Lacabloodclot9 | Grizzlies

183 | 5 hours ago

White and Giddey both down in the same night is brutal

Dame-in-EpstienFiles

75 | 4 hours ago

Maybe it will allow the Bulls to finally tank tho instead of constantly chasing the 8 seed and getting no where.

Early-Wishbone496 | Bulls

61 | 4 hours ago

Haha don’t be silly. They’re gonna be fighting to be the 10th seed like their lives depend on it.

Pikminious_Thrious | Lakers

6 | 4 hours ago

Raptors are trying to abandon you guys in the playin bromance. At least you’ll still have the Heat and Hawks playin buddies.

godofhammers3000

10 | 4 hours ago

Raps have been the playin once

TasteDeBallZach

2 | 3 hours ago

They don’t want to break the play-in pact they have with Atlanta and Miami.

chakrablocker | Thunder

1 | 30 minutes ago

The bulls aren’t even trying to win a ring and those other two are trying their hardest 😭

DisMFer | Bulls

1 | 2 hours ago

I’ve seen our line up without those two guys. If their lives depended on getting the 10th seed they’d have to start making out wills.

chillhomer | Bulls

4 | 4 hours ago

just when I thought I was in, they push me back out

kendrickLMA01

2 | 3 hours ago

Yeah, that’s rough. Losing White and Giddey in the same night basically nukes all your ball-handling and playmaking at once. Hard to stay competitive when half your offense disappears overnight.

Ok_Mixture4917 | Bulls

89 | 5 hours ago

Damn, Bulls might not even make the play in at this rate

Lacabloodclot9 | Grizzlies

50 | 4 hours ago

Nope, get ready to meet Miami and/or Atlanta buddy

zebrainatux | Knicks

33 | 4 hours ago

The bottom bottom of the east is such unfettered goat ass it’ll take skill to miss the play in

Lacabloodclot9 | Grizzlies

14 | 4 hours ago

I mean Charlotte being better this year helps but Pacers and Bucks regression neutralises that

ButlerFromDowntown | Bulls

4 | 4 hours ago

Nets have also been playing well recently, although I still expect Cam Thomas’s return to drag them down enough to keep them from making the play-in.

milkhotelbitches | Bucks

2 | an hour ago

If Giannis can stay healthy, the Bucks are a top 6 team in the east, as crazy as that sounds.

road432 | Knicks

19 | 4 hours ago

Despite the injuries, I’m 99% sure the yearly Atlanta/Chicago/Miami play-in invitational will still happen as usual.

Chessh2036 | Hawks

10 | 4 hours ago

NBA Gods won’t allow that.

“I think you and I are destined to do this forever.” - Hawks/Bulls/Heat in the Play-In.

HectorBananaBread

7 | 4 hours ago

If the Bulls don’t make the play-in there will be 6 more weeks of Summer League.

Ok_Mixture4917 | Bulls

2 | 4 hours ago

Lmao damn

Sp_Gamer_Live | Timberwolves

3 | 4 hours ago

theres a good joke I cant find and its something like “guys youre breaking up the 7 seed!”

Sarcastic__ | Supersonics

37 | 4 hours ago

Another MVP case gone down in flames.

AvengingHero2012 | Rockets

25 | 4 hours ago

I think the game limit was a mistake.

The pace of the game has made long term injuries more prevalent, but I have no other ideas for fixing load management so I guess we have to stick with it.

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

37 | 4 hours ago

No MVP winner has missed the threshold before it even became a threshold since Bill Walton.

Zamoniru

28 | 4 hours ago

Not for MVP but if half the league is ineligible for NBA 3rd team that’s kinda bullshit

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

14 | 4 hours ago

3rd team should have an expanded cap i agree

ButlerFromDowntown | Bulls

12 | 4 hours ago

A lower game limit for 2nd team and 3rd team would make sense. You can’t convince me that 55 games of Jokic and Giannis doesn’t provide more value to their teams than 75 from somebody like Pascal Siakam.

Zeeron1 | Thunder

6 | 4 hours ago

The game limit is more than fair. The obvious solution to load management is to either reduce games, or lengthen the season and get rid of back to backs

ositola | Lakers

3 | 3 hours ago

Well let’s speak in practicalities because we know the league won’t do that

Zeeron1 | Thunder

0 | 2 hours ago

If the league doesn’t wanna do anything about the actual problem here which is injuries, then that’s their dumb decision to make. But the 65 game limit is completely fine

Sp_Gamer_Live | Timberwolves

3 | 4 hours ago

If a player cant play that almost by definition doesn’t make them “the most valuable player”

Wolf_ZBB_2005 | Thunder

7 | 4 hours ago

And voters can account for that. You’re telling me a player who plays 65 games should be able to win MVP, but a player who plays 64 games shouldn’t make an all-nba team? Anybody who believes a struck games played requirement to be eligible for awards is a good idea is fucking dim.

sparknado | Supersonics

1 | 10 minutes ago

Ok then how would you do it oh brilliant one

fighting-prawn

1 | an hour ago

Not just pace but extra-cautious returns to play to preserve players for post-season.

