Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Oklahoma City Thunder	21	28	31	35	115
Los Angeles Lakers	26	19	39	26	110

Team	PTS	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	OREB	TREB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BLK
Oklahoma City Thunder	115	42-81	51.9%	11-31	35.5%	20-24	83.3%	6	34	19	24	12	11	0
Los Angeles Lakers	110	38-75	50.7%	10-28	35.7%	24-27	88.9%	7	37	18	22	3	19	5


Oklahoma City Thunder	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	±
Isaiah Hartenstein^C	28	5	2-4	0-0	1-2	10	5	3	3	0	3	7	5	+30
Chet Holmgren^PF	35	16	6-9	0-2	4-4	9	0	1	1	0	1	8	2	+1
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander^PG	39	35	11-22	1-4	12-15	1	8	3	1	0	0	1	1	-7
Luguentz Dort^SF	31	6	2-6	2-5	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	-1
Ajay Mitchell^SG	33	28	12-19	1-4	3-3	3	4	1	4	0	1	2	2	+17
Jaylin Williams	9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-13
Alex Caruso	22	9	3-7	3-5	0-0	4	1	1	2	0	0	4	5	+7
Isaiah Joe	7	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	-12
Cason Wallace	19	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	-24
Jared McCain	16	13	5-10	3-8	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	+27
Aaron Wiggins	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Los Angeles Lakers	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	±
LeBron James^SF	40	24	8-18	2-6	6-8	12	3	4	0	1	0	12	1	-17
Rui Hachimura^PF	43	25	9-15	4-8	3-3	5	2	0	0	1	1	4	5	-2
Deandre Ayton^C	21	6	3-3	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	2	-2
Marcus Smart^PG	36	5	2-8	0-4	1-1	2	3	6	2	0	0	2	5	+5
Austin Reaves^SG	43	27	8-16	3-7	8-9	7	6	8	0	2	1	6	5	-6
Jarred Vanderbilt	3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-12
Adou Thiero	3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-5
Jaxson Hayes	27	18	6-8	0-0	6-6	5	1	1	0	1	3	2	2	-1
Luke Kennard	24	5	2-5	1-2	0-0	2	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	+15
Maxi Kleber	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Next-Firefighter-753

1543 | 4 months ago

Ajay Mitchell is eventually gonna make this front office have to make some very difficult decisions.

radddchaddd | Lakers

460 | 4 months ago

Nah, y’all will probably have another rotation player stepping in.

Hopefully for y’all Jalen can stay healthy.

NobodyRules | OKC

197 | 4 months ago

I already offered my hamstrings to Presti so that he can gift them to Jalen, my entire leg is also on the table. He’s currently accessing the offer.

Edit: Assessing. My portuguese education is showing.

Iron_Maniac | Thunder

95 | 4 months ago

Did you have any picks to include with those hamstrings?

NobodyRules | OKC

55 | 4 months ago

I attached a first round pick for the lottery of my fake Pokemon cards. Presti is still requesting more, even though I’m also offering my hamstring and a leg, potentially. Pretty crazy.

JokeandCack

6 | 4 months ago

His greed sickens me

LongDongFuey | Timberwolves

35 | 4 months ago

Accessing lol

BadMofoWallet | Lakers

17 | 4 months ago

That OK education lol

NobodyRules | OKC

18 | 4 months ago

I’m not American, nor do I speak English natively. Sorry for the mistake, I guess.

requinbite | Thunder

7 | 4 months ago

You mock him until he tells you he’s not from the us and speaks 2 language roughly at the same level as you, who only speak one, which makes you a much bigger idiot. It’s crazy so many Americans forget there are countries that speak other languages than English. Something something about us education

Edit : it’s funny cuz I just assumed that before typing my comment and went to check after. And indeed he is a Portuguese speaker lmao. Never change, always the stupid people who are this arrogant

Aggressive_Will_7703

5 | 4 months ago

He must mean he put his offer in a locked box. So presti is currently accessing that locked box with the combination or something. lol

Papa_Huggies | Spurs

22 | 4 months ago

I feel like Jalen Williams with a regular person’s leg would be a significant disadvantage.

