NBA Info - November 2025

[Deleterious]

Castle out for two weeks. San Antonio now missing Victor, Harper, and Castle. 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

If he drops one more spot in the draft, maybe we don't end up with Killian.

At least we didn't draft Patrick Williams over Okongwu.

 

[buddha]

why would you ever buy advanced tickets to an nba game?  you will never know if any of the good players are playing.  

and its not because the season is too long (more bull**** from steve kerr), the season barely started and everyone is resting.

[buddha]

hollinger savages dumars/weaver today in the athletic.

i love the story of dumars telling his staff he wantes high character, defensive minded players and then weaver's first signing was....

jordan poole.  one of the lowest character (by reputation), least defensive minded players in the league.

[Deleterious]

The Poole deal was Joe cleaning up the salary cap mess that Griffin left. 

Believe it or not, NOP was set to enter the luxury tax this season.  The entire Poole trade package saved them about $6 million and just snuck them under the luxury tax line.  That obviously saved them luxury tax payments, but by being a non-tax paying team, it also made them eligible to receive the payments those teams receive from the luxury tax teams.

So they saved $6 million in raw salary + Whatever the luxury tax penalty would have been.  And they were eligible for the payout from tax paying teams, which equaled about $11 million for each team.  So the trade saved ownership somewhere between $20-$30 million this season.

Sometimes you have to eat a **** sandwich.  

 

[Deleterious]

Whata boring game. It almost looks like we're bothering Mitchell by asking him to play today. 

[Deleterious]

Cavs stealing a page from the Pistons playbook to get back in the game. Not the most talented group out there, but they are flying around and giving great effort.  I think Houston was up about 20 and it's down to 7 now 

[Deleterious]

So they shopped him and found out they couldn't get **** for him.

 

[Deleterious]

 

[gehringer_2]

20 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

not sure what this means other than nobody walks the ball up the court anymore. Could be a lot of reasons for that, but I would guess one is the disappearance from the game of the Shaquesque 7ft 300 lb center who you had to wait for anyway before you could get to your half court O.  😉

[Betrayer]

I'm confused by the "Sheesh" comment.

These numbers are actually pretty unremarkeable.

To a couch potato maybe that seems crazy, but a 4.43 mph pace for 30 minutes a few times a week is a pretty weak training schedule for even the average runner, let alone these young athletes. A 10 minute mile is fairly pedestrian and that's 6mph. And the total distance of 34 miles shared across 16-20 players in a game is just about the laziest relay race ever.

These stats say nothing. It's not the average speed or distance that's injuring these players, it's the burst movements that put huge strain on their muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

That and rolling their ankles...if you're on the Pistons.

[Deleterious]

It's still criminal that Dairy Queen does not have a promotional deal with this kid.

 

[Deleterious]

That is pretty bad since Brooklyn is actively trying to tank and Sacramento is trying to win.  

 

[buddha]

12 hours ago, Deleterious said:

The Poole deal was Joe cleaning up the salary cap mess that Griffin left. 

Believe it or not, NOP was set to enter the luxury tax this season.  The entire Poole trade package saved them about $6 million and just snuck them under the luxury tax line.  That obviously saved them luxury tax payments, but by being a non-tax paying team, it also made them eligible to receive the payments those teams receive from the luxury tax teams.

So they saved $6 million in raw salary + Whatever the luxury tax penalty would have been.  And they were eligible for the payout from tax paying teams, which equaled about $11 million for each team.  So the trade saved ownership somewhere between $20-$30 million this season.

Sometimes you have to eat a **** sandwich.  

 

then deal zion williamson.  or deal for someone other than jordan poole.

or...dont deal two high lottery picks in a stacked draft for derick queen.

[buddha]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

what's the purpose of this?  is this the league trying to tell us that these guys are all actually hurt?

between various players obviously throwing games foe gamblers, to teams obviously tanking and not trying to play (what is it now, fove teams with 1 or 2 wins this late in the season?), to players taking more rest days than game days, the league has a big perception problem.

sometimes i wonder how david stern would have handled this.  would his style have been beneficial in today's day and age?  would anyone listen?

[casimir]

Bill Laimbeer dragged his unathletic ass up and down the court every damn regular season game.  Over 80 games played per season for 12 straight years.  So I don't want to hear load management.

[Deleterious]

2 hours ago, buddha said:

then deal zion williamson.  or deal for someone other than jordan poole.

or...dont deal two high lottery picks in a stacked draft for derick queen.

Then people would just bitch about Joe trading Zion for pennies on the dollar.

Someone other than Poole is valid.  But the cap space was the prize of this trade.  No clue if other teams were looking to dump salary and had the matching contracts to do it like Washington did.

They were over the luxury tax with or without Queen.

[Deleterious]

2 hours ago, buddha said:

what's the purpose of this?  is this the league trying to tell us that these guys are all actually hurt?

between various players obviously throwing games foe gamblers, to teams obviously tanking and not trying to play (what is it now, fove teams with 1 or 2 wins this late in the season?), to players taking more rest days than game days, the league has a big perception problem.

sometimes i wonder how david stern would have handled this.  would his style have been beneficial in today's day and age?  would anyone listen?

Isn't the bigger question, why do you spend $4 billion a year on players and didn't already have a program to assess/fix biomechanics?  

[Deleterious]

A fun box score.

All 5 Toronto starters last night scored 16+ points and had 4+ assists.  

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/202511190PHI.html

[Deleterious]

A month into the season and the east is right where we thought it would be.  With Detroit and Toronto as the top 2 seeds.  Right?