Why he trying his best to defend Paul George? Lol
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Jamal Murray is a gamer. I still don't know how good he can actually be but I know he at least cares he lifted the nuggets to a win tonight.
Ain't nothing better then when your team getting they ass whooped and you get the pleasure of listening to a muthafucka like Chris Webber........
This shit is AAU
Who is this guy?
That shit was beautiful.........I don't watch him enough but he looked like he took that shit to another guy tonight. I know he had a big game earlier in the series but this was on some 2k sliders all the way up type shit.
Thats whats frustrating about him... he has some playoff games where he is just unstoppable like tonight & then other nights he dissappears.
He has way too much skill & talent to be just an 18 ppg scorer. I thought he was going to take his game to an all star level this season.
I mean he's not capable of beating a team he's not suppose to beat that's for sure. I like Lillard and he's a top 3 point guard in the league for sure. I think his pass he gets is he's just not getting into that discussion. Guys like Lebron, Harden, etc. been in that discussion.
Playoff P will be trash next game mark my words.
Bucks' Giannis 5th to win MVP, DPOY in career
Giannis Antetokounmpo was named DPOY on Tuesday, becoming the fifth NBA player to win that award and MVP in his career.
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As he delivered some breaking news to reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo while surrounded by players and coaches in the locker room, he jumped on a table after sharing the details.
One day later, the NBA officially announced that Antetokounmpo was named the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
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"Usually when Coach wants to talk to us after a game, somebody messed up or somebody did something," Antetokounmpo said Tuesday. "So in my head, I'm like, 'OK.' I'm looking around like, 'Who did something?' Because I know I didn't do nothing."
Antetokounmpo won the award in a landslide, receiving 75 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earning 432 points total.
The 2018-19 NBA MVP, Antetokounmpo becomes the fifth player to win both MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in his career, joining Kevin Garnett, Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan and David Robinson.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo allowed the lowest field goal percentage in the NBA as the closest defender among 137 players to defend at least 550 shots.
| GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO | 36.3% | ||
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| Anthony Davis | 38.9% | ||
| Rudy Gobert | 40.4% | ||
| Jrue Holiday | 40.5% | ||
| >>>minimum 550 FGA defended |
Antetokounmpo, 25, anchored the best defensive team in the league in the Bucks, averaging 13.6 rebounds, 1 block and 1 steal in 30.4 minutes per game. Milwaukee allowed only 96.5 points per 100 possessions with Antetokounmpo on the court, giving him the lowest defensive rating among the more than 300 players who averaged at least 15 minutes per game.
"At the end of the day, when you go out there and compete and when you have guys behind you and next to you that compete as hard, awards like this can come," Antetokounmpo said. "At the end of the day, what I get from this is that you have to win. You have to do whatever it takes every day to go out there and put yourself in a position, put your team in a position to win, and good things are going to happen, and everything is gonna take care of itself."
According to Second Spectrum data, the Bucks superstar held opponents to 36.3% shooting when he was the closest defender during the regular season. That is the lowest field goal percentage allowed by any player in a season since Second Spectrum started tracking the stat in 2013-14 (minimum 525 field goal attempts).
Antetokounmpo sees this year as his best defensive effort yet.
"Obviously, I think I can get way better. I can be more active. I can block more shots. I can be in the passing lanes more," he said. "But going back again, having the best defensive team in the NBA, making your team being the best defensive year, I think it's been my best year, but you can always get better. You can always improve."
Antetokounmpo is the presumptive favorite to win MVP again this season. Only Olajuwon (1993-94) and Jordan (1987-88) won both the MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards in the same season.
Defensive Player of the Year has been awarded since the 1982-83 season. Antetokounmpo is the first Bucks player to win the award since Sidney Moncrief won in the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.
"It's certainly meaningful. I think trying to create an identity and trying to instill in a team and an organization this is what we want to be about," said Budenholzer, whose Bucks took a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series with the Magic in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. "To have your best player in Giannis lead the way and be honored and become the Defensive Player of the Year, it's really who we want to be and what we want to be about."
