The 2024-2025 NBA Basketball Season

[thunderc]

Well I’m going to the Thunder game tonight against Portland. Getting to sit in a suite. Just my luck they are sitting virtually everyone. I might get to see Chet and Wiggins. Oh well.

 

[UK Cowboy]

Whether they had personal issues or not...it was ownership that pushed this and wanted it done the way it was done. There is no way that Nico just decided "Fuck Luka, I hate him and I'm moving him" and then just made the trade. That would be career suicide.

We don't know what was said or if Nico tried to tell them what they were going to face if they did trade him. Based on what has come out though...this looks like it's on ownership and Nico has been the "fall guy".

It was a Co-Production. Go back and look at the shit Nico said about Luka after he left. He made a shit deal, even if it were mandatory. Open up league wide and you'd have been shocked at the deals they would have been offered

 

[Shanemansj13]

Even if he did take it at one time it still doesn't explain his hard work and genetics. PED's wears down your body and more likely to sustain injuries. I can't say I believe any source "nba strife".

 

[bksballer89]

Well I’m going to the Thunder game tonight against Portland. Getting to sit in a suite. Just my luck they are sitting virtually everyone. I might get to see Chet and Wiggins. Oh well.

Crazy that they intentionally trying to lose once they heard you showing up.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Crazy that they intentionally trying to lose once they heard you showing up.

That shit always happened when I USED to attend Mavs games and then the other team would do the same. Like a Milwaukee game all their best players were sitting

Fuck Nico

 

[trojanfan12]

It was a Co-Production. Go back and look at the shit Nico said about Luka after he left. He made a shit deal, even if it were mandatory. Open up league wide and you'd have been shocked at the deals they would have been offered

I think Nico was parroting ownerships concerns and trying to provide an explanation for what most consider "unexplainable". The problem with opening it up "league wide" is that ownership wanted it done quickly and quietly. Opening it up league would have been the opposite of quick and quiet.

Ideally, they would have waited until the off-season to trade a player of that magnitude....problem is...he just took them to the finals...what if he did it again and what if they won? There would be no way they could trade him, meaning they'd be stuck having to pay him that max deal.

Not saying I agree with what they did (even though it worked out for my team) just saying I don't think this is on Nico.

 

[trojanfan12]

Even if he did take it at one time it still doesn't explain his hard work and genetics. PED's wears down your body and more likely to sustain injuries. I can't say I believe any source "nba strife".

It's telling that there doesn't seem to be anything about it on any of the sports shows. I have Speak on right now, they are literally talking about Lebron and the Lakers as I'm typing and no mention of it.

 

[thunderc]

Crazy that they intentionally trying to lose once they heard you showing up.

No shit, not right

 

[tlance]

Crazy that they intentionally trying to lose once they heard you showing up.

I think they still win tonight.

In honor of @thunderc.

Want to show him what the bench can do.

 

[UK Cowboy]

I think Nico was parroting ownerships concerns and trying to provide an explanation for what most consider "unexplainable". The problem with opening it up "league wide" is that ownership wanted it done quickly and quietly. Opening it up league would have been the opposite of quick and quiet.

Ideally, they would have waited until the off-season to trade a player of that magnitude....problem is...he just took them to the finals...what if he did it again and what if they won? There would be no way they could trade him, meaning they'd be stuck having to pay him that max deal.

Not saying I agree with what they did (even though it worked out for my team) just saying I don't think this is on Nico.

I just disagree. If the Celtics traded Larry Bird before he had turned 26(and that's what we are talking about, if Luka had the current equivalent of McHale, Parrish, DJ, etc around him, he would have multiple titles), would the GM have really gone on about how fat and lazy Bird was? How would that have worked out? Idiotic

 

[bksballer89]

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I just disagree. If the Celtics traded Larry Bird before he had turned 26(and that's what we are talking about, if Luka had the current equivalent of McHale, Parrish, DJ, etc around him, he would have multiple titles), would the GM have really gone on about how fat and lazy Bird was? How would that have worked out? Idiotic

Also a fan killer. Talking about not wanting to pay him? You are going to lose it on the back end with tickets and team value

 

[UK Cowboy]

Also a fan killer. Talking about not wanting to pay him? You are going to lose it on the back end with tickets and team value

Yep. Maybe the most popular player in the world.
I think the big beneficiary of the trade is LBJ. To his credit, he didn't pull a Kyrie and take a year to figure out how it works with Luka here. Watching the game last night, how many times has LeBron ever set up at the 3 point line in crunch time and got wide open tools because someone else is being doubled or tripled on a drive? LeBron can play the game they are playing now for a year or two more than he planned. And he might get another ring. Or two

 

[bksballer89]

Fuck Nico

 

[bksballer89]

Tweet still hilarious

 

[tlance]

Tweet still hilarious

In my experience there are 2 types of basketball parents.

Parents who have pessimistic outlooks on their kid’s ability and don’t think they are as good as others do

Parents who wildly overestimate their kids’ ability.

Guess we know which type Bron is.

 

[UK Cowboy]

In my experience there are 2 types of basketball parents.

Parents who have pessimistic outlooks on their kid’s ability and don’t think they are as good as others do

Parents who wildly overestimate their kids’ ability.

Guess we know which type Bron is.

Not a good look. Bronny is what he is. Bron should be happy hes getting paid to play ball and not retired living on daddy's money

 

[UK Cowboy]

Even if he did take it at one time it still doesn't explain his hard work and genetics. PED's wears down your body and more likely to sustain injuries. I can't say I believe any source "nba strife".

Theres no question in my mind he has used PED's over the years, but don't hate on him any more than Barry Bonds or anyone else. Almost everyone in pro sports uses. If they didn't, they used in college. My sons played college baseball. They said at any school they were at, 80-85% of the BASEBALL players juiced. When I asked about the football guys they just laughed out loud

 

[trojanfan12]

I just disagree. If the Celtics traded Larry Bird before he had turned 26(and that's what we are talking about, if Luka had the current equivalent of McHale, Parrish, DJ, etc around him, he would have multiple titles), would the GM have really gone on about how fat and lazy Bird was? How would that have worked out? Idiotic

I get it. I don't think anyone in the Mavs organization handled it well. Ownership put Nico in an impossible situation. He was told to make a trade that was guaranteed to piss off the fanbase and he was the one they were going to blame. Virtually no one sees ownership to express their displeasure to...but they all see Nico. That's why I put the majority of the blame on ownership.

Nico certainly isn't blameless. He definitely shouldn't have basically said Luka was fat, lazy and drinks too much. I just think folks need to put the blame where it truly belongs.

 

[trojanfan12]

Not a good look. Bronny is what he is. Bron should be happy hes getting paid to play ball and not retired living on daddy's money

As a parent...I get it...you're first instinct is to protect your kids. That's what Lebron wad doing.

Having said that...Lebron has been a professional athlete for 22 years...he knew Bronny would get talked about, so he can't be surprised when it happens.

He can also end the talk by just having Bronny stay in the G-League to develop his game instead of bouncing between the G-League and the Lakers.

End of the day as I said....I get it...but Bronny is a grown ass man and Lebron needs to stfu and let him handle his career.