I don’t know how he wouldn’t be tbh, you can’t have players throwing shit at refs LMAO

Bush league

The NBA needs to sit him the rest of this game. What the **** is the reply center for if not this.

Well that’s not gonna happen but this game is over anyway

Wolves putting on a defensive masterclass. My god. AE is a killer on both ends too. They’re making the Nuggets look like a D-II team out there

Are we still sure the Wolves can't hang with the Nuggets? LMAO

Nooooooo we're much better off if he plays! Make the Nuggets increase his minutes instead!

Keep up this pressure through the 3rd. I want to see the Luka Garza and Josh Minott Show! LMAO

Jokic playing the ole defense

Jokic is still hung over from watching ponies at the derby

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Murray &amp; Jokic when it’s not D’Angelo Russell and Rui Hachimura on defense <a href="https://t.co/sZGCjR3Yol">pic.twitter.com/sZGCjR3Yol</a></p>&mdash; LakeShowYo (@LakeShowYo) <a href="https://twitter.com/LakeShowYo/status/1787680590743175447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Maybe they can thrive without Rudy. But as long as Minnesota bigs can't keep out of foul trouble you need all the depth you can get

They’re gonna go back to Rudy (obviously) but if Denver starts turning this series back around next game with him on the floor, they’ll know now what they can go back to and have success.

So obviously the Wolves greatly benefitted from trading away Deangelo because they got old man Conley, but the really funny part is that Alexander-Walker was basically a throw-in player to the deal, and he alone might be worth the trade

He's playing incredible off the bench

Ant with the incredible shot vs two defenders.

Trading FOR Russel was one of the worst mistakes they've made, and they've made a TON of mistakes.

Does the name Joe Smith ring a bell to you?

Beginning to think Canada may end up starting Alexander-Walker over Wiggins this summer based on what I’m seeing.

And every team always gets better trading Russell away. The guy is as useless as it gets when it really matters. Somehow the Lakers didn’t figure that out after last season.

JR Rider, Christian Laettner, Butler trade (in both directions), etc.

I'm not sure Monte Morris could be more useless. WTF is he supposed to offer, other than not drawing rim on wide-open 3s?

Only 22 pts down now.

Mike Conley is 8000 years old. He needs breaks

Amazing what a difference a year makes. Last year Denver were media darlings since jokic is fun to watch. But Murray's a little bitch and porters family is an embarassment

What is it with Denver and reerun chants?

The Broncos have IN-COM-PLETE and the Nuggets have TURNOVER

That's fine, but why not go for a competent backup?

Minnesota appears to be acknowledging his suckage by not giving him minutes. However, when he DOES go in, he actively hurts the team. Is there literally nobody else available?

Jamal is 3 for 17 in this game, the TWolves are gonna want him playing in game 3

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jamal Murray when not playing the Lakers <a href="https://t.co/VuFo8YXAZO">pic.twitter.com/VuFo8YXAZO</a></p>&mdash; Lakers All Day Everyday (@LADEig) <a href="https://twitter.com/LADEig/status/1787678246827634731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It’s Over now

Was over in 2nd Q

Exactly what I was going to say.

YAY! I got my wish! Even got a bucket!

Yeah, I underestimated these Wolves.

Those mother****ers are savage. Spreading hate and discontent.

Credit to them. They played some amazing ball tonight.

Somebody is going to have to explain to me how/why the Pacers were called for a "kicked ball" that CLEARLY wasn't a kicked ball. I get that the NBA wants the Knicks to advance (see: Game 2 vs. Philly), but THAT was blatant.

That, and the illegal screen nonsense, changed the game.

The ref didn't have a good angle of that play, even on TV it was kind of hard to see. The Pacers didn't have any challenges left IIRC.

Because it was a playoff game at MSG

Here is the slowed down version. Not sure why the other 2 refs couldn't see this. The rule is you can't challenge a kicked ball.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Refs called this a kicked ball... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDvsNYK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#INDvsNYK</a> <a href="https://t.co/lmlYF642xk">pic.twitter.com/lmlYF642xk</a></p>&mdash; Rate the Refs App (@Rate_the_Refs) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rate_the_Refs/status/1787663613404291456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If you don't have a good angle, you DON'T blow your whistle. You can't assume that something that CLEARLY didn't happen...happened.

A total of ZERO people were actually dumb enough to think that was a kicked ball.

My P's got jobbed.

The atmosphere for Game 3 in Minnesota is going to be insane.

I’ll be shocked if the Nuggets come out of that game with a win.

You cannot challenge a kicked ball call.

Wolves are very impressive but they're kind of ****ed when the NBA inevitably decides to steer the more lucrative series into extra games with the way they play defense.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The years of fraudulent blatant lies being covered up by mass marketing and propaganda being exposed. <a href="https://t.co/UNCdDjEj7D">https://t.co/UNCdDjEj7D</a></p>&mdash; Isiah Thomas (@IsiahThomas) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsiahThomas/status/1787813101162627216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Once again, KCC bringing up MJ unprovoked...

Going to bat for Isiah Thomas also who is a huge POS himself. Probably more of a fraud then even Lebron if it's possible.

Can't say MJ was wrong. Chemistry matters when there isnt a huge difference in skill.

