Event Around the 2025 NBA Playoff Madness!

HOLY SHIT!!! I am not a fan of Haliburton's attitude but damn that dude can close shit out. He's clutch clutch clutch!

#verywatchable

 

Oh... I don't like that at all. There has to be other ways to incentivize teams and players not to rest so much but not by completely overhauling a standard of stat keeping that's been around for the entire history of the league.

 

Puzzled by CLE decision to call that time out AND why not foul? Up by two!!!

 

Go Pacers!

 

And wearing 0. Coincidence?

 

Are the Cavs learning the hard way about the undersized backcourt?

 

If a player is held out with back soreness, how is the 3rd party doctor aware of how sore he is? That 3rd party doctor isn't the one paying these guys 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars a year.

 

Guys used to play with that shit lol

 

Not very long they didn't.

 

And now sometimes they don't. They've already put in the new 65 game rule for awards, with many extensions and bonuses tied to those awards. Adjusting with "zeros" seems silly and petty to me.

 

Jimmy Butler fell off

 

Fight all year for playoff home court advantage....so far, in the 2nd round, home teams are 0-5

 

Has that ever happened before?

 

Nope

 

The Jimmy and Buddy podcast (press conference) after the games is lots of fun.

 

Don't like the idea of contracts being stat based - even advanced stats can have plays that are harmful to team success.

For contracts I'd just like to see deals never be more than 50% guaranteed... so player can be cut in any offseason and the team gets out of half the remaining contract. Guy like Grant could be cut tomorrow and the Blazers can save $50+ million from rest of that contract, and $18 million this season from Ayton. Those players are still getting massive paydays even if they got cut as well as now would be free agents to sign new deals.

Milwaukee could cut Dame and save $56 million over the next two years. Dame still gets paid that same $56 million (50% of his remaining deal) just to sit on the couch, or he can eventually try to sign with another team so its not like these players are losing everything. I'd love if I could get fired and get half my paycheck for the next 3 years while getting a new job elsewhere. Would also allow the player to be on a team that better fits what they want to accomplish and the team doesnt have to hold a roster spot on a guy that doesn't fit long term.

I like the 3point line being a circle without corner 3s, and allowing bigs to camp at the basket.

 

Yeah I remember seeing some stats a few years ago how now there is almost zero home court advantage in the playoffs. It used to be a much larger advantage as the refs gave calls to the home team and crowd reaction but thats been cleaned up the last few decades.

We've never seen this 0-5 for home teams... but we have seen a number of playoff series in recent years where road teams won more than home. That just about never happened decades ago.

The regular season has a much larger home court advantage - but thats almost entirely because the home team has more rest days and less travel days. Travel isn't a factor in the playoffs as both teams have identical schedules and there aren't back to backs.

 

Both the NBA and NHL playoffs so far this year have been absolutely nuts.