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Yeah he seems like a chill guy but it only feels right for the number one to actually/finally be someone who was at least mostly playing in the best league on earth Kinda wondering how Muslim basketball players in the NBA generally perform during Ramadan. It's a weird thought but I blame Nurk.
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Lockback posted:Last year the west 9/10 was OKC and Pelicans who were both pretty good, and the Bulls/Toronto who were flawed teams but not neccessarily sucking absolute rear end. Chicago almost beat the Heat in the 2nd play in game and the Heat made it to the Finals. Even the most flawed play-in match-ups afford us delightful entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n64KQc0ybGk&t=23s
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kalensc posted:Even the most flawed play-in match-ups afford us delightful entertainment: Yeah, this basically pays for like 10 years of play in games by itself.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Yeah he seems like a chill guy but it only feels right for the number one to actually/finally be someone who was at least mostly playing in the best league on earth I never noticed a dip in play with Kanter when he was a double double machine off the bench
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Yeah he seems like a chill guy but it only feels right for the number one to actually/finally be someone who was at least mostly playing in the best league on earth Hakeem Olajuwon was famously very good during Ramadan.
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Lockback posted:Yeah, this basically pays for like 10 years of play in games by itself.  The Diar game was so much fun to watch live, just initially thinking I was going crazy when the screaming started. And it worked!!! Justifies the whole play in for a while. Also never forget https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1647007546568241154?s=20
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https://twitter.com/TimBontemps/status/1768341584200737002
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Mar 14, 2024 19:25
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drat my man needs microscopic penis surgery
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Mar 14, 2024 19:26
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rip ben, it rules that you got to play so little basketball but get paid so much money
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John Romero posted:drat my man needs microscopic penis surgery aint nothing wrong with being a cherry tomato boy
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Toronto solved racism but in exchange little girls turn them into raging man babies
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It feels like for my entire life the west has been stacked, making the play-in more interesting. I wonder if adding a Vegas and Seattle team out west and shifting Minnesota out east would actually rebalance the conferences. The Lakers and Warriors are also heading for a rebuild, but so many teams out east are in rough shape.
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John Romero posted:drat my man needs microscopic penis surgery A true Philly legend
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Punkin Spunkin posted:
demar is from compton and vince staples says he knows people who know people so i'm sure diar will be fine if the bulls ever make it back to the play in
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https://x.com/wojespn/status/1768347377159803007?s=20 By standard Bulls Injury Math, Coby's hip replacement surgery will be announced by Easter.
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Mar 14, 2024 20:05
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Spacebump posted:Didn't realize LeBron was about to break this record. No, the record is Regular season + Playoffs + All-star games + International LeBron's total for all of that is 48,410
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hifi posted:Post asb the blazers are 2-3 without him and 1-4 with him.
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Going by standard english orthography Diar should be pronounced like Die-er. Going by AAVE naming orthography it's DEE-ARH I dont know how its actually pronounced though
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DeimosRising posted:the play in IS the bubble. literally every season now comes down to the final two games to see who makes the playoffs Which devalues the other 82, to me.
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Just retire already
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toggle posted:Just retire already And lose all the money and health care?? Not a chance
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I can’t believe that guy is such a faker he manifested holes in his spine.
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Ben can still come back and be useful I believe in you Ben
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He gets really good seats at the games!
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Rick posted:I can’t believe that guy is such a faker he manifested holes in his spine. The sixers demand the doctors let them observe the surgery
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Red Rox posted:He gets really good seats at the games! lmao
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Rick posted:I can’t believe that guy is such a faker he manifested holes in his spine. he's still faking, just so committed to the bit that he got a spinal surgery he didn't need to keep up appearances
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Mar 14, 2024 21:41
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A microscopic partial discectomy is barely even surgery Pft. Small price to pay to keep cashing checks
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The spine is part of the nervous system which the brain is also part of so this is just more mental health bullshit he's spewing. Just suck it up Ben.
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The Glumslinger posted:No, the record is Regular season + Playoffs + All-star games + International Ah. I still think it is slightly higher than 48,410 though. 48,410 looks like it is just his NBA (regular season + playoffs) and Olympic points. That leaves out the 06 World Championship and 07 FIBA Americas. I think Schmidt's numbers may include international exhibition games. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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Spacebump posted:Ah. I still think it is slightly higher than 48,410 though. 48,410 looks like it is just his NBA (regular season + playoffs) and Olympic points. That leaves out the 06 World Championship and 07 FIBA Americas. I think Schmidt's numbers may include international exhibition games. Yeah, that definitely doesn't include 06 or 07 international play, and I accidentally lost his ASG points as well So, then based on those numbers, I think he is up to 49152 + however much you would get from the exhibition games (and also preseason maybe???)
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I like the play in because it gives more teams some kind of postseason hope to care about, which means there are less teams with nothing to do but mark off calendar days until the lottery. Maybe a downside of this is that spots 7-9 on the roster are less competitive than they may have been when 8 was a hard cutoff, but the trade off is getting more competition at 9-11 with those teams having at least some incentive to win late season games. There are always going to be three or four trash teams in each conference who have long since secured enough losses to claim top lottery spots, and getting in that bottom five is valuable enough to convince teams they should lose late season games on purpose, like the Mavs did last year. The play in at least makes it so that at most five teams can reach the end of a season knowing in advance that their season ends at game 82 regardless of how many games they win. The other ten teams have an 83rd game on the calendar and an opportunity for more if they can win games. Teams at #9 and #10 may not hustle so hard as they might have for a top eight cutoff but they're also not gonna shut it all down if they come up short. We lose out on situations where two or three or four teams' every game in the last two weeks is a do or die battle for #8 or nothing but we also don't have situations where you have somewhere between seven and nine bad-to-mediocre teams either out of contention for the playoffs or holding onto the eighth seed by virtue of the others not bothering to compete for it. The play in game extending the range of playoff eligible seeds also has a nice effect of working as a second chance system for teams who are better than their regular season record indicates, maybe because they suffered through some bad injury luck, maybe because they started putting things together too late in the season to affect seeding. If you're a team like the Heat who fell to #8 last year, the old system put a lot of pressure on you to do everything possible to hold that spot or else get eliminated by the #9 team hunting for you. With the play in format the Heat can see a few weeks in advance that they will make the play in, all they need to do to make the playoffs then is beat one team worse than them in one game that matters. Or look at the Lakers last year who were out of the top 8 entirely for most of the year and even seemed out of the play in picture until they traded Westbrook, found success with their late season acquisitions and took that success all the way to the western conference finals.
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EoinCannon posted:Ben can still come back and be useful So you're saying I should keep him in my fantasy squad?
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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1768378927813390343 Goat
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The great ones tell their spine holes "not today"
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Punkin Spunkin posted:
meanwhile all Chris Paul's kids have their schoolmates approaching them to say "you know your dad will never win a ring, right?"
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Lockback posted:The spine is part of the nervous system which the brain is also part of so this is just more mental health bullshit he's spewing. Just suck it up Ben. 
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Fouls are way down, especially 3 in the key, since the ASG. https://x.com/tomhaberstroh/status/1768336445142372436?s=20
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Booker wore his signature shoes tonight, which appear to have sections fashioned out of goat hide?
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