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The Warriors could not win games by just shooting 24 percent in the rainbow country. That's where they live and die, for tonight they were just 8/33, they were outscored by the Heat in that department and also in the paint, Heat scoring 60 while the Warriors only have 50.

Not sure though, I mean as the saying goes, don't fix it if it broken. So currently Kawhi is the leader of the Clippers and he is putting good numbers so far. And it 's also interesting that the Heat is going to offer Lowry and Robinson?

There's no many guards already in Clippers with Westbrook and Harden, so I don't think they will likely accept that the trade will have Lowry.

Robinson is not what he used to be with the Heat when he was one of the core during this championship finals against the Lakers. He has somewhat lost in the rotation and it did affect his performance and his shooting touch.

^ It's a rough night for the Warriors, specially Steph Curry who in his second game didn't score in the first quarter so he has a off night shooting. Couple that with Kuminga and Klay Thompson as well. So their winning streak at 8 in Chase center has been snapped by the Heat.


I also thought that the Pistons are going to win here against Boston. They really give everything in their game, and even at 1:30 minutes to, when Celtics are all celebrating because of KP's 3 and having a 6 point lead, the Pistons didn't give up and Bog has big follow up to tie the score. And then they play defense on Tatum and force the game into overtime. But in was a different story in overtime as they can't match up with the Celtics intensity.

Yes, the Lakers also won the game.

I think the story is about the game between Pistons and the Celtics. Detroit has a big chance to win that game and even forces an OT. But the Celtics doesn't want to be the team that the Pistons will beat to end their losing streak.

Also the Warriors losing 2 games again and they look shit. Curry take sometime to digest it after the game, maybe he is really frustrated in today's result.

That was a game in Boston tonight. The Celtics almost got caught lacking as the Detroit Pistons took them into overtime. I thought they were going to beat the odds and bring and end to their losing streak but tonight wasn’t meant to be the night as they couldn’t hold on in overtime. They ended up losing 122-128 to the relief of Celtics fans.

Yeah without Luka the Mavs are a lost cause. That's over 30 points missing, plus the rebounds and assists, basically no chance for them.
The "highlight" of the night was Detroit in Boston, almost getting the upset of the season after leading by 19 at halftime. But no surprise they fell apart in the 3rd and somehow got OT before falling for the 28th time in a row.

If they ended the streak in Boston, that would have been something and another funny story.
But lucky they didn't and the streak is alive.

Go on guys, keep making history. 

No, I don't see this happening. It's only my opinion though.

The Clippers are playing very well this season, and they already have the momentum that they need since they acquired James Harden. I mean why break the core of the team if they're playing better already. We are seeing a healthy Kawhi Leonard this season, and it's the first he has been after years of that sh*tty load management.

I don't see the Clippers breaking the core knowing that all of them are healthy. It's just my opinion though because we know that anything can happen in the NBA including trading one of their superstars out of nowhere.

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And the streak continues for the Detroit Pistons as they lost their 28th straight against the Celtics 128-126.

At one point, the Pistons were up by 21 points, and I thought that they would take care of that already until the end of the game, but it seems like they just choked. TBH, I didn't expect the game to end that close, and what I didn't expect is it would go to overtime. The Celtics are 0-3 coming to that overtime, and they just got their first overtime win this season. That Derrick White's three in the final 2 minutes of the game is the dagger because that shot gave them a 4-point lead.

Who will bet for the Pistons here reach 30-game losing streak? 

Actually this season LA lakers and hornets, both played badly. LA lakers despite many star players with expensive salaries such as lebron james and antony davis but still have not shown spurs. until now LA lakers are still ranked 9th in the western conference. while the hornets are even worse still ranked 13th in the eastern conference.

Mavericks is still digesting yesterday's loss. They are struggling today against a tougher opponent. Without Kyrie and Dončić, it already seemed difficult for them to win.
Edwards and Gobert are playing very well. Towns didn't have much to do. Timberwolves will pull this game out in the second half.

The Hornets have eight straight losses at the moment. So, this should be an easy win for the Lakers.
As for the Grizzlies, I didn't expect their performance to change so much after Morant's return. However, they are still at the bottom of the standings, and it's unlikely to get any better after today's match because the Nuggets are a strong opponent. I would even say insurmountable opponent for the Grizzlies at the moment.

I just read an article saying the Miami Heat were working on trade negotiations to get Kawhi Leonard from the Los Angeles Clippers.  With how well the Clippers are playing as of late I can't imagine they would want to break up the team now, unless something is going on behind the scenes.  Kawhi looks as happy as I've ever seen him lately and the team is winning a lot of games lately...  I pasted a link to the article below.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/nba-trade-rumors-miami-heat-negotiates-for-kawhi-leonard-with-la-clippers-potential-deal-involving-kyle-lowry-and-duncan-robinson/ar-AA1m9KXY

What do you think?  Are the Clippers ready to break up the Paul George and Kawhi Leonard experiment already?

