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Lebron is the one that motivates them and having a big man like Anthony Davis who is both dominant on the offensive and defensive ends of the floor is a big plus for them. Lebron cannot carry the team anymore. Sure, amazingly, he can do these things at his age but Father Time will still be undefeated.
I remember I said in this thread that they need to be healthy full blast if they want the other championship because one injury will cost them that trophy.
The NBA Cup was short so they can definitely try and win it but when it comes to a long battle in the playoffs with a race to 4 wins series and a hardcore defense, it will be difficult to keep a player healthy with so many things happening in the court.
LA Lakers is strong, I don't doubt that especially on the defensive end. Then, Austin Reaves stepped up his game but one of their two stars falling will mean the whole season for them. Another player must step up, Rui Hachimura did but they will need his 3-point shooting skills to start sinking in again. He played 34 minutes with 20 points but 0/5 in distance shots. Next, they need Vanderbilt to be fully healthy, he is still under restricted minutes but it could've been better if he could contribute on the defensive end.

I saw an interesting stat about the Lakers playing without their stars...  They are 0-2 now after the recent loss to San Antonio without Anthony Davis.  At the same time, they are 2-0 without LeBron James.  This certainly leads one to believe that Anthony Davis is important to the Lakers, maybe even moreso than LeBron James.  Interesting to note that in both scenarios they played the Spurs and even in the game they won (without LeBron James), they barely squeaked by with a win.  This makes me think the problems with the Lakers are less about talent, and more about motivation.  The win in the tournament also supports that.

So there's always the two sides of the story but it was just seen when Draymond Green is the one that seems to be the bad guy. I didn't know the other incidents that been done by him but it's true that these fines won't stop him.

I think that he should just stop being like that. It's an attitude problem that's gonna be hard to remove. Whoever goes first is a matter of fact but the actions that he also does doesn't make him a protector of his mates.

He's way just too physical and if there will be no heavier fines, this time, it's time for him to just stop being too aggressive with any contacts that's been done to him or to any of his teammates. Sometimes it's just too overreacting, maybe him or us fans.

Very sad we have to see garbage posts like this one every day in here.
Is there something we can do about it?
I mean this is pure spam to collect money from the signature campaign, basically an insult for everyone reading.

As everyone can see, it's not even written well, sounds like google translate or some nonsense.
Looking at this users history basically all his posts look like this, and almost all are in some football league or sports in general and so on, "recapping" games that happened days ago.
And how these recaps look like we call know:

"They played well. The other team lost because they played not well enough. They must play better to win the next game"

How a "Legendary" can produce this kind of content is very questionable. I have my suspicions but yeah, guess we all have to keeping living with garbage posts in the sports/gambling section.

Miami Heat played a very good game again. Jimmy Butler is playing great again this year, I think we just saw his first game-winning Buzzer Beater of the season. It was great that he walked in without taking any risks and won the game with a shot without using a 3-point shot, the whole room stood up.
Chicago Bulls wanted to win the match in the last period, but unfortunately they lost the match with the last ball. Their performances in the last period were very good, but the teams had a hard time scoring points in the last 2 minutes

LoL. I just check the standings. What they did is extremely painful in the eyes for their franchise. I wonder how low does the ticket price when watching on their home court especially when they have a match against Spurs.

I bet they are competing against Spurs for getting the 1st draft pick for having this kind of terrible losing streak. Sometimes, I think the drafting system makes the team intentionally be bad for that season. 

I see your point and that's true, he is already in the limelight, so it's much easier to complete the task when you know that there are many
eyes that are observing and watching you as a target.

So sad, but it's good to see that NBA is now doing their part. The way Draymond is acting gives justification that you can play the game with your dirty
way of playing without any conviction.

Knowing that there's already action coming from the league, it's time for Draymond to realized that with millions of people who are watching them, all
those bad things that players will do, create an impact, especially for the young audiences.

It's a need to be professional and not to let your emotion dominate to prevent unnecessary actions.

