NBA Thread

I don't see Green, Booker, and Beal all playing. IMO the best next move would be to trade Booker and tank if they can get an attractive deal back. I wonder if the Spurs would give up #2 in a deal for Booker?
 
NBA superstars just have an absurd amount of leverage. Suns, what in the world are we doing here lol. Core of Booker, Beal, and Jalen Green is not winning anything meaningful.
 
Allowing a significant trade or coaching hire (to be announced) during the Finals, especially before Game 7, is disgraceful. This distracts from the focus on the game and should have been announced next week after the winner’s parade. They should have a moratorium on this stuff during the Finals, but the NBA has never been great at marketing.
 
farce© said:
Allowing a significant trade or coaching hire (to be announced) during the Finals, especially before Game 7, is disgraceful. This distracts from the focus on the game and should have been announced next week after the winner’s parade. They should have a moratorium on this stuff during the Finals, but the NBA has never been great at marketing.
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It's not that the NBA isn't great at marketing, it's that in many ways the games have become second place to the "drama" of player movement.

It's not terribly dissimilar to how recruiting has taken over CFB (and CBB) as a year-round "sport" while the games only last for a few months.
 
Healing said:
There was some scuttlebutt in the nba podcasting world that Durant/agent were submarining KD’s value to avoid getting traded to a hollowed out squad.
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Yeah, I think he made it pretty clear he wouldn't re-sign after the upcoming season unless he went to Houston, SA, or Miami. At that point, Phoenix had very little leverage.
 
I had the Pacers in game 6, though I didn’t expect a blowout.

Tonight I think the OKC D comes out like the trained attack dogs they are and doesn't let Indiana breathe. I think OKC cruises tonight.

But, Pacers. And who wouldn’t love to see a dramatic finish, either way.
 
Should be another good one tonight

Hali didn't seem too hurt to me in game 6

Can Indy limit turnovers and will OKC play tight?
 
I told my buddy last week that the Haliburton calf situation reminded me of KD in the 2019 Finals. And that I hoped that just because he probably had an injection that dulled the discomfort, that doesn’t mean those fibers aren’t still compromised and in jeopardy.

Same sequence of events here — calf strain that wouldn’t go away, and then snap.

That was the danger and Tyrese knew it and assumed the risk. A lot of respect for that, but man. What a price to pay. The difference is that KD blamed everyone but himself, Haliburton won’t.
 
Healing said:
A silver lining in a bleak situation for Haliburton is his game isn’t predicated on explosiveness, so hopefully he can have a similarly impressive comeback as KD.
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If it weren’t for Scott foster, Halliburton is on a beach resting today.
 
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