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And another injury
Porzingis is doubtful to return to Wednesday's game against the 76ers due to left ankle. Way too many injuries this season
But only one and only AD is a street cloth lol

 

They might be screwed

 

i think he narrowly avoided a torn achilles, and both he and dallas need to think about his offseason training and diet at this point.

that said, they can tread water without him if they don't have other injuries, and they've shown they don't need homecourt to beat everyone else in the west, so i don't think they're dead, presuming he can return in a couple months. but the road will be hard again, which it shouldn't be with their roster construction. they should be the 2-seed in the west, not the 6 or worse.

 

FAT

 

Luka needs to get his act together. He should be the face of the NBA s/p the old guys and he's got so much going for him including the swagger of a Bird/Jordan type. But it's just so hard to take him seriously with the way he just doesn't give a s*** about taking care of his body. The weight and lack of fitness is starting to impact him - the atrocious defense last year, these types of injuries, the slow start to the year.

You can talk s*** as much as you want and boy does he tends to back it up but at the end of the day he's got no MVPs and no titles now into year 7. That's not the trajectory he should be on

 

If he played for us that would be the last time anyone saw him play ball.

 

How many summers did Luka play for Slovenia in a row before his country didn't qualify for the 24 Olympics ?

Way too many minutes played at the age of 25

 

he's actually had a lot of success, comparable to other all-time greats (not everyone is drafted on to a team with prime kareem or david robinson on it), but yeah, you can't just roll in fat every year and expect it won't catch up to you.

well, i guess harden did that for a long time before it finally did, so maybe some guys can (jokic shows up woefully out of shape almost every year, imo). but i think luka is seeing he's not one of them.