2024 NBA Season

[OgNasty]

Here we go folks!  NBA Basketball is back!

Predictions:
The Brooklyn Nets vastly underperform expectations.
The Golden State Warriors finish at best a 6th seed.
The LA Clippers get destroyed by the LA Lakers in the playoffs.
The Phoenix Suns make the playoffs.
The Sacramento Kings make an insanely dumb trade/signing.
DeAndre Ayton has a breakout season.
LeBron James leads the league in assists for a second straight year.
Kevin Durant suffers another season ending injury.
Kyrie Irving receives over $1,000,000 in fines.
Zion Williamson makes it clear he is better than Ja Morant.
Giannis Antetokounmpo sees his numbers decline for the first time in his career.
LaMelo Ball is a bust.

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[wheelz1200]

Ready to bet now? here's the betting odds for the preseason games.

https://www.bitsler.com/en/sports/basketball


Plenty of games in the line, I guess I'll start capping soon. 

Honestly its worth just loading up on the underdogs.  Its basically rookies and fringe players playing against each other mostly.  Good time to make some money.  There is zero possible way to guess one way or another because you don't know how many minutes each guy will be playing.

[Reid]

Here we go folks!  NBA Basketball is back!

Predictions:
The Brooklyn Nets vastly underperform expectations.
The Golden State Warriors finish at best a 6th seed.
The LA Clippers get destroyed by the LA Lakers in the playoffs.
The Phoenix Suns make the playoffs.
The Sacramento Kings make an insanely dumb trade/signing.
DeAndre Ayton has a breakout season.
LeBron James leads the league in assists for a second straight year.
Kevin Durant suffers another season ending injury.
Kyrie Irving receives over $1,000,000 in fines.
Zion Williamson makes it clear he is better than Ja Morant.
Giannis Antetokounmpo sees his numbers decline for the first time in his career.
LaMelo Ball is a bust.

I like this one. 
1. I doubt someone could stop Giannis. His decline in number may have a reason to happen like injuries.
2. Setting aside injuries, Nets underperformance is possible if the chemistry won't work.
3. Deandre Ayton, number 1 draft pick. If he succeeds in performing better this season then no doubt the Suns may take a place in the playoffs. Then, there is CP3 who could make things better.
4. LaMelo Ball. So much hype because of their father's connection. I still want to see this kid's craftsmanship in the NBA first before making an assessment. 

[Finestream]

Wall and cousins seems playing well in the preseason, hopefully they'll continue that in the regular season.
Good start for the NBA, though it's just a preseason but it's alright as the betting line is opened and we can bet in any team we like to.

[Ziskinberg]

Ready to bet now? here's the betting odds for the preseason games.

https://www.bitsler.com/en/sports/basketball


Plenty of games in the line, I guess I'll start capping soon. 

Honestly its worth just loading up on the underdogs.  Its basically rookies and fringe players playing against each other mostly.  Good time to make some money.  There is zero possible way to guess one way or another because you don't know how many minutes each guy will be playing.

you are right, in the first day of the preseason opening, it was 4/5 in favor of the underdog, and they even win straight up, so your recommendation is really correct, with that said, I think betting blindly by betting on underdog most of the time might make us profitable in the entire preseason.

[Oasisman]

Here we go folks!  NBA Basketball is back!

Predictions:
The Brooklyn Nets vastly underperform expectations.
The Golden State Warriors finish at best a 6th seed.
The LA Clippers get destroyed by the LA Lakers in the playoffs.
The Phoenix Suns make the playoffs.
The Sacramento Kings make an insanely dumb trade/signing.
DeAndre Ayton has a breakout season.
LeBron James leads the league in assists for a second straight year.
Kevin Durant suffers another season ending injury.
Kyrie Irving receives over $1,000,000 in fines.
Zion Williamson makes it clear he is better than Ja Morant.
Giannis Antetokounmpo sees his numbers decline for the first time in his career.
LaMelo Ball is a bust.

