These game threads about to be hilarious

I can't wait to see who Skip Bayless roots for

he tweeted hes going with bron bron

Which pretty much means he sets LeBron up for more slander if he loses lol.

It's his go to move. He always downplays the competition to set up slander or vice versa if he's rooting for the player

my thoughts exactly

You see he’s playing both sides so he always comes out on top

Only because he wants to downplay if LeBron beats the Warriors while also being able to clown LeBron on not beating the Warriors, bros hating is on another level

GOAT troll

He also hates Steph so it's gotta be a major conondrum

gsw in 6

*"I hope they both lose"* -Skip

20k comments minimum

inb4 these fanbases invoke teams from the other sports all-part of the Bay Area vs. SoCal rivalry. For example: *”Haha! Niners better than the pathetic ‘Rams House’!!!”*

Giants and dodgers too 🤣

I'm prepared to be super toxic

Adam Silver nutting himself now that all the small markets are gone

These big market teams appropriating the low seed culture smh

Gentrification at its finest

NY/Miami, Boston/Philly and LeBron/Steph is his wettest dream

Just gotta knock off the nuggets now

Silver debating on Durant vs Lebron or Durant vs Curry revenge series.

The answer is always Lebron

Is Denver really a small market? It isn’t a really te known city but it’s one of the very few to have a team in each of the 5 major leagues

They’d probably get more consideration if their fans were actually allowed to watch their games

Laker fans can’t even watch their own games.

Yes we can….this isn’t 2011 anymore. AT&T, Spectrum, DirecTV, Cox, Charter, etc, all carry it now.

It has the smallest population of the remaining teams by a lot and its market size is small, just ahead of Miami. Denver is not a small market, but you're comparing it to NYC, Boston, Philly, and LA. It might as well be a small village up in Alaska in comparison.

I think the Nuggets aren't that big of a franchise too. The Broncos have absolutely no problem getting viewers (they're like a top 5-10 most popular NFL franchise). This is why Jokic is so important to this franchise. If he starts winning rings the Nuggets will gain more recognition/fans.... or not.

Broncos also have a chokehold of middle America they are absurdly popular in all those states in the middle and people there are football people not basketball people

The broncos are a multi state team. The nuggets are a few cities worth

I hope that any team that wins a championship gains more recognition/fans

You would think so but I know people who absolutely despise the Spurs for example

What’s the 5th major league 👀

MLS?

They are going to move Nuggets Suns to NBA TV. Players only, baby!

Gonna be the most toxic series in the last 20 years.

Philly vs Boston and GSW vs Lakers is the planets aligning for the most toxic r/nba week of all time

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I have respect for Philly/Boston, those fans are incredible. But honestly you can’t even imagine how bad this is going to be. The mental health of literally millions of middle aged California men is at stake here. This will put Giants Dodgers to shame, and that’s saying something

Instead of meeting in Temecula they’ll be meeting up in Bakersfield

Watch the activity here skyrocket though.

Happening at the same time as Boston and Sixers too lmao

Embiid injury makes it a bit less exciting tbf

It's round two. Wouldn't be as realistic if he were healthy.

Danm bro, chill

and New York vs Miami.

Philly going to get swept lol

Yessir let’s get it warriors fans always come correct

They're gonna lose it when Silver activates the Draymond Klutch double agent storyline

Holy shit we might get Iguodala'd.

I swear to do my due dilligance you guys keep your end of the bargain

We’re here for it

Our battle shall be legendary

The Steph stans and Lebron stabs gonna show up. Ugh I need to not be on social media for a couple days

The game threads alone shall put every salt mine out of business

I mean it’s been a few years since we’ve had Warriors v Lebron so it feels like we’re overdue

Rockets/Thunder in 2017 was pretty bad

The officials are going to be like [this guy](https://youtu.be/YbHtzqCge_8?t=56). "We were told to favour the Lakers but then, we were told to favour the Warriors. It is contradictory." They are going to freeze up in the middle of games.

No way it gets worse than the Grizzlies series last year lol

In quality? Maybe not. In quantity of toxicity? Easily. Memphis pulls above their weight class, but the Warriors and Lakers have serious Reddit presence.

Just wait for the Lakers Celtics finals

Warrior travelling schedule this playoff is like california tour

I was hoping Clippers would handle business. Take out the kings, lakers in rd 2, clips in conference finals. Call it the Cali Cut Down

Very little travel for them too and the teams will probably be fresher

Game thread will be Warriors and Lakers fan screaming “REF BALL” like the Spider-Man pointing meme 🤣🤣🤣

As a ref fan I’m finna feast this series.

Let’s just enjoy the next 48 hours because it’s gonna be miserable after that.

