DEN:Nikola Jokic torches Raps for 29-16-8 GS:Draymond Green (illness) ruled out Tuesday DAL:Dirk Nowitzki (knee tendinitis) is starting CLE:Kevin Love (tooth) will not return Tuesday MLW:Thon Maker (right groin strain) out Tuesday GS:Jordan Bell will start on Tuesday vs. IND DAL:Noel (rest) and Powell (knee) out Tuesday SA:LaMarcus Aldridge (knee) will not return MIA:Jordan Mickey starting for Adebayo (ankle) CHI:Denzel Valentine (knee) good to go Tuesday NO:Nikola Mirotic (hip) is available Tuesday NO:Ian Clark will start for Rondo (wrist)
>Damian Lillard will fly home for the birth of his child after just dropping 41 points and leading Portland to a win in New Orleans. He will miss Wednesday's game at Memphis.
Logan Morris
Apparently it was spillover from a protest at a city council meeting. The problem is that the arena is like 2 blocks from city hall.
Oliver Turner
hot new meme fresh off the presses from reddit boys
It's actually quite brilliant, they chose NBA games on purpose, and chose Kings games, at this specific time when Black Panther is doing well.
>block Kings games >get access to owner, get him to acknowledge you >block Kings game again >say NBA doesn't support black people >cite we wuz kangs, ride black panther pop culture movement >NBA has to respond and look like bad guys no matter what >black NBA fans begin protesting because muh identity
Ryder Green
What a fucking alpha.
Connor White
Teodosic playing like a god right now
Kevin Davis
Serbian night, apparently
Owen Morgan
Honestly it's a Sacramento thing. Cause, first, everywhere that you would go to hold a protest in Sacramento is within a couple blocks of the arena. There's just not that many other places that you would go to do this. And second, the Kings are probably the biggest civil institution in the city anyway.
Like, what are the other options? Shutting down a AAA baseball game? Shutting down Chando's Tacos? Shutting down the mall? Actually shutting down the mall would probably be a pretty effective protest but still, I stand by my point.
>Players on the edge of being superstars: Westbrook Kyrie Irving Paul George Giannis Demar Derozen Lillard
>Stars: Kevin Love Klay Thompson Jimmy Butler Cousins Lowry Chris Paul KAT Embiid Wall Devin Booker DeAndre Jordan LaMarcus Aldridge Blake Griffin Porzingis Hayward Marc Gasol
>Players on the edge of being Stars:
Beal Oladipo Lou Williams Jrue Holiday Gobert Steven Adams Otto Porter Jr Ben Simmons Donovan Mitchell Kembra Walker Wiggins Cj McColum Tatum Julius Randle Draymond Green Zach lavine Rubio Dragic Myers Turner Marcus and Marqief Morris Dario Saric Khris Middleton
David Morales
He seems pretty cool about his dislocated tooth.
Luis Flores
What you're saying is We wuz Kangz and shit.
Jeremiah Sullivan
At the end of the day, as progressive as the NBA is, it's a business and blocking access to games is not good for business.
I think the NBA just needs to be proactive and this case, and as ironic as it seems, start hiring police patrols for a few weeks until the season ends. It's just a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
Christopher Nelson
SPURS HEAD COACH GREGG POPOVICH
On tonight's game:
"I thought tonight was a great example of a team. The Wizards, who wanted to prove something, wanted to come out and play hard, play together, be disciplined at both ends of the court and play the game the right way so I thought they did a great job. As far as we're concerned, I thought it was a really poor example of mental toughness in the sense of no real discipline and no real effort. There are one or two guys here and there that gave effort but last time I heard it was a team sport. The lack of mental discipline and mental toughness tonight was very disappointing. The excuses and lack of communication and it starts with transition D. If you can't run back in transition D, then you know, something wrong with that picture. I thought the Wizards did a good job of taking advantage of it and they played a good game. I think our guys should be embarrassed."
On the Wizards having a lot of balance in points tonight:
"I'd say that means they did a good job. That's what that means."
On winning out to finish the season with 50 wins:
"What does it mean to me? It doesn't mean crap. None of that stuff matters. It's kind of cool. We did that for a long time. Other than that I don't know..."
Aaron Wilson
>>Beal >Oladipo >Lou Williams >Jrue Holiday >Gobert >Steven Adams >Otto Porter Jr >Ben Simmons >Donovan Mitchell >Kembra Walker >Wiggins >Cj McColum >Tatum >Julius Randle >Draymond Green >Zach lavine >Rubio >Dragic >Myers Turner >Marcus and Marqief Morris >Dario Saric >Khris Middleton
They need to leave the sport alone. You want to protest? There are plenty of public places where you can do it.
David Williams
where is kelly oubre jr my nigga
Juan Wilson
Westbrook just won an MVP. That's an instant superstar dude.
Robert Myers
I'm tired of shit like Grandpa Popovich talking politics and then I have to see it in an article on NBA.com. Like, I don't fucking care what a sport coach thinks about the state of the presidency. Shut up and dribble.
Thomas Walker
>Hearing Kiki VanDeWeghe will be making a statement very soon, the Kings have projected losses of just over 1 million dollars in the past few days due to protests at #Golden1Center
Westbrook is a superstar Anthony Davis is not a superstar Draymond is a star Lou Williams, Jrue, Steven Adams, Otto Porter, Wiggins, Tatum, Randle, Lavine, Rubio, Dragic, Myles Turner, Morris twins, Saric, and Middelton are not borderline stars. In fact, just call them good starters.