Limb lengths all over the place and one legs far more muscular than the other.

MaliInternLoL | Lakers

21 | 4 months ago

I honestly think the thunder can just rotate away from Jalen. They have enough depth to cover it

kyler_ | Kings

14 | 4 months ago

If any team can do it it’s the Thunder but I really don’t think Jdub is the type of player you want to pivot off of imo

A_Lax_Nerd | OKC

14 | 4 months ago

People are forgetting how good he is, he significantly improves the defense too

20815147 | Warriors

209 | 4 months ago

Isn’t he on amazing contract right now for like 3 years? By the time his new contract comes up, yall should have at least 1-2 more rings lol he’s too good

Spemanz92 | Thunder

126 | 4 months ago

3M for two more years. But he would be an unrestricted FA after those 2 seasons. So after next season OKC will likely try to resign him and avoid getting into the last year

icanseeyourpantsuu | Cavaliers

135 | 4 months ago

Dort is gone.

themonkey12 | LAL

45 | 4 months ago

They don’t need Dort nor their final mvp for that matter with wallace and Mitchel

Misdirected_Colors | Thunder

47 | 4 months ago

Kenrich Williams and Wiggins def gone. Dort and Joe probably on the chopping block too. Tho Joe stepped up in the worst injury part of reg season and Dort has really stepped it up in playoffs so that’s a tougher decision.

Samb023 | OKC

42 | 4 months ago

Ajay Mitchell

wcooper97 | OKC

19 | 4 months ago

Ajay Mitchell

divulgingwords | Thunder

43 | 4 months ago

Nah, we’ll trade him after next season for 4 1st to a team giving him a max deal.

Ok_Matter_2617 | Pacers

11 | 4 months ago

No, they’ll just fleece some shitty team in a trade for him, just like they’re gonna do with JDub soon

MrBuckBuck | Trail Blazers

8 | 4 months ago

Jalen Williams traded away and he gets the bag instead?

Parallel-Quality

973 | 4 months ago

Mods don’t want anyone discussing this game, which was one of the best games of the entire playoffs.

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726 | 4 months ago

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Next-Firefighter-753

565 | 4 months ago

That was genuinely one of the lamest things I’ve ever seen on an internet message board and the bar is basically touching the ground.

Closing down the NBA sub during the NBA finals for some “mod strike” is peak stupidity especially when eventually the hens all fell back in line after their mod status was being threatened.

wcooper97 | OKC

259 | 4 months ago

Not a damn thing changed during that “protest.”

snomanDS | Thunder

87 | 4 months ago

Well for me, it got me off reddit for a month. What a nice month for my mental health.

Then I got RIF working again and it’s been hell.

ersatzi

23 | 4 months ago

Wait. RIF is still working?

snomanDS | Thunder

41 | 4 months ago

Yeah, you just need to patch the app with your own API key using Revanced. There’s probably a guide somewhere out there still.

Imgur doesn’t really play nice with it anymore but other than that it’s been the nice basic Reddit interface I desire.

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15 | 4 months ago

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Detonation | Pistons

12 | 4 months ago

You could check out RedReader. It’s my go-to for when I’m on my phone.

LongDongFuey | Timberwolves

7 | 4 months ago

Apparently you can side load almost all of the 3rd party apps that were awesome. RIF, Apollo, etc.

Durantye | Hawks

22 | 4 months ago

One huge positive was /r/nbatalk was formed many refused to return and I don’t think I’ve ever visited that sub and wanted those people to come back lol

Jacer4 | Thunder

8 | 4 months ago

That sub is basically just Instagram level NBA discussion at this point

SnooChipmunks4208

111 | 4 months ago

Dont forget that the mods were still using reddit on a private thread during the “mod strike”.

rookie-mistake

31 | 4 months ago

yeah closing it down for the blackout is completely undermined by them using it themselves lol like tf

RFFF1996 | Thunder

14 | 4 months ago

So the …how many, 10? Mods just used the subreddit they locked everyone out of themselves

Somethingh about it feels so randomly dumb

quedas | Magic

25 | 4 months ago

And don’t forget: not only were the reasons for the strike kinda lame to begin with, it wasn’t really a strike.

