NBA 2025-26 Season Thread: THE NY KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS! BING BONG!

Julius Randle PLAYOFF PERFORMER, well I'll be damned.
avg 24ppg in playoffs.
29/8/5 tonight on 13/18 fg.

Looks like both teams (NYK/MIN) won the trade after all. Timberwolves closed the regular season Really strong.

classic Chilltown post. I expect nothing less than such excellence from you!

does the WCF start sunday if OKC wins tomorrow?

Gobert twice as many WCF appearances as KG.

David Locke is the Jazz radio announcer (I’m biased but he’s really good; Chuck D likes him. The Jazz TV guys…well….), and he’s been banging the drum about kids playing too much since AD and Jabari started going down. No different than all the little leaguers getting Tommy John.

Tell me more about the funny duck decanter tho

So maybe the load managers are right?

He got comfortable. He would've been good on knicks this year to. He had no experience on knicks and was around a pretty bad teams plus with brunson year He was in first year with brunson. Randles VERY undervalued in his career.

If I had to guess I’d say Tatum was over-pressing and thus playing too many minutes in Knicks series with a calf issue, possibly even a balky calf.

Nico Harrison had Luka and Jalen Brunson on his team when he came in right in his first year right ?
Now he got the 1st round pick .

What are the odds he will screw this up too ?

Mavs want to acquire a point guard since Kyrie won’t be back til January.

Hard to mess up a consensus #1 pick.

Nuggets 108 - OKC 104

We’re going to Game 7 baybee!!!

I took think Jokic gets it done tonight. But they probably get their doors blown off in game 7.

It should be a fun one, and as a side note that turn around 3 he made on Chet was one of the more incredible shots I've seen. Just absurd

Kaminga made himself some money in the last 3 games.

It was. Steph hit 2-3 in the precovid OKC series that ARE the best I’ve ever seen.

Right off the bat they could go to a 66 game schedule. I’ll be in the NBA when that happens.

There's a significant body of scientific research that overwhelmingly supports the load managers being right. It couldn't possibly be any clearer or more one-sided. The "evidence" that the league recently provided against to support their participation policy was from one study produced by scamming *******s on their payroll.

Nice AI picture of Denver there, ESPN.

Is there a Sonics banner hanging in OKC’s arena? First time I’ve seen the “going for second championship in franchise history” narrative. Obviously pressure from Silver & owners to normalize franchise moves and extort new arenas from America’s seniors & working families.

Gotta love SAS giving Minny the kiss of death. Bet everything you can on Denver winning the series while you still can.

Looks like there’s a variety available.

who else is even injured other than tatum to make this an epidemic situation? steph pulling something at age 37? that's probably part of the problem too, guys playing longer than ever. wasn't long ago players were washed and out of the league at like 30. seems like most years have more injuries than this, like that one woyas ship when like everyone they played was missing their 2 best players.

anyway, i'm with the increased running and physicality as a factor, but some of that other stuff seems totally bunk. the schedule isn't worse, it's usually been an every other day thing. health, nutrition, training and load management, etc are all better, travel is easier with private planes and stuff. obv the celtics should have managed tatum better since he's played that much, but idk about the rest of it.

fewer games would be good, but i doubt it'll ever happen because money. best they'll probably do is something symbolic like going down to 80 in the regular season and/or maybe go back to a best-of-5 first round, and a few more days between games here and there.

Fingers crossed the nets are stupid enough to agree to a S&T for that shitass

Gotta be in Utah since it's the only place that it is taking by storm