***Official 2023-2024 NBA Thread***

[dirk digler]

Can't believe the NBA Season is starting tonight. Way to early but here we go.

Lakers vs Nuggets: 6:30PM

Suns vs Warriors: 9PM

Both on TNT

[RealSNR]

The shitshow is over.

We're now back to watching real basketball teams like the Timberwolves.

[BWillie]

Lost alot of respect for Damian Lilliard. NBA ASG being played in Indiana...Haliburton makes hisbfirst 5 threes and then Lilliard decides hes gonna shoot 23 three pointers to steal the MVP from the hometown kid.

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

What a joke of a basketball game....the NBA all star game.

If this is what it has come to, just end it.

211-186

Good Grief

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

What a joke of a basketball game....the NBA all star game.

If this is what it has come to, just end it.

211-186

Every year people bitch & complain about All-Star Weekend and then like 10 minutes after it's over they forget about it and return to their usual MJ-LeBron debates.

— Barry (@BarryOnHere) February 19, 2024

[FloridaMan88]

Re-watched the 1991 NBA All Star Game… the East won 116-114.

Starting 5 for the East… Isiah Thomas, MJ, Larry Bird, Barkley, and Ewing.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

Re-watched the 1991 NBA All Star Game… the East won 116-114.

Starting 5 for the East… Isiah Thomas, MJ, Larry Bird, Barkley, and Ewing.

Yeah they weren't very smart back then. Not sure why you would exert yourself in a meaningless All Star Game.

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Lost alot of respect for Damian Lilliard. NBA ASG being played in Indiana...Haliburton makes hisbfirst 5 threes and then Lilliard decides hes gonna shoot 23 three pointers to steal the MVP from the hometown kid.

I used to respect Lillard until he tried to piss and moan to get traded to Miami in the offseason. A lot of the top level stars have this sense of entitlement to play where they want when they want.

[staylor26]

Reason # 100003948583723 why I hate Lebron:

How it started:



How it's going:



Imagine putting an insane amount of pressure on your kid, then telling ESPN journalists to "let him be a kid" when they're literally just doing their ****ing job and trying to be objective.

The entitlement is crazy.

[KC_Connection]

Now you're hating on the guy for being a proud father and hyping his son up. Overhyping, sure, but he wouldn't be the first father to do that.

When and where will it end?

[Sassy Squatch]

Yeah, he's a ****ing idiot for how he's handled that whole situation. It's not the medias fault your kid isn't currently draftable.

[KC_Connection]

Also, that particular ESPN mock draft of Giovany's was never objective. There was only one reason that Bronny was ranked at #10 last year and #39 this year and it isn't because his play at any level of basketball merited either of those positions. He's clearly a 4 year college player at best if he is anybody else's son.

I don't actually expect LeBron himself to accept that himself though and I don't get hating on him for having undue faith in his son.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Now you're hating on the guy for being a proud father and hyping his son up. Overhyping, sure, but he wouldn't be the first father to do that.

When and where will it end?

Per usual, when discussing Lebron, you're completely incapable of having an honest discussion.

The issue isn't the first tweet. The issue is the hypocrisy of the 2nd.

He put all this pressure on his son, now when an ESPN journalist is just doing his job, it's "let him be a kid!".

Dude is a walking ****ing show.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

Per usual, when discussing Lebron, you're completely incapable of having an honest discussion.

The issue isn't the first tweet. The issue is the hypocrisy of the 2nd.

He put all this pressure on his son, now when an ESPN journalist is just doing his job, it's "let him be a kid!".

Dude is a walking ****ing show.

Make no mistake, there's gonna be pressure on Bronny regardless of what LeBron tweets by virtue of who his father is. ESPN's top draft analyst labeled him a top 10 pick last year based on effectively nothing to do with his basketball ability. Hell, ESPN started showing a bunch of USC games (a garbage team) in primetime this year for no other reason than that.

It's unfortunate for the kid but if he wanted to be treated as a normal college athlete, he should have played a different sport.

[Sassy Squatch]

Seriously. Even LeBron knew that was in poor taste, and that's why he almost immediately deleted it.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch

Seriously. Even LeBron knew that was in poor taste, and that's why he almost immediately deleted it.

EXACTLY.