Far worse **** up selecting Laettner over Shaq

Who we got fellas? Thunder or Mavs?

Should be a good series

I get that but they wanted to take the best "college player". Even Shaq said CL was a better college player. It just didn't translate to the NBA.

Thunder in 6.

Yeah, they did. Right after the Sixers got jobbed as well.

(BTW, Pacers are my team in the East, so let's get 'em!)

Shaq was wrong.

Thunder but the Mavs have a better shot than people are giving them IMO.

I wasnt crazy about the Mavs. But a credit to kyrie, he seems to have accepted a role as Lukas side piece. It was clunky when they played like two aces. Kyrie seems to be ok with turning on the jets when they need Luka less and it seems to be working.

Luka is incredible. At times the dude looks as fast as a middle aged man but he is just impossible to guard.

The key in the Mavs improvement this year isn't those two. Its the arrival and emergence of Gafford. They finally have some defense.

Its going to be fun watching Luka guard anyone on the Thunder. Good luck buddy

Lively is really good as well.

Luka a ho

SGA is torching these guys as expected

The NBA has a blowout problem. Yeesh.

OKC is just better than Dallas. It's that simple.

3 out 4 games the last 2 days were over in the early 4th quarter. I get that these are are mismatches. But teams waving the white flag in the early 4th is weak shit. Adam silver if he gave a shit, which he doesn't, needs to fix that shit next year

Yeah, make it illegal to substitute and manage the game as you see fit. Sounds like a great plan.

I don't know that I've watched an entire Mavs game before but god damn is Luka slow. I knew he was slow but not that slow.

Why would you want to watch him play when you could watch Ant or someone like that?

Or maybe Adam silver shouldn't be such a dipshit with scheduling and maybe just maybe we can have less games with more breaks than watching all these NBA teams load manage and watching superstars huff and puff through game 7s.

I would say what they are doing has been an awful plan so doing anything is better than doing nothing.

Less games? In the PLAYOFFS?!? GREAT idea.

I do think 7 is too many. 5 is the sweet spot probably. But Im not going to complain. I love that the best team almost always wins.

Early series should be 5 games. And we don't need nearly as many teams. And you also don't need teams finishing off back to backs jumping immediately into an every other day series. This after a season where silver had one of the dumbest schedule designs where teams played an insane number of road back to back to backs.

That's the fixable part. The other part of the blowout issue is teams are just chucking up 3s though I don't know how you stop that

More games doesn't make for better sports. For the same reason football doesn't need more playoff teams in a season that's already a grind where you're just hoping your player will make it through healthy.

It means immediately getting to good teams against good teams. And watching superstars who are a little fresh instead of limping around by the second quarter

Knicks/Pacers game was interesting to say the least in the last few minutes last night. I only caught the last 5 minutes, but what a crazy 5 minutes. Can't believe this thread didn't have several pages added last night during the live action.

I am all for a reduced regular season, they should really cut it in half or 52 games but so should the NHL and MLB. They could start in late December and play a couple of games a week with no back to back so no need to load manage. It will never happen though because the owners want those 42 home game checks.

I like the current playoff format though especially the play in games. To add some intrigue they could make the first round a single elimination game now that would be fun.

How do the knicks win every single close game?

Entire game was good

Brunson is a dog but Tibs going to grind them into the ground

I think Hart has played every minute in both games this series

Grabbing every rebound in the 4th quarter

I could live with a longer playoff if the regular season was shorter. you can see players just breaking down left and right which just doesn't make for good playoff basketball. Maybe that also allows to build in more space between games too. Thankfully Knicks pacers has made for a close matchup this round.

Hope is that the game also evolves to less three pointers but feel like that won't happen anytime soon.

In any event it's disturbing to me to see teams pull starters in a playoff game. I get that being down 22 with 6 minutes left is bad, but man I dunno....

I mean, I hate to blame officiating but theyve gotten an insane amount of favorable calls in close games this playoff. Yesterday, the pacers just shit the bed.

Sometimes you have coaches who are too rigid. Carlisle seems way too locked in on rotations instead of sticking with their hot hand. pacers bench players are outplaying several of their starters

Apparently.

Former Mizzou player gets 30 months in prison for defrauding, or attempting to defraud the NBA Healthcare insurance system. Or something like that. Keyon Dooling got 30 months in real prison.

Big Baby Davis got 40 months.

Prison has to suck, but knowing that you were a baller, and you are rich, it has to suck even more. Like, yeah, they can buy protection, etc. or keep their commissary full, but going from living the NBA lifestyle, and being free, to being locked in a cage for for a couple of years, would be sickening.

Edit: Real criminals may not have anything on the outside waiting for them, so it makes being inside easier. But, if you knew you had a big house, nice cars, nice clothes, maybe even a personal chef, and probably a smoking hot trophy wife, etc., being locked up might be unbearable. If this was China he could just pay someone to do his time.

Keyon Dooling's had it rough, man.

Some pretty ****ed up stuff in his childhood, had a nervous breakdown while playing for the Celtics. And man, 30 months in the federal 'pen when we have dudes out there robbing, stealing and shooting at each other and not getting prosecuted at the state level is just damn odd.

Feel a little bad for him - he's probably never going to be fully 'right' in the head.

Man, these playoffs have been fun. The league is really good right now.