NBA

[delaurentis]

What a game 2 between Wolves - Mavs. Had me on the edge of my seat -

I'm rooting for Dallas (Doncic) to win a Championship;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794210642829922760

 

[Javier'sSon]

Luka is incredible and he's not even at %100, awseome game 2 Wolves put up a decent fight and I found it funny that KAT wasn't on the floor at the end though understandable because Reid was cooking.

Now if the pacers can give us a nice series in the East and at least wear down the Celtics a bit.

 

[pupivn]

Haliburton is out, so easy for Celtics, actually I haven’t seen one game of the East this year, it’s boring.

Interesting media using fatigue to “Jordan’s son” Anthony Edwads while Luke playing with one leg LOL

 

[delaurentis]

Haliburton is out, so easy for Celtics, actually I haven’t seen one game of the East this year, it’s boring.

Interesting media using fatigue to “Jordan’s son” Anthony Edwads while Luke playing with one leg LOL

Correction: US media.
Double standards - Ant Edwards, American, is more marketable then the Euro players. Therefore, I believe the media pushed Ant Edwards hard to be the new face of the league. Now they are getting -rightfully- alot of backlash for doing this.

 

[brehme1989]

It's been a long while since the NBA had proper basketball being played on both Conference Finals. Need to go back to the mid 2000s to find this. Maybe 2008

 

[delaurentis]

What a heartbreaking loss by Indiana... They choked away their lead.

 

[wera]

It's crazy how easy it's going to be for Boston to win the ring. Sooner or later Dončič won't have the legs to play anymore, his knees keep bleeding.

Kyrie is going to be super motivated against Boston. I would love to see that

 

[delaurentis]

It's crazy how easy it's going to be for Boston to win the ring. Sooner or later Dončič won't have the legs to play anymore, his knees keep bleeding.

Kyrie is going to be super motivated against Boston. I would love to see that

We'll also see how far the series against the Wolves will extend.

Lively will be back now for the Mavs, that will be a boost for them -
The games have been close, but I always get the sense the Mavs pull through the end.

I don't mind to see the games prolonged, but I also want the Mavs to be fully healthy against Boston. So hopefully they'll close out game 5 in Minny

 

[wera]

Shame that Porzingis is injured.

 

[pupivn]

Almost everyone picks Celtics, understandable and Luka’s knees are still bleeding in locker room after WCF.
Unicorn might be back actually.

 

[delaurentis]

Almost everyone picks Celtics, understandable and Luka’s knees are still bleeding in locker room after WCF.
Unicorn might be back actually.

I'm picking Dallas to win (not that my predictions are any good).
Their team is really clicking, + they have the best player in the series. More so then in football, the best players in NBA win you games, series. Luka is just that guy.

Hopefully no injuries to both teams and we can enjoy a great finals, which I'm sure we will.

 

[wera]

from Facebook:

When Dallas won their 2011 Finals, 12-year-old Luka Doncic is also balling overseas. During the Lido di Roma Tournament championship game, he dropped 54 PTS, 11 REB, and 10 AST as a 12-YEAR-OLD!!!

He won the MVP award.
Months later, he was signed by Real Madrid and been part of their youth academy. Few years later, when his current teammate Kyrie Irving went to his first NBA finals in 2015, Luka made his debut for Real Madrid's academy's senior team at age 16, becoming the youngest in club history.
When Kyrie transferred to Boston from Cleveland in 2018, Luka Doncic led Madrid to the 2018 EuroLeague title, winning the EuroLeague MVP and the Final Four MVP (The youngest to ever do it. He was still 17 years old that time.) He was named the ACB Most Valuable Player and won back-to-back EuroLeague Rising Star and ACB Best Young Player awards. Dončić was also selected to the EuroLeague 2010–20 All-Decade Team.
Legendary players were not born, they were made

 

[Barellielo]

"Luka Doncic led Madrid to the 2018 EuroLeague title, winning the EuroLeague MVP and the Final Four MVP (The youngest to ever do it. He was still 17 years old that time.) He was named the ACB Most Valuable Player and won back-to-back EuroLeague Rising Star and ACB Best Young Player awards."

How did so called scouts, see this and decided to draft 2 players over Doncic is BONKERS

 

[brehme1989]

"Luka Doncic led Madrid to the 2018 EuroLeague title, winning the EuroLeague MVP and the Final Four MVP (The youngest to ever do it. He was still 17 years old that time.) He was named the ACB Most Valuable Player and won back-to-back EuroLeague Rising Star and ACB Best Young Player awards."

How did so called scouts, see this and decided to draft 2 players over Doncic is BONKERS

"Eur0peanz be soft"

 

[ADRossi]

Forever mad at Europeans because of Darko.

 

[brehme1989]

Forever mad at Europeans because of Darko.

Darko wasn't any good in Europe, though. Nor with the National Team after he got older.

At least he's part of a NBA championship team

 

[Barellielo]

"Eur0peanz be soft"

it baffles me, you have a 17 year old MVP whooping fully grown men who give team USA trouble during int competition and most of these guys are ex NBA.. and u still draft a fucking center with 0 fucking jump shooting in a league thats all about spacing.. I dont even fucking know who was #2. Also the hawks trading trae for doncic... and to think that even until very recently people were saying its a level trade fucking lmao

 

[wera]

What Suns should've done is trade Devin Booker for a better center and go for Dončič, but they didn't think that through. Most West coast clubs didn't believe that the Don would be able to perform in the league.

Even Rick Carlisle who was the Mavs coach at the time, wasn't sure what would Dončičs position be if they got him.

 

[delaurentis]

Saw the first game: Celtics - Mavs. A dominating win by the Celtics, and saw Porzingis coming back with a bang,
I know it's wrong to define a series by one game, but after that first game I get a general feeling that Boston are just going to be to much for the Mavs..
Hope I'm wrong though and we get an exciting series.

 

[pupivn]

Mavs hardly win first game on road under Kidd, I think game 1 against Wolves was the first time. Let’s see how would they adjust for game 2, it depends more on Kyrie actually, he has bad game and on 11 losing streak against Celtics. If anything, this is predicted if Unicorn plays, it’s very hard for Mavs.