NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

:) how many games has embiid missed?

― k3vin k., Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Sixers are 23-7 with Embiid and 1-5 without him.

mvp discussion aside, its a regular season award, id take joker over embiid just cause ive witnessed embiid do too many untrustworthy things, you cant unsee someone getting owned by al horford over a continuum of years

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is fair. He's been owned by Mark Gasol and a couple of others as well, but this year he's dominated pretty consistently regardless of opponent. I've been plenty critical of Embiid's mental makeup, but he seems a lot more focused than in the past.

Embiid has had like 5 objectively bad games and Jokic has had 1. That’s a real difference tbh

Jokic is just a different animal this season. None of those lazy backcourt fouls off turnovers, pretty much always has a motor on defense. And obviously a scoring machine.

gotta say that all star draft last night was truly hilarious. the end was just perfect.

For all his faults MPJ appears to just be a guy who shoots 42% from three, with a lot being difficult quick release shots. So I’m just gonna live with everything. There’s never more than a handful of 6’10” guys like this in the league

doesnt help their defensive issues.

The Brooklyn Nets are believed to be leaders to sign six-time All-Star Blake Griffin, sources tell me and @JLEdwardsIII. Rival teams with interest are expecting Griffin to choose Nets as a title favorite for chance to win a championship.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 5, 2021

ok!

wolves schedule coming out of the break:

pelicans
blazers
blazers
lakers
suns
suns

when will our new coach win his first game? stay tuned to find out!

TIL that the Houston Rockets have lost 13 games in a row! their last win corresponds exactly to the last game Christian Wood played in lol. They are really primed to be stripped for whatever parts are left to strip.

yah they clearly are looking to make moves, i was wrong

feel like it's really tanking oladipo's trade value bcuz i can't imagine a single team feeling like he's a threat to resign there. he hasn't been playing well either, someone will prob be able to get him for a protected pick and some trade value

Yah i think they missed their window on getting anything in return for PJ too

Oladipo needs to fucking decide what team he’d be happy on

he's already said that it's miami but not sure they'll be in the market for a shooting guard with a fg% under 39.

i still think the heat getting him at the deadline makes a lot of sense. they're going to need to add to have any hope of winning two series in the playoffs, prob even one. the issue is they'd prob have to include iggy or olynyk to match salary and both are pretty integral to what they're doing right now, but i'd prob still roll the dice on the oladipo upside if i were them

Yah i think they missed their window on getting anything in return for PJ too

― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Friday, March 5, 2021 2:22 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's having a really rough year. seems like anyone who wants him is banking on him playing better with a better focal point around him

PJ’s 35, his skills prob age well but he might be cooked

:) how many games has embiid missed?

― k3vin k., Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Sixers are 23-7 with Embiid and 1-5 without him.

― perhaps I myself was the object of my search (PBKR), Friday, March 5, 2021 8:37 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

tough to provide value to your team when you don’t play!

good work if you can get it

The Pistons will have paid Blake Griffin and Josh Smith a boatload of money NOT to play for their team. 😳 pic.twitter.com/r0cxBBQ2gG

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) March 6, 2021

East All-Star Coach Doc Rivers says "it's not looking great" for Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons playing in tonight's All-Star Game due to contract tracing

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) March 7, 2021

welp

They're out.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31021929/sources-philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-ben-simmons-uncertain-all-star-game-due-contact-tracing

hinkie’s a mad genius

brilliant

...playing in tonight's All-Star Game due to contract tracing

contract tracing?

Constant contact cravings

putting the KD in kd lang

you guys

blake to nets?

can't believe this is the *nineteenth* year for the skills challenge, i'm a lot older than i used to be it turns out!

cp no skills

Nikola Vucevic sends Chris Paul to 0-5 in his Skills Challenge appearances 😳pic.twitter.com/a8NiuIrmAZ

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) March 8, 2021

just can't get it done in the clutch

never made it to the finals

watching steph curry shoot three pointers is such a joy

makes the 3pt line look close

zion 3 missed dunks in a row smh

turned it on, saw that, flipped away to something else

steph hit a standstill shot from like 5 feet inside the half court line

Giannis has been pretty fun to watch huh

that per quarter score/charity thing only tricked the players into trying for one year lol

anfernee simons has the weirdest thousand yard stare

could be spending a bunch of your late adolescence playing basketball with a dude like dame could be not great for your emotional development

simons pick finally paying off

simons is into talking about jumping high

[anyone dunks]

kenny: that's a 50

TBH this wasn’t the most exciting Slam Dunk competition I’ve ever seen. 🤷🏾‍♂️

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) March 8, 2021

shocking tweet from magic

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The time approaches.

Steph dame and cp made that game watchable. The end of the first half when Steph and CP went b2b alleyoops then Steph and dame went back to back half court shots was so fun. Jokic prancing around was fun too.

This Steph-LeBron pic 😭 #NBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/ITVcZM87k3

— ESPN (@espn) March 8, 2021

it was funny when all the little guys dunked