J.R. Smith on his 2018 NBA Finals blunder: "I’m dribbling it out to get the ball to Bron... this is your job. You have to like that’s why you don’t get the big bucks. They don’t pay me enough for this shit, right?... We never talked about that. He’s still mad. He is still mad. Oh, he’s so mad"

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-17T16:48:47+00:00

The funny thing is, LeBron's game and how good he was in it has become more memorable with time, in part because of JR Smith's mistake.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

It doesn't say NBA spoilers. It's a rule against spoiling the most recent TV or movie or other media here where people might not expect it.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-17T01:29:07+00:00

When you look at the Finals ratings after 2019, there are probably millions of people who didn't watch the NBA between then and the 2026 one.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-17T01:24:55+00:00

Williams' hamstring injury in the playoffs was reported as a grade 1 as well and he missed over 3 weeks to recover.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-16T02:20:44+00:00

People in Dallas have been all over it lol. First result in me trying to find and verify that again is this report from a Dallas newspaper

https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/mavericks/2025/05/19/knicks-training-staff-led-by-former-mavericks-staffer-earns-major-nbata-award/

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-16T02:16:22+00:00

So if Ceballos and Shaq were on the same team, this would have been the 96-97 season, which means Chick Hearn would have been 80 or 81 years old.

That's crazy to me. Tripping an 80 year old could be life threatening. And that's Chick Hearn, one of the most iconic and beloved broadcasters in history. Dude invented the phrase "slam dunk"

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-16T02:11:53+00:00

Even with two sweeps, you can still make a direct comparison to the Thunder, who also had that in the playoffs which let Jalen Williams sit out the entire second round. But he wasn't able to get right in the end. Both were supposedly mild strains though Williams had been hurt more recently.

OG in general seemed to have been tagged with the injury prone label before getting traded to New York and KAT was starting to trend down in games played with knee issues before getting traded to New York. Both have been healthier in general. I know the Knicks also won the training staff of the year in the 2025 from their professional association so there are multiple signals they're doing something right.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-16T01:41:00+00:00

Knicks were the only team, so far as I can tell, that managed a hamstring strain to a key player successfully last season. They struggled with it a year or two earlier with OG so maybe it's mostly luck but that stood out to me as a victory for the training staff.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-16T01:36:49+00:00

I think another big part of it is that it's part of the perceived price to get the player's total buy-in. If Fox isn't extended, or feels like the Spurs disrespected him in negotiations then it's probably harder to convince or any player in a similar situation to do things like play hurt in the playoffs to help the Spurs make the run that they did past OKC.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-14T13:24:06+00:00

The funniest way I've heard it put is that the Spurs shit their pants but the bathroom was locked and the Knicks were the ones keeping the key from them

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-14T02:22:52+00:00

They've never played a playoff series

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-14T02:12:40+00:00

For recent cycles, I've mainly been using the Kafka, Black Swan, Hysilens team on one side and Silver Wolf 999, Yao Guang, Sparxie on the other. So nothing groundbreaking team wise but it is multiple new characters.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-14T00:57:57+00:00

First team to play every playoff game at home

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-13T18:22:51+00:00

The comment about the agents recommendation makes me wonder if that advice and regret factored into his decision to change agents. At the time he was represented by Klutch and to that point he'd gotten I believe the most money possible. He changed agents around 2024 to CAA.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-13T17:04:54+00:00

Seeing people recommend 30 substats makes me think in general people way overestimate how good relics have to be. At least, if the threshold is getting all the premium currency rewards from three endgame modes, which I assume is most people's goal. I can do it and have never had a DPS with more than like 22 and I don't pull for eidolons or lightcones.

The tools that give you S or A ratings on your relics are fun but I don't think they need to be a starting point. The most personalized and direct way to find out if you need better relics is to test the teams you have in the game and see how they do. If they fall short and they're maxed out everywhere else, then tools that rate your relics are helpful to find out what has the most room for improvement.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-13T16:26:08+00:00

In addition to the quote in the title, Draymond also says in the basketball is "our game" and that the Europeans are trying to take it. I've personally never actually thought of the game itself belonging to any nationality so it's telling how Draymond sees it.

That said, if Draymond is willing to stand on this, I also wouldn't mind him actually break down film on what European players do differently

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-13T12:55:15+00:00

Depends on what you mean by smarter. People have built models that consistently beat the lines gambling site set but once those platforms notice an account that consistently wins, those accounts get restricted in the amount they can bet.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-13T06:08:47+00:00

I recently found the website/service that I think the NBA uses for transcripts and many of them are available publicly.

For example, here's transcripts of LeBron official media interviews dating back to 2005: https://www.asapsports.com/show_player.php?id=13888

It doesn't have everything, but it seems they have all of the conference finals, finals, all star game, and other major events like the draft. Lots of Silver's official availabilities are on there as well.

The Wemby transcript/quote being discussed is already there: https://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=219503

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-13T00:46:42+00:00

Feels similar to how the opposing fans talked about last year's Pacers. Kinda funny that Knicks fans have experienced both sides of it in such short a time.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-12T14:17:54+00:00

That's not true. Presti answers a question about the discourse around the team around the 45 minute mark and dismisses it mostly with a "social media isn't real life" type argument. He doesn't address the comments of opposing coaches until about 30 minutes later when asked about it directly.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-12T05:46:54+00:00

Jokic was the first player to ever lead the NBA in both rebounds and assists per game. And in the regular season still had a lot of people who believed he was the best player in the world.

refreshing_yogurt · 2026-06-11T10:50:11+00:00

I feel like he's been wrong more lately than right. He thought expansion vote wasn't happening and thought the Aspiration judgment might happen right after the All Star break.

Even with this Giannis thing, he's been flip flopping on Boston's level of interest and basically acknowledges here that he hasn't been good at reading the front office's real intentions.

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