{~}Official 2023/2024 NBA Thread - 2024 Summer League, USA Hoops
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Yes, he retired last year, so he obviously did not play against this year's rookies.
Goodnight, you dumb motherfucker.
Greatest passer ever was a laker but not lebron
Next your dumb ass will say Haslem (who played longer than Iguodala) played against 35% too.
Dickeaters arguing against stats just making shit up, desperation. 
Tell us who at age 39 was averaging 25 a night? Kobe nor Steph have ever shot this well from the field (52.4%) The GOAT is shooting this season and MJ only bested it four times all in his mid 20's. LeBron is 39 doing the shit, and he not even going full throttle yet. He's just coasting. You're too stupid to understand what you are seeing out there bub.
He just played a long time.
Because he played a long time.
Means nothing. He. Played... A. Long. Time.LeBron is 39 doing the shit, and he not even going full throttle yet. He's just coasting. You're too stupid to understand what you are seeing out there bub.
@ Zydrunas Illgauskas. Thats who Cleveland gave this nigga to run with. Malpractice.
Lol Jawn, I’m just fucking around. They are going to have to win in shootouts though. They’re definitely not good in the East.
A triple double with seven threes doesn't happen every day. Even if he wasn't the first in the franchise to do it the numbers are still impressive.
I accept this is a complete hypothetical, but I say every year that the league would be improved greatly with a shorten season. Massively shorthen. By like half.
With the additional with the IST, a season of 40+ games would be perfect. The flow of the season would move better and maintain people's attention better.
You start with a few pre season games, then start off with the IST. After that there about a week of garbage games until X-mas games. Then another week garbage games and then allstar weekend celebrating everyone who balled out in IST.
Pretty much move right into playoff positioning after allstar weekend. Having a shorter season might even help the playoff positioning feel more like divisional rivalries, which the NBA is sorely lacking. That last half of the season shouldn't be more than a month, then bam PIT and Playoffs.
Less games could hopfully keep people on the court for an entire season. Stories kike Ja and Draymond would make better sense with a shorten season. Ja comes back after the Xmas games or allstar break. Draymond would just be done until the playoffs. Maybe the year
hard to care.
Cry me a river about billionaires and corporations making half as many billions with fewer games. You can tell them record books to go fuck themselves too.
Half of the NBA season is currently garbage games that even ESPN 5 won't air. No one cares about the Jazz v Wizards of a snowy Wednesday night in mid January.
I know, I know hypothetical.... A man can dream, can he not
With the additional with the IST, a season of 40+ games would be perfect. The flow of the season would move better and maintain people's attention better.
You start with a few pre season games, then start off with the IST. After that there about a week of garbage games until X-mas games. Then another week garbage games and then allstar weekend celebrating everyone who balled out in IST.
Pretty much move right into playoff positioning after allstar weekend. Having a shorter season might even help the playoff positioning feel more like divisional rivalries, which the NBA is sorely lacking. That last half of the season shouldn't be more than a month, then bam PIT and Playoffs.
Less games could hopfully keep people on the court for an entire season. Stories kike Ja and Draymond would make better sense with a shorten season. Ja comes back after the Xmas games or allstar break. Draymond would just be done until the playoffs. Maybe the year
hard to care.Cry me a river about billionaires and corporations making half as many billions with fewer games. You can tell them record books to go fuck themselves too.
Half of the NBA season is currently garbage games that even ESPN 5 won't air. No one cares about the Jazz v Wizards of a snowy Wednesday night in mid January.
I know, I know hypothetical.... A man can dream, can he not
The poster you responded to has a vested interest in downplaying the accomplishments of today's players and the skill level required to perform at a high level in the modern NBA. His favorite player all time hasn't been on an NBA court in 8 years and shot 6 threes a game in his last 2 sessons, making less than 29% of them. What happened last night is absolutely impressive.
Your not wrong with what your saying. This product the NBA is putting out is abysmal. Teams getting beat by 50, 68 points? Meanwhile ticket prices continue to rise like a muthafucka. It's ridiculous.I accept this is a complete hypothetical, but I say every year that the league would be improved greatly with a shorten season. Massively shorthen. By like half.
