2026 NBA Season

[meser#]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

[Fredomago]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

They make sure that they'll be in their fighting form and they will execute the system that they are good in playing with, beating their opponets with a huge deficits, though like what you have said, they are still in down in terms of homecourt advantage but from what we witness during the elimination they are very much capable winning as a visiting team, they just need to keep the type of composure and with Wemby show casing his presence they've got  a good advantage as they can use him as decoy to find a much better option for their offense.

[Cointxz]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

They make sure that they'll be in their fighting form and they will execute the system that they are good in playing with, beating their opponets with a huge deficits, though like what you have said, they are still in down in terms of homecourt advantage but from what we witness during the elimination they are very much capable winning as a visiting team, they just need to keep the type of composure and with Wemby show casing his presence they've got  a good advantage as they can use him as decoy to find a much better option for their offense.

Spurs main arsenal is their deep roster full of young talent with potential to score and they have a good team play now compared before that they are playing individually for their personal stats. Spurs do a solid job by trading those players that don’t fit on a team play game that’s why they manage to rebuild around Wemby.

Wemby is on very bad game on game same with other player but still they manage to give a close fight.

This game 2 is the true form of Spurs and I doubt Wolves has the capability to stop Spurs on this form.

[coinrifft]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

They make sure that they'll be in their fighting form and they will execute the system that they are good in playing with, beating their opponets with a huge deficits, though like what you have said, they are still in down in terms of homecourt advantage but from what we witness during the elimination they are very much capable winning as a visiting team, they just need to keep the type of composure and with Wemby show casing his presence they've got  a good advantage as they can use him as decoy to find a much better option for their offense.

Spurs main arsenal is their deep roster full of young talent with potential to score and they have a good team play now compared before that they are playing individually for their personal stats. Spurs do a solid job by trading those players that don’t fit on a team play game that’s why they manage to rebuild around Wemby.

Wemby is on very bad game on game same with other player but still they manage to give a close fight.

This game 2 is the true form of Spurs and I doubt Wolves has the capability to stop Spurs on this form.

I noticed that they also increased their intensity and defense and Wemby is aggressive from the very first quarter which didn't happen in the first game. They double team ANT, then shut down all others like Ayo, McDaniels and Randle.

So with that, the Spurs is back with their confidence but it's going to be a big test as they will have to travel to Minnesota. But I think this young guys are tested already so I expect them to win the next game but it's going to be close.

[Velvet78]

Spurs showed who the boss is last night. They got a very convincing win by 38 points! Edwards played the game on a minute restriction.

But I don't think much would change even if he played for 40+ minutes... Spurs got a really solid contribution from most of their players. Just look at +/- of them before anything else.

Still I believe it will be a tough series for them. However they shouldn't end up like Nuggets.

[ultrloa]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

That 133 - 95 record win against Wolves, this shows how dominating they are today.

Rebounding and Wemby's defense play huge role on this latest win gotten by Spurs. Even if the Wolves get the home court advantage still Spurs proves that they could take the win on the road.

So a chance that they can able to take another win against wolves is very possible. Knowing that they came from huge win against them, so we can say that momentum still on Spurs side.

[tech30338]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

That 133 - 95 record win against Wolves, this shows how dominating they are today.

Rebounding and Wemby's defense play huge role on this latest win gotten by Spurs. Even if the Wolves get the home court advantage still Spurs proves that they could take the win on the road.

So a chance that they can able to take another win against wolves is very possible. Knowing that they came from huge win against them, so we can say that momentum still on Spurs side.

Its not only the rebounding that make this spurs unbeatable tonight but the intimidation, they dont want to be block underneath the basket so when they try to drive or make a layup when wemby is inside they having a second thought about it, and yes the rebounding even if the did not get the rebound it makes way to other teammates.
Edwards has no impact on this game, Gobert only have few points, they need to be more aggressive the next game or that will be the last time they will win, Conley also need to assert himself in the game as a veteran they needed him.

[Fredomago]

I noticed that they also increased their intensity and defense and Wemby is aggressive from the very first quarter which didn't happen in the first game. They double team ANT, then shut down all others like Ayo, McDaniels and Randle.

So with that, the Spurs is back with their confidence but it's going to be a big test as they will have to travel to Minnesota. But I think this young guys are tested already so I expect them to win the next game but it's going to be close.

