2024 NBA Season

[Natalim]

Yes, the Lakers stole one game on the road, and they are very hyped up right now. However, I wouldn't join in on the hype because it's just one game. The Warriors could still come back with good adjustments

It's okay that you won't join the hype and bandwagon as this is normal whenever rivals are playing and this isn't the finals game. We've got all our favorite teams and we expect more for our supporting team to come back which is the GSW. That shot of Poole has made rounds and it's funny that everyone is certainly feeling bad about that shot. If everyone's feeling bad on it, how much more Poole and the entirety of Golden State Warriors.

Yes, precisely. Everybody including these professional basketball players are also bound to make mistakes, it is somehow unreal if people will expect that Poole will always be successful on every shot that he's making especially during clutch time because even if he got lucky saving the team in various occasions, that is not enough to make him a clutch player, he still have a long way to go before he can reach that feat.

Moreover, I doubt that there will be a criticism if it happens Stephen Curry was in Jordan Poole's place and was the one who made the shot and failed. I definitely know that people will still find an excuse to excuse Curry from that mistake.

[Sanitough]

^^ Sooner or later there will be blaming games and pointing finger as to what cause Memphis that series against the Lakers. Obviously, two of them, Ja Morant's interview, "I'm fine in the West" comment and then Brooks disrespecting Lebron and "poking the bear" and until someone drops 40 on him. Yeah, the last game of the series, the Lakers won by 40 point lead, and Brooks performance in that series was garbage.

And with that, perhaps management said that they have enough of this clown, and as Draymond said, "The dynasty starts after you, not with you”. So good riddance for Brooks, and let's see if a team is going to pick him up, or going to Shanghai Sharks, 

Ja may not be the best person you want on your team, but at least he is a great player, whereas Brooks talks so much and yet can't back that up, that's the difference. Morant may do some wild stuff and definitely would rather have Tim Duncanesque type of player who is a calm leader and not some wild youth who acts out, but at least Ja can drop 40 on a game, he has done that and can do that for a long time, dude can jump higher than Lebron, he was good.

Brooks on the other hand talked like he was some big deal, and then he ended up getting served, I am sorry but if you can't back up your talk then you are only hurting the team. Poke the bear if you going to beat the bear, but also keep the bear under 20 points or inefficient game if you can, if you can't then it makes no sense.

The only downside I see towards Ja Morant is that currently he doesn't have a good environment that is why he's been in the middle of issues lately, mainly about that incident where he got suspended in the league and if I'm not mistaken he was also fined. But if Ja Morant will be surrounded with good folks that can help him improve and view things differently, then I bet his performance will be better than what we've see these past two season.

And for Dillon Brooks, he didn't see this coming though and maybe this will be even his last season in his whole career as there will be no team in the league that will show interest towards him because he doesn't have any talent that is worth the risk aside from talking nonsense and poking somebody.

[ultrloa]

Looks like the front office of the Grizzlies have enough of him already. His destroying the reputation of the team with his trash talks, and I guess we will all agree if I will say that he's the one who trash talks the most in the whole Grizzlies roster, but isn't converting it into stats, and still performing very awfully all throughout the season, and in this last playoffs against the Lakers.

Nevertheless, now that we know that the Grizzlies will not get him again, I wonder which team will try to get him? I hope that the Warriors will get him.   I mean Westbrook and Beverley became teammates in the Lakers at the start of the season, and we know the beef between the two of them back a few years ago. Don't take what I said very seriously because I don't think that the Warriors will get him anyway. Overall, I'm excited on which team will try and get him after what happened.

I don't that the Warriors is willing to take a player with that kind of attitude, and it's a very different story with Westbrook and Pat Bev, yeah they trash talk but at the end of the day they try to deliver and it's part of their competitive nature.

As compare to Brooks, who says up front that he doesn't like the Warriors including Draymond and the rest. So that's attacking the team itself and there's no competitiveness in that statement, it's just pure hate or he is really envious of the success of the Warriors organization. And he talking about dynasty? right now players are going to laugh at this fool for his statements and his performance in the playoffs.

To bad for brooks he is really a total bad ass which create a bad vibes on their team. And now nba fans throw so much hate on him and provably it can affect his teammates to so provably he will be totally kick out on Grizzlies since he is bad influence to Ja and Bane.

Also for sure even Warriors will not want that guy to be part of that team since Brooks always says bad words against them especially to their stars so it will be bad if they let this guy enter on their rotation since this will be a huge mess for them.

The problem with him is that his stats have dropped a lot this season. Being a trash talker is not new to him, but the team wants someone who can do the job inside the court.

