Any NBA Basketball fans?

Brackets are set (mostly). Those play in matchups look nice...plus the bulls hosting Atlanta.

Lakers and Warriors both have play-in games...very interesting

Blake Griffin retires
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...t-nba-14-years

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Lakers advance, hopefully Zion isn't serious. Kings v Pels sounds fun.

When the Lakers were up 14, I thought, "They don't wanna play Denver".. but then Zion goes down.. I thought GS would win with their championship pedigree, but their season is over.. I wonder what the front office does now.

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Lakers v Nuggets should be good

Even though the Lakers got swept, they only lost by an average of about 5 points, but I can't see them doing that this time around.

Who ever wins would not shock me, and will probably win the title .

NBA bans Raptors' Jontay Porter for gambling violations
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ing-violations

I see Denver winning it all, probably beating Boston in The Finals. I just hope there are no injuries, etc..

I feel very bad for Zion.. Throughout the entire game, they kept saying how this was his first time in the post-season. He was having his best game, and he's out for at least the 1st round according to Woj.



I feel bad for Michael Porter, a champion, who just hears his brother, Jontay Porter, it banned from the NBA for life for gambling. I'm so sick of the constant gambling coverage, forcing Charles Barkeley (and everyone else) to constantly have this as part of the game. I can barely watch this 3-pt contest, no defense, refs interrupting, commercialism already. I fast-forward to the end of the game, and still find myself fast-forwarding, but I actually paused the Lakers game (thinking they would give it away to play OKC instead of Denver) when it was tied up at the end, right before the injury.

What the Cavs did is disgraceful, absolutely throwing their last game when they could've had the 2 seed.

I was thinking about the load management stuff last night...clearly didn't work out for Jimmy Butler (though he likely gets injured regardless of how many games he truly plays). Golden State did a lot of load management too, and that may have burned them in terms of ruining their playoff seeding.

Or just Draymond 🤣

or maybe it's just matchups. Maybe.

No Jimmy Buckets, no Zion, no problems for these 8th spots.

Wooooooooooo! LFG.

That "technical difficulty" at the beginning was the best way to start the NBA Playoffs.. So relaxing.

There was no commentary at the start of one of the games right? I thought I was imagining things.