Around the NBA - 2019 NBA Finals Edition

2010 · Post #1522 » by **2010** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:49 am

Somewhere in a dark place at the back of KD’s mind he has to have lost faith in the Warriors medical dept.

NYKHardKnock · Post #1523 » by **NYKHardKnock** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:49 am

mpharris36 wrote:raps fans be like

up 6, 3 mins left. I go lurking over Toronto’s boards and I read “I’m in tears” thinkin they about to win a chip LOOL

Guano · Post #1524 » by **Guano** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:51 am

still can't get over how Lowry's shot hit the back of the board.

he played so bad in the last 3 mins

Post #1525 » by **HerSports85** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:51 am

Not just crutches but KD also has a boot on

Read on Twitter

nedleeds · Post #1526 » by **nedleeds** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:52 am

If it's an achilles rupture 0% chance any team maxes him. Nobody is paying for a player to rehab for all of 19-20. He just opts in and gets $31.5 million to rehab. If the Warriors win this series he looks like a martyr and his hot start to game 5 will be respected.

I don't celebrate player injuries but this may have saved our clown car front office from themselves. He was always going to be a bad signing at his age and with his frail body. Thankfully it looks like Kyrie will be chucking and getting the screws in his knee replaced in Brooklyn.

Now that being said, this same Mills run **** show could just as soon not help themselves and end up throwing maxes at above average rotation plus players like Tobias Harris, Middleton and Kemba Walker. But even that plan seems unlikely given their existing teams don't have great ways to replace them. Kemba might be the exception, but he's not coming to New York without an A-list starter, he can lose in Charlotte with an extra year as well as he can lose in New York.

The only A-list free agent starters at this point are Kawhi and Klay Thompson. If we can't get either of them then we need to bow out and just let Noah expire ... OH WAIT. We cut ourselves off from that option. Whoops.

Post #1527 » by **GONYK** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:52 am

HerSports85 wrote:Not just crutches but KD also has a boot on

Read on Twitter

He's walking though.

He's barely using the crutches.

god shammgod · Post #1528 » by **god shammgod** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:52 am

a boot is normal. they give you those for ankle sprains.

Post #1529 » by **duetta** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:53 am

Clyde_Style wrote:Crazy to see people feeling gyped out of KD coming here now

Are you guys nuts?

You want this to happen now and dodge that bullet, not sign him and then have a dead weight contract on your hands

If his body is breaking down then you don't sign him. It's that simple. Get over it

You acquire him to be the final piece, not the first piece.

Too many injuries, too much age, too much money, too many expectations.

god shammgod · Post #1530 » by **god shammgod** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:53 am

GONYK wrote:
HerSports85 wrote:Not just crutches but KD also has a boot on

Read on Twitter

He's walking though.

He's barely using the crutches.

he's putting more weight on it this time than the 1st time.

HEZI · Post #1531 » by **HEZI** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:53 am

Context wrote:double teamed and there was no time left

Jeff Van Gully wrote:because they chose to double him no matter what?

Gasol should have gave it right back to Kawhi so he could rise up and shoot. In that scenario nobody else takes that shot, double team or not Gasol needed to know better who his closer is. It aint Lowry

BLACKFEET 2010 · Post #1532 » by **BLACKFEET 2010** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:53 am

The year of the bad fan.
Drake shoulder massages, the suckaduck owner shoving Lowry and the cheering of KD getting hurt.

Post #1533 » by **dakomish23** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:53 am

Read on Twitter

Post #1534 » by **Capn'O** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:53 am

2010 wrote:Somewhere in a dark place at the back of KD’s mind he has to have lost faith in the Warriors medical dept.

Eh. I don't think it's in the back.

Post #1535 » by **dakomish23** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:54 am

BLACKFEET 2010 wrote:The year of the bad fan.
Drake shoulder massages, the suckaduck owner shoving Lowry and the cheering of KD getting hurt.

The cheering is classless

god shammgod · Post #1536 » by **god shammgod** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:54 am

BLACKFEET 2010 wrote:The year of the bad fan.
Drake shoulder massages, the suckaduck owner shoving Lowry and the cheering of KD getting hurt.

people are a$$holes. news at 11.

Post #1537 » by **Jeff Van Gully** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:54 am

J9Starks3 wrote:What is kinda messed up...KD leaves the arena before the end of the game...that to me says he wants out, its an elimination game I feel like your ass waits till its over before you leave

what? not if you need medical attention. no one knows what is wrong with him yet.

2010 · Post #1538 » by **2010** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:54 am

KD was gonna lose either way. If he sat out the series they would say he put his free agency above the team. If he plays the worst case is exactly what happened. He was damned if he did, damned if he didn’t.

Post #1539 » by **mpharris36** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:55 am

Read on Twitter

Post #1540 » by **GONYK** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:56 am

duetta wrote:
Clyde_Style wrote:Crazy to see people feeling gyped out of KD coming here now

Are you guys nuts?

You want this to happen now and dodge that bullet, not sign him and then have a dead weight contract on your hands

If his body is breaking down then you don't sign him. It's that simple. Get over it

You acquire him to be the final piece, not the first piece.

Too many injuries, too much age, too much money, too many expectations.

Who cares what the order is? All the shoes are dropping this summer.

KD, if he comes, won't be the only piece.

That's really all that matters, provided the diagnosis isn't catastrophic.

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