According to https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/brookdi01.htm

His PPG average this season is only 14.3

While the last  3 series are higher.

2019-20 16.2 pts
2020-21 17.2 pts
2021-22 18.4 pts

You can see that there's a huge decline.

You are right, but still though, he can still play defense, but the thing is that he had this attitude, the negativity that every time he open is big mouth, you will hear blabber and I do agree that it is a very negative vibes for the team and the organization he represents which is Memphis. And it did carry to others as well, we know that issues with Ja Morant last February or March and it created more negativity when Brooks attitude, his technical fouls. It will be ok if he can back up the talks, but when he faces like the Lakers this series or even Warriors in the regular season, he can't deliver any.

No question that he can play defense but his attitude really speak more harder statement with that since he create troubles which he's other member follow. Their attitude is cause a big shame to their organization now so provably this is the reason why they decide to take out Brooks to correct something and save up their young stars to lose their focus to win the game. To much hate receive by Memphis so I guess this is their way to fix up some issues on their team.

[danherbias07]

So, Joel Embiid won the KIA MVP Award.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1653535665751982081?s=20

And I found this lovely image on Twitter
https://twitter.com/ferraridreams/status/1653537152997683200?s=20
Credits to the poster.


Joel Embiid. A lot of people said it is the media who made him the MVP and not because he is the real MVP in terms of value. And, there are discussions about the NBA media disliking the idea of giving Nikola Jokic the 3rd consecutive MVP because that will put him on the level of Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bill Russell.
I believe Joel Embiid deserves it. But, I don't like the idea of the media controlling the voting system just because they dislike what a person would achieve in case he won it. If ever it is true. My vote was for the Joker, no biased feeling, in terms of value the Nuggets will have a difficult time winning a game without him but the 76ers can, and was proven at Game 1 against the Celtics at home.

Congratulations to Joel Embiid.

[jakelyson]

Yeah, I found his tweet earlier.
https://twitter.com/KendrickPerkins/status/1652794935131734018?s=20

Twitter is also exploding with tweets from different players.

It's a record for a game 7 performance and a series number of points for a 35-year-old above player.
Kevon Looney shined the most in this game after Steph. Those important offensive rebounds that he took from the Sacramento Kings are also what made the Warriors win this game. If there's a beam that should be lighted, it will be for him. The second chance points of the Warriors have increased thanks to his effort in trying to get another shot for the team. 10 offensive rebounds and 11 defensive rebounds. He almost made more on the former than the latter which is unusual.
Crazy Looney.

What I like about this is Kendrick The Hater Perkins will lie back in disbelief and sobber on the greatness of Steph Curry should be the thing he has twitted there it was really hilarious when someone in the media for we all know that hated Steph Curry other than Perkins, he should have shown his true colors because many are expecting that he will talk more Sh*t about Steph Curry but that performance of Steph Curry will surely go down the history books,

^^ Sooner or later there will be blaming games and pointing finger as to what cause Memphis that series against the Lakers. Obviously, two of them, Ja Morant's interview, "I'm fine in the West" comment and then Brooks disrespecting Lebron and "poking the bear" and until someone drops 40 on him. Yeah, the last game of the series, the Lakers won by 40 point lead, and Brooks performance in that series was garbage.

And with that, perhaps management said that they have enough of this clown, and as Draymond said, "The dynasty starts after you, not with you”. So good riddance for Brooks, and let's see if a team is going to pick him up, or going to Shanghai Sharks, 

Goodbye to the "Dynasty" that once he said will dominate the entire West, for me this news is satisfying but there is a side of me that will be missing this about him if the Memphis Grizzlies have enough of the Brooks what can we say about the other teams, do you think the other teams would get him after what he did to so many players in the past, I really think that he is the one that destroys his career but let's just wait next season,

And yeah this is getting real

[ChiBitCTy]

So, Joel Embiid won the KIA MVP Award.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1653535665751982081?s=20

And I found this lovely image on Twitter
https://twitter.com/ferraridreams/status/1653537152997683200?s=20
Credits to the poster.


Joel Embiid. A lot of people said it is the media who made him the MVP and not because he is the real MVP in terms of value. And, there are discussions about the NBA media disliking the idea of giving Nikola Jokic the 3rd consecutive MVP because that will put him on the level of Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bill Russell.
I believe Joel Embiid deserves it. But, I don't like the idea of the media controlling the voting system just because they dislike what a person would achieve in case he won it. If ever it is true. My vote was for the Joker, no biased feeling, in terms of value the Nuggets will have a difficult time winning a game without him but the 76ers can, and was proven at Game 1 against the Celtics at home.