A strike is when you don’t show up to work, in order to cause chaos and illustrate how essential your work is.

Had they stopped moderating comments, that would’ve been a strike. What they did was shut down the subs, which is a whole different thing.

God, those were stupid times.

Gekthegecko | BOS

11 | 4 months ago

It wasn’t about moderating the sub, it was about functionally shutting down all of Reddit.

Chipaton | Rockets

7 | 4 months ago

But they were right. The sites decline accelerated tremendously at that point, and it’s gotten significantly harder to moderate. I’ve heard a lot of people shaming the mods but no one has offered an alternative.

FrostKnight08

61 | 4 months ago

And then banned anyone who mentioned it.

chup95 | Suns

26 | 4 months ago

Wait what lmao

TheKeviKs | Spurs

17 | 4 months ago

They did what ? When ?

KptKrondog | MEM

62 | 4 months ago

It was back when the reddit admins announced they were removing API access to all of the 3rd party apps (technically they were just going to charge a crazy amount of money for it, but…same thing). A bunch of subreddit mods did a big strike by going private for a week or so because it also affected their mod tools. The NBA sub joined in on the strike but iirc they waited a bit the nuggets didn’t get a postgame thread or something.

In the end, the reddit admins called the bluff and did it all anyways and the site has only gotten worse because of it. Now reddit has one of the worst apps of any social media site. And now you can’t even use the /r/nba game threads because they did some shit to make the box score only viewable on new reddit.

Mosh00Rider | Suns

65 | 4 months ago

You are missing the part about the mods still using the sub while it was closed

Ateballoffire | Vancouver Grizzlies

38 | 4 months ago

The poll they put out to decide if they would close it also only had like 5k votes or something on a sub with millions of people on it lmao

IAmJohnnyJB | Thunder

14 | 4 months ago

That was only pinned for a couple hours before being replaced and during the playoffs so it was flooded out of new meaning most users had no a vote was happening. Not to mention how many votes in multiple subs were brigaded by people that don’t actually use the sub but wanted to pretend to be apart of something meaning there’s a good chance of those few thousands votes, most were not even from this subs users.

[deleted]

5 | 4 months ago

Yeah weren’t they all here discussing during the NBA finals while no one else was?

jjkm7 | Raptors

18 | 4 months ago

I think this is missing some points. The nba mods decided to join the protest close the sub during the nba finals, against the wishes of most of the people in the sub. And so the sub was private when the nuggets won. And the whole time it was set to private the mods were actually in here secretly discussing the games

TequilaBlanco | Spurs

7 | 4 months ago

Lol. What soft ass chumps.

504090 | Thunder

135 | 4 months ago

r/NBA is a complete ghost town right now. Never seen this sub so dead after an elimination game

MeBadNeedMoneyNow | Thunder

78 | 4 months ago

Ahhaahhh no highlights, no post game thread, and all discussion is centered around the Lakers who got swept ahahahhahh

TheCatSleeeps | Lakers

9 | 4 months ago

Was waiting and saw one that got deleted tbf. Like jeez you telling me it’s the only shit here? The mods were lame.

Edit: nvm it’s seems like it’s the damn automod

LongDongFuey | Timberwolves

38 | 4 months ago

Legit like every other thread I engage with gets mod removed, across all subs, so I get it. Who wants to talk in a public forum that just gets deleted every 30 min for no reason. Might as well talk to my cat instead

HHHogana | Lakers

11 | 4 months ago

If we’re up to the usual activity, LeFaded and DominAyted jokes would be abundance.

WorldwideSteppers | Spurs

8 | 4 months ago

1am Tuesday

Ok_Pineapple_Num | Warriors

75 | 4 months ago

The shotmaking at the end of the 4th by both teams was absurd

TitaniumC4206 | Thunder

22 | 4 months ago

I added all the important stats and mods deleted because i didn’t put [Post Game Thread] at the beginning. What a joke

Rsthegoat | Spurs

12 | 4 months ago

probably auto mod? if I had to guess

schooli00 | TOR

9 | 4 months ago

Mods are tired of ref ball. They want all eyes on the mods.