If they can duplicate that same intensity as they've got fresher legs and almost everyone can run and provide good offense and defense, like what I've said Wemby can be utilize to threaten their offense but in the other side he can use as decoy or he can take it and just try to win the offensive board then rotate again, and same with what you said, doubletiming Ant really affects the whole system of their offense then try to block also those other core key players and the outcome might be the same.

[Cointxz]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

They make sure that they'll be in their fighting form and they will execute the system that they are good in playing with, beating their opponets with a huge deficits, though like what you have said, they are still in down in terms of homecourt advantage but from what we witness during the elimination they are very much capable winning as a visiting team, they just need to keep the type of composure and with Wemby show casing his presence they've got  a good advantage as they can use him as decoy to find a much better option for their offense.

Spurs main arsenal is their deep roster full of young talent with potential to score and they have a good team play now compared before that they are playing individually for their personal stats. Spurs do a solid job by trading those players that don’t fit on a team play game that’s why they manage to rebuild around Wemby.

Wemby is on very bad game on game same with other player but still they manage to give a close fight.

This game 2 is the true form of Spurs and I doubt Wolves has the capability to stop Spurs on this form.

I noticed that they also increased their intensity and defense and Wemby is aggressive from the very first quarter which didn't happen in the first game. They double team ANT, then shut down all others like Ayo, McDaniels and Randle.

So with that, the Spurs is back with their confidence but it's going to be a big test as they will have to travel to Minnesota. But I think this young guys are tested already so I expect them to win the next game but it's going to be close.

I think they can do it since that’s their normal game even on the first round of the playoffs. Timberwolves just managed to surprise them on locking down Wemby but on the later quarter Spurs already adjusted that resulted to a close game while they have the chance to win it.

Wolves need a very aggressive Anthony Edwards and Gobert Solid defense to Wemby if they want to beat Spurs.

The problem on Wolves is they always choke when the enemy already overwhelms them with both defense and offense.

[wiss19]

While we have seen OKC still being better than Lakers of course, we also saw what would happen if referees did not blow every single time someone even goes near SGA.

SGA had 18 points, and had only 3 free throws, and there is a compilation of videos where he just throws himself and flops everyone is even around him when he has the ball, and thank god this time referees did not called foul on them. This is what real SGA looks like, without help from referees, dude is a 18-20 point dude, but because he gets 100 free throws a game, he looks better than he really is.

[dimonstration]

While we have seen OKC still being better than Lakers of course, we also saw what would happen if referees did not blow every single time someone even goes near SGA.

SGA had 18 points, and had only 3 free throws, and there is a compilation of videos where he just throws himself and flops everyone is even around him when he has the ball, and thank god this time referees did not called foul on them. This is what real SGA looks like, without help from referees, dude is a 18-20 point dude, but because he gets 100 free throws a game, he looks better than he really is.

Lakers do a good job to guard SGA to commit a lot of turnovers when he has the ball and limiting him to get the ball and have an easy shot. Lakers defense focus on SGA that backfires to them heavily by giving openings to player like Chet and Mitchell.

OKC bench is also well contributing which makes SGA less aggressive on this match compared to his typical game play but of course his foul baiting failed this time yet Lakers can’t make a solution on OKC offense.

[danherbias07]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

That's the key to winning that fight.

If you remember Game 1, Wemby was always smiling after every play. It's like he is not taking it seriously. Now, it has changed. I said here before that I didn't feel the energy of a playoff game after Game 1. Now I did feel how strong the Spurs are. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
Wemby really needs that game face to turn on so that his defensive stance will always scare those who are trying to go inside the paint. He may not have gotten that many blocks today, but his presence was there.

If in Game 3 at Minnesota, they can do the same, they will probably win this series.

[OgNasty]

Game 2 for the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder is on Amazon Prime tonight. The OKC Thunder are 15.5 point favorites tonight. As much as I hate seeing it happen, I’ll be watching. Who knows how many more times you’ll be able to watch LeBron James in a playoff game…

[jakdanyel]

Game 1 at Oklahoma was just like the expectations. A nice win by Thunder... Lakers were able to score only 90 points. Doncic's presence matters a lot! Will he able to recover soon though?

