2024-2025 NBA thread: who wants to buy a Duck Boat?!?!

I hope we don’t fuck with the Celtics lineup just yet. Great game last night. I love watching when Jaylen Brown is “in charge” and Tatum is out, only [emoji638]nd time this year, but it’s great to see JB take control.
I wanna see this team in person too before they change anything up. Any good seats at home are so expensive. The lower section at almost any game this year is $[emoji640]-[emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] per seat minimum

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Originally Posted by cat in january

Agree I like the Celtics lineup a lot too, but I would not turn away a talent like that.

Toxic? I dunno, he sure crawled inside his own head in terms of shooting the ball. Embiid and Doc both threw him under the bus. Hard to want to come back to that. He certainly seems to have some serious back issues.

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I would absolutely turn it away. We don't need anybody. Don't break up the band. And Payton Pritchard, my 2nd favorite Celtic after D White, is perfectly capable of getting deep in his own head. Fortunately he has managed to really evolve and man does he hustle! Simmons can go elsewhere.

So my new NBA pet peeve that is currently in overdrive is reading about trade rumors that literally can’t fucking happen. It’s impossible and not allowed under the new CBA so I’m fairly certain it’s bullshit.

It’s all clickbait, yet I find myself reading it all, heh. Jimmy Butler is going to the Xxxxxx!!!!

My feed is mostly, “The Pistons could be involved in a three team trade!”

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Originally Posted by TahoeJ

So my new NBA pet peeve that is currently in overdrive is reading about trade rumors that literally can’t fucking happen. It’s impossible and not allowed under the new CBA so I’m fairly certain it’s bullshit.

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This. I'm no salary cap geek, but I think the only guy on the Celtics who could be traded for Simmons given current salaries is Brown. And that ain't happening.

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Originally Posted by MarcusBrody

I just bought tickets for my son and me to the OKC-Houston Cup semifinal game tomorrow. Two tickets for not great but not terrible seats for $100 with fees. I suspect the NBA is not super excited about the matchups this year... I'm excited to go though. I've been a fan on and off for years, but never been to a game and I get to take my son. I think the OKC-Houston game has the potential to be a better game, but I would kind of liked to have seen Giannis in person. We had more plans for early in the day though, so the late game worked better.

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SGA is impressive in person. Took the family to a nuggets/okc game last year and nugs were flat but he dropped 40 something and it was effortless. The joker is worth the price of admission tho.

Doing the same this year with the cavs coming to town. I can’t wait to tell my kids

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Originally Posted by Danno;[emoji[emoji6[emoji640

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Also, for the Warriors to get Butler it’s logically impossible without involving [emoji637] or [emoji638] other teams to make the cap math work. So anything you see that suggests a straight up trade is pure nonsense.

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Originally Posted by riser4

I would absolutely turn it away. We don't need anybody. Don't break up the band. And Payton Pritchard, my 2nd favorite Celtic after D White, is perfectly capable of getting deep in his own head. Fortunately he has managed to really evolve and man does he hustle! Simmons can go elsewhere.

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Agreed. Even if possible, Simmons seems super high risk with low reward. Not worth it for a Celtics team that are deep and favorites already.


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As I said it is not possible, but the floated rumor alluded to earlier was Brooklyn was looking to cut him and the Celtics were favorites to sign him for the minimum. Again not possible, but adding a player of that potential I think is a no brainer. I don’t think he’s that big of a head case and a clear understanding of his role would be established prior to signing.

Yeah my pet peeve post was just in general, not aimed at you.

I never knew putting a net on was so time consuming...

The Warriors vs Wolves game has been delayed over 20 minutes because a net wasn't strung right, and now they're struggling to install a new one and the poor facilities guys are getting roasted by everyone.

Kangz fire Mike Brown. They gave him a contract extension in June.

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Originally Posted by Danno

Kangz fire Mike Brown. They gave him a contract extension in June.

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If the bench wasn’t already full, I bet the W’s would take him back in a heartbeat.

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Kangz fire Mike Brown. They gave him a contract extension in June.

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That's what happens when you lose to the Pistons the night before. The end of the game was awesome, Pistons came back from 19 down in the second half to win it on a buzzer beating 4 point play.

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Vivek has been there [emoji637][emoji638] years and will now be looking for his [emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]]]th coach. It’s almost like he’s the problem…

I don’t think the Kings have the makeup to be a contender - they desperately need another good forward, for one - but Brown has made some decisions that are definitely questionable.

Keon Ellis has been playing at a pretty high level, and played well late last year too, but he has not been seeing the minutes or consistent opportunity to play that his performance would suggest.

And then last weekend was back-to-back games. First game Brown played his four best players 36-38 minutes. Then the second game he only used three players off the bench the whole game. And Ellis wasn’t one of those three. That lead to their worst loss of the season.

Wemby, the first player in NBA history with:

— 300+ blocks
— 1+ chess win at Wash Sq. Park

"Protecting the paint and the king"

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He is such a cool cat.

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Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong

I don’t think the Kings have the makeup to be a contender - they desperately need another good forward, for one - but Brown has made some decisions that are definitely questionable.

Keon Ellis has been playing at a pretty high level, and played well late last year too, but he has not been seeing the minutes or consistent opportunity to play that his performance would suggest.

And then last weekend was back-to-back games. First game Brown played his four best players 36-38 minutes. Then the second game he only used three players off the bench the whole game. And Ellis wasn’t one of those three. That lead to their worst loss of the season.

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The Kings are in a full blown downward spiral. The rumor is Fox is going to hotlanta on trade for a bunch of 3-5 PPG clowns. Its hard being a Kings fan. The ownership is lost.

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The Kings are in a full blown downward spiral. The rumor is Fox is going to hotlanta on trade for a bunch of 3-5 PPG clowns. It’s hard being a Kings fan. The ownership is lost.

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I’m hoping he goes to Houston for Tari Eason and some picks. Not sure that they’d let Eason go, but I can dream.

I think Fox isn’t nearly as valuable as his 26.5 points per game would suggest on it’s face.

Lakers made a good move. I would like to see them make the conference finals. Play doesn’t look likely, but just as a fan I would like that.

Fun night out to see the Nuggets in person. Jokic with a quiet triple double, per usual.
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Nice seats!

Excellent marquis win by the best team in the league, your Cleveland Cavaliers, over the best team in the West, OKC, to snap their 15 game win streak.

Love this multifaceted style of ball the Cavs are playing right now - bigs, guard play, crazy good ball movement.