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Westbrook, cp3 and John wall's contracts are big cause to worry abt giving players the supermax.

It was introduced to prevent superteams but it seriously handicaps a teams flexibility.

Kawhi frigging sabotage the Lakers. This is tee most wicked shit ever.

So he was plotting all these in the background meanwhile preventing the Lakers from making a move.

The Lakers are stuck with an aging KD, injury prone Davis, kuzma, very little flexibility going forward and a large gap in the squad to fill. Meanwhile the clippers got two superstars in their prime.

the logo strikes again... Fuckkkkk coup alert in La.

Never underestimate Jerry west. This is men against boys, chess vs checkers. I now understand darl morey's tweet from a few hours ago.

Mehn! This is a body slam on the lakers

Kawhi is crazy, like dude! At least narrow the list down. It's almost like he's doing this to build up his brand.

If you've spent 1yr playing at a team, winning a championship there and you're so conflicted about staying, maybe you should go somewhere else.

Kawhi crossed lebron

Kawhi is definitely re-signing with the raptors now.
This is the greatest finnese ever, destroyed every opportunity for Lakers to build a solid team and then stay back

Kawhi may as well wait till next yr to make a decision. The joke is on the losers of this kawhi sweepstakes especially if it's the Lakers. You gutted your team to create cap space then he wasted your time enough for you to miss out on most of the other viable options in free agency.

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At this junction I think kawhi is just being a sissy. Like dude you had the whole os the last 2-3 weeks after winning the title to think about this.
By now you know all about what the clippers are about because they have been courting you from day 1 and all about Toronto. I guess the only thing he may have not been clear abt is the arrival of Davis in La.

Like due, come on! Make up ur mind

If you're Chris Paul, Harden, Lillard or Westbrook how will you feel about the Davis trade.

You have suffered several years under the tyranny of the ruthless Splash Brothers and KD. Then finally, the Evil kings have been dethroned and incapacitated. Suddenly! your hopes are raised, you feel you can finally get the opportunity you crave for.

Then just like that another juggernaut arises I feel pity for these guys. They have little or no chance of winning a title at this rate especially Chris Paul and Lillard.
KD was right CJ McCollum and Co have to stop bothering about what's going on at the top of the league.

BykeLaByke:
Zion Williamson the last infinity stone needed for Lonzo to bring showtime to New Orleans.

I feel your hot takes! you're always cracking me up.
Is this lavar's nairaland burner account?

With A.D and another superstar joining LeBron and kuzma, suddenly I am beginning to miss the warriors and I am a Lakers fan . It would have been nice to have two superteams go at each other. The NBA is simply a league of superteams and a few exceptions in between.

Meanwhile the pelicans look tasty, lonzo and Ingram are still 21yrs old shit! They have enormous room for growth especially Ingram. The pelicans have 2 potential superstars on their hands with zion and Ingram. A pass first floor general in lonzo. A borderline all-star in in jrue holiday that can offer veteran leadership or be flipped for further juicy assets. A 4th pick, and a stash of first round picks.
These guys have assets, young stars, and cap space. They will be in prime position in the future to make trades for superstars. And they have a great GM.
The pels may well be a championship team in 3yrs.

This KD Injury just changed the NBA landscape

1) Suddenly, the Knicks are likely not to get KD and Kyrie. Subsequently they may not want to trade a their assets for Davis

2)The Davis sweepstakes becomes more complex. Will he team up with Kyrie at the Celtics or LeBron or just go to another team?
3)Suddenly the raptors are the defacto favorites to make a run at the title out of the east next season. Cos the sixers may lose butler and the Knicks are likely to still be shit.

steady986:
Congrats to the Warriors for extending this by one more game. They did well. Their shots were falling in.

I actually think the refs were hard on them in this game. I almost felt sorry for them.

Two home losses should make the Warriors know that Oracle is not the fortress they think it is. That being said, it's one more game for us basketball fans to savour.

Raptors in 6.

Raptors have no excuse now, they have to grow some balls and seal this title.
The warriors are too physically and emotionally beat up.
The last game in oracle arena, mehn!
The game will be emotional as f**k, those emotions can also propel them to a win.

Khanben:
Not saying the raptors will win, but you seem to have forgotten that kawhi's spurs was beating GSW by 20pts before Zaza's curse struck. Kawhi's defense is just extraordinary(one of the things Nick has said recently that I agree with is that there is elite defense and above that is what kawhi can do). Imagine a scenario where they put him a Draymond from full court especially when Green is initiating the offense. The amount of steals/turnovers kawhi can force in this scenario can hurt GSW.

