The 2019-2020 Around the NBA thread

[Mainstreet]

telling ya... push Biden out of the way and run Silver for Pres!

Yeah, Silver knows how to run a league but he's never met a Mitch McConnell.

The NBA owners working relationship with the NBPA players is a case study of what cooperation can do.

 

[Adrian]

Heat are going to be a tough out in the east

 

[Adrian]

+1 for Dragic
Misses the free throw
40 seconds left to go

 

[Adrian]

Oh for cripes sakes with the game hanging in the balance. I get the black out rules. Haha

 

[1Sun]

After posting 53 to beat the Sixers, T.J. Warren just put up 36 and 14 while neutralizing Hachimura to carry the Pacers over the Wizards.

James Jones totally botched that one...

 

[Folster]

Wow!

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[Evil Ash]

Memphis is making sure that there is a play-in for the last spot in the west and they may not be a part of it.

 

[Mainstreet]

Memphis is making sure that there is a play-in for the last spot in the west and they may not be a part of it.

Yeah, they've lost four in a row. I wish the Suns had a better chance of making the 9th spot.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Yeah, they've lost four in a row. I wish the Suns had a better chance of making the 9th spot.

A shame that Ayton was suspended for 25 games.

 

[GatorAZ]

Wow!

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He is apparently a minister in Florida which he might be doing full time eventually considering the bevy of leg injuries he’s gone through at a young age.

 

[95pro]

Lakers Jazz

Conley can’t even guard Waiters, glad we didn’t end up with him

 

[GoldGloveschmidt]

The Spurs lost.. everything is coming together!

 

[Phrazbit]

The Spurs lost.. everything is coming together!

Seriously, literally every single game has gone the way we need it to. Crazy stuff.

Good thing too, because if the clippers bring their C game or above that is a hard get, a little buffer is nice.

Really sucks about Isaac blowing his knee out. Guy came back from a knee injury, less severe than Kelly’s, tears his acl, now he will likely miss all of next year too. Hard to picture Oubre taking much risk after seeing that disaster.

 

[Phrazbit]

$100 on the Suns to win it all at the beginning of all this would have made you a millionaire if they do it.

Kinda fair.

For the Suns to even make the post season we need the teams ahead of us to lose just about any time those teams are not facing eachother. On top of that, we will almost certainly be the 9th "seed" and therefore need to crank off back to back wins against the 8th "seed" to make the playoffs. And then you're looking at the odds of an 8th seed winning the title, something which has never come close to happening, I doubt a team with a losing regular season record has even made the semifinals.

 

[Mainstreet]

Kinda fair.

For the Suns to even make the post season we need the teams ahead of us to lose just about any time those teams are not facing eachother. On top of that, we will almost certainly be the 9th "seed" and therefore need to crank off back to back wins against the 8th "seed" to make the playoffs. And then you're looking at the odds of an 8th seed winning the title, something which has never come close to happening, I doubt a team with a losing regular season record has even made the semifinals.

So many things would have to go right for the Suns to even make the playoffs I don't allow myself to seriously entertain it. I watch the race but it's more like a fantasy.

 

[95pro]

Despite everything going right, we're still in the 13th spot. The winning percentages inch closer and closer.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Kinda fair.

For the Suns to even make the post season we need the teams ahead of us to lose just about any time those teams are not facing eachother. On top of that, we will almost certainly be the 9th "seed" and therefore need to crank off back to back wins against the 8th "seed" to make the playoffs. And then you're looking at the odds of an 8th seed winning the title, something which has never come close to happening, I doubt a team with a losing regular season record has even made the semifinals.

Although I agree with your point, the Suns have made this last sentence incorrect. We lost to a sub .500 Cotton coached KC Kings team who then lost the conference finals to the 40-42 Rockets. That team was coached by Del Harris and had at least three eventual Head Coaches on their roster (Dunleavy, Calvin Murphy and Tomjanovich) not to mention Moses Malone in the middle.

 

[elindholm]

And then you're looking at the odds of an 8th seed winning the title, something which has never come close to happening, I doubt a team with a losing regular season record has even made the semifinals.

The Knicks made the Finals in 1999 as an 8th seed, after going 27-23 in the regular season. But you're certainly correct that this year's Suns are not title contenders.

 

[Adrian]

Adrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn
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Grizzlies: Memphis F Jaren Jackson Jr., suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

 

[GatorAZ]

TJ Warren literally turned into MJ. He’s 7/7 and 3/3 from 3.

 

[BC867]

So many things would have to go right for the Suns to even make the playoffs I don't allow myself to seriously entertain it. I watch the race but it's more like a fantasy.

Even so, the Suns are starting to build a winning mentality for the future. That is a plus.

 

[Hoop Head]

Adrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn
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Grizzlies: Memphis F Jaren Jackson Jr., suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

You don't want to root for injuries or celebrate them when they happen but this is yet another thing that goes in the Suns favor.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Another 32 for Warren today. Dude is going freaking nuts in the bubble.

 

[Chaplin]

Another 32 for Warren today. Dude is going freaking nuts in the bubble.

He hasn’t faced Mikal Bridges yet.

 

[Cheesebeef]

He hasn’t faced Mikal Bridges yet.

bridges hasn’t exactly been lockdown in the bubble giving up 27 to Kawhi and 40 to Doncic.