Only so long the young shit can be an excuse for the nuggets overall
Don’t see how y’all like this new AAU I mean NBA. Everything is step back/3/lay up. These two teams combined for over 60 3point attempts and for over 60 fat. Shit is ridiculous
They beating the shit out of the mavs
Damn Chris.........I just hope he gets better man he seem like a good dude..........
I mean to me it could've went either way. What are they gauging defense on?Is it stats?Because Giannis got him in rebounds....Anthony Davis too big to not be putting up at least 10 boards a game.
Yeah... i can't really knock AD for the under 10 RPG stat because of the fact that he's out there most times with another rim defender in Howard or Mcgee and Lebron who is also a good rebounder of the basketball
But part of it to me also is this obsession with Giannis... there's definitely an agenda in my opinion where he and Luka are concerned...
Paul George acting like he just won a Grammy or some shit man sit your hoe ass down....in a bad place fuckhim I knew he was gonna light our ass up......
Raps talked boycotting game in wake of shooting
The Raptors on Tuesday discussed a variety of ways to respond to the police shooting of Jacob Blake -- including potentially not playing against the Celtics on Thursday.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The Toronto Raptors held a team meeting before Tuesday's practice to discuss how they could respond to the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin -- including potentially not playing against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of a second-round playoff series Thursday.
"We knew coming here or not coming here was not going to stop anything, but I think ultimately playing or not playing puts pressure on somebody," Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said after Tuesday's practice inside the NBA's bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort.
"So, for example, this happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, if I'm correct? Would it be nice if, in a perfect world, we all say we're not playing, and the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks -- that's going to trickle down. If he steps up to the plate and puts pressure on the district attorney's office, and state's attorney, and governors, and politicians there to make real change and get some justice.
"I know it's not that simple. But, at the end of the day, if we're gonna sit here and talk about making change, then at some point we're gonna have to put our nuts on the line and actually put something up to lose, rather than just money or visibility. I'm just over the media aspect of it. It's sensationalized, we talk about it every day, that's all we see, but it just feels like a big pacifier to me."
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Video of the shooting, taken from a window across the street, was distributed on social media and shared by Crump.
VanVleet said Tuesday that many potential options for how the Raptors could make a statement were discussed by the team, but he declined to go into details.
"I'll keep that between our team," VanVleet said. "We're dealing with it in real time, and I think it affects everybody differently. It's pretty fresh on my mind, and I'm sitting in front of a camera, so I'm just speaking as I'm going. But, yeah, there's a lot of different things that we've discussed."
Celtics coach Brad Stevens said Boston had a similar team meeting Tuesday. And while Stevens said no one had specifically told him they didn't want to play, he could see the impact Blake's shooting had had on his team.
"Obviously our thoughts go to Jacob Blake and his family," Stevens said. "And, obviously, that video was horrifying. That video was awful. And to think of three kids being in that car is like ... that just makes you shaken, right? It's ridiculous. ... We've talked about it as a team and just how we feel. We haven't talked about it enough, but obviously everybody is shook.
"There's a reason why the guys, coaches, players, everyone here has chosen to really emphasize social justice and racial equality while we're here. To think that this happens again."
On Monday night, Lakers star LeBron James said, "We are scared as Black people in America. Black men, Black women, Black kids, we are terrified."
"I thought LeBron's words were poignant last night," Stevens said Tuesday. "I've said this before: I can't pretend to understand what that's like because I don't know what that's like. But I know I've heard it over and over. So there's obviously a problem. So I completely understand everybody's emotions here and elsewhere, with regard to that."
Celtics guard Marcus Smart said that while the team hasn't specifically talked about boycotting, there is a need for them to go beyond the things they have been doing inside the bubble -- from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to kneeling for the national anthem -- to try to enact change.
"We tried to be peaceful, kneeling, we tried to protest," Smart said. "And for us, we tried to come out here and get together and play this game and try to get our voice across. But it's not working, so obviously something has to be done.
