NBA Thread

[GeorgesGoons]

Soooooo, who takes home the ring this year?

Bulls

I almost choked on my pizza roll when I scrolled to this

Here are the odds from OddsShark.com

Spoiler!

Los Angeles Lakers +300
Los Angeles Clippers +350
Milwaukee Bucks +600
Philadelphia 76ers +750
Houston Rockets +850
Golden State Warriors +1000
Utah Jazz +1200
Denver Nuggets +1800
Boston Celtics +2500
Brooklyn Nets +2500
Portland Trail Blazers +3300
Toronto Raptors +3300
Indiana Pacers +4500
Miami Heat +6000
New Orleans Pelicans +6000
San Antonio Spurs +6000
Dallas Mavericks +7000
Orlando Magic +12500
Atlanta Hawks +15000
Minnesota Timberwolves +15000
Oklahoma City Thunder +15000
Sacramento Kings +15000
Detroit Pistons +17500
Chicago Bulls +20000
Memphis Grizzlies +20000
Washington Wizards +20000
New York Knicks +25000
Charlotte Hornets +30000
Cleveland Cavaliers +30000
Phoenix Suns +30000

I'm guessing the Lakers pick goes about as well as the Brown pick before the NFL season. I think the title comes out of the East again.

[shel311]

I'm guessing the Lakers pick goes about as well as the Brown pick before the NFL season.

Let's hope you're right!

[GeorgesGoons]

I'm guessing the Lakers pick goes about as well as the Brown pick before the NFL season.

Let's hope you're right!

You don't have to hope, I am right.

Gotta go over to Iowa and see if I can bet against the Lakers winning it all. I can see them missing the playoffs too, all it takes is one injury and they will crumble

[GeorgesGoons]

Betting lines to make / miss playoffs

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Team Make Miss
Bucks -10000 2000
Sixers -10000 2000
Clippers -2500 1100
Rockets -2500 1100
Jazz -2000 1000
Nuggets -1600 900
Celtics -1400 800
Lakers -650 450
Pacers -650 450
Raptors -450 350
Warriors -450 350
Nets -310 250
Heat -300 240
Blazers -250 200
Magic -250 200
Spurs -200 170
Pistons 130 -150
Mavericks 175
Hawks 210 -260
Bulls 225 -275 325
Pelicans 225 -275
Kings 275 -350
Timberwolves 350 -450
Thunder 500 -700 600
Knicks 700 -1100
Wizards 800 -1400
Suns 1100 -2500
Grizzlies 1200 -3000
Cavaliers 1500 -5000
Hornets 1500 -5000

[wdoupis]

Soooooo, who takes home the ring this year?

Bulls

Sneaky 8 seed contender!

I agree. We have a lot of young talent that has potential and adding Satoransky and Thad Young should help stabilize them. Hoping for another leap for Lauri and for Lavine to expand his game. First time I’ve been excited about the Bulls regular season starting in a few years

[ReignOnU]

how about the amount of car accidents that occur following games due to drinking and driving. i'd like to hear a few of them speak out about banning beer and other alcoholic beverages at NBA functions.

You're reaching at this point.

As long as we can agree that Kerr is deciding not to speak here because his team gets $133mil a year from China and not for the reasons he claimed, we're mostly in agreement.

I doubt anyone really believes Kerr isn't speaking because he's just totally not in the know with what's going on there.

i agree with you.

and of course i was reaching, that was the point. the point was that you can reach on any topics you wish to. and depending on your tiers of things that matter to you then you can make a legit case that others should be speaking on it. like when players leave to go do religious commitments and stuff like that, for some its crazy but for them its everything. if i lost a family member due to drinking and driving i'd care a lot more about drinking and driving than i do my financial situation, etc.

I think you're being dismissive to say that it's not in his backyard. This is an NBA issue, he is an NBA coach with a team playing over there. Yes, he's going to be asked about it. He's not being asked about his opinion on Turkey-Syria. He's connected to this. When you create precedent of speaking out, then you hide when you're in conflict, your opinion is going to be devalued and you're going to be perceived negatively.

[Cnasty]

I can’t wait to see my boy Herro doing things with Billy’s arch nemesis Jimmy!

[DRiccio21]

everyone needs a HERRO!

[nick]

Gsw +1000

[nick]

NBA Teams anticipating a 15% salary cap drop cause of the China incident.

[shel311]

There's a report that the Chinese government has instructed the media to tone down the anger towards the NBA.

Looks like it may all blow over soon.

[ReignOnU]

Kerr retweeted Hong Kong support stuff 3 weeks ago. So much for not knowing.

[wdoupis]

Kerr retweeted Hong Kong support stuff 3 weeks ago. So much for not knowing.

A retweet is all it takes to say he knows about a complicated issue enough to give an insightful answer?

[DRiccio21]

Kerr retweeted Hong Kong support stuff 3 weeks ago. So much for not knowing.

BUSTED!

good work Reign ... we got heeeeeem

[Cnasty]

The takes in here are hotttttttttt

[ReignOnU]

Kerr retweeted Hong Kong support stuff 3 weeks ago. So much for not knowing.

A retweet is all it takes to say he knows about a complicated issue enough to give an insightful answer?

As a person in the public eye, would you retweet regarding a conflict that you're not versed on?

[shel311]

Kerr retweeted Hong Kong support stuff 3 weeks ago. So much for not knowing.

A retweet is all it takes to say he knows about a complicated issue enough to give an insightful answer?

This doesn't make sense to me.

If you're saying the issue is so complicated and he isn't well versed to give an opinion on it, then why would he tweet support of a side?

[wdoupis]

I can retweet all I want about ending gun violence or anything else I care about but if you ask me for an insightful answer on what exactly we should do and why it would be a lot tougher.

I'd imagine he does support the people of Hong Kong so he retweeted his support of them. Does that mean he has insightful answers on what should happen with the conflict and what the NBA should do after all this started?

[wdoupis]

Kerr retweeted Hong Kong support stuff 3 weeks ago. So much for not knowing.

A retweet is all it takes to say he knows about a complicated issue enough to give an insightful answer?

As a person in the public eye, would you retweet regarding a conflict that you're not versed on?

I know one person you are a big fan of that does this on a daily basis

[shel311]

I'm gonna go ahead and change my mind here, you guys are right. Kerr probably should go ahead and sit this one out and stop talking for a bit til this blows over:

Steve Kerr on if he's ever been asked about human rights during his previous trips to China:

"No. Nor has (America's) record of human rights abuses come up either... People in China didn't ask me about, you know, people owning AR-15s and mowing each other down in a mall."