CockroachForeign6419 | Lakers

256 | 10 hours ago

Time to double KD and pray

KorgG29 | Bucks

157 | 10 hours ago

Old man Bron vs dusting KD, get your popcorn out. More importantly, Ayton vs Capela

ihatedougford | Toronto Huskies

86 | 10 hours ago

Holy shit the Ayton vs Capela storyline is actually going to be interesting

GaTech379 | Rockets

22 | 9 hours ago

not really with Capela playing like 10 minutes a game lol

uwill1der | Rockets

43 | 9 hours ago

we were saving him for this moment

1GeorgeMarcus2MJ8LBJ | Rockets

2 | 7 hours ago

wish we still had Adams. He would dominate lakers more than Gobert did last year

INVINCIBLE3412 | Lakers

4 | 7 hours ago

we didn’t have a center last year

srednuos | Supersonics

-8 | 6 hours ago

Neither you this year.

cornfromajar98 | United States

1 | 29 minutes ago

Ayton has better career averages than Steven Adams and he’s literally not even trying half the time

gedbybee | Spurs

-1 | 4 hours ago

Don’t worry, we’re gonna beat the nuggets and yall will have to figure out how to guard wemby.

Plants_R_Cool | Timberwolves

137 | 10 hours ago

Wolves v Nuggets for the 3rd time in 5 years, let’s go.

adrspthk | Nuggets

51 | 10 hours ago

Nuggets will be 4 seed cuz lakers will win against jazz and they have tie breaker. It’s unlikely nuggets will go full effort to beat the spurs

SpiritFantastic4835 | Lakers

36 | 10 hours ago

Spurs have no reason to play wemby. Who says they’ll try either

Shepher27 | Timberwolves

28 | 10 hours ago

Depends if the Spurs want to play nuggets in round 2 or Wolves/Lakers in round 2

NeverSober1900 | Rockets

35 | 9 hours ago

They definitely would prefer Lakers/Wolves.

Shepher27 | Timberwolves

8 | 9 hours ago

How badly though? Enough to risk their guys in game 82 when their seeding is locked up?

NeverSober1900 | Rockets

27 | 9 hours ago

I think so.

There’s only 3 teams that are title contenders in the West. I think having to go beating Nuggets, Thunder + East is brutal. Avoiding one is pretty large.

Plus the 7-seed should be a joke for them. Suns/Blazers? You can rest guys in that one if you need it

Shepher27 | Timberwolves

16 | 9 hours ago

I will point out that the Spurs have a losing record vs the wolves this year and their only win was a game with no Ant.

NeverSober1900 | Rockets

6 | 9 hours ago

Fair point I just can’t imagine not dodging the nuggets if I could. Not like those games have been easy either.

I mean I hope I’m wrong. Our odds vs the Lakers are WAY better than vs the Nuggets. But that’s also why I think it might happen. I don’t think the Nuggets respect us at all either

ManagerEmergency6339 | Spurs

5 | 9 hours ago

spurs won that game when ant hit his career high though? you might be misremembering it

Andy_Wiggins | Timberwolves

2 | 6 hours ago

Yeah, I think he’s mixing it up with Houston:

Against Houston (the game before) the Wolves barely lost while Ant was out.

Against San Antonio, Ant was back and blazing, but the Wolves were down Gobert and then Naz (who left after like 5 minutes) and had to play Joan Beringer, their 19 year old rookie center who barely spoke English.

Solaris123-com | Timberwolves

2 | 3 hours ago

No. They beat us when Ant dropped 55 as well

OnePieceAce | Timberwolves

1 | 5 hours ago

Gobert turns up vs Wemby plus we have way more playoff experience than the Spurs who essentially have a rookie HC….

gedbybee | Spurs

1 | 4 hours ago

Assuming yall beat the lakers of course.

Puppetmaster858 | Suns

2 | 8 hours ago

The suns have actually played the spurs well this season, even when we played them recently and were slumping they barely beat us cuz we choked

empowered676

1 | 5 hours ago

Game 82 is now a playoff game

gedbybee | Spurs

1 | 4 hours ago

Yes.

Locksmith1778

16 | 10 hours ago

If Spurs knock Denver down to 4th on Sunday they only have to play one of Denver/OKC in the playoffs to reach the finals instead of both.

