Same as it ever was

And they’re all right. Celtics are Tatum and a piece away from taking over the conference.

ya’ll tripping act like Knicks aren’t better than every team in the west outside maybe OKC

I like the way you think man

Luka for Christie, Porzingis, Salary and 1 pick + probably 1 more pick. Plus gifted Flagg after some late season tanking

There will be picks as well.

Meh with how bad Luka is and how much better Flagg already is I’m sure they are fine/s

What if it was Trae Young instead?

Trading Luka to get back former Mav Porzingis…

People be milking this sunk cost thing forever

lol my god man don’t put it like this fml lol

lol seeing other fan bases make this joke is a lot less painful

Jokes aside but he would be an amazing get as a bench buyout piece for several teams

Idk if the swap is just an injury prone center for a worse injury prone center, i’d get it. You could probs get AD for 1 first + salary

Because if he can somehow stay healthy he absolutely is. Nobodies gonna lose hope until he starts looking awful on the court.

As a Mavs fan, I can’t believe there’s another team willing to partake in the modern AD experience, but i pray every night before bed that someone bites the bullet.

A healthy AD could be the missing piece to a championship contender.

I don’t think that’s a thing that exists.

Well, at least he can say that he was exactly that in the past.
Lakers missed the playoffs in 2019, traded for AD and then immediately won the championship. Pretty much the definition of a missing piece.

Well kind of yeah actually except they wouldn’t announce it. But if the East had OKC, Spurs, Houston, Denver, Wolves, I am having a hard time believing the 6-11 in this case would be going all in and would instead be like “yeah lets just keep the players we have and see some internal development. I think some teams sort of did that during KD Warriors years

Detroit isn’t going to be an easy out either.

I think the Pistons played New York well last season, and easily could have won a few more games in that series. If they meet up again this year in the playoffs, I do like the story of a young team that keeps coming back until they can beat that older vet team.

Detroit didnt have Ivey or Stewart last year and everyone’s improved. Wouldnt just give it to the Knicks.

I think teams can still see themselves with a shot. Like the Knicks don’t look like juggernauts but very good.

I would have them as the favorites for the east right now

Knicks have bad defense at PG and C/PF, even with great wing defenders it’s a lot of meat to chew on that bone.

The Knicks a good team but they are still relying on two players who are bad at defense and Mitchell Robinson who might not even play in playoff games. They are the best team in the east to me but no way can I take them over the field. As in over 50% chance to win the east

The Knicks are good but they are simply not good enough to win a title.

Pictures taken moments before disaster

this headline is peak cope outta the east, only the pistons have a legit shot against the knicks and even then idk

You may have been shaking had Dyson Daniels taken the leap everyone expected rather than fall off a Ben Simmons sized cliff…

They need some pieces yet to be perfectly mid

Man you know your dumbass team will lose in the play-ins again why bother. Had your pick last year, have your pick this year, 1 great draft and 1 draft that is currently hyped to be the best in recent history. But no lets just build around Giddey, Vuc and Buzelis while drafting Essengue and some other bum from the end of the lottery, instead of trying to get a Flagg or a Peterson, lets just stay mid forever.

God I hate your team and I am not even a Bulls fan

They need a young athletic big so badly.

The Hawks aren’t really much better than the Bucks lol they’re in no position to take a gamble on AD 

People overrate the Hawks as some sleeper threat so much every year when they never prove anything somehow they’re still living off that fluke 2021 run 5 years later 

The hawks absolutely shouldn’t be buying. They’re not good, and have no clear path to being good.

Bucks plan is hoping that Giannis turns into a two way demon who drops 40 points every game in a series, which is a lot more believable (not saying it’s a good idea) than anything the hawks can realistically come up with. Kristaps & OO cannot defend whatever the rest of the team doesn’t defend, and DD cannot play any reliable offence.

The Bucks have to be buyers as the second Giannis thinks they’re not committed to putting the best possible team on the court he’s asking out.

You don’t like your team if you want that

Trae is about as good as his hair looks

Yea you could retitle the headline to say that teams right on the edge of contention are looking at how to improve their rosters for a playoff push.

They’re good but they’re not unbeatable. If Mitchell Robinson is out and Kat is forced to play the 5 on D then teams can carve them up. I think they’re the best team in the east right now but compared to say the last few years of the Celtics they’re not as terrifying.

Their two best players are a short pg who is a defensive liability and a big man who is also exploitable defensively and sometimes loses his composure. They’re good but I don’t see any reason their competitors should fear facing them in the playoffs. You gotta beat good teams in the playoffs and this year’s Knicks are a good team but not more than that.

This is delusional 😆 knicks aren’t that good, they would be like the 5th best team in the west. And no, fearing the knicks would mean not even trying to compete

I’m really shocked the way people treat our team this year. It’s by far the best Knicks team I’ve seen since we made the finals in 1999. 

I get it, we’ve had limitations the last three years, but this is much different from what I’ve seen.

All of this noise from Hayne’s is coming directly from AD’s agent – he knows Dallas is not giving him a big extension.

Well AD might play Tingus won’t play so it is an upgrade.

says the guy whose team is down to one starter LOL
just kidding, obviously just a run of bad luck rather than a long history of it like AD & KP

Yeah the Knicks haven’t given anyone a reason to fear them. They only made it to the conference finals last year, got a new coach, upgraded their roster and have a top 5 net differential.

Mid team

There’s also the 76ers who are in the playoff picture rn

As a Thunder fan I’m more scared of The Knicks than every other team in the West besides a healthy Denver. People are overreacting to the Spurs beating OKC, I’m not concerned about them at all in the playoffs. The Knicks however are deep and have some ridiculous offensive fire power with solid defense. They can beat anyone if they are playing well, certainly not a team to just brush off.

not going to to look to make major changes in a year Tatum isn’t playing. 

According to the man himself, he is dead set on returning this season…

They are missing their best player though? Do Celts fans think Tatum’s going to be playing 30 mpg come playoff time? I find that really unlikely. It’d be the fastest timeline ever for that injury to fully recovered, and by a decent margin. If I was a Celtics fan, I would not want to see Tatum. 

Celtics bigs are small and not very talented either. The strategy has been great, and Brown has stepped up, but the roster is just not at a Finals level. 

yup. teams are going to manipulate their windows and fuck up long-term success

I can put up the same stats as AD does on the bench for the league min.

Have you seen Jalen run the offence in the half court? Jalen is great but he’s best suited as a secondary facilitator. If the Hawks are serious about making a mid season push they aren’t giving up Trae. Bringing in a win now player by giving up Trae will be a lateral move.