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NBA 24/25

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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  • Lakers fan, although I follow less than I did previously at the height of their success in the late 90s/early 00s. This season has been a bit up and down, but there is always going to be high expectations given the franchise's history. I'd love to go to a game.
  • My two youngest like the Golden State Warriors and once in a blue moon will watch , Steph Curry is a proper player , not that I have a clue 
  • edited January 14
    Orlando Magic fan here. Decimated by injuries but holding on to 4th place somehow!

    I've been to the Kia centre a few times, albeit it was the Amway then!
  • Cheers for responses. Btw this is the first ever sport that the entire family, wife and daughter included have enjoyed. So much so my 20 year old daughter left the venue with a giant plush called ‘Stuff’ which has gone back to Uni with her. Imaginations truly captured…
  • Viewing figures are tanking in the US.
    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


    NBA heat maps by play type - Synergy Sports



    For what it's worth I cheer on Utah Jazz who have been useless for best part of 20 years
  • Houston Rockets.

    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.
  • edited January 14
    Cheers for responses. Btw this is the first ever sport that the entire family, wife and daughter included have enjoyed. So much so my 20 year old daughter left the venue with a giant plush called ‘Stuff’ which has gone back to Uni with her. Imaginations truly captured…
    Stuff the Magic Dragon is a menace! Because Orlando seats are cheap I was able to sit right at the front in March v Toronto (most noteworthy for Gradey Dick & Anthony Black swapping jerseys and posing whilst grinning). I also saw Miami v Denver that week. 

    I haven't got a favourite team, I have some I like more but I'm mostly interested in close or high scoring games, plus the best players.

    I'd pick Boston to win again. OKC feel like they have a soft underbelly, or maybe they've just been learning from those hard losses you get on the way up. Shai will win a title some time for sure. 
  • Lving in Massachusetts I’m a Celtics fan and have been since I came in 1987. Not sure they can repeat this year as champs. A little inconsistent.
  • This is one of the coolest baskets I've seen, from Denver at Miami last night: Jokic barely catches it then gives the most no-look of no-look passes - Gordon dunks in style.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/Y0zwLReOY9
  • RedPanda said:
    This is one of the coolest baskets I've seen, from Denver at Miami last night: Jokic barely catches it then gives the most no-look of no-look passes - Gordon dunks in style.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/Y0zwLReOY9
    An amazing move 👍
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  • Jokic is mentally good at Basketball.

    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. 
  • sam3110 said:
    Jokic is mentally good at Basketball.

    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. 
    Durant I get, he's Kevin Durant. 

    It's the Beal contract that gets me, his role is too similar to Booker when you're paying a max and a dumb no-trade clause. 100% the worst contract in the NBA, then as you know you have to compromise with stuff like Nurkic as a starting centre. 

    So the Beal deal is the big 'what if?' for me, not just for Phoenix but the whole west. Taking on Jimmy Butler (although I don't see how that works financially) would be almost as self-harming.
  • Apparently we're looking to trade away Durant instead, basically because he's realised we can't win anytime soon and no-one's taking Beal off us.

    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 really love NBA since Jhonson and Jordan matches…
    I’m a Knicks fan. I had the luck to watch a match at Madison too. It was amazing atmosphere !! 
  • edited February 2
    I've just seen the AD and Doncic trade and had to check it wasn't a wind up. Wow, that has to be up there with the biggest trades ever. 

    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  :D
    https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/g9HdUfu26C
  • RedPanda said:
    I've just seen the AD and Doncic trade and had to check it wasn't a wind up. Wow, that has to be up their with the biggest trades ever. 

    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. 
    Yeah i agree, i would say it's probably better for Dallas in the short term, but long term it definitely benefits the Lakers more as Doncic will now be the face of the franchise for years when Lebron finally retires.

    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). 
  • Doncic's injuries are being mentioned as a reason for trading out, but then Davis is hardly an 82 game man.

    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. 
  • A month on and Dallas are still getting slated for the trade

    Davis got injured in first game and now Kyrie Irving out for season
  • It's good to see the Knicks being decent again
  • I really tried to get into the NBA when I lived in Canada but found it really hard. Ads keep disrupting a free-flowing game and the final quarter goes so slowly.

    The live experience is even worse. The damn DJs are a massive irritant.


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  • MrOneLung said:
    A month on and Dallas are still getting slated for the trade

    Davis got injured in first game and now Kyrie Irving out for season
    Every time the Lakers play this trade gets worse as well. He's averaging over 30 points and 10 assists in his last 4 games, whilst the Lakers go to 2nd in the west. Dallas may as well tank for the draft lottery. 

    Sure the Irving injury is unfortunate but Dallas put their eggs in that 32 year old, flight risk basket. 

    It's all still absolutely dumbfounding. 

  • I really tried to get into the NBA when I lived in Canada but found it really hard. Ads keep disrupting a free-flowing game and the final quarter goes so slowly.

    The live experience is even worse. The damn DJs are a massive irritant.


    I went to a Warriors game when i was in the US in October and i quite enjoyed it. Helped that it was a decent game though.

    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.
  • RedPanda said:
    MrOneLung said:
    A month on and Dallas are still getting slated for the trade

    Davis got injured in first game and now Kyrie Irving out for season
    Every time the Lakers play this trade gets worse as well. He's averaging over 30 points and 10 assists in his last 4 games, whilst the Lakers go to 2nd in the west. Dallas may as well tank for the draft lottery. 

    Sure the Irving injury is unfortunate but Dallas put their eggs in that 32 year old, flight risk basket. 

    It's all still absolutely dumbfounding. 

    I think i read that Doncic has now played 9 games and Lakers have won 8 of them. They are flying and have moved up to second seed in the West, whilst Davis is still injured for the Mavs.
  • I really tried to get into the NBA when I lived in Canada but found it really hard. Ads keep disrupting a free-flowing game and the final quarter goes so slowly.

    The live experience is even worse. The damn DJs are a massive irritant.


    I went to a Warriors game when i was in the US in October and i quite enjoyed it. Helped that it was a decent game though.

    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.
    Oh absolutely. Think I went to 4 Blue Jays games last year and I had a terrible time, every time.
  • Warriors for me. They’ve been flying since the Jimmy Butler trade. Steph Curry is some player. 36 now but still going strong. 
  • edited March 8
    Watching it live on TV is tough. Being in the UK helps, especially as League Pass is so comprehensive. Every game is there waiting in the morning, in various formats/lengths, and you can download one for your commute.

    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. 
  • RedPanda said:
    Watching it live on TV is tough. Being in the UK helps, especially as League Pass is so comprehensive. Every game is there waiting in the morning, in various formats/lengths, and you can download one for your commute.

    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. 
    Easy to get that against the Suns at the moment though, who have played spectacularly badly for the biggest wage bill in the league
  • Magic are doing my head in. Way too often giving away a win with a last throw. How fans afford an entire season live I have no idea. 
  • RedPanda said:
    Watching it live on TV is tough. Being in the UK helps, especially as League Pass is so comprehensive. Every game is there waiting in the morning, in various formats/lengths, and you can download one for your commute.

    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. 
    I think you're probably right. By most metrics the MVP should be Jokic, he's putting up historic numbers for a centre and is in the top 3 in the league for scoring, rebounds and assists. But like you say voter fatigue is definitely a thing and i believe they'll go different because he's won it 3 times already.

    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.
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