-If the Nets stays healthy for the rest of the season and still underperform as everyone's expectation, then I might blame Kyrie Irving in advance lol.
- KD looks more fragile now, So yeah, he might suffer another injury. Just like Thompson. These two looks very fragile now. Including Kyrie.
-Giannis on the other hand looks desperate for championship, base on how he react about LeBron or AD joining him in Milwaukee. I'm not gonna be surprised If he'll make a KD-like move to win a chip.
-The Suns looks promising this season with the CP acquisition.

[Viscore]

Here we go folks!  NBA Basketball is back!

Predictions:
The Brooklyn Nets vastly underperform expectations.
The Golden State Warriors finish at best a 6th seed.
The LA Clippers get destroyed by the LA Lakers in the playoffs.
The Phoenix Suns make the playoffs.
The Sacramento Kings make an insanely dumb trade/signing.
DeAndre Ayton has a breakout season.
LeBron James leads the league in assists for a second straight year.
Kevin Durant suffers another season ending injury.
Kyrie Irving receives over $1,000,000 in fines.
Zion Williamson makes it clear he is better than Ja Morant.
Giannis Antetokounmpo sees his numbers decline for the first time in his career.
LaMelo Ball is a bust.

-If the Nets stays healthy for the rest of the season and still underperform as everyone's expectation, then I might blame Kyrie Irving in advance lol.
- KD looks more fragile now, So yeah, he might suffer another injury. Just like Thompson. These two looks very fragile now. Including Kyrie.

We haven't seen them play, the management would not allow to play if they can't give their best.
We've seen the Rockets played, Wall and Cousins, and I don't see them as fragile with the way they play, so we could see the same with Durant and Irving.

-Giannis on the other hand looks desperate for championship, base on how he react about LeBron or AD joining him in Milwaukee. I'm not gonna be surprised If he'll make a KD-like move to win a chip.

Not sure if he is still aiming for a championship, he should just aim to be in the NBA Finals, and that means winning in the East which is more harder now that Nets are already here.

-The Suns looks promising this season with the CP acquisition.

Hopefully their tandem with booker would work.

[LogitechMouse]

PG13 will probably stay this time around, I can't guarantee it but I do not see anything much more marvelous in his career from here on out for the next 5 years. However clippers may decide to trade him if they can find someone to take it in the later stages of the contract. Both parties have done this before and parted ways, Clippers gave Blake Griffing a 5 year contract and then send him to detroit not even a full year later, and PG13 had a huge contract with OKC and requested trade as well, which somehow didn't even effected OKC that much because they still went to first round even without PG13 and westbrook.

So, what we have is 5 year contract but two parties that never cared for it. Let's see if things will be different this time around and will they keep their promises this time.

I can still remember the trade happened between OKC and Clippers where the Clippers gave so many players just for PG13.

I know that he is a good player and he is at his prime years still but if he can't reach the expectation of the management or the team then he might be traded too to another team even though he has given a max extension. He has Kawhi on his side and they must be one of the best duos next season. I just hope that they will not get choked again at the playoffs because they are still a playoff contender.

I just researched their roster this year and 9 of the players are just in the league for at least 1 year max. Seeing their roster at first glance, there will be a time that starters will play more minutes than usual with their limited rotation and comparing it to the roster of Lakers the Lakers have a better roster than the Clippers.

[Reid]

-The Suns looks promising this season with the CP acquisition.

Hopefully their tandem with booker would work.

It might really work.
Booker will be running without the ball and that will make a lot of space for other players including him with a high percentage of shooting.
Maybe it is the best move that Phoenix management did.
Somehow they could focus Booker into just being a shooter instead of also making the plays.
Deandre Ayton will also be a key. CP3 likes making plays with a big man.

CP3 pushing Ayton.

“He’s always on me about talking early on defense, being there, really protecting the rim, giving me reassurance that I’m the leader on defense,” Ayton said Thursday. “And, you know, they’re relying on me.”

https://arizonasports.com/story/2474932/chris-pauls-arrival-makes-everything-easier-for-suns-deandre-ayton/

[Febo]

4. LaMelo Ball. So much hype because of their father's connection. I still want to see this kid's craftsmanship in the NBA first before making an assessment. 

