*** OFFICIAL *** NBA 2018-19 thread

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

Good news for Portland is that everyone in the west is dysfunctional right now.

Look what the Clippers did to Golden State with that insane comeback, and now they win game 5 in Oakland down 3-1. And this is the fucking Clippers -- not a team expected to really contend.

In the meantime, Houston has been inconsistent shit. Even tonight's victory was a struggle. It's been awhile since I've seen a team up 3-0 in the first round struggle so badly to close it out.

Denver was actually a dog to the Spurs at one point this series.

So yeah, if Porltand plays well, they can shock everyone and win the West.

Will they get past the Bucks? That might be a different story.

A futures bet on the Blazers to win the West might not be a bad idea right now.

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As much as I’d love Portland to get there, I’d be absolutely shocked if the Rockets or GS don’t win it all. I think Houston may get GS. The Jazz get you out of your game better than anyone in the league, and they still made fairly easy work out of a tough opponent.

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Portland will get dusted by Warriors or Rockets imo.

With respect to CJ, Nurkic was their second best player all year. Their bench is super hit or miss with their back up bigs being a green Zach Collins and a bad Meyers Leonard

Dame is ever better than people think imo - aside from CJ and Nurk (and kind of Aminu), the rest of the team is pretty trash.

Have never heard the gay rumors that Druff alluded to. I do remember gay rumors about Westbrook from way back.

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Originally Posted by Sanlmar

Truthfully, we both know it’s gonna get much worse. The surprise that comes with “how” will be the best part.

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Magic quit b/c that bird brain Jeanie Buss was CC’ing Magic in error on critical conversations.

Inept. Funny but inept.

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“My understanding is that there were some emails that were exchanged between Rob and Jeanie…about Magic and about what Magic was and wasn’t doing. They were critical emails. And somehow, someway, Jeanie, from what I understand, was CC’ing or blind CC’ing Magic on everything. That was sort of protocol. Standard issue.

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Oh, it gets even more amazing. It’s like a perpetual motion machine of fail. Tyrone Lue from Cleveland is being interviewed. Maybe we get Kyrie & Love.

Remember Druff talking about playoff mode 2 months ago? I do. Lol. No clue fanboy.

I reread your post a couple time BCR. Had to be said

Watching 3OT in Portland right now.

These two teams both know the loser here probably loses the series.

Go Blazers

4th OT coming up!

What a game!

You can tell these guys are all tired as they should be but considering 63 minutes have been played scoring is actually low (129-129) in this day in age of the NBA.

Denver's last possession in 3OT was absolutely brutal.

Tough miss for Jokic at the line.

A guy his size playing 65 minutes is insane.

I wonder if someone like Jokic is going to be affected for the next game, having played 65 minutes and coming back in 2 days.

Rodney Hood is the hero, making those shots in 4 OT, including that three.

I still don't think this team can beat the Warriors, but my prop bets hope they can.

I can’t believe that masterpiece ended with milsap half-assing the baseball throw disinterested. There was 3 seconds left. Time for turn, gather, and shoot. I was in bed watching on my phone. Was that as lazy as it looked? Hopefully sloppy joe caught this game.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

I wonder if someone like Jokic is going to be affected for the next game, having played 65 minutes and coming back in 2 days.

Rodney Hood is the hero, making those shots in 4 OT, including that three.

I still don't think this team can beat the Warriors, but my prop bets hope they can.

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Pro sports are crazy in that Hood couldn’t be playing in more meaningless games than he was a few
months back in Cleveland. Jockeying for lottery position in obscurity to drilling daggers in 4 OT playoff classic. I always love that dynamic for players. Happens a lot in baseball after a 100 loss team ships a dude in a firesale and he ends up pitching the 8th inning in the World Series after playing for some shit team all year and I always wonder what’s going on in their head.

That game was nuts. Jokic looked completely dead at the end. I don't think he'll be 100% by the 4pm sunday tipoff.

