2024 NBA Season

[Questat]

The time-out error messed that game up lol.

It's just one of those things. Green was not aware that they no longer have any time-out left. It was just a one-point lead and warriors could have still stolen the game with 3 secs left. We can say that Raptors  somehow escaped after another crucial turnover. Congrats to the Raptors!

I guess he was aware but that was just a dumb action from him as he has nowhere to go, the last shot was unsuccessful and they are even lucky to force a turn over prior to the last shot, but Curry's offense is not just present in that game.

[Ranly123]

Congratulations Toronto Raptors and advance to Kawhi for the MVP, I think.

Toronto Raptors did their best and for the people that says they are the luckiest team to be the champions, they are not, they are one of the best. To GSW, you did great and fans still support you even though you lose, that is also you Milwaukee Bucks. To Kevin Durant, you did great and I hope the burden that you did not play for your team is not what you are thinking but your recovery since the team need your greatness and they are not blaming you but hoping for your recovery. For the fans, support your team and don't point things about their opponents since at the end of the day, you are still a fan and they are still the one playing, you are supposed to be a fan and not the hater of the other team. New Champions, does that mean new dynasty and new favorites?

Basketball goddess smiled upon the Raptors in this season. Know how depleted the warriors line-up are but they gave a good fight against a much healthier raptors. Again, no reasons for their loss and the Larry O'Brien trophy was brought to the north where the home of the raptors located.

[passwordnow]

So we have a new Champion!!
Who could ever imagine that Raptors are going to be the winners?
Congratulations to them and Leonard totally deserved a ring. He was amazing through out the whole series.

I want them to win though many have doubted them. Congratulations to Kawhi, he's a back to back finals MVP. 

Hopefully his injury would not lead to an early retirement, that was a serious one and we pray for Durant's speedy recovery.
Warriors would have win this game if Klay was not injured but that's the faith of the Warriors this season, no 3-peat, but Raptors are making history.

It's one of the best history made for Raptors, they got one title now.

[Shinpako09]

If only Klay wasn't injured because of that bad landing. Warriors maybe survive the game 6. With this Championship loss, I don't think KD will be going into another team next season. Watching your team loss and getting upset and you can't do anything but to watched and cheer. Anyways, Congrats to Raptors and to all who bet on them.

[Reid]

Now that was a great game. A real Finals game. If Thompson could have been there then it might be a better game with a lot of excitement.

Let's face it. Injuries are part of the game and that is why they take so much care of their players. That was a really bad landing from Thompson and there was no flagrant there.

Raptors dis a good job at the fourth specially Vanvleet but GSW did the same with a great defense at the nick of time.
I mean how good is that? No fouls with 16 seconds on the clock? That is way high of a defensive awareness to execute it.

But they just really lack thw offense. Curry is being raped by double team since no one can shoot after him.

Congratulations to thw Raptors.
Let us now wait for the Memes to pop out at social media.

[Cloudbet]

Going to keep it simple again with the bets:

🏀Raptors +2.5 (1.97)
🏀Total points: Over 212 (2.02)

If I had to pick a player prop it would probably be Kawhi Leonard (Points) Under 30.5 (1.89) - I think it's time for Siakam or Lowry to score big  

I really should have put that prop on, would have been 3/3 

Great game, that's how a finals game should be! So happy to see the Raptors clinch their first title.

Now we can all look forward to the draft (next Thursday?) who are you tipping for the first few picks?

I mean it's pretty much set in stone that Zion Williams will be heading to the Pelicans (they'd be mad not to) but it's going to be interesting to see if the Lakers trade their 4th pick to help secure Davis, or use it to gamble on Garland.

[FanEagle]

First of all I do not remember who said that "warriors martingale" was a good idea, someone suggested that you can bet on warriors and anytime they lose you can double so you can end up winning more money, those people were wrong .

I thankfully didn't do that because I knew that from watching the warriors blazers game it was obvious they lacked Durant. Think about a warriors squad that uses Iggy as their starting small forward at his age with that much pressure and he was super tired as well (which he actually played great on the final game but still not a Durant at all).

Warriors can be amazing with a proper small forward yet again but remember even before Durant they had Harrison Barnes and combining him with Iggy was always good, Iggy alone can't make that much difference. Curry without Klay was the problem too, Klay missed couple games I think and if he played on the last quarter they could have won this game too. Too many injuries to the star players decided the outcome basically.

