NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

yeah its dumb

Nba kinda fumbling it so far this season

Fuck the League making the Sixers play with essentially seven players but Boston and Houston getting postponed.

yeah doesnt make a lot of sense

Very dumb. There’s no fans so they should be able to be super flexible

they should pause the season for a month, this isn’t working

they shd go back to the bubble, the bubble was nice

They should let everyone who tests positive for covid ignore the protocols afterwards

The bubble was so awesome. I bet it would cost like 10M per day with all these teams. I think I saw that it cost the nba 1.5M per day with the og bubble.

Fuck the League making the Sixers play with essentially seven players but Boston and Houston getting postponed.

― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Sunday, January 10, 2021 5:00 PM (one hour ago)

the celtics game got postponed because avery bradley tested positive and they weren't able to determine before tip off who on the heat counted as a close contact and thus wasn't eligible to play. or else they were going to make the celtics play w/ that scrimmage roster

The top NBA headlines on ESPN right now is not a good look. pic.twitter.com/TNohGFdSax

— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) January 10, 2021

pretty disappointing to see the nba go down the nfl road

The Hawks say Bogdan Bogdanovic has been diagnosed with an avulsion fracture in his right knee with associated soft tissue inflammation and a bone bruise

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) January 10, 2021

the celtics game got postponed because avery bradley tested positive and they weren't able to determine before tip off who on the heat counted as a close contact and thus wasn't eligible to play. or else they were going to make the celtics play w/ that scrimmage roster

RMDE! The Sixers had a positive test plus multiple players quarantined as a result plus Embiid and Simmons out and only qualified for the 8 player minimum because Mike Scott technically was off IR but unavailable. Look at the box score and tell me the Sixers didn't play with a scrimmage roster (1 starter, 1 backup and 3 rookies started - 2 of them on 2-way rookie contracts). Everyone played almost 45 minutes!

Thomas Bryant thing really sucks, he’d come so far as a player. ACL tears aren’t the tragedy they used to be tho

I regret to inform you that the Minnesota Timberwolves have won a basketball game

just took my first long look at the conference standings and baby they're weird all right

pretty disappointing to see the nba go down the nfl road

Loving the arch on these pat williams shots.

Patrick Williams scored a career-high 17 points against the Clippers, showcasing his scoring versatility, timely passing vision and defensive chops pic.twitter.com/aYj0F2Sy6L

— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) January 11, 2021

he plays like a kawhi clone

zinger back tonight

no game though

The NBA's general managers have a conference call set today to discuss these issues with league today too, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/RtAvacSLmO

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 11, 2021

no game though

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, January 11, 2021 11:02 AM (seven seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh wow postponed

zinger is gonna get knee covid

want to give him the benefit of the doubt... but what's going on here

The Nets say Kyrie Irving is out again tomorrow.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) January 11, 2021

caris has been in his ear

Caris LeVert in the 3 games both Kyrie and KD didn’t play this season

31.0 PPG
5.3 RPG
9.0 APG
2.3 SPG
47% FG
39% 3P pic.twitter.com/UzU8IhSC9e

— Top Ball Coverage (@TopBallCoverage) January 9, 2021

Lol I wouldn’t be surprised. Gotta think there are some mixed emotions having prima donna superstars descend on your team. And with Kyrie’s just asking questions mindset I’d personally find it tempting to mess with him

suns losing by 26 to the wiz at halftime this season is wild as hell

i solemnly attest that i just saw dwight howard make a 3-pointer live and on television in a real nba game

He's made a couple this year so far.

Gordon Hayward is having an awesome season

back to the halcyon days of the '16-'17 jazz

happy for gordon i always knew he was good, also happy hes not on the celtics anymore

kyrie is really securing his place in the "troubled superstar" category here. just talk about it!

Kyrie pretty clearly needs help

raptors & blazers was maybe the first bit of entertaining endgame i've seen so far this year

CJ is cooking this season.

raptors now are tied with detroit for the worst record in the league 2-8

cj 2nd in war per KP and that was before tonight

Updated WARP leaderboard: pic.twitter.com/Aa3ZMUKmbj

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) January 11, 2021

bucks fans... pretend malcolm brogdon's name isn't on this list

cj making a leap this year was not at all in my expectations

shoulda know this fucking asshole

Sources with @Malika_Andrews: As the NBA is expected to begin examining online videos circulating of a maskless Kyrie Irving at a family birthday party, there’s no belief that he will return to the Brooklyn Nets lineup this week.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 12, 2021

i had money on him at least making it through to the all-star break, jeez

oops

hey maybe that's an indigenous thing too

lmao

lol!

if only he weren't so outrageously talented, it would be a lot easier to just go with "lol kyrie" but it's a bummer that he can't find at least enough balance in his life to not so regularly impact his playing career... it's not like he doesn't seem to be a guy with his heart mostly in the right place!

Kyrie Irving donated 1.5 million to WNBA players who opted out of the bubble this year, 323K to Feeding America, and partnered with an NYC charity to provide 250K meals. Maybe let’s not have a referendum on his character because he doesn’t want to talk to beat writers.

— Sean Keane (@seankeane) December 5, 2020

philanthropy as always doesnt say much about a very rich person

neither does playing hooky from work