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[BlooVooDoo]

Damn. That looked like a rupture.

 

[King Hippo]

Damn. That looked like a rupture.

Yeah, you could see something move in his calf.

 

[duluoz]

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]

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.

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.

 

[DantesHair]

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.

If it weren’t for Scott foster, Halliburton is on a beach resting today.

 

[UNCatTech]

Congrats OKC.

Really good series.

 

[Heelsandeers]

Well that sucked. Dud ending to an otherwise great series and playoffs

Feel horrible for Hali. Can't imagine going out that way amid a historic playoff run

Congrats to OKC though. Happy to see them get one

 

[dcf2]

Domino injury impact (Haliburton and Tatum) let alone aging Lebron, Curry, Harden - All NBA 3rd team spots open potentially enabling more/different supermax contracts - perhaps Banchero or Maxey? Wemby, if healthy, as DPOY some time soon seems all but certain.

 

[lawtig02]

Here's what bugs me. Back in the 90s, you had a bunch of NBA superstars who acted like what we would currently call "thugs," and the league was at its peak of popularity. Does anyone but me remember those Pistons-Bulls-Knicks-Pacers series?

Now, we have a league full of stars who are, by all objective measures, with the exception of Jordan and Magic, more talented than ANY of those players in the 90s, but who treat each other with respect and are almost always classy to a fault. And yet, the prevailing cultural view is that the current NBA is "ghetto."

I don't think it's the NBA that has changed. If anything, the league has improved. It's our society that has regressed.

 

[Healing]

Here's what bugs me. Back in the 90s, you had a bunch of NBA superstars who acted like what we would currently call "thugs," and the league was at its peak of popularity. Does anyone but me remember those Pistons-Bulls-Knicks-Pacers series?

Now, we have a league full of stars who are, by all objective measures, with the exception of Jordan and Magic, more talented than ANY of those players in the 90s, but who treat each other with respect and are almost always classy to a fault. And yet, the prevailing cultural view is that the current NBA is "ghetto."

I don't think it's the NBA that has changed. If anything, the league has improved. It's our society that has regressed.

Is the prevailing sentiment that it’s “ghetto”? That’s not my impression from the commentary streams I consume. I get the impression the public persona of the league is kinda “meh”, in part because the nba doesn’t have much of a counter culture vibe and the stars have Jordanized themselves. I don’t mean this in the purest of terms, but from a personality standpoint, when compared against the yesteryears of Shaq, AI, Reggie, GP, Barkley, Magic, Sprewell, Dikembe, etc., I experience the following as publicly bland: Giannis, Shai, Jokic, Embiid, Brunson, Lebron, Luka (a lil less so), Tatum, Mitchell. That’s basically an all nba team.

I’m not saying those guys are bland people, but the incentives of the league have funneled those guys into a set of personality traits that isn’t particularly intriguing, whether from an individual identification standpoint, villainy, nor inspiring of heated rivalries.

 

[lawtig02]

Is the prevailing sentiment that it’s “ghetto”? That’s not my impression from the commentary streams I consume. I get the impression the public persona of the league is kinda “meh”, in part because the nba doesn’t have much of a counter culture vibe and the stars have Jordanized themselves. I don’t mean this in the purest of terms, but from a personality standpoint, when compared against the yesteryears of Shaq, AI, Reggie, GP, Barkley, Magic, Sprewell, Dikembe, etc., I experience the following as publicly bland: Giannis, Shai, Jokic, Embiid, Brunson, Lebron, Luka (a lil less so), Tatum, Mitchell. That’s basically an all nba team.

I’m not saying those guys are bland people, but the incentives of the league have funneled those guys into a set of personality traits that isn’t particularly intriguing, whether from an individual identification standpoint, villainy, nor inspiring of heated rivalries.

That's fair. But if that's the pushback, then I interpret it as "the NBA has become too Cary." I think we get to the same place either way.