NBA 23/24:season

Fair enough, you don’t like it, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I’ll just wait until it plays out to give my opinion, I may very well not like it but I hope it’s a success, nothing wrong with adding another competition for nba teams for me, it gives anothe team an opportunity to win something like other sports do, obviously it won’t be the main objective of the top tier teams but for mid teams it gives a little extra motivation for these teams as it gives them an opportunity to win something now rather than the constant building for the future stuff

He's looking exactly as "cheat code" as the remaining 29 teams could possibly fear.

Looking forward to seeing him match up with some strong frontcourts to see if they can stop him.

I wonder when Spurs will push the contend button Pop will want another go, thats why he signed the 5 year deal.

They have a truckload of cap space so could theortically become very aggressive if they want.

Another reason to like the in-season tournament is that it gives a chance for players on the worse/younger teams to experience meaningful matches.

I doubt Portland win 25 games this year so the 4 games against these opponents are the only time I'll see them play some high-stakes basketball.

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It's been a disaster so far for the Clippers, its been pretty obvious for awhile that with regards Harden that -

• His offensive ability has taken a huge hit
• His assist numbers seem to be down (compared to feeding Embild quite easily)
• His defense is even worse than ever, and it was never good to begin with
• His attitude / patience with teams is at an all time low. He was playing with the reigning MVP and still wanted out - is he even wanting to win?
• Westbrooks time at the Lakers showed how bad he is with a ball dominant player like LeBron, why did the Clippers think that putting a even more ball dominant player in Harden beside him would work? Fair enough, Westbrook is now on a team friendly deal but its obviously totally jarred the team and its make up

He's not alone of course, Paul George had 7 turnovers last night and as a whole, a depleted Grizzlies team crawling along at 1-8 record before the game should not be beating the Clippers.

I can only think that its true that Harden is wildly popular among superstar players and that they pushed the front office for the trade.

Because if not the GM needs a serious shake.

How long before Harden asks out?

Kawhi, PG, and Harden are 32, 33, and 34. They don't have a single first round pick until their own in 2030, that's 6 drafts in a row without a FRP. They are well and truly in hell if they don't defy all expectations and win a championship.

Kawhi is also not playing anywhere close to what they're hoping.

He's often referred to as "Top 5 when healthy" and I would've agreed but he's healthy right now and he's playing bad. Maybe he figures it out, but maybe this is closer to his actual level now after all the injuries.

5 games is more than I expected and less than I think he deserves.

These incidents are far too common from him, it's his second ejection in like a week and we're still not far of the stamp on Sabonis (and that's not even considering his 10 years of incidents prior)

Even by his standards he seems to be really loosing it recently.

Watching the Celtics play in Toronto, where the play in tournament floor not only is an assault on my eyes, but also changing colour

the celtics look a lot better than last year IMO. bad loss last night, but a few missing and the end of a road trip.

It's bizarre watching them. They're actually a great squad but they're not gelling at all. Talks of Lavine jumping ship which I'd be for but they need to keep AC, his hustle is an absolute joy to watch. And as much as I want him to stay with the Bulls to help them, he deserves to be on a note successful team.