2024 NBA Season

[freedomgo]

Tomorrow will be another fun game. Lakers vs Nets.
Oh yes, I am definitely watching this live.
Irving probable to play. Let's see if Harden can carry the load.

Me too, I can't miss this game although Davis is still not gonna play here. Irving and Durant will play in this game?

Do we have some reliable information on the availability of these two players?
Per betting line, Lakers is currently -2, what is the implication?

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[wheelz1200]

Well that knick game ended badly.  Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

[akirasendo17]

Well that knick game ended badly.  Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

I wish Davis can play, to see a preview of the finals, to see how KD Irving, and harden match-up with AD and Lebron on the other end, although they will not show 100% during the game, but to see them compete, will see how will it end can the lakers dominate the nets underneath, or the nets put a big scoring night to smash lakers, hope they are healthy if ever they would face each other in the finals.

[Fredomago]

Well that knick game ended badly.  Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

I wish Davis can play, to see a preview of the finals, to see how KD Irving, and harden match-up with AD and Lebron on the other end, although they will not show 100% during the game, but to see them compete, will see how will it end can the lakers dominate the nets underneath, or the nets put a big scoring night to smash lakers, hope they are healthy if ever they would face each other in the finals.

Sorry to say that KD is not going to play  because of a hamstring injury. While in the other hand even AD will play alongside with LeBron for sure the management / coach will not allow him to force everything, as he needed more rest due to his injury, it's better to keep him limited to make sure that he will be more healthier once playoffs started.

He and Lebron are the main stars of lakers so even we wanted to see the preview of a possible finals it won't happened as we expected to be, this two teams will manage their players, reserving them for much important games to come.

[boyptc]

Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

I'm also excited to see this match. There's even an article I've read that's starting a war on Twitter, for the fans. I've heard on the news and from the people I've known that KD isn't going to play.

Can't still say that the Lakers would have this game but they have the advantage.

[Harlot]

And the Portland TrailBlazers continues to roll with the win against Zion's team.

They have the 2nd largest win streak in the league at 6. Congratulations to another win, this team is still a good even without CJ, but maybe during the playoffs they'll not win like what they are doing now.

Bro don't forget to mention about Nurkic and Zach Collins missing out several games as well for the Blazers yet to my surprise they are keeping up in the Western Conference being the 4th best team in that conference. They won all of their last 6 games without the full force of their lineup and that is something that I think Damian Lillard is used to having ever since Aldrige left the team Lillard still manages to win some games and adjust to the situation that is only during the regular season but when the playoffs come their effort isn't always enough.

[sana54210]

Well that knick game ended badly.  Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

I wish Davis can play, to see a preview of the finals, to see how KD Irving, and harden match-up with AD and Lebron on the other end, although they will not show 100% during the game, but to see them compete, will see how will it end can the lakers dominate the nets underneath, or the nets put a big scoring night to smash lakers, hope they are healthy if ever they would face each other in the finals.

Honestly it will probably be Nets winning this one because they are a newer team trying to get to a higher seed after how they started early in the season, and trying to see how they play together and what they should do etc etc, there could be both irving and KD missing this game so it wouldn't really matter if they play hard or not in that case.

On the other side we know Lakers, AD is missing so that is a big problem for the team, he could be the best player on that team (very hard to say when you have Lebron in the team) but we all know Lebron will not play that hard neither, he cherry picks games most of the time and doesn't give 100% in the regular season, it is not easy being 36 years old and still manage to carry teams to finals, so he will definitely work as hard as he can during playoffs and just LeCoast during regular season. Basically this will be a boring game for sure, we are not going to see anything remote to what could be potentially.

[Dave1]

Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

I'm also excited to see this match. There's even an article I've read that's starting a war on Twitter, for the fans. I've heard on the news and from the people I've known that KD isn't going to play.

Can't still say that the Lakers would have this game but they have the advantage.

Too bad if KD are not going to play, so it's going to be 50:50 here. Although I think with Harden's recent performance, I would say that Nets has the slight advantage with their two superstars. Lebron will have to play and score more here in order to win. In any case, this is going to be an exciting match to watch as I'm sure Lakers needed to win here to stay with the Jazz.

[milewilda]

Dont know what to think of tonight's laker and nets game.  Waiting to see if kyrie plays.  Either way I'm thinking the over on this one.  Prime time, fast paced game.

