Teams across the league badly need secondary and tertiary perimeter playmakers/defenders and Sam Presti is hoarding them

Sam Merrill is shooting so well off the bench, makes you think the Sixers once sold high on him

that MVP vote wasn't close at all gotdam

You can make an argument the Thunder actually won the Paul George trade.

I believe in him

If we must endure political TV ads at least give us a goofball like Paul Bondar to amuse us

for those of you without a twitter account or espn notifications enabled, shai gilgeous-alexander won the mvp again

There are direct flights from okc to nyc tho

This stat is a little noisy but bear with me: In the Thunder’s five regular season games vs the Spurs, Chet averaged the fifth most points per game. That’s behind Jaylin Williams and Kenrich Williams. That simply cannot happen in this next round.

Timberwolves are all like

Starting the Western Conference Finals on Monday works best for me anyway

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Make that 4-for-4. This week’s Widow’s Bay absolutely rips.

and now we all go on a ~48-hour NBA cleanse

well that's just unlike Tony Brothers to ignore a foul that happened inches away from his eyes face...

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

Stunning news. Damn.

Before the 2024 draft, OKC traded Lindy Waters III -who had only a partial guarantee for the next season- to the Warriors for the 52nd overall pick They then traded that pick + cash to Portland for pick #40 Then they traded THAT pick + cash to NY for pick #38 And there they drafted Ajay Mitchell

Bucks' response when teams offer a couple of protected firsts and salary filler for Giannis:

She *hates* 9:30 local time tipoffs

90s/00s NBA: 14-point lead with 7 minutes left, let's beat the traffic modern NBA: 14-point lead with 7 minutes left, it's only a 5-possession game...

this looks like an extra tough captcha test

Shouts to Kelvin Sampson, Hollis Price, Nick Collison, former New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornet David West, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount I guess?

A simple man's thoughts on comparing what Wemby did last night and Metta World Peace's elbow to James Harden's head in 2012 that resulted in a 7-game suspension (which carried into the playoffs)... That was the David Stern era Metta was a repeat (repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, etc) offender

Spurs vs Wolves guaranteed to go at least six games

Ayo Dosunmu must have been awesome with a hacky sack

thing that's been annoying me these playoffs: these ads for Google AI Mode that demonstrate asking a basketball Q to Google AI and then the question is answered thoughtfully on the broadcast by one of NBC's commentators — a human expert! which is extremely not what happens when you ask AI things

Wemby is Louden Downey

I’d like to see Wemby try that shit with me (his elbow would pass 12+ inches over my head)

Ethical swing of the elbow to someone’s face tho

I just saw the big news over at the old site. Why aren't all the Thunder fans celebrating and why are the Pacers fans so irate. They get to co-parent the number 1 overall pick

Congrats to the east coast branch of the Oklahoma City Thunder

Maybe so if the NBA suddenly decides to end games at halftime.

new “can’t play kanter” dropped! youtu.be/Bu5el2qN948

okc, more like really good c

The Thunder in the second half the past two games

I try not to be a prisoner of the moment but folks it would seem that the Thunder are a better basketball team than the Lakers this season

Probably worth noting that Luka going to Europe for treatment didn't change his timeline any

It's crazy when OKC has a 9-point lead and Ajay Mitchell looks like a better NBA player than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

The Lakers going all-in on working the refs is a perfectly reasonable stratagem given where they are in the series, but God, it's funny to see Duke's Own J.J. Redick trying to sell the idea that he's being discriminated against in favor of Oklahoma City

Perfection dot gif KG is fiery and talking noise. Duncan is smiling through it all.

wait when did the pistons trade for james harden oh that's cade cunningham my bad

Sports team (or athlete) wins at a high level and a lot of people get mad about it and spend a lot of time trying to discredit the accomplishments. It’s a tale as old as time.

The Lakers led 66-61 when Shai picked up his fourth foul in addition to a flagrant foul at the 10:34 mark of the 3rd. OKC went on a casual 64-41 run the rest of the way

Lakers jockeyed for all kinds of position before that jump ball, and yet...

Lakers players might wanna stop slapping the backboard

via my pal @joemussatto.bsky.social: SGA checked out with his fourth foul at the 10:34 mark in the fourth quarter. Lakers led 65-61. With SGA on the bench, OKC outscored LA 32-15 the rest of the quarter.

a first round pick and three second round picks or as Sam Presti calls it, couch cushion money