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Knicks win the East 4-0
Spurs @ Thunder tomorrow, series tied 2-2

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>>154851968
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If you're james harden what do you do now your ring chasing plan failed yet again?
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zoomers rated this better than kobe??
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>>154857178
go clubbing
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BTA
T
A
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>>154857178
text KD and Russ and ask for one last ride
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if you look at the analytics and expected score, the series is tied. see you back here wednesday for a pivotal game 5
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>>154857178
get fat and go to the strip club everyday
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I want to know how Mexico feels about the Knicks winning
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that was a lame series
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I USED TO DREAM FOR NIGHTS LIKE THIS
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>cavs thought larden could save them
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Game 1 of the Finals is June 3rd
The Knicks can go to Cancun with the Cavs and be back in time.
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>>154857209
Thibs was better suited to the Randle/Brunson/OG group but Randle and JB never got chemistry going and honestly relying on Mitch to be the main center would have been a mistake, he's only effective right now because of the heavy load management they put him on. And it was literally impossible they resigned IHart after the 2024 playoffs he had (and he would have been exposed just like he has been on OKC).
Randle is a top 3 favorite Knick for me but we're as good as we are thanks to KAT and I understand that. Still gonna rock my #30 for the whole Finals tho
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knicks not prepared to be heem'd. This cakewalk will hurt them
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Knicks really gonna fuck up sgay and wembshit
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cavs threw the series on purpose because it's part of the lebum comes back to cleveland storyline
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THAT'S REVENGE FOR JOBA CHAMBERLAIN
FAGland FAGaliers kek!
BING BONG
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>>154857321
If Jacques never injures Randle the Knicks would’ve curb stomped the pacers and the celtics
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MY KNICKS!!!! I NEVER EVER STOPPED BELIEVING
THIS IS DESTINY
MY CELTICS SUPERFAN COWORKER GOT FIRED THIS YEAR THAT SEALED IT
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>>154857353
going back to cleveland just to lose in round 1, what a great story
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>>154857276
I want to know Ja Rule thoughts about all this
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someone put up the lebusrider signal
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>>154857363
Unironically, and we had a good matchup against the fucking Mavs too.
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Knickerbockers is a racist team name.
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>>154857370
>losing first round in the least
yeah right
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The Knicks are the first team to play in both the IST Finals and NBA Finals in the same season
Not even LeBron did that.
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Where does Spida go now?
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>thibs
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How much the Knicks outscore opponents in elimination games this playoffs?
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Mike Brown saved the Knicks. Thibs could never
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>>154857417
wizards
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>>154857417
Galveston
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>Breen said this is our 6th Finals
Technically the Knicks played 4 straight Championship series in the early 1950s but it was a different format so I guess it doesn't count.
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>>154857431
none
the knicks are statistically still playing the 76ers
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>>154857417
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Is James Dolan there?
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>KAT in final before CANTMAN
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>>154857480
BIG PURR
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>>154857417
Westchester like the kwab he is lmao
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>Jalen Bumson and Luka Donbitch were on a team together
>the absolute state of the Mavs
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Lisa could get it
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>>154857480
I need KAT to win FMVP and put Jimmy Butler on facetime live to the camera
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I have to remind myself the Knickers have been to the finals before
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>>154857417
Lakers have $50 mil in cap space and need another ball dominant score first guard...
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>kittykat made the finals before CANTman and gogurt
jej
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>>154857501
And call up dray to, i never forgot when dray punked him on live televison
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Every time they present trophies and shit in sports the players thank god in a really serious way, what's up with that? Does reckless faith really turn niggas into great athletes? Is that why /sp/ is full of retards?
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>>154857480
you never break up a dollar for quarters in the nba unless you're going full rebuild. It's same tier star for star or else you're taking a step back
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>>154857480
>KAT and SGA getting into a lick off
This finals is gun be NASTY
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silver lining for the cavs, kenny atkinson looked at the stats and saw theyre up 3 to 4, statistically
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>tfw I hate the knicks
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>>154857480
> Shart Edwards was a Bodega KAT merchant
Kek, fake alpha
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>>154857550
How could you ever hate the Knicks? The team is full of genuinely likeable dudes who are hardworking and dont chimp. Their fans are the best in the NBA. They have no hateable qualities.
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>>154857550
If you do you can hate watch them in the finals, its the best hatewatch
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>>154857524
>reckless faith
I've never heard belief in God described as that before
damn, bro
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>>154857538
The Twolves real mistake was thinking Donte could be more than a catch and shoot grit guy, Randle and KAT are basically equal players all things considered and clear up some of the positional logjam but these morons really thought Divo was the difference maker worth ditching KAT. Would have made more sense dumping Rudy desu
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>>154857579
Their fans dumped a garbage can on a pacer fan last year lol
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>>154857524
Every day you wake up you should be thanking God for the gift of life.
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>>154857604
This evangelical cutie I used to work with described it like that when talking about herself, I tried faking it to fuck her fat ass but she saw right through me
Ah well, she wasn't even Asian lmao
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do u guys think KAT is going to pull back on his faggot killing vigilantism now that he's in the finals or do u think he's gonna ramp it up
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>>154857524
Lots of them are superstitious in many ways. Like, notice how many of them have rituals of sorts. Lot of them also grew up poor, and they see religion as what took them out of poverty.
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>>154857276
knicks haven't played a real team
wembGOAT gonna kill them
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>>154857615
Pacers fans are all junkies who cares
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>>154857615
Holy fucking based
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>>154857646
Wemby going off in MSG will be K I N O
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>>154857646
Like he did in the NBA Cup right?
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>>154857579
The fans
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>>154857659
Going off like a little bitch at the refs when he doesn't get calls KWAB
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>>154857636
all Queers live in Fear while the KAT hunts
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>>154857612
>Randle and KAT are basically equal players
no they are not. Randle is straight up worse and doesn't provide the spacing KAT does which is why their offense is clunkier now. This is before getting to the fact that Dubious is a notorious playoff faller
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>>154857672
The fans are awesome though, no one else like them in the NBA
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>>154857661
>>154857678
wemGOAT will terrorize MSG like Godzilla did tokyo
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>>154857646
based Mexico. I'm putting my money on wembGOAT
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>>154857691
Faggot your fucking CRAPtors just lost to this BAWB ass Cavs cuck team
Stfu
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>rig the clearly better Pistons out to force the undeserving Cavs in, who proceed to get swept by 50 points a game
Silver must have some big brain plan to have the Knicks win it all if they were so willing to sacrifice all the extra ECF revenue from what would've been a 6-7 game series. Maybe that's why he set the precedent with Lamelo that intentionally ending someone's season is only a 20k fine
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>>154857709
Okay that does it! i put my raptors curse on the KNICKS, all you knicks fans have this anon to blame for the loss
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>>154857690
They're annoying
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>>154857661
the only thing that happened in the NBA cup that will happen again in the finals is Bumson with something up his ass
jew york will cry in unison
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LeBron is the greatest of all time, I’ll man up and admit it
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>>154857713
>NFL constantly showing Taylor Swift's reactions
>NBA constantly showing these faggot celebs
MAKE IT STOP
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>>154857440
Pacers being out saved the Knicks. Playing three bottom tier defenses didn't hurt either.
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>>154857713
Celebrity culture is dead. Nobody gives a shit about these 2.
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>>154857746
You will enjoy it
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>>154857746
Cant stand this celebrity slop.
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Grats Knick fans. I remember listening to Stephen A scream about Stephon Marbury and there was that whole Phil Jackson saga you all had to deal with. Glad they're past those days of dysfunction.
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>>154857634
>>154857634
Based and high test
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What happens when Elon Musk solves basketball?
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>>154857884
right after we get to mars in 2024
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it might be hard for someone to make a better 82-0 team than i just made. 109.5 total points.
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>>154857917
Enhanced Basketball Association
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Cavsaars, we failed Vivek
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>Pacers: Hali injured, Turner left in free agency, Mathurin traded for Zubac (lol)
>Raptors: Complete shit roster from top to bottom
>Sixers: Embiid is an injury prone bum, PG is a fraud of the highest caliber, Maxey is a 6th man, Nurse is a shit coach
>Miami Heat: Jimmy left for the Warriors, leaving Spoelstra with nothing but Bam, always injured Herro and undrafted scrubs
>Celtics: Tatum injured all season, let their best roleplayers go to duck under the second apron tax
>Bucks: Giannis is stuck on a talentless team coached by a certified fraud. His second option is Ryan Rollins

