2021 NBA regular season thread

[msgkings322]

Not surprised. Hard to win games with 2 of your starters missing especially when one is a top 10 player and the other is the 3rd best player on the team.

Durant out too tho

 

[bksballer89]

Durant out too tho

Doesn't matter. They still have Harden and Irving. If Dennis is out due to covid, Lakers are going to struggle.

Point is once Dennis was listed as out, this became a game that the Nets should win. It is meaningless in the long run.

 

[bksballer89]

3rd straight triple double for Jimmy. 4th in his last 5 games

 

[bksballer89]

Bam joins Jimmy with a triple double of his own tonight

 

[bksballer89]

The Nets are the new Houston Rockets. Only difference is they Durant and Irving instead of just Harden

 

[wildturkey]

The all-star game is nothing more than a popularity contest.

Alex Caruso almost got just as many votes as Chris Paul

Bald Mamba not getting more votes is the true injustice

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

 

[tlance]

I agree. I would have personally gone with Dame too.

But like I said, one of Steph, Luke and Dame would have to miss it and no matter who it would have been there would have been an argument against it.

See, that is just it though

They didn’t.

No reason that all 3 couldn’t be starters. If they were on the same team they would all be starters.

Today’s game is positionless. Time to do away with positions once and for all in the all star game. If your starting lineup has 4 guards and a forward, the. So be it.

 

[bksballer89]

 

[bksballer89]

 

[trojanfan12]

Doesn't matter. They still have Harden and Irving. If Dennis is out due to covid, Lakers are going to struggle.

Point is once Dennis was listed as out, this became a game that the Nets should win. It is meaningless in the long run.

Was really looking forward to the Schroder/Kyrie matchup.

 

[Duckboy33]

People are way too quick to make knee jerk reactions. The Nets are going to be fine and they will most likely be in the NBA finals. Adding James Harden wasn't going to make them worse.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Lakers 4-7 against teams above .500. They were already struggling when healthy, going to be tougher with guys out now.

 

[Shanemansj13]

People are way too quick to make knee jerk reactions. The Nets are going to be fine and they will most likely be in the NBA finals. Adding James Harden wasn't going to make them worse.

Yeah but it helps with Kyrie complying for now. Kyrie realizing and coming out saying he will be play the 2 guard and Harden is the PG was a HUGE step imo. He seems to finally know his role and it is the best for the team.

 

[Duckboy33]

Yeah but it helps with Kyrie complying for now. Kyrie realizing and coming out saying he will be play the 2 guard and Harden is the PG was a HUGE step imo. He seems to finally know his role and it is the best for the team.

That's all part of the process. These things aren't figured out in a day. The Nets have a bunch of great players and they will figure out a way to make it work.

 

[thunderc]

Yeah but it helps with Kyrie complying for now. Kyrie realizing and coming out saying he will be play the 2 guard and Harden is the PG was a HUGE step imo. He seems to finally know his role and it is the best for the team.

What a guy I tell ya, willing to do what’s best for the team. I mean as long as he feels like playing in the first place

 

[DJ Fieri]

Steph and Dame both deserve MVP consideration.

 

[DJ Fieri]

I agree with Green.....BG and Drummond sitting until traded is total BS......while Harden dogged it until he was traded.

 

[DJ Fieri]

They are in there if they can play D. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. There's about 5 teams that can win, Jazz Lakers Clippers Sixers Nets...maybe Bucks?

And they still have to play the games....the Clippers were title faves behind Lakers and they didn't do much in the postseason.

 

[Wamu]

I agree with Green.....BG and Drummond sitting until traded is total BS......while Harden dogged it until he was traded.

It's time for A. Sliver and the league to stop this crap. If a player's under contract they should have to honor it and play until traded. This sitting out nonsense is only going to get worse if nothing is done.

Harden, well he's an asshole for how he forced his was outa town. BG and Drummond. See what I said about Harden. And yes AD needs to be mentioned as well. What he did to the Pels is no different than what Harden did to the Rockets. Player refuses to play, demands a trade, then the team has no choice but to sit the player because they don't want him injured before a trade happens.

How are players doing stuff like this any worse than what LeBron** has done during his career?

** = I only mentioned LeBron because for some odd reason he still gets called out for joining another team while other superstars seem to get a pass for doing the same thing. Don't wanna mention any names. But they play in Brooklyn.