As a Turkish person Alperen Sengun is exciting the whole nation that is interested in basketball. In our culture basketball is great, I mean not as much as football maybe, but basketball is definitely a good second. And anyone here that is interested in basketball is following Alperen like a hawk, we are really interested in the all-star voting and doing as much as we can to vote for him daily. Not that it means he will get it, of course there is a chance we may fail and he may not get it, but not like he is way too far away, even if he is not in the rosters, which there is still a chance, I am %99.99 sure that he would be either first or second backup, he is very very close to being in as well or maybe already in. That is an awesome development for a 21 year old kid.

Lakers will host Hornets. That should be an easy game for Lakers. Anthony Davis is having a good season, the last time he dropped 40 but they lost to Celtics. Now they should play easier game and won't have too much trouble. LeBron is making near triple-double stats as well.
Nuggets will host Grizzlies. They are tired, coming from Pelicans away game which finished in overtime. I believe Nuggets will win this one if they can lock Morant.

And with that, they are 10:1 underdog against the Boston Celtics in this game, -15.5 initial line of betting. I haven't seen this kind of huge line, maybe except in the Olympics or maybe some Asian game. But now the line is getting worst for the Pistons that it's really ridiculous to bet on them.

Not just the coaching staff though, they need to change their mentality and think that they can win night in night out. The thing is that when their opponents take a lead, they don't have the heart to chase it and make a comeback.

And the thing that hurt is that there are games that they could have won, I mean they play good in the first quarter or the first half. And then they will just mentality collapse and it become their story as most of their losing streak is like that game.

So it's really frustration from everyone, coaches, players, management and fans.

Great game by the Cavs btw, making a great comeback and stunned the Luka crowd. Mavs took control but the Cavs won't simply go.

It was really a shocker and even for me I was like what has happened looking at the stats for that game I was like even though Domantis Sabonis got a double-double of 12 rebounds and 34 points and De'Aaron Fox got a monster 43 points for this game but it was not enough as the score of the Kings didn't spread for the team while the Trail Blazer did a great thing with this game, as Anfernee Simons, Duop Reath for the 1st time got 25 points for this game as not they have won this game, well good for him for sure,


It was really a bad night for the Sacramento Kings as this is a big upset for sure I never expected that the Trail Blazers would have their chance to win and break their consecutive losses for sure there are many who lost their bets because of this, as  was nearly bet for the Sacramento Kings aswell, this is a game last December 27, even Sabonis and Fox had a great night for this game they surely can not win by themselves, as the Trail Blazers have forcefully let those two take the score maybe,


For sure and I would also bet that the Boston Celtics would surely win this one, but unfortunately, I have seen the odds and it will not be profitable for me to bet on that game so I will pass later I will make my prediction and picks for the games today for the NBA on the betting thread that is,

And Detroit Pistons sure will not have a chance against the Boston Celtics that is for sure upon looking at the stats and who's going to play for the Boston Jaylen Brown has a back injury that enables him to play for the Boston Celtics, for me the Boston Celtics will still win this,

Yeah it's gotten pretty bad over there but to say they couldn't beat the aces is laughable.  They would absolutely destroy the aces.  They lost by 6 points against the Nets it's not like they are losing by 50 points every game.  Either way I do hope they get it together it's not good for the NBA having a team this bad.

They’re in a rebuild. Nobody thought they would be a good team. Similar to the Spurs. They’re stacking young talent and preparing themselves for better times ahead. Still, their losing streak does raise some concerns about whether or not this team has any future. You’d think they would get lucky once a month at least.

They need to find that right adjustments on both sides, nothing will change even how deep they will take these losing streaks,

they should focus on the things that they can still improve, dwelling with losses will not change anything.

Winning attitude still need inside of each players mindset, it's been a long time but still nothing is happening with this franchise, unable to create
some hypes and now a losing streak record that will be kept in the league history, something that the owner should try to work on.

I guess they have a problem in every factor you've mentioned. But the biggest factor IMO are its roster because there's not legit leader for this team, so they aren't guided especially in the crucial minutes. It's the team chemistry that is hurting the team, they for sure have talents since they are in the NBA, but if they don't play inspired basketball, this is what they will continue to get.

Tomorrow they'll be against the Celtics who are still undefeated at home, this is sure another L in the record, their streak will continue.

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We can predict and continue to be amazed with the Celtics, Bucks and 76ers, but we should not forget that Miami Heat are their destroyer, so I think they are still the team to beat in the East since they are the defending ECF champion.