I'm also excited to see this match. There's even an article I've read that's starting a war on Twitter, for the fans. I've heard on the news and from the people I've known that KD isn't going to play.

Can't still say that the Lakers would have this game but they have the advantage.

Too bad if KD are not going to play, so it's going to be 50:50 here. Although I think with Harden's recent performance, I would say that Nets has the slight advantage with their two superstars. Lebron will have to play and score more here in order to win. In any case, this is going to be an exciting match to watch as I'm sure Lakers needed to win here to stay with the Jazz.

He does have hamstring injury which is most likely for him not able to join up the game which is indeed an advantage for Lakers.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2931622-kevin-durant-ruled-out-for-nets-vs-lakers-due-to-hamstring-injury

[dwyane36]

we all know Lebron will not play that hard neither, he cherry picks games most of the time and doesn't give 100% in the regular season, it is not easy being 36 years old and still manage to carry teams to finals, so he will definitely work as hard as he can during playoffs and just LeCoast during regular season. Basically this will be a boring game for sure, we are not going to see anything remote to what could be potentially.

IIRC Lebron has been using such a strategy for many seasons, and I think this is the main reason why he didn't have any serious injuries during previous seasons.

He does have hamstring injury which is most likely for him not able to join up the game which is indeed an advantage for Lakers.

Also, Brooklyn Nets announced an impressive list of players who will miss tonight's game, although Irving's status is "probable".

[wheelz1200]

we all know Lebron will not play that hard neither, he cherry picks games most of the time and doesn't give 100% in the regular season, it is not easy being 36 years old and still manage to carry teams to finals, so he will definitely work as hard as he can during playoffs and just LeCoast during regular season. Basically this will be a boring game for sure, we are not going to see anything remote to what could be potentially.

IIRC Lebron has been using such a strategy for many seasons, and I think this is the main reason why he didn't have any serious injuries during previous seasons.

He does have hamstring injury which is most likely for him not able to join up the game which is indeed an advantage for Lakers.

Also, Brooklyn Nets announced an impressive list of players who will miss tonight's game, although Irving's status is "probable".

Yeah kyrie playing or not aging is the key factor here.  That is huge for the Nets.  Think the play here is the over or under and not worry who will end up winning this one.  Easy to root against or for both teams to score

[stadus]

we all know Lebron will not play that hard neither, he cherry picks games most of the time and doesn't give 100% in the regular season, it is not easy being 36 years old and still manage to carry teams to finals, so he will definitely work as hard as he can during playoffs and just LeCoast during regular season. Basically this will be a boring game for sure, we are not going to see anything remote to what could be potentially.

IIRC Lebron has been using such a strategy for many seasons, and I think this is the main reason why he didn't have any serious injuries during previous seasons.

Lebron has evolved his game, he is now a complete player and as he master being a PG of this team, that gives him the liberty to spread the responsibility to his teams and they win together. He is not so aggressive during the regular season but in the playoffs, he always gives his everything, that's why it's always good to back him in big games.

[blockman]

Yeah, GG to Clippers. Clarkson just keeps on improving and improving and he's recognized with that. Do you think that because of his improvement Lakers would take him back soon or will get an offer from them? Or it's best for him to be known to be staying good and have him as a signature player of Jazz because I think he became well on his transfer there.

He's close to get the 6th month of the year and the one he needs now is to became more consistent on his stats so that he can successfully achieve it. But I don't like the idea about taking him back on the Lakers since he's perfect fit already on the Jazz organization since he have his role their and I also don't think that they will let jordan out on their rotation since this will be a huge mistake since their 2nd unit will be weaken if they decide to trade clarkson in future.

I'm just having the thought that what if Lakers appreciates him and want to take him back. That happens in the NBA when they see their man grown enough and became better with other teams. But I agree to you that he's better in Jazz as he became better with them.
Jazz has found a good player that they probably won't release unless there will be better offers not for him but for the team.

[mirakal]

Yeah, GG to Clippers. Clarkson just keeps on improving and improving and he's recognized with that. Do you think that because of his improvement Lakers would take him back soon or will get an offer from them? Or it's best for him to be known to be staying good and have him as a signature player of Jazz because I think he became well on his transfer there.

