Around the NBA - March 2018

The Sunday SF Chronicle had a feature on players to watch down the stretch. No Blazers. Not surprising since the author, Bruce Jenkins, has hated the Blazers all the way back to Drexler days.

 

I'm trying to figure out which Denver Nugget shoe he's wearing...powder blue?

 

I think they are saying 3rd place. This is a combination of Blazer wins AND losses for whatever team is at position #4 (in this case, NOP).

This website does a better job conveying the information:
http://www.playoffstatus.com/nba/westernwinmagicnumbers.html

 

A team's magic number is to make the playoffs not a specific seed. The number isn't simply how many wins they need it is a combination of their wins and losses from other teams outside of the playoffs.

So if the Blazers win tonight the number becomes at worst 17 depending on what happens with other teams. It's really complicated to do magic numbers with 7 teams having a realistic shot at 5 spots.

 

It's called luck. That's not a skill play. That's a dumb luck play.

 

That's what I said. Except, it's not a combination of losses from people outside the playoffs - it's losses of the #9 team.

The Hardwood Paraxomium tweet showed the magic number being 18. If you'd click the link I provided, Portland's actual magic number is 15. That's why I said that I think they were saying for the 3rd seed....but it wasn't clear.

 

That's probably it, but the internet doesn't have enough memory to store what @HCP is missing

 

To give me hope, that even at the age of 56, I could still potentially win a dunk contest - in Japan, where any dunk on a 10' rim automatically warrants a 9 out of 10 score.

BNM

 

You don't see the humor in it?

This guy gets it.

 

Middleton is overrated on that end as of now. He's become only an average defender.

 

Wow Pacers. Surprise team of the entire NBA.

 

Go Memphis!

 

Even more than us?