Brian
@BrianJNBA
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Sunrise Parabellum Bisexual socialist, NBA Draft analyst. Bulls/Bears/Cubs/Pro Wrestling
Gondolin, Before the Fall
Joined February 2021
Brand new big board. Top three tiers in order, then tier 4 sorted into three groups, which are alphabetically sorted
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there's a real argument to be made that the thing that is "wrong" with the NBA is that for the most part, they have solved the sport.
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I believe that belongs to Mr. Gilmore!.
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Really inspiring to see a five star recruit who went to Duke and got drafted by the Boston Celtics overcome the odds.
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the Blazers aren't good at all and they're out here doing shit that if the 1985 Lakers did it, you'd see on every highlight tape forever.
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Ja is pretty easily the least impactful defender of any of the main MVP candidates.
I prefer my MVP candidates who impact the defensive end of the floor too. Defense is a skill too. Thanks @JaMorant
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Luka Garza has now passed Joel Embiid on the career Conference Finals scoring list.
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Suns opened up the Free Agency tab on 2k and just signed every 73 OVR player there.
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For a superstar, Kyrie gets away with having this kind of game a whole lot, huh.
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just once I would like an athlete in this position to say "we were supposed to win and we did," cowards the lot of them.
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this is generational levels of cope. We won't see the like again for a decade.
Dame carried his kids from the car to the arena so he wasn’t able to wave at Bucks fans that waited 3 hours for him to arrive because he showed up late. His heart isn’t in this, man
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@S_Reed1999 I actually mostly like Jayson, it's just annoying to see every athlete position themselves as the underdog. They won 64 games.
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They are replacing basketball courts with pickleball ones. Fallen empire.
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I didn't realize this got so much traction, I want to make it clear that this line of thinking tends to only really exist in people who *only* watch the NBA. Basketball is fine. It will be fine forever. It will never end or die and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Basketball fans on twitter:
Ant-Man get a ring. we gonna have some uncomfortable questions about where Harden is ranked.
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It's very strange and funny that this Nuggets team, kind of sweetly inoffensive and mostly full of seemingly normal dorks, is the one that has fully shattered Lakers' exceptionalism.
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Zach LaVine has 66 points in 67 minutes on 36 shots so far this year.
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After a man starts dressing like this he never wears a different fit again in his life
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Bron's lack of ability to judge talent is progressing past "funny weakness" and into "tragic Greek flaw".
LeBron James would be very enthused by the prospect of Mark Jackson landing the Lakers head coaching job, sources tell @sam_amick. Jackson, an NBA analyst on ESPN, coached the Warriors from 2011-2014. More:
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I always enjoy when Americans go to Europe and remark on the "architecture" but we don't even mean like Notre Dame or anything. Just that there are building over there that were built out of real materials and meant to last more than 50 years.
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what sort of complete degenerate is wearing Rise of Skywalker merch in public? Truly satanic behavior.
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The Chicago Bulls are the perfect American business: entire reputation based on something that happened accidentally 30 years ago, zero investment in new infrastructure, using cheaper and cheaper materials, a hollow brand name that provides no value.
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*sees an office building built out of something that isn't drywall and prefab sheet concrete*. wow the craftsmanship is incredible.
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"Actually, Jokic shouldn't be MVP because stats are meaningless. And here's the stats that say Embiid should be MVP. Numbers are made up. I am very smart.".
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against teams who currently have better records than them, the Bulls are. 5-6 with Lonzo Ball.0-10 without Lonzo Ball.
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fascinating window into the minds of professional/journalist class weirdos, who seem to earnestly think that you can just become an NBA level basketball player by getting "some training," like an electrician.
this is the meanest thing anyone has ever said about steve kerr and i'm including the time arizona state fans taunted him about his dad's murder
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Conceptually, the idea of Giddey as a big hub style guard kind of works as long you insulate him with a bunch of athletes and shooters on the wings. The Bulls legitimately do not employ a SF and are maybe the least athletic and worst shooting team in the league.
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I wish I could enjoy having three of the best playoff games I have ever seen on three consecutive days, but knowing that the NBA profit margins will drop by 0.002% because of the lack of big market teams makes every consecutive game turn to ash in my mouth.
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@KyleMalang84940 @S_Reed1999 maybe he shouldn't have shot like 4-26 in all those important games then.
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I think you could put like Monte Morris on a 16 seed and they'd at least make the second weekend.
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2022-23 Assist to Turnover Ratio leaders among qualified guards. 1 Monte Morris, WAS.2 Tyus Jones, WAS.3 Chris Paul, WAS.