Knicks made the finals because every other Eastern conference team was injured, devoid of talent or blatantly fraudulent.
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>>154858051
Oh he cursed them, it makes complete sense now why they collapsed.
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>>154858079
>>Raptors: Complete shit roster from top to bottom
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>>154858079
The Celtics were fucked with the new salary cap, they didn't do anything wrong and didn't even tank yet they were forced to nuke their roster because Adam Silver was blackmailed by Big Oklahoma oil.

Either way even with a 60% Tabum and a delusional wannabe MVP they'd get mogged by these same Knicks. Their playstyle is literally obsolete in the modern NBA.
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>>154858173
I hate the fucking 2nd apron so damn much and from a business sense I don't get it either. Dynasties and dominance are what draws eyeballs, why would they make it harder to keep great teams together?
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>>154858130
>Let's trot out Jakob Poeltl along with a backcourt of Immanuel Quickly and RJ Barret on overpaid contracts and see what happens!
>WTF?!?!?! Why would they fire Masai?!?!?!
LOL fuck the Raptors
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>>154858130
Still made the playoffs thoughever
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>>154858130
True but 7 game series > BTFO in 4 and at home in front of an away audience that took over the building
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Cavs are in the 2nd apron so they can't run it back. This offseason will be interesting.
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So Harden is getting traded right? Feels like he quit while guys like Mitchell and Mobley still tried
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>>154857949
I thought I managed it with this name brand team with the #1 and #2 GOATs, but alas. I blame Durant for those 9 losses, if only I chose the right position with Lebron I could've gotten Westbrook instead
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Luka bros...
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>I heard you had an extra ticket to the spurs game anon...
What do?
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>>154857109
congrats on getting swept by the Spurs/Thunder in two weeka
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>>154858460
>mavs traded both of these
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>>154858324
>So Harden is getting traded right?
nobody wants larden
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>>154858499
>nose ring
Avoid that bipolar demon like the plague.
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>>154858543
harden's good for regular season carrying while your injured stars get rest, like kawhi and embiid
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Spurs in 6
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CJ beat this Knicks super team twice
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>>154858499
she is fat with brutal acne scars
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who won coach of the year?

should have been Mike Brown
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Well well well. Ye called me a delusional cause I said Knicks in 4. Look what has happened now
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>>154858526
they didn't trade bumson they just let him walk. didn't even try to re-sign him
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>>154858565
>zestiest team in the league
>israel approved
hmm...
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INVESTIGATE BRUNSON AND DOLAN LIKE THEY DID WITH KAWHI AND STEVE BALLMER!