Hood was such an underrated deadline pickup, exactly what the blazers needed. Turner is/was a dogshit 6th man...the classic "just another guy" you love to have on your team in YMCA pickup games, can't shoot but will hustle and play passable D, but not the guy for a 4OT playoff game. Hood is just who you want.

realllly wishing the sixers traded ben simmons for anthony davis or literally anything right about now

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Originally Posted by BCR

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

I wonder if someone like Jokic is going to be affected for the next game, having played 65 minutes and coming back in 2 days.

Rodney Hood is the hero, making those shots in 4 OT, including that three.

I still don't think this team can beat the Warriors, but my prop bets hope they can.

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Pro sports are crazy in that Hood couldn’t be playing in more meaningless games than he was a few
months back in Cleveland. Jockeying for lottery position in obscurity to drilling daggers in 4 OT playoff classic. I always love that dynamic for players. Happens a lot in baseball after a 100 loss team ships a dude in a firesale and he ends up pitching the 8th inning in the World Series after playing for some shit team all year and I always wonder what’s going on in their head.

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He had some moments in Utah when he got to play because of injury to other players. It just didn't work at all in Cleveland, for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by verminaard

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Originally Posted by BCR

Pro sports are crazy in that Hood couldn’t be playing in more meaningless games than he was a few
months back in Cleveland. Jockeying for lottery position in obscurity to drilling daggers in 4 OT playoff classic. I always love that dynamic for players. Happens a lot in baseball after a 100 loss team ships a dude in a firesale and he ends up pitching the 8th inning in the World Series after playing for some shit team all year and I always wonder what’s going on in their head.

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He had some moments in Utah when he got to play because of injury to other players. It just didn't work at all in Cleveland, for whatever reason.

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The funny part is when the Cavs got him every Utah fan told me, trust me, you’ll hate him, he sucks. I thought it was sour grapes because I swore he had like 24 points of 6/8 3 point shooting and killed us every time we played Utah. Sure enough, he sucked. He’d have a game and then suck the next ten and also had a bad attitude. Maybe he’s finally found a home or maybe Portland fans will be posting they hate him in two years. Time will tell.
Could never tell why he stunk. He had all the tools to be a great player, he just wasn’t.

The Boston fans boo’d the Celtics after the last loss. Let’s be honest, they weren’t boo’ing Tatum or Horford.

It is most everyone’s fervent hope that Kyrie has played his last Boston home game. Ship him off to LA where the old band is being reunited.

Kyrie was a detriment in the locker room. Team chemistry. The kids hated his condescending/LeBron-like ego.

The kids? Hell, I wanted to reach into my tv and choke the fuckwad out. Sure the NBA playoff ratings are down. I’m not watching the Celts and that failure.

He and LeBron had conversations and Kyrie claimed all was forgiven. Let us pray.

If he ends up in NY after all the Knick fiascos - well that would be amazing & stupid.

No Boston slam? Celtics never had a shot. No tears

The Kevin Durant injury tonight didn't look good but Warriors were able to step up at home.

Steve Kerr in the press conference saying "Our guys are fucking giants" was funny.

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Sorry simp, but the Raptors are going to come up short in the playoffs again.

They'll win this round, but it's the Bucks' year.

At least it's their year in the east. Probably beyond that if Durant doesn't come back.

I'm sad to say that the Blazers are almost surely dead by this point.

Had they won game 4, they would have won the series. When they let that one go, I knew it was over.

Oh and if Durant doesn't come back, Denver could actually sneak into the Finals. Which would be kinda gross, because this team is so inconsistent and doesn't deserve it.

But they were lucky enough to draw the Blazers instead of the Rockets, and then Durant gets hurt and the Warriors are up 3-2. So if the Warriors can win 1 of the next 2, Denver actually will have a chance to beat them if Durant doesn't return.

This would be a great scenario for the team out of the east, obviously.

Druff we don't have to play Lebron so we're ok.

Giannis??, we have the best player Leonard.

Every other position I would take the Raptors.


Where's the huge advantage for them over the Raptors? I guess the fact that game 7 is played on their court, but that's about it.

Celtics only had Irving/Horford. I think the Raptors would have beat them 4-1 as well.

