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Emeraldegg posted...

Simmons is now pulling the probably-fake injury gambit, he skipped today's workout because of "back tightness"

He is just a shit bloke all-round.
My issue with him started when he came to the casino I worked at in Australia one night.
He and his goons were refused entry.
No ID and wearing camoflauge pants.
That's two reasons against the policy for allowing entry.

Then he goes onto Instagram, making a video then and there, and says they were refused entry because of their skin colour.
He didn't just call the casino racist in his video either.
But went as far as labelling the entire country as racist!

So, fuck that guy.


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he says he wants to play somewhere he's allowed to make mistakes

so ship him to Minnesota where no one will ever watch him play again

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neonreaper posted...

2-15 from downtown and Tatum blows it off. that's not what I'm looking for.

i'm not that concerned about it honestly. think tatum's shot selection will improve again, not to mention he doesn't have games like this *that* often

but yeah, losing in 2OT with just clunker after clunker was painful
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Heat culture

is

back

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https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1451325743431143424

people really don't like Dwight Howard huh

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Well then

https://mobile.twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/1451647350498283528

I've always wanted Sarver out because he has always fucking sucked as an owner, so if all that is true, good riddance. I feel horrible about the victims though.

Sooner he gets ousted the better. Any one remember how long it took for it to go from Sterling to Balmer?

I would love nothing more to get new ownership, and the Suns win the championship without Sarver being attached.

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From what I'm seeing, the stuff about Sterling came out in late April, he was removed 5 days later, and Ballmer took over the team in August.

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The NBA is doing it? Not some news source...the NBA itself? Is actively trying to oust one of its owners? That must be really bad

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The team statement said its a report coming from ESPN. So I guess we will see.

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Oof

I hope this doesn't derail the season

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Look out NBA there's a new king in town



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Vogel isn't lasting the season.

Lakers look like they have no idea what they are doing, just a bunch of players trying their own thing.

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hyped for player-coach LeBron to win Coach of the Year and MVP in the same season

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https://streamable.com/ccmcfc

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Dwight angry that AD made that top 75 list and not him

(and rightfully so)

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Patty Mills joined the Brooklyn Nets this season.
Patty Mills was the flag bearer for Australia for the Tokyo Olympics.
Patty Mills beat Ben Simmons 76ers today.
Patty Mills is a good bloke and an excellent basketballer.

We love Patty Mills.

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Oh god this celtics team is absolutely not sniffing the five seed.

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As a Spurs fan, I love Patty Thrills.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/statline_/status/1451938444490518528

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Luka Garza deserves more play time

this man is the next Bill Laimbeer

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1452356957768138760

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Woo Thunder arent going 0-82

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Now like my lionz my pistonz are the only winless team

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Rookie of the year seems like it's gonna be really competitive this year

Scottie Barnes, Josh Giddey, Evan Mobley all look great

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Suns stop playing with my heart

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Patrick Williams expected to miss the rest of the regular season with a dislocated wrist

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VeryInsane posted...

Rookie of the year seems like it's gonna be really competitive this year

Scottie Barnes, Josh Giddey, Evan Mobley all look great

He won't get the boxscore numbers to back it up but so far Franz Wagner absolutely deserves to be spoken of in the same way. His on/off for the season is the second best in the league (it's like +43 or something). Almost all Wagner lineups for the Magic are positive, I think every single non Wagner lineup is negative. And he's been playing like 33 mine a game.

He's like the ultimate glue guy that the boxscore doesn't show but the team is clearly vastly superior when he plays.

I think based on what I've seen so far though, I'd say Mobley.

Cade gets in his first NBA game and the Pistons win their first game!

It was nice to have his energy, but he certainly looked like a guy both coming back from injury and also playing his first NBA game. Only 2 points, but also a handful of assists and rebounds. Turned it over way too much though

The real story though is Kelly Olynyk dude was on fire off the bench 18 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks




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ya go my Spurs

first win since opening night

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Marcus Smart: "I would just like to play basketball. Every team knows we're trying to go to Jayson and Jaylen. Every team is programmed and studied to stop Jayson and Jaylen. I think everybody's scouting report is to make those guys pass the ball. They don't want to pass the ball."

celtics already imploding huh

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yeah, they've been imploding for a while. don't know the jays are going to be together this time next year.
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A good season for schadenfreude for sure

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honestly speaking i kind of understand

but... not like this...
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So, can someone explain why exactly the celtics not winning RIGHT NOW is such a big deal? I know things have looked kinda blah the past couple of years but you have both brown and tatum locked up for at least another couple years, brown is like 25 and tatum is 23, neither guy has even hinted publicly at any sort of serious dissatisfaction to the point the celtics should be worried they'll leave, you have a couple more young guys who are believed to be future contributors (robert williams, pritchard, nesmith)...why exactly is the panic button being pressed so hard? There's still plenty of time as of right now.

