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Knicks will be fine. They've still got 2 more to seal it, plus they're clearly the better team. They also won't sweat Rd. 2 since they're better than either the Pacers or Bucks regardless of whether or not Giannis/Dame come back

I don't know if they are "clearly the better team," vegas has them almost exactly even

NYK were 66% in G2 when Embiid was questionable after the G1 injury, and were 62% last night

Sixers were 63% in G3 and 63% again in G4, and are currently 59% in G6

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05-01-2024 , 11:16 AM

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Embaad did literally nothing to deserve glory

Maxey on the other hand wowowowwowow

Thought he was huge in OT - especially defensively. Definitely got bailed by Maxey because he'd have been getting some bad heat with all those turnovers in the 4th Q

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05-01-2024 , 01:02 PM

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Minnesota takes care of Denver, right?

I'm considering betting the series.

Hmm this Nuggets hate lately is kinda funny. They have a top 10 all time player at his peak.

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05-01-2024 , 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by FreakDaddy

Lakers need to reverse engineer all the bad decisions and who was involved over the last few years. I was always suspect that once Kobe died, Pelinka didn't have the sounding board he needed to find the correct pieces that would fit together. Because once Kobe was gone, 90% of the decisions after the 2020 championship were extremely bad.

Once they reverse engineer and clear house of the people poisoning the well, they need to set clear objectives on what type of team they want to be, and what kind of players fit that mold. The last couple of years have been a desperate hodgepodge of players, trying to salvage what they can from the Westbrook disaster.

It's actually amazing the success the Lakers have had despite having a poor and cheap owner. The Buss family is not Balmer. Just goes to show how inept the Clippers management was from the beginning. I don't see the Lakers being relevant for a long time unless there is an ownership change.

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05-01-2024 , 04:31 PM

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Hmm this Nuggets hate lately is kinda funny. They have a top 10 all time player at his peak.

Yeah, I get the recency bias of Wolves/Nuggs but I could see game 1 being a Roy Jones Jr "Yall musta forgot" game and Denver beats the Wolves by more than all their wins over the Lakers combined.

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05-01-2024 , 04:37 PM

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Mitchell Robinson has previously talked about wanting to be DPOY (like in the offseason).

DPOY? Nah. More like DPOSOY.

Dumbest Piece of **** of the Year. His boneheaded foul on Maxey, biting on a head pump fake???? And then giving him 10 feet of space when everyone and their grandmother knows Maxey has 40 foot range meanwhile the Knicks incredibly likely win the ****ing game if they dont give up a 3.

I’m done with this ****ing moron. I want him traded in the offseason.

He actually did play a great 4th quarter defensively. Think he forced 3 turnovers on Embiid, shut him down, kept him off the line.

But he shouldn't have been out there when the Sixers clearly need a 3 with 30 seconds left. Especially on a bum ankle.

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05-01-2024 , 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by muttiah

Hmm this Nuggets hate lately is kinda funny. They have a top 10 all time player at his peak.

i see your top-10 oat player at his peak and raise you an ant-man possessed by the spirit of MJ

should be a great series. nugs will make wolves offense more pedestrian than they were against the lazy suns and won't let them feast on the glass. hoping gobert can neutralize jokic a bit.

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05-01-2024 , 06:35 PM

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thought i saw something a while back about how gobert was one of the most effective players against joker, but then joker torched him last time they met in the playoffs? so maybe he figured it out ... or i'm misremembering this whole thing idk

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05-01-2024 , 08:14 PM

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Herro can’t guard anyone lol

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05-01-2024 , 08:19 PM

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the hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, toughest, meanest, nastiest team in the nba getting their **** pushed in rn. big time

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05-01-2024 , 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by muttiah

I don't see the Lakers being relevant for a long time unless there is an ownership change.

ngl, it moved

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05-01-2024 , 09:29 PM

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Knicks fans aren't insufferable. They're passionate. People from New York live, eat, and breathe basketball. NYC is a basketball mecca of a city.

But haters gonna hate and they elevate our status. That's just a fact of life.

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05-01-2024 , 10:03 PM

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Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!

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05-01-2024 , 10:48 PM

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You wish the Celtics had a catchy theme song like that.

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05-01-2024 , 10:55 PM

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rickroll

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mcmuffin, you're gm of the knicks for an hour

there's no salary considerations

no draft pick considerations

every gm in the NBA wants brunson - you can do a straight up 1-1 trade for any player in the league

which players would do the trade for?

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05-01-2024 , 11:17 PM

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Jokic.

Spoiler:

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05-01-2024 , 11:36 PM

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rickroll

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damn, i knew you were high on him but didn't know that high

no tatum? no wemby? no kyle lowry?

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05-02-2024 , 12:26 AM

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damn, i knew you were high on him but didn't know that high

no tatum? no wemby? no kyle lowry?

how could I forget kyle lowry? i'm kinda out of it.

yeah obv wemby, prolly luka. Tatum is the biggest fraud in the league.

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05-02-2024 , 04:04 AM

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05-02-2024 , 06:23 AM

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Fultz for Brunson seems fair

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05-02-2024 , 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin

Lebron is getting a great deal on an expansion team in Vegas for the 2026-27 season. It will line up with his retirement.

Little chance he leaves LA but his title equity would significantly increase with Maxey, Embiid, and Morey.

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05-02-2024 , 09:58 AM

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His title equity would increase in Philly but only for the fact that its infinitely easier to win a title coming out of the East where you only need to win 2 coin flips as opposed to coming out of the West where you essentially need to win 3-4 coin flips, not because of Embiid. AD has been the second best playoff performer this postseason and has been a top 3-4 playoff performer essentially every single season that he's been healthy whereas Embaad has never had a single postseason where he's been a top 3 playoff performer.

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05-02-2024 , 11:32 AM

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I would take Embiid over AD and that's not even mentioning Maxey or the $20 million in additional cap space they'd have after Lebron. Morey has a ton of flexibility this summer. If he gets Lebron or Paul George he will build a top 3 title equity team this summer.

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05-02-2024 , 01:52 PM

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Lebron should just be like "**** it I'm going for 6" and sign with Philly.

Embid/Maxey/Lebron would be a great trio. He fits with them too (though he obviously would fit on almost every team).

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