Paul Reed says he didnโt sign up for the 65-game rule, per
@sam_amick
.
โI donโt remember signing no paper work, you feel me? I guess the union okayed it. They probably didnโt have a choice thoughโฆ Itโs tough.โ
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"Good luck today on the draft. But I gotta tell you that doesn't mean anything. I was 41st pick and nobody counted me... Just work hard, surround yourself with good people that you trust."
Nikola Jokic shares advice to Anthony Black before the NBA draft
(via AnthonyBlack/YT)
Last time Joel Embiid played in Denver:
Barack Obama was president
Jayson Tatum was in high school
COVID-19 didnโt exist
MPJ was a rookie
Is he ducking? ๐
in a playoff run where weโve played LeBron, KD, AD, Booker, Chris Paul, KAT, and more
Anthony Edwards has been the best and most scary player weโve faced
Michael Malone brought Bruce next to him and said on the mic: โIs Brucey B going anywhere? Hellll no.โ
The crowd erupts in cheers.
โWe want Bruceโ chants start
Bruce Brown smiling ear to ear the whole time.
Did Malone and Nuggets fans single handedly convince him to stay?
Lakers and Warriors fans pretending like the NBA is rigged against them for the Denver Nuggets is a testament to how hopeless this team makes other fanbases feel
Steve Kerr sounds off after Nikola Jokicโs 18 free throws: โI have a problem with the way we are legislating defense out of the game.We're just enabling players to BS their way to the foul line. If I were a fan, I wouldn't have wanted to watch the second half. It was disgusting."
NBA Twitter has gotten to a point where we are diminishing a dude who scored 70 points in an NBA game, this app is beyond cooked for basketball discourse ๐ญ
โDo you think Jokic can be a top 5 center? โBy the end of his career he will beโ
โDo you think Embiid can be a top 5 center?โ โTop 5 is hard to cut intoโ
Crying ๐ญ they know
i know every fanbase complains about refs so this might fall on deaf ears, but iโve legitimately never seen anything like whatโs happening to the Nuggets this season
at what point do we question whether Jokic and the Nuggets are being explicitly antagonized by refs?
Sixers in their last 4 playoff games:
2-0 without Embiid
0-2 with Embiid
Embiid has also dropped in every statistic from regular season to playoffs.
MVP ๐ฌ
maybe if drew hanlen spent less time shitting on jokic on twitter and more time doing his job training embiid and tatum they wouldnโt have both gotten embarrassed in the playoffs
Carmelo Anthony defines a โpure hooperโ:
"You can put them anywhere in the world, any court, any ball, any basket and theyโll get to itโฆ Allen Iverson is a pure hooper, Tracy McGrady, JR Smith, Lou Will, Jamal Crawford, KD and myself.โ
(via
@overtime
, h/t
@ClutchPoints
)
Missed games in this season:
Jamal Murray: 23
Kyrie Irving: 22
Mavs fans keep comparing Luka this year to Jokicโs 2022 MVP (where Jamal missed 82 GAMES)
But conveniently ignore that Murray has missed more games than Kyrie THIS SEASON
Dumbest fanbase ever?
The NBA themselves have decided that the Nuggets do not have multiple stars, but every team they faced in the playoffs does.
There should no longer be any question as to whether Jokic just had a top 5 playoff run in NBA history, and faced the hardest competition possible along
Realistically, why should Embiid get to use games vs. Jokic in Philly as part of MVP and legacy arguments when heโs too scared to give Jokic the chance to get his lick back?
โGreatest scorer of our generationโ but canโt handle a single night in Denver
The last time the Warriors or Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets:
- Peyton Watson was in high school
- Donald Trump was president
- The iPhone 12 hadnโt come out yet
Apparently Tim Connelly came to Malone asking about trading Jamal for a star a couple years ago and Malone said no
Who do yโall think the marquee player was?