Lmnhedz | Thunder

5 | 4 months ago

Modball new meta incoming

AncientFault7828

7 | 4 months ago

It’s because they love JJ and can’t bear the thought of someone criticizing him

ThaRealSunGod | Lakers

9 | 4 months ago

He was good, wdym

Intrepid_Broccoli220 | Warriors

698 | 4 months ago

Rui Hachimura can’t win with these cats

Definitely-Not-Devin | Mavericks

59 | 4 months ago

The martians got the death beam pointed at earth… Gimme Rui-san!

takoyama

7 | 4 months ago

rui proved if he was more aggressive he can be a star but for some reason he isnt aggressive all the time.

TheSlenderBlackMan

598 | 4 months ago

Mods working overtime tonight

homefree122 | Thunder

246 | 4 months ago

I’m so confused as to what is happening. Can someone give me any idea?

Zeeron1 | Thunder

292 | 4 months ago

The mods have routinely removed Thunder posts lately, and now appear to be crashing out and removing every single pgt

JET_GS26 | Raptors

140 | 4 months ago

If you look back enough, they removed the post game thread of thunder ass-whooping the Lakers by 43 earlier in April. No trace of it in this sub

jokerrr1992 | Raptors

117 | 4 months ago

Mods down bad right now lmao

Kantei | Knicks

40 | 4 months ago

That’s not true. The PGT-creating tool was down and the mods removed all of the attemptive PGTs that formatted things differently. It’s very lame, but not some anti-Thunder conspiracy.

Parallel-Quality

78 | 4 months ago

They deleted the post showing that the Thunder have the least free throws through the second round of the playoffs six different times so far.

Kantei | Knicks

17 | 4 months ago

There are like 10 different posts that they delete each night, no matter the team in question.

SlimmySlinky | Thunder

33 | 4 months ago

Crazy how all the pro OKC ones get taken down while the sub is always filled with the ones bashing them

Zeeron1 | Thunder

7 | 4 months ago

They delete many pro-Thunder posts, even non-dupes, they just generally wait 4-6 hours to do it. I even made a post (that was deleted lol) about it and other people confirmed they have seen the same thing. It’s very strange

Troll_Enthusiast | Wizards

7 | 4 months ago

Because of the amount of reports that post got, the auto-mod removed it

Parallel-Quality

6 | 4 months ago

Why would people report it?

UncleBenParking

269 | 4 months ago

I think people misunderstand how the report/auto moderator system works. A bunch of pro-thunder posts keep getting pulled within 15 minutes, very clearly because there are a bunch of redditors reporting en masse. Once a post gets X number of reports (either within a timeframe or at all), the automoderator bot removes the post, pending a human mod overriding that decision.

It happens with every team/player suddenly thrust into the headlines, people get annoyed and start reporting to get some small dig back at the hot storyline. On the flip side, automod also saves us from all the “is X washed?” stuff that gets removed from /new fairly quickly. In this case it leads to some thunder fans thinking that everybody (even the mod team) is against them and talking shit to everybody else as their own small dig, we’re all petty here! The threshold for auto-removal might just need to be raised a bit, is all.

Durantye | Hawks

65 | 4 months ago

Damn that’s elite hating, support

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59 | 4 months ago

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Odoaiden | Timberwolves

27 | 4 months ago

Your just not hating enough

KnowledgeUseful6731 | Thunder

36 | 4 months ago

Pro-Thunder posts are not allowed here

sunsbr | Suns

16 | 4 months ago

Getting the suns 2021-23 treatment here.

DeepHouseBear | Australia

5 | 4 months ago

No clue

Roy30 | Thunder

81 | 4 months ago

If there’s one thing I come to Reddit postgame threads for, it’s DEFINITELY for looking at an embedded box score rather than reading comments about discussion of the game/series.

ruinawish [OP] | Australia

17 | 4 months ago

Honestly, same, but box score generator seems to be down, so I’m trying to make it the hard way.

