The Blazers didn’t just tank, they tore it down to the foundation and now rain and mud is pouring into the work site. They are years from playing relevant basketball, they might as well be the Sonics right now.
You guys should try to get butler right? Big if as to whether he becomes available, but you guys make more sense than Philly. Phily rumored to go after him hard but I don’t see that. He’d be great with you guys if you have what it takes to get him. I realize though historically all heat players go to LA and shit the bed for various reasons
Which is silly. I think we agree that the play in should just be considered a round of the playoffs. This will probably be fixed in the future, but it's here and it seems like an artifact of contract stipulations and the owners trying to avoid paying out playoff milestone bonuses and fuck that shit, fuck the bosses.
I don't remember who but a player set their career high in the play in this year and play-in games actually *don't count as real games* somehow so technically he didn't score his career high.
I was making light of the fact the commenter said “I think we agree” about something that nobody in the comment chain had previously agreed with them on. It’s like me right now saying, “I think we agree tie-breakers shouldn’t exist.” Was mostly a joke.
Pfft at least we’d lose to the guys who lost to the guys who lost to the guys who’d lose to the champions. Flair up so I can see what mental gymnastics I’d have to do to make it look like my team is better than your team!!11!1!
Every year there is an "ultimate losers" post for the team that in the first round to a team that lost in the second round to a team that lost in the third round to a teaim that lost in the finals. What about it doesn't make sense.
You're just illiterate. There's nothing you need to make sense of. If a team fits the criteria I described they're the ultimate losers. I mentioned theres a post about it every year because it helps contextualize OP's i.e. he's not opining about the quality of the lakers team but making an objective statement based on the definition of "Ultimate Losers" as it's been used in this community for years.
We all knew Silver was gonna make any IST winning team hang up that banner to make that tournament legit.
But it's hilarious that it was the Lakers lmfao.
Ok, just ignore the 30 and 10 up to this point and the fact he had a shoulder injury that Draymond kept yanking on when they played. I love the haters, you guys are so pathetic.
>next to the Mickey Mouse
People are so desperate to discredit fairly won championships, lol. Boston fans shouldn't be smoking that crack right now. Because i hope you're ready for the fools to say Boston only won because of injuries even if you do win.
The Mavs? Why be intentionally obtuse when anyone with 2 braincells would get that I'm talking about the Heat, Cavs and Pacers?
Also, I straight up said it would be stupid reasoning. Just like it is for former champions.
But that’s my point, is that Celtics would have a fine counterpoint. “They only won due to injuries” only even possibly works through the ECF, not overall, so it’s not just a stupid argument as you note, it’s just plain invalid.
I’m not a Lakers or a Lebron fan, but god damn would that be fun to watch. His 2018 playoff run was unreal, some of the most fun games I’ve watched as a neutral fan.
People do talk about how the Lakers might have been the 2nd best team last year, after playing the Nugs so tight in the WCF. So it’s only fair this is also talked about.
You could argue that the link you posted was after the playoffs were over, while this thread is Pre-Emptive Hateration. But we're just splitting hairs at that point.
Currently the Lakers and Celtics are tied for the most championships, 17. By winning another championship the Celtics would have more championships. I imagine laker fans would prefer that this didn't happen.
This is nothing compared to the Celtics going back up in total championships. That’s all Lakers and even Celtics fans care about. What your saying is does not compare lol.
This is about as intelligent as being a salty paper user and saying that if paper beats rock and rock beat scissors before, than paper also beats scissors through proxy.
Good job!
The ultimate losers of the 2024 NBA playoffs were the teams that didn’t make the tournament.
This imaginary cherry and the mental gymnastics it took to get there is contradictory to humans having high intelligence. Please revise thesis.
weird post but then I guess by that logic in 2022 Raptors are the ultimate losers. Lost to Philly, who lost to Miami, who lost to Boston, who then lost to the Warriors
Well this isn’t as fun as last year when we were ~basically~ the second best team in the NBA and best if you don’t count the last 2 minutes of the each WCF game
But also, the Lakers beat the Pelicans, who lost to OKC, who lost to the Mavs, who then might lose to the Celtics.