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Because it's EAST COAST SPORTS

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Because the Celtics are supposedly a premiere franchise and they've won one title in the last 35 years

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Partly because the media loves to overreact to shit for clicks/views. Partly because they made 3 conference finals in 4 years whilst holding onto a shit ton of assets and so the expectations were high.

Okay so what I'm hearing is that there's no valid reason and it's just overreaction

Don't get me wrong, I definitely think a team with tatum and brown should be performing better than they are, but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. This doesn't really seem equivalent to a sixers situation for example, where you have to press hard to make the most of the window RIGHT NOW.

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expectations are like a 4-to-6-seed. we are 2-5 right now with multiple losses to the wizards and a 0-3 record at home. celtics have no realistic way to getting better now that they've paid everyone and tatum and brown are no longer on rookie contracts. tatum and brown are still young, but they can't get that much better at age 23-25. two superstars are simply supposed to be a lot better than this.
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I mean there are valid reasons to have concerns about them. Brown/Tatum are an awkward fit without a playmaking facilitator because the balls sticks in their hands and they both just want to shoot. Saw a stat this morning where both of them are amongst the league leaders in terms of shots taken per game to assists.

SeabassDebeste posted...

expectations are like a 4-to-6-seed. we are 2-5 right now with multiple losses to the wizards and a 0-3 record at home. celtics have no realistic way to getting better now that they've paid everyone and tatum and brown are no longer on rookie contracts. tatum and brown are still young, but they can't get that much better at age 23-25. two superstars are simply supposed to be a lot better than this.

They have horford on a big 1 year deal (+1 nonguaranteed), could they possibly deal him and some of those young assets for a guy if such a person becomes available?

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they could, but we're not likely in contention for those pieces if we're flirting with .500 - no single person, especially available person, is good enough to drag us into contention.

we survived losing horford and kyrie, but what we really needed that bubble year was for hayward to stay, and stay healthy. it didn't happen, and now this is where we are - with basically no supporting dudes who can dribble, pass, AND shoot. add that to the anemic big situation and it's real bad.

that said, if brown and tatum are really supposed to be our kawhi and PG or MJ and pippen, then there's just no excuse for missing the playoffs regardless of supporting pieces

the season isn't over, so we'll see if this team can put it together. but if it stays like this then there's every reason for the Celtics to panic
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Usually who a team is through their first 20 games is who they'll be all season, so yeah, the slow start is potentially concerning.

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Yeah its probably expectations from arguably the second or third biggest NBA market, but truthfully I feel like the East has just gotten a lot better since the bubble and the Celtics havent really improved their roster since then.

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Dunked on by the Bucks

Now 1-6 on the year!

Cade 6 points, 2 reb, 3 ast

0-9 from 3 v_v

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Pistons 3pt shooting last night was 8/47

Apparently 5th worst all time when making at least 45 attempts

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That 3rd quarter by the Magic is as bad a quarter as I can remember both offensively and defensively.

Going to happen with young teams but man does that suck after being the better team the first half.

Sarver is fucked

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32440987/phoenix-suns-robert-sarver-allegations-racism-misogyny

If the commissioner comes in and investigates to see what the f--- is going on in Phoenix," one current business operations employee told ESPN, "[he] would be appalled.

Edit: Jesus fucking christ

Sarver once used the N-word when explaining to a staffer why he preferred hiring Lindsey Hunter over Dan Majerle as head coach in 2013, according to an executive.
"These [N-words] need a [N-word]," Sarver told the staffer of his largely Black team, according to the executive.

How is this entire article just shit like this.

When the Suns were recruiting free agent LaMarcus Aldridge in the summer of 2015, the team knew that Aldridge had young children in Texas and that playing near them was appealing. During the recruitment, Sarver remarked to two basketball operations staffers that the Suns needed to have local strippers impregnated by NBA players so those players would have children in the Phoenix area and feel obliged to be closer to them, giving the Suns a potential edge in free agency, the now-former staffers said.

ShatteredElysium posted...

When the Suns were recruiting free agent LaMarcus Aldridge in the summer of 2015, the team knew that Aldridge had young children in Texas and that playing near them was appealing. During the recruitment, Sarver remarked to two basketball operations staffers that the Suns needed to have local strippers impregnated by NBA players so those players would have children in the Phoenix area and feel obliged to be closer to them, giving the Suns a potential edge in free agency, the now-former staffers said.

lmao

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