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I haven't liked the Hawks since Wilkins retired, but oooof. I feel bad for their fans. Not the way you want the season to end.
 
The playoffs have become too shaped by injuries. It's almost a contest of endurance more than basketball these days.

It's sort of shocking that the Wolves still won, but does anyone think they have any chance at all against SA without their starting guards?

The Lakers would have wrapped up the series already if either Doncic or Reaves had been available. Alas. Of course, Durant is also out so it would be different if he played. Injuries, injuries, injuries.
 
By the way, what is the deal with Durant? He's been questionable for like two weeks now. It's supposed to be that if you're questionable for game 2, you would be fine to play by game 6.

There have been rumblings that basically everyone in Houston hates Durant and that this "injury" might be more of a quitting on the team. I don't know if that's true -- anyone else heard this? But it would explain a lot. For a HOFer, Durant sure has been given up on a lot. He played for the Thunder. Lost to the Warriors, then joined the Warriors as a mercenary. Then to Brooklyn, which was a disaster and he forced his way out. Phoenix was a disaster and they shipped him off. Now Houston.

It's funny to me when people say that Lebron doesn't have MJ's killer instinct. I mean, maybe nobody quite equals MJ in that regard, but does anyone seriously think either MJ or Lebron would have put up with Kyrie Irving's anti-vaxx nonsense? MJ would have snapped Kyrie in half if he tried that shit. Durant was like, "his body, his choice."
 
superrific said:
The playoffs have become too shaped by injuries. It's almost a contest of endurance more than basketball these days.

It's sort of shocking that the Wolves still won, but does anyone think they have any chance at all against SA without their starting guards?

The Lakers would have wrapped up the series already if either Doncic or Reaves had been available. Alas. Of course, Durant is also out so it would be different if he played. Injuries, injuries, injuries.
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That was an issue last season as well with Tatum and Haliburton going down. That was all a little bit later in the playoffs, but it sucked that those teams lost their star players.
 
Icky Mettle said:
That was an issue last season as well with Tatum and Haliburton going down. That was all a little bit later in the playoffs, but it sucked that those teams lost their star players.
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Yes, that was included in my comment. It's not just this year. It's been the last few years. Didn't Giannis miss a lot of the series with the Pacers, either last year or the year before?
 
superrific said:
By the way, what is the deal with Durant? He's been questionable for like two weeks now. It's supposed to be that if you're questionable for game 2, you would be fine to play by game 6.

There have been rumblings that basically everyone in Houston hates Durant and that this "injury" might be more of a quitting on the team. I don't know if that's true -- anyone else heard this? But it would explain a lot.
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From my understanding Durant has the same injury that Anthony Edwards has, a deep bone bruise in his knee. Edwards has missed the last few games against the Nuggets and is expected to miss at least the start of the Spurs series. Durant tried to give it a go in one of the early games in round one but he obviously could not move. Everybody complains about Durant sitting out but nobody whines about Ant sitting.
 
farce© said:
From my understanding Durant has the same injury that Anthony Edwards has, a deep bone bruise in his knee. Edwards has missed the last few games against the Nuggets s and is expected to miss at least the start of the Spurs series. Durant tried to give it a go in one of the early games in round one but he obviously could not move. Everybody complains about Durant sitting out but nobody whines about Ant sitting.
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Oh, right. He did play in game two. He played 41 minutes in that game. Supposedly his knee got better but he hurt his ankle in that game, also a bone bruise. Maybe. I mean, I'm no doctor and maybe it's all legit. There are rumblings about him, though
 
superrific said:
By the way, what is the deal with Durant? He's been questionable for like two weeks now. It's supposed to be that if you're questionable for game 2, you would be fine to play by game 6.

There have been rumblings that basically everyone in Houston hates Durant and that this "injury" might be more of a quitting on the team. I don't know if that's true -- anyone else heard this? But it would explain a lot. For a HOFer, Durant sure has been given up on a lot. He played for the Thunder. Lost to the Warriors, then joined the Warriors as a mercenary. Then to Brooklyn, which was a disaster and he forced his way out. Phoenix was a disaster and they shipped him off. Now Houston.

It's funny to me when people say that Lebron doesn't have MJ's killer instinct. I mean, maybe nobody quite equals MJ in that regard, but does anyone seriously think either MJ or Lebron would have put up with Kyrie Irving's anti-vaxx nonsense? MJ would have snapped Kyrie in half if he tried that shit. Durant was like, "his body, his choice."
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Durant hurt his knee because he collided with a teammate during practice. Be really hard for the whole team to fake that. Plus as grumpy as KD can be, he loves playing basketball. And he’s not a load mgmt guy.
 
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