There's no way that Brunson would leave $100 million on the table so that they could afford more roleplayers on the roster. Brunson had to have been paid under the table with a no show endorsement deal too
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How still take seriously the eastern conf after this
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>>154858615
the owner of the knicks is too smart for that shit, he didn't leave any paper trails
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Was just looking for a photo of Thibs so I could type “KWAB”, but this is even better lmao
KWAB
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>>154858571
yeah but that was bumson thinking he has to 1v9 and throwing the game
that actually turned them into the team that's gonna win da rang
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>>154858615
They pay him under the tunnels...
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>>154858615
Dumb leaf everyone knows they're paying Rick Brunson and absurd amount of money to be a assistant coach. The Brusons and Rosas (close family freinds of the Brunsons) are straight up wringing Dolan/Knicks dry. We been known this since Jalen signed the deal.
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I'm still baffled by how the Hawks actually beat the Knicks twice. Only by one point each time, but still.
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Ready for some home court flopping tomorrow night boys?
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>>154858640
It was the sentiment of like 70% of the fanbase anyway why fire Thibs when all he was missing was one more player to finish the jigsaw.
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>>154858652
what tunnels goy
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>>154858684
hawks are actually dawgs, unlike cavs
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>>154858640
Mike Brown
>two COTYs
>two Finals appearances
>tight with Steih, LeBron and Kobe
Good coaching resume
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>>154858684
Hawks are a good team?
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>>154858684
The streets wont forget CJ
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>>154857949
>>154858330
110.2
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>>154858716
I appreciated him, but his rotations were retarded
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>>154858746
>Won titles with GS as the top assistant
>Led the Kings to the playoffs
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>>154858625
He left paper trails when he was doing that shady shit with Masai and the Raptors
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>>154858615
Ah yes, the """""investigation""""" into Ballmer. Even with the 10 trillion pages of evidence dumped on them by Pablo it'll be just as comprehensive as the Rozier betting thing. A single text to his agent "yo your boy do dis?"
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Man i look back at it now. The Kings had a serious team under Mike Brown. Fox, Sabonis, Monk. If that jeet owner supported the cast and Brown a bit more instead of thinking that shitty club as a money making scheme. They'd be serious contenders iwl
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https://youtu.be/NPF0qa1jKt4
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>>154858684
if Trae was still there NY would be out
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It's funny how draft picks can alter a franchise. Had the Hawks drafted Castle instead of Rischzer Trae would still be there, Johnson would be out
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>>154858051
meanwhile lol
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>>154858684
Hawks are rebuilding contenders
They are really fucking dangerous with the 8th overall pick this year not to mention the 23rd pick too
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>dubious has to watch kitty kat get a ring
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>>154858828
can he name 1 player on the team without googling it
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Danhausen about to sell mad merch
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My brother in law is sending videos the absolute state of outside Madison Square Garden rn. deliquents, blacks and latinos going crazy. Like they've won the Finals yet. Its like when them Parisians chimped out and started looting and lighting fireworks when that PSG team divegrass team won the tournament last year.
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>>154858778
I remember Mike Malone going off about the Kings for firing him
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>>154858895
NO CLASS
NO BALLS
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202sicks
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Timothee Chalamet is kinda annoying, ngl...
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>>154858895
>I remember Mike Malone going off about the Kings for firing him
then he got fired lmao. no one is safe
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>>154857884
Deus Ex: HR is 1 year too early
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>>154858918
I hope wemby blocks a shot straight into his face
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>>154858918
I will never watch the new Dune movies
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The knicks finals will be chaos but if they lose the riot squad might actually need to be deployed
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>>154858959
Does anyone actually think they have a chance?
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>>154858927
nba head coach is probably the worst coaching job in pro sports
nothing u do matters
all it takes is a star player going "eh i dont like it" and ur gone
or if a better coach gets got by their star player and ur team can get him, ur gone
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>>154858972
against the spurs, yes
thunder will clap them
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>>154858972
Not anymore, i cursed them.
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>>154858959
nah if they lose the knicks fans will enter despair stage
if they win though that's the riot
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>>154858894
I hope as many New Yorkers get injured as possible
Trash taking itself out
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>>154858940
I saw the first one
They made Chani's dad a black woman
I did not watch the second
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What if vampires descend upon NYC during the finals?
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James Harden proving the doubters once again that during the big games he goes quiet and that his foul baiting merchant in his prime all along
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>>154858989
Yeah, losing does not cause sports riots in USA
It's the winners who pillage
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>>154859013
Imagine how much alcohol is in his system right now
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>>154859001
>Wemby gets bit
>Disappears for ten years
>Returns in 2036 as a vampire lord and dunks on Flagg who is now on the Lakers
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whoops wrong thread
how are the knicks in the finals
they don't have a single superstar
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>>154859100
>they don't have a single superstar
brunson is having a 2001 iverson level postseason, kat is playing well, and all of their supporting cast (outside of bridges) have been on fire all postseason
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I love my 23 yr old zoomer cousin
But his zoomer ass is so dumb
Called me to ask if I had a chisel
>Yeah, nigga, I got a chisel at the house because I never know when I need to shape a stone
I got the black and decker power drill
Ain't got no chisel though.
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How the fuck is this team getting 5 wins?
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The Pistons really lost to this DAWGless team.....
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>>154859156
What site is this?
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Harden buying into his coach's analytics take.
Says that Cavs were the better team.
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>>154859138
>outside of bridges
Mikal Bridges is shooting 58% from the field in these playoffs
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>>154859164
why does the number 1 team in the east always have no dawg?
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>>154859174
better teams don't get swept
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>>154859156
Came here to bitch about this
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Why is Wemby losing to the Knicks
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Charles Barkley hates analytics and he hates Kenny Atkinson
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knicks will outflop the thundkeks
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>>154859186
I had the four GOATs and I still lost
Boozer fucked us.
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>>154859177
yeah but I was taking the hawks series into account as well, after that though he's been near perfect
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oh
>>154859166
82-0 dat cam
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>>154859166
It's called 82-0
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nah this an 82-0 team
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>>154859201
Think it might factor in performance in different positions, this team isn't that much better than the shaq lebron 9 loss one, think I fumbled positioning
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damn I got fucked with the 2000s wizzies and the 2010 pacers
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I blame petefag
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can anyone go 0-82?
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C'mon now. A team with Kobe and IT wins more than 46 games
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>>154857471
THe fucked up part is that atkinson was right, the cavs were getting better looks at the basket, they just weren't sinking shit
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>>154859200
thundies arent getting past tottenham redditspurs
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>>154859226
3 players will have fist fights over who gets the ball before they even cross half court
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>>154859261
Yeah that's bullshit. Might need an old center, that's the trick. 60 rebounds a game
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>>154858079
>Mathurin traded for Zubac
But why?
He was killing us in his minutes during the ECF last year.
Had some bullshit ass like 22 points in 6 minutes.
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>>154859291
They traded Turner and needed a big who can rebound. They already have tons of guards
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I'm surprised this team didn't rate higher
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>>154859174
Atkinson's comments right before being crowned KWAB were completely delusional.
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This took me forever, but I finally got it
It's not even my best team
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Probably would've been higher if it was the lakers Aydee
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>>154859288
>an old center, that's the trick.
This seems to be the key to victory.
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>>154858079
>every other Eastern conference team was injured, devoid of talent or blatantly fraudulent
Only reason they didn't make the finals last year is because they were playing a 6 man rotation and half of them were blatantly playing through injury.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ejYwHunjW0

holy shit this is the angriest hes ever been LOL
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>>154859314
This nigga's vocal chords are gonna be fried
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Is the consensus that the Cavs blowing that 22 point lead in G1 had an affect on them? Or where they probably lose the series anyway regardless in 5 or 6?
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Damn
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Come on now, this team is stacked. I'm not saying the perfect 82-0, but definitely better than this.
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>>154859331
1000% yes. It mindbroke them and crushed their spirit. It also woke the Knicks up after sleepwalking through 3 quarters after their long layoff from sweeping Philly and having the Cavs/Pistons series go 7
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>>154857884
>elon musk says

i wish i could just say a bunch of promise-the-moon bullshit and trick morons into giving me money
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I think the anon who said to go with an old era center might be on to something
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Best I've gotten so far. Mike and Moses surrounded by traffic cones would go 82-0. Straight BS
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Knicks(KAT in particular) might have the single worst whistle I’ve ever seen in nba history.
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Would you leave $113 Million on the table? When I was younger, I unironically would get all smug and self righteous when judging players for not taking less money, now that I'm older I realize how dumb I was. Fuck that. There's no way in hell I'm giving up that much cash.
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>>154859361
wilt from the 1960s makes the game unfair because it has him with 42 ppg and 25 rpg. you likely cannot get 82-0 without him
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I feel robbed
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>>154859340
>>154859361
>>154859361
>>154859363