Congratulations to Joel Embiid.

I believe that Joel Embiid deserved the aware, but there is no question that the media is manipulative in how they choose season award winners, and that especially applies to the MVP.  Derrick Rose, the year he won as the youngest MVP ever, didn't deserve it, Lebron did..but he won I think the two before, or at least 1 within the previous 2 seasons and they wanted to change things up.  So he deserved it, but there's absolutely manipulation out there.

[blockman]

Yes, the Lakers stole one game on the road, and they are very hyped up right now. However, I wouldn't join in on the hype because it's just one game. The Warriors could still come back with good adjustments

It's okay that you won't join the hype and bandwagon as this is normal whenever rivals are playing and this isn't the finals game. We've got all our favorite teams and we expect more for our supporting team to come back which is the GSW. That shot of Poole has made rounds and it's funny that everyone is certainly feeling bad about that shot. If everyone's feeling bad on it, how much more Poole and the entirety of Golden State Warriors.

Lakers in game 1 against warrior this season is so good and very accurate as well know that they have a good teamwork in order to beat warriors in their first meet in semifinals in this season. But it just a 1 game ahead so there's a chance for warriors that they will bring their best the game two and in upcoming matchup. We all know that warriors is a very strong team and even the series are 2-0. There's a chance that they can get up and with until the game 7 but Anyways congratulations for the  winners who bet Lakers in game 1.

Everyone just saw the expectation that we've set for ourselves. Both teams are good just as expected and this is where one of them is going to end.
Well, here goes the 4-3 predictions that I'm seeing on them and we'll know it soon. But we're sure that GSW won't just let this end favoring the Lakers.
And within the next few minutes, we'll see if Celtics will take their first win or if Philly is going to take their 2nd win.

[Kelvinid]

Everyone just saw the expectation that we've set for ourselves. Both teams are good just as expected and this is where one of them is going to end.
Well, here goes the 4-3 predictions that I'm seeing on them and we'll know it soon. But we're sure that GSW won't just let this end favoring the Lakers.
And within the next few minutes, we'll see if Celtics will take their first win or if Philly is going to take their 2nd win.

With what happened in Game 1, I think the Warriors need to win Game 2 and at least one game in Games 3 and 4. The Lakers are hyped now, and people are thinking that they will win the series and possibly end the defending champion with a 4-0 or 4-1 record. However, this is just Game 1, and anything can happen, just like what happened in the Celtics vs 76ers Game 2, where the Celtics bounced back strong and dominated the 76ers.

[Natalim]

Everyone just saw the expectation that we've set for ourselves. Both teams are good just as expected and this is where one of them is going to end.
Well, here goes the 4-3 predictions that I'm seeing on them and we'll know it soon. But we're sure that GSW won't just let this end favoring the Lakers.
And within the next few minutes, we'll see if Celtics will take their first win or if Philly is going to take their 2nd win.

With what happened in Game 1, I think the Warriors need to win Game 2 and at least one game in Games 3 and 4. The Lakers are hyped now, and people are thinking that they will win the series and possibly end the defending champion with a 4-0 or 4-1 record. However, this is just Game 1, and anything can happen, just like what happened in the Celtics vs 76ers Game 2, where the Celtics bounced back strong and dominated the 76ers.

Let's not have too high expectations, as we know that the Warriors are the defending champions, and they will not give up this series easily. The Lakers are in good shape now, but the series is not over yet. Have you guys forgotten how the Kings were hyped when they were up 2-0 against the Warriors? And when they beat the Warriors in Game 6, look what happened. The Warriors still won the series, and Curry had a historic performance, being the only player to score 50 points in a Game 7 playoff.

[Dave1]

Everyone just saw the expectation that we've set for ourselves. Both teams are good just as expected and this is where one of them is going to end.
Well, here goes the 4-3 predictions that I'm seeing on them and we'll know it soon. But we're sure that GSW won't just let this end favoring the Lakers.
And within the next few minutes, we'll see if Celtics will take their first win or if Philly is going to take their 2nd win.

With what happened in Game 1, I think the Warriors need to win Game 2 and at least one game in Games 3 and 4. The Lakers are hyped now, and people are thinking that they will win the series and possibly end the defending champion with a 4-0 or 4-1 record. However, this is just Game 1, and anything can happen, just like what happened in the Celtics vs 76ers Game 2, where the Celtics bounced back strong and dominated the 76ers.

