re: NBA Sunday Schedule

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How can anyone watch this shite and think it's good basketball? Do their fans have any self respect at all?

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This is my other favorite.

Average Pels fan would cut off a toe to have a team competing for titles. You know it, and I know it. You wouldn't give 2 shits what style of basketball it was being played.

"Oh man, I really hate this team battling for multiple titles because gosh some of the other team's fans don't like how it's being played. I really need to have more self respect!" Like bro, do you actually believe this shite

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they really dont and its sad

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It really is!

Also, let's talk about:

A. Dodgers' deferred contracts and loopholing themselves in to free agents

B. Pot meet kettle dicussion

"I want MY team to have the advantage but NEVER yours. EVER."

I thought the warriors got away with tons of bullshite, yes.

The most infuriated I've been watching the sport of basketball, in my life, is Rockets Harden and OKC SGA.

Shooting his part of the sport. Bully ball is part of the sport. Superteams are part of the sport.

SGA foul baiting ("selling contact" - lol) has zero place in the sport. Their entire team plays a very dangerous game of basketball. Lu Dort has injured countless players. SGA's gay little kick out is a dangerous play that will result in injury. They objectively do not get officiated the same as the other 29 teams in the NBA.

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True, just saying their style isn’t something complicated or relies on star power.

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Yeah, they've just got a bunch of good wings and a foul baiting PG. Outside of Williams this year, they've also had great injury luck.

What's really frustrating is they're going to fall back into the lottery year over year because bad teams love to trade them their picks, for whatever reason.

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Lol

You have to realize some things here:

1. Most are Pelicans fans. Their team has sucked a long time and they hate other teams. They also hate that when OKC had the New Orleans loaner team that OKC sold way more tickets than NO did. It even got the owner to say he wouldn’t mind moving there permanently but the NBA would not allow it since it was designed as temporary to give team a place to play while renovating their own arena after Katrina. Would have been a bad look.

2. You then have some old Seattle fans who are still mad OKC moved their team when they wouldn’t upgrade their arena. Even though Lakers moved from Minny and only 13 existing (of 30) teams have never moved.

3. Then there are the fans of other teams. They hate and despise that a small market team had been able to build a title team. This is not supposed to happen. Small market teams are posed to be feeder teams for large market teams. The basketball universe and pundits are all based on big market teams. And they absolutely hate it.

4. And you have the online teenagers who a lot of folks follow them. And they hate that SGA is a generational player putting up historical stats.

I think its funny and it doesn’t bother me. I have some shadows who follow my NBA posts only and chime in any chance they can. These are soy boys who are bitter at life. They sit there and punch that down button as if their life depended on it. Newsflash, no one cares about that and anyone who only posts to get votes is weak minded and full of soy. I’ll never understand the worry over dumb things like that.

I enjoy it and post about the team. Mostly get a kick over it and every now and then someone will actually post about the topic and not troll. Thats rare though but it drives traffic when the trolls are engaged so you have to navigate that.

Just post what you want and don’t worry about those who add nothing to discussion. I am looking for an NBA board to post on where there is actual discussion since thats lacking here. But its not worth the time since I love all the other boards and discussions here. You have every life topic on this board where others are specific to only one or twi sports. So I just embrace the hate.

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Lmao nice manifesto, sperglord. You could’ve just admitted you’re by far the biggest volume posting faggot on this platform and you single handedly ruin every basketball thread you post in, but that would require a modicum of self awareness

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but I truly think SGA is ruining the sport. SGA is what the older crowd thinks Lebron is in terms of flopping and playing like a pussy. He commits an offensive foul on nearly every possession, but it usually results in free throws

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Lets examine this for a minute. I’ve posted the data before but most don’t read and use narratives posted by teenagers on social media.

The most fouls drawn in the 2025-26 NBA season. This can be distorted based on games or minutes played but is a starting point:

1) Luka Doncic (464)
2) Jaylen Brown (447)
3) Devin Booker (430)
4) Deni Avdija (428)
5) Nikola Jokic (428)
6) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (415)
7) Victor Wembanyama (401)
8) Paolo Banchero (387)
9) Jalen Brunson (379)
10) Kevin Durant

Here's the ranking by fouls drawn per minute played (rounded to 3 decimals):

1. Victor Wembanyama (0.215)
2. Luka Doncic (0.203)
3. Devin Booker (0.200)
4. Deni Avdija (0.195)
5. Nikola Jokic (0.189)
6. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (0.184)
7. Jaylen Brown (0.183)
8. Paolo Banchero (0.155)
9. Jalen Brunson (0.146)
10. Kevin Durant (0.131)

But wait there’s more. A player who droves to the basket in NBA history will always draw more fouls because it creates more contact.

Who drives the most per game and then compare to lists above:

1. 20.6 SGA
2. 17.8 Jalen Brunson
3. 17.1 Cade Cunningham
4. 17.1 Trae Young
5. 15.2 De’Aaron Fox

Thats today’s lesson but if you hate SGA it won’t change your mind. Its like road rage some have it and go ballistic and it fogs their thinking.

Anyways, I’m going to enjoy the playoffs. Its hard to repeat last team was GSW 10 years ago.

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Everyone bitched that small markets didn’t stand a chance and now that a small market team has absolutely fleeced big market teams like the Clippers, people don’t like that either.

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Facts. The big market press is not happy. They have done lots of damage with their reporting but its intentional. Presti beat them at their game and they hate it.

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GSW 10 years ago.

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Oh my god I’m old

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What is it? Why do that stats and eye test differ so greatly here?

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Because you don’t watch all their games. And most only see a few selective clips posted online. Or use a one game eye test when they play 82 plus playoffs. I posted about Doncic and Wemby having games with high FTs and it was crickets. Its a media driven narrative. Everyone hates the champs. They manipulate things to drive that narrative. Fueled by opposing fans whose teams lost to them.

There is not one team who wouldn’t take SGA to be on their team. He’s setting some major records but people are blinded by narratives.

Here’s something that has nothing to do with FTs

The only guards in NBA history to put up 30+ PPG on 50%+ shooting in 4 straight seasons



When you stack up his FTs against all time greats he’s not even top 10. Yet his game is driving to basket and mid range shots. People bitch teams only shoot 3’s. Yet he’s making basketball moves and of course they bitch too. I’ve learned fans will bitch about any and everything. Just like football season the other board is half full of ref bitching threads every Sat. Its a theme.