2026 NBA Season

[danherbias07]

@Og, those are already super teams, and their salary must be over the roof. But as you said, we don't know what they will offer or how they will squeeze them on those rosters.

I do believe it can be done through trade, but it will be a big one, and there's a chance it will consist of many teams. If the Bucks badly want to restart and young guns are their target, it can happen. There are so many young players now who are showing their talents.

17 more days before the deadline.

I didn't expect Trae Young (Hawks to Wizards) to be traded, but it did happen.
Now it's Giannis (Bucks) who is in the spotlight. But it is said that the Bucks are trying to add more instead of letting him go.
Jonathan Kuminga (GSW) is also in the spotlight. They did give him a good contract to increase his value, but the cap is over for the Warriors. They might need to release him.
Ja Morant (Grizzlies). It seems like the Miami Heat is the most interested in him. They missed the Trae Young trade. They might go for Ja.

[Fredomago]

This is always the comparison when SGA getting a foul on every contact that he gets while Curry getting that same defense or worst without getting a foul. This makes Curry shooting accuracy drops a lot without getting a free throws.

They have very different styles though. SGA is really good at foul baiting, that’s a big part of his game. Curry, on the other hand, is more of an honest scorer. He gets his points by driving or shooting from the outside without trying to fake contact just to get a call.

That’s what makes Curry great. Even when he’s not getting the whistles, he just plays through it and keeps scoring anyway.

They have different style but they receive same level of defense since both of them are threat on scoring. SGA just master how he will sell the contact to make the defender cautious and loose their defense or else they will be punish by free throw which is a dilemma for defender. Haha

Regardless, SGA is still good on getting score even without the free throws but still he was supposed to get more points if his foul baiting is still working.

That's true SGA master that style, initiating contacts and if the defender scared to play tough defense he can easily make a easy basket, that's the pressure that both Curry and SGA got since they are both elite scorers and they are both deadly when giving enough space, surely they can easily make a good basket and will be a big threat with their offensive attacks if the defense will not adjust to prevent that easy shots.

[mirakal]

That's true SGA master that style, initiating contacts and if the defender scared to play tough defense he can easily make a easy basket, that's the pressure that both Curry and SGA got since they are both elite scorers and they are both deadly when giving enough space, surely they can easily make a good basket and will be a big threat with their offensive attacks if the defense will not adjust to prevent that easy shots.

He’s basically the new James Harden. Back in Harden’s prime, before the rules were adjusted, it was very easy for him to fish for fouls. At one point, he was even leading the league in free throws for a season. But once the rules changed, that style stopped working as well, and he couldn’t rely on it the same way anymore. Because of that, I think the league is already starting to notice the same pattern now.

If adjustments come again, we should expect that SGA won’t thrive as much with that foul-fishing style.
It worked for a while, but history already showed how that usually ends.

[Yaunfitda]

This is always the comparison when SGA getting a foul on every contact that he gets while Curry getting that same defense or worst without getting a foul. This makes Curry shooting accuracy drops a lot without getting a free throws.

They have very different styles though. SGA is really good at foul baiting, that’s a big part of his game. Curry, on the other hand, is more of an honest scorer. He gets his points by driving or shooting from the outside without trying to fake contact just to get a call.

That’s what makes Curry great. Even when he’s not getting the whistles, he just plays through it and keeps scoring anyway.

They have different style but they receive same level of defense since both of them are threat on scoring. SGA just master how he will sell the contact to make the defender cautious and loose their defense or else they will be punish by free throw which is a dilemma for defender. Haha

Regardless, SGA is still good on getting score even without the free throws but still he was supposed to get more points if his foul baiting is still working.

That's true SGA master that style, initiating contacts and if the defender scared to play tough defense he can easily make a easy basket, that's the pressure that both Curry and SGA got since they are both elite scorers and they are both deadly when giving enough space, surely they can easily make a good basket and will be a big threat with their offensive attacks if the defense will not adjust to prevent that easy shots.

I don't see any comparison though, Curry moves a lot without the ball and don't initiate the foul itself. He knows how to protect the ball and his body and so if the danger trying to extend his hand, then they will get the foul. As compare to SGA, who will bump you and then take a fake, and when you bite, he is going to your body so that he will get a call. There were even times that the defender didn't touch him, but still gets the foul. So it's clearly foul baiting on his side and some acting too so to sell the call even if the referee that is very far from the play will call that foul. But I do agree that sooner or later the NBA is watching this and so they will make that adjustment and maybe not call that foul anymore on SGA.

[Eternad]

Now it's Giannis (Bucks) who is in the spotlight. But it is said that the Bucks are trying to add more instead of letting him go.

I’m doubtful that this trade will materialize given the current Bucks roster. They need Giannis the most now while giving up will just make their team back to the low spot since it will now composed os average stats players without a proven star caliber especially a valuable center which every team now looking forward.

It’s like you already have one of the best and traded it for bunch of average players.

Bucks need to acquire good pieces instead of trading him away since he is still on his prime unless they are thinking a long term rebuild.

