2024 NBA Season

[OgNasty]

John Wall out with another season ending injury. Was really hoping he would find a way to be healthy again but it looks like it wasn’t meant to be. His last contract has to be one of the biggest grifts in NBA history. The amount of dollars made per minutes played has to be somewhat unimaginable for us regular folks.

[danherbias07]

As always, that's the basis.

It now depends on "what if" scenarios wherein can affect the overall performance of a team. Take note that this season, the Nets and Lakers are underperforming compare to others teams when their superstars are not playing.

We might have seen another team like the Miami Heat upsetting all teams in the East last year surprising everyone or the Raptors taking down Golden State Warriors in their Finals matchup that no doubt have an advantage as Durant and Klay didn't play much because of injuries.

Again, "what if".

That's true.
Not just what if's, players are starting to change their game even if it's not playoffs yet. New names suddenly getting popular because they need to step up their game.
Knicks, Kings (almost defeated GSW and just now won against Mavs), they may not even join the play-in tournament but they are not just giving up any wins to other teams. Miami Heat may also change when it's needed.
Then, let's not forget Covid-19 is still there which could be a reason for a team to be defeated in the playoffs.
There's no consistency with wins now also because of fatigued players.
When all of that considered, it's difficult to predict who will take that championship.

[Yaunfitda]

What a crazy NBA games we have tonight,

The Knicks and Wizards, who are on are winning streak, suddenly lost to Suns and Spurs.

Jazz seems to cannot get over the Wolves, and two underdogs, Clippers and Mavericks was upset as well. Only Nuggets prevented a sweep of the underdogs..

[ILuckyGuyI]

What a crazy NBA games we have tonight,

The Knicks and Wizards, who are on are winning streak, suddenly lost to Suns and Spurs.

Jazz seems to cannot get over the Wolves, and two underdogs, Clippers and Mavericks was upset as well. Only Nuggets prevented a sweep of the underdogs..

Wizards - Spurs game was really incredible, man. Spurs hardly managed to get a win, 146-143 after overtime. In the last seconds of the last quarter, B. Beal didn't miss the layup and helped his team to stay in the game. But he missed the 3-pointer in the last moments of overtime and they lost this game. But I must admit that Beal's performance was really great that he scored 45 points.

[yazher]

What a crazy NBA games we have tonight,

The Knicks and Wizards, who are on are winning streak, suddenly lost to Suns and Spurs.

Jazz seems to cannot get over the Wolves, and two underdogs, Clippers and Mavericks was upset as well. Only Nuggets prevented a sweep of the underdogs..

It would have been good if the New York Knicks manage to win the match earlier but what can we do? this time they faced the healthy Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns. The game was close though, but still, they cannot penetrate and win the game earlier. The Wizards really need the win earlier because they need to take every chance they have to climb to the number 6 spot. They still have lots of games left and surely they can make up with the game earlier.

[OgNasty]

What a crazy NBA games we have tonight,

The Knicks and Wizards, who are on are winning streak, suddenly lost to Suns and Spurs.

Jazz seems to cannot get over the Wolves, and two underdogs, Clippers and Mavericks was upset as well. Only Nuggets prevented a sweep of the underdogs..

It would have been good if the New York Knicks manage to win the match earlier but what can we do? this time they faced the healthy Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns. The game was close though, but still, they cannot penetrate and win the game earlier. The Wizards really need the win earlier because they need to take every chance they have to climb to the number 6 spot. They still have lots of games left and surely they can make up with the game earlier.

CP3 showing that he’s still got it. That was almost Dametime worthy the way he ended it. They had a few point lead so he didn’t really have anything at stake in taking the shot, but he hit in nonetheless and sealed the win for the Suns. Still an impressive win streak from the Knicks, but this is the Suns year.

[goinmerry]

Wizards - Spurs game was really incredible, man. Spurs hardly managed to get a win, 146-143 after overtime. In the last seconds of the last quarter, B. Beal didn't miss the layup and helped his team to stay in the game. But he missed the 3-pointer in the last moments of overtime and they lost this game.

The game was intensely fun to watch.

Starting from around the 4-minute mark of the 4th Quarter to the overtime period, the score was just either exchanging leads or being a tie. Almost a second overtime if Beal hit that clutch three.

Not just a battle between Bradley Beal and DeMar DeRozan but their teammates also contribute to that clutch period moments.