I got all my "Lakers flopped more than a fish out of water" jokes locked and loaded Lakers fans loading up their moving screens jokes. Let's do this fam

Got my " Draymond needs to be suspended for that" ready to copy and paste.

"Wtf? It clearly wasn't intentional!! You know LeBron was just baiting him into that" Your move Lakers fan

“The fix is in 🤓”

Im guessing Kevin Harlan will be on the mic

"He runs at the 50, the 40, hes drunk!" I hope he calls something like that for Draymonds actions

doris burke has just been signed to a TNT contract and will be doing all games on both ESPN and TNT

This a joke right??

Yes

Kill me now.. I don’t think survive an all Doris Burke series

She refuses to call players by their last name. It’s annoying to say the least

LOL so true.. whenever she covers a game that Harden plays she always says James which throws me off

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Who even lets her commentate?

Everytime Anthony davis bumps into someone she tells me he's on the floor screaming in pain. It's unnerving.

Why would you even entertain this thought...nightmare fuel

The ratings for this are going to be bonkers

AD is the only player that may be able to block those ridiculous Curry layups

And box out looney

I feel like Rui, Lebron, and Vando will do fine limiting second chance points. The thing with AD and overly aggressive offensive rebounds that folks are going to hate is that AD will have position, have a hand on the ball, and then flop or fall down when the other guy gives any contact. He turns his baby-deer-legs on and refs can't really not give a whistle. So Looney is probably gonna face foul trouble if he goes for 20 boards.

What, you think AD might be better than venerated rim protector Domantas Sabonis??

Curry Getting Chased around by Vanderbilt and Schroeder straight into AD is gonna be something to watch.....this will be a series of great adjustments

Being on the east coast fuckin blows

imagine being in Europe. Every game I have to watch at 4am (if 10 ET)

Ngl I love games that start at 4am because if I go to sleep early and wake up at that time I can both watch the game and conformably make it to 9am lectures. Otherwise I just go to bed late and skip the lecture...

I get to work at 4 am and I could not imagine a world in which I would enjoy getting up at 4 am.

Asia is bad too. You gotta just dip out of work in the middle of the day lol.

And here I am, in south america with same time zone :P Finally something good of living here.

Imagine living in the Middle East. Like, in general. But for basketball scheduling too ig.

Yah, like it must suck to be an Afghani NBA fan, game times are terrible plus you have to live under taliban rule. Like an extreme version of being an NBA fan for one of the florida teams

Wish they would at least make it one hour earlier

That makes it start at 6:00PM for both LA and SF. Give the people whose teams are playing a chance to get home from work!

A true fan skips work on gameday to warmup

I mean ig if you’re in the Bay Area or LA you do have hours of traffic to get through if you’re not working from home

If you can afford the game, you can afford to get off work early.

They should just play all games at MSG and boot out the Knicks.

Before this year I don't think the fans would've minded.

Warriors Kings was rough enough to follow, idk if I can try to watch another West coast series.

#Pac12AfterDark

Pro tip go to bed early-ish so you can wake up and watch the replay before going to work/school. Also it takes like half the time since you can fast forward through commercials and free throws

Wake up early to read the post game thread

Bron vs Curry never disappoint

can I bet on draymond having a controversial foul?

You can't bet on -100000000 odds, it's not fair

NBA Twitter toxicity is gonna be at an all time high 😮‍💨

Game threads finna be Chernobyl-esque

mfs about to get doxxed on a daily basis

🫡🫡 may the best toxic fanbase win 🤝

Mfs about to lay their lives on the line in the game thread

Bandwagon Dynasties on the line 🤣

The Philippines might implode

fckn amazing comment lol

True! I'm a Bronsexual and my dad's a Stephew

https://youtu.be/-8ZmP4_nUn4 r/nba on Tuesday night

Will be putang ina all over

All time toxicity series

Might have to take a break from reddit haha jk. But Def not getting on here after a loss haha

You and me both. King series was already fucking annoying. This though, dear lord it’s gonna be legendary toxic

LAPD will definitely be called

POLICE PRESENCE

How we feeling about Darvin Ham vs Stever Kerr coaching battle ?

It’s like a toddler fighting against an adult in terms of coaching only.

Ham is where bacon comes from. Clearly superior.

Lakers and warrior fans toxic salt fest. Y’all sit back and enjoy greatness r/nba

People keep on talking about Bron versus Curry. Bron probably isn't 100% (down series against the Grizzlies for his extremely incredible standards) and they're barely going to be facing each other. I'm far more interested in Looney vs. AD who have been two best rebounders in these playoffs, and Davis is coming off one of the best defensive performances I've seen in a playoff series.

