In the summer of 2018, the narrative spread about how soft KAT and Andrew Wiggins were after Jimmy Butler went to the media calling them out when he beat them with third-stringers during practice…
Since then, Karl-Anthony Towns is now 2 WINS away from a championship, and Andrew Wiggins has already won one in 2022.
Crazy how life works.
Tim MacMahon on Rich Paul’s comments saying Michael Jordan would be 0-6 in the Finals without Scottie Pippen:
“If you unplug Dwyane Wade from the Miami Heat, LeBron doesn’t win titles there. If you unplug Kyrie from the Cavaliers, they don’t come back 3-1. If you unplug Anthony Davis from the bubble Lakers, they don’t win a championship.”
(via @GetUpESPN, h/t @HeatCulture13)
The Orlando Magic are expected to waive Jonathan Isaac, per @SeanDeveney
“He would make good potential trade ballast, but the Magic are facing a cash crunch with Paolo Banchero’s extension kicking in. The expectation is that the Magic will waive Isaac and stretch his $8 million cap hit. Trading him would cost Orlando cap flexibility.”
(Via https://t.co/KuhPDKX3yf)
@ScottKacsmar Does Brunson beat the Tim Duncan & spurs? How about Kobe & Lakers? Definitely not the LeBron & the Heat. Stop the overhype, this team that is built is really good don’t get me wrong, but this speak more about the team than it does the player.
What was their biggest test? The injured 6ers? Or the back 2 back game 7 cavs? A healthy young team like the hawks took them to 6.. imagine what OKC/Spurs will do to them
No one knows for sure what will happen in the NBA Finals.
Here’s what we do know for sure: No team in NBA history will have entered the Finals on a bigger heater than the 2026 New York Knicks.
They’ve simply been annihilating their competition—night in, night out—for a month.
Settle down he’s playing with 3 other players that have averaged 20pts per game in their career and are all in their primes… this speaks more on the unit than just Brunson himself
Jalen Brunson just proved all the haters wrong.
They said he wasn’t a 1A player. They said he was too small. They said he couldn’t get it done.
Brunson has now led the New York Knicks to their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999.
One of the greatest free agent signings of all-time.
Charles Barkley fires back at critics who have an issue with the lack of analysis on Inside the NBA
“We want people to have fun. We’re trying to entertain people. We’re on television from 7 to 2 in the damn morning. How many people actually know enough about basketball for us to X-and-O them from 7 to 2 in the morning? … Do people really want to see us four dummies sit there and talk about P&Rs, blitzes, over/under, and things like that? I want people to have fun watching basketball. Period.”
(Via @SInow / h/t @NBA__Courtside )
The door is still open for Luka Dončić to play for Slovenia this summer, per Saša Dončić
“He will not be there in July, but August is still a long way off and there is certainly a possibility that he will join Aleksandar Sekulić’s squad,”
(h/t @LukaUpdates )