they gotta have NBA on Christmas, sacrilege to start in January I really think Cooper Flagg will boost some ratings for the league next year. Too many foreigners that Americans simply dont take to. He is an exciting American player that people will come to enjoy, provided he doesnt go to some small market BS team like the Jazz or Pelicans
NBA was lost to me since Jordan retired as a Bull. P.S. NBA has been trying to engineer another superstar, by fucking up the defense rules. The end product is something I do not want to bother watching even for highlights. I loved the Knicks of the 90's, even though they didn't win the championship in the end. (Many teams during that era fit that bill, thanks to this dude Jordan.) Knicks in that era was a defensive powerhouse, and I always enjoyed watching how Knicks would stymie and stifle the opposing team, night in and night out. These days - it's either lay up/dunk or 3 pointer. No offensive creativity. Screen is the name of the game. If you think this is a watchable product - I don't know what to tell you.
Playoffs are still banging. I think its just midlevel play occurring at the time when football is at its best.
The Celtics are awful to watch. To go with I think I've watched maybe 15 basketball games all year and 70 percent of them were Celtics losses. Two years ago they were awful to watch too. Nothing but missed threes and no effort. Ahead of the curve.
I guess the NBAs decision to resolve this problem is by placing Luka in LA. You can't make it up how blatant this is.
Not a basketball move. Not the return, but the situation. You just don't have a player viewed like Luka is, calls one team, and then trashes him on the way out. They ruined all leverage with the best player in the trade by miles. Honestly I think the new Mavs owners have a big part in this. If Dallas moves to Las Vegas in the next decade, that is why this trade happened.
The Adelsons have wanted to move the Mavs to Vegas ever since the Texas legislature wouldn't let them build their casino in Dallas. But the league wouldn't let them because the Mavs generate a ton of revenue in Dallas. So they just destroyed Dallas basketball and its revenue stream by trading Doncic, freeing them to move to Vegas. Of course if they did this in a vacuum, Silver would be so furious that he'd find a way to Donald Sterling them. But by trading Doncic to the Lakers, they ensured the league won't lose any net revenue, so the league will let them get away with it.