OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA THREAD -May 2021

Dude is still ducking rims. He's a freak and I think he'll keep playing for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to pass Vince with 22 seasons in the league, especially if playing with Bronny would be an option... which it looks like it might be. MJ may or may not be the GOAT but LeBron is the freakiest thing we've ever seen in the league. Nothing close to being like him.

 

I see what you did there! Well done, sir!

 

He’s one of the oldest players in the league.

 

By the way, Melo is 3rd oldest. Do you know who the 2 oldest are? They play for the same team.

 

So Mavs is stuck in the 5th seed even if they lose or win tomorrow. Clippers and Nuggets will tank

 

The Mavs are not locked in. If we win tomorrow and both the Mavs and Lakers lose, we end up tied with just the Mavs and the Lakers will be a game behind. In that case it's a two way tie and the two way tie breaker is head to head record and we own that because we went 2-1 against Dallas. So in the scenario that the Mavs and Lakers lose, and we win... we would be fifth, the Mavs would be sixth and the Lakers would be in seventh and the play-in tournament.

 

Lakers not going to lose this game.

 

Interesting that people here said Suns wouldn't rest player because of race for 1 seed. Well, today, they are resting Paul and Booker and losing to Spurs. Guess they don't care about 1 seed. They just tried to beat us to hopefully avoid Lakers. They could give a fuck about the 1 seed.

 

Amazing. Washington got 8 seed outright on final day of season. After being 15 games below .500. Now they wish there wasn't a play-in tournament. I bet they beat Boston now. Should be good. We now know two matchups. Boston will play Washington and Charlotte will play Indiana.

 

memphis-warriors battle for 8th seed. i wonder who the league wants to win.

 

Suns rest 4 of their starters and still win. They can still get 1 seed.

 

Might want Memphis. That would put GS in the 9/10 game. Spread out the star power. Warriors/Spurs is better ratings than Grizzlies/Spurs.

 

I wonder how the Sixers, Jazz, and Suns feel about maybe not knowing their opponent until Friday. That's a big disadvantage. Meanwhile, 3/6 and 4/5 can prepare for each other all week.

 

Good for him.

 

Good. Make it a little more difficult for the #1 and #2 seeds to advance. I'm all for it.

 

Shaq was also quite the physical specimen. A man his size, so athletic, and moved so well was special.

 

Curry is shooting 13/32. He just missed a shot and they said “A rare miss by Curry!” Wut? Talk about overrated.