TitaniumC4206 | Thunder

17 | 4 months ago

I tried my best, mods can’t accept it

schwinndoctor | Slovenia

16 | 4 months ago

if there’s no post game thread, the lakers didn’t officially get eliminated. that’s the rules

homefree122 | Thunder

443 | 4 months ago

Wait hang on, is the post game thread actually being posted right now? The game ended like an hour ago

EthicalBballFan | Heat

231 | 4 months ago

Mods keep deleting it

SirWestbrook | Thunder

35 | 4 months ago

Why?

JazzzzzzySax | Hornets

43 | 4 months ago

Mods are dumb

Mobile_Morale

13 | 4 months ago

They’re LeBron stans

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347 | 4 months ago

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Baright | Thunder

156 | 4 months ago

Kinda felt like it worked today. Sure Shai scored MVP numbers but the game was so competitive

sixwax

66 | 4 months ago

LA threw their best punch in Game 4… And OKC still shrugged it off. Brutal.

Right_Brain_6869

36 | 4 months ago

OKC just has way more depth. It’s a tough match.

darnclem | OKC

44 | 4 months ago

Gotta say, there’s a ton of shit being talked about the final play call not involving Rui….but he’s a spot up shooter and you’re going to want your “star” player to make the running fadeaway 3 when the game is on the line 10 out of 10 times.

I thought JJ was an elite coach this series. He came out with good gameplans, they maybe didn’t work, but he had a solid idea of exactly what he wanted to do, and got his dudes to do it. The clear issue here is that the Lakers didn’t have the depth. JJ bringing this team, this far, and getting them to buy in and put forth this kind of effort against the defending champs and title favorites…. Sheesh, what a fucking coach.

darnclem | OKC

24 | 4 months ago

Also, pay the fuck out of Rui.

He’s worth whatever it costs.

TheOriginalDog | Spurs

8 | 4 months ago

agree anyone trying to fault him has no clue imo.

lbjkb25

288 | 4 months ago

Sweep or not, this was one of the better games in the playoffs. Give the Lakers credit. They fought for their pride tonight. As the inferior team without their best player and their 2nd option struggling after coming back from an oblique injury, they fought hard to stay alive. They had their chances, but it didn’t work out tonight. Would having Luka helped them get one game? Maybe. But hamstring injuries are tricky injuries to come back from.

The Thunder are just a damn good championship team. SGA wasn’t his MVP self for most of the series, but he did more than enough to give the Lakers trouble. The rest of the team are just head and shoulders above the Lakers’ supporting cast. If SGA didn’t have it going, Mitchell, McCain, Holmgren, Caruso, Hartenstein, Wallace, Dort, etc., found ways to contribute. Hell, they’ve pulled off several runs against the Lakers while SGA was on the bench in this series.

bryanBFLYin | Lakers

33 | 4 months ago

Agreed. OKC is the best team we’ve seen in probably a decade. If we gotta lose, this is probably the best way to do it lol.

We could have blown a 3-1 to the East 6th seed like the Celtics. THAT would have kept me up at night 😂

Dummmy99 | Lakers

15 | 4 months ago

Shit 2017 Warriors almost a decade ago 😭

OG_Kazaam | Trail Blazers

221 | 4 months ago

Mods deleting post game threads right and left

homefree122 | Thunder

42 | 4 months ago

Oh man did we find a new click bait meme?

OG_Kazaam | Trail Blazers

21 | 4 months ago

You love to see it

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153 | 4 months ago

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CoolAsTheUnthawed | OKC

74 | 4 months ago

Didn’t we not get a championship thread after we won last season too? Gotta love this sub lol

I_CUM_ON_HAMSTERS | NYK

38 | 4 months ago

What year was this sub zero dark thirty for the finals in solidarity with something, just for us to find out after that the mod team was using the subreddit for their own game threads? Did I hallucinate this?

