OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: FEBRUARY 2025

Has player empowerment contributed to the tanking phenomena?

 

12 seconds left in the game, with Philly down by 2 points, Joel Embiid booed by fans after passing up wide open 3, then turns it over

 

I mean, it's his fault.

 

four years ago, Christian Wood averaged 21 & 10 with a PER of 20.0 and a .591 TS% while shooting 37.4% from three
three years ago, he averaged 18 & 10 with a PER of 19.1 and a .595 TS% while shooting 39% from three

he has a +3 career net rating and a +1.2 career BPM (much better than Grant and Simons and similar to Ayton)

today Wood was waived so a team can replace him with Alex Len; going from a salary of 14.3M 2 years ago to the unemployment line today

 

Huh? Explain.

 

pretty sure it's an injury thing. A little sad for him because I think he has LA connections and was thrilled to play there.

 

He’s been injured.

 

Sold out.

 

Embiid is embracing the tank

 

I think it was injuries that did him in. His ascension to becoming good was pretty unusual though

 

Christian Woods is injured - he had knee surgery at the start of the season.

 

it will be interesting if a team, and which team, picks him up for next season. He will be 30

 

He certainly will get minimum offers - career 13.6ppg on 37% 3s. Had 6MOY votes in Dallas before being injured last season.

I mean he'd probably be the Blazers best free agency acquisition since Wes Matthews?

 

depends on that knee injury

Aminu and Ed Davis were decent adds. Flawed players but decent adds

 

Yeah Aminu and Davis were both good signings. Might have been Olshey two best additions.

I think Melo was overrated but some might consider him a decent free agent addition. Hood and Kanter were good but only for a couple months of a season.

Andre Miller was actually another signing that was good, but like Wes Matthews prior to Olshey.

Only good free agent period we've ever really had was trader Bob days - over a few seasons he signed Kenny Anderson, Brian Grant, Detlef Schrempf, Jimmy Jackson, and Greg Anthony.

 

We traded for Hood.

 

Is Doncic hurt ? He's not playing in the 4th quarter.

 

Nice to see that we lost to the Nuggets by less than the Mighty LukaLebrons lost to the Jazz

 

Also: turns out Dame and Giannis were holding the Bucks back.

 

Looks like his play was detrimental to his team. The Lakers were down by 22 points in Utah in the 3rd quarter when Doncic went out, and never came back.