Well, hopefully they can get the record. 
Too bad the other record chasing team, the spurs, won vs the Lakers to stop their 18 losses in a row. It was nice to have 2 teams chasing history with "great performances".

By the way, Ja Morant's suspension is almost over. The Grizz have a 6:18 record now so there is only 1 more game to wait and Morant will be eligible to get back on the court. I wonder if he will play right after the suspension ends or what the teams has in store for him. I hope he finally learned something from this. The next time he does something stupid they maybe give him a 1 year ban hammer, I wouldn't be surprised.

Well, the Pistons are one step closer to making NBA history. They need to lose 6 more games in a row, and then they'll break that 76ers record. Remarkably, the Pistons will have only one top opponent for the next 6 games(the Celtics), while the other 5 games will be against pretty average opponents. It seems like the Pistons have a pretty good schedule to win at least 1 game, but they look so hopeless that even teams like the Hawks, Nets, Raptors, and Jazz will beat them probably without much effort.

Some surprising results today.

Miami Heat won through a Jimmy Butler perimeter buzzer-beater against the Chicago Bulls.
The Golden State Warriors somehow won the game after they wasted a 13-point lead against the Brooklyn Nets.
Then the OKC Thunder squeezed an upset win against the strong Denver Nuggets. I really thought they were defeated there but SGA didn't give up and scored their last 4 points to take the lead.

And how about the Detroit Pistons finally wi... Nah never mind, just kidding.
The Milwaukee Bucks blew them out and Giannis had a good rest playing with the kids on the bench.

the LA Clippers are getting stronger and stronger. 7th winning streak. They are now in the 6th spot of the Western Conference. This team is getting scarier as every known name on their roster is contributing.

Draymond had that bad reputation already so he was targeted, and the fact that he could eaisly react, do some stupid things, I think he has been a part of the startegy of their opponents in order to win. Yes, there are players who started to provoke Draymond in a safest way because they know how high tempered he is, but you know man, there's this what we called as "acting skills", in the NBA, Draymond doesn't have that, he's so real.

Surely Draymond Green deserves to be suspended and fined a million dollars but I think this is not fair as you can see many surely blamed Draymond Green for what had been happening to him in recent weeks and it was like Draymond Green has not signed by Joe Lacob but instead sign by Dana White because of his action recently but for me I think that Suspension is not going to fix the Draymond Green problem, and you can see the list just will continue, the hitting below the belt on LeBron James, the Stomping on Domantas Sabonis, the Headlock on Rudy Gobert, the latest Jusuf Nurkić, and the Fiasco over Jordan Poole, for sure Draymond Green deserves the ejection, suspension and fine, but we didn't see the real picture on why did Draymond Green retaliated like that, I think it will not stop if the NBA didn't give any punishments to the people that started it all even though it is just a faint action they make I think it is the cause of all the commotion that is happening the LeBron James incident were Bron walk over Draymond Green I think that is disrespectful, The Domantas Sabonis ankle lock that led to stomping, and the Rudy Gobert even though he is not trying to hurt Klay I think Rudy Gobert should stop his teammates and not other teammates and I think that is the one that got Draymond Green heated up and try to protect Klay, next is Jusuf Nurkić grabbing the Jersey of Green, that led to a retaliation swing, and lastly the Jordan Poole Fiasco as we all know Jordan Poole have said something to Draymond Green that led to that and we all know that Jordan Poole has some issues with his attitude,

I am saying all this because I think the NBA should also give credit to the people who started it all and not to the one who initiated the hurt even though the holding of Jersey is not that high I think Draymond just got irritated about it but one thing is for sure Draymond Green didn't initiates all of it,

Beal hasn't come back fully yet and he was injured again. I wonder how it would affect his confidence now knowing that he hasn't contributed to the team yet. It was always been Durant and Irving who  had consistent contribution to the team, but without Beal which they gave up players for him, I doubt the Suns will have a chance to be in the championship this season, even if Durant and Booker would play like their usual.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/bradley-beal-injury-update-suns-star-to-miss-a-few-weeks-with-sprained-right-ankle-per-report/


This is the only good news! At least there's still a chance.