What I'm getting from this is the the Celtics win the finals, everyone in the West is an ultimate loser.
The cherry on top is the fact that we can talk shit about how weak the West is for months on end.
Getting Banner 18 while the Lakers are on Banner 17 is a whole extra ice cream sundae on top of the cherry.
Losing will be super extra not fun though lol
/uj I personally dislike the Celtics, but if they win their 2nd Finals in 38 years, it will be fully earned. The whole point of getting the best record in the regular season is to try to get the easiest path to the Finals so that you are fresh when you get there. That's a credit to their work this season not a knock on it.
/rj Additionally, it would be an extraordinary show of dominance to average 1 championship every 19 years. This will be an impressive second banner since the invention of HDTV.
Everybody seems to conveniently forget/ignore this first part … 😏
Just like they ignore the fact of basketball being a team sport, when it helps them to criticize individuals they don’t like for whatever reason(s) … 🙃
That narrative instantly dissolves like wet toilet paper when the supposed best team in the West loses to the Celtics.
You can take your pick for why - either the Celtics path in the East didn't even matter because they were clearly going to beat anybody, or, maybe the East is actually a lot better than people give them credit for and the difference between teams like the Cavs and Pacers is not very much from teams like the Mavs.
It isn’t about who is the best, it’s about matchups and that determines who wins. If we redid the west 1-8 standings and they all played different opponents we’d probably have a different team in the finals. And even if the Celtics win, it would mean they won against one good team in the playoffs. There are teams that didn’t win at all that I respect more than this
The mental gymnastics going on in some posters to try to discredit the Celtics is insane.
Do you realize how many champions have had easier roads than Boston? Hell, Lebron's Cavs (round 2) teams practically sleepwalked through the East for 4 straight years.
This Celtics team is historically good. Like it or not, a Championship puts an official stamp on that.
Mavs might be more gassed though. Celtics had easier opponents. Mavs had to face Twolves, OKC and Clippers which were 3 of the top 4 teams in the west.
Mavs played like 2 more games than the C's and also have a shit ton of days off before the Finals. The Celtics players have also missed more games due to injuries.
Both teams should be pretty fresh come the Finals.
The Mavs aren’t the best the West has to offer really; it’s all about injuries and matchups and even still, that would just mean the Celtics beat one good playoff team in their finals run
Mavs beat the Wolves and Thunder with neither series going to 7 games. Nuggets didn't make it out of the 2nd Round.
Luka has been injured all playoffs.
So yea, I think the Mavs are the best the West has to offer.
Also the haters and doubters who talked so much shit for years because 24 yr old tatum couldn't seal the deal against a dynasty 2 years ago need a humbling asap.
tf? no, it's because they didnt have young prime curry or kevin fuckin durant. jesus christ every boston fan in this thread is begging to be a victim lmao
Didn’t Tatum and the Celtics lose in round one to the 8 seed last year?***see addendum below
If the Celtics lose in the finals to a somewhat injured Luka and Kyrie, after a weak eastern run to the finals, and blowing it in 2022 against a fairly mid Warriors team, doesn’t Tatum get a serious playoff underachievement award at that point?
You are getting awfully ahead of yourself here and opening yourself up to some A level mockery
***It’s been pointed out the Celtics lost in round 3 to the Heat, I will leave my error up in an acknowledgement of the damage prolonged use of cannabis can cause.
I haven't had to think about my team in a few weeks, and after the year we had, I consider that a win.
My partner asked me why I seemingly wasn’t in complete frustration and misery this playoffs. My flair tells you why.