He's close to get the 6th month of the year and the one he needs now is to became more consistent on his stats so that he can successfully achieve it. But I don't like the idea about taking him back on the Lakers since he's perfect fit already on the Jazz organization since he have his role their and I also don't think that they will let jordan out on their rotation since this will be a huge mistake since their 2nd unit will be weaken if they decide to trade clarkson in future.

I'm just having the thought that what if Lakers appreciates him and want to take him back. That happens in the NBA when they see their man grown enough and became better with other teams. But I agree to you that he's better in Jazz as he became better with them.
Jazz has found a good player that they probably won't release unless there will be better offers not for him but for the team.

With what has been Clarkson is showing that he has upped his game, there's no doubt that the Lakers would be interested in him, however, I guess Clarkson has already found a home, there's no reason for him to transfer unless he will be offered with a salary of a superstar and that's gonna be when his contract will expire with the current team.

[Distinctin]

Lakers vs Nets who's excited to watch this game?

Davis is probably out and Durant could be out as well.
Why Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis are sitting out Nets vs. Lakers game

For me, this is a fair game for both as they'll miss one star for each team, but Nets still have 2 so I guess it's Irving/Harden vs James.

[arwin100]

Lakers vs Nets who's excited to watch this game?

Davis is probably out and Durant could be out as well.
Why Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis are sitting out Nets vs. Lakers game

For me, this is a fair game for both as they'll miss one star for each team, but Nets still have 2 so I guess it's Irving/Harden vs James.

This is fair on offensive ends since they will miss the contribution can produce by davis but in defensive end well that's debatable for now since they have harrel and gasol as well other quality guys who can give a good defensive match up on their roosters as Nets don't have a legit defender yet so most provably they will still be dominated by lakers at this game. Although we cannot give the accurate result but I'm on side of Lakers at this match up.

[Vaculin]

Lakers vs Nets who's excited to watch this game?

Davis is probably out and Durant could be out as well.
Why Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis are sitting out Nets vs. Lakers game

For me, this is a fair game for both as they'll miss one star for each team, but Nets still have 2 so I guess it's Irving/Harden vs James.

This is fair on offensive ends since they will miss the contribution can produce by davis but in defensive end well that's debatable for now since they have harrel and gasol as well other quality guys who can give a good defensive match up on their roosters as Nets don't have a legit defender yet so most provably they will still be dominated by lakers at this game. Although we cannot give the accurate result but I'm on side of Lakers at this match up.

I'm afraid we will see the old scenario that the Nets have been dominated in rebounding, I hope it will not happen in this game as I have already put my bet on the Nets to win in this game. Nets IMO have already adjusted as they keep winning lately and that's the reason why I back them to win.

[boltz]

This could actually be the final of the season so who's not excited for this game ? The game should flow with Nets tonight and I'm expecting an over 234.5 and Nets to win at more than 4 points. Why I don't like Lakers in this game ? Just because they don't have AD who is so necessary for a game like this when you will have a kinda fast pace and a lot of 3 points coming towards you and you need a player like him to make Nets commit faults and so on ...

[nitrobetting]

Hi guys. Lakers vs. Nets -- exciting game ahead. I see a lot betting on a Nets win tonight since they've been in a 4 game win steak.

Durant's absence had been a blessing in disguise so far and resulted into more Kyrie scoring opportunities. I reckon this comes down to who plays more defense in the 2nd half.

Overall, Lakers are better defensive team but I expect a huge game from Kyrie. Teams definitely going to crush the Over on this game.

[morvillz7z]

WEST/EAST All-Star Starters were just announced:


image source: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2932298-nba-all-star-game-2021-rosters-captains-and-starters-revealed

Western Conference All-Star Starters: Stephen Curry, Luka Doncic, LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Nikola Jokic. (source)
Eastern Conference All-Star Starters: Kyrie Irving, Bradley Beal, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid. (source)

Here is the full schedule of this year's ALL-Star game in Atlanta on 7/3/21:

🌟6:30pm/et: Taco Bell Skills Challenge and MTN DEW 3-Point Contest begins
🌟8pm/et: 70th NBA All-Star Game
🌟Halftime: AT&T Slam Dunk

https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1362465175102775297

Who wins, East or West? Do you see any players being snubbed?