I don't know how someone will look at this series and say the warriors are the favorites. The raptors defense is legit, who on the warriors can stop kawhi? Only KD and he's injured at the moment. If KD comes back early, I see a warriors win but otherwise, it's a raptors win.

Kawhi, Lowry and Danny Green are all legit wing defenders. They will make life difficult for curry and klay.

Regardless of who wins this series will change the legacy of kawhi and curry.

If curry wins, he automatically joins the top 10 all time player and number 2 point guard ever behind only magic.

If kawhi wins, he becomes undoubtedly the best player in the league. 2 final MVPs, 2 Dpoy, 2 nba titles and he's not even 30 yet! He can win a couple of regular season MVP and we are looking at the second coming of MJ.

If the warriors lose and the curry has a shitty series which is very likely with kawhi on him +several double teams. He would be seen as the star player that keeps choking in the finals.

If Toronto makes the finals, I don't see the warriors winning without Durant.

Kawhi, danny Green and siakam will take turns to make life hell for curry and klay.
Draymond green needs to have a monster series to get the other guys involved in the offence.
And then the warriors will lack a consistent scoring threat from inside which makes matters worse for them.
However, two big factors play into the warriors favour
1) Experience
2) Toronto's unique ability to choke

With championship experience and heart the warriors will makes this a series but matchup wise Toronto has the edge.

A40:
Lol naah I don't think any athlete dealt with more hate than Kobe. From his run-in with Shaq where everyone sided with Shaq to Colorado to just having the reputation as a selfish and pain in the a$$ teammate

The difference with Kobe is at no point did he ever care what anyone thought about him. He fed off all the hate and till this day you watch his interviews and everything and the defiance and unapologetic nature he possesses is unmistakable. Guys like LeNomad and KD wanted to be loved, KD knew he would get heat for joining GS, what he thought was being the best player would make that go away but instead it seems to have worsened things especially from the camp of pained Bronsexuals who feel he has denied their queen a shot at more championships. It is what it is

And who says Durant is not feeding of the hate? He's about to be 3 time finals MVP, showing up when it counts.
Kobe who went on social media to try and insert himself in the Goat conversation is not sensitive?

All ultracompetive guys are sensitive, but as long as its not disrupting your performance on the court it doesn't matter.

Imagine Jordan who keeps newspapers carrying headlines that slander him in order to motivate himself facing Twitter and social media scrutiny. If that's not sensitive then I don't know what is

etidy:
I see a lot of Durant is sensitive comments but kobe and mj were tough men. I disagree with this, imagine if kobe and mj played in this social media era were every thing u do and say is microanalyzed and everyone has an opportunity to say rubbish at you. I am pretty sure kobe and mj would have been seen as ultrasensitive and psychopaths by the way they handle it.

The bias against Durant especially by bronsexuals makes you empathize with him even if you have his weak move to the warriors, it feels personal sometimes.
If you want to analyze sports that's okay.! But when it gets to the point where a journalist starts psychoanalysing a player and somehow acquires superpowers to know what the player is thinking in his head, then a line is being crossed.

I see a lot of Durant is sensitive comments but kobe and mj were tough men. I disagree with this, imagine if kobe and mj played in this social media era were every thing u do and say is microanalyzed and everyone has an opportunity to say rubbish at you. I am pretty sure kobe and mj would have been seen as ultrasensitive and psychopaths by the way they handle it.

Anyone who calls Nick Wright a basketball analyst is a joker. The guy makes my ears bleed everytime I listen to him, at least with Chuck you know he's either trolling or being plain dumb but Nick Wright actually believes the nonsense he's saying.

So happy for the warriors showing up tonight. I don't mind any other team winning the playoffs this year but definitely not the rockets. I can't stand them and their shitty brand of basketball.

I am not convinced the sixers and raptors can beat a focused Celtics in the playoffs. Well, it's just game 1. The raptors need to stop choking while the sixers don't look like a team and they have a leadership problem.

Meanwhile, I have a question for the house
If Mike buldenhozer takes the bucks to the finals and wins it, will he get the credit for turning the bucks around or would the jokers say Jason kidd and Joe prunty built the squad?

This question is actually for the Steve Kerr haters who argue that he's just lucky. Curry made a quantum leap and became MVP in kerr's first season now we are seeing the same thing with giannis and bud. There are inferences that can be made here.

Walton joining the kings, good for him

The irony is that the same night the sad event happened, we had a ruptured pseudoaneursym of the right femoral artery on our hands in my center, unfortunately my consultant a vascular surgeon had traveled out so we were planning to refer to luth. The patient went into shock, so much resuscitation, th patient somehow survived and had a A.K.A.