2coolcaterpillar | Thunder

40 | 4 months ago

Felt so bad for nuggets fans that year lol, that shit was whack. It was pretty cool to have the nuggets sub as the main sub though

CoolAsTheUnthawed | OKC

16 | 4 months ago

Nuggets chip. So 2023

Devoidoxatom | Warriors Bandwagon

19 | 4 months ago

Mfers also stopped pinning post game threads. I thought there werent any mods left even. So they’re still here being useless

Presence_Present | Bucks

138 | 4 months ago

Are these mods dumb or what?

warjatos

20 | 4 months ago

Obviously

deathtotheemperor | Thunder

135 | 4 months ago

Mods gonna keep posting these until one shows the Thunder losing

ThaRealSunGod | Lakers

10 | 4 months ago

Fair enough

_Caek_ | Thunder

73 | 4 months ago

Ajay Mitchell.

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42 | 4 months ago

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Samb023 | OKC

32 | 4 months ago

Ajay Mitchell

Zeeron1 | Thunder

71 | 4 months ago

What is this, attempt #8?

Kevinlasagna207 | Thunder

62 | 4 months ago

Is… is it safe now? Or is this thread gonna get Thanos snapped out of existence too?

LugNutsDort | Thunder

55 | 4 months ago

Worse move tonight? JJ sitting Rui when they needed a three or the Mods taking down post game threads?

Ramikadyc | Thunder

10 | 4 months ago

Truly this day will live in infamy.

MWisBest | Bucks

5 | 4 months ago

JJ sitting Rui when they needed a three or the Mods taking down post game threads?

Yes

takoyama

54 | 4 months ago

the lakers got swept but if you play as hard as they did and fought you can be proud of yourself as a player. i know there are a lot of lebron haters laughing and all that but i can be okay with them losing that way.

as for luka im thinking they wouldnt have played as hard with him in either series.

DeshiiRedditor | Lakers

40 | 4 months ago

The benefit is that we got to see our weakest role players get exposed. Crucial info for a squad rebuild.

Baright | Thunder

23 | 4 months ago

Hayes, Rui, even Reaves were incredibly tough tonight

lethalizered | Thunder

27 | 4 months ago

Reaves is tough as nails, but they have to surround these guys with more defenders than just Smart, man played his ass off to try and cover everything.

Lies-To-Children

25 | 4 months ago

In all honesty, the Lakers made it further into the playoffs than I ever expected them to without Luka. And they even held every game with OKC close up until the 4th quarter or so. They played it about as close to perfect as they could. The biggest limitation was the difference in youthful athleticism, and there’s not much to be done about that.

wqra_ | Lakers

7 | 4 months ago

The first round goes way smoother if we had Luka, he’s killed the rockets all season and there were so many parts of that series where the offense just stagnated and nobody could create or hit anything. This series we still lose badly but maybe we win 1 or 2 games if Luka goes crazy

Lost-Time-3909

5 | 4 months ago

My respect for JJ skyrocketed during this series.

CertainIce2925 | Warriors

48 | 4 months ago

First father/son duo to be swept, LeBron really is incredible 🎉

Misdirected_Colors | Thunder

5 | 4 months ago

Honestly question, did Bronny James even get any minutes this series?

I thought he had decent minutes against the rockets

GhoullyX

37 | 4 months ago

The mods do not want the OKC praise / LA slander to stand tonight.

apartbyhorses

38 | 4 months ago

Wait a minute, where’s Weezer?

jake56380 | Timberwolves

35 | 4 months ago

How many post game threads do we need to fade the Lakers?

eaglesrj7

33 | 4 months ago

Mfs got Allen Iverson coming off the bench man fuck this team

Jack_The_Sparrow_ | Warriors

26 | 4 months ago

Even when it felt competitive, it was never actually competitive lol

BigBirdsBrain | Vancouver Grizzlies

26 | 4 months ago

OKC earned it, Lakers got outplayed, both things can be true.

