NBA 2025-26 NBA Thread

[Neuromancer]

There goes our easy finals matchup

 

[Naga]

Brutal for Detroit. Can’t plan for something like that.

 

[Guru of Nothing]

Apparently this is the play that caused the injury:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034642002097127897

 

[Dbreiden83080]

Apparently this is the play that caused the injury:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034642002097127897

Damn the Knicks chances of making the Finals just went way up..

 

[spursistan]

Brutal for Detroit. Can’t plan for something like that.

Have you seen the play? Looked like an innocuous bump..Really sucks for Detroit after an amazing season. Injury luck continues to be a major outcome determinant in this league. Doubt he will be 100 percent ready for the playoffs.

 

[spursistan]

7th-8th seed teams will be angling to get Detroit in first round. We are talking about 3-6 weeks recovery process and even then he won't be in full shape and playing tentative.

https://x.com/TimBontemps/status/2034621721123205371

 

[wEmBoY]

Damn the Knicks chances of making the Finals just went way up..

As long as the celtics is on their path(2nd round matchup)its going to be hard for them.

 

[O_V]

So don't get me wrong. I love Dell Curry. He was a player that I liked because just of who he was when he played. And he's been instrumental to the community and to the Hornets franchise.

But as a player, he doesn't really deserve to have his number retired. Does he?

Again, I'm so okay with it as just because he's such a good citizen. He's done so much for the game just by reproducing. He's done so much for the team. I'm just talking about strictly as contributions as a player.

 

[O_V]

As long as the celtics is on their path(2nd round matchup)its going to be hard for them.

The east is so weird this year with all the freaking blowouts between the Celtics and the Pistons and the Knicks. There's just no telling what the hell is going to happen. The playoffs and the east are going to be wild.

 

[LeBowen]

So don't get me wrong. I love Dell Curry. He was a player that I liked because just of who he was when he played. And he's been instrumental to the community and to the Hornets franchise.

But as a player, he doesn't really deserve to have his number retired. Does he?

Again, I'm so okay with it as just because he's such a good citizen. He's done so much for the game just by reproducing. He's done so much for the team. I'm just talking about strictly as contributions as a player.

It's a poverty franchise, he played there for a decade and has been commentating their games for years.

It's not like Avery Johnson deserved to get his number retired based on his qualities as a player.
Or Johnny Moore.

 

[1kangaroo]

Another brawl today NBA Champagnie Williams from wizards thunder and Mitchell and Wallace of ok as while. I could see Mitchell getting more games since it spilled into the stands because of him

 

[wEmBoY]

Refs doing their best to save lakers winning streak lmao

 

[scott]

Another brawl today NBA Champagnie Williams from wizards thunder and Mitchell and Wallace of ok as while. I could see Mitchell getting more games since it spilled into the stands because of him

Thug behavior from multiple Thunder

Champ getting multiple games for that slap though

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035484896420823447

 

[Valparaiso]

Again... who cares? The result was the same - a horrible team that lost 75% of its games. Why is the GM doing the tanking better than the coach doing the tanking? They're both tanking. You could make an argument that the way the Spurs did it is even more egregious - they put together a roster that was ONLY capable of tanking. At least Utah had a chance to be good, but when they weren't good enough they decided tanking was the way to go.

Spurs fans absolving themselves of tank guilt is hilarious (not to mention how we tanked for another year after getting Wemby to get Castle. Landing Harper was just lotto luck).

The natural starting point for 90% of fans is simple basic homerism. No one ever says, "we won the the game, but that was mostly because we got all of the calls from the refs, who were obviously calling the game in our favor." These fans are convinced the refs, or the league, or spirits from the universe are aligned against them. It's kind of the macho guy version of believing in astrology or fortune telling. "Don't talk about that one topic-- you'll jinx the team!"
Spur fans ignored or laughed at complaints from other teams that Bruce Bowen put his foot under shooters for years, but then when Zaza did it to Kahwi, he was the dirtiest player in the league.