How are these teams better than this
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>>154859374
In the 1960s, players were sprinting up and down the court and chucking up shots. They should take that into consideration.
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>>154859370
most nba players waste all of that gambling anyways
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>>154859368
Brunson gets calls, but that’s probably because he’s a midge + he has those braids that go flying. KAT gets a lot of shit from folk for whining to the refs, but he really does get hacked quite a bit
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>>154859370
on the one hand - who would realistically need all that money? these guys chase glory, championships, yada yada yada

on the other hand - the dipshit billionaires paying you have even LESS need of all that money because they have even goddamn MORE of it. and it also comes down to trust, can you TRUST those dipshits to even make good use of the space you'll leave them, or will they (1) pocket the cash or (2) overpay useless bums that weren't worth you giving up cash

i'm like you, when i was young and idealistic i thought "why do these guys have to make every buck if they really wanna win," but these days i know better

brunson trusted james dolan, that's some crazy shit in and of itself
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>>154859387
>who would realistically need all that money?
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>>154859370
That money went to his dad, it's an open secret
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>>154859370
If - IF - he can win a ring as leader of the Knicks, he’ll make up that $113m and more. Not as quickly though I guess
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Yeah this is BS. No way this team isn't winning at least 70 games
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>>154859393
i'm worth six figures not eight or nine like these cats, i still got more money than i'd need

you buying ferraris every day or something?
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I expected better.
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>>154859387
>brunson trusted james dolan
I'm not buying the pay cut story
Yes, officially, in the by-laws, and on the accounting books, he's getting 100 million less than he should be making
But this nigga's dad is on the team, and who knows who else?
Either his daddy is pocketing the money and giving it to him, or someone else is pocketing that money and giving it to him
There's no way his jew agent said, "Yeah, go ahead, let's give the New York Billionaire our money"
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>Our young Cavaliers team is so good, it's just missing one piece to push us over the top, and make us a championship team...
>You know who might be the man for the job?

>James Harden
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>>154859206
>>154859236
>>154859269
>>154859376
I got Wizards Jordan to 65+ wins honestly feels bretty gud
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>>154859400
>>154859410
That's based.
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>>154859410
it's sad that i'd call this a tinfoil hat theory a year ago, and yet now we have the Aspirational clippers to thank for the reminder that salary caps are hilariously fake
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>put C Webb as center
>Next roll
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>>154859424
>1980s houston
>Should we get a center?
>Yes, all of them.
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>>154857270
He got fat. Now he can only get fatter
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>>154859402
If he can somehow win a chip for the Knicks, he can just straight up rob people in the streets of NYC and they'd happily give it to him to make up the difference.
>that's not to day that his dad isn't getting a sweetheart deal from Dolan anyways and/or he's got some sort of piece of the action in the Sphere buried in mountains of legal contracts and a sea of LLCs
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>>154859402
If he wins a championship he'll never have to pay anything in NYC again
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>>154859370
he didn't leave THAT much on the table, it's just he signed a shorter length contract than he could have. He actually stands to make more in the long run this way, google it.
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Who the fuck is Gus Williams
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I like to thank that FAT FUCK harden for fucking up my superteam
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>>154859455
That makes sense. If my Spurs weren't still alive, I'd be rooting for him to get a ring.
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Wtf this team is fucking stacked and I can't even get an A+
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Money isn't everything and it's been psychologically proven that above a certain point it has no impact at all on your well being and that point is far lower than an nba superstar salary
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No one was crying for Jokic when MPJ had one arm and Gordon had one leg
They just said BAWB and fraud
And then they said SGA was the GOAT
Now I'm supposed to cry SGA because he doesn't have J Dub and Mitchell?
I think not
He's a BABB and a fraud
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>>154859478
>Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony
That experiment didn't work. Also, the Nuggets uniforms used to be so damn ugly in the 2000s to mid 2010s.
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Man this is so fake. This team is definitely better than 72 wins
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>>154859495
The powder blues of that era were better
The dark blues were horrendous
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>>154859486
Ironic because instead of quitting, Phil Jackson tried to get himself fired so he could still get the money James Dolan was going to pay him.
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realistically just change Dirk to the 5 and this team goes 82-0 in todays game
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>how much Knicks fans paid for ECF tickets
>Jeet fan said 16k for 2 tickets
>Fans paid in range of $675-10k per person
Man if I paid 16k for tickets I better hope I get courtside seats and KAT+Brunson dap me up

https://youtube.com/shorts/CpVtISUe1_M?is=Q3MddxyqmOtfjUvB
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KAT is such a great player and I appreciate his game. He's never been the best big man in the league but he's still a baller and has been doing his thing for a decade now.
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I hope all of you playing that 82-0 game are doing it without the stats turned on.
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>>154859387

yeah right now its paying off. and if somehow he actually pulls it off by winning the finals this window he's set for life in NYC. But with James Dolan you do need to be careful. that guy can be vengeful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszozSTwmb4&list=RDPszozSTwmb4
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>>154859528
Easy
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zesty ball is here to stay
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>>154859543
Who the fuck is Otis Birdsong?
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>>154859528
I def had some favorable rolls, but here's my /nostats/ team
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>>154859528
This is the best I could get on the real ball knowers version
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>>154859528
I'll take it. Actually surprised I didn't get a better record.
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Yippee~
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>>154859528
tried my best
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These two stand alone at the top of the mountain of Choking. Nobody else even comes close :)
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fuck a 82-0

im tanking for cam boozer
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Carmelo being the best nugget or knick is kill
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>>154859666
>satanic trips
>Ime
>Scottie
begone devil of temptation and debauchery
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we'll take donovon mitchell
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can you guess the record?
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it's been hours yet somehow Atkinson still has a job
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My attempt at no stats version. I think this is at least a 70 win team tho
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>>154859729
67-15
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>>154859729
65 wins
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Got one without Wilt
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Did the no stats version. How is this not a 60+ win squad?
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>>154859741
>get 82 w/o Wilt
>have a young Kareem (see: Lew Alcindor) instead
There is absolutely a bias towards old all-time great centers
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>>154859745
Kek, forgot the pic
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>>154859657
Malone was a playoff choker too. Not as bad as Harden though.
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>>154859741
Charles is a cheat code because you can put him at SF and have two other double digit rebounders at PF and C. the charles meta is the way to win the game
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>>154859757
not to mention he has robertson too, which is basically westbrook on steroids
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IM SO FUCKING DONE WITH THIS LYING SACK OF SHIT
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>>154859736
>>154859737
you both were close, but off. 70 wins lol
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THESE FAGGOTS LOST A TRADE WHERE THEY RECEIVED 5 FIRST ROUND PICKS FOR ONE FUCKING PLAYER LMFAOOOOOOO
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>>154859757
It's the stats. If you choose a PG with a high APG and a C with a high RPG
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>>154859772
Lore accurate Wilt and Malone underperformances with greatness on the line
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>game cucks me after using up all my rerolls correctly
no I am not upset.
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>>154859768
Oh yeah there it is, this is the first one without Wilt or Kareem I've seen
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james harden is the worst playoff player of all time. how do you manage to disappear in every single elimination game you've been part of?
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>>154859768
the first true 82-0. I kneel
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>>154859777
Forgot to complete my sentence kek
If you choose a PG with a high APG and a C with a high RPG, you'll get a better record than a PG and C with high PPG but low APG and RPG
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so the cavs got swept and larden shit the bed again, I have a crazy offseason prediction
>larden has a player option but is technically a free agent this summer
>westbrook is a free agent
>getoffmydickerson said he wants to run it back with the rockets and isn't a free agent until next year
I don't know how'd they do it moneywise, but I could see the old okc big 3 getting back together for one last ride in houston
think about it, all 3 guys went from superstars to ring chasing journeymen, why not give it one last shot with some young guys around you
do I think they'd actually win? hell no
would it make for some kino hoops and drama? absolutely
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Karl Anthony Towns is the best center in the NBA
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>>154859795
why the fuck would they be on the rockets. they would be in la with lebron. everyones contracts on the lakers is over. and luka should be an easy trade
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If Harden stayed with Kawhi they would have sleepwalked to the finals
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>leaf
>abhorrent post
fork found in kitchen, anyone with a non retarded response
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The Knicks are the good guys right
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>>154859820
depends who comes out the west
>if ogayc
then yes
>if spurs
then no
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>>154859820
against the Thunder? Yes
against the Spuds? Naw
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this faggot jarret alen went beast mode on us game 7 and against detroit game 7 for what, for fucking what. we would have beat the knicks
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>>154859817
are you dumb as fuck? everyone on the rockets is on a long term contract. why the fuck would they trade anyone for some old bums. if they want to team up somewhere they'd have to go somewhere with a bunch of unused cap space and nobody on contract like the lakers.
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>>154859827
>>154859828
Surely we have to consider the long term implications of wemby winning. He will be a villain soon
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>cavs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LhZmsR69ec
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>>154859820
They'll win this year's chip, it's in the script.

