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Cooper Flagg is dealing with a shoulder injury. How many more games will he miss?
45%Plays against the Heat
31%Misses the Heat game
12%Misses 2 more games
12%Misses 3 or more games
77 votes • 19 hoursA 50 burger from Luka.
Lakers are 3-0, but you’ll still find some losers who will say “he doesn’t play defense.”
One day people will look back and say it was AI.
We’re only 3 games into the new season and the rest/injury list is already looking insane. Here’s just the tip of the iceberg and we haven't even seen a full week of basketball yet:
Paolo Banchero
Cooper Flagg
Jalen Duren
LeBron James
Joel Embiid
Stephen Curry
Kyrie Irving
Draymond Green
AJ Dybantsa
Yves Missi
I miss the times of Karl Malone. Dude played 18 years for the Jazz and missed 10 games... total.
Kyrie will naturally miss some games (rest, injury). It’s a blessing in disguise. Mavs did well trading up in the draft to get this guy. He’s fearless.
Game 3 and it already looks like we are deep into March 2027. Someone call Dirk, Devin, and JJ to suit up!
Gafford with Luka: good Center
Gafford without Luka: Trade Material
Kessler with Luka: perfect FG%
Luka makes EVERYONE he plays with better. That’s his real superpower which gets overlooked too often.
Nobody has that combination of vision, passing, and gravity. Nobody.
As a Mavs fan, watching that first game went exactly as expected. This will be a long season with a lot of pain.
1) Coop was great. He has taken the next step.
2) Kyrie was good (especially considering it's his first real game back).
3) We have no point of attack defense.
4) We can't shoot threes.
5) We have Rez and they don't (/end sarcasm).
Brace yourself for a 0-6 start, lads.
Dwight Powell with 8 assists in 13 minutes as a bench player, while the entire starting 5 of the Mavs has a combined 10 assists.
Pre-season stats are nuts.
Wasn’t a fan of all the hype around him back then but came around and kinda feel that players like him are getting more and more rare. Need types like him, he was always cool to watch.
Lonzo Ball confirms he’s officially done with basketball while reflecting on his NBA career and everything he went through with injuries 🏀💔
“I don’t think I ever got to my peak, and damn, that sh*t sucks, but at the same time there’s people that don’t have meals at night to eat. That’s how I look at the world.”
If you could pick any of these four PFs at the peak of their power, who would you select for your team?
Karl Malone: 25.0 / 3.6 / 10.1
Dirk Nowitzki: 20.7 / 2.4 / 7.5
Tim Duncan: 19.0 / 3.0 / 10.8
Kevin Garnett: 17.8 / 3.7 / 10.0
*) Career averages
Has Nerlens Noel written all over it. The greed of entitled NBA players is taking on ridiculous levels. Totally bottomed out in the playoffs but wanting all NBA calibre money. Checks out!
Jalen Duren is reportedly rejecting the Detroit Pistons’ five-year, $190 million offer and is seeking more than $200 million, per @sam_amick
“Per league sources, Detroit’s last offer was a five-year deal in the $190 million range. Duren, who is eligible to receive a five-year, $287 million contract, is seeking at least $200 million. As is the case with any player’s contract negotiation, the use of player or team options in the deal significantly impacts the final number.”
(Via nytimes.com/athletic/7583257…)
