Of course I hope he can play forever, but practically speaking we might only have a couple more years left of Wemby in his career. He’s got to win soon.

Edit: I guess I should clarify my unclear statement. Instead of a couple, I more meant a short career, like 3-6 more years. I don’t wish that on him but being freakishly tall has never been good for athletes. However, he seems to focus on getting his body prepared and preserved way more than others that have been relatively close in height so maybe he will be the exception and I hope he is. For his sake though, his window is now and nothing is guaranteed.

No one is going to pick the Knicks to repeat this upcoming offseason!

To be fair, the Thunder had the best net rating of all time for like most of the season. They deserved that hype.

Just that the Spurs were like designed in a lab to beat them

Fox is gonna get dropped in the Gulf of Mexico with an anchor attached to him

Game 4’s collapse wasn’t just a fox issue though let’s be real. They all pitched in for that.

Their team is so young, though, that might not even matter. In 4 years when Fox’s contract will be expiring, Wemby, Castle, and Harper will still be 2, 3, and 4 years younger than the youngest Knicks starter. That’s pretty wild to think about

And he showed why he isn’t worth that extension. Horrible finals series. Horrible game tonight. Completely screwed then in the final moments of last game.

They’re gonna trade him for something. Harper has been outplaying him.

Blaming him for their losses is a cop out. The whole team looked fucking lost every 4Q regardless of whether he was playing.

Just because OKC didn’t make it to the finals this year doesn’t mean they don’t have more titles in them.

OKC will probably be the best team in the league next season. Making the finals is tough every year but they will have one of the best shots of any team next year

Jury is still out on that. OKC is still young af

Same for Denver. Jokic and the Nugs were supposed to be the next big thing, but they haven’t made it back to finals after their first win.

Lots of one year dynasties in the 2020s

I don’t think the Fox contract will hurt them since their 3 best players are on rookie deals. OKC being healthy is what is going to hurt them.

And Boston getting Giannis!

OKC just won it last year and almost made the finals again despite dealing with injuries. I don’t think it’s wise to say they got stopped after winning one.

Felt like Mitch banked too much on Wemby’s defense. Brunson scored on Wemby time and time again when it mattered the most. Brunson was great. OG was great. Knicks’ experience showed up.

Happens in every sport, where when a young team/player gets close to winning a championship/major and everyone talks about how they will get one one day. Plenty who never even had another shot at it again.

People hated OKC and ignored anything to feel good about them losing

Yeah I’m still not betting against OKC in the West. The conference has several legit contenders but if Williams is healthy they probably beat the Spurs.

Most teams aren’t going far without their second best player. Especially an all star level player.

Yeah man you gotta capitalize in today’s NBA. All it takes is one injury, one team making some great moves in free agency, a great draft pick, etc etc and all of a sudden your window is closed. That’s why I’m glad OKC got theirs last year at least. The NBA is as competitive as it’s ever been and I don’t think it’s gonna slow down anytime soon.

That being said, I think Spurs and OKC will battle for years to come in the WCF

Tbf this is also the Spurs’ first playoff run with all starters besides Fox not having a single minute of playoffs played before. They also have a new-ish coach that looked helpless in late game situations.

Their roster is not really deep with 3 spots occupied by unplayable bigs that should have been given to a true PF.

They’ll be fine. If the FO can make some good moves this offseason, they will probably still contend and be better.

And the Spurs run could end due to the Fox contract extension which kicks in this summer.

Even then they still had two MVP caliber players. And guys like serge ibaka and Steven Adams. They should’ve made it back in 2016, they were legitimately better than Golden State, they threw away game 6 by going back to hero ball instead of what made them better

Edit: for clarification

Ya and the Kings exist. It’s not relevant to this but they do exist.

I think the Spurs and OKC are a tier above the other west teams but it’ll depend on health during the playoffs anyways

I know that’s right.

And Denver. And Houston if they get a legit PG. And Lakers. It’s a tough conference 

To be fair, Spurs have been insanely healthy as well apart from Fox.

Topic litterally just had another surgery today lol. Nothing is guaranteed

We’ve had great injury luck really, even this year behind the timing of Ajay. It’s always such luck, winning one was amazing

Spurs should get also another 1OA just for exceeding expectations

Fox and ant back court doesn’t sound bad tbh, Fox just doesn’t make sense for the spurs to keep with Harper out playing him alredy

Unironically I think he could end up there if the Wolves can’t get Kyrie. There’s just no way Harper comes off the bench next year, so Fox is the odd man out.

We give guys terrible contracts and somehow dump them onto other teams. We don’t pick them up

This is such an overreaction to me. Coaches never sit star(ish) players just because they’re having an off game. Once you start doing that, people lose their confidence.

And any coach whose team reaches the finals is a real coach to me.

Harper came off the bench all season, and it appeared to be for good reason, because he almost injured himself out of the playoffs. Let’s be impressed they made the finals, instead of pointing out whatever flaws kept them from winning. They’re young. Young teams lose.

And that second one was way worse for him than this was for the Spurs.

if hes our superstar i expect him to do both BUT in spurts cause when hes on hes awesome we also need to not have a 6 man playoff rotation

Ehh forget age, his conditioning can still get better. This was the first time in his life his conditioning has been challenged like that. HS isn’t like that. College isn’t close to that either. And they weren’t even in the playoffs last year. 82 in the regular season + an additional 23 in the playoffs.

Guy asks about what water filter he should be getting. His conditioning will improve now that this experience has shown him what he does rn still isn’t enough.

True, Wemby actually made it to the championship.

The discourse surrounding the Spurs the next few weeks will truly be proof that we’ve gotten to a point where 29 teams need to blow it up and rebuild according to fans

Thunder traded away their 2nd best player, unforced error

3 guys who won MVPs in their career no less.

People are overreacting about Johnson. Fox has failed too many times though. Maybe don’t trade him, but make him take Harper as his padawan, expecting Fox will ultimately be the one coming off the bench once Harper‘s game matures.

Progression is never linear. Life isn’t a video game where their attributes increase in the offseason

How many years have there been since then? It’s not like the Celtics story is fully written

Yeah you guys have a very young team, I wouldn’t be worried about them at all. I do worry about your coach though. Is he the right guy for the job?

Do you think a coaching change is warranted? It seems like everyone has been saying to fire Mitch, but nobody is giving him praise for getting a projected 6th/7th seed team to the finals

That was like their third playoff run.

This was our first

If Wemby wants to be in the Bron Mike Kareem category of player he is going to need to be the best offensive and defensive player on the court like those guys were in their primes

Could not be a larger gap between Pop and Mitch

also u know the 3 HOFers that had won multiple championships already and have endless amounts of experience lmao