Hype is because he is good point guard that is 6 feet 8. That is talent than Luka Dončič. Of course he dont have Lukas strength. But still with his size he is a good rebounded. He is far from perfect and have many weaknesses, but still so good that if all will go fine will play for long time in the NBA. 

Here we go folks!  NBA Basketball is back!

Predictions:

Luka Dončič?

[Harlot]

4. LaMelo Ball. So much hype because of their father's connection. I still want to see this kid's craftsmanship in the NBA first before making an assessment. 

Hype is because he is good point guard that is 6 feet 8. That is talent than Luka Dončič. Of course he dont have Lukas strength. But still with his size he is a good rebounded. He is far from perfect and have many weaknesses, but still so good that if all will go fine will play for long time in the NBA. 

Yeah Ball is being hyped up by a lot of people but it doesn't mean because he is a good basketball player. Yeah stat-wise and his performances look good in the basketball league in Australia but it doesn't mean it will translate into NBA just like how college players failed to translate in the NBA, this is evident to a lot of kids being a bust even if a lot of players and analyst predicted them to have a good NBA career but they turned out to be a bust. Also there is a in-depth analysis on Lamelo's stats it just shows that he is a below-average player in the NBA in most stats he has.

[RealMalatesta]

PG13 could still be a valid player, he is definitely at a star level for sure, I mean everyone talks about how PG13 choked and all that but Kawhi literally had zero points in the last quarter of an elimination game, but you do not see that many people talking about how Kawhi choked neither, they always talked about PG13.

Reality is that PG13 had a very very serious and bad shoulder injury before the season I think, and he was still healing while playing and that made it bad. I think he had the time to relax this off-season period and maybe work on it and he will be capable of playing much better. Remember during his OKC years (which isn't that far away) this dude literally got MVP votes, maybe didn't get close at all but got some votes, which shows you that he is not a washed up bad player, he just had a bad year that's all.

[Finestream]

PG13 could still be a valid player, he is definitely at a star level for sure, I mean everyone talks about how PG13 choked and all that but Kawhi literally had zero points in the last quarter of an elimination game, but you do not see that many people talking about how Kawhi choked neither, they always talked about PG13.

Reality is that PG13 had a very very serious and bad shoulder injury before the season I think, and he was still healing while playing and that made it bad. I think he had the time to relax this off-season period and maybe work on it and he will be capable of playing much better. Remember during his OKC years (which isn't that far away) this dude literally got MVP votes, maybe didn't get close at all but got some votes, which shows you that he is not a washed up bad player, he just had a bad year that's all.

I think both have a bad last season, Leonard wasn't also that good, he struggled in some of the games in the playoffs, especially against the Denver Nuggets so I guess the problem was really on the coaching staff and that's the reason why they have a new one now that the management think would make the upgraded team to work as expected.  No excuse for this new season, if PG will still struggle, probably I'm wrong, or we are wrong, there's really a problem in him, not the coaching staff.

[Japinat]

PG13 could still be a valid player, he is definitely at a star level for sure, I mean everyone talks about how PG13 choked and all that but Kawhi literally had zero points in the last quarter of an elimination game, but you do not see that many people talking about how Kawhi choked neither, they always talked about PG13.

Reality is that PG13 had a very very serious and bad shoulder injury before the season I think, and he was still healing while playing and that made it bad. I think he had the time to relax this off-season period and maybe work on it and he will be capable of playing much better. Remember during his OKC years (which isn't that far away) this dude literally got MVP votes, maybe didn't get close at all but got some votes, which shows you that he is not a washed up bad player, he just had a bad year that's all.

I think both have a bad last season, Leonard wasn't also that good, he struggled in some of the games in the playoffs, especially against the Denver Nuggets so I guess the problem was really on the coaching staff and that's the reason why they have a new one now that the management think would make the upgraded team to work as expected.  No excuse for this new season, if PG will still struggle, probably I'm wrong, or we are wrong, there's really a problem in him, not the coaching staff.

It's time for them to correct that this season, we have a high expectation from them last season and it turns out it was a failure.
The biggest rival of the Clippers last season was the Lakers, but they got beaten by the Nuggets even with a commanding lead at 3-1 in the series, so there's a reason for the management to fire the coach, not totally a players fault so they are still up here now to prove themselves again.