I have heard Embiid got injured again. The dude is chronic I'm afraid. Without him 76ers will have a much bigger problem against Knicks while 2-0 behind already.

Pistons started the series with a win but I still favour Cavs for winning the series. They have a better roster.

[xzone]

Do you remember the Detroit Pistons' performance at the beginning of the season? In the first game against Cleveland, I saw the spirit of the Detroit Pistons from the start of the season; they look quite combative and strong. I think the Pistons will win this series. Looking at the team's current state, I see the Detroit Pistons from 20 years ago. Strong and tough basketball players who will do anything to become champions.

It's also great that all the players on the team are contributing by scoring points. They're not trying to win a championship with just one star player; we're watching a strong team

[CLS63]

Thunder have really made a good start to the series. SGA didn't look in his best shape actually but it didn't matter for them. Because Lakers didn't have Doncic first of all. This is restricting them a lot about scoring.

Tonight there are 2 games to take place. I think Cavaliers will make it 1-1. I expect Thunder to make it 2-0 as well. I guess Doncic is still not expected to play tonight.

[mirakal]

Tonight there are 2 games to take place. I think Cavaliers will make it 1-1. I expect Thunder to make it 2-0 as well. For me, this looks like a good bounce-back spot for Cleveland. Not saying it is guaranteed, but I would not be surprised if they come out stronger and tie the series.

I like the prediction, and I also believe the Cavaliers are going to even the series tonight.

You can somehow read it from the line itself. After that impressive performance by the Pistons last game, a lot of bettors will probably still ride with them tonight. That is usually where the trap is, because the public will easily remember what they saw last game and forget that the Cavs can still make adjustments.

I guess Doncic is still not expected to play tonight.

It's not reported he will play, so expected another blowout loss by LA Lakers.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

San Antonio didn't make a mistake this time and won with an overwhelming advantage. 133-95
Minnesota still has home court advantage, but San Antonio is a team that can win on the road as well.
Wemby performed well defensively. He contributed 19 points but grabbed 15 rebounds. He was very poor at three-point shooting.
Now, in two days, there will be a two-game series at Minnesota's home court. I think San Antonio will regain home court advantage in one of these games.

That's the key to winning that fight.

If you remember Game 1, Wemby was always smiling after every play. It's like he is not taking it seriously. Now, it has changed. I said here before that I didn't feel the energy of a playoff game after Game 1. Now I did feel how strong the Spurs are. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
Wemby really needs that game face to turn on so that his defensive stance will always scare those who are trying to go inside the paint. He may not have gotten that many blocks today, but his presence was there.

If in Game 3 at Minnesota, they can do the same, they will probably win this series.

Yes, I noticed their defence here, doubling team ANT and everyone is really playing physical. Castle set the down when he goes and really put ANT it a very difficult position. And even if ANT scored, he has to work very hard.

And after that, everyone is moving and banging and playing tough defense. They are not allowing the Wolves to have easy basket and as a result, forcing them turn-over. I think this is the best defensive game I have watch from the Spurs this season.

[Shinpako09]

Lakers vs. Thunder again today. Without Doncic, even if I don’t want to say it, this series probably won’t reach Game 7 and will most likely go in favor of the Thunder. It is what it is. Well, that’s the Thunder for you. They also swept the Lakers in the regular season, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they sweep them again here, especially without Doncic. It would just be another sweep record for LeBron James.

I’ll be watching. Who knows how many more times you’ll be able to watch LeBron James in a playoff game…

Yep, for real. He’s already near retirement.

[Sanitough]

Lakers vs. Thunder again today. Without Doncic, even if I don’t want to say it, this series probably won’t reach Game 7 and will most likely go in favor of the Thunder. It is what it is. Well, that’s the Thunder for you. They also swept the Lakers in the regular season, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they sweep them again here, especially without Doncic. It would just be another sweep record for LeBron James.

They were just outplayed. OKC is still the best team out there, and even without Jalen Williams in that game, it still looked too easy for them.

The thing is, the Lakers can keep up for a while, maybe 1 or 2 quarters, but OKC can explode in just one quarter. They can beat the Lakers by 20 in that stretch alone, and that’s how strong they are, especially because of their defense. As long as SGA cannot be stopped, the Lakers have no chance. Even Redick admitted that no one in the league has really stopped SGA yet, so that already tells you how hard this matchup is for them.