Does anybody else follow the NBA? My lad has for about 4 years - he is a Boston Celtics fan. Saw the Boston Celtics play Orlando Magic at the Kia Centre in Orlando a few weeks ago and since then have been totally hooked. Have signed up to the NBA app and managed to catch highlights of all of the Magic’s and Celtic’s games.
Will definitely catch another game live in the future. 2.5 hours there felt less than an hour. Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jnr was sat in the crowd at the game we were at.
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I've been to the Kia centre a few times, albeit it was the Amway then!
no one is interested until the playoffs.
also, starting to get a backlash against the number of 3 pointers, negating the hustle and bustle of traditional basketball
Can't find the more recent shot heat map i saw the other week, but it is even more extreme than this one
For what it's worth I cheer on Utah Jazz who have been useless for best part of 20 years
Been rubbish for a while but now have a good, young core and they’re having a decent season so far.
Good coach in Ime Udoka as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/Y0zwLReOY9
My Suns are absolutely awful this season, we wasted so much salary on Durant by absolutely decimating the roster depth to get him, and then even more to get Beal to play alongside him and Booker, and Beal is such a bust it's unreal. Now we have a wasted generational talent in Booker, 2 aging stars with one of them nearly always injured, and a bunch of absolute journeymen and backup players in key positions.
Having 3 players on max salaries is already absolutely wild, for two of them to be on the wrong side of 30 and both with injury issues, you're just asking for trouble, and all of that to be 11th in the Western Conference as it stands? Yikes
I’m a Knicks fan. I had the luck to watch a match at Madison too. It was amazing atmosphere !!
I think I like that more for Dallas than I do LA, at least short term. Doncic gets targeted a lot in playoffs and they already have Thompson and Irving who aren't the best defending. I guess the Lakers see Doncic as Lebron's heir and they'll look to build around that.
Edit: actually I think Dallas should have got more picks for someone so young and who's a top 4 player in the league. I see Reaves being mentioned online but the salaries wouldn't match.
And Sam here's the Suns' reaction to it
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/g9HdUfu26C
Shams Charania reported today that none of the players had any idea about this trade until it was reported and all of them (and many others around the NBA) are stunned by it. Given that we all closely follow football where 'player power' often rules, it does seem wild that players can be traded in the NBA and have no say in it (unless you're Lebron with a no-trade clause).
Dallas fans online understandably seem really annoyed. OKC and Denver have struggled against size so I can see Davis's appeal there.
Dallas beat reporter Tim MacMahon has a book out about Doncic next month. He's on an emergency edition of The Hoop Collective podcast if anyone wants more insight. I haven't listened yet but it's one of my favourite podcasts in any genre.
Davis got injured in first game and now Kyrie Irving out for season
The live experience is even worse. The damn DJs are a massive irritant.
Certainly more entertaining than when i did the typical tourist thing and went to a Yankee's game a few years ago. The length of a MLB and NBA game is probably quite similar but the baseball game just felt miles longer and having the guys coming round trying to sell you a hotdog every 2 minutes was very annoying too.
Jokic had the first ever double triple-double game last night, 30-20-20. I'd make him the MVP but voter fatigue will push more people to SGA. Any views on who should win? They play each other twice very soon.
SGA leads the league in scoring, has got over 50 games in a row scoring at least 20 points and his team are running away with the West, so he's probably a worthy winner even though i think Jokic is having the better personal season.