MiaCannons | Heat

21 | 4 months ago

Why is this sweep thread so late? Could’ve posted this a few days ago

Intrepid_Broccoli220 | Warriors

8 | 4 months ago

mods keep deleting

NotCryptoKing | Thunder

26 | 4 months ago

Lakers got dominAYTED

MrFulla93 | Thunder

29 | 4 months ago

I liked that JJ just benched Ayton in favor of Hayes who actually gave a damn

Zestyclose-Phrase268

17 | 4 months ago

Ayton will soon be out of the nba. Ayton has ruined his career and the way he consumes escorts he will be broke by the time Bryce James laces up in the NBA

Knowledge_Haver_17

5 | 4 months ago

People were saying “yea ayton’s not great but at that contract it’s a good get” no bro you straight up don’t want this guy on your team. Wouldn’t sign him for the minimum.

Jsmooove86 | Lakers

16 | 4 months ago

Lakers went out shooting.

Damn proud of this squad and I hope tonight’s game won some respect from neutrals to haters.

GG Thunder go get your second chip.

FredNot214 | Knicks

13 | 4 months ago

It’s even funnier the 11th time

Darnell2070 | United States

14 | 4 months ago

Why the hell did this take so long?

Intrepid_Broccoli220 | Warriors

18 | 4 months ago

mods keep deleting

iGodzilla_x | Thunder

16 | 4 months ago

Mods are Lakers fans

RoosterteethAHfan | Pacers

14 | 4 months ago

I hope OKC repeats so the mods year is ruined

Optimal-Talk3663

12 | 4 months ago

OKC bench is ridiculous. Legitimately think their bench is better than a few starting 5’s

theotheronejj | Thunder

10 | 4 months ago

At one point in 2nd half the officials had called 14 straight foul calls on OKC, LA was finally called @ 1:05 left in game.

gain91 | Cavaliers

11 | 4 months ago

Lakers in 9

poopballs | Thunder

15 | 4 months ago

LeSwept

Kantei | Knicks

12 | 4 months ago

The mods were almost as bad as Marcus Smart mid-way through the 4th.

People might focus on the last few possessions, but Smart was single-handedly involved in multiple successive plays in the 4th that killed their momentum and allowed OKC to take full control again. Just absurd turnovers and mediocre defense.

I know people will mention his and-1 to tie the game late, but that does not excuse two unforced turnovers (from some basic, unchallenged passes), a defensive foul, and an offensive foul on a screen (even if it was a weird call). All in the span of 3 minutes.

The Lakers wouldn’t have needed him to hit that to tie the game if he literally just played 10% more competently in the previous few minutes.

spiketeam | Warriors

11 | 4 months ago

Man okc depth is super scary. Is this the deepest team talent wise in the last 20 years?

The KD+ warriors were great but even they couldn’t overcome losing KD in the finals.

CoolAsTheUnthawed | OKC

10 | 4 months ago

What a fucking game. I hope someone posts the last 5 minutes. Both teams were going crazy down the stretch

xkittypride03 | Thunder

8 | 4 months ago

Breaking:

Luka Doncic is available for Game 5, but Game 5 is unavailable for him.

MalHeartsNutmeg | Thunder

6 | 4 months ago

Generational sweep, two generations to be exact.

DeshiiRedditor | Lakers

7 | 4 months ago

Glad JJ is our coach. That last bad decision to bench Rui doesn’t cancel out an excellent playoff run for him.

Familiar-Mix3546 | Thunder

6 | 4 months ago

r/NBA mods are the biggest pussy losers out there

Karametric | LAL

8 | 4 months ago

Hard fought G4, just not enough left in the tank to overcome that OKC depth. It’s so ridiculously hard to match up when so many fresh bodies are able to come in and provide productive backcourt minutes before they bring back in SGA for the kill-shot down the stretch. Such a great roster having like 4 guys off the bench that easily could play 28mpg for any other team in the league.

That was about as good a performance I could hope for from this team with Luka sidelined. I’m just happy that we were competitive tonight and through most of the series except whenever OKC would blow the game open with a run. Way better showing than the regular season.