Levi Lewis
...which is detrimental to the NBA and basketball players... WHO ARE MOSTLY BLACK
>Heat won by 19 >WITHOUT Hassan If Hassan played tonight, the Heat would’ve won by 25
Adam Taylor
The Cavs are a lottery team. Nothing special.
Dominic Gray
Wiggins, LaVine, Turner, and Saric are definitely potential stars. Are they as close as guys like Oladipo or Mitchell right now? No, but at least one of them is gonna break out soon.
Brandon Ross
WHAT HAVE I BECOME
But seriously, I'd be pissed off if some morons decided to protest their shit in front of the arena.
Hudson Stewart
Anthony Davis is a superstar
can't abide this level of idiocy
Ian Bell
What's the capacity of Golden1 Center? I wonder how many people are here
>Cavs play on a back 2 back >Against the Hornets Kemba gonna drop 35, and Howard will get 25 rebounds >Sixers play the Knicks Fultz will get a solid 14 points and the W
Nolan Cox
for me it's Kendrick Lamar's Damn.
Nathaniel Hughes
Saric is a borderline star. He's putting up great numbers and no one is paying any attention to him.
Jonathan Jenkins
Sacramento police should blast water cannons at protestors is that arena private property? if so get the fuck out
Camden Hernandez
can't be more than 3 thousand, it holds nearly 18 thousand
Jordan Gray
Wiggins will never realize his potential. He just doesn't care enough.
Ayden Cox
Yes, I'm certain the multi-billion association will be missing out on the comparative pennies lost by one of the league's worst teams.
Ethan Barnes
First of all, individual NBA players aren't really significantly financially affected by something like this. They still get paid their salaries. And, I mean, yeah, sure, they lose something like 500k-1million in BRI but that's really not a lot of money once you amortize it over the whole league.
And, on the other hand, if it costs black NBA players some amount of money, the benefits of a successful protest would be felt by a much, much larger number of people. Because the reality is that the vast majority of African-American don't actually play in the NBA.
Andrew Howard
do niggers even live in Sacramento? Talk about a shitty venue to """protest""" whatever their issue-of-the-day is
people like Popobitch and (((Silver))) need to get their heads out of their ass, shut up, and play/run the game. There's a reason the NBA is seen as a corrupt/boring/fixed/drama compared to other major league sports
Camden Russell
It's not about the magnitude of the effect. It's the fact that is exactly what is happening.
Nothing will change the fact that James Naismith was a proud Canadian man who invented basketball.
Mason Parker
that's not how it works Kings sold their patch for 5 million a year they lost over 1 million in less than 5 days because of these protests
thats a fucking ton of money not even taking into account loss food sales, merch sales, etc
Camden Clark
What are the results of a successful protest? Making the injustices aware to white people? I can assure you, white people are already aware. We just don't care.
Lincoln Diaz
Superstars have an undeniable NBA brand which is why I moved him down He's a superstar on skills alone but I took the business aspect into account
Most casuals don't know who Anthony Davis is believe it or not
Aaron Ward
I really don't see why people consider Westbrook as a superstar but not Kyrie desu. That's why I like to rank them at the same tier
Jordan Diaz
Look at the game, it looks like the end of a blowout even after all the fans moved down. There's 10-15 seats empty per row. All of those seats, they have to fucking refund.
Eli Hernandez
Casuals also don't know who Kawhi Leonard is.
Source: was a casual four months ago
Anthony Adams
Money is money, bitch.
Asher Nguyen
You're right about that I should've moved him down desu He succeeded at a young age before he was the de-facto alpha dog. >wins a championship inbetween LeBron Heat and the current 3peat >his playing style is very fundamental and not necessarily explosive on a consistent basis >small market team >injuries and recent team playoff choking
Jack Gonzalez
usually protests are for the redress of grievances. presumably, in this case, that would involve some kind of reform of Sac PD
Jayden Nelson
this
Jose Moore
Clippers unironically drafted a 40 year old rookie
Hunter Ortiz
Chris Paul is a borderline superstar purely based on his Statefarm bullshit
Xavier Johnson
He’s pretty well known as the brow.
Logan Phillips
I agree
Wyatt Evans
what would happen if a nba player died on the court like that g-league guy?
Chase Morgan
Do you think Kelly Olynyk listens to Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Nolan Evans
wow. im a bucks fan and even i can see how much the bucks are almost literally beating deandre jordan's ass. good thing the refs are lax today.
Ian Jackson
What's the consensus on Rodney Hood?
Tyler Baker
we'd get video evidence of it, at least
Wyatt Adams
I think he cries every night that no matter what team he plays on, there'll be black people on his team
Zachary Roberts
>Gaycers can't beat the heavily depleted SJWarriors
Connor Perez
He's a interesting player desu and only 25. Cavs should stick with him
James Carter
they'd be eternally immortified as an unabated legend and put alongside the greats such as Wilt and Bill Russ
Blake Ortiz
We never perform well in the first half, or against shitty teams. So basically, this is expected. Pacies are frustrating.
Jayden White
Quinn Cook trying to mimic Curry's shot selection is not going well
Austin Stewart
Chris Paul is a top 5 point guard all time
Liam Ward
nba would milk the shit out of it
Carter Morris
>while this player may be good during the regular season, they become amazing in the playoffs
Nolan Rodriguez
>the numbers don't show all that this guy really does on the court
