2024 NBA Season

[harizen]

Blazers vs. Spurs and Pelicans vs. Lakers for games that will be a deciding factor on who will make it to the play-in tournament. Who you got? It looks like Spurs has a better chance to win and eliminate the Blazers. Pelicans will be tough for the Lakers but some sources say Davis and James could play.

San Antonio Spurs in order to have a great advantage over the Lakers should beat the Portland Trail Blazers twice. The remaining games will be tough for them so there should be no room for being defeated by Blazers in their next two games.

Lakers, on the other hand, has only against Pelicans which I think they can handle much. Their remaining games after that are those who are top teams in the Western Conferences like Phoenix Suns, Denver Nuggets, and Golden State Warriors. If LeBron James and Anthony Davis will play tonight and in the following games, a "miracle" is possible but that was a tough odds to pass on.

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[agustina2]

It is really horrible to see LA Lakers in this kind of a situation. But it was already obvious much time ago that they were going to have serious problems in even the regular season. They still weren't able to play properly as a team and were depending on Lebron James at an incredibly high rate. And this has brought things to the current point. They have the same amount of wins with Spurs though and can still enter the playoff zone. But it is not going to be easy. They lost four weeks in a row and Spurs have been in a much better condition these days.

Actually not that horrible since it was already expected in the half-period of the season. Lakers fans should not expect anything from now on. There are still more seasons for a comeback although Lebron James is now hitting the retirement age and might not be the best player as always for the franchise.

The better plan would be, to make a whole roster revamp from coaching staff to players and surround Lebron with good role players to help him. Lakers need Lebron and that's already proven. I don't know why others think that Lebron is stat-padding. How can you stat-padding at that age and still give 30+ points per game? That was greatness.

[Dave1]

Huge win by the Memphis Grizzlies against the Phoenix Suns tonight. They just show that even without some of their starters, they can win against the best team in the NBA right now.

It's going to be scary when Ja Morant comes back in the playoff. I reckon that whoever they faces in the first round, a sweep is possible with their strengths.

[OgNasty]

Blazers vs. Spurs and Pelicans vs. Lakers for games that will be a deciding factor on who will make it to the play-in tournament. Who you got? It looks like Spurs has a better chance to win and eliminate the Blazers. Pelicans will be tough for the Lakers but some sources say Davis and James could play.

San Antonio Spurs in order to have a great advantage over the Lakers should beat the Portland Trail Blazers twice. The remaining games will be tough for them so there should be no room for being defeated by Blazers in their next two games.

Lakers, on the other hand, has only against Pelicans which I think they can handle much. Their remaining games after that are those who are top teams in the Western Conferences like Phoenix Suns, Denver Nuggets, and Golden State Warriors. If LeBron James and Anthony Davis will play tonight and in the following games, a "miracle" is possible but that was a tough odds to pass on.

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

[dimonstration]

Huge win by the Memphis Grizzlies against the Phoenix Suns tonight. They just show that even without some of their starters, they can win against the best team in the NBA right now.

It's going to be scary when Ja Morant comes back in the playoff. I reckon that whoever they faces in the first round, a sweep is possible with their strengths.

There's a lot of upset match including this one. I was surprised on the result of today's match especially on Bucks, If you bet prematch, I'm sure many will be trap on the odds without knowing Giannis and other starting 5 will not gonna play already after there win against Nets.

Other game surprises me is the match between Maverick and Wizards. I never thought that Wizards can dominate the Mavs in all quarters of the game.  Luka Doncik is performing good but the rest of the team is not adding score to contribute in there run on 3rd quarter. I thought they will gonna comeback but they lose the momentum half way of the game.

[magneto]

Huge win by the Memphis Grizzlies against the Phoenix Suns tonight. They just show that even without some of their starters, they can win against the best team in the NBA right now.

It's going to be scary when Ja Morant comes back in the playoff. I reckon that whoever they faces in the first round, a sweep is possible with their strengths.

Yeah for sure. The pace that the Grizzlies have progressed at is truly frightening.

However, I just think that Ja's injury proneness may be a problem. He plays a lot like prime D-Rose and as a result there is often some scary moments within games where he lands awkwardly.

Hopefully the Grizzlies are able to fix this.

[dwyane36]

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

[Bttzed03]

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It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win.

Yeah he could still score a lot but he doesn't seem reliable enough to close out games now. Was it 1 made shot in 4 attempts? I don't know what you will make of that but that doesn't really look good to me. Ran out of gas?

Maybe his April Fool's tweet will soon become a reality:

'I'm out for the season officially. See y'all in the fall.

On the other hand, CJ is enjoying his time with his new team.

[Ziskinberg]

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It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win.

Yeah he could still score a lot but he doesn't seem reliable enough to close out games now. Was it 1 made shot in 4 attempts? I don't know what you will make of that but that doesn't really look good to me. Ran out of gas?

