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[Ringer] Zach Lowe, after much deliberation, has finally landed on his MVP vote
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Luka Doncic looking ahead to the Lakers’ title aspirations: “I think we have a great team. We have guys who are willing to go to war. Everybody is staying together, the chemistry is high. So I think we, for sure, have a chance”
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Nate Duncan I don't care how many points, rebounds, and assists he puts up in the regular season, Domantas Sabonis just isn't a difference-making player to a high-level team. Showing why that's true again tonight.
Can't defend the perimeter or at the rim, can't shoot, and his tryhard physical game gets exposed when the intensity ramps up in the playoffs.
Simply can't imagine a team playing him 40+ million ever winning a playoff series.
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NY Times “Jokić, like a bat, can tell where people are just by where sound waves originate.”
> Bruce Brown, who played for the Nuggets’ 2023 title team, knows the Jokić bump firsthand.
>Early in Brown’s season in Denver, the guard went into a handoff play with Jokić. Once the MVP received the basketball, both his defender and Brown’s followed him, which left Brown open. Brown screamed out the proper terminology.
>“Wolf! Wolf!” he yelled, the Nuggets’ alert that a double team was coming.
>With no one on him, Brown then cut to the basket, figuring Jokić could hit him for an easy layup. Instead, Jokić tossed a no-look pass far behind him and out of bounds. Later in the game, Jokić explained why.
>“Don’t cut,” he told Brown. “I’m listening to your voice.”
>Jokić, like a bat, can tell where people are just by where sound waves originate. From that point on, Brown never cut after yelling for the ball; Jokić hit him with no-look dimes constantly.
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Daily Discussion Thread + Game Thread Index
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Charania The Sacramento Kings are finalizing a deal to hire longtime NBA executive Scott Perry as their new general manager, sources tell ESPN. Perry spent three months with the Kings in 2017 before leaving for the Knicks. Perry started his exec career in 2000 with Detroit.
Charania The Sacramento Kings are finalizing a deal to hire longtime NBA executive Scott Perry as their new general manager, sources tell ESPN. Perry spent three months with the Kings in 2017 before leaving for the Knicks. Perry started his exec career in 2000 with Detroit.
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GAME THREAD: Memphis Grizzlies (0-0) @ Golden State Warriors (0-0) - (April 16, 2025)
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10:00 PM Eastern |Game Preview: NBA.com | /r/memphisgrizzlies |
09:00 PM Central |Game Charts: NBA.com | /r/warriors |
08:00 PM Mountain|Play By Play: NBA.com| |
07:00 PM Pacific |Box Score: NBA.com | |
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[Zachery Dereniowski] Nikola Jokić Meets His Number One Fan
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Cato: “Nico was asked, ‘What do you think is the fan’s biggest misunderstanding of why the trade happened?’ Nico: ‘I think the biggest misunderstanding of why this trade happened is that we feel defense wins championships.’”
From the live DLLS Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/live/m9FsmK6Mals?si=INrFmQoUihzn0XeI
> Nico was asked, “What do you think is the fan’s biggest misunderstanding of why the trade happened?” Nico: “I think the biggest misunderstanding of why this trade happened is that we feel defense wins championships.”
One of many responses today that essentially reiterated “defense wins championships”
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Tim MacMahon: "Luka was gonna sign the supermax. Why didn't you sign him and then if you really wanted to trade him [...]" | Nico: "Well there's no guarantee he would sign a supermax" | MacMahon: "He has guaranteed it, he was bawling on the bench" | Nico: "Well like I said, we can agree to disagree"
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WFAA Mavs GM Nico Harrison addressing media for just second time since Luka trade on Tuesday — and no cameras or recording devices are allowed
DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks issued an invite to a hand-selected group of media members on Monday, offering them the chance to attend a "small media roundtable discussion" on Tuesday with Mavs CEO Rick Welts and General Manager Nico Harrison.
The invite, sent out with less than 24 hours' notice, beckoned individual members of the press — not the organizations with whom they are affiliated — to attend a gathering at 10 a.m. with Harrison and Welts. The invite to the event, which is being held in the media boardroom on the platinum level of the American Airlines Center, promised "brief remarks followed by Q&A" with the top brass in the Mavericks organization.
The invite also clearly stipulated that no cameras or recording devices would be allowed in the meeting.
Instead, the team said it would provide a transcript of the discussion to attending media members after the fact.
It is not yet clear what the statement Welts and Harrison are set to provide will address, why the meeting is not being held as a press conference, or why no cameras or recording devices are being allowed.
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Source: WFAA
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AMA with Chris Hine, author of "Ant" and Timberwolves beat writer
Hi everyone. I'm Chris Hine, Timberwolves beat writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune and author of the upcoming "Ant," which is a biography of Anthony Edwards. It comes out June 3 and is available for pre-order now by clicking this link and picking your preferred retailer. It tells the story of how family and community came together during Ant's childhood and teenage years to help him make it to the NBA. For those unfamiliar with his story, two of the rocks in his life, his mother Yvette and grandmother Shirley, died of cancer when he was 13. It talks about their impact on his life and how people in Atlanta made sure Ant accomplished his goal of making to the NBA after they were gone.
