The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Night

[reconic supreme]

 

[smedroc]

Cap.

Max a young boy... He Loading that **** straight on Metamask and copping **** coins.

 

[Coupé It]

A reminder that Tom Thibodeau DNP’d Cam Reddish for 70 days last season….

 

[had pants]

 

[had pants]

 

[dacomeup]

Windhorst mentioned the Financial incentive for the players in selling & hyping the tournament, If the league sells it to a sponsor players eat off that as well

Yea, everybody gets richer this is more BRI

 

[headdetective]

So what now?

Back to bs’n through the season until the playoffs?

 

[pmatic]

Bron should have already been first in line for the Vegas franchise for what he's done for the league, but him going out of his way to promote/play the IST, it shouldn't even be a question anymore.

 

[dacomeup]

Bron should have already been first in line for the Vegas franchise for what he's done for the league, but him going out of his way to promote/play the IST, it shouldn't even be a question anymore.

Can’t wait to move to Vegas to work for them

 

[thekillerj23]

when is the Vegas team happening? Lebron might still be playing and im sure it will be groups that got a bigger bag than him trying to own that team

 

[antidope]

$500k is a lot of money to anybody.

These are hard..

 

[pmatic]

when is the Vegas team happening? Lebron might still be playing and im sure it will be groups that got a bigger bag than him trying to own that team

I would probably guess 2027.

NBA has to work out the media contract in the next year. It'll probably take a year or two to build up the org after it is officially awarded to the city.

 

[pmatic]

Time and place for everything.

 

[earldagoat]

$500k is a lot of money to anybody.

These are hard..

We've seen DeRozan rockin those same protro 5s

 

[antidope]

This Malika Andrews thing really made it off the internet to real life. Crazy

 

[lawdog1]

Congrats to the Lakers. They basically dominated the IST from end to end, starting in pool play. Cool for LeBron to have yet another achievement on his already amazing resume.

That said, while the IST was executed well and I was happy with the level of investment in it from the players, it already being over and now resuming NBA business-as-usual for five months has me feeling the weird/cash grab nature of the whole IST concept again.

Maybe they should give the winner of the IST an automatic playoff berth or some kind of seeding advantage so that the title has some relevance when the post-season starts.

 

[Armada]

Congrats to the Lakers. They basically dominated the IST from end to end, starting in pool play. Cool for LeBron to have yet another achievement on his already amazing resume.

That said, while the IST was executed well and I was happy with the level of investment in it from the players, it already being over and now resuming NBA business-as-usual for five months has me feeling the weird/cash grab nature of the whole IST concept again.

Maybe they should give the winner of the IST an automatic playoff berth or some kind of seeding advantage so that the title has some relevance when the post-season starts.

I do agree it feeling like it came and went so fast. Maybe the group stage should last longer (this what I wanna see) or maybe they should push back the start of it so it’s not over before Christmas or maybe both. But I like this tournament

 

[Maximus Meridius]

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Sheesh

 

[pmatic]

October - Opening NBA weeks
November - IST group-play
December - IST knockout/chip games, Christmas
January - Trade deadline rumors
Feburary - Trade deadline/All-Star Weekend
March/April - Teams gearing up for playoffs

I wonder if they can extend group-play into December, then maybe have the knockout/chip game in January. Only problem might be if trades impact teams.

 

[Mister Meaner]

It’s so easy to critique and suggest changes to the IST but lettuce calm down after 1 initial showing that has gotten mostly positive feedback.

Attention spans have gotten so bad that an extra tournament still needs moar help along w/ AS break & postszn?

It has to become familiar before you know its failing.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

This Malika Andrews thing really made it off the internet to real life. Crazy

That's crazy they was boo'n her, they must be mad she's dating a white man...

 

[Peep Game]

Pop needs to tell Wemby to stop shooting 3s. 21% over 10
games and 25% overall? Like man, you are not even a below average 3pt shooter. Stop it

A 7’4” guy camping out on the perimeter is gross, but then when he is in the paint he’s getting bodied by 6’6” 230 guys. He’s looking like French Christian Wood in various games.

 

[antidope]

BIG LEEMELONE Come back, the Lakers won the IST. Hope you're good dog.

 

[broncos19dm]

 

[usabasketball08]

That's crazy they was boo'n her, they must be mad she's dating a white man...

You really think it’s about her dating a white dude? There’s plenty of other stuff she would get booed for…