Lebron is not known to be a good closer, he could just give the ball to AD and AD will find a way, his last shot didn't even hit the rim IIRC.

On the other hand, CJ is enjoying his time with his new team.

Yes, he was very consistent and it seems like he was really the missing piece of the team.
When Zion will come back, this team will be a scary team, they would have their own big 3, Ingram, CJ and Zion.

[TravelMug]

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

Interesting to see Davis back in the line up and it was a very close game. Nevertheless, they still choke in the closing minutes, so it seems that the Lakers might be looking for next season now. Yes, James played great again, no question about that, but as others said, he is not a closer, he want to take the ball, but I think it's better if he could give it up to Davis.

[Hypnosis00]

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

Interesting to see Davis back in the line up and it was a very close game. Nevertheless, they still choke in the closing minutes, so it seems that the Lakers might be looking for next season now. Yes, James played great again, no question about that, but as others said, he is not a closer, he want to take the ball, but I think it's better if he could give it up to Davis.

He played great but all are wasted because he could not sink the last shot which was supposed to be the winning shot. if Lakers wants to win, they need to be consistent form the start until the end of the game, and they need to make sure that the last shot should be a high percentage shot or is coming from a clutch player.

[Sanitough]

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

Interesting to see Davis back in the line up and it was a very close game. Nevertheless, they still choke in the closing minutes, so it seems that the Lakers might be looking for next season now. Yes, James played great again, no question about that, but as others said, he is not a closer, he want to take the ball, but I think it's better if he could give it up to Davis.

He played great but all are wasted because he could not sink the last shot which was supposed to be the winning shot. if Lakers wants to win, they need to be consistent form the start until the end of the game, and they need to make sure that the last shot should be a high percentage shot or is coming from a clutch player.

That was too bad, but their problem is really their defense.

I think they are still not out in the play-in tournament, they still have more games waiting and they just need to win them all.
Now that Davis is back, I think the Lakers chance will increase but I don't want to expect so much as I don't want to get disappointed.

[Beparanf]

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

Interesting to see Davis back in the line up and it was a very close game. Nevertheless, they still choke in the closing minutes, so it seems that the Lakers might be looking for next season now. Yes, James played great again, no question about that, but as others said, he is not a closer, he want to take the ball, but I think it's better if he could give it up to Davis.

Lakers still have a chance to get the number 10 in case they miraculously beat twice Nuggets. They have also 1 games left for both Suns and Warriors on there remaining 5 games this season which is very hard and do or die for them. They also have same matches with Spurs last 5 games so this will be may the best team get that spot. I hope seeing Lakers in the playoffs rather than Spurs because the Lakers Duo is already back in the game which will give a good game to the top seed teams compared to Spurs.

[OgNasty]

LeBron and Anthony Davis are both in the lineup tonight. The game is about to rip off and sadly I can’t watch it, but I’ll be awaiting the highlights and keeping my fingers crossed. The playoffs without LeBron James would be a shame. Especially at this stage in his career when who knows how many seasons he has left in the tank. Hopefully AD comes back strong and gets them the W. Additionally, the Spurs won tonight so the pressure is on the Lakers. Hopefully the Spurs lose a few going forward to take some of the pressure off, because I don’t know if the Lakers have what it takes to make it into the postseason on their own.

It was a close game, but the Lakers lost again. LeBron showed great performance by scoring 38 points, but it wasn't enough to win. So the Lakers have worsened their situation again, and it's unlikely that they will be able to continue to struggle for the last place in the play-in tournament since the Spurs will probably win the next game against the Blazers.

Interesting to see Davis back in the line up and it was a very close game. Nevertheless, they still choke in the closing minutes, so it seems that the Lakers might be looking for next season now. Yes, James played great again, no question about that, but as others said, he is not a closer, he want to take the ball, but I think it's better if he could give it up to Davis.

Lakers still have a chance to get the number 10 in case they miraculously beat twice Nuggets. They have also 1 games left for both Suns and Warriors on there remaining 5 games this season which is very hard and do or die for them. They also have same matches with Spurs last 5 games so this will be may the best team get that spot. I hope seeing Lakers in the playoffs rather than Spurs because the Lakers Duo is already back in the game which will give a good game to the top seed teams compared to Spurs.

Westbrook really needs to shoot a higher percentage for them to win games. LeBron has been carrying them, and AD had an average game. It seems to me like LeBron is just going for the scoring title. He’s in the lead now and with a smaller and smaller chance at seeing the postseason it seems like he has his heart set on being the oldest player to ever win an NBA scoring title. With him currently in the lead and other stars likely to take their foot off the gas a little to prepare for the playoffs I think he’s got a pretty good shot at making it happen. A small silver lining in an otherwise frustrating season for the King of Akron.

