NBA 2025-26 Season Thread: THE NY KNICKS ARE CHAMPIONS! BING BONG!
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
Local TV is 13%, tickets are 26%, concessions and parking are 8% of revenue. Pretty sure ownership is gonna care when you cut the number of home games from 41 to 35. https://x.com/Brooks_Gate/status/1813238...
Give the team with a better record homecourt in all the games in a series and they won't let anyone be rested though the year.
I have a solution for flops.
Give the refs the opportunity to stop the play to review a potential flop. If they determine it was a flop, then the floppers gets a tech.
I bet people would stop flopping!
games would take 7 hours
yeah review it after the game and give out incremental punishments
1st offense in a season - $50k fine
2nd offense - $50k fine + 1 game suspension
3rd offense - $100k fine + 3 game suspension
Each additional offense - $200k fine + 3 game suspension
Imagine Lebron getting his 3rd offense right before the playoffs and having to sit the first 3 games of the series.
yeah review it after the game and give out incremental punishments
1st offense in a season - $50k fine
2nd offense - $50k fine + 1 game suspension
3rd offense - $100k fine + 3 game suspension
Each additional offense - $200k fine + 3 game suspension
Imagine Lebron getting his 3rd offense right before the playoffs and having to sit the first 3 games of the series.
This is pointless, they just won't ever use it. You think the NBA wants Bron, SGA, and Brunson on the bench for games?
The solution is just to stop rewarding the action in-game. A guy dribbles into a defender and snaps his head back and to the left like he's JFK in Dallas? Play on. Guy runs into the lane with no attempt to make a shot and flips the ball vaguely towards the basket making full eye contact with the ref the whole time? Play on.
That's the only way it stops, when it stops being effective.
This is pointless, they just won't ever use it. You think the NBA wants Bron, SGA, and Brunson on the bench for games?The solution is just to stop rewarding the action in-game. A guy dribbles into a defender and snaps his head back and to the left like he's JFK in Dallas? Play on. Guy runs into the lane with no attempt to make a shot and flips the ball vaguely towards the baske
And how many actual fouls will get missed if they just "play on"?
In real time, flops can look pretty legit. It's only after the fact in reviewing the play, does it become obvious the player was flopping. But to onlydo2days point, reviewing them immediately is only going to cause the games to run longer.
Which is why I suggested doing it after the game. Regardless of when it happens, the players should be punished enough to hopefully deter future flopping.
And how many actual fouls will get missed if they just "play on"?In real time, flops can look pretty legit. It's only after the fact in reviewing the play, does it become obvious the player was flopping. But to onlydo2days point, reviewing them immediately is only going to cause the games to run longer.Which is why I suggested doing it after the game. Regardless of when it h
We have rules in place for post-game flopping reviews now, and they aren't used. It's just how it is. There are clear flops that get ignored because the NBA can find whatever excuse it wants, if it even feels it needs one, and just move on.
You have to stop the offensive player initiating contact and being rewarded, that will remove 80%+ of flopping since it won't be a foul anyway. Yeah, it's tough to officiate basketball games at the highest level, but that's their job.
Speaking of, the NBA assigned NY Native and Guy-who-doesn't-know-what-a-kicked-ball-is, Zack Zarba to Pacers-Knicks Game 1 tonight. Back the truck up on Knicks -4.5 if you haven't already.
neo-beard (brunson, obv) gon make yall lose your mind
upton here, upton here
anyway, yeah i really wish the refs would just no-call all this running into a guy and head-whip flopping ****, it always stops it pretty quick. and/or they could start assigning personal fouls for that kind of ridiculous embellishment
FIBA rules? Embiid.
Real rules? Probably Harden or Russ
Crazy that Joker should be a 5 time MVP right now
harden 2018
towns is getting worked bad on D
FIBA rules? Embiid.
Real rules? Probably Harden or Russ
Crazy that Joker should be a 5 time MVP right now
Can’t count Embiid.
In the new USA he could be deported anytime for not being born white in America.
If we are being technical.
Can’t count Embiid.
In the new USA he could be deported anytime for not being born white in America.
If we are being technical.
He pays too much in income taxes to be deported.
Gonna have to wait til he retires. Due to injury. Which will happen soon enough.
So it's the 4th quarter, and the Knicks are playing without Brunson. Because he has 5 fouls. Just voluntary self punishment.
Looks like they'll win anyways, but playing without your best player in the 4th quarter because you're scared you'll have to play without him if he gets another foul makes no sense.
But nobody questions this.
This is amazing.