Brunson will be the greatest Knick in modern history.

The next champions will be Wemby and OKC trading titles.
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>>154859845
you're only a villain if you're playing against the good guys. if he wins this year and goes back to the finals next year against the Celtics or someone he's going to be supported again, if he goes up against the Pacers he'll be the villain
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EASIEST
KNICSK
CHAMPIOOONSHIIIIIP
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>>154859843
illiterate retard westbrook is a fa and larden could also be if he declines his player option, the rockets would only have to move a player or 2 to stay under the apron, and it would most likely be vanvleet and DFS
lakers on the other hand have made it clear that luka is their future and lebron is not the focus, why would THEY trade luka only to sign a bunch of old dudes you retarded fuck
don't waste my time with another response unless you plan on being serious
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>>154859845
I'd rather deal with villain wemby than championship knicks. The knicks fans are already annoying as hell, imagine if they win a ring.
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>>154859859
dumb fuck harden is making 40 mil and not taking pay cuts. where the fuck are the rockets going to pull 40 mil from? your ass?
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were the spuds hated in the 00s due to being boring ? maybe wemby will avoid that because of his AVRA and the fact that he will have no system babby allegations due to carrying
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>>154859869
it was a fantastical long shot but its still a million times more realistic than the lakers flipping luka for old ass kd and harden
also westbrook got absolutely crucified by lakers fans the last time played for them, there's no way in hell he goes back to either LA team willingly you stupid fuck
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>flop vs flop vs flop teams remaining
thank you adam silver, very cool
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>>154859880
luka missed two playoffs in a row essentially cause hes a fat bum. he's bout to hog a supermax and lakers would be wise to get rid of him before that as long as his stock is still kind of high.
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if wemby wins a rang in year 3 he is putting some niggas out of the discussions
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ok yeah lol this nigga is just baiting, I don't think even leafs can be that stupid naturally
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>>154859861
I find knicks fans funny desu
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>>154859905
you're a puka fan, you are the mentally retarded one
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I told you about the Kniskdirtrats and KAT, idiots.
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James Harden is a foul baiting merchant anyway that ducks during playoffs.
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why didnt kd just lose weight to prevent injuries? is he stupid?
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>This was Harden's first time getting swept
Brutal
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Knicks will sweep the finals too
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Mike Brown will be the first ever coach to win a championship post-lebron. For that reason the knicks will lose.
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>>154859784
>james harden is the worst playoff player of all time.
literally every day you'll people say the most reactionary shit possible be it goat or woat lol stop it. Carmelo has the all time record for most first round exits at 11. Harden may be a dropper but he has never missed the yoffs and has an over .500 record in yoffs series. He's a better playoff player than Lame, Embiid, Reaves, and other droppers. TMac never even won a single series. He just stands out because he has generational longevity. hes dropped for longer than everyone else, but he does not drop the furthest.
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>>154859994
If the spurs make it Wemby winning at 22 definitely threatens his legacy more than that
>>154859998
eye test > stats. he had 8 turnovers and two buckets last night
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>>154859994
Isn't it rare for coaches to win chips with multiple teams?
I can think of only Riley and Phil Jackson to win multiple championships with different teams
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>>154860012
Mike Brown has never won lol
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>>154859411
>a year and a half of late career James Harden for your best young backcourt asset
wewwww
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this nigga lebron is never coming back to cleveland
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FLIP NIGGAS LFG!!!!
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>>154860022
garland will be out of the league before harden
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>>154860032
I do hope they ship Kawhi off somewhere, he's too good to waste the last years of his prime in LA. But he may be content enough with his unique legacy that he stat pads for the Clippers until he retires.
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>player from every decade sans 60s
>kemba winning 60 plus on an MJ team
>justice for brandon roy
not the best but my most satisfying result desu
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>>154860012
Carlisle was close last year
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>most points ever by a team with no player scoring over 20 pts
the most disrespectful emote
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>>154859984
That's sort of impressive considering how long he's been known as a playoff dropper.
Meanwhile lebron has been swept 3 times
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>>154860005
>If the spurs make it Wemby winning at 22 definitely threatens his legacy more than that
Before I even knew Wemby existed, or was on any draft board, I told all of you lebron will be forgotten immediately after quitting
He didn't do anything to separate himself
>but all times point record
We never ever ever used to talk about Kareem and the points record
Like ever
It's a record that klutch media has made important
But it's not
It never was
For 30 years no one gave a shit about Kareem and the record
Once lebron leaves, people will go back to not giving a shit about that record
Lebron disappears after from all GOAT condos when he quits
The Wemby thing is just a manifestation of what will be a multi faceted and a multi faced complete forgetting of this non achieving loser
Been telling you for years
Now you're starting to see
If it wasn't Wemby it'd be someone else
MJ has another decade before he's forgotten
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best outcome is jeremy sochan wins a ring
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>>154860048
If this freak just went to the Lakers instead of the fucking Clippass he’d be a 5 time champion by now
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>>154860089
Balmer is the richest owner in the league. The Buss family are bums by comparison. They could never match the under the table money that Balmer was willing to give Kawhi.
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>>154860089
>Kawhi goes to Lakers
>lebron tells him to stand in the corner and wait for the ball
>kawhi gets added to the Kevin love, Chris bosh list of ruined lebron teammates
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>>154860071
>MJ has another decade before he's forgotten
lol
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>>154860065
I'd say that stat makes him more of a choker than a dropper, he usually goes on deep runs and stays elite until the closeout where he shits the bed. this is the first time he had a series where he was straight dogshit from game 1, in his one legged Bucks series he managed more assists and boards.
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>>154860106
Everybody disappears off the stage of public consciousness
Everybody
MJ will outlast LeBron
But he will fade away too
>Dust in the wind
>All they are is dust in the wind
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NYK: 60 REB, 20 OREB
CLE: 33 REB, 6 OREB
this was an elimination game.
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>>154860065
>Meanwhile lebron has been swept 3 times
all in the Finals no?
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Who gets paid more this summer
Harden or LeBron
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>>154860143
How did legron get eliminated this year?
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>>154860120
hopefully now all of the talking heads will stop touting Mobley as the next Giannis when he is clearly nowhere CLOSE !
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What a way for Adam Silver to show us who is in the Finals at the NBA Shop idk if its patched now though
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>>154860150
A fat fuck ballhog held the teams development hostage and then didnt show up for the playoffs
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>>154860161
I just was trying to show anon that LeBron's sweeps aren't limited to the Finals
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>>154860120
KAT is HIM
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I dont get why libtards hate okc
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>>154860290
>I dont get why libtards hate okc
I had no idea this was a thing.
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>>154860290
what is a red herring for 400, Alex?
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>>154857417
Back home to the NugGODS
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Becky HammonGOD won btw, abandoning brunson 23 second dribble then chuck put them on a dominant run
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>>154857884
but my jumper is cash already
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OHGayC is the libtard team
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>>154860290
Oklahoma is a very red (Republican) state
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Some big names on the market this summer
>LeBron
>Harden
>Trae young (player option)
>Reaves
>Ayo Dusummo