[tech30338]

Now it's Giannis (Bucks) who is in the spotlight. But it is said that the Bucks are trying to add more instead of letting him go.

I’m doubtful that this trade will materialize given the current Bucks roster. They need Giannis the most now while giving up will just make their team back to the low spot since it will now composed os average stats players without a proven star caliber especially a valuable center which every team now looking forward.

It’s like you already have one of the best and traded it for bunch of average players.

Bucks need to acquire good pieces instead of trading him away since he is still on his prime unless they are thinking a long term rebuild.

Giannis is just trying to force bucks to make a move again in the market they still have asset for trade, i mean they have three players that they can offer to other teams for trade but who are the teams that are willing to have those players in exchange for a star, this team is starting to unload players, while all their drop picks were given to other teams because of bucks making a move, I wonder who's superstar will be lured to the bucks for their players, this team really go south after the firing of the coach who help them win the championship, i mean things went sideways after that, they were playing well, but sometimes you lose, the bucks thinks they should always win, that's the problem.

[ajanwalker]

Houston is continuing its winning streak at home with two wins out of two. Now, the real game is against San Antonio on January 21st. Houston defeated New Orleans 119-110. Alperen scored 21 points in that game as well. Jabari Smith was the top scorer for Houston. New Orleans couldn't challenge Houston. The San Antonio game will be tough, and I think San Antonio will most likely win.

[Distraction]

Houston is continuing its winning streak at home with two wins out of two. Now, the real game is against San Antonio on January 21st. Houston defeated New Orleans 119-110. Alperen scored 21 points in that game as well. Jabari Smith was the top scorer for Houston. New Orleans couldn't challenge Houston. The San Antonio game will be tough, and I think San Antonio will most likely win.

Jabari Smith must have taken the criticism on him into consideration.    Because there was a serious improvement in his 3-PT shots - 7/13 which is 54%. I hope he keeps it up for his team to get better results.

It wasn't a good day for KD with 5/18 FG. If Smith - Sengun - Thompson trio didn't make up for him they could have lost the match. Rockets still can't get convincing wins and I'm not hopeful about them much in playoffs currently.

[Uhde]

Houston is continuing its winning streak at home with two wins out of two. Now, the real game is against San Antonio on January 21st. Houston defeated New Orleans 119-110. Alperen scored 21 points in that game as well. Jabari Smith was the top scorer for Houston. New Orleans couldn't challenge Houston. The San Antonio game will be tough, and I think San Antonio will most likely win.

Jabari Smith must have taken the criticism on him into consideration.    Because there was a serious improvement in his 3-PT shots - 7/13 which is 54%. I hope he keeps it up for his team to get better results.

It wasn't a good day for KD with 5/18 FG. If Smith - Sengun - Thompson trio didn't make up for him they could have lost the match. Rockets still can't get convincing wins and I'm not hopeful about them much in playoffs currently.

Alperen realized that opponents are learning his moves and closing the lanes when he tries to drive to the basket. That's why he’s started focusing more on mid range jumpers. He needs to keep working on this, even if it means staying late after practice to get those shots down. Another thing is his focus during the games. sometimes he loses concentration. we can see when he argues with the refs or misses easy layups. He needs to play more like a machine and keep his emotions out of the game...

[MK-74]

After their recent losses, the Houston Rockets have won two games in a row.
Next up is a game against the Spurs, which will be a tough match for Houston.

Spurs are one of the stronger teams in the league and in my opinion they are the favorites in this matchup.
Houston also have a strong roster, but I see the Spurs as the stronger side.

Oklahoma are currently playing against Cleveland and are in the lead, they will likely win this game.

[CLS63]

All-Star voting phase has ended and here are the results.



Media rank has changed things a lot during starters voting. It is said that there were 3 voting groups to determine the starters.

▪️ Fans (50%)
▪️ NBA players (25%)
▪️ Media panel (25%)

https://x.com/NBAPR/status/2013339043338027459

It looks like the media doesn't like KD, LeBron and Curry that much anymore. The same for Kawhi as well. He suffered injury problems of course but he is also one of the great players in NBA.

[OgNasty]

Legion Hoops reported that 2 NBA players voted for Bronny James to start in the All Star game. I thought that was kind of funny.

DeAndre Ayton had a great game yesterday… If he can figure out how to do that every night the Lakers will win a championship.

[rbynxx]

Legion Hoops reported that 2 NBA players voted for Bronny James to start in the All Star game. I thought that was kind of funny.

DeAndre Ayton had a great game yesterday… If he can figure out how to do that every night the Lakers will win a championship.

It's probably Thanasis that voted him and then Bronny voted back lol. Probably Ayton want to show off that he wants other teams to notice him or he wanted the Lakers to show his capabilities? He's not consistent and that's the problem they really need to solve with him, if he can do that they are definitely a contender.

[tech30338]

Legion Hoops reported that 2 NBA players voted for Bronny James to start in the All Star game. I thought that was kind of funny.

