NBA Season 2025-26

[Moranis]

The NHL is the only comparable schedule to the NBA and even though they have larger rosters they still do load manage.  Not as much as NBA, but it does happen. 

Th3 schedule makes that a real issue with the back to back games.  You don't want players to load manage, dont make them play on back to back games and certainly don't make them travel in between those games.  You finish a game at 10, you get to the airport after midnight, fly somewhere, even close, and you aren't in bed until at least 3 am and then have to turn around and play again at 7 pm.   That is hard to do 10+ times a year.  Especially with a grueling sport.  The NBA is not MLB.  It is hard to do that.

[Phantom255x]

Ugh 

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/2040187516754518125?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic is out indefinitely due to a left hamstring injury, sources tell me and @mcten. He will miss the remainder of the regular season and his status is uncertain beyond that.

It is a Grade 2 injury so he will likely miss the first round of the playoffs

I won?t cheer for injury, but I will cheer whenever, and for whatever reason, the Lakers are eliminated.  Soon enough they?ll replace LeBron with a superstar and they?ll have themselves another era of contention.  Glad at least they?ll need to get past Denver, OKC and SA. Still dumbfounded by the Doncic trade. Did that really happen?

Sucks for injury but agreed with cheering for LAL losing whatever means possible. Next thing u know LeBron will demand for Steph Curry to LA.

Can't believe Nico made that trade. Gross

I actually think Lebron's best bet is to join Curry in Golden State lol and try for a title push there. Bring back Porzingis and it's Butler-Curry-Lebron-Porzingis with some decent enough depth. 

[Moranis]

Ugh 

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/2040187516754518125?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic is out indefinitely due to a left hamstring injury, sources tell me and @mcten. He will miss the remainder of the regular season and his status is uncertain beyond that.

It is a Grade 2 injury so he will likely miss the first round of the playoffs

I won?t cheer for injury, but I will cheer whenever, and for whatever reason, the Lakers are eliminated.  Soon enough they?ll replace LeBron with a superstar and they?ll have themselves another era of contention.  Glad at least they?ll need to get past Denver, OKC and SA. Still dumbfounded by the Doncic trade. Did that really happen?

Sucks for injury but agreed with cheering for LAL losing whatever means possible. Next thing u know LeBron will demand for Steph Curry to LA.

Can't believe Nico made that trade. Gross

I actually think Lebron's best bet is to join Curry in Golden State lol and try for a title push there. Bring back Porzingis and it's Butler-Curry-Lebron-Porzingis with some decent enough depth.

I don't see it.  I think if he isn't back in LA (unlikely) and doesn't retire he will be in Cleveland or New York..

[Moranis]

All NBA Team of ineligible players (only players either currently healthy or that played at least 50 games i.e. no Giannis, Haliburton, Butler, etc.)

1st Team
Cade, Edwards, Luka, Tatum, Embiid

2nd Team
Curry*, Reaves, LeBron, J. Williams, F. Wagner

Others
Herro, Giddey, PG13, Suggs/Black, Barrett, Poeltl

Not yet Qualified but still can
Jokic, Wemby, Mobley, Maxey, Booker, Zion, Wiggins

[Donoghus]

Tim Reynolds
@ByTimReynolds
There have been two days in NBA history, spanning 80 years, where at least nine games were played with an average margin of victory being at least 24 points.

Only two such days. In 80 years.

One was yesterday.

The other was Sunday.

[Phantom255x]

Ugh 

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/2040187516754518125?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic is out indefinitely due to a left hamstring injury, sources tell me and @mcten. He will miss the remainder of the regular season and his status is uncertain beyond that.

It is a Grade 2 injury so he will likely miss the first round of the playoffs

I won?t cheer for injury, but I will cheer whenever, and for whatever reason, the Lakers are eliminated.  Soon enough they?ll replace LeBron with a superstar and they?ll have themselves another era of contention.  Glad at least they?ll need to get past Denver, OKC and SA. Still dumbfounded by the Doncic trade. Did that really happen?

Sucks for injury but agreed with cheering for LAL losing whatever means possible. Next thing u know LeBron will demand for Steph Curry to LA.

Can't believe Nico made that trade. Gross

I actually think Lebron's best bet is to join Curry in Golden State lol and try for a title push there. Bring back Porzingis and it's Butler-Curry-Lebron-Porzingis with some decent enough depth.

I don't see it.  I think if he isn't back in LA (unlikely) and doesn't retire he will be in Cleveland or New York..

Those are good options too. Cleveland would be cool, a final 1-2 seasons there with Mitchell + Harden and others (if they can work it out cap-wise by offloading someone else and LBJ taking a discount).

[Phantom255x]

Tim Reynolds
@ByTimReynolds
There have been two days in NBA history, spanning 80 years, where at least nine games were played with an average margin of victory being at least 24 points.

Only two such days. In 80 years.

One was yesterday.

The other was Sunday.

It might only get worse when they add the two expansion teams, but yeah whatever they have tried just isn't working. The league IMO does have more parity now than it did a decade ago, but there's also a pretty consistent bottom-class (the bottom third of the league) that's consistently the same teams who keep tanking or don't compete in the Spring (Jazz, Wizards, etc.). But even some of the scheduling like B2Bs or those "5 games in 7 days" stretches are leading to even playoff teams saying F it, we'll rest most of our team on this day near the end of it.

And also, adding some sort of tournament or another version of the NBA-Cup to determine draft spots or lottery odds like has been discussed feels like it'll be a disaster too. Why would the players and coaches on those teams care for that at all?