The Official 2025/2026 NBA Season - The New York Knicks Are The 2026 NBA CHAMPIONS!!!
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January: “Last time… I don’t speak to you.”
February: “Enjoy typing at the wind… You’re on ignore.”
March: “I have a few minutes.”
You are weak-minded and pathetic.
It doesn’t matter that you elaborated on your one word response and I guess your point is that you could have made a real post and chose not to? I scanned that part but really didn’t read your wall of recycled insults. You have all this impotent venom and all I’m doing is calling out your bullshit when it impacts the thread.
The pattern is clear— you’re the only person in here responding several times a day with one word replies and you didn’t do that when the NBA thread was started by someone else. My problem is not that you are a loser, which you are, it’s how your loserdom makes the thread pointlessly long and hard to follow.
You aren’t fooling anyone.
February: “Enjoy typing at the wind… You’re on ignore.”
March: “I have a few minutes.”
You are weak-minded and pathetic.
It doesn’t matter that you elaborated on your one word response and I guess your point is that you could have made a real post and chose not to? I scanned that part but really didn’t read your wall of recycled insults. You have all this impotent venom and all I’m doing is calling out your bullshit when it impacts the thread.
The pattern is clear— you’re the only person in here responding several times a day with one word replies and you didn’t do that when the NBA thread was started by someone else. My problem is not that you are a loser, which you are, it’s how your loserdom makes the thread pointlessly long and hard to follow.
You aren’t fooling anyone.
All these one word replies to drive up the number of posts in “his” thread, shit isn’t sly at all. And causes more reposts because nobody can keep up.
Psycho loser
Idk but I want them to get in the lottery
Team needs a purge this offseason
Damn… I pay no attention to the NCAA but I have heard a lot of hype of this Boozer kid over the last two weeks. Crazy and sad for his college career to end like that.
They had those players for an average of how long though? The list looks worse than the reality.
KAT is always flailing
It looked like he was trying to flop for a foul.
big goofy muthafucka
It’s easy to criticize Barkley. I would have signed the couple that were right there. But as someone who gives that grace to others, I do recognize that it is disrespectful for the fan to keep asking once someone says no. People want to take kindness and exploit it as weakness and get mad when the kindness is gone even when it is in response to disrespect!
The Magic are focusing on Cancun at this point. The only reason we're the 8 seed and not the 9 seed is that Miami found a way to lose to Indiana.
I'm hoping we get knocked out of the play-in to force drastic changes in the off season.
Knew what the top reply would be.
But I am interested to see where he lands next year.
36 games played this year, 6 starts, 24 minutes a game, only 5 down from last season. 13.3 points a game, putting up 7.4 threes a game and only hitting 32.8%. Only 4 twos per game, 36.7% overall shooting.
That’s pretty putrid. I still think he can succeed with the right setting and mentality.
What’s sad is this was probably tweeted by some young kid who is just trying to do their job, but those last six words are the problem.
When entry level social media coordinators are instructed to highlight certain players, they have some level of discretion on the context and captions.
The default mindset is always to compliment, so the author is not responsible for the brand criticizing its own assets/gets in trouble with their boss.
But excessive caution leads to obvious pandering, which can turn an audience against the subject as quickly as slander.
The potential of something like this tweet below happening — a play that happens hundreds of times per game — and is not even close to qualifying as one of Wemby’s “nevermind”s. Now you are insulting your customers’ intelligence.
The NBA has an obligation to document its current events and package them into an easily-consumable product. It is the entertainment business after-all.
However, the continuous examples of something like this happening from their main channels suggests a reassessment of their internal storytelling methods may be necessary. This type of content does more damage to their brand than I think they realize.
I was thinking this sounded like an early season Golden State vs Portland game.
ChatGPT said the best fits were Lakers vs Thunder or Knicks vs Hornets, just based on me feeding it my comment.
When I let it know the Iran/US part of the analogy, the response was interesting:
With that clarification, I’d split it into two different kinds of “best fit”:
Best literal fit: Knicks over Hornets
Best rhetorical / vibe fit: Lakers over Thunder
Here’s why.
With the White House framing, the “older team” is not just older. It is:
- a veteran power,
- landing the early blows,
- then saying the younger side should stop fighting and simply accept that it has lost.
The Knicks-Hornets pairing still fits that most cleanly. In the standings, New York is clearly ahead of Charlotte, 48-27 to 39-36. ESPN’s current depth charts list the Knicks’ starters as Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, and Karl-Anthony Towns, while Charlotte’s starters are LaMelo Ball, Kon Knueppel, Brandon Miller, Miles Bridges, and Moussa Diabate. Using ESPN’s listed roster ages, that’s roughly a 29.4-year-old Knicks starting five against about a 23.8-year-old Hornets starting five. So this gives you both pieces the analogy needs: the older team is actually ahead, and the younger team is noticeably younger and more athletic.
But if you are asking which pairing best captures the imperial tone of the statement — the sense of an aging superpower talking down to a younger, more dynamic opponent — then I would change my pick to Lakers over Thunder. The Lakers’ current starters are listed by ESPN as Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves, Marcus Smart, LeBron James, and Deandre Ayton, while OKC’s are Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Luguentz Dort, Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, and Isaiah Hartenstein. By ESPN’s listed roster ages, that’s about 30.8 for the Lakers’ starters versus about 25.8 for OKC’s. That is a very recognizable “aging veteran power versus younger athletic challenger” contrast. The problem is that it is not the best literal fit for the quote, because Oklahoma City is actually ahead in the standings, 59-16 to 48-26.
So my revised answer is:
If you want the analogy to work literally:
US = Knicks, Iran = Hornets
If you want the analogy to feel most like the White House posture:
US = Lakers, Iran = Thunder
One more nuance: the “subs in its goons” line actually pushes me a bit back toward the Knicks.
Hart, Anunoby, and Bridges give that team more of a grinding, physical, wear-you-down identity than the Lakers, who feel more star-and-shotmaking driven. So once you include that part of the wording, my overall choice is:Best overall after your clarification: Knicks over Hornets.
Best if you prioritize old-power-versus-young-challenger symbolism: Lakers over Thunder.
If you allow any playoff series, the best fit is the Bad Boy Pistons vs the young Bulls — especially the 1989 and 1990 Eastern Conference Finals.
That fits the analogy better than the team examples I gave.
Why it works:
- Older team: the Pistons were the veteran power.
- Younger, more athletic challenger: the Bulls were the rising team built around a younger Jordan and Pippen.
- “Accept defeat” posture: Detroit’s whole message to Chicago in that era was basically, you are not ready, we run this conference, stop pretending otherwise.
- “Subs in its goons” part: this is the strongest fit of all. The Pistons were famous precisely for the physical-enforcer dimension of their style. If the analogy needs the older side to say, “if you keep resisting, what happens next is on you,” Detroit is about as close as the NBA gets.
US = Bad Boy Pistons
Iranian resistance = early Jordan Bulls
That is much better than Knicks-Hornets or Lakers-Thunder.
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True, he also played 3 college years
In his response to Pat Bev, Wade talked about being heavily hampered by injuries.
How much do you think his “aging” or decline was due to skill set vs health?
I 100% understand, I'd wanna wash that bad energy off and start out fresh too.
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