Yeah it’s pretty brutal. One could argue it’s worse than a back to back considering the interrupted schedule and having to sit on the flight for hours in the morning

They are getting punished for doing the league a favor playing in mexico loooool

The owner is worth 22 billion and charter flights from Mexico to Denver is at max 60000. They have options

What’s the league gonna do? Sux that they are stuck, but this happens a few times every season, especially in the middle of winter.

Yep. The fans were supposed to cheer for Indy but a lot were just cheering for Jokic 😭

Just a lose lose

“Your tired bodies are a sacrifice I’m willing to make” - Adam Silver

they could have also scheduled it against any other team besides Denver, the team that’s comfortable at high altitude

It’s your turn Gods Creamsicle

Creamsanity incoming

Rocky is about to put his name in the mvp race. He will also be completely alone, just 48 minutes of rocky the mountain lion against the rockets

assistant coach JJ Barea

Suit up cream

WE will be suiting up tomorrow

u/Le_Creamsicle_of_God gonna go 20/10/7 tonight. Godspeed bro

Whole g league team lol

Believe it or not, still not zeke

Its Rocky’s moment

What’s Kendall Hinton up to lately?

If you have no defense, you and i both. Cmon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ww6r-R_5_s

If they need you, they’ll definitely sign you to a 10 day contract lmao better get ready

G Leaguers?

Don’t worry guys I got this

NBA champion zeke nnaji 💪

6’4 and live in the middle of both. Have two good Acl’s and Achilles I’m ready to sacrifice for that pension!!

Especially if you’re a plumber or fireman.

Getting signed to a 10-day contract via emergency alert broadcast

I’m 47, 5’8 and have a bad knee. But I once hit 7 threes in an intramural game, if kronke is reading.

Why? Is someone going to be driving around begging, through texts, asking for someone’s contact info?

They got a g league team. But hopefully it doesn’t come to that

lol well played

Or whoever is the basketball equivalent of Zamboni driver

Can Rocky play?

And you can trash talk and tilt KD

It’s not so much that they don’t think they’ll make it back, but that they each have some sort of minor injury they couldn’t assess because the Monday morning shoot around had to be canceled. More an administrative step to ensure compliance if one of them can’t go

I can Mugsy Bogues this shit up right now.

Mike Malone about to be scouting pick-up runs at the downtown Denver YMCA.

That sounds oddly specific.

They really should do with the MLB does for international games have them either before the season or have them right around the All-Star break, if you’re gonna have them at all

It sounds like it’s not Mexico City’s fault but rather their shitty plane.

I know right. This could happen to any team. They should reschedule for this kind of unexpected situation.

League just needs to plan better. Mavs home opener had people spending like $2k+ to see kyrie and flagg. neither played. No reason for a B2B to start the season with travel.

Bubble/covid year after Stars lost like 3x the man games to illness, half the team at one point was minor leaguers. Then like a month later all the other teams got sick and they started postponing games, stars just like like 10 games for no reason lol.

100%. This is very unfair logistical issue

Mexico City really has nothing to do with this. The distance between Mexico City and Houston is about the same distance between Dallas and Denver. In fact, it’s a shorter flight than Denver to Houston.

This can happen in an American city too though. I don’t know if this is just a Mexico City issue.

yea they definitely should reschedule, kinda ridiculous if that didnt happen

It’s less then a 4 hour flight to Mexico City, it’s practically conus, let’s not pretend they are flying to Europe or South America to play.

traveling is a skill in today’s nba

I don’t know, maybe get a better plane.

Because things happen to everybody and if you reschedule for everything of this sort, the league crumbles

What’s the spread on Kalshi that the Nuggets beat the spread?

It could be cool though

For once, we could see - a Legitimate NBA match between solid team Rockets, VS couple of D2 players, 2 rookies, and one dude that passes the ball to Jamal in practice

Just so people could understand the difference between all other levels of play VS an NBA team and come back to this game whenever someone doesnt get what White Mamba tried to explain

No it’s not, shit happens, why can’t the starters play?

The game isn’t until tomorrow. Everyone will be back by tomorrow, but they may choose to rest their more important players if they don’t feel the team has enough rest to compete.

Might be your first game played this season too.

Mexico City Pepitas

Or they could just man up and play some basketball??

the league cannot rechedule a scheduled loss

its only the games that the scriptwriters didnt decide to make the healthy great team lose against a depleted roster that they can reschedule

Can Houston fly to Denver? Problem solved

I don’t know but the thought of Jokic in economy kneeing the seat of the poor guy in front of him makes me laugh.

They’d have to fly with us normal folks sooooo idk man 😂

How hard is it for the fucking Kroenke’s to charter another flight? Is that against league rules or something?

Mexico City is one of the busier airports out there, I’m sure there could have been a proper solution even if it means flying with the poors

Fuck a United flight. Stan The 30 Billion Dollar Man Kronke can build an entire football stadium with his own money. He can’t charter 20 plush ass jets to go down and get his team?

You obviously don’t have a clue how much equipment an NBA team travels with

Mexico City is about as far away as Atlanta is to denver

Cmon man. Yes it’s an international game but it’s not like Mexico City is on the other side of the world. It’s a closer to Denver than the East Coast teams are.

Stan Kroenke didn’t know there were a hundred thousand people flying into mexico city to play Pokemon Go this weekend??

Commercial flight delays are more common because of the complicated network of cascading failures. A snowstorm in Chicago can cause a delay of a flight out of San Francisco 8 hours later. Charter doesn’t typically have that issue, so it is far less common, for the charter flight the delay typically has to be entirely local (mechanical issues, local weather, etc.).

Not sure why this is Mexico City’s fault? The plane most definitely belongs to an American company.

Crazy that the billionaire piece of shit that owns the team couldn’t figure out how to get another plane there.

Why are you regarded fucks downvoting this? Mexico city to Houston is a 3 hour flight. You don’t think kroenke could charter a plane to get his team to the next game? Why are you fucking morons blaming Silver?

I’m a girl and 5’4” but I can throw lobs to Trevon all day.

What about someone who’s barely 6 feet, with bad knees, and hums while he pees?

I’m a Rockets fan but I’ll buy one, I played D3 hoops for a minute so good enough

6’4”, 230lbs, volleyball player but I’ve played pickup ball and have a nuggets jersey, I’m down

they’re worth having, but at least schedule two days rest or something afterwards.

That said, CDMX isn’t that far. I just flew from CDMX to Denver earlier this week, and it was roughly the same distance as going to the east coast from Denver. The plane issues are just unlucky and happen anywhere

I’m a Nuggets fan and this sucks but there would be too many knock-on effects if they postponed the game. It’s not feasible logistically. If the Nuggets can legally field a team, they’ll have to play.

As long as Denver can meet the minimum roster requirements then they’re not going to postpone the game.

Because the Nuggets’ airplane failed, not the NBA’s