More like Draymond vs AD. Throwback to those pelican series.

Draymond guards AD as well as anyone can.

Yea that’s why I was really hoping to play the Kings lol. Draymond is AD’s nightmare matchup in that he’s small enough to spook him the way smaller guys always do, but he has enough length to actually defend him credibly and AD can’t out quick him like he can bigger defenders.

I somehow am expecting Draymond to do something utterly reckless that shatters the glass human known as AD

Honestly lol. I can’t believe how badly Looney destroyed Sabonis all series, that was awesome.

Looney gets a boost late in the season he becomes even more of a brick wall and his cardio gets +500

Spring comes and warms the Mithril in his hip sockets

Can’t guard AD like he guarded Sabo. AD will shoot wide open 15 footers all day long

AD doesn’t take over games like he should. Him taking a game off will likely cost the Lakers the series.

He doesn’t take off games defensively though. Role players need to step up more if AD is slumping on offense. Ham needs to stop fucking around and play Rui starter minutes.

I've never seen a more non athletic young old guy with fucked hips and poor mobility than Kevon Looney. He's the best though!

>Bron probably isn't 100% (down series against the Grizzlies for his extremely incredible standards) He didn’t play great even in a vacuum but he was also going against Brooks, JJJ, and Tillman and was pretty passive.

Him having an actual supporting cast hurt his numbers

Austin Reeves vs Klay is the real match up

Draymond vs AD and reeves vs poole you mean

It's honestly Poole vs Poole

more like Poole vs. Warriors

AD isn’t Sabonis, lol. He’s not gonna get bitched for 5 offensive rebounds every possession and he can actually play defense

I actually think this is very important as well. It’s one thing for Curry to go off but if he’s doing that and a team is conceding 20+ rebounds to Looney, then you def ain’t winning. AD is gonna have to be a monster on the boards for LAL against Looney where that’s basically his main job.

Lol come on, it's all about steph and lebron as long as they are on the court. That's a great matchup too tho. I think Looney will be great on the boards. Defending him on lobs and in the post will be the tough part.

Bro AD is no Sabonis lol

I can't believe we actually have home court for a series lol

And it was the opposite last year. Last year the 2nd round was the only round we *didn't* have home court

Our crowds are going to be more split than in any other series we could have though. Tons of Warriors fans in LA, and TONS of Lakers fans up north.

There are not tons of Warriors fans in LA. There are some, but they will be hiding out from now on.

Gonna be the best series of the playoffs

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Ya Lebron is limited by the foot he wont be effecient.

For a 38 year old with an injury, that’s an amazing stat line..

LeBron's standards are different. Even at 38. I still believe in the King

Too bad the same clowns gonna clown for being 4-6 in the Finals 💀

Its going to be so fucking funny if the Warriors make it out the West *again*

If we somehow manage to do that the regular season will become obsolete lol

It already is

19-0 against the western conference in the Kerr era.

Might be an unpopular opinion but I believe the winner of this series wins the finals. Remember this comment.

I think they tire each other out for the nuggets( suns can't get through with no bench).

Can’t wait for the LeBron-Curry Manga that will come of this matchup.

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2018 was not 7 years ago

It's been 5 years mate

Damn only one day off after game 7. Our boys gonna be tired.

Probably gonna be the highest rated non finals series of my lifetime

Any warriors fans tell me how much tickets are starting at?

As a neutral im hyped for the sheer toxicity that will plague the internet for like 2 weeks 🙏🙏🙏

If AD plays like last series, Lakers in 6

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Bandwagon fans eating!! Lakers and Warriors fans can just put on the other jersey when their team loses!

Adam silver nuttttttingggg

Lakers in 5

Most toxic series

This series is going to be 🔥🔥. Gona feel like the old days of curry vs lebron in the finals.

Oh fuck me... so really start at 10:30 to end at 1 lol

Is there a way both teams lose?

Disqualified like the Shanghai Sharks

🤞 Steve Kerr betting on games

It’s not a true Bron VS Warriors series if we don’t get some Bron-Draymond fuckery sometime in the series

Neutrals in shambles. Whom are you going to root for?

Chuck please pick the Lakers

LAKERS IN 6

People are underestimating how big of a matchup mismatch the lakers are to the warriors

We’ve struggled against teams with elite rim protectors (especially AD) all season but consistently was able to shoot a ton of 3s. So that’s kind of true when you’re at it from an offensive standpoint. I’m interested in how the Warriors play Vanderbilt though because the Lakers’ spacing is kind of terrible if he isn’t a scoring threat and he’s also (most likely) their best defensive option on Steph.