With the additional with the IST, a season of 40+ games would be perfect. The flow of the season would move better and maintain people's attention better.
You start with a few pre season games, then start off with the IST. After that there about a week of garbage games until X-mas games. Then another week garbage games and then allstar weekend celebrating everyone who balled out in IST.
Pretty much move right into playoff positioning after allstar weekend. Having a shorter season might even help the playoff positioning feel more like divisional rivalries, which the NBA is sorely lacking. That last half of the season shouldn't be more than a month, then bam PIT and Playoffs.
Less games could hopfully keep people on the court for an entire season. Stories kike Ja and Draymond would make better sense with a shorten season. Ja comes back after the Xmas games or allstar break. Draymond would just be done until the playoffs. Maybe the year
Cry me a river about billionaires and corporations making half as many billions with fewer games. You can tell them record books to go fuck themselves too.
Half of the NBA season is currently garbage games that even ESPN 5 won't air. No one cares about the Jazz v Wizards of a snowy Wednesday night in mid January.
I know, I know hypothetical.... A man can dream, can he not
You totally missed the point. I wasn’t at all arguing it wasn’t impressive.
“Even if he wasn't the first in the franchise to do it the numbers are still impressive.” I agree! But the entire point of the tweet was nobody had hit those exact numbers!
31 PTS
10 REB
10 AST
3 STL
8 3P
We don’t know that nobody in Pelicans history has had that slightly better hypothetical stat line I posted above, with one more 3 made.
I wasn’t diminishing the triple double with 7 3s. I diminished the importance of nobody in franchise history having had that exact stat line, which is purely trivia. We don’t know from that tweet that someone else didn’t have 28/11/10 one night. Or 31/10/10. There’s no value in those precise numbers— 28/10/10/3/7 3P— not having been hit before. It’s ridiculous to hype! Like obsessing over what distinguishes each flake of snow!
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I bet that dirty MF'er BrickMuse runs that account, thinks he's slick including Klay in the picture
People care about triple doubles.
Getting 20/9/10 is not super different than getting 20/10/10 but it matters so much to people that Giannis tried to get a garbage time "rebound" just to have double digits (they later rescinded the rebound).
If you search "player with most threes in a game with pelicans" on statmuse, there's only one player with a double digit amount of assists while making at least seven threes: Ingram.
And that's a major problem.
Honest admission her fellas, I've been a fan my whole life. Growing up in Philly oh course made me a 2nd Rounders fan. And sadly the only times in my life that I've ever been able to go to multiple games in a season is when the team has been garbage.
When tickets were dirt cheap and we got nose bleeds with the knowledge that by the 2nd (3rd at the lastest) we'd be able to move down to WAY better seats without ANY problems.
Modern NBA events are the worst. Tickets are sky high and the basketball game is a feature act in the building. These new NBA owners are more interested in building arena experiences than a winning team.
"Come spend at least $1000 tonight on a ball game. And while you're here, don't forget to check out the in-arena aquarium, the 5 star restaurant with some celebrity chef, or the secondary show or concert happening in a different part of the building during the game."
It's hard to convince your modern day 9-5 working fan who does love the team, to spend $800-$2000 for 2 tickets to a mid January garbage game. A game that again, isn't even airing on ESPN 5! Cable packet with 1000 channels, including 'the basic' NBATV channel. Which mean you get one maybe two of the ten games on.... unless you pay even more for GameDay.
Shoutout to We Believe Era and early Dubs fans. It must suck to build one of the best true basketball cities cultures right there in an arena. And then have the team wins some rings and immediately move across the bridge to a new arena where the tickets in even the nose bleeds added a 0 at the end. Not even the Finals games in that new arena come close to the energy the old one had a regular season game.
But fuck it, they air more ads and make more money so I should shut up
It says a lot that the NBA makes so much on sports betting ads, ads in general, and expensive arena experiences to completely offset the fact that their core audience can't afford (time and/or money) to actual see all the product.
When I say fuck those billionaires who would 'suffer' with half less games on the schedule, that's who I mean. The sport media industry loses with less games. The ad men, the onwers, the talking heads, etc. The fans, players, and quality of the game would all go up.
