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2025-2026: Around the League

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Re: 2025-2026: Around the League 

Post#1081 » by meatwad4343 » Yesterday 4:57 pm

pepe1991 wrote:Ffs Victor is unreal.

Just unreal. Like watching modern day Wilt.


He's that good that I wouldn't be surprised if he carries the spurs to the finals this year. He's got a shot if he has the career longetivity to make the LeBron/mj debate irrelevant and pass those guys both up. And to think we had a decent shot at him with two lotto picks in that draft and ended up with a bust and Anthony black who looks like he might be a bust also. Oh well. A Franz/paolo/wemby/suggs core you could have penciled us in for a five peat if the lotto balls went our way that year.
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Post#1082 » by tooler » Yesterday 5:14 pm

If Wemby is ascending, that’s all the more reason we need JI to get it together.
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Re: 2025-2026: Around the League 

Post#1083 » by pepe1991 » Yesterday 6:11 pm

So... Billups, Rozier and some other NBA former coaches just got busted for illegal betting.

I been very vocal about nba and gambling issue & notion that betting houses are part of sponsorship of league. League that is already in very shaky ground in post Aspiration-gates.

This is huge and terrible for a league. This might actually be worst back to back stuff that ever happened to nba.

Keep in mind how fast & quick was Silver and NBA to proclaim Rozier "cleared from everything" while FBI just said "nop".

And now, months after that false claim by NBA, Rozier isn't even biggest NBA fish to fall, rather ACTIVE COACH, who is btw also former superstar, finals MVP, all star and one of top 100-ish best players ever.

Silver should just step down. People are literally cheating & doing illegal stuff in front of his nose. And he either knows nothing, or has part of a deal. I hope he is just dumb or league will burn.
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Re: 2025-2026: Around the League 

Post#1084 » by YosemiteSam » Yesterday 6:19 pm

Wemby and Holmgren will have health issues that limit their upside just like Porzingis, Embiid, Oden and other unicorn types. Only Shaq escaped that curse and like LeBron he was a physical freak that combined size with strength. Just a matter of time. Chet has already missed significant time in two seasons and Wemby a good chunk of one. I'd rather build around a Ant-man or Paolo type.
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Re: 2025-2026: Around the League 

Post#1085 » by RookieStar » Yesterday 9:16 pm

Magic_Is_Here wrote:So who had multiple illegal gambling arrests on their NBA bingo card?

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They do anything to deflect Ballmer's Aspiration scandal. lol
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Post#1086 » by RookieStar » Yesterday 9:17 pm

Has anyone tried to you know... beat Wemby up like what they do to Jokic, Dwight and etc to slow him down?
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Re: 2025-2026: Around the League 

Post#1087 » by Idiosyncratic » 9 minutes ago

Thunder in two crazy double OT games to start the season, wonder if that has ever happened. Shai is ridiculous.

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