[Pamadar]

What a crazy NBA games we have tonight,

The Knicks and Wizards, who are on are winning streak, suddenly lost to Suns and Spurs.

Jazz seems to cannot get over the Wolves, and two underdogs, Clippers and Mavericks was upset as well. Only Nuggets prevented a sweep of the underdogs..

Love the competitions as both teams really tried to keep their winning streak,

But the opposing teams are really tough and really played well to stop the streak, Suns with Booker and CP3 anchoring the game

they've outplayed the Knicks stars.

While with Spurs who managed to snatched the win over Wizards, the hot Beal unable to finished the game with the win, the battle of
teams stars and the contributions of their role players.

[danherbias07]

What a crazy NBA games we have tonight,

The Knicks and Wizards, who are on are winning streak, suddenly lost to Suns and Spurs.

Jazz seems to cannot get over the Wolves, and two underdogs, Clippers and Mavericks was upset as well. Only Nuggets prevented a sweep of the underdogs..

Fact: Jazz had never won against the Timberwolves this whole season. 3-0. 
They are like the Kryptonite of the Jazz.
That's the number 1 in the West against the number 14. How come? Other team managements should dig the tapes of every game of the Wolves to reveal the secret. Who knows, it might help in the playoffs.

I badly want the Knicks to win that game against the Suns to put a new record. Maybe it will silence the critics who are still doubting the power of this young team.

[dwyane36]

I was surprised to find out the news that the Warriors have become the first NBA team to launch NFT-collection. At the moment, there are several NFT auctions available on opensea. I guess it might be interesting for ardent fans of GSW.
https://gswnft.com/

[agustina2]

I was surprised to find out the news that the Warriors have become the first NBA team to launch NFT-collection. At the moment, there are several NFT auctions available on opensea. I guess it might be interesting for ardent fans of GSW.
https://gswnft.com/

I've checked one item which is - Edition 1 - 2017 Warriors Championship Ring NFT & Physical Ring

The price of it is crazy $7,389.37 as the current bid amount.

Will never have a chance to owned one here.

[SquallLeonhart]

At first I saw the 146-143 at Spurs vs Wizards game and I knew it was an overtime game, because you do not see that kind of points in a regular season game on NBA for sure. However, I later realized that the game ended 133-133 as well, that is 266 points combined for both teams and that is a lot of points as well. It was a no defense, pure offense game I think.

So, I went ahead and watched the highlights of the game and I was right, both teams sucked on defense big time, they didn't even care about defense at certain points and only cared about what they will do on offense as a response. Spurs played with 53.4% FG and 85.7% FT and 35.3% 3P while Wizards played with 53.2% FG and 84% FT and 30% 3P as well. That is really high shooting percentages for any game, and to have that from both teams at the same game shows how little defense was there from both defense.

[Botnake]

@SquallLeonhart... Wizards are a high-scoring team, spurs also have shifted to a high-scoring game as what they've told us before this season starts, so it's normal to see this high-scoring game but in the end, it favored the spurs. Both teams badly need a win to at least ensure their rank to be in the top 10, it's just lucky that Spurs won this game.

[Oasisman]

I was surprised to find out the news that the Warriors have become the first NBA team to launch NFT-collection. At the moment, there are several NFT auctions available on opensea. I guess it might be interesting for ardent fans of GSW.
https://gswnft.com/

I've checked one item which is - Edition 1 - 2017 Warriors Championship Ring NFT & Physical Ring

The price of it is crazy $7,389.37 as the current bid amount.

Will never have a chance to owned one here.

Cool stuff! I'm pretty sure GSW fans would love to participate in the bidding hope to get one of these collections. Though the bidding price is so expensive, only the rich fans would be able to get one of these collections.

I guess some of the teams in the NBA will auction their own NFT's soon If the GSW will successfully sell all of their NFT's. This will be a good alternative to cope up with the business income amidst the pandemic.

[harizen]

I guess some of the teams in the NBA will auction their own NFT's soon If the GSW will successfully sell all of their NFT's.

Looking at the bids, it's already a success. There are still a few more days left on the auction so I think some collections will breach over $10,000. Just wondering if the ETH used on previous bids will be converted into its current price as the price increases for a few days now.

I'm really stunned with those GSW collections. Damn!

The Lakers, Spurs, and Celtics can follow too. These teams do have several achievements already in the league making it more options for collections.

[agustina2]

That is really high shooting percentages for any game, and to have that from both teams at the same game shows how little defense was there from both defense.