Shut out to Lakers fans. Just imagine if y'all could have taken that IST energy straight into X-mas and then allstar break. Without 2-3 months of garbage games where
- Old basketball logic: teams get their chemistry together throughout the season.
- How it actually plays out: teams lose that early season energy while several important people get injured playing meaningless mid-season basketball.
These pass couple seasons passes have been on another level. Anyone who still thinks teams from the 90's could hold their own to teams today is are just being delusional.
I wasn't making a point about triple doubles-- the hypotheticals I posted were all triple doubles, too.
"Only one player with a double digit amount of assists while making at least seven threes" is a real distinction to me. I would not have taken issue with that framing.
That number of threes with exactly 28/10/10/3 is pointless trivia-- If two Pelicans had done it with 30/10/10/3, he would still be the first to post those exact numbers. I get that no Pelican has done that because of the extra research you did but the tweet failed to make that point.
All facts here bruh. Some of the realist shit you ever gon type. And with the talk of expansion, that will be even more bad basketball. More players who have no business in the league being coached by human beings who have no business coaching.And that's a major problem.
Honest admission her fellas, I've been a fan my whole life. Growing up in Philly oh course made me a 2nd Rounders fan. And sadly the only times in my life that I've ever been able to go to multiple games in a season is when the team has been garbage.
When tickets were dirt cheap and we got nose bleeds with the knowledge that by the 2nd (3rd at the lastest) we'd be able to move down to WAY better seats without ANY problems.
Modern NBA events are the worst. Tickets are sky high and the basketball game is a feature act in the building. These new NBA owners are more interested in building arena experiences than a winning team.
"Come spend at least $1000 tonight on a ball game. And while you're here, don't forget to check out the in-arena aquarium, the 5 star restaurant with some celebrity chef, or the secondary show or concert happening in a different part of the building during the game."
It's hard to convince your modern day 9-5 working fan who does love the team, to spend $800-$2000 for 2 tickets to a mid January garbage game. A game that again, isn't even airing on ESPN 5! Cable packet with 1000 channels, including 'the basic' NBATV channel. Which mean you get one maybe two of the ten games on.... unless you pay even more for GameDay.
Shoutout to We Believe Era and early Dubs fans. It must suck to build one of the best true basketball cities cultures right there in an arena. And then have the team wins some rings and immediately move across the bridge to a new arena where the tickets in even the nose bleeds added a 0 at the end. Not even the Finals games in that new arena come close to the energy the old one had a regular season game.
But fuck it, they air more ads and make more money so I should shut up
It says a lot that the NBA makes so much on sports betting ads, ads in general, and expensive arena experiences to completely offset the fact that their core audience can't afford (time and/or money) to actual see all the product.
When I say fuck those billionaires who would 'suffer' with half less games on the schedule, that's who I mean. The sport media industry loses with less games. The ad men, the onwers, the talking heads, etc. The fans, players, and quality of the game would all go up.
Shut out to Lakers fans. Just imagine if y'all could have taken that IST energy straight into X-mas and then allstar break. Without 2-3 months of garbage games where
With a shorten season, the Lakers and Nuggets would just be running through the season just waiting to see each other again in the playoffs. With the season's current length, we instead hold our breathe to see if the Lakers can make it that long without breaking.
- Old basketball logic: teams get their chemistry together throughout the season.
- How it actually plays out: teams lose that early season energy while several important people get injured playing meaningless mid-season basketball.
This wasn't even his prime. That was just raw talent. Being able to win 2 championships, 2 MVPs, and 2 Finals MVPs in 4 seasons with injury prone teammates that underperformed frequently and cheap ownership was still impressive.
Not just the teams, the players. They were way more one dimensional than today's players and 90's players couldn't shoot. That's the era of the "3 point specialist" and 20 foot 3 point lines. 90's era was more of a TV show than actual quality basketball.
@Amajorfucup do you think a Small Forward or an NBA franchise even could be successful in 2024 with that Small Forward going 35 regular season games without making a single 3 point shot? Do you think they could be a top offense and make the playoffs?
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