SpiritFantastic4835 | Lakers

8 | 10 hours ago

Ok I see now that’s smart

RubyElixer

1 | an hour ago

Wemby needs to play 1 more game to be eligible for season awards

No_Refrigerator6996 | Spurs

2 | an hour ago

he locked that up last night

Alex_O7

11 | 10 hours ago

Jokic has to play at least 20 min to be included into awards, but aside that i lowkey think Nuggets prefer the 4th spot.

CMYGQZ | Grizzlies

3 | 5 hours ago

15, he only used up 1 15-20 game.

Duster_beattle | Timberwolves

2 | 10 hours ago

Looks like lakers are back on the menus boys

AlterWanabee | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

Jokic will play for the awards, against a Spurs who might not play any of their starters.

BlackJediSword | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

I don’t think this team can beat Utah so don’t hold your breath lol

dbgager | Nuggets

15 | 10 hours ago

Wolfs weaker than prior years..Nuggets stronger than prior years.

kcoe24 | Timberwolves

54 | 10 hours ago

Rudy is gonna hit a step back 3 on your ass

ilikekittens2018 | Nuggets

28 | 10 hours ago

I think that’d probably be a sign that god was against us so I’d have to accept the loss

kcoe24 | Timberwolves

8 | 10 hours ago

Did you forget about his turnaround fade away over Jokic. God swung the last series for us. He might give you this one.

ilikekittens2018 | Nuggets

2 | 10 hours ago

I feel like we’ve had enough suffering this year to warrant at least a tiny shift of fate for us… please 😭🙏🏻

Andy_Wiggins | Timberwolves

3 | 6 hours ago

I actually think the Wolves are better this year (when they’re locked in) than they were last year.

Ant and Jaden’s offensive development is pretty meaningful. Ayo is a better player for the Wolves this year than NAW was last year (although NAW’s been amazing this year). They’ve also added a bit of depth (Bones, SloMo, etc.).

Agree on Denver though. While I think Cam is a downgrade, Murray has been healthy and hooping, Gordon’s offensive growth continues to be crazy, and Watson, Hardaway, Brown, Valanciunas are miles better than the team had off the bench previously.

meengine | LAL

2 | 10 hours ago

Then there’s Ant

ihatedougford | Toronto Huskies

1 | 10 hours ago

The 2024 Nuggets are arguably stronger

ShowdownValue

2 | 7 hours ago

Than the current team?

Apprehensive_Air1705

1 | 9 hours ago

This is basically the same wolves team? I’m confused why people say this.

dbgager | Nuggets

2 | 8 hours ago

6 seed- 48 wins.

Piats99 | Spurs

3 | 8 hours ago

Thay had to deal with Ant injuries and not having a PG for most of the season, but now Ant is healthy and they solved the guard rotation with Hayes and Dosunmu.

The only conundrum is whether Randle will perform better or worse than KAT in the upcoming playoffs.

GivesCredit | Warriors

2 | 6 hours ago

Wolves are 5-5 in their last 10. Nuggets are 10-0, granted idk how many injuries the wolves have had in their last 10 games. I think it would be a really fun series but I really want to see ant whoop the lakers in 5 again

qotsabama | DAL

1 | 3 hours ago

I’d rather see good series, not like rockets are gonna lose to the injured Lakers squad.

AlligatorPoontang | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

This years team is better than last years

cacti_zoom | Suns

1 | 5 hours ago

3rd time in 4 years

Mike-XL

76 | 10 hours ago

LeBron is gonna beat the Rockets without Luka and Reaves, lol.

FirstPreparation8538 | Pacers

36 | 10 hours ago

Yea he might take a game

Shadoken-TYPE0 | Canada

10 | 10 hours ago

Idk Rockets are p athletic, will be interesting for sure

SplitOk186

43 | 10 hours ago

I really don’t see it being that close you have to remember that Luka carried hard in both Lakers close wins over the Rockets and now they don’t have their other main guard either

I get people are really low on KD and Sengun on here but if you win 50 games in the West you can’t be that bad of a team they didn’t win those games by accident

Huckleberry_Sin

9 | 9 hours ago

Shit we just ended an 8 game win streak. I get we had our struggles but we on a run rn after players only meeting

ShowdownValue

5 | 7 hours ago

Do you mean to say pathetic or athletic?

digibox56 | Spurs

2 | 3 hours ago

Pathletic

jackdonsurfer | Raptors

12 | 10 hours ago

If Nuggets tank the game against the Spurs on Sunday to duck Minnesota he’ll have to beat the Wolves instead

cesga_0218 | Lakers

16 | 9 hours ago

I think aside from Nuggets tanking, the Spurs have the incentive to beat them so that they’ll have to face only one of Denver or OKC in the probable WCF

Brodom93 | Spurs

1 | 9 hours ago

Haven’t dived into hypotheticals too much, how would us beating them Sunday play into that?

