NBA 2025-26 Season Thread: THE NY KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS! BING BONG!
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
What the actual **** Siakam
Two hilarious "Punished by the Basketball Gods" moments last night:
-TOR pulls their starters while up in final few minutes because they're blatantly trying to tank. Ja'Kobe Walter just says "**** your tank" and hits the game winning 3 for TOR anyway.
think they just did it again. down 1, layup at the buzzer literally last split second. didn't recognize any names on the court. nobody beats the wiz? lol
Pacers down one with ~7 seconds left. Foul Trae who hits 2 FTs. No TOs, they run the ball up the court and ATL doesn't foul...so Pascal just takes the ball on for a dunk to cut the Hawks' lead to 1 with 0.5 seconds is left.
Best bit was every other players "wait...wat" expression
I got a push notification that Jokic dropped a 30/20/20?!?
That’s truly astounding.
In 20 years they will say:
« you can’t have those numbers unless you play vs plumbers ».
« The guy wasn’t that athletic much anyway , thats proof and look at the « overweight » second (?) best player in the league .
Clearly No skills at all …lol »
How those words ring true from the past ain’t it ?
Nah. Hopefully they change the rules back to normalish where people can put back in perspective how hard it is to get a triple double.
In 20 years they will say:
« you can’t have those numbers unless you play vs plumbers ».
« The guy wasn’t that athletic much anyway , thats proof and look at the « overweight » second (?) best player in the league .
Clearly No skills at all …lol »
How those words ring true from the past ain’t it ?
Joker is the plumber.
Going by public opinion, sounds like SGA has locked up MVP tonight.
Can't be mad and well deserved.
Got to say kudos to the NBA for coming up with an award title with a vague definition so everyone on the media gets to argue about who the real MVP is endless given the lack of definition. Product gets talked about
Had the award been called BPITL or anything more factual, nobody would think SGA should be the winner
The NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1955–56 season to the best performing player of the regular season.
is that the official that we're rocking with? if so i like it better than the "most valuable to their team" one that some other awards have iirc. seems simple, which player had the best season
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It just make me remember how people talk about bird in the 80s.
Pretty sure Bird actually did his own plumbing though. He injured his back working on his driveway or something.
Too, too bad about Junior Bridgeman passing. He was one of the coolest, coolest silky smooth Louisville players from the very early Crum era. I might compare him to Bob Love, Bobby Dandridge, Marques Johnson, Jamaal Wilkes of the era. Played when salaries were nothing compared to today, but was some kind of titan businessman afterward amassing massive wealth.
I think he hit the shot that put them up 1 against UCLA in the Final Four for Louisville to play UK in the finals. What a spectacle that was for a Kentucky boy. Somebody hit at the buzzer for the Bruins dynasty, maybe Richard Washington to win 75-74. Gonna look it up. Nope Bridgeman missed at the buzzer to win in regulation, Wesley Cox scored last for the Cardinals in the O.T. Classic, classic Louisville Dudes.
How are these SGA seasons much different than Jordan, except that he shoots a considerably higher percentage?
Too, too bad about Junior Bridgeman passing. He was one of the coolest, coolest silky smooth Louisville players from the very early Crum era. I might compare him to Bob Love, Bobby Dandridge, Marques Johnson, Jamaal Wilkes of the era. Played when salaries were nothing compared to today, but was some kind of titan businessman afterward amassing massive wealth. I think he hit the
Rest in Peace Mr. Bridgeman.
From what I read about him, he was a great businessman and an even better human being.
How are these SGA seasons much different than Jordan, except that he shoots a considerably higher percentage?
How many dunk contest titles does Shai have?
How are these SGA seasons much different than Jordan, except that he shoots a considerably higher percentage?
there's a massive stat inflation now
the game has changed dramatically
jordan never played in college with a 3 point shot line, it had only recently made its way to the nba prior to his arrival
games were much slower
rules favored the defense much more than today
we're getting 100 possessions per game today vs 91 in jordan's era
points per posession were much lower then as well without so many 3s
Larry Bird, a man who was synonymous with 3 point accuracy led the lead twice with 82 and 90 made
last year 90 3s would have put you tied for 139th best with such legends as Brandin Podziemski, Marcus Sasser, & RJ Barret, 82 would tie you for 157th, just below centers Nikola Jokic, Trey Lyles, & Kevin Love
there's massive stat inflation which is why DeMar DeRozan is 27th all time in scoring
How are these SGA seasons much different than Jordan, except that he shoots a considerably higher percentage?
FWIW , during mj era you had around 20-25 players with 20ppg+ .
The last 3 season it’s around 50 players that score 20ppg shrug .
SGA's numbers not near Jordan based on all the advanced stats, but clearly better than Kobe's.
Too, too bad about Junior Bridgeman passing. He was one of the coolest, coolest silky smooth Louisville players from the very early Crum era. I might compare him to Bob Love, Bobby Dandridge, Marques Johnson, Jamaal Wilkes of the era. Played when salaries were nothing compared to today, but was some kind of titan businessman afterward amassing massive wealth. I think he hit the
He is one of the owners of where I work, he came through shortly after taking ownership and he wanted to talk to us employees one on one but our managers were like oh no, no time kinda thing as they were worried we were going to say bad things and he was like no, I want to talk to them not as a owner or boss but as a human.
I have never heard 1 bad thing about him. A good interview with Charles Barkley and he talks about him about how he was a smart business guy and a good human being.
Not to address your larger point, but this isn't really true. Yeah, hand checking was certainly a thing in MJ's day vs. now, but so was illegal defense. Being unable to run any time of zone everyone remembers, but the limits on basically any sort of roaming/shading on defense were massive for Jordan.
Most top NBA talents can beat their guy 1-on-1, but in the 90s, you had to keep a guy glued to some 20% 3 pt shooter on the weak side because if he came down to the opposite block it was illegal defense and a tech.