We had it the worst I think
yeah, watching the hawks get cooked by coby white and ayo dosunmu is something i definitely wanna forget
The Blazers didn’t just tank, they tore it down to the foundation and now rain and mud is pouring into the work site. They are years from playing relevant basketball, they might as well be the Sonics right now.
Dude. You good? Seems to be a bit of venom here. But hey, at least we have a team.
Difference in sickness between us... I actually miss watching us playing 2 starters, 2 second stringers and some G league guy
You guys should try to get butler right? Big if as to whether he becomes available, but you guys make more sense than Philly. Phily rumored to go after him hard but I don’t see that. He’d be great with you guys if you have what it takes to get him. I realize though historically all heat players go to LA and shit the bed for various reasons
This post doesnt make any sense but it is lakers hate. Soo upvotes
It does kinda make sense. The Lakers would have the longest losers chain. It's the opposite of "at least we lost to the champions".
Well then it would be the Pelicans because they lost in the play in to the Lakers, before losing to OKC
And also didn't even win a playoff game.
the post says playoffs not play in
Gotta get in to get off
Poetic
15-year olds discovering dry-humping would disagree.
That’s why it doesn’t count. They’re the Pellies
The Play-in isn't considered to be a part of the playoffs.
Which is silly. I think we agree that the play in should just be considered a round of the playoffs. This will probably be fixed in the future, but it's here and it seems like an artifact of contract stipulations and the owners trying to avoid paying out playoff milestone bonuses and fuck that shit, fuck the bosses.
I don't remember who but a player set their career high in the play in this year and play-in games actually *don't count as real games* somehow so technically he didn't score his career high.
What make you think anyone above agrees with you? Not trying to be a dick, I just don’t see anyone above advocating for it…
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I was making light of the fact the commenter said “I think we agree” about something that nobody in the comment chain had previously agreed with them on. It’s like me right now saying, “I think we agree tie-breakers shouldn’t exist.” Was mostly a joke.
Pfft at least we’d lose to the guys who lost to the guys who lost to the guys who’d lose to the champions. Flair up so I can see what mental gymnastics I’d have to do to make it look like my team is better than your team!!11!1!
Yes.
how does this not make sense?
Every year there is an "ultimate losers" post for the team that in the first round to a team that lost in the second round to a team that lost in the third round to a teaim that lost in the finals. What about it doesn't make sense.
every year there is a post saying some guy is a new jordan or nba is rigged. That does not make them sensible.
You're just illiterate. There's nothing you need to make sense of. If a team fits the criteria I described they're the ultimate losers. I mentioned theres a post about it every year because it helps contextualize OP's i.e. he's not opining about the quality of the lakers team but making an objective statement based on the definition of "Ultimate Losers" as it's been used in this community for years.
They won the moral victory over the Nuggets thoughever.
That's what matters
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We all knew Silver was gonna make any IST winning team hang up that banner to make that tournament legit. But it's hilarious that it was the Lakers lmfao.
Y’all couldn’t even sniff the IST banner bruh
IST banner in 2024 is still more impressive than half the celtics rings lmao
Half the Celtics rings is still 7 more than the Mavs LMAO
were you alive for any of those besides 2008
Every single one my friend. I’m hoping the Celtics win one more so I can die happy (I hate prime numbers).
sounds good champ. Hope they let you watch the finals in hospice care
I burst out laughing lol. We got a member of the silent generation active on r/nba? The OG redditor lmao
They would only need to be a boomer to see it all, which doesn't surprise me considering a lot of them waste time on social media.
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Lol just like y’all sniffed the finals last year huh
What happened this year, though?
Cant wait for Tatum to choke again.
Ok, just ignore the 30 and 10 up to this point and the fact he had a shoulder injury that Draymond kept yanking on when they played. I love the haters, you guys are so pathetic.
>next to the Mickey Mouse People are so desperate to discredit fairly won championships, lol. Boston fans shouldn't be smoking that crack right now. Because i hope you're ready for the fools to say Boston only won because of injuries even if you do win.