SmooshCHN:
Deliberately killing another human still shocks me. The sad thing is, that place has a canal where those miscreants stay and it happens from time to time. Knowing Nigeria, nothing will be done. I'm pack my bags once I'm done.
Upon their meagre salary, I can't count how many times I've seen them pay for patients bills. From common #4500 chest x-ray to CT scan of like #60000. They sometimes contribute when patients can't afford CT scan. It's not even doctors alone. The average decent Nigerian deserves a better life and that life is outside Nigeria.

Sad stuff, it was chilling when I heard the news. I didn't know that we "medics" plenty on this forum.
I started residency recently. But I have made up my mind to "port too" the system is just crazy ., no time for nonsense again.

Tundesam923:
sheesh!!! Kd would set the nba on fire. The fg and efficiency would be higher than harden, because he's practically 7 feet and can shoot over anybody. But harden has been otherworldly!!! Can kd do this on a nightly basis? The conditioning and the agression to pull this off?(kd has been know to be a bit passive, not having that mamba mentality-"go get it mentality". Kd has the skills, and he's a better overall player, but am not sure he can pull it off

KD was basically scoring champ 4 years in a row, if he didn't join golden state he would have at least 6 scoring championship now. Mehn! We have forgotten he was the slim reaper. Passive? Nah! Even in the first NBA finals run which okc lost, kd averaged 30+.. Mehn! KD is the truth..

Brook Lopez: 28-9-3-4-3 in a win tonight

D’Angelo Russell: 44-12 in an insane comeback win tonight

Ivica Zubac: 12-9 in 18 minutes tonight

Julius Randle: 45-11-6 vs Portland the other night followed by 21 pt and 30 pt games.

How did the Lakers give up on all 4 of these guys?

aliondo:
wetin dey worry this OKC sef??

Mehn the Western conference playoff picture is muddled up. Okc has gone from top 3 to trying to avoid 7th seed.

Tundesam923:
Lol @shannon. He's a goat now...but max? That guy is not in his right senses like at all. The way he hypes LeBron up? It's borderline insane! 8 points in an Nba final against the dirk and the Mavericks, not beat an aging core of Tim Duncan, Manu and Tony Parker in 2014 with 2 all stars. He argues in a vacuum so much...

Shannon is a clown but I love him, max I can bear with it despite his occasional verbal diarrhea. But you know who I can't tolerate? NICK WRIGHT ! HE'S PROBABLY THE DUMBEST, BIAS LEBTARD AND KD HATER OUT THERE. HE'S AN IDIOT

Na wa oh! The announcer doing the intro is just blaring out 3 time nba champ, 1 Time NBA champ etc... If you don't got a ring hide your face . That's still the holy grail of NBA greatness.

Randle dropping 33,11 and 6 assist, zubac dropping 16 & 11 in 22 mins, DLo producing all-star numbers.... Mehn the Lakers front office is cursed For crying out loud if you knew you don't want to resign randle at least trade him for some assets. So much blunders back to back for the Lakers
Luol Deng and mozgov deals
DLo trade
Drafting lonzo
Letting randle walk for free
The poor offers for Paul George and Kawhi
The Anthony Davis debacle
Tampering fines
Dwight Howard and steve nash disaster


Mehn! Since Dr Buss died the Lakers have been up there with the Knicks and Suns in shithousery, save for lebron looking for a sunny retirement home

Lakers traded zubac for a btec no Wagner . mehn! Rob pelinka is a bad GM period. Rob and magic may be good with the politics of the game, but team building.. Nah!

A40:
Man these Celtics looking like the biggest flops of the season low-key. Blew an 18pt lead the other night and a 28pt lead tonight. If the playoffs started today they would have home court

Kyrie is injured. Water is wet

This is the biggest question about kyrie: Injuries.
His game is so dependent on cutting, dribbling, shooting from impossible angles off the dribble that it places so much pressure on his fragile knees.

As for the Celtics chemistry issues I put some of the blame on brad Stevens, its one thing to be a tactical genius that can extract the best performance from a bunch of mediocre guys, it another to be a great manager of egos and manage a team of very talented players to a championship level. This is why I get annoyed when people disrespect Steve Kerr.
Secondly, a lot is said about how trade rumours are running the Lakers chemistry but no one talks about its influence on the Celtics locker room. You have guys like jaleyn brown, rozier, Hayward, smart and even Tatum who know their days are probably numbered in a celtics uniform.

I will keep saying it , the Lakers are not an 8th seed, any team with lebron is not a usual 8th seed. iinjuries derailed them this season and the warriors will still beat them in a 7 game series but its gonna be tough. I don't want the warriors playing them in the first round . If they can shot free throws they would have given the healthy Celtics a smackdown today.
And you guys can put down all that shit about team chemistry disruption at least for now . Adversity can break a team, but it can also galvanize them.