National Basketball Association - 2024/2025 Season

The sound is delayed, too.

Rumor is Derek lively bet 100k luka couldn’t make it.

https://x.com/ClutchPoints/status/1842994255603835204

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1843349414066434182

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https://x.com/ayroned/status/1843468588050723307

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I won’t stand for bill Cartwright slander.

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Slowly making my way through Netflix’s Starting 5 series and I was delighted that Anthony Edwards has a framed Boban jersey hanging up.

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Embiid will not play opening night against the Bucks.

And game 1 is over.

Celtics will be an issue if they keep shooting 61 threes a game

Celtics obviously a good defensive team, wild to see how many easy layups Brunson still generated. He’s a wizard.

what are they doing in philly exactly?

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1849173672550158347

What does that even mean - “player participation”

As long as teams aren’t pulling stunts that affect gambling - e.g., very late announcements, or calling a guy active and then giving him a DNP - I don’t see what the league can do, or should do, about this. If you want players to play, then you should make your regular season mean something. Not launch investigations. Doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to identify the reason they’re not playing - because they can roll into the playoffs as a 6 seed and it doesn’t really change their chances.

i don’t know what they can do, but they def should do. the league only exists as long as TV rights are paying the bills. if superstars start playing 30-40 regular season games it tanks the value of the league.

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Just have the refs be unofficially biased against the Sixers.

dunno if there are any Atlanta fans here but Dyson Daniels is fucking awesome.

FanDuel is now a series of regional sports networks?

I think we’ve gone too far.

Diamond Sports Group (a Sinclair subsidiary) bought the regional sports networks and eventually made a branding deal with Bally’s to name them Bally Sports. Diamond is in bankruptcy and made a branding deal with FanDuel to rename them FanDuel Sports Network.

So yeah, gambling brand to gambling brand. They are still the same networks. The Brewers, Twins, and Guardians telecasts will be controlled by MLB next season because their contracts with Diamond just ended.

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Thanks, never clicked to me that Ballys RSN were gambling branded.

Yeah it’s crazy. Bally’s went away here in Dallas. Stars have an app called victory+ and all their games are free THIS year, except for national games.

Mavs are on a local channel that no providers carry but also have an app that is $14.99 a month for all non national games.