I’m holding a Bucks Championship ticket but still...

I would love to watch The Beard vs The Greek Freak in the Finals as a fan.

There has been the season long MVP debate. As much as anything it is a referendum on style of play.

I really haven’t watched more than 10 cumulative minutes of the playoffs yet but I’d be locked in on Bucks Rockets money aside

I don't like the Warriors to win it all, even before the KD injury. They will get by the Rockets but I think the easy money is on the Bucks.

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Originally Posted by BankNoteABlaze

I don't like the Warriors to win it all, even before the KD injury. They will get by the Rockets but I think the easy money is on the Wolves.

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Bucks?

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Originally Posted by verminaard

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Originally Posted by BankNoteABlaze

I don't like the Warriors to win it all, even before the KD injury. They will get by the Rockets but I think the easy money is on the Wolves.

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Bucks?

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Sanlmar

I’m holding a Bucks Championship ticket but still...

I would love to watch The Beard vs The Greek Freak in the Finals as a fan.

There has been the season long MVP debate. As much as anything it is a referendum on style of play.

I really haven’t watched more than 10 cumulative minutes of the playoffs yet but I’d be locked in on Bucks Rockets money aside

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Im sitting on an Eastern Championship ticket with the Bucks. Made a drunken homer bet in November when they sat at 12-1 (Celts, Raptors and Sixers were shorter) to win the East... Been a hoot cheering it on, entertainment value and odds value make for a good ol time. Putting in a slight hedge if the Raptors are the opponent.

simp, I saw you didn't bet on your own Raptors today, and instead took the under (good job on both, btw).

Do you think the Raptors are going to shit the bed again?

They definitely have the history -- and not just because of Lebron.

Yeah, yeah, I know... Kawhi, blah blah.

But if the don't pull out Game 7 and lose to the 76ers, I don't know if they'll ever recover in the coming years.

At least losing to the Bucks would be respectable.

Lakers joke of the day

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Kurt Rambis and his wife Linda are advising the Lakers on their coaching search, which, again, is like hiring Ja Rule to run your next music festival

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Linda Rambis?

More please.

What a joke Houston. That was, in all likelihood, their last shot at this thing. Paul finally has a good game, Curry scoreless at half, and you still lose at home? Enjoy paying Paul that last $124 million over the next three years when he’s already in steep decline. That was a franchise- altering loss.

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Originally Posted by BCR

What a joke Houston. That was, in all likelihood, their last shot at this thing. Paul finally has a good game, Curry scoreless at half, and you still lose at home? Enjoy paying Paul that last $124 million over the next three years when he’s already in steep decline. That was a franchise- altering loss.

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The current iteration of this franchise has no heart and just seems to wilt when under pressure, or when it looks like they might finally get over.

This isn't surprising at all.

I'm just regretting I didn't fire on the Warriors moneyline, because there was some value there. I've just gotten hesitant to bet on NBA playoffs at this point, given the much increased difficulty compared to the regular season.

If Portland wins tomorrow, I'll have to decide what I want to do about my Portland +2000 Western Conference bet, and my +4150 Bucks/Blazers finals matchup bet.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

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Originally Posted by BCR

What a joke Houston. That was, in all likelihood, their last shot at this thing. Paul finally has a good game, Curry scoreless at half, and you still lose at home? Enjoy paying Paul that last $124 million over the next three years when he’s already in steep decline. That was a franchise- altering loss.

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The current iteration of this franchise has no heart and just seems to wilt when under pressure, or when it looks like they might finally get over.

This isn't surprising at all.

I'm just regretting I didn't fire on the Warriors moneyline, because there was some value there. I've just gotten hesitant to bet on NBA playoffs at this point, given the much increased difficulty compared to the regular season.

If Portland wins tomorrow, I'll have to decide what I want to do about my Portland +2000 Western Conference bet, and my +4150 Bucks/Blazers finals matchup bet.

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GSW were 3-1 on Betfair. Could not help myself at those overs.

Wasn't confident they would win, but thought it was a 60-40% at worse.

I usually bet between one and five units... shame this was just one unit but still a good result.

