I love the bits last season where they asked the T-Wolves players what the mascot’s name was and half of them guessed Wolfy.

At least Ivey is starting now and he looked good tonight (only Piston postive plus/minus). I expect they will win 3 games by end of the year.

Wemby is the only one I think has a chance and he has a long climb to get there. But his ceiling represents a different kind of unstoppable than anyone else in the league currently.

How many of those guys played 65 games last year? I realize more will try to hit 65 going forward but you can’t just assume all those slots are locked up.

Barnes

The initial call might have been wrong but I think the replay call here is correct given the one angle in the link. Don’t get bamboozled by the announcing – one of the worst homer teams in the league – overselling what’s actually in the video or the rambling about landing space.

It’d be really easy to fix but I doubt they’ll do anything until the alternative subs start doing better numbers.

r/justbasketball is r/nba minus hate posts and circlejerk but still pretty new and only has 20K subs.

r/nbadiscussion has a decent number of members (480K) but no game/highlight threads and no player comparisons so not really a threat to what most people come here for.

Steph’s career defensive impact numbers are actually better than Kobe’s. Neither should be in the top 5 for “greatest careers”. For “best peaks of all time” Steph has a stronger case than most of the other common candidates. For “best peaks by position” he’s probably the best PG.

The signal says he’s better but the error bands are huge and durability/health is still a question mark.

Knicks gave him away to help clear cap space for Brunson. Pretty sure the Mavs FO could have gotten him along with a bunch of other assets if they did a sign and trade instead of shitting the bed all summer.

I’ve been watching longer than you and Kobe is way too high.

• came into arguably the best situation ever (Shaq, Phil, Lakers);
• only 2 rings as best player, absolutely Robin to Shaq from 00-02;
• many of the all-accolades were gifted to him;
• defense in particular is massively overrated;
• subpar efficiency for a modern GOAT candidate;
• Pau is 30th in career VORP and 32nd in win shares, the fact that he was snubbed by the “official top 75” means little;

JB is kind of weird, you watch him and he passes the eyetest as a star but a lot of impact stats have him as like the 5th-8th best Celt the past few years, which is rarely the case with stars of his age (although LaVine has a similar issue).

Reggie Miller went 1/16 for 7 pts against the Lakers.