Going to be a fun free agency
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rooting for the Thunder and SGAy fmvp solely to maximize butthurt
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>>154860445
Harden has a player option for $42 million, there's no way he's turning it down because his value is less than half that on the free market. I really hope Lebeta joins the Cavs because it will be a hilarious trainwreck.
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>>154860445
>a bunch of bums and role players and LeGod
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>>154860113
>stays elite until the closeout where he shits the bed
Ive always wondered if he's actually a playoff dropper or this is just the natural conclusion of a heliocentric player being forced to lead an offense in the playoffs.
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>>154860485
Neither. It’s a lights too bright for an ugly nigga who hides behind a beard moment
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>>154860305
Apparently it is, i don’t really use either site so i havent seen it first hand but they’re anti okc on reddit and parts of libtard twitter. Supported nuggets last year and and are supporting spurs this year
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>>154860511
Everyone is anti okc because the refs cheat for them. It isnt a left right thing
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>>154860525
This
The only ones who actually root for OKC are their 50th education natives and Rajeets
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>Larden ending the sweep with 5 TO's.
absolute kino.
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>>154860534
0 % three point shooting is funnier
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>>154859377
No D
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>>154860155
Just checked it's still there.
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>>154860071
>He didn't do anything to separate himself
Your take is gonna age like shit. Being the most hated player in NBA history is not getting memory holed like that.
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>>154860290
>mfw a bong begins to explain us politics to me
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Jalen brunsons legacy is already greater than lukas lmfao.
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>>154860704
Technically the exact same?
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>>154860707
Brunson was drafted 3rd overall and the starting point guard on a team with luka and jalen brunson?
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>>154860718
I dunno what weirdass qualifiers you have for 'legacy'.
I just go with achievements.
Which are conference finals and finals.
If Brunson wins, he surpasses him.

If he doesn't, all other things you try to tack on are kinda pointless.
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>>154860511
>>154860525
I'm inclined to side with the leaf. I don't think okc hate is political
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CAhj8_c3GhA

chat im crine.....

Just lost my grandpa a few weeks ago, seeing old people go sucks bros
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>>154860769
I'd never thought I'd be pro Pop, but that's a cool vid
Also, sorry for your loss anon
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How is harden still employed
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>>154860818
I appreciate it, anon. He lived to almost 90, had a huge family, got to see his great grand kids, and only in the last year or so his quality of life was going down. In a way, I think most of the family including him, thought that this conclusion was less worse than the alternative. Still, I miss that old fucker and I regret not seeing him more often in the last few years. Make sure to hug your parents and grandparents if you can.

About Pop, yeah, I hate tons of famous people for little reason too, but you rarely see the person behind it. Pretty much everyone that interacted with this dude has given him props, he sounds like a good dude.

>>154860843
>How is harden still employed
I still see value in him, but not as a starter. He needs to go back to being the 6th man that he was in OKC. I doubt his ego is going to accept it, but if Russ did it, why not him? But yeah, as a star, I don't get how teams are still insisting on his predictable ass.
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>>154860769
What was he saying to the crowd
I couldn't hear over the gay ass music
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>>154860927
They were booing Kawhi and screaming stuff at him because of the whole trade thing. So he got the mic and said something along the lines of >we don't do this kind of thing here, please be respectful.
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>>154860937
Thanks
That's pretty based of him then
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Damn, I hadn't heard this one

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5SB2PrUAI08

>>154860945
Indeed
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>>154860838
kwab
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>Mike Brown clinching the ECF in Dan Gilbert's building, where he fired Brown twice.
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Two questions:
> 1. If you guys could reduce the length of the NBA season, which number would you pick?
Remember that for every 'round' of games you remove, you delete 15 games worth of money.

>2. Also, would you guys be more favorable to reducing the length of the season, or reducing the length of games? For example, from 48 to 40 like in FIBA

I'm asking because I think the NBA is eventually going to do one of the two due to their plans of overseas expansions and/or the number of injuries becoming even more of a problem. I think first they will try to change the schedule a bit when they finally expand to 32, or maybe start a bit earlier or end a bit later than normal. Idk
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>>154861050
Didn't think about that
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>>154861104
As for me:
1: I would slowly go down from 82 to 72, every year I would remove 2 games from the schedule, until in 5 years the calendar gets to 72. I'd also start the season a bit earlier and end a bit later, so there is more space between games.

2: I would rather reduce the length of the season, but I'm would not be opposed to going to 40 min either, I just don't like the idea of doing both, specially when the number of ads will probably go up with less games in the season.
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Notice how kniskdirtrats are calling for Webmby and not gayass SGAy.
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>>154861104
I think 65-70ish would be fine
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>>154861104
The season should start on Christmas and the games should be 40 minutes long. There are no excuses for load management in this scenario for the modern player.
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>>154861198
I feel like from the business side that's too big of a loss, but I get it, I think the Regular Season would be at its best at 58, with maybe a couple extra games against teams from the same division, for example 2 against each, so that would 8 games, for a total fo 66. I wouldn't be mad.

>>154861331
>The season should start on Christmas
I've heard/read this a lot of Americans, that NBA only starts for real after Christmas. As someone who, when I watched religiously, would start watching from November, I always found that weird. Do people even watch basketball on new years eve? Always thought it was weird because here it's hard to watch games on both days, not only new years...
>and the games should be 40 minutes long
I do think that would be awesome for the Playoffs, games would be much more intense and end much faster. It would also make those boring 1st rounds far more palatable to watch.
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>>154860838
From bottom to top
>Game 1, cavs fans giving support, excitement for the series
>Game 2, Cavs fans disengaged after the blown lead
>Game 3, Cavs fans re-energized as the series moves to Cleveland
>Game 4, he getting fuckin blitzed
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>porzingis got his ring
>brunson could very well get his soon
>Luka......
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>>154861104
72 games down from 80, season starts later, and the NBA cup replaces the All-Star game
No one likes it anymore, makes the regular season matter more(this is explicitly what adam silver wants) and reduces the number of games played to reduce strain on the players bodies.
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>>154861401
buck. broken.
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>>154861460
>and the NBA cup replaces the All-Star game
That's... Not a bad idea.