Let's not have too high expectations, as we know that the Warriors are the defending champions, and they will not give up this series easily. The Lakers are in good shape now, but the series is not over yet. Have you guys forgotten how the Kings were hyped when they were up 2-0 against the Warriors? And when they beat the Warriors in Game 6, look what happened. The Warriors still won the series, and Curry had a historic performance, being the only player to score 50 points in a Game 7 playoff.

Yes, I do agree, it's just one game and for sure the Lakers knows that and it's going to be a long series for them. If ever they win then good for Lebron and AD, but they can't just discount and written off the Warriors in just one game.

Just like what James Harden did when they won against the Boston Celtics, he let his team knows that this is just one game.

And look at how the game 2 turns out, they are going to lose it and lose it with double digits.

[OgNasty]

Boston slapped up the Sixers with Embiid back. It looked to me like Embiid ran out of gas after the first half. He was taking some plays off and I think it cost his team. I’m not saying the Sixers are better without Embiid, but they’re definitely better than having an injured slow Embiid out there and I think that showed tonight.

[Botnake]

Boston slapped up the Sixers with Embiid back. It looked to me like Embiid ran out of gas after the first half. He was taking some plays off and I think it cost his team. I’m not saying the Sixers are better without Embiid, but they’re definitely better than having an injured slow Embiid out there and I think that showed tonight.

The 76ers don't have to rely too much on Embiid; their ball movement is great and more unpredictable if they don't expect Embiid to deliver a big-time performance every game. They should make a big adjustment going back home as this loss is a big statement from the Celtics that they can dominate the 76ers. With that said, I think the 76ers will win Game 3, and the Celtics will be able to tie the series in Game 4.

Despite the blowout loss, the advantage is still on the 76ers as they've already stolen one win on the road. The series is now tied 1-1. Let's see how this series goes.

[Yogee]

First game after winning the MVP and his team suffered a blowout loss. What a nice way to comeback hehe. It may have been a poor call on the coach to let him play even though he's not 100% fit and they were already one game ahead. What makes the loss even worse is that Tatum didn't even play that well with only 7 points inside 19 minutes.

[Distinctin]

First game after winning the MVP and his team suffered a blowout loss. What a nice way to comeback hehe. It may have been a poor call on the coach to let him play even though he's not 100% fit and they were already one game ahead. What makes the loss even worse is that Tatum didn't even play that well with only 7 points inside 19 minutes.

We can't blame that on Embiid; it should be on Harden. Despite having a double-double night, if we look at his production, he only scored 12 points in this particular game, and those 12 points came from a very poor shooting performance of 2-14. He was also 0-6 beyond the arc, so it's safe to say that Harden is at fault, and his inconsistency has cost them a game.

[Yogee]

First game after winning the MVP and his team suffered a blowout loss. What a nice way to comeback hehe. It may have been a poor call on the coach to let him play even though he's not 100% fit and they were already one game ahead....

We can't blame that on Embiid; it should be on Harden. Despite having a double-double night, if we look at his production, he only scored 12 points in this particular game, and those 12 points came from a very poor shooting performance of 2-14. He was also 0-6 beyond the arc, so it's safe to say that Harden is at fault, and his inconsistency has cost them a game.

I'm not blaming Embiid. I'm saying the coach may have made a poor call letting him play despite his condition. Why? Their system in game 1 worked in their favor and they already have a one-game advantage so he could have replicated that while allowing more time for Joel's knee to recover. I know this is easy to say in hindsight but who knows what could have happened.

[Sanitough]

First game after winning the MVP and his team suffered a blowout loss. What a nice way to comeback hehe. It may have been a poor call on the coach to let him play even though he's not 100% fit and they were already one game ahead....

We can't blame that on Embiid; it should be on Harden. Despite having a double-double night, if we look at his production, he only scored 12 points in this particular game, and those 12 points came from a very poor shooting performance of 2-14. He was also 0-6 beyond the arc, so it's safe to say that Harden is at fault, and his inconsistency has cost them a game.

I'm not blaming Embiid. I'm saying the coach may have made a poor call letting him play despite his condition. Why? Their system in game 1 worked in their favor and they already have a one-game advantage so he could have replicated that while allowing more time for Joel's knee to recover. I know this is easy to say in hindsight but who knows what could have happened.

Embiid is not the worst performer on the team. James Harden had a worse night after leading his team to a big win in game 1. I think Embiid was in the center of the discussion because of his return and the fact that he is not 100%. I'm not sure what happened to James Harden; his poor shooting was likely unrelated to Embiid's return since they had already built chemistry together.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

Boston vs Philly surprised me, just as anybody else. Without Embiid they were a huge dog, I think the spread was around 10-12 points. Even with Embiid back for game 2 (maybe) I don't see Boston losing again, this was just a fluke.