I'll continue betting on them, I like that they are not so hype now, so they have a better odds.

Kawhi could win a championship with the current line up with a better coaching job, that's all I know, so I'm optimistic for the Clippers success.

[Russlenat]

Denver Nuggets vs Golden State Warriors.

We will now see how the warriors will play with Curry back in the line up plus the new guys that were signed by the team.
For those who are not updated, Thompson is out for the season so we will not see him play. It's a nice match up, a possible play off match but this is only a preseason so we might only see Curry and the rest of the starters to play like less than 20 minutes. What are your thoughts on this game?

[OgNasty]

Predictions:
LaMelo Ball is a bust.

I may have been premature on this one. He’s looking pretty good so far in his preseason debut.

[boyptc]

Denver Nuggets vs Golden State Warriors.

We will now see how the warriors will play with Curry back in the line up plus the new guys that were signed by the team.
For those who are not updated, Thompson is out for the season so we will not see him play. It's a nice match up, a possible play off match but this is only a preseason so we might only see Curry and the rest of the starters to play like less than 20 minutes. What are your thoughts on this game?

Thanks for that update.

Mostly are thinking of a possible comeback for the Warriors but with this update and expecting that Klay is out for the whole season who is his number 1 tandem.

I think there is not that much to expect from them anymore.

[Reid]

Predictions:
LaMelo Ball is a bust.

I may have been premature on this one. He’s looking pretty good so far in his preseason debut.

I missed the game and looking at just the highlights.
Stats record is not that bad although he didn't have points.
But I am looking at impact and movement around the floor. Not bad, but could clean a lot of mistakes.
I think Hayward will be the new Hornet star.

Hype is because he is good point guard that is 6 feet 8. That is talent than Luka Dončič. Of course he dont have Lukas strength. But still with his size he is a good rebounded. He is far from perfect and have many weaknesses, but still so good that if all will go fine will play for long time in the NBA. 

Height is not a talent. Luka is the definition of skill and talent.

[mirakal]

Denver Nuggets vs Golden State Warriors.

We will now see how the warriors will play with Curry back in the line up plus the new guys that were signed by the team.
For those who are not updated, Thompson is out for the season so we will not see him play. It's a nice match up, a possible play off match but this is only a preseason so we might only see Curry and the rest of the starters to play like less than 20 minutes. What are your thoughts on this game?

Thanks for that update.

Mostly are thinking of a possible comeback for the Warriors but with this update and expecting that Klay is out for the whole season who is his number 1 tandem.

I think there is not that much to expect from them anymore.

Warriors won in this game, 107-105 was the final score. Curry played 21:08 minutes and made 10 points only from 3/10 shooting. They still didn't change, they are still moving the ball very well with 25 assists in overall against 20 only for the Nuggets which is also a good team who moves the ball well.

We don't count this much since it's just a preseason, but happy to see Warriors are winning.

[Ziskinberg]

Denver Nuggets vs Golden State Warriors.

We will now see how the warriors will play with Curry back in the line up plus the new guys that were signed by the team.
For those who are not updated, Thompson is out for the season so we will not see him play. It's a nice match up, a possible play off match but this is only a preseason so we might only see Curry and the rest of the starters to play like less than 20 minutes. What are your thoughts on this game?

Thanks for that update.

Mostly are thinking of a possible comeback for the Warriors but with this update and expecting that Klay is out for the whole season who is his number 1 tandem.

I think there is not that much to expect from them anymore.

Warriors won in this game, 107-105 was the final score. Curry played 21:08 minutes and made 10 points only from 3/10 shooting. They still didn't change, they are still moving the ball very well with 25 assists in overall against 20 only for the Nuggets which is also a good team who moves the ball well.

We don't count this much since it's just a preseason, but happy to see Warriors are winning.

Happy to see  Curry playing again, I wish him consistency and good health so he can prove to the world that the Golden State Warriors is still a good team even without Thompson. I don't want to hype a lot on this win though, it's a preseason and everything is just a exhibition games where players having fun, shoot more and less defense, that's what I see.