NBA Info - February 2026

[Deleterious]

They didn't even tell us which was the NBA player's car and which was the normal civilian's car.

Seriously, there are a ton of clips of him leaving the arena and running stop signs, red lights, cutting people off.  I'm shocked he hasn't been in an accident before this.

 

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[Deleterious]

The Lakers could have $65 million in cap space this summer if they want.  They could sign Dybantsa, Boozer, and Peterson to $20 million a year deals.  What a dumb idea.

 

[Deleterious]

Ausar is an easy no.  But it might be more difficult to say no to Amen.  Think I still might pass this summer and be willing to match a max offer in restricted free agency should he get one.

[Deleterious]

I wonder how he would feel if he hadn't traded away all of his picks until 2032?

 

[Deleterious]

Holy bad ideas

 

[buddha]

as long as there is a draft, there will be tanking.

you could penalize teams by "adding wins" to their record if they win less than a specified number of games.  all these ideas MIGHT affect the margins, but will not stop the problem.

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, buddha said:

as long as there is a draft, there will be tanking.

you could penalize teams by "adding wins" to their record if they win less than a specified number of games.  all these ideas MIGHT affect the margins, but will not stop the problem.

if you can cut down the number of teams that see any value in tanking, to me that is enough. I don't care if one or maybe two teams tank, but when 30% of your schedule is, then it's a problem.

Edited Friday at 12:41 AM by gehringer_2

[Deleterious]

I don't think tanking is the problem fans think. 

The system needs tweaks but no major overhaul. I would start by hammering teams like Utah that are sitting healthy players in the 4th quarter.

[gehringer_2]

I don't think the proposal I just saw on ESPN to reward teams for winning after the ASB can work. It would just turn the season into something like one of those velo races where the cyclists try to creep around the track through the beginning of the race then suddenly take off sprinting to the end. A team would lose as many as it could out of the gate, then try hard in the 2nd half. I guess it solves the problem at the end of the season, but only by ruining the 1st half.

[Deleterious]

21 for McCain tonight in 23 minutes.  Amazing he couldn't get minutes in Philly.  OKC might have the steal of the deadline.

[Deleterious]

Boozer is so good.  His big flaw is being in the same class as AJ Dybantsa.  Tonight his offense wasn't that great, and he had some foul trouble, still had a huge impact on the game.  I like that in a player.  The other big thing, he wanted the ball at the end of the game, multiple times.  Another thing I like to see in a big time player.

 

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[buddha]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

 

awwww...you hate to see it....

[casimir]

Ok, so how does this work?   Currently Miami is the Southeast Division leader, but also the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference.  Does being a division winner protect them from the play in round, do they automatically get bumped up to the 6th and the 7th gets bumped down to the play in?  That seems unjustified to me, teams should just be ranked accordingly to overall record, but then the NFL allows for losing records to host first round games based on division winners, so I don’t know.

[Deleterious]

1 hour ago, casimir said:

Ok, so how does this work?   Currently Miami is the Southeast Division leader, but also the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference.  Does being a division winner protect them from the play in round, do they automatically get bumped up to the 6th and the 7th gets bumped down to the play in?  That seems unjustified to me, teams should just be ranked accordingly to overall record, but then the NFL allows for losing records to host first round games based on division winners, so I don’t know.

Miami would be in the playin game in that scenario.  Same thing happened last year when Orlando won the division but had the 7th best record in the conference.  They played Atlanta in the playin game.  

[casimir]

12 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Miami would be in the playin game in that scenario.  Same thing happened last year when Orlando won the division but had the 7th best record in the conference.  They played Atlanta in the playin game.  

I had forgotten about Orlando last season.

[Shinzaki]

Kings are giving our old pal Killian a 10 day run

[buddha]

Just now, Shinzaki said:

Kings are giving our old pal Killian a 10 day run

adam silver is going to fine them $650k for making such an obvious tanking maneuver.

[Deleterious]

52 minutes ago, buddha said:

adam silver is going to fine them $650k for making such an obvious tanking maneuver.

It's not like they signed Lonzo Ball

[Deleterious]

Cleveland just lost to OKC with the Thunder missing its two best players and two best bench players.  The Cavs are not a serious team.

[Deleterious]

I would pay a lot of money for a subscription that filtered out arena music.  That OKC arena is awful, just nonstop background noise.  

[buddha]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

I would pay a lot of money for a subscription that filtered out arena music.  That OKC arena is awful, just nonstop background noise.  

try the mute button.  not only does it filter out annoying background noise, but you dont have to listen to doris burke either!