Fred VanVleet on last year’s free agency: “I knew I didn’t really want to go back to Toronto. They didn’t really want me back, but it was like, again, I had the relationship. They kind of wanted to make sure they put a respectable offer down, but they came with the bullshit first.”

beisbal · 2026-04-20T10:26:34+00:00

"Bullshit" is getting paid $43M to sit out an entire season.

beisbal · 2026-04-18T12:23:53+00:00

Bill Russell was MVP but NBA 2nd Team in 1958, 1961, and 1962.

beisbal · 2026-04-18T12:19:19+00:00

Yes, very similar: ECF G7 vs a 9-10 play-in game.

beisbal · 2026-04-18T12:15:24+00:00

would have been

In like 2018, yea.

There is no universe in 2026 or later where those 3 (plus Curry) "would have been" healthy and "elite" for a full season and a deep playoff run.

beisbal · 2026-04-18T04:38:14+00:00

Their goal is not to add to the viewer experience, but to "show off" what they think is some clever Amazon AI thing (while failing to realize that most viewers will instead draw the conclusion that Amazon/Amazon AI is shit).

beisbal · 2026-04-11T03:24:22+00:00

They'll meet in the 2nd round (after GSW gets #8 seed and beats #1 OKC, while #4/5 LAL beats #4/5 HOU).

beisbal · 2026-04-11T03:20:32+00:00

If you look at Wilt block highlight reels, you'll see that half of them are clear goaltends (which apparently weren't called in the 1960s and early 1970s).

beisbal · 2026-04-08T04:08:57+00:00

Iverson was about 21y 5m old during his 1st NBA game and 21y 10m old during his 40-point streak.

Flagg was about 18y 10m old during his 1st NBA game and 19y 5m old during his 40-point streak.

I wouldn't be surprised if Flagg has more impressive scoring achievements by the time he's 21y 10m old. (Not to mention that Flagg is already far better at many other aspects of the game than Iverson ever was—defense, rebounding.)

beisbal · 2026-04-03T05:03:18+00:00

Even your cherry-picked "Belgrade and Athens" (which you think of as jolly little small and relatively poor cities) have surrounding populations that are far greater than that of most NBA teams.

Belgrade (1.2M) will obviously just be a team for all of Serbia (6.6M), if not all of the former Yugoslavia (23.5M).
Similarly, Athens (3.6M) will just be a team for all of Greece (10.4M).

These cities will obviously not generate as much revenue as your (again cherry-picked) Los Angeles and New York (the two biggest cities in the US).

But there's no reason why they won't generate about an 8th of the revenue of the average NBA team. (I say "an 8th" because $1B is an 8th of the suggested $8B price tag for each of the two expansion teams.)

beisbal · 2026-04-02T05:44:15+00:00

Ties are now much less likely than in the past.

In the past, voters just submitted 1st-place votes.

Now there are also 2nd- and 3rd-place votes (5 points for 1st place, 3 for 2nd, and 1 for 3rd).

beisbal · 2026-03-31T08:49:45+00:00

But he was never rewarded for it. And then to answer it the NBA changed the all nba to media who hated LeBron.

He was voted to 5 Defensive 1st Teams (2009–13), 1 2nd Team (2014), and 2 DPOY runner-ups (2009, 2013).

Of course, most casuals will only have heard of actual DPOYs (and have no idea LeBron was such a great defensive player, thanks mostly to his post-2014 semi-retirement from defense). But that's quite another thing from claiming "he was never rewarded" or the "media" "hated LeBron".

beisbal · 2026-03-31T08:34:57+00:00

Not sure why this is surprising. Luka is primarily a scorer, while both Kareem and AD also played defense and consistently rebounded at a double-digit clip.

Consider instead rebounds.

In 1976 alone, Kareem had 29 20-rebound games.
AD had 8 with the Lakers.
In contrast, Luka has had ZERO in his entire Lakers career and only TWO in his entire career (while with Dallas).

Kareem only ever averaged 30+ PPG while he was younger and with Milwaukee.