Sektsioon | Mavericks

7 | 8 hours ago

Lakers play the Jazz and will likely win, if Nuggets lose to you then they’ll have the same record as the Lakers assuming they do beat the Jazz, and the Lakers have the tiebreaker over the Nuggets, giving them the 3rd seed.

MainAd2728 | Washington Bullets

2 | 7 hours ago

Can’t the Lakers just tank the Jazz game? Give the young guys some playing time and rest Bron before the playoffs

buklau4ever

5 | 7 hours ago

why would they? they match up with wolves better

JuJu_Conman | Kings

8 | 7 hours ago

they also get to dodge okc

Livid-Cardiologist94

7 | 10 hours ago

No chance. Even fully healthy I feel like the Lakers were the only team the Rockets had a chance of beating in the playoffs just because of their athleticism. The Lakers have won 2 games against shitty teams with 1st option Lebron and I don’t think he can do this for 7 games

ositola | Lakers

5 | 10 hours ago

And then get turbo fucked in the next round

Mike-XL

13 | 10 hours ago

Yeah probably. But LeBron in his 23rd year knocking out the Rockets without Luka and Reaves would be GOAT level stuff

karmawhale | Rockets

2 | 7 hours ago

Not going lie it would be an interesting watch. If somehow LeBron gets to the conference finals I’m officially done believing he has any human dna in him

jayr254 | Lakers

0 | 6 hours ago

Look at you there, you’ve seen Bron lead the league in fast break dunks in year 23, you’ve seen Giannis bend his knee and win a championship, you’ve seen two unathletic Europeans play at their own pace and turn into two of the best offensive players we’ve ever seen and as if that wasn’t enough, you’ve seen a 7’3 with pretty alien like features the last 3 years and you still doubt there are aliens amongst us? /s

Fire_Demon-215

35 | 10 hours ago

Rockets 3 point attempts is baffling. At least vs LA they won’t get killed by high attempts like tonight if they get matched up

SplitOk186

15 | 10 hours ago

I mean they play multiple non-shooters in every lineup it’s hard to get a lot of open space

deino1703 | Rockets

1 | 8 hours ago

i mean its not like we lost the game because we didnt shoot 3s lmfao

NotMarkDaigneault | Thunder

18 | 10 hours ago

Hmmmmm do Spurs want to face the team that has had their number all year or the Luka-Less Lakers 🤣

I wonder who they’ll pick for Round 2.

iHeartBush2 | Nuggets

5 | 4 hours ago

Luckless lakers aren’t making the 2nd round.

qotsabama | DAL

6 | 3 hours ago

What makes you think the Luka and AR less Lakers are making it to round 2. Did you guys even watch the Mavs game?

King_James_99 | Timberwolves

1 | 3 hours ago

You think the Luka-less Lakers are beating Minnesota in the first round? Shit we beat them easily last year with Luka 😭

AllAboutMaxx

-1 | 2 hours ago

Ant need to leave the wolves your bum ass ain’t winning shit

naderni | Nuggets

14 | 10 hours ago

Lakers will win thats a lock already.

Spurs is playing in home court before their playoff game in a while, its likely Denver sit starters again.

dbgager | Nuggets

5 | 10 hours ago

doubtful. Jokic needs to play to get 65 games and qualify for post season awards. There not going to take away all of Jokics post season awards. SO no Nuggets will not sit and give away the 3rd seed. Not going to happen. More chance that Spurs will rest there starters. What do they have to play for. Nuggets are playing for something ….Spurs for nothing.

FanficFan151 | Bulls

17 | 10 hours ago

They can play to avoid the Nuggets in Round 2 and get an easier matchup against the Lakers or T-Wolves.

langman17 | Nets

6 | 10 hours ago

I think they just give Jokic 20 mins and then pull him while resting everyone else

Frankbuster | SAS

5 | 10 hours ago

To put the nuggets on okc’s side of the bracket

sbenfsonwFFiF

1 | 5 hours ago

Spurs play to control who is third seed. I think they rather avoid the nuggets second round

TallGothVampireLady | Heat

2 | 10 hours ago

Denver needs to win one more game to lock up the 3rd seed cause the lakers have the tiebreaker over them if they both finish 53-29

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

12 | 10 hours ago

I think Denver would rather play Spurs in the second round than OKC so they’ll look to win and clinch the 3 seed.