I was thinking the NBA Cup could be a great opener as long as Silver made it matter by giving the champion a playoff berth or something important, but this might be safer. Players would probably cry about muh break, but you can just give them a week off after the cup idk.
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anyone seen anything particularly funny from knicks fans last night? I've seen:
>A guy balancing a tire on his head walking among the crowd, then later switching to a steel city trash bin
>A guy who brought out his dyson vacuum instead of a broom, holding it out like he was leading the Ride of the Rohirrim
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>>154861640
There was a guy too that used to steel fences managed to get the crowd to ride it like a surfboard. New York is another level of autism man
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>>154861487
Adam Silver's goal, if his actions are to be interpreted, is to improve the perception of the regular season of the NBA. Both the idea that the the regular season doesn't matter, that the season really starts on Christmas, and the concept of tanking itself work to make the regular season not matter on paper.
Thus he added the NBA cup, to give players some hardware to fight for, and has put forth the most draconian draft lottery rules of all time to crack down on this perception.
The All-Star weekend is an embarrassment, most people don't even watch it anymore, put the NBA cup in its place, Start the IST on new years day and run it through February ending, right before/the beginning of march.
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>>154857109
Knicks will get swept in the finals and everyone knows it. Easiest path to a conference championship ever.
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>>154861723
Yeah, funny how this fucker only cares about the symptoms and not the actual problems, but I bet the behind the scenes is probably way uglier than we think. Owners and sponsors must be pulling shit left and right while Silver tries to appease to everyone with every change. It's called a commissioner for a reason, I guess. I wonder how much actual power he has in comparison to Stern.
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Kek
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>>154861743
>Easiest path to a conference championship ever
*blocks your path*
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>>154861781
>the symptoms and not the actual problems
The problem is that physicality and pace of play has exponentially increased since the 90s and the NBA hasn't really adapted to that.
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>>154861877
>The problem is that physicality and pace of play has exponentially increased since the 90s and the NBA hasn't really adapted to that.
Correct.
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>>154861172
The finals will be during June Pride month for KAT Vs Oklahomo zest off.
>>154860155
the script already written.
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>>154857333
You said this every damn round if the playoffs and knicks played like prime 90s jordan bulls each damn round.
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>>154860155
It's probably just a coding mistake where they were supposed to show all 3 but only showed the top 2 in alphabetic order
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>Duncan won his first title in 1999, starting the Spurs' first dynasty
>against the Knicks
Hmm
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>melo knicks legacy erased by Brunson
>melo nuggets legacy erased by Jokic
ringless bum kek
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Kudos to the writers this season, it's been pretty good.
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>>154857579
>root for the guy that flops on 9% of his attempts over the guy that flops on 27% of his attempts
I’ll just root for career ending injuries
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>>154862063
>melo as a nickname got erased by Lamelo Ball
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>>154861104
The problem with injuries is load management and lack of actual practice. These soft faggots sit out a quarter of the regular season, get into the playoffs and start popping tendons.
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>they wore color-coordinated shirts so we could see exactly how many knicks fans there were in their house
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>>154862063
ask a zoomed who melo is, they will tell you lemelo ball kek
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>>154862063
He's such a bitter bum too. Records are meant to be broken man. The Knicks haven't even won the Finals yet and yet he villianizes Jalen awkward guy
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>>154862180
>and lack of actual practice
I do think lack of tendon training is part of it. The stuff Wemby does should be more common. But load management isn't part of the issue imo, it's the obvious consequence.

The reason is that this is the first time in NBA history where pace, number of individual dribbles and physicality are at an all time high at the same time. Players are hard-stepping 3 to 5 times every time they catch the ball, running up and down the court, and althought the physicality is different to the 80s~00s, the lack of consistency with refereeing is allowing both defensive and offensive players to shoulder bump, slap, hold each other's arms and legs, all while running at near full speed.

When Wilt played, players barely touched him until he was in the paint. The 90s playstyle was slow, they weren't running at full speed all the time, and all the physicality was "controlled". In comparison today is pure chaos, and the retarded zoomer players who love to do 1000 dribbles and run at full speed all the time while doing all kinds of rule-bending steps are the ones who suffer the most.

The game used to be vertical, now it's horizontal, players are pushing themselves sideways, forwards and backwards for step backs, pinoys, delays, euros, etc., all of this contributes to shitty little injuries which pile up and eventually cause the big boys.
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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26633540/the-nba-obsessed-3s-let-fix-thing

>For generations, Major League Baseball teams have accounted for park factors as they assemble their rosters. The Red Sox love right-handed power hitters who can take advantage of the Green Monster, and the Yankees love left-handed power hitters who can exploit the short porch in right field at Yankee Stadium. What if basketball teams could do the reverse? What if every season each NBA team delineated its own 3-point line based on the strengths and weaknesses of its roster?

Thoughts? Out of all the "let's change how the 3 point line because it ruined the game >:(" ideas, I think this is one of the most intriguing ones. Can you imagine how funny it would be if a team with a bunch of shitty shooters chose to have no 3 point line in their home court? kek
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>>154862063
carmelo anthony is an american hero and the go to bucket for both the '08 and '12 olympic teams and the only vet who showed up for '16 how dare u
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>>154862047
knicks were supposed to win that series, but the timeline got fucked, and we've been paying the price ever since
this is when the timeline gets corrected and we go back to the real 1999-2000
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>>154861840
How do nuns even get tickets to this match lol? I thought they were supposed to show humility and charity.
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Regarding the removal of the corner 3, some people think the spacing would just collapse because defenses would simply ignore corner 2s. I wonder if that's real, after all the threat of a basket is still there, and coaches aren't simply going to stop putting guys there since spreading the defense is still valuable.....
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>>154862306
Wouldn't work.
>Practical Reason
Baseball's season is so long and the rosters are so huge that any advantage gained is largely washed out via the nature of variance. Besides, its easier to account for a guy whos really good at hitting homers and is left handed vs building your court around one player who may or may not be injured or sitting on the bench or get traded mid-season etc.
>Real Reason
This would make stats harder to compare on a game to game basis and making betting harder and less "skillfull"
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>>154857417
Cancun
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>>154862380
>vs building your court around one player who may or may not be injured or sitting on the bench or get traded mid-season etc.
Yeah, I was thinking of that while reading it. You could allow teams to change the court at trade deadline for example, but injuries are still a problem.
>This would make stats harder to compare on a game to game basis
Idk if that's a problem when the refereeing is so inconsistent already, but I get the point.
>and making betting harder and less "skillfull"
I hate that this is even considered when talking about the game

>>154862360
They heard Wemby is the 2nd coming of (Spurs') God and they had to see it

>>154862344
>this is when the timeline gets corrected and we go back to the real 1999-2000
Kek, if only...
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>>154862344
>the 8th seeded Knicks were supposed to win that title
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>>154862360
>>154861840
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>>154862360
The team asks them to come.

