2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers
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It's a great day.
The Lakers really, really suck. You can start with their obnoxious fanbase that is every where on social media, especially the detestable, non-LA, Kobe-worshipping fanboys. What makes them worse than any other American team, even more than the Yankees, is that they completely dominate the news cycle no matter how boring or uninteresting they are. It's all anyone talks about, even someone like Zach Lowe finds himself constantly discussing the Lakers. And the Lakers are a middling playoff team that never had a chance this year. LeBron going to LA was the match made in hell for anyone that enjoys sane NBA discussion, because it combined the media's two favorite topics, LeBron and the Lakers, into one, all encompassing package that sucked the oxygen up in every NBA blog/podcast/show. Fuck them forever.
ESPN had an above the fold article yesterday pontificating about coming back from 0-3. They are indeed worse than the Yankees.
Have you just started following the nba? This has been going on forever.
Just ignore it and watch the games. The celtics are winning the title. Be happy.
On the bronny bit, I'll gladly have my clipps draft him for Lebron to sign a vet minimum here. Lebron is a business man and Balmer has billions to business with.
Teams to lose a best of 7 series despite leading at half in every game:
2024 Lakers
1983 Lakers
End of list.
2024 Lakers
1983 Lakers
End of list.
He’s probably just leveraging FA to get roster and contract concessions, but that won’t stop the rumor mill from overtaking coverage of actual playoff games.
Windy also noted that when LeBron opts out he does become a UFA but he doesn't think that LeBron will accept a pay cut. His current salary is about $50m and a MLE is around $6m, no way that happens even with Bronny involved. At least, that was Windy's take.
Windy is basically an employee of Klutch Incorporated, so that's probably solid.
Am I a sicko for liking this? I can already watch and enjoy the games, and now there's just extra drama for me to consume!
I think you meant Shams (who is actually repped by Klutch), given the hit piece that the Athletic ran on Ham post elimination.
Correct. Windy hasn't been a Lebron insider since the Miami days. Shams runs PR for Klutch.
Fair enough. I figure Lebron still has him on speed dial, but you guys seem to be a lot closer to this stuff.
My friend found this little tidbit:
“the Lakers have been watching the Spurs, Mavericks, Warriors and now the Nuggets eat their lunch since 2010, and, even allowing for their bubble title, their regular-season winning percentage in the last 14 years is lower than Atlanta's and their playoff winning percentage is lower than Washington's.”
“the Lakers have been watching the Spurs, Mavericks, Warriors and now the Nuggets eat their lunch since 2010, and, even allowing for their bubble title, their regular-season winning percentage in the last 14 years is lower than Atlanta's and their playoff winning percentage is lower than Washington's.”
Shams seems to be on several people speed dials. The tweet on Giannis & Lillard’s availability for G5 was a classic.
At some point, the big tweeters should really just start adding a "Press Release" banner at the top of every tweet. There's really little in the way of journalism going on here.
There is a real path in journalism these days to start out as a prolific Tweeter on a certain subject, amass a number of followers, and then work your way into getting info from people that want you to blast things out on your Twitter platform, and suddenly you are a scoopster.