2024 NBA Season

[rdbase]

It was a scary moment when we see Kawhi laying down with blood all over the place like that. Luckily he's fine now. After Ibaka's unintentional elbow, his mouth had 8 stitches. I'm wishing him a speedy recovery, we'll probably see him 2 matches later, if not next match.

Clippers, Lakers, Heat, Bucks and Nets grabbed the win as expected. It was kinda odd that all favorites won their games though.

I watched the game and it was a mistake by Serge Obaka on his own team which the incident happened.
He was bleeding alot from his mouth and at first thought he bit his tongue from the collision.
It was a scary moment because he had to be helped off the court. He probably won't play in the next the Clippers next game.
Due to concussion protocols from having that much contact on the court and having your head smashed back like that.

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[bisdak40]

Close game in second quarter Grizzlies vs Hawks  but Atlanta Hawks is just a bit better from three points and they did free throws perfectly for now.

58-56, halftime score, the road team led by 2 points.

Morant is leading the Memphis with 15 points while Young is leading the Hawks with 12 points.
This is a good battle of the two best guards in the NBA, but Morant here is more consistent with his 6/7 shooting.

Trae Young takes over in the last minute of the game and ohh man, did you see that behind the legs (or what do you call that) drive for two to seal the win for Hawks? That was beautiful.

This time Young won over Morant but these two young good guards will meet often in the court and for sure Morant will have his time.

[LGD2Business]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

[akirasendo17]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

[Finestream]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

Harden with 44 points and 17 assists in a losing effort.. hmmm.. I'm just wondering, where is John Wall, why he didn't play in this game?

Sorry guys, was not able to watch the game live,  and did not put my bet on this game too.

[Japinat]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

Harden with 44 points and 17 assists in a losing effort.. hmmm.. I'm just wondering, where is John Wall, why he didn't play in this game?

Sorry guys, was not able to watch the game live,  and did not put my bet on this game too.

Actually not only Wall was out, many of them, and the reason is health protocol.

here's the news regarding your inquiry. https://www.nba.com/news/john-wall-demarcus-cousins-among-six-rockets-out-vs-trail-blazers

The club designated John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Mason Jones and Eric Gordon as out due to “health and safety protocols,” and listed rookie Kenyon Martin Jr. and Ben McLemore as out “self isolating.”

However, despite of the undermanned team, Rockets still almost had a win.

[danherbias07]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

That's right.
But the one who needs to step up is not there. I think they can win the game with huge differential against Blazers if Wall and Gordon was there.
All I can say is they still did great despite lacking the offensive players on the floor.
It's a good start.

[Ziskinberg]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

That's right.
But the one who needs to step up is not there. I think they can win the game with huge differential against Blazers if Wall and Gordon was there.
All I can say is they still did great despite lacking the offensive players on the floor.
It's a good start.

The result could be different if they are complete, but Harden showed the heart of a real MVP, he was unstoppable and almost pull out a win. After seeing it, I think the management will doubt in trading him because he is still showing his best, he hasn't change.

[ultrloa]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

That's right.
But the one who needs to step up is not there. I think they can win the game with huge differential against Blazers if Wall and Gordon was there.
All I can say is they still did great despite lacking the offensive players on the floor.
It's a good start.

The result could be different if they are complete, but Harden showed the heart of a real MVP, he was unstoppable and almost pull out a win. After seeing it, I think the management will doubt in trading him because he is still showing his best, he hasn't change.

That's why houston management take a hard time to let him go since they know how valuable harden is and they will struggle to find a harden like player in the league, but if the chemistry of the team will still be affected for the drama's rotated on the trade rumors maybe its time for them to let go and build again since if harden will insist about staying then provably he will be a huge problem to the team since for sure he will be a ball hog and pad all his stats without aiming to win for houston.

[Russlenat]

Wow I feel sorry for James Harden. Imagine scoring 44 points and have 17 assists, then lose the game on overtime.

That hurts!