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wait does USC think that the Trojans were inside the Trojan Horse.
cleared for takeoff and ready for battle. it's the Arrival of the Trojan. ✈️🗡️✌️🔥
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I am calling for a general ban on people saying they see "a lot of SGA" in a guard prospect. No you don't.
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The three times Summer League means something. 1) when a rookie dominates.2) when a 2nd year guy dominates.3) when a 3rd year guy does not domimate.
Summer League doesn't mean anything except when Jordan Miller drops 30 while the rest of his team is 11-42 from the field.
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He would have been #1 for me in every draft I've covered save maybe 2018 and maybe 2025.
Amen Thompson is averaging 17 PPG-11 RPG-4 STKs on 63 TS% as a starter but look at some of these passes man
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I think the lesson from today is that Woj and Shams are not newsmakers, they're barely even newsbreakers. They are mere the last and most visible link in a chain that extends far beyond their influence.
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Kyle Anderson pump faked in the corner with no one defending him and then just walked to the rim. It's like there's a time bubble around him.
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The only SL performances that truly matter are third year players who look bad. That is a 100% death knell.
good time to remember that summer league performance, good or bad, has almost zero predictive power for nba success so let’s enjoy the hoops and not get carried away.
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Time to play everybody's favorite game, Don't Get Banned From this Site (Super Double Extreme Hard Mode).
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So the final tally on the Bulls' decision to not sell at the deadline. Out: DeMar DeRozan, Andre Drummond, Alex Caruso. In: Josh Giddey, Chris Duarte, two unspecified 2nd rounders.
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"did the NBA make a mistake by even holding a playoff this year".
kinda wanna see what the national coverage is like if both LA teams get eliminated lol.
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Nobody has ever deserved to get overpaid by an NBA team more than Luol.
Royal Ivey: “Luol Deng has been funding this thing for four years out of his own pocket. He pays for gyms, hotels, plane tickets—everything. Kudos to Luol and the staff. We wouldn't have been able to put this team together without them.”.
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says a lot that there are like 12 players standing there but every single team official and security guard is trying to get in front of Steven Adams like he's a tiger that escaped from the zoo.
More of the verbal confrontation between Tee Morant & Shannon Sharpe
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What's even the point of calling a tech on Draymond in the first place if you're never going to call the second one. You're just appeasing him at that point, he knows he has complete free reign. It's like a sign to him to go even crazier.
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Cade Cunningham is now shooting .613 at the rim, .432 from three and .850 from the line.
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idk, I feel like if you are a person whose job it is to write about the NBA, there should be something you can find in team that made the Finals that is compelling.
Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix talks the Denver Nuggets media gripe. "they're just not a compelling team to talk about - to write about". Worth noting that @SIChrisMannix and his cohort are compelled by attention. And financial return. They peddle NBA sugar, not basketball.
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That was like a Dynasty Spurs win. Maybe only two guys actually played well and they still won going away. The wins Boston never seems to get this time of year.
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*watching Dame score 48 points in the ECF*. his heart isn't in this, man.
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NBA leaders in contested shots per game. 1) Evan Mobley 18.0.2) Robert Williams III 15.3.3) Jakob Poeltl 13.7.4) Jarrett Allen 13.0.5) Isaiah Stewart 12.7.6) Jaden McDaniels 12.3.7) Deandre Ayton 12.3.8) Steven Adams 12.3.9) Jonas Valanciunas 12.3.10) Jaren Jackson Jr 12.0.
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Says a lot that SGA can drop a 33-5-8-3-3 line on 11-22 shooting and nobody really reacts or remarks upon it.
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big day for people who have a child's relationship with art.
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looking at some rosters. The Bulls, Clippers and Jazz are officially in the "what are you trying to do, exactly" tier.
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The basketball scientists have finally created a white boy who is simply too powerful to be stopped.
Cooper Flagg tonight in his first game at Nike EYBL:. 52 points.12 rebounds
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It's incredibly disingenuous to say that any NBA player is "stealing" their contract, these people uproot their entire lives to be paid cents on the dollar for their team's value. That being said Tristan Thompson is committing fraud and needs to be brought to justice.
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It is earnestly funny that every single season the Heat have injuries and depth issues and every single season Haslem is just sitting there on the bench like "damn that sucks, good luck or whatever".
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Since The Decision, LeBron's teams have always maxed out all their assets to be as competitive as possible and they always last exactly 4 years before falling apart. This is year 4 in LA.
