@BillyReinhardt I would not be so sure about that. Teams have been tanking for many years and it seems to me that relatively few become really good teams through tanking.
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ARobinson
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ARobinson
@ARobbNJ
Follower of sports and politics on twitter.
New Jersey Katılım Mart 2013
258 Takip Edilen38 Takipçiler
At last, Brooklyn’s two-year tank is over.
Basketball actually matters again.
Next up, the NBA Draft Lottery on May 10 and the start of the offseason.
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@BontaHill These responders don't seem to remember the reason for the play-in tournamet saying stuff like participation trophy and money grab.
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@Jacobtheclipper Maybe you need to do some research on how the AC Green streak was kept alive with similar tactics.
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@jeskeets @talkhoops I never really understood the love for the show.
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"'Inside the NBA' [...] still doesn't feel like the show so many of us adored. Something is missing with it, and it feels like we're watching Hakeem Olajuwon on the Raptors ..." @talkhoops spittin' facts. nyti.ms/41sXFCV
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@JaLinds27 @RickKamlaSports It takes a team to win titles. Blame the Knicks orgnization for never putting a good enough team around him.
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@RickKamlaSports He was a great player but c’mon. Leading up to that draft his impact was assumed to mean titles. I’m sorry, he didn’t live up to it.
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Hey clueless. If you make the Hall of Fame, then you lived up to the hype. Duhhhhhhhhh
What a dumbass tweet. You might wanna leave the basketball opinions to the people who know…
Andrew Anderson@uscfan981
Name a player who never lived up to the hype. I’ll start, Patrick Ewing.
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@yalltitanup @minakimes She is silent. Not defending herself or other hardworking females in the industry. Not calling out Russini. So should we assume Mina has her own skeletons in the closet to get where she is. The silence is deafening...
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Where is @minakimes on the Russini-Vrabel story? Thought she was the lead NFL analyst for the worldwide sports leader? Thought she had an investigative journalism background?
Tommy Callahan@yalltitanup
How is this chick a lead ESPN NFL analyst?
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True or False: This is the official Mount Rushmore of NBA Head Coaches
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@yalltitanup I avoid NFL talk on ESPN and other platforms because it's too much IMO. I don't see her much, but calling her a chick showed why you feel as you do.
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@SamQuinnCBS I'd rather have Harper to San Antonio rather than a tanking team
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I'm growing increasingly concerned that whatever lottery reform we get isn't going to address what I consider the system's biggest flaw—a lack of protection against enormously consequential outlier outcomes like Orlando winning back to back or San Antonio getting Dylan Harper.
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@Betsycashmoney @JSchimenti1982 No disrespect, but begging people to use their brain and you somehow think every team could have a 35% chance?
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@JSchimenti1982 So how the fuck does making the problem WORSE help anything?????
I'm begging you people to use your brain for literally one second.
"Hmmm.... we have a problem, should make it worse, or NOT make it worse?"
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Flattening lottery odds swaps one problem for another:
There's no incentive to make the playoffs as an 8 seed if all lottery teams have a 35% shot at a top 5 pick
And that's much worse problem-- if teams are tanking to miss the playoffs, that's a *FAR* worse look the for league
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@Betsycashmoney Math tells us that all teams could not have a 35% chance at the top pick. More like 7%. In a 3 team lottery, teams would not even have a 35% chance. With expansion, 6%.
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@DenimBlueCats @IndyHeyB @vaughnfromthchi @esidery It was still obvious that he was not a guy who elevates a team.
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Myles Turner’s stats this season for the Bucks:
11.9 points
5.3 rebounds
1.6 blocks
58.5 TS%
43.8 FG%
Milwaukee waived-and-stretched Damian Lillard in order to sign Turner on a 4-year, $109 million contract.
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@AshNicoleMoss I don't think the men posting sexist stuff to Ashley about women in sports media are representative of the beliefs of most men. They are the kind of men who can only think of women as objects.
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i’m so tired of y’all using these sporadic situations of discretions to push your bullshit narratives about pretty women in sports media spaces. the actions of a few don’t represent the masses. the generalization is sexist — especially since you don’t keep this energy for men.
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@4Evashook I already gave them up and I was a fan going back to the 80s.
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Nets fans finally getting to where I was last year. Sean Marks is a disaster. If they don’t get a top 4 pick I can no longer be a fan of this trash if Marks is the GM.
He should have been fired years ago.
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@vaughnfromthchi @esidery Not in hindsight. Who really didn't know at the time that it was the worst signing in memory?
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@esidery One of the worst signings in hindsight. I thought he would’ve been perfect next giannis
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❌ One player you are REFUSING to draft again next year no matter what the rankings say ❌
We all have one 👇
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@purehoops35 @SamQuinnCBS KD was better in the playoffs. Harden was injured in the playoffs, but I still think Harden was the regular season MVP on that team.
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It feels lost to time but I’m adamant that KD was the best player in 2021. Giannis won the title but Durant outplayed him in that series and only lost because Harden and Kyrie got hurt. If even one of them stays healthy the Nets win that title that’s Durant’s crowning moment.
MarzTalksSports@MarzTalksSports
The best player ever who I never thought was the best in the world is probably KD
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@SamQuinnCBS Duncan played with Robinson for 5 seasons and he was not the same player. Averaged 14, 12 and 8 points the last 3 seasons.
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When you look at any list of the best players ever what you immediately notice is how many of them happened to land together organically. Kobe and Shaq. Jordan and Pippen. Magic and Kareem. Duncan and Robinson.
LeBron wasn’t that lucky, so he made his own luck.
NBA Shane@Shane00
LeBron in 23 years has had the worst luck in NBA of any superstar Drafted into a horribly run franchise, got no great players to work with until he left 2014- bosh and wade struggled with injures 2015- Love and kyrie injured 2017/18- KD joins warriors, kyrie leaves 2019- Lebron injured 2021- Lebron/AD injured 2022- Lakers traded championship caliber team for westbrook 2023- Darvin Ham 2024- non championship team 2025- Lebron/Luka/reaves injured/sick 2026- Luka injured No other super star had to deal with half of this
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