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12 Games tonight!
▪️No. 1 seeds face off in Suns vs. Heat
▪️Gregg Popovich seeks the all-time coaching wins record

Can't wait to see Victor Oladipo again! Should be a fun game against the Suns. Devin Booker returns tonight.

Ah but Jimmy Butler might be out with illness. Oh well. Victor will likely be limited to 15 minutes again.

Cp3 is also out.

Give me the Nuggets vs Kings over the Blazers vs Utah. No shot at Utah or anything, but Jokic is on a crazy tear right now and Blazers are starting a bunch of no names (plus Simons). If I were to choose which one sided match up to watch on the late game slate, give me Jokic.

These really should be the easy flex games that ESPN and TNT should make. No worry about changing around starting times or anything like that. Jokic is just on a late season push for MVP, they should be pushing for people to watch that.

No reason to put the Jazz/Blazers on ESPN. Blazers are tanking and they have one borderline marquee player in Simons.

Even as a Jazz fan, this isn't a game I want on national TV. Wait for Memphis or Boston coming up.

Number 1 seed vs Number 1 seed. You’d like to see Chicago win this one.

Heat/Suns is a fun match-up.

What's going on with the Hawks? Fell back to Earth?

Duke4life831 wrote:Give me the Nuggets vs Kings over the Blazers vs Utah. No shot at Utah or anything, but Jokic is on a crazy tear right now and Blazers are starting a bunch of no names (plus Simons). If I were to choose which one sided match up to watch on the late game slate, give me Jokic.

These really should be the easy flex games that ESPN and TNT should make. No worry about changing around starting times or anything like that. Jokic is just on a late season push for MVP, they should be pushing for people to watch that.

I always wish they'd flex games too but it occurs to me that the ESPN crew and the commentators etc are already in SLC and it's probably not doable for them to just go set up somewhere else on one day's notice.

CharityStripe34 wrote:Heat/Suns is a fun match-up.

What's going on with the Hawks? Fell back to Earth?

Hawks are just very inconsistent and they aren't playing defense like they were last year.

I've been wondering about the Raps. They didn't have high expectations coming into the year but were playing great and looked like a formidable team. I've only watched them a little bit lately but they've fallen off a cliff and I'm curious what's going on with that, specifically.

need beat a hot rockets team

bisme37 wrote:

CharityStripe34 wrote:Heat/Suns is a fun match-up.

What's going on with the Hawks? Fell back to Earth?

Hawks are just very inconsistent and they aren't playing defense like they were last year.

I've been wondering about the Raps. They didn't have high expectations coming into the year but were playing great and looked like a formidable team. I've only watched them a little bit lately but they've fallen off a cliff and I'm curious what's going on with that, specifically.

Injuries. FVV is back now so we'll see. But there is no depth so they cannot lose any starters and they lost 2.

bisme37 wrote:

Duke4life831 wrote:Give me the Nuggets vs Kings over the Blazers vs Utah. No shot at Utah or anything, but Jokic is on a crazy tear right now and Blazers are starting a bunch of no names (plus Simons). If I were to choose which one sided match up to watch on the late game slate, give me Jokic.

These really should be the easy flex games that ESPN and TNT should make. No worry about changing around starting times or anything like that. Jokic is just on a late season push for MVP, they should be pushing for people to watch that.

I always wish they'd flex games too but it occurs to me that the ESPN crew and the commentators etc are already in SLC and it's probably not doable for them to just go set up somewhere else on one day's notice.

Ya but I think they could've seen this one coming from a week+ in advance. Dame and Nurk has been out for quite sometime and Jokic is the reigning MVP and playing even better this year.

Its been 3 days since his 46pt triple double, if I didnt already have it flexed before that I would've gotten it done right after that game.

The power is out in the downtown New Orleans area, which includes the Arena/SKC. Major failure of a substation and its been out for hours.

Obviously the Arena has massive generators but I'm not sure they would play a game with fans on generators with the entire surrounding area out of power.

Hopefully its up soon, but if not...something to keep an eye on for Pels/Magic. Don't know what the league would do.

bisme37 wrote:

CharityStripe34 wrote:Heat/Suns is a fun match-up.

What's going on with the Hawks? Fell back to Earth?

Hawks are just very inconsistent and they aren't playing defense like they were last year.

I've been wondering about the Raps. They didn't have high expectations coming into the year but were playing great and looked like a formidable team. I've only watched them a little bit lately but they've fallen off a cliff and I'm curious what's going on with that, specifically.

No FVV for the last few and no OG since the allstar break. raptors are a very thin team so even one injury to a starter will hurt them significantly, 2 is nearly insurmountable.
FVV especially is very important because our back up guards are awful (Svi) or very young/inconsistent (Flynn/Banton)

Pop going for the all time wins record tonight vs the dinosaurs.

Was watching a little of the NBA today on espn right now. Lot of strong opinions on rachel nichols, but just as a tv show host, that show ran a lot more smoothly when she was on there.

Love watching the Hornets, they don't play defense, and fun offensive team, Eric Collins their PBP guy is great, always enthusiastic, and there's Ashley...

What’s going on with Lamelo Ball? I don’t see much of him but I’m playing him in daily fantasy and he’s got 1.9 points at half. That’s almost impossible to do. 6 TO and 4 points

Aaron Holiday is in this league only because of his pedigree.

Damn that Heat defense was suffocating for that 5 minute stretch.

Damn LeBron got embarrassed