Official NBA General Discussion 2025-26 V1.0

[OakleyDokely]

Welcome to NY KD!

[tsherkin]

Welcome to NY KD!

KD going to New York would be hilarious on multiple levels.

[djsunyc]

Knicks gotta retool but building around Brunson isn't easy and simply getting rid of him isn't an answer. It's his team and he already sacrificed on his deal, taking less to ensure they can pay everyone. If you're trading him, might as well blow it all up.
They're a great team but gonna be hard to be a best team when Brunson/KAT are a terrible defensive duo. You can't hide both.

Combining KAT and Bridges to consolidate for an upgrade could be an option but the targets that would be an upgrade and available aren't obvious. AD could be a fit but Dallas /Nico aren't moving off him for KAT. Giannis is a pipe dream and he's too ball dominant to be a great fit next to Brunson. And they'd need to trade Mitch for a stretch big.

It's Brunson's team, of that there is no doubt. Leon Rose is his godfather, they hired his Dad as a (tampering) means to get him, etc. They will die on that hill (and die they will, you can't win with that guy as your top player IMO).

I think they revert to the Knicks of old and double down somehow. Should be a fascinating summer.

knicks have no contracts to add to their existing team (an no picks to sweeten) - all they can do is re-shuffle.

as for giannis - if he wants to go to ny, then he'll end up in ny. that's just how the cookie crumbles.

[ash_k]

To be fair...Randle is experiencing a much more pesky and swarming defence against OKC than what Pascal is getting against NY which boggles the mind because the Knicks overpaid for the defensive duo or OG and and Mikal Bridges and Pascal can casually drop 30 on them without much effort.

Let's see how Pascal fares against OKC.

Game 2 : 6pts 2 for 11
Game 4: 5pts 1 for 7
Their Defense is elite but he is just choking as the pressure of the playoffs is rising.
Siakam has nothing to prove there having already scored 30+points on his first NBA Finals over DPOY Draymond (and we all heard what Draymond said the other night)

I'm interested in revisiting this discussion in the Finals one way or another.

will do . just keep in mind, no matter what happens in these NBA Finals, the same Pascal went 10-17 26pts 10 rebounds (in 46 mins/not OT) in a NBA finals CLOSING game with that biggest layup in Franchise history to this day on DPOY Draymond.

[mihaic]

If you look at Thibs. Brunson and OG, they seem to each be frustrated Ann pissed off at Kat. I can see KD for Kat, but Kat has 3 years left, not sure if PHX takes him. They may have better deals

[Boogie!]

I was basically alone in defending Siakam on this board after the bubble. Now look.

Hey man. I still exist. Siakam was literally the one player out of that core that I believed was worth keeping around for the long haul…

[Mack11]

Watch on YouTube

[Agimat]

I just remembered the Pacer fan incident who Hali invited to watch (Game 4) seems to add extra sauce to his performance last night

[WaltFrazier]

I'm starting to think Tyrese is like an upgraded Steph lol taller and more athletic, at least in these playoffs.

More like SGA lite

[Scizzup]

Idk why people kept acting like a 68 win team with the 2nd best net rating in NBA history was going to lose to any of those West teams. Like people were convincing themselves Lakers could beat them??

The only team that had the combination of offense and defense to beat them was Boston and maybe Cavs. The rest of these teams are just there and would have been a huge choke for OKC to lose to anyone not Boston. This includes the Pacers.

[WaltFrazier]

Knicks gotta retool but building around Brunson isn't easy and simply getting rid of him isn't an answer. It's his team and he already sacrificed on his deal, taking less to ensure they can pay everyone. If you're trading him, might as well blow it all up.
They're a great team but gonna be hard to be a best team when Brunson/KAT are a terrible defensive duo. You can't hide both.

Combining KAT and Bridges to consolidate for an upgrade could be an option but the targets that would be an upgrade and available aren't obvious. AD could be a fit but Dallas /Nico aren't m

All your points could be right, but it might be some lesser tweaks to the roster, and especially a different coach might unlock them by playing differently. KAT is a very good passer, not Jokic but good, and the offense should run through him as a high post hub more. Like Marc Gasol but a bigger shooting threat. The combination of Kat and Brunson on D is hard to overcome though, not sure which coach could solve that.

I'm seeing KD mentioned here, not sure if any basis for that. But a bucket getter like that, even short of a 6'11 Hall of famer like KD, would help.

[WaltFrazier]

Welcome to NY KD!

Is there an actual rumor or just speculating?

[HiJiNX]

I was basically alone in defending Siakam on this board after the bubble. Now look.

Hey man. I still exist. Siakam was literally the one player out of that core that I believed was worth keeping around for the long haul…

Shoulda mentioned you dawg, my bad.

[HiJiNX]

OKC in 5 versus the Pacers?

[Brinbe]

going out sad

[Boogie!]

Blowout. Okc pacers finals

[HumbleRen]

OKC in 5 versus the Pacers?

Yep. OKC is like the Pacers worst match up lol. They’re built to beat a team like the Pacers.

[Boogie!]

Doris so pissed right now. Free throw merchant going to the finals

[Tripod]

Gonna be a track meet of a final!

[Boogie!]

You know how sad it is, you’d think for an mvp they’d talk about how awesome he is and how he makes everything look easy when he makes a jumper. But they barely hype him up at all.