The 2024-2025 NBA Basketball Season

[The Q]

Who on the Clippers roster would be the trade target?

Honestly the targets should be Christie and flowers and everything else is just salary matching

The nets will reroute them to get some seconds (like Eubanks or Powell from Dallas)

 

[thunderc]

why? Bigger issue last 2 seasons might be one of them could not play in postseason (and/or badly hampered). also missing Mitchell last year, too, which mattered.

I think the question is if that is the bigger issue

 

[dtgold88]

I think the question is if that is the bigger issue

Fair question but doubt it's coincidence the 4 teams to make conference finals each of last 2 seasons were pretty much completely healthy.

Now if they feel like cannot count on both guards to be healthy? OK...different story. Though Allen out vs. Cs last year I think hurt more than Mitchell out and Allen is usually healthy.

 

[The Q]

Fair question but doubt it's coincidence the 4 teams to make conference finals each of last 2 seasons were pretty much completely healthy.

Now if they feel like cannot count on both guards to be healthy? OK...different story. Though Allen out vs. Cs last year I think hurt more than Mitchell out and Allen is usually healthy.

It’s also just hard to win with two small guards unless they’re defensive freaks like jrue

 

[dtgold88]

It’s also just hard to win with two small guards unless they’re defensive freaks like jrue

Or have 2 elite bigs (one DPOY) to help them out?

I can agree, sure, ideally you'd prefer one be a stud defender and/or taller. Looking at it another way, I'd have liked the Blazers chances if they had current Mobley/Allen backing up those small guards (Lillard/CJ) as opposed to next best player being an oft injured Nurkic.

 

[Pastafazul]

Somebody needs to explain how the heck a team with an alleged superstar & all stars in the WCF’s gets blown out in the first qt of an elimination game?

 

[bksballer89]

 

[thunderc]

Somebody needs to explain how the heck a team with an alleged superstar & all stars in the WCF’s gets blown out in the first qt of an elimination game?

You have eyes right?

 

[Wamu]

You have eyes right?

Yeah he does. But just like his brain his eyes don't work right either.

 

[shopson67]

Looked like a big salary gap until I realized Spotrac hasn't flipped to 25/26 on their trade machine yet...

 

[dtgold88]

don't think I'd do it but certainly not something I'd kill them for without seeing how it played out.

 

[Pastafazul]

You have eyes right?

I forgot where I was…

 

[dtgold88]

I forgot where I was…

That's fair as the real answer should be it's the NBA and stuff happens.

 

[bksballer89]

Last nba game ever on tnt tonight

 

[thunderc]

Last nba game ever on tnt tonight

I don’t think so

 

[tlance]

Somebody needs to explain how the heck a team with an alleged superstar & all stars in the WCF’s gets blown out in the first qt of an elimination game?

Only 1 star on that team.

But they played the best team in the league who have had an all time great season.

 

[Pastafazul]

Only 1 star on that team.

But they played the best team in the league who have had an all time great season.

4 players. Randle ,Conley , ANT and Gobert , all stars with ANT , I guess now according to you ain’t a superstar , were all stars , 1 a veteran of game Conley.

Didn’t someone say even superstars, ANT, have bad series?

OKC. Best chances of winning it all

Ain’t won nothing yet, but congrats to them and their fans for doing what was expected , and most importantly gettin it done

 

[tlance]

4 players. Randle ,Conley , ANT and Gobert , all stars with ANT , I guess now according to you ain’t a superstar , were all stars , 1 a veteran of game Conley.

Didn’t someone say even superstars, ANT, have bad series?

OKC. Best chances of winning it all

Ain’t won nothing yet, but congrats to them and their fans for doing what was expected , and most importantly gettin it done

Conley was an all star a long time ago. Not anywhere close today. He is close to retirement.

Rudy has always been very overrated and playing nowhere close to all star level.

Randle? OK. Has been an all star. Plays like it sometimes. But also showed in this series why he isn’t really an all star. His skill set is limited.

And like I have said all year, OKC is the best team.

No need to wait until they accomplish what we all know is coming to say that.

In no universe are the Pacers or Knicks on their level.

 

[shopson67]

4 players. Randle ,Conley , ANT and Gobert , all stars with ANT , I guess now according to you ain’t a superstar , were all stars , 1 a veteran of game Conley.

Didn’t someone say even superstars, ANT, have bad series?

OKC. Best chances of winning it all

Ain’t won nothing yet, but congrats to them and their fans for doing what was expected , and most importantly gettin it done

Your definition of star is pretty loose.

 

[Pastafazul]

Good lord , it ain’t my definition

The league, the F N labeled them All Stars. Not Pastafazul or any of Ronzoni family

What da hell is wrong wit u dudes, you wipin out history and makin your own all’s on who’s what… Gobert is a 3 time AS

Anyways, you are underestimating the Pacers, they seem a little discombobulated right now, but if they get it back next game, it could carry them to next series

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