NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

yeah

smh haters

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep8EW3LW8AYRtpY?format=jpg&name=large

welp

Several Houston Rockets, including John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and possibly more, are expected to miss tonight's season opener vs. OKC due to coronavirus contact tracing, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 23, 2020

expected it but not this early - damn

seems like there'll be some teams that improve their playoff seeding this season, simply by having fewer positive tests in their organization.

I thought Wiseman looked pretty good!

Very fluid and loads of energy I’m sold

There was a group of Houston players -- including Martin, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins -- away from the facility at an apartment getting haircuts, sources said. That's led to the contact tracing on Wall and Cousins as team awaits more testing results on Martin, sources said.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 23, 2020

getting haircuts vs going to the titty bar

shave and a hair cut
two tits

harden’s a child

On the second night of the NBA season, Houston could not field the minimum requirement of eight players in uniform

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) December 23, 2020

Game Postponed lol

wow really disappointed in Adam Silver coming out against women becoming bosses and putting their people in a position of success

whomst would be upset if he were just suspended for the season

Imo 70% of the league has had it by now

Harden might go down as the least liked all time great since Isiah Thomas

ESPN Sources: In the past 24 hours, Rockets rookie KJ Martin had one positive coronavirus test result followed by a negative test result -- and now awaits results of an additional test. https://t.co/9PR8XX0NZk

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 23, 2020

does anyone know anything about the tests they use? I assume it’s the PCR tests, in which case a positive is a true positive (unless they’d been previously infected). you can’t just test negative later that day or soon after and be “negative”

Cavs by 21 at the half!!!

poor Hornets

Enjoying the new Spurs jerseys and Keldon Johnson's aggression in the paint

Is it too late to worry that the Sixers best lineup tonight has neither Embiid nor Simmons?

This is the Zion we signed up for

jesus christ lmbooooo pic.twitter.com/tOIDHInUNg

— Karens In Paris (@NekiasNBA) December 24, 2020

Can you imagine letting Jimmy Butler go so you can keep Tobias Harris? SMH.

khris f'n middleton man. destroying the celtics again.

gonna be honest i still don’t understand why the celtics didn’t want to trade hayward for myles turner

Coby White looked good in the preseason. But I have concerns

hysterical ending

xp one theory that has been floated locally that i can at least somewhat understand is that the celtics place a huge premium on their big men setting a ton of good screens, and turner is reputationally a terrible screener.

that second free throw had no chance the second he released it. you could tell.

classic basketball game lol

thats what i call ball

watching thiess clank threes in crunch time while being left open by 12 feet i might disagree with the celtics on what they value in bigs

Love Jrue on the Bucks. Exact kind of player they need, mentality-wise.

xp yeah i'm with you but they do set a ridiculous amount of screens with the 5 every game. it's just a factor to consider. as much as you or i like him the rest of the league clearly is not breaking down the door to acquire myles turner.

the bucks have a lot of guys in their rotation where i’m like.... man, i guess

my read why they didnt want to trade for turner is just you know salary concerns, paying gordon hayward ~$30m is already dicey, having to take back that much salary for a quality starter and whoever else they throw in to make it match and going into the luxury tax for it, i can understand why theyd rather have thompson at $9m and a big trade exemption from signing and trading hayward

accountant shit, thats the nba baby!

spurs look...good right now! even tho ja is hanging a 40 piece on them

yes. pretty clear they liked thompson and the trade exception more than turner.

avoiding the lux tax is big in nba

brook lopez might be kind of done as an offensive player which isn't great for the bucks. only 4 fg attempts and 1/2 on threes tonight. he just doesn't really do much on that end anymore.

the funny thing abt brook lopez 3pt specialist is hes just not very good at it

it was really just that first season with the bucks where he was shooting 6 a game @ 36% and it was a real weapon. that's gone now.

Stoked with the Spurs performance tonight - despite having no answer to Morant, the young core has me excited. Athleticism, dunks, confident 3pt strokes, and some nice ball movement. The defence also looked a ton better than preseason, and Derrick White still to come back in. Happy holidays, hoopers!

yeah, you live with morant hitting those tough buckets in the paint, my god

if I had one slight concern I did expect Poeltl to defend a couple of Morant's drives better but it's early, early season

the morant highlights on twitter tonight are ridiculous

ja love

i’m a big lonnie fan... crazy athlete, he’s skilled and he can do stuff on defense

i liked the tristan signing and if they get a healthy kemba and can go kemba-smart-brown-tatum-tristan i think they’ll have a good chance. but turner looked good in the playoffs to me & trade exceptions are overrated anyway