[carlisle1]

That was too bad, but their problem is really their defense.

I think they are still not out in the play-in tournament, they still have more games waiting and they just need to win them all.
Now that Davis is back, I think the Lakers chance will increase but I don't want to expect so much as I don't want to get disappointed.

With Davis yes they can win game/s but if for the future of the franchise it's much better not to push the players and let things to

happen, having an early exit will secure the players from possible injuries. though we really don't know if how the coaching staff will handle

those remaining games, if they wanted to continue chasing for the play-in they needed to work hard and win games.

Still possible and like you, I will not expect too much just go with the flow.

[Distinctin]

That was too bad, but their problem is really their defense.

I think they are still not out in the play-in tournament, they still have more games waiting and they just need to win them all.
Now that Davis is back, I think the Lakers chance will increase but I don't want to expect so much as I don't want to get disappointed.

With Davis yes they can win game/s but if for the future of the franchise it's much better not to push the players and let things to

happen, having an early exit will secure the players from possible injuries. though we really don't know if how the coaching staff will handle

those remaining games, if they wanted to continue chasing for the play-in they needed to work hard and win games.

Still possible and like you, I will not expect too much just go with the flow.

Davis and Lebron already delivered a championship to the Lakers, I don't understand why they trade a bunch of players for Westbrook. Now, they are playing the price of their greediness, they want to build a super team but look what happen to the team.

[Eternad]

That was too bad, but their problem is really their defense.

I think they are still not out in the play-in tournament, they still have more games waiting and they just need to win them all.
Now that Davis is back, I think the Lakers chance will increase but I don't want to expect so much as I don't want to get disappointed.

With Davis yes they can win game/s but if for the future of the franchise it's much better not to push the players and let things to

happen, having an early exit will secure the players from possible injuries. though we really don't know if how the coaching staff will handle

those remaining games, if they wanted to continue chasing for the play-in they needed to work hard and win games.

Still possible and like you, I will not expect too much just go with the flow.

Davis and Lebron already delivered a championship to the Lakers, I don't understand why they trade a bunch of players for Westbrook. Now, they are playing the price of their greediness, they want to build a super team but look what happen to the team.

Yes the most bullshit ever decision on the Lakers management side. I believe this is Lebron decision to gather all the old star since Melo and Howard is acquired too on this same year. Today those young player that they trade are those rising star on there each team like Ingram and Kuzma. Westbrook is not as good as before and he is not fit for the Lakers strategy. Lebron is the one who insist this trade that's why he is forced to change uncomfortable role just to balance there roster.

[onetwostep]

Huge win by the Memphis Grizzlies against the Phoenix Suns tonight. They just show that even without some of their starters, they can win against the best team in the NBA right now.

It's going to be scary when Ja Morant comes back in the playoff. I reckon that whoever they faces in the first round, a sweep is possible with their strengths.

I didn't think we would see such a result, the Suns were my favorite team in this match. Booker scored 41 points, but it wasn't enough for the win.
The Memphis Grizzlies took the lead with offensive rebounds. Their shooting percentage was not good, but their players all wanted to win this match and they fought.
We watched a good match

[Yaunfitda]

Huge win by the Memphis Grizzlies against the Phoenix Suns tonight. They just show that even without some of their starters, they can win against the best team in the NBA right now.

It's going to be scary when Ja Morant comes back in the playoff. I reckon that whoever they faces in the first round, a sweep is possible with their strengths.

I didn't think we would see such a result, the Suns were my favorite team in this match. Booker scored 41 points, but it wasn't enough for the win.
The Memphis Grizzlies took the lead with offensive rebounds. Their shooting percentage was not good, but their players all wanted to win this match and they fought.
We watched a good match

I agree with the offensive rebounds, I never thought that collectively, they will out rebounded, McGee and Ayton in this game.

And when they took the lead, they never look back, never give any chance for the Suns to make a comeback. When you think that the Suns is about to take the lead, Memphis will respond with their own run and put a good separation lead again.

[LogitechMouse]

Huge win by the Memphis Grizzlies against the Phoenix Suns tonight. They just show that even without some of their starters, they can win against the best team in the NBA right now.

It's going to be scary when Ja Morant comes back in the playoff. I reckon that whoever they faces in the first round, a sweep is possible with their strengths.

4 of their starters didn't play and yet they won against the top team in the league right now.
This Memphis Grizzlies team is really a team to watch out. They are a young team and most of them doesn't have any experience in the playoffs but lets see how they will perform when playoff comes.

Their roster is very deep that you can make a good 5 man out of their second unit as well. They have many scorers and they have someone that can step up every night. If they will face TWolves in the playoffs though, they might be having a hard time since their record is 2-2. We don't know but this team is a playoff team for the next 3-5 years or even longer as long as their core players will be not be traded which I think they will not.