For me, they aren't professional players, but from what I see, they're like a bunch of collegiate players that are playing in the NBA.
I mean how can a team have a losing streak of 23 games? If it's a winning streak then that's something that they can be proud of, but a losing streak of 23? What the hell is wrong with the team? I wonder how the Pistons fans are feeling right now when they see their team have this kind of achievement... a negative achievement.

The record is 28 games, and they're now on 23. Their next 6 games will be against Phoenix, Atlanta, Utah, Brooklyn 2x, and Boston. Out of the 5 teams they'll be facing, the highest chance of them winning is against Utah which is kind of having a rough season as well. The rest will just demolish them. TBH, we might see the 28-game losing streak to be broken by this Pistons team. That's how awful they are right now.

As for Beal, he will be out for a few weeks, and it's good that it wasn't that serious at all. It's just a bit unfortunate that in all of their 25 games, Durant, Beal, and Booker only played 1 game, and they lost on that one as well. I wonder if this might be the same as what happened with the Nets when they still got Harden, Irving, and Durant.

Finally, the Warriors was able to get a win in their homecourt. But it was not that easy, as the Nets come back in the 3rd and close it out in the 4th quarter. Intense moment in the last 3 minutes or so. The Nets are good at double teaming Steph Curry, not allowing him to hold the ball.

But it was Klay scoring back to back 3's, and t hen once Curry got hold of the ball, he didn't waste a time to score and put them in a good lead. And  then Kuminga with a good defense against Bridges, I thought that Bridges will score to tie the score. But Kuminga's defense alter Bridges shot and then Curry nailing the final nail in the coffin to win this hard game.

It’s hard to imagine that a team of professional athletes can win so few games and lose so badly. It’s like they’re not trying to win games…

I was bummed to see that Bradley Beal was injured again yesterday. Looks like he only got 4 minutes on the court with Durant and Booker. I hope he gets healthy soon and there was some silver lining as he shot 2-2 for 6 points while draining a 3 and a free throw for a 4 point play that left him injured.

It's painful to watch this Pistons. Bucks made 30 points difference in just 14 minutes. I know I should've bet for them at -20.5 handicap but I couldn't. There's no place for emotions in that. Meh, let's enjoy the game. Beauchamp started good, now Portis is feeling himself. They don't even need Giannis tonight.

I mean I am not sure if he has 200 million in assets and 100 million is coming though. There is a possibility that he didn't spent his salary so far wisely, and spent it on silly stuff and is not a rich person, obviously he is not poor like us, but there is a very real possibility that he may not have the sufficient funds to keep living like he is living now. He is making a lot of money now, so he does spend most of it, but he may not put aside enough. Plus, we need to remember the agent cut, the accountant cut, the taxes in California being super high, all means that he is not making nearly 100 million, after all the tax, I would be shocked to learn if he gets 50 million for 4 years, which ain't a lot in professional basketball world at NBA level. So every game he misses hurts his finances even if he cares or not.

Knicks had a great win last night at the Suns.  Crazy how they got shredded up by the Jazz and then go handle theor business in Phoenix.  Second night of a back to back west coast away game will be tough against the Clippers.  After that it's the Lakers.  First real test of the season on this trip. Brunson looked real good last night let's see what he does tonight.

Yes, he has been doing this for years now, suspended and the be back in the league. But this season, it's a very different Green and we can see that he is more aggressive toward other players and that is really dangerous to the league and players itself. It's like every night, he will do it, to hurt someone intentionally.

To be fair though, he was a good defender, because he has high IQ, knows how to get into someone's head. But it's totally different now when Green is old and can't catch up unlike before that's why he resorted to this so style of his basketball that initially looks like he didn't do it intentionally, but the reply shows otherwise.