NBA 2025-26 NBA Thread

[djohn2oo8]

Hope Reed can keep growing

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987659052630085835

 

[plateado]

YThose arm-flexing demonstrations are so annoying. After seeing this and the video of the last match against them where he kept elbowing Victor, I'm done. I hate Sengun.

 

[bozhemoi]

Hope Reed can keep growing

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987659052630085835

Why?

 

[djohn2oo8]

YThose arm-flexing demonstrations are so annoying. After seeing this and the video of the last match against them where he kept elbowing Victor, I'm done. I hate Sengun.

Wemby will learn to do it as well. Much ado about nothing.

 

[Shmurs]

Sengun is greeeeeasy man. Sweatiest smelliest guy at the pickup game.

 

[DAF86]

What the fuck was Sengun doing here?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987649202063569200

 

[djohn2oo8]

What the fuck was Sengun doing here?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987649202063569200

Winning the game

 

[DAF86]

Winning the game

Nah, he was actually losing the game while getting scored on at that moment.

 

[Kick-Stand]

Damn nice second half from Cade tonight, got the Pistons to 8-2 and pushing our Spurs down to the third best record in the league.

 

[JMarkJohns]

Really curious to see what the Pistons do with Ivey. I don’t know if he fits as a starter anymore, but will he embrace a 6-Man role?

 

[Valparaiso]

I've watched Cedric Coward's ROY odds go from +4000 two weeks/a month ago to +800 today. If the odds were based strictly on performance and actual impact without the factors of reputation and early predictions, I think he'd easily be the favorite right now. He leads all rookies who've played significant minutes in WS, WS/48, BPM, and VORP, and he leads Memphis in On Court +/- at +1.6 and On/Off +/- at +14.5... Ja Morant, JJJ, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Santi Aldama are all in the negative in both of those categories, and Memphis is 4-7, so CC doesn't have the built in advantage of playing for a winning team.
Even more interesting (from a betting perspective) is he's currently at +10000 for 6th man of the year, meaning a $10 bet wins $1000. That's a great low risk long shot bet.
If I'm Memphis and Coward is still producing like this come January, it makes a Morant trade a lot more palatable, even if he is still popular with the city's street cred crowd. Memphis ain't winning a title with the current team composition anyway, and the quicker they get really get ready for the future the better.

 

[Shmurs]

Edgecomb will win it. Not much doubt. Good team. Lots of playing time. Important role. Will rack up all the counting stats. Formality if he stays healthy. Memphis will be too dysfunctional and he’ll pay the price.

 

[BatManu20]

I remember a lot of Spurfan wanted nothing to do with Duren in the draft cause they thought he was going to be a bust. He's been the biggest reason for Detroit taking the next step this season tbh.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987741428655472678

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987719925889434069

 

[Mugen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987895528445841747

I'm as "lol Mavs" as anybody but the hatchet job that Nico and Ownership did to the organization and the hot, steamy dump it took all over the fanbase will be talked about for decades in sports circles tbh

 

[Mugen]

I'd immediately switch teams or just stop watching NBA altogether if the Spurs had traded Wemby for AD fresh off a Finals trip tbh

 

[Exstatic]

NBA stuff goes in the general sports forum with an NBA tag

 

[ambchang]

This year's rookie class is off to an incredibly strong start. Hard to say who will win ROY but I still think Flagg will as the Mavs are bad and he can just get a dominant role on that team. He is picking up his play lately too and while he likely will never be a point guard, he is doing better so far.

Edgecombe is doing great but he is playing some heavy minutes, not sure if he can hold up this production as he starts hitting the rookie wall. Knueppel is doing great too but is playing heavy minutes like Edbecombe (and Flagg) as well.

Harper is really producing in relatively low minutes (9th amongst rookie) ranking 4th in ppg, 7th in rpg, and 2nd in APG. Also #6 in WS (3rd in WS/48 for any rookie over 100 MP), 5th in BPM and VORP (again over 100MP), but he's not going to win it. Backcourt is too crowded and his role isn't that attention grabbing.

Coward is doing incredible right now, but so is Will Richard in MEM is doing well in advanced stats area.

This year, just making all-rookie 1st team will be a real accomplishment.

I still think Harper will end up being the best of the bunch long term though, because I am totally biased.

 

[Mugen]

NBA stuff goes in the general sports forum with an NBA tag

More convenient to have an upstairs thread for General NBA tbh. Leave other sports talk to the other forum.

 

[scott]

LOL

https://twitter.com/x/status/1987887685701095464

 

[scott]

For as much as Nico DESERVES to be fired, allowing him to make the Luka trade only to fire him 9 months later is a level of incompetence usually reserved for Jerry Jones in the DFW metroplex.

 

[LeBowen]

More convenient to have an upstairs thread for General NBA tbh. Leave other sports talk to the other forum.

I agree, but then it would be better to just move that thread into Spurstalk.

 

[LeBowen]

Mavs will descend into Kings tier franchise if Flagg doesn't become a top10 player.

 

[ambchang]

Nico got out-snaked, lol.

 

[Shmurs]

Owners tanking the franchise so they can move it or are they like “nba team = money, don’t care how you run it”?

 

[scott]

Owners tanking the franchise so they can move it or are they like “nba team = money, don’t care how you run it”?

I think this may be a case of "I'm the money guy, you're the smart basketball guy... I'm going to trust you" and then 9 months later "wow you made me look like a fucking idiot and now I'm pissed"