Next steps are to figure out the roster with this new front office and maximize the next few years with Luka. The NBA shifts very quickly so we’ll see if we can now start making similar moves around the margins like Presti has done for OKC over the last decade. Drafting and scouting quality depth is more important than ever.

rocket_beer | Celtics

8 | 4 months ago

It’s a beautiful day

BegsTheQuestions

6 | 4 months ago

LeBron is so unclutch it is honestly not funny anymore

Last 3 mins of the game, has 1 key turnover, 4 bad misses, and got scored on every single time, and then just stood in the corner. Don’t think he scored at all even. All this in an elimination game….

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ChargingSentinel | Lakers

5 | 4 months ago

I will keep commenting in these ones, but not in the one the mods ultimately make

lakers good fight, nice try

real-yeet-beans | Thunder

5 | 4 months ago

Thunder up!

Zmelkoow

6 | 4 months ago

I’m sure we’re all in shock

MrFulla93 | Thunder

14 | 4 months ago

the short post-game with Blake Griffin and Dirk was great - interview with Ajay, woulda/coulda/should as about the Lakers, What if Lakers were healthy etc.

then Blake pipes up, “Just to be clear though. the Lakers had like zero chance in this series, we all on the same page yeah?”

everybody else: “Oh yeah, no way in hell”

Sensitive_Flow_2361

7 | 4 months ago

Ofc AJ Mitchell goes off the entire series against the Lakers

Samb023 | OKC

10 | 4 months ago

acting like he’s some random

schwinndoctor | Slovenia

4 | 4 months ago

he’s about to get PAID

WeevilKnievel | Thunder

5 | 4 months ago

Great last game Lakers, that last quarter was nuts.

wyvern_rider

4 | 4 months ago

Hamstring is Luka father

Cj_cruzz | Heat

7 | 4 months ago

LeBron/Reaves/Smart had 18 turnovers out of 19 yet they had a chance to send it to OT. That’s crazy. If they just took care of the damn ball there would have been a game 5.

Dense-Chest505

8 | 4 months ago

Genius observation, just don’t have your primary ball handlers turn the ball over against the most aggressive defense in the league!

pikajewijewsyou | Thunder

4 | 4 months ago

Where’s the Weezer thread? lol

D3struct_oh | Rockets

4 | 4 months ago

LA is never quieter than when the Lakers get waxed in the playoffs.

HolidayEntire6456

5 | 4 months ago

Save us Spurs 🙏

bryanBFLYin | Lakers

3 | 4 months ago

Meh, we lost to the defending champs and arguably the best team we’ve seen in a decade while missing our generational scorer. We didn’t get embarrassed and we played hard. I can live with it. Celtics blew a 3-1 to the 6th seed in the east with Embiid knees being on 1 HP. There are worse ways to lose. 😂 🤷🏾‍♂️

I want all the smoke next season when we have Luka and our boys back and healthy. We ain’t ducking OKC like Denver did lol

I like OKC and Shai, but I’m rooting for the Spurs now going forward. Wemby is my personal face of the league and has had their number all season. We’re gonna get some good basketball I’m excited.

Iamkonkerz | OKC

5 | 4 months ago

Damn i never expected a take like this from a lakers fans, thats crazy in a good way and definitely the way to see this game, Rui was crazy and put up an insane fight throughout the whole series but please get rid of Ayton somehow.

GroupBQuattr0 | Magic

5 | 4 months ago

Something so sweet about a Lakers sweep

Alpha-Trion | Timberwolves

5 | 4 months ago

Does this hurt the Lakers chances of winning the Finals?

schwinndoctor | Slovenia

5 | 4 months ago

I think we are all just glad Game 4 was competitive down to the wire

Tech-Film3905

5 | 4 months ago

Lakers need to trade everyone but Luka and rui

Toxicyoshi7 | Knicks

3 | 4 months ago

I would legit trade Luka for Ajay Mitchell and Jared McCain

AcceptableHamster419

20 | 4 months ago

Thunder would not do that

ZC205

4 | 4 months ago

If this had been a W for the Lakers, this sub would be stuffed with posts about the game. Legit highlight on how much glazing the mods here do

thealternateopinion

5 | 4 months ago

Jalen Williams looking VERY replaceable right now

Oklahoma City Thunder (4-0) sweep the Los Angeles Lakers (0-4) 115-110