2023 NBA Off-Season: The Season Begins Now (Or As Soon As KD Says It Does)

[SteelSD]

Good thing Portis was in the locker room and didn't hear about this. Otherwise Harrell would have gotten hurt and Bobby would have gotten suspended.

Jesus, man. It's not his court and, frankly, I don't think anyone should be terrified of Bobby freakin' Portis, much less Harrell. Portis' entire rep is built off sucker punching a teammate.

And just so you know, Giannis wasn't just preventing the stadium workers from taking the nets down. They had limited time to change over the entire court. Like rip it up and put down a new design in time for today's game. You'd be furious if a visiting player did what Giannis did on your home court.

My wife has always said there's a moment where you can tell famous people have gone crazy. In this case, it got caught on film.

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Not good news for Philly. https://www.nba.com/news/76ers-tyrese-maxey-foot-injury

No worries. We can't have nice things.

[Mutaman]

Sixers should just call it a night tonight. Let their beloved stadium workers take the nets down early and get home to their families.

[goreds2]

Been a great 76ers game. Have a chance to tie it with 4 seconds remaining. Taking a timeout.

[goreds2]

76ers lost by just three. Not bad with 3 starters out. Fun to watch at the end even with the loss.

[Mutaman]

Harrell had a big game tonight-3 points. Hopefully he still has some energy left to make sure no Timberwolves are trying to get in some post game shooting practice.

[SteelSD]

Sixers should just call it a night tonight. Let their beloved stadium workers take the nets down early and get home to their families.

Yeah, I'm sure you'd love it if a Burger King employee popped behind the McDonald's counter and messed with your end-shift fry vat cleaning. You could call Bobby Portis and whine that they stole your fry basket. Maybe he'd bring the lesser Antetokounmpo freeloaders to cheer you up with something from Bring it On. You could all do spirit fingers together!

[SteelSD]

76ers lost by just three. Not bad with 3 starters out. Fun to watch at the end even with the loss.

Valiant comeback from 20 points down. Had the win possibly, but a good chase down block on Melton. That being said, I'm not sure there's a team in the league that can turn the ball over 22 times and win. The officiating was crap tonight (Natalie Sago was borderline incompetent), but there were far too many errant passes. Just hope Embiid's ankle is ok.

[Boston Red]

Utah won at Portland last night?!? What on earth is going on?

[BuckeyeRed27]

Utah won at Portland last night?!? What on earth is going on?

Phoenix and at Portland on a back to back. That’s just legit hard.

[M2]

Utah won at Portland last night?!? What on earth is going on?

Malik Beasley might be the 6th man of the year so far.

[M2]

The World Cup got me thinking for a moment about international basketball. Canada potentially has a killer team. They've got:

SGA
Andrew Wiggins
Jamal Murray
Bennedict Mathurin
Lu Dort
RJ Barrett
Brandon Clarke
Shaedon Sharpe
Dwight Powell
Kelly Olynyk
Dillon Brooks
Chris Boucher

That's a crew that could get after it.

[KoryMac5]

Sacramento drops 137 on Detroit...Mike Brown has them playing wide open.

[texasdave]

Sacramento has allowed 118.5 points per contest over their last 6 games, and won them all. Their offense has been high octane over that same span, ringing up 131.5 per contest.

[M2]

There was a Klay Thompson sighting today in Houston. He went off for 41 against the Rockets. Maybe we can chalk that up to the opponent, but good news for the Dubs if that guy starts showing up.

Cleveland held a Jimmy Butler-less Miami to 87. I'm wondering if Bam Adebayo becomes available if this continues to go wrong. He's a great complementary player, but he's got nothing to complement.

Ben Simmons had his best game for the Nets in a win over the Ja-less Grizzlies.

I'm thinking Mikal Bridges is why no matter who else is in the Suns lineup, they're always kind of good.

No Jokic, no Murray, no Gordon, but the Nuggets beat the Mavericks on the road.

[dubc47834]

He's -6 +/- on the 8 Road games so far this season. Yeah, that's stellar, all right. Stellar crappy. Oh, and that's "per game", so multiply that by 7 (number of games he played) and you get -42 +/- for the season on the road. So, the Warriors are giving away 6 points per game on the road every time he steps on the floor.

Blazers have only 3 players with a negative +/- on the road so far this season, Nurkic (-3.8 in 5 games), Keon Johnson (-7.0 in 2 Games) and Nassir (-2.0 in 8 games). They are led by Rookie Jabari Walker (3.4 in 5 games), Justice Winslow (2.7 in 7 games), Rookie Shaedon Sharpe (2.1 in 7 games) and Anfernee Simons (1.8 in 6 games). The rest are Dame (1.2 in 5 games), Trendon Watford (1.4 in 5 games), Jeremi Grant (0.7 in 7 games), Josh Hart (0.4 in 8 games), Drew Eubanks (0.0 in 8 games), Greg Brown III (8.0 in 1 game) and John Butler, Jr. (8.0 in 1 game).


Curry's Net Rating is -9.7 led by that stellar Defense of 122.6.

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/tr...M_ABBREVIATION

If the Warriors can't figure out how to win on the Road, they aren't going to make the playoffs. As of right now, they are on the outside looking in. How long before they start pointing fingers and they get in another fight?

Andrew Wiggins is -10 in 7 games (-70 total)
Draymond Green is -7.3 in 7 games (-51 total)
Klay Thompson is -3.0 in 7 games (-21 total)
JaMichael Green is -6.7 in 7 games (-47 total)
Jordan Poole is -6.4 in 8 games (-51 total)
Kevon Looney is -3.1 in 8 games (-25 total)
Ty Jerome is -3.2 in 6 games (-19 total)
Jonathan Kuminga is -3.4 in 5 games (-17 total)
James Wiseman is -6.0 in 6 games (-36 total)

Curry's -42 total is topped only by the Greens, Wiggins and Poole. His average per game is topped only by the Greens, Wiggins and Poole. (Patrick Baldwin, Jr. is -6.4 in 2 games for a -13 total.)

How many games has your boy Dame played this year? Thats right, guess it's not Dame Time yet!!! At least Curry is on the floor contributing.