[FlightyPouch]

Let us now wait for the Memes to pop out at social media.

It is all over social media right now and that really irritates me. A lot of bandwagons are supporting Raptors now while in the past they are all supporting the Warriors and even debating one after the other. Congratulations to Raptors and mah boi Lin for winning the championship. The guy did his best to support his team and let's not forget Miller.

[Pamadar]

Let us now wait for the Memes to pop out at social media.

It is all over social media right now and that really irritates me. A lot of bandwagons are supporting Raptors now while in the past they are all supporting the Warriors and even debating one after the other. Congratulations to Raptors and mah boi Lin for winning the championship. The guy did his best to support his team and let's not forget Miller.

Funny how those people who are now riding with the raptors victory will turned again after the new season, when those trades will take part and with the super teams to be created, for sure this will change their minds again choosing another team to support, loyalty will not stay with the raptors since they are not really a fan but just riding with the result today.

[Clark05]

Personally my favorite team this year was the Golden State warriors not Raptors. But after I wacthed the game and the Raptors became champion this team have good startegy and have unity that can result for them to win in 2019.

Don't fight because we have different bet team to win remember this is a game and all us to do is to support your team what ever happen just like to happened to Warriors even they did not the winner in my heart they will be still winner to me.

[Reid]

Let us now wait for the Memes to pop out at social media.

It is all over social media right now and that really irritates me. A lot of bandwagons are supporting Raptors now while in the past they are all supporting the Warriors and even debating one after the other. Congratulations to Raptors and mah boi Lin for winning the championship. The guy did his best to support his team and let's not forget Miller.

Funny how those people who are now riding with the raptors victory will turned again after the new season, when those trades will take part and with the super teams to be created, for sure this will change their minds again choosing another team to support, loyalty will not stay with the raptors since they are not really a fan but just riding with the result today.

No doubt about that.
But I am waiting for more than just memes now.

Those what they call themselves basketball analysts which just weighs the game because of injuries and not because one team worked hard for it.

Here is one example of them.
Basketball Analyst:
2015 GSW won just because Love and Irving is injured.
2016 Cavs win because Love and Irving is back. That just means how weak the GSW is. (Yeah right, a weak team being the WCF champion)
2017-2018 GSW just won because KD is there.
2019 Raptors win because KD and Klay is injured.
2020 If Raptors and Warriors meet again in the Finals.
1. They won because the GSW is healthy again.
2. The Raptors won because there is still no KD and Klay.

What the heck!!!

Me as just a Sports Fan: Congratulations to the Raptors. They worked hard for it. They deserve it.

[mich]

Even if KD will not play for the GS Warriors next year they are still favorites to win the title
https://twitter.com/OddsShark/status/1139384551891881986

GSW +190
MIL +450
TOR +1000
HOU +1200
NYK +1500
BOS/LAC/PHI +1800
LAL +2000
BKN/DEN +2500
DAL/NO/OKC +4000
POR/UTA +5000
SAS +7000
IND +8000
ATL/CHI/ORL/SAK +10000
MEM +15000
CLE/MIN +25000
MIA +35000
CHA/DET/PHO/WAS +50000

[carlfebz2]

Let us now wait for the Memes to pop out at social media.

It is all over social media right now and that really irritates me. A lot of bandwagons are supporting Raptors now while in the past they are all supporting the Warriors and even debating one after the other. Congratulations to Raptors and mah boi Lin for winning the championship. The guy did his best to support his team and let's not forget Miller.

Funny how those people who are now riding with the raptors victory will turned again after the new season, when those trades will take part and with the super teams to be created, for sure this will change their minds again choosing another team to support, loyalty will not stay with the raptors since they are not really a fan but just riding with the result today.

No doubt for this one yet people would normally jump into the ship for those who do like raptors due to current finals situation but you cant completely say that they wouldnt have that loyalty because i cant blame them on getting impressed on what raptors is showing.Getting a championship trophy is really a hard fought one and so they do really deserve it.

[Harkorede]

Even if KD will not play for the GS Warriors next year they are still favorites to win the title
https://twitter.com/OddsShark/status/1139384551891881986
snip..

It's really understandable, Warriors had their own fair share of being unfortunate in this years playoffs, It could have been an entirely different story If the warriors were in perfect conditions just as the Raptors were.

