I just wanna say, this man is not a sore loser in any way. Obviously I'm happy my team won, but nothing but respect to you my dude. Appreciate the DM.
The greek freak was incredible. Much respect. Suns were cooked when their Euro big man went down. Ayton was playing all those minutes and he was spent, The freak went right through him all night long hit a big Bucks -5, Under 222 parlay last night. played out beautifully and I was happy to see them win anyway
As much as he and the Bucks ripped my heart out I do have to give him props. The guy is not only a beast on the court but he does shit like this that makes him hard to hate. https://wkow.com/2021/07/21/giannis-orders-50-nuggets-for-50-points-in-viral-instagram-live/
Not sure to put this but France beat usa in tokyo , first loss in 25 games , not surprised. , like most sports compromised in the lead up .
The US performances with Popovich as coach are strikingly different from those with Krzyzewski as coach. Maybe a little Belichickian overrating of Pop as a coach? Or maybe he's just not cut out for coaching the All-Star teams that the US puts out there? He's probably too old to coach another Olympic team anyway, but I have to think that he sure as hell won't do it if they don't at least get to the final game this year.
I hate the super friends era. Never been less excited for a Lakers season. It isn't about building the right way anymore. It's just YOLO hoard all the super friends you can, even if they are the most unlikable collection of assholes. 6 out of 10 of the best players in the NBA are on two teams at the moment (Lakers/Nets). Anyway, glad that Bucks won with Giannis, but we all know that was only because two of the Nets super friends were hurt. "Wake me up next June"
I think I called something like this recently but can't remember where. The King has decreed that the NBA should have a Hard Knocks style show so it will be so. I predict this will develop into a scripted reality show platform for NBA players to preen their egos and turn the NBA into what the players want it to be: sports entertainment.
They can argue lack of star power and blah blah blah for the ratings decline, but all of the bullshit the NBA has done to allow super-teams to be formed is going to ultimately kill the sport if Silver doesn't nut up. https://sportsnaut.com/nba-tv-ratings/ Luckily for the league, they make so much money internationally and specifically in China, they could give two shits if the franchises themselves lose money. This ratings decline is not coincidental or because LeBron wasn't in it.
The only thing that's hurting the NBA is that NY, Boston, Philly and Chicago combined havent won titles in almost 15 years while Milwaukee, Cleveland, Toronto, and San Antonio have. Get a few Knicks/Celtics EC Finals and the ratings would be soaring - also going back to an October start was stupid. People dont watch BB in October. Shoulda stuck with the Christmas Day start to the season
Couldn't agree more. The seasons are too long, too many teams make the postseason, and only a handful of teams have a legitimate shot of winning the whole thing. The little play-in tournament they have going on is quite the joke as well. It makes the regular season even more worthless than it used to be when the #10 seed can qualify for the playoffs too. 16/30 qualifiers were too many I thought. Now you have 20/30 qualifiers when only 2-3 of them actually have a chance, because of the super-teams as you mentioned. But it makes the NBA more $$$ because you have many more "meaningful" games as they like to tell you. But the 7-10 seeds have no shot against the super-teams.
Pretty spot on. I thought if the Nets won it all the NBA should just be a tournament, everything would be pointless. They were a large foot away from beating the current champs. Their big 3 played like 6 games together before the playoffs.
They should just move towards a 30-40 game season and have a March Madness tournament with short series in the beginning instead of single elimination. Series grows from three to five to seven as you get deeper in.