"Right now, our focus shouldn't really be on basketball. I understand it's the playoffs and everything like that, but we still have a bigger underlying issue that's going on, and the things that we've tried haven't been working. So we definitely need to take a different approach, and we definitely need to try new things out to get this thing working the way that we know it should and get our voices heard even more."
All four players who spoke Tuesday -- VanVleet, fellow Raptors guard Norman Powell, Smart and Celtics forward Jaylen Brown -- have all been vocal about racial inequality and social justice, and all were visibly upset about having to speak about this happening once again.
"At some point, like, we're the ones always with the microphones in our face," VanVleet said. "We're the ones always who have to make a stand. But, like, we're the oppressed ones, and the responsibility falls on us to make a change to stop being oppressed, you know what I'm saying? That's what it boils down to.
"Like, at what point do we not have to speak about it anymore? Are we gonna hold everybody accountable, or we're just gonna put the spotlight on Black people, or Black athletes, or entertainers and say, 'What are you doing? What are you contributing to your community? What are you putting on the line?
"And then us, too, we've gotta take responsibility as well. Like, what are we willing to give us? Do we actually give a f--- about what's going on, or is it just cool to wear 'Black Lives Matter' on the backdrop, or wear a T-shirt? Like, what does that really mean? Is it really doing anything?"
The Raptors have been vocal in their push for racial equality. They arrived at the NBA bubble in buses that had "Black Lives Matter" written in large, white script on the sides.
Over the past week, Raptors players have shown support for team executive Masai Ujiri after bodycam footage was released that shows a white San Francisco Bay Area sheriff's deputy shoving Ujiri after Toronto won Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals. The Raptors met as a team to watch the video, which was filed by Ujiri, who is Black, as a part of a countersuit.
On Wednesday, VanVleet said that the altercation emphasizes why players have continued to fight for social justice.
"Obviously we're all privileged, and Masai's pretty privileged in his world, and you just stop and think about how good we got it," VanVleet said. "Because there's people who are gonna be in that same situation walking down the street who don't have money to fight the case, who don't have 20,000 people in the stands and don't have the abilities to countersue.
"How many times do cops do things like that without the bodycam on, without arena footage? It's a tough situation."
Brown took several long pauses to compose himself Tuesday while speaking to the media. He said he even had difficulty even coming to practice.
"It was hard enough even coming down here, to be honest," Brown said. "But I guess [boycotting is] something you talk about with your team, for sure. We haven't talked about that as the Celtics. But those emotions are real. That is real. Yes, we're athletes. Yes, we're being paid to play a sport that we love. But we are human beings, members of our community. We are fathers, uncles, nephews, brothers, etc. So all those emotions are real, and I don't really have a lot to say.
"I'm just happy by the grace of God that Jacob Blake is still alive, because the police who shot him, that wasn't their intention. They shot him to kill him, and that's a problem in this country. There's a million different ways you could have dissolved that situation, and your thought was to kill him. That was the best method.
"It's definitely hard to digest or to process how you feel about it. Everything on me was on fire yesterday, waking up to it. To see people changing the framing of what he did in the past, in terms of, 'Well, he was a convicted felon,' or, 'Well, he had a history of resisting arrest or possibly had a weapon.' That is not [an] unfamiliar framework in this country. We've seen that time and time again. That does not constitute or justify the fact that you are shooting someone seven times in the back or killing them, at all. Anybody who thinks differently is no friend of mine."
Yeah but the game is so fast......and all he gotta do is get boards over McGee and Howard.
He said "what message"to Shaq message. Shaq be lying his ass off.
But how often is AD dragged away from the paint guarding his man? I dunno, maybe I just didn't watch enough of their games but I know that 4 position in a lot of cases is now a stretch position so because of the game's evolution he spends way more time on the perimeter than he should
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The Toronto Raptors held a team meeting before Tuesday's practice to discuss how they could respond to the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin -- including potentially not playing against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of a second-round playoff series Thursday.