So, except for Durant's unavailability warriors should still be the side to beat come next season, but I think the Raptors are still a bit underrated and teams should be weary of them next season too.

[harizen]

Once again, congratulations to TORONTO RAPTORS for bringing the Larry O' Brien trophy in the #north.

Let's set aside all negative "reasons" here why they won. They worked for it from the start. Let's appreciate their effort. It's clear that they played well throughout the whole season-playoffs-finals. Golden State Warriors accepted their defeat after the final buzzer so why some of their fans still looking for an unhealthy and non-sense discussion about this.

And if I'm not mistaken, Game 6 is only the game in the finals series where both teams are exchanging leads the whole time. The game was closed until the final seconds.

Kawhi Leonard really extracted "what's more" in his teammates. These "choking" Raptors every season really changed when he arrived. This is the second time he is part of the team that defeated a team who are on the way to the 3-peat champion (the first one is against the Miami Heat).

DeRozan , Valančiūnas, former coach Casey and other former members of the Raptors squad that helped the franchise to where it's now are surely happy that their brothers finally made it to the top.

Happy that I'm able to take advantage of high odds for Raptors (Series @3, Game 3 @2.6, Game 4@2.6). Didn't placed a bet in Game 5 and 6 because plan to bet at Game 7. Time now to drink hard.

[Baofeng]

Yes, it was a cinderalla story for the Raptors and we should give credit where it's due. They really work hard on this one, I don't know what the odds are for them in the Philly's and Milwaukee series, but it looks like they are the underdogs specially against the Bucks, and the same with Golden State. But they work very hard and this is the result, their first ever NBA championship so congrats to the whole management of Toronto specially to the players and coach.

[Reid]

Yes, it was a cinderalla story for the Raptors and we should give credit where it's due. They really work hard on this one, I don't know what the odds are for them in the Philly's and Milwaukee series, but it looks like they are the underdogs specially against the Bucks, and the same with Golden State. But they work very hard and this is the result, their first ever NBA championship so congrats to the whole management of Toronto specially to the players and coach.

Wow. I didnt thought about that. Yes, it was like a cinderalla story. It is just that it took a lot of years before they could get it.
Now here is the list of teams who still doesnt have a championship.

OKC Thunder. Won a championship but with Seattle SuperSonics so it doesnt add up.

Teams with Finals appearances:
Utah Jazz
Brooklyn Nets formerly New Jersey Nets
Phoenix Suns
Orlando Magic
Indiana Pacers

Non appearance teams:
Charlotte Hornets
Denver Nuggets
New Orleans Pelicans
Memphis Gtizzlies
Los Angeles Clippers
Minnesota Timberwolves.

I will bet for Denver next year.

[batang_bitcoin]

But they work very hard and this is the result, their first ever NBA championship so congrats to the whole management of Toronto specially to the players and coach.

It's not too late for me to congratulate them, they really have worked hard for this first ever championship for their team. A big thumbs up for Kawhi Leonard for bringing up the team to the finals and not just that but they took home the most wanting title of each NBA team. I hope that they will be consistent for few years and then pass the title to another team that haven't made to the finals and still doesn't have the NBA championship title. What we have right now, are there any rumors of superstar transfers and surprising change of roster?

[mirakal]

I hope that they will be consistent for few years and then pass the title to another team that haven't made to the finals and still doesn't have the NBA championship title.

Raptor's victory has lots of question if they will really dominate next season, they are battling the injured Warriors, that's why they won in the series.
If Thompson and Durant was healthy, they will not win the series, and even if Thompson was not injured in the game, that's still 50/50 for them.

If they got champ next season and have faced a healthy team, them I would believe they really are the best team in the NBA.

[darklus123]

Raptor's victory has lots of question if they will really dominate next season, they are battling the injured Warriors, that's why they won in the series.
If Thompson and Durant was healthy, they will not win the series, and even if Thompson was not injured in the game, that's still 50/50 for them.

If they got champ next season and have faced a healthy team, them I would believe they really are the best team in the NBA.

That is completely fine. It would only mean that this season is really for them, they have shown it on game one where they were able to face the main team of GSW. We all know that Cousins and KD were just actually not in GSW when the GSW dominates the NBA. Raptors defeating them on the previous games even if Klay was there was pretty legit and they should really take the credits.

In fact only, Kawhi was the star player of Raptors and him facing one on one with Curry is just fair