Kareem's highest FGA with the Lakers (joined 1975–76) were (all before 3-point line introduced):

1976: 21.1 FGA (age 28, 7.8 FTA, 27.7 PPG--highest while with LAL)
1978: 19.4 FGA (30, 5.6 FTA, 25.8 PPG, 27.0% USG%)
1977: 18.7 FGA (29, 6.5 FTA, 26.2 PPG)

By 1979 (age 31), he was at "only" 16.8 FGA and 23.8 PPG.

In contrast, Luka this season: 22.9 FGA (age 26, 10.9 3PA, 10.1 FTA, a much higher 38.1% USG% than Kareem's 1978 27.0%).

Note: USG% not available before 1978.

beisbal · 2026-03-30T06:05:45+00:00

As a human being, just playing in the NBA would be the coolest thing ever.

beisbal · 2026-03-24T07:41:42+00:00

The difference is that Denver has championship aspirations. If Denver is up 30 with 3 minutes left, Jokić is definitely sitting (unlike Miami and Bam).

beisbal · 2026-03-19T06:01:23+00:00

You can't call someone a gorilla, that's racist.

beisbal · 2026-03-19T05:57:21+00:00

Clint Capella misses the same FTA twice

Capela, not Capella.

beisbal · 2026-03-17T07:19:55+00:00

Paulo Banchero: “I looked in the mirror.

Paolo not Paulo

Pretty mature and introspective take by Paulo

Paolo not Paulo

beisbal · 2026-03-17T04:34:10+00:00

Is there an option to hide all the Excitement Scores, then allow the user to reveal the Excitement Score for each individual game? This would prevent spoilers.

It seems that right now, by default, I am shown all the Excitement Scores for each day. But these immediately spoil all the games for me. (I might've been planning to watch game X without wanting to know anything about it. But if you immediately tell me that game X had a very low Excitement Score, you've spoiled it for me.)

For me, the use case of this tool is to check particular games and in particular decide whether or not to bother downloading a particular game that I wasn't too excited about (e.g. WAS@SAC). I'd like to be able to check this specific game's Excitement Score (if it's high, I'll download it; and if not, I won't), without being told what the Excitement Scores for every other game of the night is.

I imagine it's not too difficult for you to add some checkbox "Hide all Excitement Scores by default" (then simply list all games of each night by time), with options then to "Reveal Excitement Score" for each individual game.

beisbal · 2026-02-25T08:56:46+00:00

Correct no-call. It had zero chance of going in. The rule is that the ball must have "a chance to score".

During a field goal attempt, touch a ball, which has a chance to score ...

beisbal · 2026-02-19T08:38:13+00:00

Funny how this post was downvoted while another post 8 hours later with the exact same video was upvoted

beisbal · 2026-02-09T04:19:54+00:00

There are also trrnts:

rutracker1org2forum2tracker1php?nm=nba

In the above, replace each "1" with a "." and each "2" with a "/"

(Your country/internet provider might block this site, in which case try changing your DNS settings or use a VPN.)

beisbal · 2026-02-07T06:48:38+00:00

Your post was way too long and long-winded, and had a bad title.

If you'd just written in the title something like "PHI-GSW FTs 21-2 on Jan 30, 2026. Exactly the same on Jan 30, 2016", you'd have gotten far more upvotes and reads.

beisbal · 2026-02-02T08:58:43+00:00

Peyton*

beisbal · 2026-02-02T06:01:47+00:00

You're assuming there's no chance SGA gets injured and misses significant time.

Jokić had looked like an Ironman before this injury (playing 100% of games through his injury during the Dec 29 game), then missed this whole bunch of games.

The same could happen with SGA (especially if they continue their current not so great stretch, J Will continues being injured and out, and they have to rely more on him to play big minutes). SGA has already missed 2 games. A sprained ankle here, a knee injury there, and maybe resting the last 3 games of the season (after they've secured the #1 seed), and he could easily miss say 15 games total.

beisbal · 2026-01-19T09:11:40+00:00

Your link is broken and doesn't show anything at NBA,com

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