"We knew coming here or not coming here was not going to stop anything, but I think ultimately playing or not playing puts pressure on somebody," Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said after Tuesday's practice inside the NBA's bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort.
"So, for example, this happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, if I'm correct? Would it be nice if, in a perfect world, we all say we're not playing, and the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks -- that's going to trickle down. If he steps up to the plate and puts pressure on the district attorney's office, and state's attorney, and governors, and politicians there to make real change and get some justice.
"I know it's not that simple. But, at the end of the day, if we're gonna sit here and talk about making change, then at some point we're gonna have to put our nuts on the line and actually put something up to lose, rather than just money or visibility. I'm just over the media aspect of it. It's sensationalized, we talk about it every day, that's all we see, but it just feels like a big pacifier to me."
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Blake, a Black man, was shot by police on Sunday as he tried to enter the driver's side door of his vehicle. Officers were responding to a domestic disturbance. Blake's father, also named Jacob Blake, said Tuesday that his son was shot seven times. Blake's attorney, Ben Crump, said his client is paralyzed and it would "take a miracle" for him to walk again.
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- How NBA players are responding to Jacob Blake shooting
- LeBron: Black community living in fear of police
Video of the shooting, taken from a window across the street, was distributed on social media and shared by Crump.
VanVleet said Tuesday that many potential options for how the Raptors could make a statement were discussed by the team, but he declined to go into details.
"I'll keep that between our team," VanVleet said. "We're dealing with it in real time, and I think it affects everybody differently. It's pretty fresh on my mind, and I'm sitting in front of a camera, so I'm just speaking as I'm going. But, yeah, there's a lot of different things that we've discussed."
Celtics coach Brad Stevens said Boston had a similar team meeting Tuesday. And while Stevens said no one had specifically told him they didn't want to play, he could see the impact Blake's shooting had had on his team.
"Obviously our thoughts go to Jacob Blake and his family," Stevens said. "And, obviously, that video was horrifying. That video was awful. And to think of three kids being in that car is like ... that just makes you shaken, right? It's ridiculous. ... We've talked about it as a team and just how we feel. We haven't talked about it enough, but obviously everybody is shook.
"There's a reason why the guys, coaches, players, everyone here has chosen to really emphasize social justice and racial equality while we're here. To think that this happens again."
On Monday night, Lakers star LeBron James said, "We are scared as Black people in America. Black men, Black women, Black kids, we are terrified."
"I thought LeBron's words were poignant last night," Stevens said Tuesday. "I've said this before: I can't pretend to understand what that's like because I don't know what that's like. But I know I've heard it over and over. So there's obviously a problem. So I completely understand everybody's emotions here and elsewhere, with regard to that."
Celtics guard Marcus Smart said that while the team hasn't specifically talked about boycotting, there is a need for them to go beyond the things they have been doing inside the bubble -- from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to kneeling for the national anthem -- to try to enact change.
"We tried to be peaceful, kneeling, we tried to protest," Smart said. "And for us, we tried to come out here and get together and play this game and try to get our voice across. But it's not working, so obviously something has to be done.
"Right now, our focus shouldn't really be on basketball. I understand it's the playoffs and everything like that, but we still have a bigger underlying issue that's going on, and the things that we've tried haven't been working. So we definitely need to take a different approach, and we definitely need to try new things out to get this thing working the way that we know it should and get our voices heard even more."
All four players who spoke Tuesday -- VanVleet, fellow Raptors guard Norman Powell, Smart and Celtics forward Jaylen Brown -- have all been vocal about racial inequality and social justice, and all were visibly upset about having to speak about this happening once again.
"At some point, like, we're the ones always with the microphones in our face," VanVleet said. "We're the ones always who have to make a stand. But, like, we're the oppressed ones, and the responsibility falls on us to make a change to stop being oppressed, you know what I'm saying? That's what it boils down to.
"Like, at what point do we not have to speak about it anymore? Are we gonna hold everybody accountable, or we're just gonna put the spotlight on Black people, or Black athletes, or entertainers and say, 'What are you doing? What are you contributing to your community? What are you putting on the line?