Sp_Gamer_Live | Timberwolves

2 | 4 hours ago

Theres some guy looking down off a tall ass building in Chicago who bet the house on a Josh Giddey MVP season

inefekt | Australia

1 | an hour ago

Well tbf, if you bet on Giddey for MVP then you pretty much just threw your money in the garbage as soon as you laid that bet anyway. Bro is having a good season, not denying that, but the prospect of him ever getting top five MVP let alone winning it are very, very slim.

JayDee62 | LAL

36 | 5 hours ago

so that means they’re not trading Ayo Dosunmu now.

cardcollection92 | Knicks

30 | 4 hours ago

I feel like it’s said and true every year, but the injuries are wild this year.

ChessHistory

21 | 4 hours ago

It’s crazy how many injuries stars are starting to take, no wonder SGA only plays three quarters

Sp_Gamer_Live | Timberwolves

15 | 4 hours ago

This is why Kawhi is such an underrated player, cant get injured if you dont play

ChessHistory

2 | 4 hours ago

If I know two things about Kawhi, it’s that he wouldn’t take money under the table and he’s never injured

Odoaiden | Timberwolves

3 | 3 hours ago

The 3 quarter Shai narrative is kinda dumb because he still plays normal amount of minutes he just plays more third and second quarter minutes

SleepLessTeacher

6 | 4 hours ago

Uh oh, Reinsdorf in shambles as he might lose that play in chase money.

-edit-

Fuck Reinsdorf (im also a Sox fan)

Sp_Gamer_Live | Timberwolves

7 | 4 hours ago

Dont worry, your next owner is Justin Ishbia who checks notes oh no

tisdue | Suns

3 | 4 hours ago

Giddey up. Giddey down.

heat_fan_ | Raptors

1 | 4 hours ago

Massive blow for the Bulls who are also missing White

luckyshot35 | Timberwolves

1 | 4 hours ago

Blow it up

Fortlulz

1 | 4 hours ago

Bulls fans can finally rejoice.

Greelys | Warriors

1 | 4 hours ago

Hot girlfriend, stuck at home. Okay okay

RobbobertoBuii | Knicks

1 | 4 hours ago

damn…

Padulsky21 | Nets

1 | 3 hours ago

Ayo szn

Acomplished_Baby285 | Bulls

1 | 3 hours ago

More chansa for Dybantsa!

Nby333

1 | 3 hours ago

Bro got too close to Washington Russ and got burned.

inefekt | Australia

1 | an hour ago

Washington Russ dropped 23/14/13 for the second half of that season or something like that…..I know it was just a few seasons back but at the exponential rate of statistical inflation, that’s probably worth 30/18/18 today lol

we_hella_believe

1 | 3 hours ago

How does this affect his MVP status?

ObviousAnswerGuy | NYK

1 | an hour ago

oof

heat_fan_ | Raptors

0 | 4 hours ago

Holy crap another injury what the hell is going on

shangalang69 | Raptors

3 | 4 hours ago

good bot

Sp_Gamer_Live | Timberwolves

1 | 4 hours ago

sports?

WiseCryptographer174 | Nuggets

-3 | 4 hours ago

hope people see that lowering the game limit doesen’t just help Nuggets fans, the leagues as fast paced and dangerous as ever.

DakoftheDead

5 | 4 hours ago

For the love of God quit crying lol. He’s not the first superstar to ever get hurt.

lethalizered | Thunder

3 | 3 hours ago

What the fuck are you even talking about man? The rule didn’t start yesterday, it’s been a thing for a while now.

inefekt | Australia

1 | an hour ago

Live by the sword, die by the sword….if this is the cost of playing better basketball then perhaps that cost isn’t actually worth it? At some point you need to find a balance between the speed of the game and prevalence of injuries.
Imagine a hurdler thinking that if they can clear each hurdle by the barest of margins, say a single mm, they can shave a tenth of a second of their time….but humans being human, we aren’t that precise so every other race they’re trippping over a hurdle and falling flat on their face. What would the logical conclusion be? That maybe….just maybe it’s not a good idea and for the sake of being able to finish more races, they should allow a bit more clearance. The point is that humans are not infallible and we have to account for that in everything we do.

adad239_

-6 | 4 hours ago

Please don’t let it be Shai next 🙏🏼

Rush_nj | Australia

3 | 4 hours ago

Give your balls a tug you sad fuck.

bootywizard42O | NBA

2 | 4 hours ago

You should really seek help

traw056 | Thunder

-3 | 4 hours ago

What a sad little life you live LOL

adad239_

2 | 4 hours ago

What?

[Charania] Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey has sustained a left hamstring strain and will miss at least a few weeks, sources tell ESPN. Tough injury blow as Giddey has averaged 19.2 points, 9 assists and 8.9 rebounds.