>>154862306
>>154862418
The best way to slow down offense without raping the rulebook is simply enforce the fucking rules to begin with.
Call illegal screens, call charges outside of when an undersized guard lets a power foward run him over, and most importantly stop giving the offensive player the call when they initiate contact on a jumpshot.
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>>154862457
Dope

>>154862473
>Call illegal screens, call charges outside of when an undersized guard lets a power foward run him over, and most importantly stop giving the offensive player the call when they initiate contact on a jumpshot.
Oh I agree, 200%, I just think they will eventually do something about the 3 point line, and thought this was interesting enough to talk about it
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>>154862473
How about give techs for flopping too
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Fuck Knicks fans.
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>>154862573
I think techs are too big of a punishment, normal fouls might be enough. Some flops are more like embelishment of an actual foul and sometimes its hard to differentiate from actual bullshit flops. I do think the statsheet should show them in a different column
>overall fouls (6)
>flopping fouls (2)
So when a player flops a lot, statfags can be all over him
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Hell you could curb flopping just by adding "embellishments" as an official stat without any accrued penalty.
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>>154862604
>warning for the first flop, but it’s a team wide warning
>then its techs
>two and you’re out of the the game
All flops are an embellishment. That’s what you are punishing. If you flop off an actual foul then you get your shots and the tech
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>>154862573
>>154862604
Flopping is already supposed to be a tech, the problem is refs never call it
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Who fucked it up?
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>>154862622
>>154862633
Fair. I wouldn't be mad either way

>>154862652
MANY such cases
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script got leaked OKC vs NYC finals
https://x.com/TheMisterMann/status/2059169736127336664
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>>154862652
I know, that’s why I said they should give techs for flopping
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>>154857550
Do it. One less boston shitter.
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>>154862710
Kek
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The Wemby version of Jordan's Jumpman logo
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>>154862936
Alien
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>>154862063
>melo knicks legacy erased
You zoomers falsely assume Melo is someone you have to trash
Melo was rated like for five minutes coming out of college.
Right after that, no one rated Melo or ever cared about Melo while he was playing
He is a non-factor and a non-thought
You zoomer stat watchers see him on the all-time scoring list and assume he was somehow a thing.
And then you assume you must denigrate him because that's your guys' things
But let me help you
There is no melo legacy.
Literally, he only got a legacy once you oomers started bringing him up to shit on him
Those who watched him play forgot about him while he was playing.
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If spurs win the league is fucked, wemby is not even in his prime
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>>154862710
I really don’t see any weaknesses in your lineup and what luck on those pulls
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>>154863024
The streets loved melo
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>>154863097
I don't remember it going down like that, but I wasn't n the streets
I just rmemebr th e knicks being a non-factor and melo was a non-factor with them
It's really hard to think of any Melo memories outside of Kevin Garnett telling him his wife tasted like coco-pufffs
Can't think of one thing the guy did that was iconic.
Honestly, it wasn't until zoomers got keyboards that he bacame a thing
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>>154863142
Melo just had aura, without it then he would have been truly forgotten.
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>>154863210
The Knicks were a lot more popular in that era with Jeremy Lin than they ever were with Melo.
Not sure about this Aura, you speak of.
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They’re throwing a party for the broken hearted, and its members only tonight
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>>154863222
Not just talkin bout knicks, nuggets to
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>>154863230
Nuggets melo was sort of a thing
He was young, he had potential
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>>154863024
Melo was him, a lot of hood niggas think Melo was the greatest scorer of all time. He was good on the olympics and he made a lot of deep playoff runs with the nugs. those knicks teams with him and jason kidd and amare stoudemire were nice. and everyone remembers hoodie melo, and thunder melo "you want me to come off the bench?? me??"
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>>154863222
I’m sure that’s reflected in their jersey sales for the year, right?
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>>154863024
melo losing ROTY was one of the biggest robberies i've ever seen.
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>>154863322
Melo was a great scorer and not much else. Didn't raise the floor of the offense and didn't care on defense.
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what a long horrible strange journey it has been, man
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Melo niggas in shambles today lmao
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Flop town
Flopping in the city
Flopping to the ground cause my game is shitty
Flop down
Isn’t it a pity
Flopping this much might get me fitty
Flopping all around looking like I’m half dead
Flopping to sound of a whistle to make bread
Older nights its was a different world
Get laughed at for dressing like a girl
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>>154863469
Wolves could've had a backcourt of Curry and Jrue....
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>>154863337
Don’t bring metrics into a vibes argument
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>Knicks reportedly barely celebrated after the game. One player was caught starting at the Bob Cousy trophy, and was told by a coach "don't get too happy about that trophy"
>Brunson, Hart, and Bridges brought the ECF trophy to their press conference. After it was over they got up to leave and they forgot the trophy. Hart came back in, took a picture of the trophy, then left it.
my knickas
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>>154862267
>physicality is at an all time high
The fuck it is anon
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>>154863469
It's unreal.
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>>154862306
Just put in random hotspots like nba jam TE
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>>154863618
The only way the Knicks have a chance is if OKC/Spurs go 7 games and they're all battered and bruised.
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>>154863730
OKC is already banged up just need a Wemby injury to ensure my Knicks get the championship
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>Knicks sweep their way to the Finals
My Pacers take one tank year off, and this is what the East lets happen.
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The only /goodguys/ remaining in the playoffs are the Canadiens and the Spurs (good Catholic guy, Luke Kornet). You are rooting for the /goodguys/, right anon??
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>>154863822
I’m rooting for SGA to break his ankle on one of his retard flops
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>>154863618
RIP Dumile
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>>154863730
Knicks match up with the spurs much better than with OKC.
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>>154863730
agreed, been saying that for a week, glad others are coming around to it now that we're here.
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>>154863869
who on the Knicks is stopping Wemby
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>>154863822
I will never root for a canadian team
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Accept LeBron is the GOAT, accept reality
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>>154864012
>accept reality
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>>154864020
Here’s something you probably should know
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>>154864033
>not just jordan is better than lebum but pippen is too
tru that's why lebum is out of the top 15
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>>154864033
Lmaooo
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>>154864033
I agree pippen is greater than LeBron, but neither touch Jordan
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>>154863627
>The fuck it is anon
It is, but in a different way. Players are bumping, holding, shoulder/hip checking each other in every play, it just happens fast and it's completely different from the physicality from the 90s where guys were openly elbowing eachother and pushing them so they land on their neck
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>>154863822
based
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