NBA on NYE: the badness of bad teams and the TANK would seem like as much of a problem as load management shenanigans. On NYE there are FIVE teams that still haven't reached double digits in wins: CHA 7-25 TOR 7-26 UTAH 7-24 WIZ 5-25 Pels 5-28 TOR put up 71 points total against the C-Bags today, and lost by 54. Maybe they need more 3-point shooting? Jeeeez.
I can see it now: TEAM A is down by 2 with 22 seconds to go and TEAM B has the ball. TEAM A is out of fouls. Despite good defense, some guy like Shai/Brunson/Ant makes a 2-point hot: TEAM A is now down 4 with no timeouts left, so they need a 4-pointer. TEAM B knows the one guy on TEAM A who can possibly make that shot from beyond halfcourt. They put a guy on him, and as he works the ball up to around the 55 foot "line", another comes over to help, but the heaver/marksman jumps to the side and puts it up with 2 secs left, appears to get knocked-down, IT BANKS IN! And-one! He makes the FT for a 5-point play and TEAM B loses by 1. Gawd that would be a drag. STATS: NBA: 2034: 4 FGA/4FGM: Going into the last week of the season, 47 year old Steph Curry still leads the NBA in 4-pointers made, 4-pointers attempted and he's 3rd in 4FG%, at 17%. This last week will be a dogfight to see who wins this season's Heaver's Trophy. I'm still adjusting to the Euro-step.
Re: the 3-ball and lousy games. Clips go into Wemby-town and shoot 11 for 41 from 3. The Spurs shoot it even worse: 9 for 40. Two teams combine for 20 for 81 from deep. You'd think it was a close game. It wasn't: Spurs shot 49% overall; Clips 34%. Spurs win by 36. Spurs out-rebounded Clips 58-41, the tale for this game. Not exactly a game you want to have spent half a week's paycheck to see. This is the kind of game Silver was talking about. Pug-fugly-azzed ball. But hey, you got to see Wemby: 10 for 18: 27/9/5 with a measly 3 blocks.
I'm not a conventionally religious person, but all my best vibes and well-wishing to Jaden Ivey, who may have suffered a career-ending lower leg injury in the 4th Q of DET's win over ORL today. I am too squeamish to watch it; I learned my lesson with Joe Theismann. I read about Jaden's freak thing: Cole Anthony fell into him...it sounds really bad. Ivey was really putting it together this season. I hope he can come back. This kind of thing is such a friggin' drag, man.
Broken fibula, he already had surgery on it. The video reminded me of Odom and Kobe falling into Bynum's knees. Rough. The Shaun Livingston, Paul George and Gordon Hayward injuries are the worst I've seen.
Man I forgot about the Livingston one. I saw that as it happened, then felt so bad for him I wrote him a handwritten letter telling him I was one of his fans, that he can come back, that his skillz are major, he still has a lot of game left, etc. By the time Hayward had his thing I had promised myself to look away and not see this stuff; a friend who has a degree in Neuroscience told me that I may be one of the relatively small number of people whose mirror neurons are over-active. Like I can't watch "j******" where those dipshitz jump off a building onto a trampoline, which makes them ricochet through a window, but the guy's head hits the frame: most people laff at that but I sympathetically "feel" the pain too much. Just someone trying to learn to ice skate whose legs slide out from under them and they fall on the tailbone: it's very unpleasant for me. I can't imagine the level of pain from a broken fibula. At some point he must have gone into shock.
This dude is never happy, I wouldn’t trade for his old, NOW overpaid a** if I were any team anywhere near contention already
He's always been a malcontent, and now that he's past his prime who will want to deal with that emo prima Donna? Get my joy back lol at how many millions he's being paid smh, when you got people out of work for months and folks that can't afford rent foh with all that
if i'm a bad team in the east that just wants to be relevant for a year for once, i consider moving assets i don't care that much about for him. but that salary makes it tough. for example, i can only think of three teams that should consider this move: washington, charlotte, and maybe chicago. charlotte would have to include bridges, and i'm not sure that they'd do it. wiz can chuck their kuz/brogdon package at it, and miami would definitely bite, imo. bulls would have to move lavine, and it seems like they value him more now, so maybe they'd be out, too. people keep saying gs, but are you moving wiggins for butler right now? and you'd have to add a couple more guys, maybe three. miami ends up improving there, too. it's going to be hard to move him. butler finishing his career in washington would definitely make sense, lol.
Butler setting the house on fire on his way out as usual. I wouldn’t trade anything important for him.
Receives seven-game suspension January 3, 2025 Butler has received a seven-game suspension for multiple instances of conduct detrimental to the team. LMAO And he will get 52 millions next season