DeAndre Ayton had a great game yesterday… If he can figure out how to do that every night the Lakers will win a championship.

It's probably Thanasis that voted him and then Bronny voted back lol. Probably Ayton want to show off that he wants other teams to notice him or he wanted the Lakers to show his capabilities? He's not consistent and that's the problem they really need to solve with him, if he can do that they are definitely a contender.

The voting for NBA starter comes from fans, players and media, the player percentage is 25% while the media and fans has total of 75% correct me if i' wrong, it might be James and bronny himself just kidding, but i think its good for business, he is a James remember, so for sure there are lot of people will be watching and they also want to see the James.
Spot on Ayton, he got also I think attitude problem, for you to be too inconsistent, it has to do something with your attitude, already said this before he don't like to be criticize remember when he didn't talk to his coach for a month because, he's coach told him something?

[EFS]

The rosters look pretty good. Since fan rank is a tiebreaker, Edwards ended up behind Wemby. Cunningham and Jokic became top player picks. The players selected from the bench will also mostly come from this list. There's no problem with the player selections, but I really don't like the format. Apparently, 3 teams of 8 players will play. Is it really that hard to play this game as a normal 12 vs. 12 for 48 minutes? They change the format every year, but it doesn't increase the ratings, on the contrary it lowers them. Last year's event was terrible. It seems like this year they're trying to do something even worse.

[Fredomago]

That's true SGA master that style, initiating contacts and if the defender scared to play tough defense he can easily make a easy basket, that's the pressure that both Curry and SGA got since they are both elite scorers and they are both deadly when giving enough space, surely they can easily make a good basket and will be a big threat with their offensive attacks if the defense will not adjust to prevent that easy shots.

He’s basically the new James Harden. Back in Harden’s prime, before the rules were adjusted, it was very easy for him to fish for fouls. At one point, he was even leading the league in free throws for a season. But once the rules changed, that style stopped working as well, and he couldn’t rely on it the same way anymore. Because of that, I think the league is already starting to notice the same pattern now.

If adjustments come again, we should expect that SGA won’t thrive as much with that foul-fishing style.
It worked for a while, but history already showed how that usually ends.

Yeah, I used to remember that wayback when Harden still wearing Houston's uniform he's really good at that and most of the time refs buy his style and generate a FT a sure two points for him and in some occasions he also gained 3 FT and similar to what you observe, once the rule change SGA will need to adjust as well, and as we are seeing right now there are cases that he's been fouled but the refs thinks that it was only a fishing one and they are not calling, just like how it was now for Harden he can't rely on that playing style anymore.

[OgNasty]

The rosters look pretty good. Since fan rank is a tiebreaker, Edwards ended up behind Wemby. Cunningham and Jokic became top player picks. The players selected from the bench will also mostly come from this list. There's no problem with the player selections, but I really don't like the format. Apparently, 3 teams of 8 players will play. Is it really that hard to play this game as a normal 12 vs. 12 for 48 minutes? They change the format every year, but it doesn't increase the ratings, on the contrary it lowers them. Last year's event was terrible. It seems like this year they're trying to do something even worse.

I wish they would go back to the original format where the players each wear their own team’s jerseys and it is east vs west.

In order to make it competitive, they should offer the winning league home court advantage for their team in the finals.

[ajanwalker]

It looks like the media doesn't like KD, LeBron and Curry that much anymore. The same for Kawhi as well. He suffered injury problems of course but he is also one of the great players in NBA.

The starting five in the announced rosters are as they should be. If it's a serious battle, the West will win by a large margin.
They will win again, but the important thing is how serious the game will be. Stars like LeBron and Curry are getting old.

Has Jokic recovered from his injury and will he be able to play?

[tech30338]

It looks like the media doesn't like KD, LeBron and Curry that much anymore. The same for Kawhi as well. He suffered injury problems of course but he is also one of the great players in NBA.

The starting five in the announced rosters are as they should be. If it's a serious battle, the West will win by a large margin.
They will win again, but the important thing is how serious the game will be. Stars like LeBron and Curry are getting old.

Has Jokic recovered from his injury and will he be able to play?

it looks like that the media and the fans are now transitioning into the new era, who will now be the face of the nba, i mean it looks like SGA is the nba new baby, but can they really push him, jokic and SGA in comparison jokic will be the most favorite of the fan, but its on the hands of the nba if they will acknowledge it or they are going with SGA.
Aside from them there are stars that is not in the top picks that is blossoming into a caliber stars, todays NBA is not about the rank, they sometimes failed to scout the real deal, and made a average star into a top prospect,
but it seems wemby and flagg will be a stars and we can see it right now.

[Velvet78]

The starting fives are quite okay to me honestly. The era of LeBron, Durant and Curry is coming to an end in All-Star I'm afraid. I'm not surprised with what the media was thinking about them.

Curry is still a starter though which is nice to see.    I wished to see Edwards as a starter too. But Wembanyama was selected for it thanks to fan rank. Both are great players of course. I hope we watch a more enjoyable All-Star game this time...