[NBA] Comments that don't warrant a thread (FEB)

[hrdboild]

Lebron and Anthony Edwards both deciding not to play on game day means the West only gets 10 active All-Stars today. The G-League has 7 players and the Western Conference has 10 All-Stars. So the NBA would rather put G-League players on primetime television than a single Sacramento Kings All-Star? Just taking it all in.

EDIT: Oh okay, I guess I stopping watching yesterday after Team Mitch lost to Team Lin. So it's 7 rookie/sophomores playing tonight not 7 G-Leaguers. Even so.

 

[Angelo127]

I don't get this what is this? Is it not an all star game anymore? Rising stars vs. all stars?

 

[Angelo127]

That was pretty cool

 

[ridingagain]

Castle's dunks were good, and this sounds like hating. Like residual hate for Fox, like you're so salty about how he left Sacramento, that it's bleeding over into dogging out his teammates, too.

Wow, not sure how you got that out of the post. I could care less about fox getting traded. No hate at all.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Wow, not sure how you got that out of the post. I could care less about fox getting traded. No hate at all.

I think you know very well how I got that out of your post. But, if you say that's not what you meant, I'll take your word for it.

 

[iowamcnabb]

I agree with Jaylen Brown, get ‘em outta here!

 

[captain bill]

Can’t imagine paying to see this live

 

[kingsboi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1891256617192067086

Robin Lopez and he can form a book club now

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

I don't think they were trying to be funny, I think they were legitimately trying to exploit a loophole. Word on the Street™ is that they got approval from the officials in the building before they did it, but then the officials changed their minds after the crowd started booing.

Fair enough...

 

[Tetsujin]

Luka ate good over the ASG break

 

[Joshyjosh31]

This is probably the worst basketball I’ve ever seen play “most talented era”

 

[Tetsujin]

The Lakers’ best center probably being Lebron is going to be their downfall come spring. Also Reaves is totally out of place right now next to Luka and LeBron so I could see him being the piece they use to grab an actual big.

 

[Tetsujin]

Props to DQJ for still being in the league. The closest Vlade ever came to a scouting “win” in his GM reign lol

 

[Tetsujin]

Oof. Vando might not be an NBA level player anymore.

 

[Tetsujin]

Lakers should probably not let the Hornets get Luka switched onto LaMelo lol

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Lakers should probably not let the Hornets get Luka switched onto LaMelo lol

There attacking him every play and getting easy shots doesn’t matter if it’s Melo either

 

[Joshyjosh31]

ESPN crowned the lakers after beating Utah haha

 

[Tetsujin]

How the hell do you only put up 97 points on the Hornets?

 

[coolhandluke]

How the hell do you only put up 97 points on the Hornets?

Lakers without favorable free throws is a lottery team. Austin Reeves would average in single digits if he was on the Kings. Dude couldn't handle a single missed foul call and got ejected. Luka really shouldn't be playing in this condition.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892600991490478401

Dude really had a cartoon henchman for a PA lol

 

[Joshyjosh31]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892623008868553043

So they can do whatever the hell they want and that spineless idiot Silver just sits there

 

[iowamcnabb]

Now he has something to get dressed up for in Milwaukee

 

[Tetsujin]

Harden with one of the most shamelessly blatant acts of foul baiting this season lol

 

[kingsboi]

Sixers need to sit Embiid for the season and look to move on from there. They won't get much out of him, especially if he will be having another knee procedure this year but it's the only way.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So they can do whatever the hell they want and that spineless idiot Silver just sits there

I'll bite, what was he "supposed" to do? Force a team to accept a trade after they changed their mind?

 

[Capt. Factorial]

I'll bite, what was he "supposed" to do? Force a team to accept a trade after they changed their mind?

I think the point is that if an agreement is made pending a physical, that the expectation on the part of the other party is that the only valid way to back out of the deal is if the physical is actually failed - that you shouldn't be able to use the physical as an out for "buyer's remorse". At that point the "change your mind" phase is already over. That seems to be the accusation here.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Well, that just brings me back to my question, what are we saying that Silver was supposed to do about it? Do we even know that the Hornets objected to the lakers backing out of the deal? What if they only took the deal in the first place because they felt like they couldn't say no?

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Well, that just brings me back to my question, what are we saying that Silver was supposed to do about it?

I would assume that Silver has the power, as commissioner, to enforce an agreed-upon deal. In this circumstance the agreement has an out (which was used) and the accusation being made is that "out" was falsely triggered. I'm going to guess that Silver can't prove that, so maybe there's nothing he can do in this particular case. But he could implement a third-party physical process that could prevent abuse of the physical clause in the future. I doubt that he will even consider doing so, but that would be doing something.

Do we even know that the Hornets objected to the lakers backing out of the deal? What if they only took the deal in the first place because they felt like they couldn't say no?

Well, I guess we don't know for certain, but it's kind of strange to suggest that the team that didn't back out of the deal didn't really want to do it. Both teams wanted to back out of the deal? That would be a weird situation. And very fortunate to be Charlotte, who under that hypothesis would have "won" the game of chicken, getting the Lakers to blink first.

But the vibe I've gotten from the whole thing is that the Hornets were blindsided here.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I would assume that Silver has the power, as commissioner, to enforce an agreed-upon deal. In this circumstance the agreement has an out (which was used) and the accusation being made is that "out" was falsely triggered. I'm going to guess that Silver can't prove that, so maybe there's nothing he can do in this particular case. But he could implement a third-party physical process that could prevent abuse of the physical clause in the future. I doubt that he will even consider doing so, but that would be doing something.

Do you think he should? That sounds a little too much like overreach, to me.

Well, I guess we don't know for certain, but it's kind of strange to suggest that the team that didn't back out of the deal didn't really want to do it. Both teams wanted to back out of the deal? That would be a weird situation. And very fortunate to be Charlotte, who under that hypothesis would have "won" the game of chicken, getting the Lakers to blink first.

But the vibe I've gotten from the whole thing is that the Hornets were blindsided here.

I'll admit that the likelihood of this hypothesis being fact is absurdly remote. But, as long as we're playing make-believe around here... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Well, that just brings me back to my question, what are we saying that Silver was supposed to do about it? Do we even know that the Hornets objected to the lakers backing out of the deal? What if they only took the deal in the first place because they felt like they couldn't say no?

Capt had good responses that I agree with you can’t say oh never mind after the trades completed