Nobody make 40(p)-15(a) two times over the last 20 seasons. It's Harden's fourth one. Crazy!

Someone must step up, James harden can't take it on his own, if no one will help him, he might break a lot of records in scoring but the team might suffer losses every time, also see him gain weight, although same performance, but needs teammates to perform every day consistently, they are a playoff team, but the west is loaded so it will be very hard for them.

That's right.
But the one who needs to step up is not there. I think they can win the game with huge differential against Blazers if Wall and Gordon was there.
All I can say is they still did great despite lacking the offensive players on the floor.
It's a good start.

The result could be different if they are complete, but Harden showed the heart of a real MVP, he was unstoppable and almost pull out a win. After seeing it, I think the management will doubt in trading him because he is still showing his best, he hasn't change.

That's why houston management take a hard time to let him go since they know how valuable harden is and they will struggle to find a harden like player in the league, but if the chemistry of the team will still be affected for the drama's rotated on the trade rumors maybe its time for them to let go and build again since if harden will insist about staying then provably he will be a huge problem to the team since for sure he will be a ball hog and pad all his stats without aiming to win for houston.

We have not seen him played with John Wall yet, hopefully we will see some chemistry as both are really good and can help the team to improve. Westbrook is not a good PG, he is more focus on his scoring and rebounding, but Wall here understands his role that Harden is the main man.

[Reid]

We have not seen him played with John Wall yet, hopefully we will see some chemistry as both are really good and can help the team to improve. Westbrook is not a good PG, he is more focus on his scoring and rebounding, but Wall here understands his role that Harden is the main man.

I hope he does.
Besides, he will also be a star by just feeding Harden. 
I am actually excited about how they can work it out. 2 offensive guys in one team. I mean 3 if you will include Gordon which most of the times explodes when Harden is in the zone. 

Just one more game against the Nuggets and we will be witnessing how their chemistry will be.
John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Gordon likely to return Wednesday

[Russlenat]

We have not seen him played with John Wall yet, hopefully we will see some chemistry as both are really good and can help the team to improve. Westbrook is not a good PG, he is more focus on his scoring and rebounding, but Wall here understands his role that Harden is the main man.

I hope he does.
Besides, he will also be a star by just feeding Harden. 
I am actually excited about how they can work it out. 2 offensive guys in one team. I mean 3 if you will include Gordon which most of the times explodes when Harden is in the zone. 

Just one more game against the Nuggets and we will be witnessing how their chemistry will be.
John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Gordon likely to return Wednesday

Nice one, I'm looking forward on seeing them play together this Wednesday. No doubt Harden can carry this team but not to their expectation which is the championship, so he needs John Wall and the supporting cast, so hopefully Harden will be nice to them and play some good chemistry like Irving and Durant.

[jostorres]

Spurs won once again, I am a big fan so I follow them, and they were great. Defense requries a bit more communication, they are not bad on defense, but they do not talk that much, and that makes switches a lot harder and in this day and age people play switch defense like crazy so you have to talk about that. With Derozan shooting threes, and LMA shooting threes, and all the young players having great games, and Dejounte having a triple double, it was a great game.

I think Spurs will make it to playoffs this year, it will not be "easy", we are not going to suddenly have 60 win season, but things look a lot better than last year for this past two games. The difference of bad defensive players being gone shows a lot, even though we are still not great on defense, we are at least not THAT bad anymore. Hopefully we can see a 50 win season from Spurs once again.

[Harlot]

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For me, I don't see it as an issue. Just give the kid a break.

It's like Lonzo when he entered the league. Lonzo's debut game was only 3 points in 29 minutes. But in their next game, he grabbed 29 points. Let's see if LaMelo will show good numbers on their next game.

Not expecting they will live on the hype but I'm sure they will have good progress.

Debut games won't be always ending up on good scores. I agree that this isnt been a hype and give those kids some time. They might havent able to get some good start up but this is still a long path to go and make some show-off.

It isnt really much of an isssue yet they wont really be picked out for nothing.