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it's odd that nobody good will throw a late 1st at them for him, he can swing a playoff game.
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well yeah he has more than two 30 point games in the playoffs.
SGA nice but he not Tatum.
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He respects Jose enough to check for him, huge sign of respect from a grifter of CP's caliber.
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Joe Mazzulla: “What seems to be good might not always be good. And what seems to be bad might not always be bad.”.
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Buyout guys are almost never impactful to their new teams but you've gotta give the Bulls credit for getting Tristan, he really changed the direction of the team. By pointing it directly into the fucking dirt.
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was talking with some of my hoop enjoying coworkers the other day and asked "so who's the next US born MVP," and we unanimously agreed: not Tatum.
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PJ Washington.
what we’re seeing from Caleb Martin shows us that Heat Culture might be real. but it also tells us that Hornets Culture might be just as real on the polar opposite end of the spectrum. there are probably multiple all-stars in Charlotte right now waiting to be rescued.
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People complaining that they don't enjoy how the Celtics play is so funny to me. a) they aren't trying to be enjoyable, they're trying to win a title. b) maybe you just don't really like basketball all that much.
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Jeffy is inspiring to me because in 2007 it was like "yeah that guy's pretty good" and then he continued to be exactly that, no more and no less, for literally 15 years.
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He had 9. 9. 2 and 4 and didn't miss a shot inside the arc. Also Duren went 3-11. People, please do not give up your day jobs for this stuff.
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Poku both stinks and is incredible. He is all basketball outcomes happening at once.
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Crazy that Amen and Ausar get all these questions about level of competition but we're using Miller scoring 41 on fucking SOUTH CAROLINA like that's any better.
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Victor Wembanyama since the beginning of March in both Euroleague and Pro A: 18.9 pts, 8.8 reb and 4.7 blk on .489/.366/.667 shooting.
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Ultimately this isn't a huge factor, but let's take a quick look at every Bucks draft pick since Giannis became *Giannis*
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possibly the most liked person in the NBA.
Ish Smith got his championship ring tonight and was mobbed by his former Nuggets teammates 💍🥰
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Congrats to the Nuggets for being the only team in the NBA who understood who DaRon really is, somehow.
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Today is a bad day for those of you who hate the Trade Machine, because apparently real NBA teams actually will just do all those dumb lopsided ideas you see all the time.
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Knecht is good enough that Lakers fans are going to start suggesting some truly heinous fake trades involving him soon. The ultimate sign of respect.
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At what point does somebody on the medical staff get sued.
Lonzo Ball is still not able to run or cut, per @KCJHoop. “The expectation is that the team will come out after the All-Star break saying that they are shutting Lonzo down for the season” . (h/t @ChiSportUpdates )
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He almost killed Luol Deng with a botched spinal tap in 2013, tried to get Omer Asik to play on a literal broken leg in the 2011 playoffs and told Joakim Noah that playing with plantar fasciitis couldn't make things any worse in 2014 and 2015. All three permanently injured.
@BrianJNBA Who are the other three players?.
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The Celtics won the 2017 lottery what are we doing here.
Way before social media became a sports frenzy place with scouts. In 2017 pre-draft I was pushing for the Celtics to move up in the draft to pick Jayson Tatum with the number 1 pick. My 2022 draft guide provides 80+ pages of similar type info for this year
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The prospect interviews he does are probably the single best publicly available draft content and I will miss them.
ESPN’s NBA Draft Analyst Mike Schmitz is finalizing a deal to become an assistant GM with the Portland Trail Blazers, sources tell ESPN. Schmitz will play a significant role with new GM Joe Cronin in leading the Blazers’ domestic and international scouting departments.
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Aleksej Pokusevski is younger than:. Tari Eason, EJ Liddell, TyTy Washington, Keegan Murray, Ochai Agbaji, MarJon Beauchamp, Hugo Besson, Christian Braun, Julian Champagnie, Walker Kessler, Christian Koloko, Wendell Moore Jr and Ismael Kamagate. All possible 1st round picks.
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I love it when someone new becomes an enemy of the state for the Knicks. Like it's a death knell. Team hasn't made a conference finals since Bill Clinton was president. You're the Jazz. You're Bulls East. Fallen.
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You know things are bad when they're titling the Lakers Spaces things that the DNC puts in email headers.
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Zach Edey, who is standing directly to Wemby's right, is listed at 7'4''
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I legitimately think Kyrie saw the Ye stuff and got jealous that people were talking about some other coked out loser and not him.
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