Around the NBA (and other Sports), 2025-26, p. II

[Parliament10]

Jokic had himself a game last night. Has there been as dominant a stat line as this since, who, Wilt?

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401809242

Wilt Chamberlain, also Oscar Robertson who had even more, back in the day.
Though nowadays, there's a bunch that have done better. Russell Westbrook has the record, for now.

[bisme37]

[Fierce1]

You have Luka, Reaves, and a 40-year old Lebron, doesn't surprise me that the Lakers are a no defense team.

Looking like the Mavs were right in moving on from Luka.

[Shak_Celts]

You have Luka, Reaves, and a 40-year old Lebron, doesn't surprise me that the Lakers are a no defense team.

Looking like the Mavs were right in moving on from Luka.

You know what I notice, that every time LeBron plays bad everyone and their mother talks about him being 40 years old and that’s what’s holding him from playing well. When he plays good, they say that he’s great and he’s 40 years old. 40 doesn’t stop him from playing good, but it makes him play bad? If he’s gonna be out there at 40, then that’s no excuse!

Not to mention, I can bring up games from when he wasn’t 40 and they look the same as they do now. Being carried by his better teammates, stat padding, and not exerting any effort on defense. Look at LeBron videos even when he was 30-35, all he does is walk around out there until it’s his time to get his shine with the ball. His team defends, while he wastes no effort, except for his rare, “I’m the greatest” effort play. We all know those are the only videos they are going to put out for free, you have to pay to see what really happened.

The many videos I have seen of this dude literally walking into buckets because no one is defending him is absurd! Not a lick of defense, and if someone happens to get near him on defense, they magically fall away out of his way. That is if he isn’t trucking them out of his way.

For years people have cried about JB and plus minus as a negative, they literally had LBJ as the only negative plus minus on the All-Star roster! Not only was he the only one, his plus minus was -55!!

Don’t get me started on how people crucified/crucify JB for not being able to dribble, especially left-handed. LBJ is the worst dribbler of anybody in the top 20 all-time players. I could be exaggerating, because I don’t even know the top 20, but he’s a terrible dribbler! JB could dribble circles around what LeBron can! He’s just lucky he doesn’t have to do any real evasive dribbling often! He’s also lucky he can get away with a lot of illegal dribbling things!

Yeah, I had to stop putting LeBron behind Jordan because there are a couple more people, at least, I can make the argument for being better than inflated stats LeBron. Most of them I’m wasn’t even a fan of when they were playing. I still don’t like Jordan or Kobe the players! That beef is eternal!

This rant isn’t about what you said really, not even for you, but when you said 40 year old, it just did something to me.

[Fierce1]

Would be epic if Lebron gets traded to the Cavs this season.

[Fierce1]

Cavs are a mess!

They let Houston do this to them even when Sengun is out.

[Fencer reregistered]

Yikes.....

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Thanks for posting this. Christmas truly feels like Christmas now.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/jj-redick-lakers-players-christmas-loss-real-blame-rob-pelinka/

[Fierce1]

Remember why Dallas gave up on Luka?

Every time you have Luka as your star player, defense will always be a problem.

What's worse is the non-stop complaining to the refs is a distraction.

Instead of going back on defense, Luka keeps complaining to the refs.

Eventually his teammates will get fed up with that kind of attitude.

[Fierce1]

Clippers have been playing very well since Zubac got hurt.

Maybe there's some truth to Zubac clogging the driving lanes and the Clips have more room to operate without Zubac.

[Shak_Celts]

KL career high 51, which shocked me. How was his career high somewhere in the 40s. He has that in 3 quarters, only 10pts from free throws IIRC.

He also has 5stls and 3 blocks, through 3q!! Against the pistons who are an excellent team this season so far! So it’s not bum competition.

[redslastlaugh]

Clippers have won 4 in a row and are 2 games back in the loss column for the playin with 50 games left ...

Clippers have been playing very well since Zubac got hurt.

Maybe there's some truth to Zubac clogging the driving lanes and the Clips have more room to operate without Zubac.

[Fencer reregistered]

The OL listed at 345 pounds who split out wide and caught a pass for 21 yards apparently did so on his birthday.

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[Bill Lumbergh]

The wiretap headline: "Bucks Won't Trade Giannis Antetokounmpo Without Forceful Request"

My "forceful request." You better trade Giannis to the Celtics right effing now!

[Fierce1]

The wiretap headline: "Bucks Won't Trade Giannis Antetokounmpo Without Forceful Request"

My "forceful request." You better trade Giannis to the Celtics right effing now!

[threrf23]

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[Fierce1]

That's very unfortunate for Jokic.

[Parliament10]

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Luckily, it's not worse.

[Fierce1]

Nuggets have 17 games in January.

Very likely the Nuggets will be .500 or below when Jokic returns.

[Marvel]

Clippers turning it on doesn't surprise me. IF Kawhi can stay healthy they will make the playoffs but then ultimately fall short in the 2nd round or something. Then rinse repeat next season lmao.