NBA Season 2025-26

[slightly biased bias fan]

I feel so sorry for basketball fans in New Orleans.

The history of NBA basketball in their city has been fraught with cheap & incompetent ownership. Yet when their attendance figures look poor, journalists and media figures will blame the fans for not showing up and supporting the team.

Apparently their Smoothie King Center is terrible too.

All you have to do is look at the New Orleans Saints and you can see how Louisianians will come out and support their team if things are run with a semblance of competence.

[Who]

How are San Antonio 20pts down against Phoenix?

That is a shocker.

[radiohead]

If Memphis is gonna trade Ja, they might as well go on a full rebuild. If so, Santi Aldama might be a nice piece for Boston moving forward? He?d also be a nice mentor for Hugo, both being spanish.

[Who]

Phoenix hung on and got the win. They held Wemby to 9pts. 4-14 FGA with no FTs in 34 minutes. Spurs had a bad shooting night 10-41 from three. Phoenix was hot at 19-33 3PTA. That is the game there.

Phoenix won 130-118.

[Who]

Dylan Harper had 12pts in 11 minutes. Why not give him more playing time?

I have been surprised how little playing time he has been getting because he has been playing great when given a chance. He is playing 25.8mpg and putting up 14.4ppg 4.6rpg 4.6apg. That would be 20pts 6.5reb 6.5ast per 36 minutes. Good shooting numbers 48% FG 35.7% 3PT 81% FT 57.1% TS. He is playing good D too.

I don't get it.

[Who]

Injuries taking their toll?
Decline in athleticism? Still looks special to me.
Reluctance to get hit due to past injuries? Perhaps.

[keevsnick]

Dylan Harper had 12pts in 11 minutes. Why not give him more playing time?

I have been surprised how little playing time he has been getting because he has been playing great when given a chance. He is playing 25.8mpg and putting up 14.4ppg 4.6rpg 4.6apg. That would be 20pts 6.5reb 6.5ast per 36 minutes. Good shooting numbers 48% FG 35.7% 3PT 81% FT 57.1% TS. He is playing good D too.

I don't get it.

He left the game tonight with an injury.

[ozgod]

Injuries taking their toll?
Decline in athleticism? Still looks special to me.
Reluctance to get hit due to past injuries? Perhaps.

He said last season he's trying to dunk less.

Ja Morant, one of the NBA's preeminent aerial artists, is apparently no longer interested in high-flying dunks. On Nov. 6, the Memphis Grizzlies guard took a midair hit from Los Angeles Lakers center Christian Koloko while attempting to catch an alley-oop, which caused him to miss eight games with a partial posterior hip subluxation and multiple pelvic muscle strains. On Tuesday, after the Grizzlies' 121-116 loss against the Dallas Mavericks, Morant told reporters that he has come to the conclusion that his more daring dunk attempts are too risky.

"I'm not trying to dunk at all," Morant said, via ESPN's Tim MacMahon. "Y'all think I'm lying. I'm dead serious."

Morant explained: "Sometimes I get knocked out the air and [a foul] don't get called, and now I'm out longer than what I'm supposed to be. Sometimes the foul might get called; I still hit the floor, but after the game you might feel that little fall. So I just pick and choose, man. Hey, two points is two points. I get it done. That's all that matters."

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/grizzlies-ja-morant-says-hes-not-trying-to-dunk-at-all-after-alley-oop-attempt-led-to-injury/

[Redz]

Phoenix hung on and got the win. They held Wemby to 9pts. 4-14 FGA with no FTs in 34 minutes. Spurs had a bad shooting night 10-41 from three. Phoenix was hot at 19-33 3PTA. That is the game there.

Phoenix won 130-118.

No Luke = No Win

[keevsnick]

Phoenix hung on and got the win. They held Wemby to 9pts. 4-14 FGA with no FTs in 34 minutes. Spurs had a bad shooting night 10-41 from three. Phoenix was hot at 19-33 3PTA. That is the game there.

Phoenix won 130-118.

Any NBA team can beta any other NBA team on any given night. There are no guaranteed wins.

Its a good reminder not to take the results of any single game as gospel.

[Celtics2021]

Phoenix hung on and got the win. They held Wemby to 9pts. 4-14 FGA with no FTs in 34 minutes. Spurs had a bad shooting night 10-41 from three. Phoenix was hot at 19-33 3PTA. That is the game there.

Phoenix won 130-118.

Any NBA team can beta any other NBA team on any given night. There are no guaranteed wins.

Its a good reminder not to take the results of any single game as gospel.

I am not sure that maxim applies to the Nets this year, but yes, NBA teams are made up of competitive and talented players, so virtually every game is loseable (except vs. the Nets if you are a top-15 team not missing multiple starters.  Brooklyn should be relegated for the roster they have put forth this year).

[keevsnick]

Phoenix hung on and got the win. They held Wemby to 9pts. 4-14 FGA with no FTs in 34 minutes. Spurs had a bad shooting night 10-41 from three. Phoenix was hot at 19-33 3PTA. That is the game there.

Phoenix won 130-118.

Any NBA team can beta any other NBA team on any given night. There are no guaranteed wins.

Its a good reminder not to take the results of any single game as gospel.

I am not sure that maxim applies to the Nets this year, but yes, NBA teams are made up of competitive and talented players, so virtually every game is loseable (except vs. the Nets if you are a top-15 team not missing multiple starters.  Brooklyn should be relegated for the roster they have put forth this year).

Even the Nets. The Wizards last year were 18-64 with a historically bad net rating and still managed to beat the Nuggets in a game Jokic dropped 56.

Is there a huge disparity in talent between the Nets and a top 5 NBA team right now? Yes, massive, they are putrid. Its still a team f professionals who can win any given game if the other team doesn't show up to play.

[Moranis]

The Nets also have something a lot of teams don't i.e. a starter that was a starter and a major contributor on a title team.

[Neurotic Guy]

Phoenix hung on and got the win. They held Wemby to 9pts. 4-14 FGA with no FTs in 34 minutes. Spurs had a bad shooting night 10-41 from three. Phoenix was hot at 19-33 3PTA. That is the game there.

Phoenix won 130-118.

Any NBA team can beta any other NBA team on any given night. There are no guaranteed wins.

Its a good reminder not to take the results of any single game as gospel.

I am not sure that maxim applies to the Nets this year, but yes, NBA teams are made up of competitive and talented players, so virtually every game is loseable (except vs. the Nets if you are a top-15 team not missing multiple starters.  Brooklyn should be relegated for the roster they have put forth this year).

Even the Nets. The Wizards last year were 18-64 with a historically bad net rating and still managed to beat the Nuggets in a game Jokic dropped 56.

Is there a huge disparity in talent between the Nets and a top 5 NBA team right now? Yes, massive, they are putrid. Its still a team f professionals who can win any given game if the other team doesn't show up to play.

Definitely.  These are all really good basketball players and they can have one of those nights against a team that is lethargic and can?t get it going.  Bad analogy - I used to play pickup games and once every decade i just couldn?t miss and my legs were springy and I didn?t get tired ?.  It happens. Next day I sucked again.

[Vermont Green]

The Nets also have something a lot of teams don't i.e. a starter that was a starter and a major contributor on a title team.

Michael Porter Jr.?  That year he averaged about 13.4 pts in the playoffs.  Aaron Gordon averaged 13.3 pts.  Is that the major contributor you are referring to?  I think he is a fine player, averaging about 21 pts so far this season, second on the team to Cam Thomas at about 24 pts.  I see him as an OK 1-dimensional player.  Not even a starter on the BOS title team though.