I don't see that it being a debut game is an issue since Ball already underwent to several preseason games and all of those games it didn't went well aside from that his debut game doesn't have any pressure at all without any noises of fans disturbing his performance but he didn't made it through. His 2nd performance he didn't really improve at all with only 13 pts with 6 rebounds and 1 ast for a point guard which I don't think is really good for a PG.

[boltz]

Mavs really need a win tonight against Clippers or they will lose even more confidence and moral as a team. On the other side, let's be honest and admit that Clippers are a force not be reckon with for this year and Mavs might lose the fight after all.

I think the best odds as a Mavs fan is to pick Luka at scoring 3+ from 3 point range...

[dwyane36]

Mavs really need a win tonight against Clippers or they will lose even more confidence and moral as a team. On the other side, let's be honest and admit that Clippers are a force not be reckon with for this year and Mavs might lose the fight after all.

I think the best odds as a Mavs fan is to pick Luka at scoring 3+ from 3 point range...

Maybe Dallas will have a chance to win LAC because Kawhi Leonard won't play in this match due to injury. Also, I don't think that the Mavs will lose confidence even if they lose again, considering that the season has just begun.

[cashfairy]

Mavs really need a win tonight against Clippers or they will lose even more confidence and moral as a team. On the other side, let's be honest and admit that Clippers are a force not be reckon with for this year and Mavs might lose the fight after all.

I think the best odds as a Mavs fan is to pick Luka at scoring 3+ from 3 point range...

Maybe Dallas will have a chance to win LAC because Kawhi Leonard won't play in this match due to injury. Also, I don't think that the Mavs will lose confidence even if they lose again, considering that the season has just begun.

Mavs was 40pts ahead i looked after 16min of play
does distance also matter? Mavs was allready in  LA but Clippers had to fly back from Denver

[redhack]

This year KD will pass Giannis and take MVP award again.

Mark my words.

[Oilacris]

Mavs really need a win tonight against Clippers or they will lose even more confidence and moral as a team. On the other side, let's be honest and admit that Clippers are a force not be reckon with for this year and Mavs might lose the fight after all.

I think the best odds as a Mavs fan is to pick Luka at scoring 3+ from 3 point range...

Maybe Dallas will have a chance to win LAC because Kawhi Leonard won't play in this match due to injury. Also, I don't think that the Mavs will lose confidence even if they lose again, considering that the season has just begun.

Mavs was 40pts ahead i looked after 16min of play
does distance also matter? Mavs was allready in  LA but Clippers had to fly back from Denver

Its still on 3rd quarter and the score is 102-55 which is 47 points lead made by Dallas which is really an impressive one.Its understandable though since one of key players arent on the court.

This season has just indeed began and some said that it is just alright to lose for a certain team but starting up on a good record will always on what they do prefer.

About that Kawhi injury:
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kawhi-leonard-injury-clippers-all-star-gets-eight-stitches-to-treat-laceration-in-mouth-after-elbow-to-face/

Eight stitches for laceration? that wont really took long for healing up.

[stadus]

This year KD will pass Giannis and take MVP award again.

Mark my words.

Too early to tell, he is not even in the top 5 in all categories yet. https://www.espn.com/nba/stats
And don't forget about Kyrie Irving, this guy is also balling well.

Mavs really need a win tonight against Clippers or they will lose even more confidence and moral as a team. On the other side, let's be honest and admit that Clippers are a force not be reckon with for this year and Mavs might lose the fight after all.

I think the best odds as a Mavs fan is to pick Luka at scoring 3+ from 3 point range...

Maybe Dallas will have a chance to win LAC because Kawhi Leonard won't play in this match due to injury. Also, I don't think that the Mavs will lose confidence even if they lose again, considering that the season has just begun.

Mavs was 40pts ahead i looked after 16min of play
does distance also matter? Mavs was allready in  LA but Clippers had to fly back from Denver

They'll get this one, wasn't expecting this as a blowout, but here it is, good thing there's no fans in the arena, lol.