Around The NBA, 2024-2025 Season

[Inigo Montoya]

Sounds like you missed the best part. Wemby and CP3 got disqualified from the skills challenge for trying to cheat their way to a win. It was hilarious, and extremely representative of what the NBA has become. Instead of competition between the best players in the world, it's just a bunch of guys trying to take advantage of rule loopholes in order to win at any cost.

Yeah, I saw it through highlights as well. Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

[AingesBurner]

Sounds like you missed the best part. Wemby and CP3 got disqualified from the skills challenge for trying to cheat their way to a win. It was hilarious, and extremely representative of what the NBA has become. Instead of competition between the best players in the world, it's just a bunch of guys trying to take advantage of rule loopholes in order to win at any cost.

Yeah, I saw it through highlights as well. Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

Don’t watch it anymore. It’s boring.

[Inigo Montoya]

Sounds like you missed the best part. Wemby and CP3 got disqualified from the skills challenge for trying to cheat their way to a win. It was hilarious, and extremely representative of what the NBA has become. Instead of competition between the best players in the world, it's just a bunch of guys trying to take advantage of rule loopholes in order to win at any cost.

Yeah, I saw it through highlights as well. Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

Don’t watch it anymore. It’s boring.

That's what I'm saying. I only watched the highlights and even the highlights are boring.

[AingesBurner]

Yeah, I saw it through highlights as well. Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

Don’t watch it anymore. It’s boring.

That's what I'm saying. I only watched the highlights and even the highlights are boring.

Haven’t even watched the highlights only looked at the score.

[Cappy_Smurf]

Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

And now Wemby is out for the season with blood clots. Hopefully he makes a full recovery, but it will be a constant concern from this point forward. This is why I don't get too caught up in worrying about how hard the Jazz tank. Even if you win the biggest prize in decades, it could be over before it's started with health concerns/injuries. Luck is fickle biznatch.

[Inigo Montoya]

Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

And now Wemby is out for the season with blood clots. Hopefully he makes a full recovery, but it will be a constant concern from this point forward. This is why I don't get too caught up in worrying about how hard the Jazz tank. Even if you win the biggest prize in decades, it could be over before it's started with health concerns/injuries. Luck is fickle biznatch.

True, but when worrying about injuries to a player like Wemby, we think about physical damage and that his body won't hold. Having a blood clot is too random and not really related to his body type, size, length, build, and it doesn't affect his durability (not that I know what I'm talking about when it comes to medical issues).

But now that he's out for the season, I'm betting the Spurs will start tanking and sideline Fox with bogus injuries. If they end up with Flagg I'm will not stop puking.

[Denizfeital]

Wrote in the General Board that they managed to ruin Wemby. I know he said it was his idea but I don't buy it. This was Paul's 6th skills challenge (never won it), and it has his name written all over it. The players have ruined the NBA Allstar in so many ways, it's absolutely disgusting.

And now Wemby is out for the season with blood clots. Hopefully he makes a full recovery, but it will be a constant concern from this point forward. This is why I don't get too caught up in worrying about how hard the Jazz tank. Even if you win the biggest prize in decades, it could be over before it's started with health concerns/injuries. Luck is fickle biznatch.

True, but when worrying about injuries to a player like Wemby, we think about physical damage and that his body won't hold. Having a blood clot is too random and not really related to his body type, size, length, build, and it doesn't affect his durability (not that I know what I'm talking about when it comes to medical issues).

But now that he's out for the season, I'm betting the Spurs will start tanking and sideline Fox with bogus injuries. If they end up with Flagg I'm will not stop puking.

I know it is not about fairness, but gee, if they get Flagg something tells us that we should simply give up.

[Daddy 801]

And now Wemby is out for the season with blood clots. Hopefully he makes a full recovery, but it will be a constant concern from this point forward. This is why I don't get too caught up in worrying about how hard the Jazz tank. Even if you win the biggest prize in decades, it could be over before it's started with health concerns/injuries. Luck is fickle biznatch.

True, but when worrying about injuries to a player like Wemby, we think about physical damage and that his body won't hold. Having a blood clot is too random and not really related to his body type, size, length, build, and it doesn't affect his durability (not that I know what I'm talking about when it comes to medical issues).

But now that he's out for the season, I'm betting the Spurs will start tanking and sideline Fox with bogus injuries. If they end up with Flagg I'm will not stop puking.

I know it is not about fairness, but gee, if they get Flagg something tells us that we should simply give up.

I’m all for the changes to the lottery and the new CBA. But a provision that a team can’t get a number #1 pick two times out of three years or lowering the odds of a team in the lottery if they have just recently acquired a top pick does seem “fair” to me.

The Pels and Spurs do not deserve a number 1 pick. Especially the Spurs. If the Spurs get Flagg it’s basically over for the west for the next 5-7 years as long as OKC and the Spurs don’t get hurt or drop the ball.

[Inigo Montoya]

Interesting video about tanking and proposed solutions. I was more interested in the examples that were provided about tanking by other teams this season. I won't be counting down the minutes until the league issues them a fine.

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[Inigo Montoya]

Jalen Green, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal on the same team? Doesn't sound like a recipe for success.

[red4hf]

Jalen Green, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal on the same team? Doesn't sound like a recipe for success.

Trade didn't make the Rockets much better either........

[Inigo Montoya]

Jalen Green, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal on the same team? Doesn't sound like a recipe for success.

Trade didn't make the Rockets much better either........

I agree. I don't like this trade for either team.

[Crunch 99]

A couple of older 6-8 forwards, Cole Swider and former Jazzman Darius Bazley, are shooting very well for the Lakers in 2025 summer league. It's only a 4 game sample, but Swider is averaging 20.3 ppg on .795 TS% and Bazley is averaging 15.3 ppg on .692 TS%. Their defensive ratings are pretty good as well.
https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/teams/Los-Angeles-Lakers/13/Stats/2026/Averages/Qualified/per/All/desc/1/Summer_League

[Inigo Montoya]

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[SlimShady83]

When is the due date for you guys to extend Kessler's contract I know it's like next offseason? Is their an actual date??

[Inigo Montoya]

When is the due date for you guys to extend Kessler's contract I know it's like next offseason? Is their an actual date??

Here is what Google's AI says:

what are the deadlines for the jazz to extend walker kessler?

The Utah Jazz have until October 21, 2025, which is the day before the first regular season game of Walker Kessler's fourth season, to sign him to a rookie scale contract extension.

If no agreement is reached by this deadline, Kessler will become a restricted free agent in the summer of 2026, meaning the Jazz will have the opportunity to match any offers he receives from other teams to retain him.

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[Inigo Montoya]

One thing that I think the NBA should take from the EuroBasket and implement is having the refs mic'd for the audience to hear. It is much more interesting than the sanitized and edited product we get from the NBA. Listening to the refs as they talk to players in real time and seeing and hearing them as they watch replays and hearing their thought process, analysis and reasoning in real time as they watch the tape is x100 times more interesting and entertaining than the time filler we get from NBA broadcasts in these situations. We also get to hear coaches talking in timeouts to their players, unedited, in this EuroBasket and the NBA should do that too.