"And then us, too, we've gotta take responsibility as well. Like, what are we willing to give us? Do we actually give a f--- about what's going on, or is it just cool to wear 'Black Lives Matter' on the backdrop, or wear a T-shirt? Like, what does that really mean? Is it really doing anything?"
The Raptors have been vocal in their push for racial equality. They arrived at the NBA bubble in buses that had "Black Lives Matter" written in large, white script on the sides.
Over the past week, Raptors players have shown support for team executive Masai Ujiri after bodycam footage was released that shows a white San Francisco Bay Area sheriff's deputy shoving Ujiri after Toronto won Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals. The Raptors met as a team to watch the video, which was filed by Ujiri, who is Black, as a part of a countersuit.
On Wednesday, VanVleet said that the altercation emphasizes why players have continued to fight for social justice.
"Obviously we're all privileged, and Masai's pretty privileged in his world, and you just stop and think about how good we got it," VanVleet said. "Because there's people who are gonna be in that same situation walking down the street who don't have money to fight the case, who don't have 20,000 people in the stands and don't have the abilities to countersue.
"How many times do cops do things like that without the bodycam on, without arena footage? It's a tough situation."
Brown took several long pauses to compose himself Tuesday while speaking to the media. He said he even had difficulty even coming to practice.
"It was hard enough even coming down here, to be honest," Brown said. "But I guess [boycotting is] something you talk about with your team, for sure. We haven't talked about that as the Celtics. But those emotions are real. That is real. Yes, we're athletes. Yes, we're being paid to play a sport that we love. But we are human beings, members of our community. We are fathers, uncles, nephews, brothers, etc. So all those emotions are real, and I don't really have a lot to say.
"I'm just happy by the grace of God that Jacob Blake is still alive, because the police who shot him, that wasn't their intention. They shot him to kill him, and that's a problem in this country. There's a million different ways you could have dissolved that situation, and your thought was to kill him. That was the best method.
"It's definitely hard to digest or to process how you feel about it. Everything on me was on fire yesterday, waking up to it. To see people changing the framing of what he did in the past, in terms of, 'Well, he was a convicted felon,' or, 'Well, he had a history of resisting arrest or possibly had a weapon.' That is not [an] unfamiliar framework in this country. We've seen that time and time again. That does not constitute or justify the fact that you are shooting someone seven times in the back or killing them, at all. Anybody who thinks differently is no friend of mine."
I think I’m done watching the NBA unless it is the finals. Watching this shit is truly sad.
it is great that these kids are learning how to euro, step back, and all that shit, but 60+ fta this shit ain’t basketball. No hard playoff foul and there only one was a flagrant on Tim hardaway.
I honestly don’t think that the bulls would be able to compete in this era simply because everything would be a foul.
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Bro really? 156 points and this ain’t even a overtime game?
37 three pts attempts for Dallas & 35 3pt attempts for lac. Not to mention: 33 fta for Dallas 34 attempts for LAC.
22 fouls called on Dallas 26 on lac. And everything was a technical foul.
it is great that these kids are learning how to euro, step back, and all that shit, but 60+ fta this shit ain’t basketball. No hard playoff foul and there only one was a flagrant on Tim hardaway.
I honestly don’t think that the bulls would be able to compete in this era simply because everything would be a foul.
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Bro really? 156 points and this ain’t even a overtime game?
37 three pts attempts for Dallas & 35 3pt attempts for lac. Not to mention: 33 fta for Dallas 34 attempts for LAC.
22 fouls called on Dallas 26 on lac. And everything was a technical foul.
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My bad correction 72 fta the entire game
Even Doc is getting emotional in the presser. But the stans on BGOL are staying committed to some 2004 "shut up and dribble" bullshit.
Literally the ball handler is allowed to shield of defender with off arm meanwhile defender can’t hand check at all
Even Doc is getting emotional in the presser. But the stans on BGOL are staying committed to some 2004 "shut up and dribble" bullshit.
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