Rockets fans now angry at owner Tilman Fertitta for not keeping Trevor Ariza, in attempt to keep under the salary cap.

This is the same guy who wants to do a merger with Caesars, btw.

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Rockets fans now angry at owner Tilman Fertitta for not keeping Trevor Ariza, in attempt to keep under the salary cap.

This is the same guy who wants to do a merger with Caesars, btw.

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The way I understand it the suns offered Ariza WAY too much money. In that spot really hard for Rockets to compete monetarily with a tanking team with all young players that can throw as much money at Ariza as they wanted. Why exactly they even wanted to pay him that much I dont know. Maybe they needed to to hit a minimum salary cap.

Maybe this belongs in the NBA 2019-20 thread, but the Lakers have decided to hire Frank Vogel is their new coach.

Jason Kidd is to be on the staff, presumably to help Lonzo Ball turn around his disappointing early career.

To show how far the Lakers have fallen, Tyronn Lue and Monty Williams already declined the Lakers' offers to become coach.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...ers-kidd-staff

Blazers down 17 early.

Coming into the end of the 3rd, they took a 71-70 lead.

72-71 Denver after 3.

GO BLAZERS

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Now do I hedge?

McCollum has been spectacular. If he keeps playing like this, and if Lillard plays well, they have a shot at beating the Warriors if Durant doesn't come back.

Betonline has Warriors -510 for the series.

Ugh. I was afraid of something like that.

So basically I could cash out the Blazers at +400 or so at this point.

There's also the other bet (half as big) for +4150 for Bucks/Blazers in the finals

Hmmm... do I gamble?

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Betonline has Warriors -510 for the series.

Ugh. I was afraid of something like that.

So basically I could cash out the Blazers at +400 or so at this point.

There's also the other bet (half as big) for +4150 for Bucks/Blazers in the finals

Hmmm... do I gamble?

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It all depends how risky you want to get. Their is nothing like the great story and feeling that comes with hitting a long future bet where you let it ride without hedging and win.

Durant's health is huge but if the Warriors take care of business the first two games at home without him then it will be very difficult for the Blazers to turn it around whether he comes back or not.

These teams did split the regular season series but this is the only time of year that matters.

What sucks is if you think the line will go down with people taking a flyer on the Blazers because of Durant's health where it gets to +350 or +325 before the series making you wish you would lock it in now.

I know they said Durant would be re-evaluated early in the week so that could be as soon as tomorrow which could give that bad line movement for you.

Reports I've read so far all said that Game 4 or 5 he could be back. Obviously if the Warriors are up 3-1 they just rest him until a game 6 or 7 because their usually a nice little break before the finals start.

The feel good story here would be that you don't hedge but I'm not sure how smart that is with the Warriors experience versus Blazers inexperience.

Kawhi Leonard.

‘Nuff said

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Now do I hedge?

McCollum has been spectacular. If he keeps playing like this, and if Lillard plays well, they have a shot at beating the Warriors if Durant doesn't come back.

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As a huge Blazers fan...yes, hedge.

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Now do I hedge?

McCollum has been spectacular. If he keeps playing like this, and if Lillard plays well, they have a shot at beating the Warriors if Durant doesn't come back.

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As a huge Blazers fan...yes, hedge.

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But yeah I'd hedge also. I thought they'd lose to the fucking Thunder.

Without Durant I don't see the Warriors as having that big an edge over the Blazers. Lilliard normally plays very well against Curry, and often outplays him head to head, especially in Oakland where he is from.

So lets say Curry + Klay = McCollum + Lilliard

-So for the rest of the impact players you have Green + Iguadola + Looney + Livingston vs. some combination of Kanter + Curry + Collins + Hood + Aminu + Turner + Harkless (I really don't know what the Blazers are going to do with their rotation).

It doesn't look that lopsided on paper with Durant not part of the equation.

Edit: I didn't watch the early game. I just read that Hood has a bum knee, so that could be bad.

beilein to the cavs...interesting hire there...guy was really successful at west va and Michigan...will be interesting to see how he translates to the NBA...