NBA Thread

[Alpacx]

LOLKNICKS

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[TylenolJones]

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This dude is on the Jazz's Summer League team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JZ_Zaher

Zaher is the nephew of the Detroit Pistons owner, Tom Gores.

He scored 4 points a game in high school.
He scored 5 points total on 12.5% shooting in two seasons for two teams in college then declared for the draft: https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/joey-zaher-1.html
He's played one minute in the G-League: https://www.basketball-reference.com/gleague/players/z/zaherjz01d.html

This is his "personal statement" on his recruiting profile from HS:
https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-basketball-recruiting/michigan/flint/powers-catholic-high-school/joey-zaher

My goals in collage is the be a great students and play the one sport I love Basketball. I would be a great candidate for your team by promising points on the borras and winning games. I want that. Championship! I am different in many ways from all the other students. I am in the gym 6 hours a day I get all A and the sport has been my passion from a young age. I am also different because  if I can’t get a movement down or a shot correct all I will do for the 6 hours is work on that move or form shoot. Like I said I promise to get you the win. I think I would be a great candidate for your team for my many reasons! I guess you can say its a family business , my uncle  is Tom Gores the owner of the NBA Detroit Piston.

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[Alpacx]

Lol. You see "Angel Reese" and think you're going to get to see her shoot, miss/get blocked, get her own rebound. Repeatedly. 
But she didn't even get to the paint.

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Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

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Trish 

[malfoyking]

Aja the GOAT

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https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1o4261l/paolo_banchero_after_a_fan_asks_him_to_score_2/

[benji]

Cloning players has to be some kind of circumventing the cap violation.

[Alpacx]

Cloning players has to be some kind of circumventing the cap violation.

Having the ability to clone players and choosing to use it on Colin Sexton is punishment enough

[benji]

Well, it's not like you're going to test new technology on non-expendable players.

[Alpacx]

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Former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones was also among those arrested Thursday. He was an unofficial assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2022-23 when he allegedly was involved with the sports betting scheme by providing inside information about NBA games to codefendants, according to the indictment.

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[benji]

It's so weird reading comments on this stuff because everyone is bringing up gambling addiction and complaining that the NBA/ESPN partners with FanDuel and allows gambling or whatever. What the fuck does any of that have to do with anything? These dudes weren't addicted to or even gambling themselves they were fixing games and part of an extortion scheme with the literal mob!

Like, it's been almost 75 years since one of the first all-time greats, Alex Garza, was banned from the NBA for being involved in fixing games. Yeah, the FanDuel logo on the ESPN bug caused that too.

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How bout that Sheppard guy?  What a FUCKING BUM.  (I dont know anything about basketball, occasionally I watch a streamer that gambles on the NBA every night and he was pissed at that fellow)

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Cooper Flagg hasn't missed a free throw yet. Do you guys think he could go his entire career without missing one???? 

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https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments/1oqyofy/arrested_for_illegal_gambling/

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Some dude I saw in a store is obviously recreating Kobe as his player:

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https://x.com/mindthegamepod/status/1985752404353306837