The 2024-2025 NBA Basketball Season

[thunderc]

Stats can be bent which ever way you like. Which stats is MJ #1 in? Team stats, like championships?

Oh my comments were in regard to your OKC comment. If you will notice most all my Thunder comments are referencing things that have happened.

 

[shopson67]

Oh my comments were in regard to your OKC comment. If you will notice most all my Thunder comments are referencing things that have happened.

Debatable

 

[trojanfan12]

I don't think he WILL get traded, but he's also not untouchable like the Lakers have been acting like the last couple of months. They aren't actively shopping him but if the right deal came along, especially for a center, he's gone.

That's my take as well. Love AR and don't want him to have to go, but if it's necessary to get the right center, they have to do it.

 

[thunderc]

Debatable

Debate away lol

 

[shopson67]

Debate away lol

Don't care enough about OKC to bother

 

[trojanfan12]

Or encourage the one that I have to stay. Which I think Giannis will do anyhow.

Just a matter of the Bucks deciding if they want to attempt to retool around Giannis...or if they want to start a full rebuild.

 

[shopson67]

That's my take as well. Love AR and don't want him to have to go, but if it's necessary to get the right center, they have to do it.

It would be nice to keep him around as a secondary creator with Luka, but there are too many issues looming IMO. Defensive issues and his looming extension are big ones.

 

[shopson67]

Just a matter of the Bucks deciding if they want to attempt to retool around Giannis...or if they want to start a full rebuild.

How are they going to retool around him with Dame out for the season already? They don't control a 1st rounder until 2031 due to trades and swaps.

 

[thunderc]

Don't care enough about OKC to bother

That’s on you, the best brand of basketball being played at the moment

 

[logic]

Just a matter of the Bucks deciding if they want to attempt to retool around Giannis...or if they want to start a full rebuild.

I think that it would be foolish to think that you are getting another Giannis quality player and free agents aren't signing in Milwaukee, especially if Giannis is not there. If you trade him you better get a super hefty return, in addition to picks because even at the top the draft is a crap shoot.

 

[logic]

How are they going to retool around him with Dame out for the season already? They don't control a 1st rounder until 2031 due to trades and swaps.

More trades and swaps

 

[shopson67]

More trades and swaps

They're tailing off into Suns territory IMO, the path forward is tear it down. I don't know if they've resigned themselves to that yet though.

 

[trojanfan12]

It would be nice to keep him around as a secondary creator with Luka, but there are too many issues looming IMO. Defensive issues and his looming extension are big ones.

Yeah...considering the huge hole in the middle that they have to fill and that I've seen that AR is looking at $20-$25 million per year, he may be too expensive, especially given his defense. He tries hard, but he's a guy that can be hunted. So, trying to close games, you have Luka and AR who can be hunted and Lebron who's 40. Not a great defensive formula.

 

[msgkings322]

He can't be, never played for OKC.

That’s why he thinks Harden is really the GOAT

 

[tlance]

That's my take as well. Love AR and don't want him to have to go, but if it's necessary to get the right center, they have to do it.

They absolutely have to trade AR.

He doesn’t fit very well with Luka.

And his value is high because of the year he just had. They will good a very good return.

 

[shopson67]

They absolutely have to trade AR.

He doesn’t fit very well with Luka.

And his value is high because of the year he just had. They will good a very good return.

We shall see. It's always tough with these guys that become fan favorites, but getting good value for him in trade before a new contract offsets that value would be the shrewd move. Does a team that lost big in the draft lottery want to make such a move perhaps? The potential Giannis sweepstakes may hold up all other bigger trades for a while.

 

[ElPatron1]

What will the ratings be like if the finals is OKC or Minnesota play Indiana? Lol

 

[Stakesarehigh]

What will the ratings be like if the finals is OKC or Minnesota play Indiana? Lol

Not great

 

[thunderc]

Not great

The Thunder play the best brand of basketball out there, if you don’t like watching them you don’t like basketball.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

The Thunder play the best brand of basketball out there, if you don’t like watching them you don’t like basketball.

Indiana