I don’t remember hearing so much about load management in prior eras in the NBA. Players went through full practices, played decent but limited minutes in preseason games, but never took days off when it came to playing the game they loved. The shift has gone into monetizing everything, and that includes player minutes. If a starter can’t put in the minutes, then they become 6th men and come off the bench. If they can’t put in bench minutes, then they need to retire. Not sure why people are “saving themselves” from actual play. Put it all out there and leave it on the floor. There will be plenty of time to rest after retirement.

I dunno, the Nick Anderson missed free throws in 1995 was pretty big. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INt66rnIvSs

Does Mark Jackson get a vote to forget about Joker for MVP this season?

Such a horrible product the NBA is putting out there.

It would be funny to see what happened to that NHL player happen to him, where the fans just threw a bunch of barbie dolls on the ice. They were like “here’s some toys for your girlfriend!”. That’s how you shame him and make it national news.

To get into the free throw shooter’s head. If you notice, they also sometimes will switch spots with the person on the other side of the lane. Anything to disrupt the free throw shooter.

It looks like some teams don’t really care about the in season tournament as much as they care about winning. I’ve seen teams take a shot clock violation when up by a good margin in the games.

Maybe he thinks having just one 7 on his jersey will make people think that he’s losing weight?

My honest opinion is that he’s most likely gay and when he goes to teams, it’s only a matter of time before they find out, and the team chemistry is thrown off because not everyone can accept a gay man in professional sports. The NFL tried with a couple of teams, but those players were eventually cut and you don’t hear much about the players anymore.

I would say Shaq needs to go back to school, but I don’t think he went the first time…

You should walk the plank…

If Giannis has any more of his family join the Bucks, maybe he should wear it and call it Nepoleon.

Maybe he’s trying to get Amanda Heard to poop in his bed?

Ugh, you just made me think of a scenario where LeBron wins the in season tournament MVP and the LeNutswingers use it to claim that he has something that Jordan never had in an attempt to push the GOAT debate in Lebron’s favor… 😵‍💫

I’m perfectly fine with Adam Silver’s half-baked attempt going up in flames. While I am fine with trying to innovate and bring more viewers in, not if it means half-assing things like the courts and players getting hurt.

What would alarm me is if there was a season with LESS horrendous officiating.

That’s one way to expose the zone defense. This is what irritates me about a lot of current basketball players, they don’t communicate at all with each other. One of his teammates could just say, “It’s all you!” and that would let him know that there’s no pick coming.

I would’ve been more accepting of them calling an offensive foul for him leading with the elbow, but a technical foul, the NBA is a joke.

Love for the game.

I value not doing someone else’s homework for them…