National Basketball Association - 2022/23 Season (Part 1)

Dillon Brooks most likely?

I would laugh if they head butted each other and ended up with a double concussion.

I am so here for the Mike Brown redemption tour.

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Watch some late 80s Pistons games.

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So not only did I go all-in on the Sabonis-Haliburton trade is terrible for the Kings, but like I literally spent 5 years in Sacramento going to games with like 2k people in the stand and most miserable enviorment ever. The moment i move away it becomes the greatest show on earth.

Sad yuv.

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If you got to the point where you really became a Kings fan, then that’s gotta hurt.

for me as a life long NBA fan it was really awesome to live 15 minute drive from an NBA arena. I used to go to games all the time because I love basketball. It would have been even better to go to games of an actual fun team like this one.

I can’t understand what it’s like to be an ā€œNBA fanā€. Sure, I appreciate a high quality basketball performance, but seeing my own team be great is much sweeter.

my own team is in Tel Aviv. American fandom is different than what I was raised with. Maybe it’s similar in college sports. You don’t become a fan because of pros and cons. You become a fan because you’re born into it.

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Yeah, that’s different from what I’ve got. I wasn’t born into anything. My whole family never even liked watching sports. They thought I was weird that I’d wake up some insane hours (I lived in Asia on and off for a good bit of my childhood) to watch a stupid basketball game.

Lakers?

Correct.

I’ll own that 7-year-old Melkerson was a bandwagon fan because they were on TV all the time and I had no hometown team (lived in South Florida before the Miami Heat existed).

We all love the beam, and rightfully say that whoever came up with it is a genius.

The idea for the beam came from John Rinehart, the Kings’ president of business operations, who was inspired by a sign in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Angels’ stadium, which lights up when the team wins. He pitched the idea to Ranadive, who was all in.

Huge stroke of luck for Rinehart to be present on a rare day when the Angels’ sign lit up.

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LIGHT THE BEAM!

I was hoping some PR intern came up with it.

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Surely Draymond will get suspended this time right… right?

I’m still mad they refused to throw him out of Game 2 of the finals on what should’ve been a double T on him and Brown. Definitely marginal, but he needs better self control.

I think he should be suspended but wouldn’t be surprised if the league chickens out.

I kind of think 2+ games is the most likely outcome, just slightly ahead of 1 game or no games. Dude stomped on someone’s chest, it’s an incredibly unsafe act.

I don’t want to bet it - I’m terrible at predicting these things, I genuinely thought all NFL teams would shy away from Deshaun Watson with his 20+ cases of sexual assault. Having Draymond play all playoffs definitely makes for better TV.

Go Kings. Fuck Draymond Green. Light the beam.

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I did a little research on the non-face punch suspensions - and maybe it’ll be different because it’s the playoffs. But for suspensions this year, Pat Bev got 3 games for pushing Ayton.

Mo Wagner got 2 games for pushing Hayes (and Hayes got 3 for punching him in the back of the head):

Gobert got a team suspension for punching a teammates arm.

Giannis’ brother got a game for a light headbutt (are all the Greek brothers dirty players?)

Dillon Brooks got a game for a nutshot

Caleb Martin got a game for this takedown

Most comparable to the Pat Bev thing iyam.

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