Paul Reed says he didn’t sign up for the 65-game rule, per
@sam_amick
.
“I don’t remember signing no paper work, you feel me? I guess the union okayed it. They probably didn’t have a choice though… It’s tough.”
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"Good luck today on the draft. But I gotta tell you that doesn't mean anything. I was 41st pick and nobody counted me... Just work hard, surround yourself with good people that you trust."
Nikola Jokic shares advice to Anthony Black before the NBA draft
(via AnthonyBlack/YT)
Last time Joel Embiid played in Denver:
Barack Obama was president
Jayson Tatum was in high school
COVID-19 didn’t exist
MPJ was a rookie
Is he ducking? 👀
in a playoff run where we’ve played LeBron, KD, AD, Booker, Chris Paul, KAT, and more
Anthony Edwards has been the best and most scary player we’ve faced
Michael Malone brought Bruce next to him and said on the mic: “Is Brucey B going anywhere? Hellll no.”
The crowd erupts in cheers.
“We want Bruce” chants start
Bruce Brown smiling ear to ear the whole time.
Did Malone and Nuggets fans single handedly convince him to stay?
Lakers and Warriors fans pretending like the NBA is rigged against them for the Denver Nuggets is a testament to how hopeless this team makes other fanbases feel
Steve Kerr sounds off after Nikola Jokic’s 18 free throws: “I have a problem with the way we are legislating defense out of the game.We're just enabling players to BS their way to the foul line. If I were a fan, I wouldn't have wanted to watch the second half. It was disgusting."
NBA Twitter has gotten to a point where we are diminishing a dude who scored 70 points in an NBA game, this app is beyond cooked for basketball discourse 😭
“Do you think Jokic can be a top 5 center? “By the end of his career he will be”
“Do you think Embiid can be a top 5 center?” “Top 5 is hard to cut into”
Crying 😭 they know
i know every fanbase complains about refs so this might fall on deaf ears, but i’ve legitimately never seen anything like what’s happening to the Nuggets this season
at what point do we question whether Jokic and the Nuggets are being explicitly antagonized by refs?
Sixers in their last 4 playoff games:
2-0 without Embiid
0-2 with Embiid
Embiid has also dropped in every statistic from regular season to playoffs.
MVP 😬
maybe if drew hanlen spent less time shitting on jokic on twitter and more time doing his job training embiid and tatum they wouldn’t have both gotten embarrassed in the playoffs
Carmelo Anthony defines a ‘pure hooper’:
"You can put them anywhere in the world, any court, any ball, any basket and they’ll get to it… Allen Iverson is a pure hooper, Tracy McGrady, JR Smith, Lou Will, Jamal Crawford, KD and myself.”
(via
@overtime
, h/t
@ClutchPoints
)
Missed games in this season:
Jamal Murray: 23
Kyrie Irving: 22
Mavs fans keep comparing Luka this year to Jokic’s 2022 MVP (where Jamal missed 82 GAMES)
But conveniently ignore that Murray has missed more games than Kyrie THIS SEASON
Dumbest fanbase ever?
The NBA themselves have decided that the Nuggets do not have multiple stars, but every team they faced in the playoffs does.
There should no longer be any question as to whether Jokic just had a top 5 playoff run in NBA history, and faced the hardest competition possible along
Realistically, why should Embiid get to use games vs. Jokic in Philly as part of MVP and legacy arguments when he’s too scared to give Jokic the chance to get his lick back?
“Greatest scorer of our generation” but can’t handle a single night in Denver
The last time the Warriors or Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets:
- Peyton Watson was in high school
- Donald Trump was president
- The iPhone 12 hadn’t come out yet
Apparently Tim Connelly came to Malone asking about trading Jamal for a star a couple years ago and Malone said no
Who do y’all think the marquee player was?
Final NBA Finals Ratings:
- Nuggets-Heat: 11.64 Million Viewer Average
- Warriors-Celtics: 12.4 Million Viewer Average
- Bucks-Suns: 9.91 Million Viewer Average
- Lakers-Heat: 7.45 Million Viewer Average
Nuggets-Heat had the highest rated Game 5 in the last 4 years
idk if i’m in the minority of nuggets fans but i personally don’t want to retire jokic and melo’s jerseys at the same time. melo does not deserve to be on the same banner as jokic
MPJ went from being seen as a selfish player who would eventually ask out of the Nuggets to being one of the most mature and poised players in the league
Love this answer from Michael Porter Jr. out of his halftime interview:
"Your big 3 has 32 points at the moment, what else do you guys need to do for this squad to get a win?"
"We got a big 10, a big 12, how many is over there, that's how many we got."
thinking about how sixers fans clowned jokic yesterday for “not being the best player on the nuggets” and then the next day embiid is the 4th best player on the sixers