It also talks about his first four years in the NBA, and the ups and downs of becoming an All-NBA player. Then it ends with with his Olympic experience playing alongside his favorite player growing up, Kevin Durant. Happy to take your questions about the book and about covering his NBA career so far.
We dropped an excerpt of the book yesterday, which discusses how Ant became the No. 1 pick in 2020, on our website at the Star Tribune: You can read it here.
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SERIOUS NEXT DAY THREAD Post-Game Discussion (April 14, 2025)
Here is a place to have in depth, x's and o's, discussions on yesterday's games. Post-game discussions are linked in the table, keep your memes and reactions there.
Please keep your discussion of a particular game in the respective comment thread. All direct replies to this post will be removed.
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Luka Dončić becomes the first international player to have NBA's highest-selling jersey.
>Lakers' Luka Dončić becomes first international player to have NBA's highest-selling jersey.
>Dončić, who is from Slovenia, is the first international player to top the most popular jerseys list and the first player other than Stephen Curry or LeBron James to top the list since the 2012-13
Crazy no international player has done this before, I definitely thought Yao Ming jersey somehow did this cause of China influence.
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Bam Adebayo has a reputation for being a great defensive player and thinks he should be in DPOY talks despite allowing 71.4% FG at the rim. The worst of any starting center in the league.
Source: https://www.nba.com/stats/players/defensive-impact?PlayerPosition=C&TeamID=0&dir=D&sort=DEF\_RIM\_FG\_PCT
He also is averaging only 0.7 blocks per game, 50th of all players in the league.
Is Bam being labeled as a great defensive player on reputation alone?
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Vijesti Ex-NBA player, Nikola Peković, one of the greatest Montenegrin players of all time, became a man of the underworld, and now (Thursday) it is reported in Serbia that he is affiliated with the Šarić crime family (no relation to Dario from Denver)
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>Police: Vehicle of criminal group member temporarily seized; "Vijesti" learns it is Nikola Peković
>A member of the Montenegrin Army was behind the wheel of the car. Two people were arrested in searches in the north, several criminal charges were filed, vehicles and weapons were seized...Police: Vehicle of criminal group member temporarily seized; "Vijesti" learns it is Nikola Peković
>A member of the Montenegrin Army was behind the wheel of the car. Two people were arrested in searches in the north, several criminal charges were filed, vehicles and weapons were seized...
>request has been filed against a member of the Montenegrin Army, Boris Dragaš (45) from Pljevlja, to initiate misdemeanor proceedings under the Law on the Prevention of Drug Abuse.
>The Police Directorate, under its initials, announced that BD was driving an armored BMW X5 owned by NP, who they said was a high-ranking member of an organized crime group from northern Montenegro.
>"Vijesti" has been confirmed by several sources that this is the famous basketball player Nikola Peković and that, according to police records, he is a member of the Šarić brothers' criminal group.
>According to the same information, there were two other people in that car, one of whom was an employee of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
>The Police Directorate announced that they searched 11 locations in the north of the country with the same number of people, among whom, as they said, were six persons of operational interest close to members of organized crime groups. The following items were seized: illegally possessed firearms and ammunition, an armored vehicle, a motorcycle, a ballistic vest, marijuana, and opiate pills. Two people were arrested and several misdemeanor charges were filed.
>They said that members of the Regional Security Center "North" yesterday carried out planned coordinated activities in several cities in the north, focusing on members of organized crime groups, persons of operational interest and those connected to them, prosecuting perpetrators of criminal offenses and misdemeanors, combating drug abuse, as well as finding and seizing firearms, ammunition and explosives in the illegal possession of citizens.
>"In continuation of repressive activities against members of organized crime groups, officers of the Bijelo Polje Security Department conducted a control of a specialized (armored) passenger motor vehicle of the BMW X5 series, Podgorica license plates, owned by NP, a high-ranking member of an organized crime group from northern Montenegro, which was driven by BD (45) from Pljevlja, a member of the Army of Montenegro, at the time of the control. During the search of the vehicle, the following were found and seized: one ballistic vest, a spray with an irritating effect, a knife - razor, an electronic device - a multifunctional detector of listening devices, camera lenses and nine Lexilium tablets. A request was filed against BD to initiate misdemeanor proceedings under the Law on the Prevention of Drug Abuse. The aforementioned vehicle was temporarily seized for further checks," the statement reads.
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Michael Porter Jr. on what’s changed since the Nuggets won a title: “I just think that the league has spread out so evenly. There’s so many good teams across the league. That playoffs that we won that championship, there wasn’t that much of a struggle throughout the playoffs.”
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Adam Silver says ratings picked up in the 2nd half of the season-“I think you saw tremendous competition around the league.. a trade that attracted a lot of attention. A bunch of things happened in the league and that generated a lot of interest”
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Adam Silver says he had no role in the Luka Doncic trade: “The commissioner doesn't have the right to block a trade, other than the trade not conforming to our rules... I learned when they called the trade into the league office.”
