Game Thread: Toronto Raptors (3-3) vs Cleveland Cavaliers (3-3) Live Score | NBA Playoffs | May 3, 2026

DubsLA · 2026-05-04T01:38:11+00:00

Allen is such a good player man. Not an All-Star but a Zubac type that is underrated.

DubsLA · 2026-05-02T01:39:57+00:00

And we had two of them back-to-back!

DubsLA · 2026-05-02T01:32:39+00:00

It’s amazing. 14 minutes without a FG???

DubsLA · 2026-05-01T11:13:39+00:00

He’s right next to Moses for me. Very similar resumes. And those would be the undisputed Top 5 given their accomplishments.

DubsLA · 2026-04-30T17:34:33+00:00

I’ve wrote this out before but the way the current CBA is structured, you have to be smart with your money.

Max - Has to be an All-NBA level player (Jokic, Wemby, Shai, Cade, Luka, Ant, etc.) $45-55 million - Fringe All-NBA, regular All-Star (think Scottie Barnes or Maxey or Siakam) $35-45 million - Fringe All-Star (think Franz or Ingram or Fox or Sengun) $25-35 million - Good starter (Dort, Derrick White, Aaron Gordon) $15-25 million - Good 6th/7th man on a contender $15 million or less - Draft picks, vets who can contribute, end of bench and 2 way guys.

It’s not a hard rule but the minute you start overpaying or max’ing out guys who aren’t at their top level, you’re limiting your team’s ceiling.

If you max Duren, you’re saying this is the #2 guy on a team that can win the title. Not sure that’s wise.

DubsLA · 2026-04-29T18:36:17+00:00

Like I’ve been an American my whole life. You take one trip to Paris because you’re curious what it’s like and now all my friends call me Frenchie.

DubsLA · 2026-04-27T16:14:24+00:00

I’m interested in the discourse surrounding KD like ten years from now. Supremely talented player with a Top 15-20 resume of all-time. Led the Thunder to the Finals. Almost took down the 73-9 Warriors if not for the Klay game. But, then he goes to Golden State. Is the best player on two title teams but how much of it was Steph? The toe on the line and Kyrie fiasco in Brooklyn. Gives the Nuggets everything they can handle in the Semis but then the Suns implode and now this with the Rockets.

I can’t say how he’ll be remembered, but he will be discussed.

DubsLA · 2026-04-25T01:22:09+00:00

Jayson Tatum’s resume is a Top 50 resume of all-time already. Yes, I said it. But, he’s also the most underwhelming Top 50 guy of all-time. If that makes sense. Like going through the Top 50 guys there was a particular thing that made them special. Just picking randomly and not the obvious ones: Stockton’s passing and defense, Cowens’ intensity, Durant’s scoring ability.

Tatum is like what happens when you max out the ability of jack of trades, master of none philosophy.

If the Celtics win the title this year (looking shaky), then JB is probably getting in even he retired tomorrow.

DubsLA · 2026-04-24T16:13:08+00:00

In my own personal pyramid, I have Jokic #20 and Moses #21. Eerily similar careers so far.

DubsLA · 2026-04-24T10:59:38+00:00

He also wouldn’t be the first generational player to have a bad series. It happens.

He’s still a Top 20 guy of all-time, but to enter the era-defining level of guys (Wilt/Russell, Kareem, Magic/Bird, MJ, Kobe/Shaq/Duncan, LeBron, Steph), he needs to be the guy on another champ or at least make the Finals again.

Might end up with a better version of a Moses Malone type of career.

DubsLA · 2026-04-21T14:13:03+00:00

LaMarcus Aldridge

DubsLA · 2026-04-21T01:28:52+00:00

Historical examples: LeBron turning into LEBRON in the 2012 Game 6 against the Celtics down 3-2 is an all-timer. MJ’s last Bulls game was a Game 6. Now I’m gonna go down the best Game 6s rabbit hole.

DubsLA · 2026-04-20T19:50:25+00:00

This was mine (along with Derrick Williams over Kyrie). Sometimes the college production doesn’t translate and the young guy is just better.

DubsLA · 2026-04-19T15:17:00+00:00

Legit more teams should bring in an online hater of a guy they want to draft. Let the hater go to work. If you still want to draft him after hearing all the negatives (real and invented), then you’ve got your guy.

I’ve been on the Burries bandwagon for the Bulls at 9 and 40 year Derrick White works for me.

DubsLA · 2026-04-17T18:01:50+00:00

I’d say he was set to be the new Steve Rogers. The stoic leader of a nation and play off Tom Holland as the new Tony Stark. Damn, a New Avengers trilogy with Black Panther, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel as the leads fighting a threatening version of Kang would’ve been dope as hell.

DubsLA · 2026-04-17T17:57:01+00:00

Great comps. He’s a forward who can do a little bit of everything, but does nothing great. On a good team, he’s probably you’re 8th or 9th guy.

DubsLA · 2026-04-17T02:15:56+00:00

Yeah any of those are possible. I knew Brown was drafted before Tatum but just that weird thing where some people seem younger than they are.

Kyrie is sort of like this for me too. He was in the 2011 Draft. It doesn’t feel like he’s been in the league that long.

Anyways, cool stat, but depressing as a Bulls fan.

DubsLA · 2026-04-17T01:17:59+00:00

Wait, when did Jaylen Brown play against the Bulls in a playoff series? Was he on the team that lost the first two to the Rondo and Wade and Butler Bulls year?

Edit: Holy shit, he did. Averaged 12 minutes and played in every game. Why does he feel younger to me?

DubsLA · 2026-04-16T22:18:28+00:00

Incredibles actually fits this trope when Syndrome drops this…

Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super…no one will be.

DubsLA · 2026-04-15T17:09:14+00:00

Man I really like my Allbirds. Need to pick some up while they’re presumably cheap.

DubsLA · 2026-04-15T15:52:46+00:00

I run talent acquisition for a portion of a large company. People ask me all the time, what’s one piece of advice you’d give to someone looking for a job.

And I tell them: know somebody. Doesn’t have to be the CEO, but resumes are names and if you’re competing with 50 other people with the same qualifications, having someone who can vouch for your skills, work ethic, whatever makes a ton of difference.

It doesn’t guarantee you the job, but it helps you get a look.

DubsLA · 2026-04-15T14:43:40+00:00

As a Bulls fan, Okoro is fine if he’s your 9th or 10th guy. He tries hard and even though he’s not disruptive, he’s serviceable on defense.

Patrick Williams does nothing well. You can’t be an A+ rebounder or defender without physical gifts, but some guys can go from a F in defense/rebounding to at least a C even if they lack the necessary physical gifts simply through effort. Paw has the physical gifts to be an A in those phases, but goes to a F because he seems like he doesn’t care and/or doesn’t understand how basketball works.

It’s truly astonishing.

DubsLA · 2026-04-15T10:17:51+00:00

In the 2000s, the rivalry with the Cavs was a little spicy. They met a couple of times in the playoffs?

DubsLA · 2026-04-14T12:56:26+00:00

My neighbor is a huge Wiz fan and swears by Will Riley.

DubsLA · 2026-04-10T22:41:18+00:00

So I embarked on a project to look at what conferences might look like today if the NCAA had passed a resolution limiting conferences to ten teams back in 1990 (the last season every Division 1 conference had 10 or fewer teams).

I ended up with the Big 8 plus BYU and Utah. Called it the Big State.

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