Clips are 2.5 games out of first place in the West. If they can survive Zubac's absence, they could well end up as the No. 1 seed, which is crazy considering how they started the season.
2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread
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I am starting to be concerned that OKC is too young and doesn't understand the ultimate goal. I have no idea why SGA plays 68 minutes in back to back games in LA with a bad knee. Last night was likely his worst game of the season (and he wasn't much better Monday) . It's not like they don't have a ton of depth (obviously none are Shai)
Ahhhh. The annual "the clipps look for real, for real this time". Dont fall for it guys. I see this every year for so god damn long i cant even remember. Last year it was PG's knee bending the other way (in a game when he did a 360 and we all wet our pants) followed a month later with Kawhi breaking down after owning the suns in game 1.
Do. Not. Fall. For. It. Another shoe will drop, a Kawhi or PG injury. It always does.
Do. Not. Fall. For. It. Another shoe will drop, a Kawhi or PG injury. It always does.
What probability would you assign to their staying healthy through the playoffs?
1% chance heading into the playoffs but 98% an injury sometime in round 1 that ends the series but i still have to watch 3-4 more meaningless games.
Even if by some miracle that would happen, silver would come out like that year moonlight really won with another envelope. "Sorry, we got it wrong. The clippers are not in the finals".
I'm not worried about harden at all. He will pedestrian his way out the playoffs as usual. It's Kawhi and PG, they cannot stay healthy at all. And now Kawhi has an extension so there's no reason to even fake to push through an injury.
50% chance Kawhi stays healthy, 50% chance George stays healthy, and a 50% chance they can get Harden to play effectively in the playoffs. That's a 12.5% chance they hit on everything and are a legit title contender this year. If 2/3 happen, they have a 2nd round ceiling. 1/3 and it's a first round exit, or the play-in. That's my very unscientific prediction for the Clippers.
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Wow. I wonder if a game has ever been postponed due to a medical issue with an Assistant Coach before? It must be pretty bad, hope he pulls through!
It was reported to have happened at a restaurant in front of the team. Maybe a choking incident?
Serbian paper reporting it as heart attack. Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/1991hnd/woj_espn_sources_with_the_serious_medical/?sort=new.
edit: don't know anything about this website but it's reporting - https://www.telegraf.rs/english/3819710-terrible-news-from-the-us-serbian-basketball-coach-dejan-milojevic-suffers-a-heart-attack - that Milojevic has stabilized. Hope that's true!
Siakam deal official, no extension announced as of yet.
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Bobby Marks
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Pelicans were a luxury tax team and now duck under. The trade saves them $18M.
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Pelicans were a luxury tax team and now duck under. The trade saves them $18M.
Adrian Wojnarowski
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Indiana is sending two 2024 first-rounders and a 2026 first to the Raptors, sources said. New Orleans sends a second-round pick to Indiana.
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Indiana is sending two 2024 first-rounders and a 2026 first to the Raptors, sources said. New Orleans sends a second-round pick to Indiana.
Adrian Wojnarowski
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The 2024 first-round picks will be Indiana’s own and the worst of Utah/Houston/Clippers/OKC, per sources.
EDIT: As of today, IND's pick would be 17, 18 or 19 and the other pick would be 27 (OKC). As of today, TOR has four picks in the top 31 of the 2024 draft.
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The 2024 first-round picks will be Indiana’s own and the worst of Utah/Houston/Clippers/OKC, per sources.
EDIT: As of today, IND's pick would be 17, 18 or 19 and the other pick would be 27 (OKC). As of today, TOR has four picks in the top 31 of the 2024 draft.
There will be no extension. Indy can only give him a 2 year extension. He is getting a 4 year max in the offseason from someone (hopefully Indy for their sake)
Pure brilliance. That tax savings can cover a large chunk of Siakams AAV this summer.
Do you think the Pelican are going to sign Siakam or did you think the Pacers got the tax savings?
I certainly read it as the former (somewhat cynically by HRB).
IIRC he said the same about Toronto renting Kawhi. Every team seems to think they'll get that outcome, not the countless rentals that don't result in a parade and banner and then the rental goes to the highest bidder.
The slope is certainly something!
(even Lebron started slower, but I had to exclude him or the x-axis just got too wide)
Wembanyama is age-matched to Lebron, though. Doesn't mean he's going to have the same outcome but...
I think we are just watching the model drop it's prior rather than a rookie improving, but it is remarkable how good he is despite being incredibly raw
They 105% have an understanding. No way Indiana deals 3 1sts without that. Not happening.
I read that as the Pacers were now under the tax since we were discussing the Siakam trade.
I’m easy to bluff.
At age 46. Super beloved dude and big man savant who helped develop Jokic into the best player in the world and Looney into a championship-winning starting C. Just … fucking terrible. RIP Dejan Milojevic.
Are Milwaukee and Miami resting everyone, or are they just getting their asses handed to them? (Watching the Cs).
Turns out if you slam your shoulder into the nearest defender 25 times a game it might eventually hurt?
Are you going to quote specific people you think were over-the-top in the wake of the Milwaukee game, or just snark at the entire forum as a big undifferentiated blob, regardless of whether your grievance corresponds to the reality of consensus opinion?
I myself didn't offer much of an opinion, but I found myself agreeing with most of the posted viewpoints here in the aftermath, which were that we were just worn down and on a back to back and it sucks that the NBA scheduled a premium game that way, but it really meant nothing meaningful about our team.
If you're gonna call out an entire forum en-masse like that, at least do us the decency of quoting some people. Pics or it didn't happen.
I was more talking about the mass of national media and the vibes after the game. I thought the forum here handled it pretty well.
Chill out.
Fair enough, that was way too much, my apologies.
I feel like the national media has largely given the Celtics their due. They can't help but play up Lebron or Giannis or Embiid a little bit (Jokic seems harder for them to cheerlead over, for some reason), but when they're talking about how good teams are, I feel like the Cs always get the total sploogefest. Our depth, our defensive and offensive execution, Tatum's abilities in the clutch, how many all-stars we have, undefeated at home. It's going to be real hard to summon the "nobody believed in us!" energy come playoff time, at this rate.
Yeah, the Bucks game was as close as it got for that, and their stinker a week later shows how pointless even that minor hate was.
True, but there is also a little difference considering Boston was only missing Horford in that game, while Milwaukee was without Giannis