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Charania Amazing: Milwaukee's Damian Lillard has been cleared of his deep vein thrombosis and is no longer on blood-thinning medication, sources tell ESPN. Lillard is out for Game 1 Saturday against Indiana and will have a period of time to resume contact workouts and ramp up for return.
>Amazing: Milwaukee's Damian Lillard has been cleared of his deep vein thrombosis and is no longer on blood-thinning medication, sources tell ESPN. Lillard is out for Game 1 Saturday against Indiana and will have a period of time to resume contact workouts and ramp up for return.
>Remarkable and historic development to clear from the blood clot in just over 3 weeks. Doctors have told Bucks officials this recovery has never been seen before – but occurred due to early treatment, detection, and specialists working on Lillard even before formal diagnosis.
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[Highlight] Trae Young gets ejected after trolling the ref by refusing to give him the ball
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Atlanta Hawks fan in the Magic vs. Hawks play-in game has been making incredibly loud hawk noises while Magic players shoot free throws. He is dressed up as a hawk too.
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GAME THREAD: Atlanta Hawks (0-0) @ Orlando Magic (0-0) - (April 15, 2025)
##General Information
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07:30 PM Eastern |Game Preview: NBA.com | /r/atlantahawks |
06:30 PM Central |Game Charts: NBA.com | /r/orlandomagic |
05:30 PM Mountain|Play By Play: NBA.com| |
04:30 PM Pacific |Box Score: NBA.com | |
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Brown Dallas Mavericks GM Nico Harrison says "there's no regrets" on trading Luka Doncic
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>Dallas Mavericks General Manager Nico Harrison, along with the team's CEO Rick Welts, addressed the media in a private roundtable discussion on Monday for the first time since trading Luka Doncic to the Lakers.
>Harrison said he has no regrets trading the Mavs' superstar, despite backlash not only across the sports world but among Dallas fans.
>"There's no regrets on the trade," Harrison said during a round table discussion. "Part of it is doing the best thing for the Mavs."
>Harrison said he believes the team post-trade, which was intended to be on the floor before all of the injuries, is a "championship team." He added that once everyone is at full strength, the team will have one of the strongest frontlines in the NBA.
>Harrison said every trade he's done has been met with scrutiny.
>Since Doncic's trade, fans have shared their outrage online, outside and inside the team's home arena, American Airlines Center, holding signs and shouting "fire Nico."
>Harrison believes that Doncic is extremely talented, but doubled down in saying the trade "was the best decision going forward."
>Welts said in his 47 years in his role, he's never seen a more passionate fanbase than Dallas. "We hear them. It's on us to win back their trust," he said. "This story is unfinished. We understand the pain."
>But Welts said he's optimistic for the future of the franchise.
>Doncic, who played in his first game in Dallas since his trade last week, was emotional on his return. He entered the AAC to cheers and T-shirts with "Hvala za vse" across the front, which translates to "thank you for everything."
>He was also brought to tears when a tribute video of his time with the Mavs played after the rest of the Lakers' starting lineup had been introduced.
>Doncic had been the face of the Mavs, and he was the NBA scoring champion last season when Dallas made it to the NBA Finals. The 2019 rookie of the year had two seasons left on his contract before the trade in February 2025, in a package that brought Anthony Davis to Dallas.
>Following Doncic's return to Dallas, he told reporters he had a little more closure. Sadly, Mavs fans... he, too, has to turn the page.
>"I spent a lot of time here. Great moments," Doncic said. "But ... I got to focus on different things now."
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Daily Discussion Thread + Game Thread Index
# Game Threads Index (April 15, 2025):
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Ryen Russilo: "I'm not having a hard time with this one, I'm voting for Jokic. I decided a while ago" Bill Simmons: "The problem with the SGA candidacy, if you gave Jokic SGA's 2 through 12 I'm pretty sure he'd win 65-70 games with the team SGA has."
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Mod Post 2025 Playoffs Rule Refresher
With the Play-In beginning tonight and the playoffs starting soon, we wanted to remind you guys of some of the subreddit's rules.
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1) In an effort to promote higher quality posting and overall quality of the subreddit, we will be disabling self posts during the games.
Beginning tonight, self posts will be disabled roughly 15 minutes before the start of games for that day and will be re-enabled roughly 15 minutes after the games have ended for that day.
Game threads will be automated and stickied to the top of the subreddit.
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In the event of a record being broken, you can message us to have that approved as a self post with a source confirming the record.
We have followed this change during last couple season's playoffs and received positive feedback from the majority of the users.
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[Highlight] Russell Westbrook styled WNBA No. 6 pick Georgia Amoore draft outfit
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Who had the best dunk in 24-25 regular season?
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LaMelo Ball says he wants to stay and work things out with in Charlotte: “All that you need to leave and this and that, when you build something it’s never just gonna pop off and be the best thing. You gotta stay there and work it out.”
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