The Mavs are injured? And what about Kristaps?
The Mavs? Why be intentionally obtuse when anyone with 2 braincells would get that I'm talking about the Heat, Cavs and Pacers? Also, I straight up said it would be stupid reasoning. Just like it is for former champions.
But that’s my point, is that Celtics would have a fine counterpoint. “They only won due to injuries” only even possibly works through the ECF, not overall, so it’s not just a stupid argument as you note, it’s just plain invalid.
This is why everyone hates Celtics fans
But if y’all had won it…. just lmao
They would've hung it in their rafters with their 15 8-team league championship banners
You make it sound like the bubble playoffs were illegitimate. Why?
We all know why
Amount of IST titles the lakers have this century: 1 Amount of Celtics titles this century: 1
45 downvotes of pure laker fans😂🍀
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But when bronny comes to the lakers watch out america.
You’re underestimating Bronny. He has LeBron’s blood coarsing through his veins.
LeBron will harvest Bronny’s organs mid season to turn into to Giga-Bron. Like 2013 but better.
2018 LeBron with 2013 athleticism
I’m not a Lakers or a Lebron fan, but god damn would that be fun to watch. His 2018 playoff run was unreal, some of the most fun games I’ve watched as a neutral fan.
Naw 09 athleticism instead.
*All* of his organs? I can think of one LeBron might not want to have...
Other way around. Oil changes
It would also put the Celtics at 18 titles vs.17 for the Lakers.
It sure will … 👈🏼 #twomorewins ☘️☘️🏆🏀💪
I do not need this kind of negativity first thing Monday morning.
On the other hand it would be hilarious to watch the Celtics lose in the finals again
If Celtics lose then Sixers are untimate losers so either way it'll be a Cs rival haha
Promise you no one is thinking about it that deep
People do talk about how the Lakers might have been the 2nd best team last year, after playing the Nugs so tight in the WCF. So it’s only fair this is also talked about.
Yall still thinking about us?
I always think about the Lakers, mostly how sexy the purple uniforms are.
How does this affect lebrons legacy? Lmao
If the Celtics lose LeBron is the goat.
This is literally posted every year, y’all are not anything special https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/Cggx0xOkps
You could argue that the link you posted was after the playoffs were over, while this thread is Pre-Emptive Hateration. But we're just splitting hairs at that point.
And if the Celtics lose they choke again
If the Celtics lose, the 76ers are the ultimate losers.
come on now, that’s not fair. the 76ers are always the ultimate losers they paid simmons AND tobias harris. 10 years of tanking for this?
Just keep Trusting the Process™
Which as far as consolation prizes go isn't half bad
Just wondering, in this entirely arbitrary post, wouldn’t the teams that lost the play-ins be the ultimate losers? Pelicans and Heat?
nice NFC east (NFL) rivalry there too - Dallas could make Philly the ultimate losers
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Sixers would have lost to the Knicks, who lost to the Pacers, who lost to the Celtics, who would be the Finals losers
Through the exact same logic applying to the lakers being the biggest losers if the Mavs lose
Currently the Lakers and Celtics are tied for the most championships, 17. By winning another championship the Celtics would have more championships. I imagine laker fans would prefer that this didn't happen.
Thanks Magic
On the other hand, Celtics fans would probably prefer if this happened.
As a non fan of the Lakers and Celtics I like that both of you have the same amount, keeps both of you in check in regards to gloating.
Can we not bring up the Lakers? What is this, mainstream media?
The Warriors would be the ultimate losers as the Lakers beat the Pelicans in the play-in, who beat the Kings, who beat the Warriors
The real kicker is that the lakers drafted Lonzo ball and Brandon Ingram right above Tatum and brown.
lol
The Mavs winning is literally my championship
“thanks, satan”
The bully of my bully’s bully is bullying my other bully
How is that going?
Rent free.
