTFY

>>74563006
Sixers would be in the playoffs with everyone healthy.....your point? There is no "what if" in basketball. Injuries are part of the game.

>>74561397
Too bad.

>>74563687
>>74563687
>2nd round
>implying isaiah manlet isn't going to be exposed when the refs stop calling ticky tack fouls and letting players play on in the playoffs
>implying drummond won't swat his shot into the bleachers every time he drives
>implying pistons won't sweep them

>>74556900
It will be Heat vs Spurs again. Heat will win, making Dion Waiters one of the all time greats.

Reminder that Lance Stephenson turned down millions thinking he would get paid only to end up in China. Lmao

Lebron should win MVP

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Check this out /nba/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fDs7yG3FQpw

/nba/ thread is going to die in the onslaught of all this soccer shitposting

>celtics vs warriors

i want both teams to lose

>>74568138
Should've won MVP the last 5 seasons but MVP is a popularity contest and Westbrick winning it this year will prove it.

We're gonna see a guy get MVP and his team miss the playoffs.

Is Kawhi Leonard elite?

>Janie Buss, the younger sister of Lakers controlling owner Jeanie Buss, believes that her two older brothers are trying to bust the family trust so they can sell their interest in the franchise, which was recently valued at $3 billion by Forbes magazine.

>"They're [Jim and Johnny] trying to bust the trust so they call their [interests]," Janie Buss said in an ESPN.com story from ESPN's Ramona Shelburne posted Wednesday. "And if they sell, that'll leave the rest of us in a minority."

lakies in shambles, this is some godfather type shit

im so mad i wont even post curry pictures today

fuck yall

>>74569534
It's payment for all the years Stern rigged it for em.

>>74569534
It's always been like this, its just out in the open now

>>74569534
Good for them. Hoe thinks she runs the entire team. Dumb slut.

>>74569581
ur a bandwagoner anyway, former kings fan

>>74564667
Spoken like a true ^%ers fan

Unlike smelly Philadelphia, not all teams draft injury prone busts so it's not unusual to say what if for injuries

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Stephen Curry's bulking up is the cause of his decline in shooting this year.

He's trying to be a man when at the end of the day he's just a twink bitch ass nigga. He ruining his career.

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Why the fuck doesnt he want to be traded? If I was him entering the prime of my career, surrounded by bottom feeders and d league players I would be pissed

>>74569972
2014 season had two distinct brazilians. warriors fan brazilian and kings fan brazilian. kings fan lived a bohemian lifestyle and came back a few months ago to check in but doesn't post anymore. I don't know if this iteration of warriors fan brazilian is the one from 2014 or harrison

there was also a very racist brazlian here for a bit, he's not here anymore

>>74570035
he shoots every single day. he wouldnt notice the change in muscle

>>74570198

This guy aint a real Brazilian, he's using a VPN

>>74570052
Pride is a factor. Also it hurt his stock as a player

>>74570404
thought so. warriors and kings BR had recognizable posting patterns too

The warriors AND the raptors not making it to their conference finals?

now this is a timeline i can get behind

>>74570198
There are 4 brazilians here tho.

>one sixers fan
>2 warriors fan

and the other one i'm pretty sure is that guy Larry you ppl talk about

>>74570911
Post of a pic of Brazil with time stamp

>>74570970
I cant right now but eu te garanto que sou brasileiro porra

>>74561331
this is full on pringles

Is there a timeline where both the celshits and warriors lose tonight?

>>74571348
kek pop skullfucked him and he's having PTSD and making panic moves

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>>74571348

The Rockets are solving bball at an alarming rate. Can't wait until they adopt the cherry picking system

>>74571433
>King Manlet goes for 60 and beats the warriors
>tears Achilles statpadding in garbage time

Would be pretty dank

>>74571568
hopefully not, vivek will feel vindicated

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is /nba/ dead? not even 300 posts in a day lol

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Who is the best two way player in the league?

Vid related to be honest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spXnX0l638

>Patrician sports
Hockey
Deathmarch

>Ok sports
Rugby
Cycling (everybody cheats so it's a legit competitiom)
Rally
Handball
Winter sports

>entertaining sports
Lacrosse
Table tennis
Squash

>Meh sports
Horse sports
Formula 1
Moto GP
MMA
Swimming
Tennis

>Pleb sports
Apehoop
Track and field sports
Motocross

>Meme sports
Boreball
Boxing
Cricket
Quidditch

>Absolutely garbage sports
Handegg
Divegrass

>>74571882
(You)

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>>74571882
>ape hoop
>casual

There's a lot of skill involved in this game. One of them is navigating the bullshit refs that have almost destroyed this game with terrible calls.

https://youtu.be/qiML7qMvxWE?t=8m28s

A lesser player could not have done this:

>>74571861
This place blows without Harry, no banter. All this place contains now is delusional Weststatpadder fanboys pretending he's good.

>>74572075
go back to r*ddit

>>74572075

There's not a single argument that you can make that Westbrook isn't good especially in comparison to the average nba player

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>>74572075
>this

>>74556923
2010 was 7 years ago

Isn't it sad how Westbrook is the least successful of the former Thunder team.

Ibaka, Harden, Durant have all left and had massive success. Meanwhile Westbrook is still on the Thunder and floundering. You can't keep blaming others if they all leave and end up having success. Kanye Westbrook.

>>74571568
a bunch of quick manlets spamming threes and cherry picking is the future
the ball bros
IT
Ulis
who can stop them?

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post 'em

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>>74572378
Only one man

>>74572408
I miss posting with him

>>74572359
>ibaka has been hugely successful

warriors or raptors fan detected

>>74572359
Hi Colin, I saw the video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkmWEDsmeM

>>74572408

How? By hoping that losing and glassitis is contagious?

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>>74572469

Me too m8