Have you watched OKC Thunder play defense? There's your 2025 NBA champion.

OKC has the deepest bench.
The Knicks have the most clutch shooters.
Indy is the hottest team of the 4 remaining.
Minnesota, however, has the most playoff experience of any of them, that might be the biggest difference.
 
I like Minnesota's two bigs more than I like OKC's two bigs, both can outmuscle Hartenstein and Chet, I like Ant Man finding his form late in the GS series, and they have some good role players on their bench, but I like their playoff experience even more.

I also think the best player on the court will SGA, and will not be surprised if OKC wins, it will be another 7 game series, the Eastern conference is going to be even more interesting. It's hard to bet against the Knicks right now but Indy is just running and gunning all over the place, they are better coached too. I like Indy to play either OKC or Minn.
 
You stop Brunson, you stop the Knicks. He's a great closer but I think the Pacers are athletic enough to get backside help to stop him. I think it's OKC Pacers. This is the most interesting "Final 4" in the NBA I can remember.
 
MarathonMike said:
Wow it didn't look that bad when it happened. Gordon is a huge loss, Joker and Murray will need to come up with 60+ for them to have a chance.
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That tells me you have never pulled a hammy. I know exactly what that was when he did it.

No, it's not "that bad" but you know you will not be playing 100% in 2 days if you have it. You can rub it, rest it, soak it all you want. It's going to be tender on Sunday.

This has been a weird season. It seemed like the team that was going to lose anyways, one of their stars went out to injury, almost as if they wanted to use it as an excuse. Curry, you pussy. You knew your team was done. Tatum, you weren't even touched. How did you blow an achilis? LIAR! Aaron Gordon now?
 
sealybobo said:
That tells me you have never pulled a hammy. I know exactly what that was when he did it.

No, it's not "that bad" but you know you will not be playing 100% in 2 days if you have it. You can rub it, rest it, soak it all you want. It's going to be tender on Sunday.

This has been a weird season. It seemed like the team that was going to lose anyways, one of their stars went out to injury, almost as if they wanted to use it as an excuse. Curry, you pussy. You knew your team was done. Tatum, you weren't even touched. How did you blow an achilis? LIAR! Aaron Gordon now?
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You are right, in all the sports I played over the years I never pulled a hammy. You kind of went off the rails there, Tatum faked his achiiles rupture? Come on man.
 
MarathonMike said:
You are right, in all the sports I played over the years I never pulled a hammy. You kind of went off the rails there, Tatum faked his achiiles rupture? Come on man.
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I'm totally kidding. But as each one of them went down at the exact precise time when you could sort of tell they weren't going to be making it to the next round. Golden State wasn't going to get past Minnesota. Boston wasn't going to get past NY. Denver wasn't going to get past OKC. But just as that became clear, suddenly we get a bunch of phantom injuries.

How do you know it's a achiiles rupture? Did you see when he got injured? No one touched him.

I only mentioned a few fakers. I forgot

Damian Lillard, the Milwaukee Bucks’ starting point guard, ruptured his Achilles tendon in Game 4 of the Bucks’ first-round exit to the Indiana Pacers. When he knew he wasn't gonna get past Indiana.



www.msnbc.com

Opinion | A cloud of megastar injuries hangs over the NBA playoffs

The spate of season-ending injuries to megastar players is agonizing for them, but it’s also awful for business in the NBA.
www.msnbc.com www.msnbc.com
 
MarathonMike said:
Non contact injuries are the worst. They already operated on his achilles, if you are going to comment on this stuff, then you should keep up.
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You too because several times I've said I'm just kidding. No I don't think all those people I mentioned faked injuries rather than accept a lose. No I don't think Tatum faked his injury to make an excuse. But like the article I gave you said, there sure were a lot of injuries this playoffs.

The only serious point I want to make is that I don't think any team who lost a key player to injury was a serious contender. I keep hearing Golden State say they seriously felt like they had the team to win it all. No they did not. He's dead wrong and you could tell at the end of the season and beginning of the playoffs. They were good, but not good enough to beat Indiana, NY, Minnesota OR OKC. So Curry can say whatever he wants. They weren't going to win a championship this year even if he was healthy.

If they were that good Jimmy Butler would have got them that one game Curry asked him to win. If he could have won ONE GAME then Curry was coming back. But I guess that guy who puts the Heat on his back is dead. This Jimmy Butler is not the same guy.

It's a shame to see good guys like Butler and Westbrook not be able to win it all.
 
odanny said:
I like Minnesota's two bigs more than I like OKC's two bigs, both can outmuscle Hartenstein and Chet, I like Ant Man finding his form late in the GS series, and they have some good role players on their bench, but I like their playoff experience even more.

I also think the best player on the court will SGA, and will not be surprised if OKC wins, it will be another 7 game series, the Eastern conference is going to be even more interesting. It's hard to bet against the Knicks right now but Indy is just running and gunning all over the place, they are better coached too. I like Indy to play either OKC or Minn.
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The trade for Randall may put them over the top. He can outdo outscore Holmgren. The other two? Edge to Golbert? Maybe.
 
sealybobo said:
You too because several times I've said I'm just kidding. No I don't think all those people I mentioned faked injuries rather than accept a lose. No I don't think Tatum faked his injury to make an excuse. But like the article I gave you said, there sure were a lot of injuries this playoffs.

The only serious point I want to make is that I don't think any team who lost a key player to injury was a serious contender. I keep hearing Golden State say they seriously felt like they had the team to win it all. No they did not. He's dead wrong and you could tell at the end of the season and beginning of the playoffs. They were good, but not good enough to beat Indiana, NY, Minnesota OR OKC. So Curry can say whatever he wants. They weren't going to win a championship this year even if he was healthy.

If they were that good Jimmy Butler would have got them that one game Curry asked him to win. If he could have won ONE GAME then Curry was coming back. But I guess that guy who puts the Heat on his back is dead. This Jimmy Butler is not the same guy.

It's a shame to see good guys like Butler and Westbrook not be able to win it all.
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Sorry. It looks like Butler Curry and dirty Greene are finished. Time to start over for GS playground ball.
 
leftwinger said:
Sorry. It looks like Butler Curry and dirty Greene are finished. Time to start over for GS playground ball.
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Yea that team has expired. Maybe Curry can join another team and win another one.

I'm okay with them going away. They already won 4 times what more can we ask of a dynasty?
 
I just saw on First Take (Stephen A. Smith and that hot chick with massive chest! wow!) that there is an OKC/MINN game tonight. I had no idea. I thought WED was the first game for NY/INDY.
 
MarathonMike said:
You stop Brunson, you stop the Knicks. He's a great closer but I think the Pacers are athletic enough to get backside help to stop him. I think it's OKC Pacers. This is the most interesting "Final 4" in the NBA I can remember.
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Indy does not have a Caruso or a
sealybobo said:
Yea that team has expired. Maybe Curry can join another team and win another one.

I'm okay with them going away. They already won 4 times what more can we ask of a dynasty?
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Luckiest "dynasty" in the history of sports. They don't get out of any round in the olden days playoffs. They would all be defended all over the court. Can you imagine the "Bad Boys" type teams letting them play like that? The league practically had to get new refs and new rules to let it go on. Kareems Laker teams or BOS with Bird/McCale/Johson/Parish would sweep them.
 
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