OT: 2017-2018 NBA Season Thread
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Could very well be the MVP hes got a very good shot at it, if the Celtics win 60 games hes lock for MVP.
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I don't see it, personally. My gut says Harden has it in the bag this year, if only because he's been so close for so long
Yeah I could see that, guys a can't see are Curry because of the team hes on and he shares the ball with KD, Lebron partly because hes a victim of his own success, Kwhai because hes hurt and like Curry the team hes on.
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Harden's stats are way better and his team is going to have a great record as well.
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I'm probably in the minority with this opinion but I hate this Celtics team and the fact that Boston fans of all people appear to have stumbled into a perennial contender for the next decade + is nauseating.
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Well Boston has been the most successful sports city this century soooooooooooooo are you not used to it yet?
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Sounds like that Haterade isn't going down too smoothly.
Yeah, you're actually in a pretty tiny minority. Even if most non-Celtics fans think this team is overrated (of course it is), virtually all of them think the team is fun as all hell to watch.
As to MVP, Kyrie's gonna have to do what he did last night a bunch of times, and the Celtics probably need the best or second best record in the NBA. Harden's the clubhouse leader and Kyrie has a lot of ground to make up.
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They didn't stumble into it, to be fair. They made good signings, great trades, and hoarded assets. And they have a lot picks coming their way, too. Memphis is Top-8 protected next year, then Top-6, then unprotected in addition to the LAL/Sac pick.
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Oh, he can shoot. He shot it 15 times last night!
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He's just trying to say the fans stumbled into it, whatever that means. The Celtics brass clearly knew what they were doing and hiring Brad Stevens was the biggest part of it all.
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Celtics are really good and going to be great for a long time and they actually match up better with the Warriors than anyone IMO. I still don't think anyone is beating the Warriors in a 7 game season for the next couple of years though.
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all it takes is one injury or Green to become obsessed with another man's junk again...
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I'm really curious how they handle their cap in the new few years.
Smart needs an extension this summer.
Kyrie and Rozier next summer (since both Rozier and Smart were untouchable in trades this summer my guess is they wanna keep both).
Brown the year after that (this is also when Al expires)
Tatum the year after that
Idk how much of a tax bill the owner is willing to pay to keep the band together.
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I would suspect they let Smart walk, and save that money for Kyrie and potentially Rozier. It wouldn’t shock me if both Smart and Rozier were gone in a couple years though.
Horford’s money will come off the books around the time Jaylen/Tatum need to be extended. But they’ll definitely have to be creative to keep the core together.
Horford’s money will come off the books around the time Jaylen/Tatum need to be extended. But they’ll definitely have to be creative to keep the core together.
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Geez, watch the basketball games & enjoy the players. Tatum isn't 20 games into his career and you are wondering about resigning him?! I love watching Smart play & since he expires this year its relevant to debate his possible extension- especially since given the Hayward injury & youth the team is likely a year away from legit title contention. But regardless, they will employ basketball players & attempt to sign the best ones they can at market/best prices they can.
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Sorry just some were talking a decade long run. Keeping these guys around for that kind of run would be challenging.
Also I will never give the NBA another live minute after game 7 in 2010.
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This explains grading the Kyrie trade as a "D" and saying Tatum would never be good in this league. Makes sense now.
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As opposed to, you know, Yankee fans, who earned those 27 titles.
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You keep telling yourself that when the stock price hits $500.
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The price was the price. It was either you pay it or you don't. Paying it was the right move. You're on an island here.
And you're still trying to say Ainge overpaid? How are Crowder (the "steal" of the trade!) and Zizic doing?
I'd ask if you'd seen how much better the Celts are defensively with Irving than they were with IT and Crowder but you just admitted you actually don't watch NBA basketball, so forget it.
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Keep dying on that island. I am sure in your own head you also still believe that this was a 2 player draft and Tatum wasn't one of them.
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If you knew the stock was going to $100 the next day it would make tremendous sense.
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The trade was an absolute no-brainer for the Celtics.
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His point was stupid, I was just relaying it.
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This almost has to change, but at this moment Ainge absolutely fleeced the market.
Exhibit A is Cleveland vs Boston results thru 18 games.
Exhibit B is Fultz. Essentially Ainge pretended he was all-in Fultz is consensus #1 while likely never believing it or wanting Fultz.
Avery Bradley is doing well in Detroit, but the difference in the Celtics defense with the length they acquired and now regularly employ is astounding. Last year they had B talent that played with A effort and IQ (via Stevens), they've upgraded even before they can possibly be accustomed to playing together and despite losing 1/3 key offseason acquisitions?! And of course if they didn't have Kyrie they'd be struggling right now. Some people just like to criticize Danny Ainge, maybe cuz he was an irritant as a player.
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