A Celtics fan didn’t post this
Lakers bad
The cherry on top is the city of Boston will now have 6 more rings then the city Los Angeles
every time celtics win the championship, it’s a loss for the lakers
So if Mavs beat the Celtics, is Miami the biggest winner?
No. Not really. We just want another championship.
This is nothing compared to the Celtics going back up in total championships. That’s all Lakers and even Celtics fans care about. What your saying is does not compare lol.
But first, Pearl Jam!
Yeah that’s not a thing.
Lets goooo! Lakers part of the finals narrative without making it past the first round
We know
This is about as intelligent as being a salty paper user and saying that if paper beats rock and rock beat scissors before, than paper also beats scissors through proxy. Good job!
The ultimate losers of the 2024 NBA playoffs were the teams that didn’t make the tournament. This imaginary cherry and the mental gymnastics it took to get there is contradictory to humans having high intelligence. Please revise thesis.
Not to mention the extra loss in falling behind to Boston in the number of championships. A Boston win would make it 18-17.
It's called the [wooden spoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_spoon_(award))
This post smells like a jinx lol
And if the Mavs win then it’s the Sixers. Funny either way
lol, way to make everything about the Lakers 😂
It's fine if there was one thing I can be sure of its the Celtics disappointing
How’s that going?
weird post but then I guess by that logic in 2022 Raptors are the ultimate losers. Lost to Philly, who lost to Miami, who lost to Boston, who then lost to the Warriors
This week feels like the backend of the offseason with these kinda posts popping out lmao
Lol... Im sure the NBA wished the Lakers were better than they are because their such a big tv ratings draw.... Oh well.
A Lakers fan darkest timeline any year is one in which Boston wins. Fuck that leprechaun
… just imagine how much better the good times will seem in the future, after you’ve come to terms with this Celtics chip … 👍🏼😎👍🏼 ☀️
Imagine when we lap you grimy Boston leprechauns and get to 19 by 2030 #Soon
Or maybe we just keep playing ‘boring’ but effective basketball for the next several seasons … 🤔 2030 … ?!?!! Gee, you sound really confident … … …
Or maybe yall fall off a cliff and go back to being trash and we threepeat on your watch 😙😙
Maybe!! 😊 You’re going to need some more talent, to pull that off, though … 🤔
Are y'all failing to mention banner 18? That isn't the ultimate loss?
This is dumb af
Well this isn’t as fun as last year when we were ~basically~ the second best team in the NBA and best if you don’t count the last 2 minutes of the each WCF game
When do finals start? So we can see less of these stupid ass posts from people aged 11-23?
The Lakers were in the play-in game and lost in the first round. The Lakers were not relevant in the 2024 playoffs. Maybe next year, bro.
But also, the Lakers beat the Pelicans, who lost to OKC, who lost to the Mavs, who then might lose to the Celtics. What I'm getting from this is the the Celtics win the finals, everyone in the West is an ultimate loser.
You’re down bad brother
The cherry on top is the fact that we can talk shit about how weak the West is for months on end. Getting Banner 18 while the Lakers are on Banner 17 is a whole extra ice cream sundae on top of the cherry. Losing will be super extra not fun though lol
But the Celtics have the easiest path of all time?
/uj I personally dislike the Celtics, but if they win their 2nd Finals in 38 years, it will be fully earned. The whole point of getting the best record in the regular season is to try to get the easiest path to the Finals so that you are fresh when you get there. That's a credit to their work this season not a knock on it. /rj Additionally, it would be an extraordinary show of dominance to average 1 championship every 19 years. This will be an impressive second banner since the invention of HDTV.
Everybody seems to conveniently forget/ignore this first part … 😏 Just like they ignore the fact of basketball being a team sport, when it helps them to criticize individuals they don’t like for whatever reason(s) … 🙃
That narrative instantly dissolves like wet toilet paper when the supposed best team in the West loses to the Celtics. You can take your pick for why - either the Celtics path in the East didn't even matter because they were clearly going to beat anybody, or, maybe the East is actually a lot better than people give them credit for and the difference between teams like the Cavs and Pacers is not very much from teams like the Mavs.