Idc about our seeding because we have no chance regardless.

mynameiswhattt123

7 | 10 hours ago

In sports there’s always a chance

drummerkid38 | Lakers

3 | 9 hours ago

True. I would never wish it on anyone but it’s not uncommon for an important player to get injured and change the dynamic of a series. Even without injuries shocking upsets happen 🤷‍♂️

The1Drumheller | Thunder

3 | 9 hours ago

JDub injured his wrist against the Suns in Game 80, just last season.

Dry-Razzmatazz1239

6 | 10 hours ago

Seems like a pretty pessimistic mindset when the Lakers star player is doing everything he can to get back for the playoffs

SplitOk186

11 | 10 hours ago

Luka rushing back for the playoffs is how players permanently ruin their career

You never ever want to rush hamstring injuries

Dry-Razzmatazz1239

-5 | 10 hours ago

I’m not the one that decides if he plays? Lol

CMYGQZ | Grizzlies

1 | 5 hours ago

Really? I think the order of OKC/Spurs doesn’t matter if they have to play both anyways, but avoiding Wolves is a huge bonus for them in round 1. Last year playing Wolves round 1 definitely exhausted their stamina going into round 2 by a lot.

DrippyProfile3724 | Lakers

12 | 10 hours ago

OKC threw their game to try ensuring the Lakers in their side of the bracket. 😤

/s

moonshadow50 | Spurs

19 | 10 hours ago

No need for the /s there. It is 100% what happened.

ihatedougford | Toronto Huskies

4 | 10 hours ago

Yup. They didn’t want Wemby or Jokic

danrod17 | Lakers

4 | 9 hours ago

That’s completely fair. There’s three teams in the west and the lakers ain’t one of them.

1GeorgeMarcus2MJ8LBJ | Rockets

1 | 7 hours ago

true but there’s 4 teams that’ll advance and lakers still aren’t one of them

danrod17 | Lakers

1 | 7 hours ago

That’s what I’m saying.

Own-Celebration4239

1 | 7 hours ago

I think a better take would be they don’t want Wemby AND Joker.

This ensures they only have to beat one

dbgager | Nuggets

-1 | 8 hours ago

1 does notplay the 4 and Lakers are not going to win a series. Who are you kidding. Nuggets rested just like the Thunder and beat them by 20. Houston will not lose to a no Doncic….no Reaves lineup. And a 42 year old Lebron is not near enough..

RepresentativeAd1965 | Nuggets

7 | 9 hours ago

Let’s get that 4th seed Nuggets! Rest everyone against the Spurs, even Adelman

Chessh2036 | Hawks

4 | 10 hours ago

LeBron and KD in a playoff series is going to be fun, who knows if it’s the last time. Hopefully Luka and Reaves are back.

CMYGQZ | Grizzlies

2 | 5 hours ago

who knows if it’s even gonna happen. Spurs have every incentive to try hard the last game so they only have to play 1 of Denver/OKC. So it’s up to Denver to decide if they want to play Houston or Minny (and I’m gonna guess Denver wants to play Houston as well).

yeetmxster420 | Minneapolis Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

as much as I want a KD/Bron series i’d 100% rather the Spurs beat Denver so that way OKC gets the hardest route

broke_boi1 | Lakers

2 | 8 hours ago

I’ll take it

1GeorgeMarcus2MJ8LBJ | Rockets

1 | 7 hours ago

yea you will. prepare that ass for belt

Shantytown_Shogun

1 | 10 hours ago

Rockets in 5

_ChrisDion_ | Rockets

0 | 8 hours ago

Agreed🤝

tryagainlater63

1 | 10 hours ago

In LA that means the building will be empty before the mid fourth quarter

Certain_Refuse_8247

1 | 8 hours ago

Rockets will easily win.

larrylegend33goat | Timberwolves

-1 | 7 hours ago

Happy if Lakers get third

PuzzleheadedTwist679

-4 | 10 hours ago

The Rockets were awful all season just to get the easiest first round matchup possible unless Luka comes back

Suitable_Snow7761 | Rockets

1 | 8 hours ago

I mean the starting point guard was out all year plus one of the best defensive and rebounding big man was also out for remainder of the season … still won 50 plus games …

_ChrisDion_ | Rockets

1 | 8 hours ago

Literally have the same record as the Lakers minis one win🤦🏻‍♂️

The Rockets are locked into the 5 seed in the West & The Lakers will have home-court advantage in the first round