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  1. JSM

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    McCain giveaway did him in.
     
    JSM, May 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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    Uhhhh, that’s why you build a team around them that is athletic and younger than we currently have.
    We should have a team that plays nine deep. We barely have four we can count on- that’s why you never put all your hopes in “one big summer.” It almost never happens this way. Last time it did, we had the best GM ever who gambled a very good Center away, along with a bunch of other pieces, in hopes of signing Shaq. He just so happened to find one of the best players of all time out of high school in that same time frame.
    We just got Luka last season.
    It’s going to take some time.
     
    FrontOfJersey22, May 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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    I’m rooting for the Spurs to be hobbled by this series end. I’m not a big Wolves fan, but I like several of their players.
    Yeah, the Spurs have been the most dirty, underhandedly built team by the NBA since I can remember.
    Pop was a complete Jerk and is slobbered over every single time theirs a Nationally Televised Spurs game.
     
    FrontOfJersey22, May 12, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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    Come on man- JJ starting Thiero???The likelihood of that happening at the start of next season is less than me earning a two way spot with the Lakers.
     
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    FrontOfJersey22, May 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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    I will root for a team I can’t stand if it means stopping a greater evil. Lakers-Spurs does not compare to Lakers-C Bags, it was a handful of years and we got them the majority of the time, and then got them again in the Kobe-Pau run. I rooted for GS to take down the Harden Rockets to stop that evil from winning a ring, I will root for the Spurs if they advance to take out the Thunder as they are like a whole franchise of Hardens.
     
    Weezy, May 12, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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  6. svtzr

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    He just has a lot of room to develop haha…
     
    svtzr, May 12, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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    I don’t like the Spurs, but I don’t hate them. I have respect for their organisation, for pop and their players.

    With the thunder, I just couldn’t stand the constant sniggering and laughing from the bench. That arrogance got to me and I wanted to wipe the joy off their face. I imagine the whole team felt the same way.
     
    svtzr, May 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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    R.I.P. he was so good out of Gonzaga. Was huge on that Memphis team with Ja Morant. Him And Zach Collins at Gonzaga. What Legal problems did he have. The leagues gotta speak out more on the drug use. Players have to be careful.
     
    Kobeluka99, May 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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    Yes, this. Whole team full of arrogant, flopping, classless players, reeks of it being due to so much youth and immaturity and no real old vets. It’s the chronically online generation, what Durant started, but so much worse, get off my lawn. SGA also comes across as very weird to me, like so incredibly soft yet tries to act cool, like he wants so bad to be Kobe, but he’s way too goofy and cheats the game.
     
    Weezy, May 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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    What a piece of s***. Traded McCain for 2 bags of chips.
     
    Kobeluka99, May 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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    morey's always been such a joke of a GM and never come close to a ring

    good luck to the next moronic team who hires him
     
    432J, May 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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    i respect the spurs as an organization, but that's about it. f*** them forever

    okc sucks with all the flopping, but there's absolutely zero rivalry there
     
    432J, May 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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    Couldn’t agree more with all your points. SGA and the thunder as a whole lack authenticity, they’re trying to cosplay in what they think they should be acting like. To some extent I also felt that from Tatum when he won his ring. I don’t know what it was with the older generation, it felt real, I don’t know if it’s the rise of narcissism in the social media age, but the youth are over thinking about how they’re perceived and as a whole care too much about others opinions of themselves.

    So you end up with these weird, goofy, arrogant situations. And frankly, I can’t stand that. I just want to wipe the floor with them next year.
     
    svtzr, May 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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    Everyday we’re seeing the lessening impact of bigs in the playoffs in my opinion.

    Rudy with 4/5 in 23 mins tonight
    Naz Reid with 12/5 in 30 mins

    Duren with 8/2 last night in 27 mins
    Jarrett Allen with 9/5 in 32 mins

    Unless you have a transcendent big like Jokic, Wemby or Embiid. Most teams are just playing different ways.

    So I’m not so worried playing with a big like Claxton.
     
    svtzr, May 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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    Sacramento Kings.
     
    Kobeluka99, May 12, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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