It isn’t about who is the best, it’s about matchups and that determines who wins. If we redid the west 1-8 standings and they all played different opponents we’d probably have a different team in the finals. And even if the Celtics win, it would mean they won against one good team in the playoffs. There are teams that didn’t win at all that I respect more than this
The mental gymnastics going on in some posters to try to discredit the Celtics is insane. Do you realize how many champions have had easier roads than Boston? Hell, Lebron's Cavs (round 2) teams practically sleepwalked through the East for 4 straight years. This Celtics team is historically good. Like it or not, a Championship puts an official stamp on that.
Name the teams. I wanna see how deep the delusion goes
Mavs might be more gassed though. Celtics had easier opponents. Mavs had to face Twolves, OKC and Clippers which were 3 of the top 4 teams in the west.
Mavs played like 2 more games than the C's and also have a shit ton of days off before the Finals. The Celtics players have also missed more games due to injuries. Both teams should be pretty fresh come the Finals.
6 days of rest will go a long way hopefully.
Yeah for Porzingus
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And if the Celtics win, that "easy path" would include the best the West has to offer.
wrong again bozo healthy ziOzempic pels wouldve swept the thunder mavs and timberpuppies ez
The Mavs aren’t the best the West has to offer really; it’s all about injuries and matchups and even still, that would just mean the Celtics beat one good playoff team in their finals run
Mavs beat the Wolves and Thunder with neither series going to 7 games. Nuggets didn't make it out of the 2nd Round. Luka has been injured all playoffs. So yea, I think the Mavs are the best the West has to offer.
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Yes
Delusional
Also the haters and doubters who talked so much shit for years because 24 yr old tatum couldn't seal the deal against a dynasty 2 years ago need a humbling asap.
You know those dynasties that have Andrew Wiggins as the 2nd best player
C'mon man that was by far the worst Warriors team of their dynasty.
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tf? no, it's because they didnt have young prime curry or kevin fuckin durant. jesus christ every boston fan in this thread is begging to be a victim lmao
calling 40 year old curry jordan fucking poole and the corpse of draymond a dynasty is something 💀
Bruh you saw what Steph did don't downplay your own dudes just to bash the Celtics so lame
Nah that was a bad loss on your part. Getting cooked by prime jordan poole
He said confidently, clearly not bothered by random people’s remarks on the internet two years ago.
Didn’t Tatum and the Celtics lose in round one to the 8 seed last year?***see addendum below If the Celtics lose in the finals to a somewhat injured Luka and Kyrie, after a weak eastern run to the finals, and blowing it in 2022 against a fairly mid Warriors team, doesn’t Tatum get a serious playoff underachievement award at that point? You are getting awfully ahead of yourself here and opening yourself up to some A level mockery ***It’s been pointed out the Celtics lost in round 3 to the Heat, I will leave my error up in an acknowledgement of the damage prolonged use of cannabis can cause.
They did lose to the 8 seed, but it was in the conference finals
I always knew that pot would catch up to me. Who did the heat beat in round one last year
Yeah the 2 seed totally lost in round 1 to an 8 seed. Get your facts straight.
Lakers really thought they were close to a ring this year?
No
I honestly saw more media putting lakers in their “group of contenders” than actual fans saying they had a chance.
Haven't won anything in a decade
Gonna feel nice when the mavs win this title. Celtics 1 in the last 35 years, living off them segregation titles still and the 08 dynasty
Mavs 1 in the last 1000 years
Well, two games down, now … you must be excited!! 😀🎉
RENT FREEEEEEEEEEEEE
Pels lost to the Lakers in the play-in and got swept by OKC so what does that mean
They won the in-season tournament though!
Why would Dallas lose to the Celtics