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    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Joe has had Jrue do some of that this year, but even as good as he is, it seems a bit gimmicky. Draymond is the one that immediately came to mind, and Lebron could do it too (although his responsibilities on offense were always too great for him to do it for more than a few minutes at a time...
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    This is a crazy (and absolutely true) thing to say about a NBA 75 player that is both healthy and in his prime. I'm really looking forward to this series, for a Celtics fan this is win-win (either our biggest obstacle to a title is gone, or the Lakers' season is over). I agree that the Lakers...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Bulls easy. I was all set for the Heat with Butler healthy, but if he's out I'd just as soon take an easy early round series against a generic team (Chicago fits the bill) than have to see Bam and Spo for 2 weeks, even with no Jimmy.
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (4) LA Clippers vs (5) Dallas Mavericks

    For the Clippers, anyway. Anytime you're in a club whose only other members are Lebron and Kareem (finals MVP for more than one team), your legacy is in good shape. The glass half full view of the Kawhi news is that he hasn't been ruled out yet, and if he plays, I expect him to be great (for...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    Agreed. I think a reasonable finals loss to Denver (i.e. not blowing a 3-0 or 3-1 lead) is the only thing that has them regarded differently than the above.
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    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers

    Speaking of Hield, he finally gets off the top of a pretty rough list: Most minutes among active players (and 2nd most all-time) without a playoff appearance. The new #1 among active players (and 10th all-time) is Lauri Markkanen. The Knicks have a ceiling aside from Randle's loss (which...
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    2023-24 Celtics

    If you told us before the play in last year that the Celtics would get Atlanta in round 1, Philly (with a hobbled Embiid) in round 2 and Miami in round 3, that would look like a pretty sweet track to the finals. 2022 was the brutal path (Kyrie/Durant Nets in R1, defending champ Bucks on R2 and...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Embiid is just an impossible variable here. On one hand, he looks incredibly slow (especially on defense). On the other hand, he still averaged 30/9/5 with a TS% of .641 after coming back in the regular season, and Philly has won 9 straight games (and they might have needed all of those wins...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Regular Season Jimmy really let Playoff Jimmy down.
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    DNP-CD. He scored 10 points against Houston on April 5th, that's the only time he's been in double digits in the past month (.222 from 3 over that stretch). He'll certainly play tomorrow now, especially if Rozier is still out as their only hope really is that he gets hot. I'll rarely root for...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    "Stepped on his foot" is that what we're calling this? View: https://twitter.com/30problemz/status/1780784998209012204 That's about as fluky an injury as it gets. Caruso played 71 games this year, which was a career high - this is the sort of bad luck that only seems to hit guys already...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    I'd like that. There are a lot of really good series, good for them not to get lost.
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    This is the is optimistic view. The pessimistic view would be...Playoff Heat.
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    It's a good question. The Athletic did their top 75 all-time NBA player list a few years ago (and ranked them, unlike the official NBA list), and Elgin was the 23rd best player of all time, 3rd best not to win a title (behind Barkley at 22 and Malone at 16). Embiid has been one of the very...
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    2024 NBA Awards

    If it hasn't already been posted elsewhere, here's the award tracker: View: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMzwRcilLDej0BWl7eYE_OYC9Tx9olI_Ptn-nHjKfpQ/edit Real early, but a couple of things so far: -Jokic has finished first on 15 of 18 MVP ballots -Jokic/Doncic/SGA have been on...
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