The Official 2017-2018 NBA Thread

[Infamous114]

J-Rich is gonna cost us this game yo

 

[Sky Davis]

im nervous

 

[Infamous114]

Ellington! Fuck the Raptors

 

[King Freeman]

Gg u fuck niggas

 

[Sky Davis]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!


clayface in his feelings

 

[Infamous114]

 

[Sky Davis]

excuse me I have something to say...

How many straight wins do the heat have?

How many blocks did bam have?

How many bands does @KingFreeman have to give me?

 

[Infamous114]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!


clayface in his feelings

 

[King Freeman]

Imma pay the rest and get you slapped out.

 

[Sky Davis]

I mean I said it already weeks, months ago but

Nobody wanted to listen, niggas wanted to click lol


Goodnight im tired of being humble

 

[O.G.]

Can't wait until he is a Sixer.
:grin3:

 

[King Freeman]

I mean I said it already weeks, months ago but

Nobody wanted to listen, niggas wanted to click lol


Goodnight im tired of being humble

3 games out of 9th.

 

[Sky Davis]

3 games out of 9th.

You gave me your fake money after your team lost a feelings driven game you don't get to talk to me for the rest of the night

 

[Chi-Town B]

I mean I said it already weeks, months ago but

Nobody wanted to listen, niggas wanted to click lol


Goodnight im tired of being humble

Nigga you're going to lose your mind if those two teams stay in that place come playoff time

 

[Chi-Town B]

Can't wait until he is a Sixer.
:grin3:

 

[King Freeman]

This cac spit on the homey. Thats on sight.

 

[AZTG]

OKC fucked up with that trade. They aint seen nothing yet either, they gonna have to pay 27 mil for an even worse version of Melo next year.

Glad the Knicks held out and were able to get rid of Melo and get Kanter and Mcdermott rather than pull the trigger and get Anderson instead.

 

[caddo man]

Just do your part!

 

[Sky Davis]

As he returned from a scouting trip last Jan. 14, one day after another dispiriting loss dropped the Heat to 11-30, Andy Elisburg, the team's senior vice president and general manager, used a layover to phone his boss, Pat Riley, and tell him it was time for a tough conversation.

"Math," Elisburg remembers warning Riley, "is going to catch us."

The Heat don't tank entire seasons. It is not in the ultra-competitive, borderline militaristic DNA Riley has instilled over two decades. But they aren't dumb, either. They know what the NBA's incentive structure recommends when bad chemistry and injuries undo a season.

The full brain trust agreed to meet about how to approach the rest of the season during Miami's upcoming four-game homestand. The Heat won the first game, over Houston. They postponed the meeting. Miami didn't lose again until mid-February. The meeting never happened.

 

[Sky Davis]

Players bonded over their winding journeys to the NBA. Someone -- Hassan Whiteside claims it now -- nicknamed the D-League "The Jungle," and the players bestowed the same moniker upon their practice court.

"That became 'The Jungle,'" James Johnson says. "Every morning before practice, you're gonna see the same thing written on that whiteboard: 'Mouthpiece, knee pads, rib pads.' You wear all of that for practice. The Jungle became our obsession. If you're from The Jungle, no top draft pick should ever get a loose ball over you. If a top pick and Rodney McGruder are going for a loose ball, I'd bet my house on Rodney."

Johnson lost 35 pounds in The Jungle, and found he could play at full throttle for longer stretches. Everyone could. The Heat outran and outworked people. "I saw a lot of similarities with our team in Boston," Kelly Olynyk says. "Tough, hard-nosed, didn't have any All-Star -- just like us before Isaiah [Thomas] came out of nowhere."