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Hello, and welcome to the 2024 playoffs. Or, judging from the general apathy of NBA fans since about February, possibly welcome back. Here are your first round previews, complete with odds. Remember to post nicely and gamble responsibly - or maybe it's the other way around. 1. Boston...

Hola, and welcome to the penultimate week of the NBA regular season. It may be Easter at the moment, but you might be forgiven for thinking that it's Valentine's Day with all the loving that's going on in the NBA right now. Let's take a moment to catch up on all the gossip and blossoming...

If you've ever been lucky enough to visit Madison Square Garden, you might have come across a giant framed photo within the arena. It's a nod to one of the most famous moments in the storied building's history. Keep in mind that MSG is not just the Mecca of hoops - this is an arena that has...

Hola, and welcome to week 21 in the grueling NBA schedule. Unless of course you are one of the copious numbers of NBA stars currently suffering from injury or affliction, in which case welcome to another week of sitting on your arses like the rest of us couch potatoes. It's been a harrowing...

Bonjour, and welcome to another big week in NBA basketball. Some of the more astute among you may have noticed we didn't do a thread for last week. Cynics may have surmised that it was because All-Star week is about as exciting as extensive press coverage over juvenile friendships being ruined...

Hello, and welcome to a very special NBA week. Special not just because it's the last week before the All-star break. And special not just because we're recovering from the fallout of the trade period. But special because you, as the reader, will get an exclusive peek into the pressure that...

Hello, and welcome to another week in the never-ending soap opera that is the NBA. Yes, it's that time of the NBA year, where the 'haves' buy, the 'have-nots' sell, and stewie griffen 's Bulls do nothing because they really like their team. If the Bulls were a soapie character, they'd be...

Welcome to Week 14, where the corn fields of Indiana are suddenly a destination. If New Orleans ever joins them, I think we can officially say that end times are upon us. These weekly threads are our safe space to give voice to our hopes, dreams and frustrations. On the plus side, it leaves us...

Well, it's unlucky Week 13, which probably means we're all back at work now and forced to watch games surreptitiously on phones or spare monitors for, ahem, research purposes. Hey, how else are these threads going to get done? Of course the NBA never sleeps, no holiday seasons off for these...

G'day, and welcome to the portion of the NBA season known colloquially as 'the grind'. No, not THAT one, Dwight - put the phone down, mate. Now that the fun and festivities of Christmas, New Year and the Lakers' prestigious IST banner unfurling are over and done with, it's time for teams to get...

Season's greetings Bball brothers, and welcome to the most festive week of the NBA season. If you're anything like me, you struggle mightily when it comes to choosing gifts at this time of year. It's not just fighting for parking spots, or navigating the labyrinthine shopping malls that have...

Season's greetings Bball brothers, and welcome to the most festive week of the NBA season. If you're anything like me, you struggle mightily when it comes to choosing gifts at this time of year. It's not just fighting for parking spots, or navigating the labyrinthine shopping malls that have...

Hello, and welcome to the brave new world of this week's NBA. Now that the in-season tournament has come and gone with great success - or at least that's what the league and its media partners keep telling us - it's back to the regular, uh, regular season. Not that anything is standing still...

Hello hoops honchos, and welcome to another thrilling week in the NBA. First thing's first, and a heartfelt congratulations to one of the league's perennial hard-luck stories, the Los Angeles Lakers, on winning the inaugural NBA...

Hello all, and welcome to Week 7 of the NBA - where the season proper will pause, and we'll all watch multi-millionaires play for a $500,000 prize pool. Normally our benevolent overlord peternorth would be making this OP, however work, family commitments and possible super fun sexy times...

Hello, and welcome to the 2022 NBA playoffs thread, brought to you by Primetime Pricey 's shelter for degenerate punters - where if you're not raging about overrated spuds ruining your multi, then you're not doing it properly. Allegedly. When our esteemed moderator peternorth came to me with a...

Yes folks, it's that time again. Spring is in the air, earthquakes are shaking the ground, COVID is running riot and civilisation is collapsing... and that means it's time to prepare for another NBA season. Well everyone except Ben Simmons that is. We'll start in the East, and then work our...

Knicks could hit the All-star break with a six game win streak. The ox is slow, something something, but Dolan and Mills were right.

Didn't realise that Nwaba had done his Achilles. Was finally starting to get some decent burn too, nahnah

Starting to miss the daily Woj bombs and the sounds of laughter that accompany the Knicks signing yet another power forward? Desperately seeking that next NBA fix? You called? Uh... yeah. Anyway, this is the thread for you. Nostalgia, pointless trivia, bad puns - you'll find it all right...

Dafuq happened in Oakland? Didn't he say that Boston was going to win 67 games this season? Bad call Caro, egregious call.

Probably more like the Pacers, who were really consistent and pretty damn unlucky. IMO the Knicks were never serious contenders after 94, they just kept overachieving in the playoffs. Also a lot in common with the Portland, Seattle, Phoenix & Utah teams of the era. Yeah they were. Didn't go...

Welcome hoops aficionados to the long-awaited flamethrower showdown between the superteam by the bay and the super-duper team from Texas. If you enjoy long range bombs, a wide array of questionable facial hair and the odd bit of complaining to the refs, then this is definitely the series for...

There has been a lot of discussion on this forum this season about the value of stats. Which stats can be trusted? Which stats best capture the value of a player? And so on and so forth. One of the biggest conundrums centres around the +/- metric. On one hand this is a stat which attempts to...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT New to the NBA? Just discovered that you're a lifelong fan of the Cleveland Browns or Holden State Warriors? Convinced that the NBA is rigging the series against your team for basketball reasons? Then congratulations, you've just won your very own mountain bike! To...

Head to Head: Spurs lead series 2-1 25/10/16: Spurs 129 @ Warriors 100 11/3/17: Warriors 85 @ Spurs 107 29/3/17: Warriors 100 @ Spurs 98 What you need to know Let's face it, if you don't know everything there is to know about the Dubs and the Spurs by now then either you've been living under...

... and here he is being knighted by Commissioner Adam Silver:

Head to head - series tied 2-2 9/11/16: Celtics 93 @ Wizards 118 11/1/17: Wizards 108 @ Celtics 117 24/1/17: Celtics 108 @ Wizards 123 20/3/17: Wizards 102 @ Celtics 110 What you need to know These two teams do not like each other. At all. Last year Brad Beal suffered a concussion at Marcus...

Your Eastern Conference Playoff Class of 2017 - no beasts allowed. 1. Boston Celtics vs. 8. Chicago Bulls 2. Cleveland Cavaliers vs. 7. Indiana Pacers 3. Toronto Raptors vs. 6. Milwaukee Bucks 4. Washington Wizards vs. 5. Atlanta Hawks

Boy, that All-Star weekend just flew by didn't it? And while 90% of the league is no doubt embracing the chance catch up on some sleep (watching the All-Star game helps with this), we hoops junkies have been left rather starved of action. Even the trade grapevine has gone quiet, unless you...