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Warriors -200 series price over Houston seems high. 

Down to -188 already. 

Clippers/Nuggets has flipped already. Clips -120.

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Posted
21 minutes ago, SameSame said:

Welp, this first game is over.  One team came to play, the other is sleepwalking.

Just as I suspected - Spirit has a nonstop flight from O’Hare to Cancun at 6 am tomorrow.  Bulls players probably have their flights booked already.

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51 minutes ago, SameSame said:

Welp, this first game is over.  One team came to play, the other is sleepwalking.

Hopefully, the Mavs at least show up with some energy tonight.

IDK part of me is cheering for Sacramento, you know, for the best interest of the Mavericks

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21 minutes ago, ztejas said:

If you don't think Spo is the best basketball coach in the world I'm going to take all of your other basketball opinions with a large grain of salt. 

Counterpoint: this current challenge

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Klay doing his best to redeem himself from last year's play-in performance against Sacramento. 

Mavs would actually be a kinda fun, dangerous team had Kyrie not gotten hurt. Obviously, not nearly as good as they could be with Luka.

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3 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Who could have predicted that getting Zach Lavine at 45 million a year was a bad move and won't make them a contender? 

the good news is this core is signed through at least 26-27. assuming Lavine picks up his 49,000,000 option

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11 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Mavs would actually be a kinda fun, dangerous team had Kyrie not gotten hurt.

Fax

4 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

assuming Lavine picks up his 49,000,000 option

I'm guessing he picks that up.

- Russillo

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11 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Klay doing his best to redeem himself from last year's play-in performance against Sacramento. 

Mavs would actually be a kinda fun, dangerous team had Kyrie not gotten hurt. Obviously, not nearly as good as they could be with Luka.

With all they've been through this season, I still expect them to beat Memphis and make the playoffs.  (Memphis just isn't that great.)  Could be wrong, though.

To your point about Kyrie, though, a fully healthy Mavs team was probably the worst matchup for OKC.  That's just a big team.

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1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

With all they've been through this season, I still expect them to beat Memphis and make the playoffs.  (Memphis just isn't that great.)  Could be wrong, though.

To your point about Kyrie, though, a fully healthy Mavs team was probably the worst matchup for OKC.  That's just a big team.

They would be a nightmare matchup, even if OKC is too good.

Hell, I bet OKC doesnt' want any part of the Mavs regardless. They won't say it, and their fans would be too cocky to admit it...but Dallas  has no fear of OKC even when hurt(they won 3 of 4 this year, and the only one they lost was the only game Luka played against them in).

No way the Mavs shock the world...but I could see a hard fought 4-2 series.

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56 minutes ago, Drew said:

They would be a nightmare matchup, even if OKC is too good.

Hell, I bet OKC doesnt' want any part of the Mavs regardless. They won't say it, and their fans would be too cocky to admit it...but Dallas  has no fear of OKC even when hurt(they won 3 of 4 this year, and the only one they lost was the only game Luka played against them in).

No way the Mavs shock the world...but I could see a hard fought 4-2 series.

Part of it has to do with how PJ Washington plays like first team all NBA whenever they play.  The biggest difference would be instead of having Dort guard Luka, he'd have guarded Kyrie.  Now he'll guard Klay.

But I think a fully healthy Mavs team would have taken OKC to 6 or 7 games.

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19 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

kings roster is horseshit..sabonis probably asks for a trade. cant do much with 4 guards that share the same skillset

The Kings allowed themselves to get screwed in the Hamilton and Fox trades.  Just a woeful return on the trades and the GM deserved to get fired.

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I like the idea of the play-in, but it needs to be 7-10 and 8-9, highest seed goes on to play #2, lowest vs #1 and get the first round going sooner. We don't need an 8 vs 9/10 game.  The NBA playoffs take forever, and the time off between games is completely unnecessary. 1-2 days max is all it should be, 

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4 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

I like the idea of the play-in, but it needs to be 7-10 and 8-9, highest seed goes on to play #2, lowest vs #1 and get the first round going sooner. We don't need an 8 vs 9/10 game.  The NBA playoffs take forever, and the time off between games is completely unnecessary. 1-2 days max is all it should be, 

It's perfect the way it is. The 9/10 have to earn their way in. 7/8 have to choke up to not make it. More often than not, the 9/10 teams are hot garbage.

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10 hours ago, aggie08 said:

It's perfect the way it is. The 9/10 have to earn their way in. 7/8 have to choke up to not make it. More often than not, the 9/10 teams are hot garbage.

Winning 1 game is still having to make it. It would also incentivize making the 6 or higher seed as you only have 1 chance to make it in from 7-10. I suggest having all 4 games on the same night to make it more entertaining, since half of these games aren't even close. It would be more like March Madness, which the NBA desperately needs. Part of the success of March Madness is the fact that if one game sucks, there are others that may be interesting. And all the games should be on national TV, even if it's ESPN2 for some games. They shoot themselves in the foot with this 1 televised game at a time bullshit they do all season. 

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On 4/17/2025 at 12:16 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

Part of it has to do with how PJ Washington plays like first team all NBA whenever they play.  The biggest difference would be instead of having Dort guard Luka, he'd have guarded Kyrie.  Now he'll guard Klay.

But I think a fully healthy Mavs team would have taken OKC to 6 or 7 games.

Oh I think a fully healthy mavs team(Kyrie/AD version) woudn't be the 8 seed to begin with, and I would pick them to beat OKC.  They just don't have any guard play right now to really give them a test.

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1 hour ago, Drew said:

Oh I think a fully healthy mavs team(Kyrie/AD version) woudn't be the 8 seed to begin with, and I would pick them to beat OKC.  They just don't have any guard play right now to really give them a test.

Don't discount Dort moving over to guard Kryie instead of Luka.  

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3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Don't discount Dort moving over to guard Kryie instead of Luka.  

Yeah you're right, Dort would probably hurt Kyrie with his dirty football playing ass.

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22 minutes ago, Drew said:

Yeah you're right, Dort would probably hurt Kyrie with his dirty football playing ass.

That's the conundrum of the Thunder fan.  They want the soft ass calls SGA gets, but they also want Dort to get away with Draymond shit.

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Seeing Niang be the best player on the Hawks makes me sad. Dude was great in Cleveland this past year, he could be a 6th man of the year candidate on a good team if he gets consistent play time. 

Trae just doesn't look good, certainly not a number 1 guy on a contender type. He can create some good shots for others, but he takes a lot of bad shots too. Not sure I would trust him to be smart and disciplined on a good team and defer to other guys in crunch time. Seems like a perfect trade target for the Kings, but they already have Lavine. Maybe Charlotte or Washington will make a play for him this off-season.

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Congrats, Miami!

Constantly overachieving.  

I tuned in with seven minutes left in the 4th and was glued to the screen the rest of the way.

 

It's 8:41PM CST and OU still sucks.

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