Well, guess I was right and it was a fluke.
Even with the mvp back in the lineup Philly got destroyed. He didn’t have any impact on 27 minutes of playing time. And Harden, well the words off game wouldn’t even describe this performance, 2/14 from the field plus 8 fts. After game 1 everybody expected more of him but this was not it.

Now the series shifts to Philadelphia and Boston needs, and will get, at least 1 game away from home. They can’t risk going down 3:1, that would almost mean the series a done.

Embiid will only become more healthy and dangerous the longer this series goes. Boston would be smart to finish it fast.

[Questat]

Boston vs Philly surprised me, just as anybody else. Without Embiid they were a huge dog, I think the spread was around 10-12 points. Even with Embiid back for game 2 (maybe) I don't see Boston losing again, this was just a fluke.

Well, guess I was right and it was a fluke.
Even with the mvp back in the lineup Philly got destroyed. He didn’t have any impact on 27 minutes of playing time. And Harden, well the words off game wouldn’t even describe this performance, 2/14 from the field plus 8 fts. After game 1 everybody expected more of him but this was not it.

Now the series shifts to Philadelphia and Boston needs, and will get, at least 1 game away from home. They can’t risk going down 3:1, that would almost mean the series a done.

Embiid will only become more healthy and dangerous the longer this series goes. Boston would be smart to finish it fast.

You can't make such statements unless you're underestimating the 76ers. Game 1 was a good win for them, and this situation is not even close to the Bucks vs. Heat series, but as we saw, the Heat eliminated the Bucks in a 4-1 series.

So here, we're still in the early stages of the series, and as far as I know, the 76ers have the advantage as they won on the road. The 76ers are capable of winning, and that one loss is just that - one loss. So, don't expect to see the same scenario that happened in game 3.

As for game 3, I think it will be a close game, and either team could win.

[btc_angela]

Boston vs Philly surprised me, just as anybody else. Without Embiid they were a huge dog, I think the spread was around 10-12 points. Even with Embiid back for game 2 (maybe) I don't see Boston losing again, this was just a fluke.

Well, guess I was right and it was a fluke.
Even with the mvp back in the lineup Philly got destroyed. He didn’t have any impact on 27 minutes of playing time. And Harden, well the words off game wouldn’t even describe this performance, 2/14 from the field plus 8 fts. After game 1 everybody expected more of him but this was not it.

Probably just one of those days that Harden mindset is very different as he carry the team without Joel Embiid and win by a close margin.

Now the series shifts to Philadelphia and Boston needs, and will get, at least 1 game away from home. They can’t risk going down 3:1, that would almost mean the series a done.

Embiid will only become more healthy and dangerous the longer this series goes. Boston would be smart to finish it fast.

For sure Joel is very disappointed with his performance and going back to their homecourt, the MVP cheers might do good for him and we could see him putting great numbers for a MVP. Otherwise, if they lost, it's going to be a big let down to their fans.

So we will see, another great game 2 is between the Lakers and Warriors, they can't simply allow the Lakers and Davis to have that kind of games.

[danherbias07]

I believe that Joel Embiid deserved the aware, but there is no question that the media is manipulative in how they choose season award winners, and that especially applies to the MVP.  Derrick Rose, the year he won as the youngest MVP ever, didn't deserve it, Lebron did..but he won I think the two before, or at least 1 within the previous 2 seasons and they wanted to change things up.  So he deserved it, but there's absolutely manipulation out there.

Definitely. And those who talk on television might have some impact on why it turned out this way. Most of them, voted for Embiid, lifting his stats up, and bringing up everything about him that makes him valuable. IMO, that's already manipulation as they can change the hearts of those who will vote.
Anyway, that's over, Jokic is young, he will break more records someday.

For sure Joel is very disappointed with his performance and going back to their homecourt, the MVP cheers might do good for him and we could see him putting great numbers for a MVP. Otherwise, if they lost, it's going to be a big let down to their fans.

So we will see, another great game 2 is between the Lakers and Warriors, they can't simply allow the Lakers and Davis to have that kind of games.

Yeah, and take note, Jayson Tatum scored 7 points only in 19 minutes, he was not needed in the 4th quarter although I think he is ready to come back.
It's mostly Malcolm Brogdon who did the heavy damage 6/10 at distance shot which made the big difference.
76ers fans might not be happy with what Embiid showed today, they must be thinking they are way better when he was not available having a close fight in game 1 and better, winning it using fast-paced type of plays. In game 3, Embiid should prove why he is the MVP.