Disagree, mate. There's a defense but it's just that field goals are getting in. As Popovich said, "We couldn’t stop them and they couldn’t stop us.”.

And during the final minutes in the regulation and overtime, you can see most points by players are in the paint area. There's always a defense on that zone. You will also see how Bradley Beal muscling his way close to the rim and still getting those shots even with a hard defense.

[TravelMug]

That is really high shooting percentages for any game, and to have that from both teams at the same game shows how little defense was there from both defense.

Disagree, mate. There's a defense but it's just that field goals are getting in. As Popovich said, "We couldn’t stop them and they couldn’t stop us.”.

And during the final minutes in the regulation and overtime, you can see most points by players are in the paint area. There's always a defense on that zone. You will also see how Bradley Beal muscling his way close to the rim and still getting those shots even with a hard defense.

Yep, Wizard is a high octane team and they will run and score on every opponent in the quickest possible time. And that's where Russ strive and at the same time can dish out good assists for quick score.

I think they played good defense, but their offense is the fuel for their game. Unfortunately Beal wasn't able to hit that 3 to send the game into OT again, wish he had because I have Wizards on ML.

I'm looking at GSW vs Dallas, I'm going on GSW here at (-4.5), if Curry exploded with 40++ points in this game I think they can covered the spread. Dallas is also on a back to back games, they've lost a tough one against the Kings last night.

[danherbias07]

I'm looking at GSW vs Dallas, I'm going on GSW here at (-4.5), if Curry exploded with 40++ points in this game I think they can covered the spread. Dallas is also on a back to back games, they've lost a tough one against the Kings last night.

Sadly, you lose this one bro.
I was also looking forward for the Warriors to win that game to be safer at the 8th spot.
Curry was doubled every time he handles the ball. He can't make that explosion he use to do whenever his running off the ball.
Dallas Mavericks also need that win after a bad loss against the Kings.
GSW won only with assists but had a very low percentage in shooting. They ended the 1st quarter with just 12 points and 29 at the half. That's the worse performance ever this season.

[Jating]

I'm looking at GSW vs Dallas, I'm going on GSW here at (-4.5), if Curry exploded with 40++ points in this game I think they can covered the spread. Dallas is also on a back to back games, they've lost a tough one against the Kings last night.

Sadly, you lose this one bro.
I was also looking forward for the Warriors to win that game to be safer at the 8th spot.
Curry was doubled every time he handles the ball. He can't make that explosion he use to do whenever his running off the ball.
Dallas Mavericks also need that win after a bad loss against the Kings.
GSW won only with assists but had a very low percentage in shooting. They ended the 1st quarter with just 12 points and 29 at the half. That's the worse performance ever this season.

Yes, I wasn't able to watch the full games, just a glimpse of the 1st quarter wherein the Mavericks already built a huge lead that they didn't let go. And I was looking for Curry, but he can't even touch the ball in the 1st quarter alone so I said that it will be a very difficult task for the Warriors to overcome that huge lead and that's what happen here. Good bounce from Dallas after losing a game against the Kings.

[Questat]

I'm looking at GSW vs Dallas, I'm going on GSW here at (-4.5), if Curry exploded with 40++ points in this game I think they can covered the spread. Dallas is also on a back to back games, they've lost a tough one against the Kings last night.

Sadly, you lose this one bro.
I was also looking forward for the Warriors to win that game to be safer at the 8th spot.
Curry was doubled every time he handles the ball. He can't make that explosion he use to do whenever his running off the ball.
Dallas Mavericks also need that win after a bad loss against the Kings.
GSW won only with assists but had a very low percentage in shooting. They ended the 1st quarter with just 12 points and 29 at the half. That's the worse performance ever this season.

Yes, I wasn't able to watch the full games, just a glimpse of the 1st quarter wherein the Mavericks already built a huge lead that they didn't let go. And I was looking for Curry, but he can't even touch the ball in the 1st quarter alone so I said that it will be a very difficult task for the Warriors to overcome that huge lead and that's what happen here. Good bounce from Dallas after losing a game against the Kings.

I wasn't expecting that Mavericks would win that big against the GSW. Too bad I wasn't able to put a bit on the high odds like Mavs winning 11+ or more, that should have been a jackpot. Hopefully next time, I can spot a game like that, 

You can already see how serious they are now,  GSW and Mavericks are not ensured yet with their standing, so they need to play hard to win here.