Honestly Reddit is probably the next best thing to SpursTalk (but it's much lower quality than here). You just have to accept that you're going to run into the sniffiest of sniffers.
Branham demoted to the G-League. Better than rotting away on the bench I guess.
The @spurs have sent Malaki Branham to the @austin_spurs, where he’ll be available for tomorrow’s showdown vs. the Valley Suns at 3 PM CT at the H-E-B Center. More playing time ahead.
Janal has been inconsistent for sure, MPJ has bern netter this season from what I’ve read, Jamal just turns into prime MJ whenever he sees purple and gold lol
Warriors are one of those trans uou don’t want to face in the playoffs but OKC should win the West
I can see GS beating the Nuggets
If Lakers eventually play GS , if both teams are healthy we should have a great series but I’m picking L.A
But yeah, OKC
Agree lefty. GS is looking like the got their swagger back and I ing hate it. The only team I hated more than the Steph-Draymond-Klay Warriors are the Kobe-Pau Lakers and the Shaq-Kobe Lakers.
The only teams that can beat the Warriors in a playoff series in the West is OKC, LA, Denver.
Memphis, Houston, Minny, Clippers have no chance.
Boston and Cleveland can beat them in the Finals but no one else from the East will.
Hopefully the Warriors get Denver/LA in the first round. Knowing their luck they will bypass all three of Lakers, Denver, OKC due to injuries and upsets and get to the Finals lol.
I'm actually loving this Warriors resurgence, NGL.
Half of it because Stephen Curry deserves a competent team and a shot at the playoffs every season until he retires... And the other half, because my wife is a fanand you know the saying. That '22 le was an amazing run and Curry's just a special player to watch. The NBA won't be the same when he hangs it up.
I've never quite gotten that "appreciate him while he's here" feeling with Lebron, but I'm certainly getting it with Curry.
I despise LeBron, and would like nothing better than to see Curry send him packing. That being said, I ing Hate Jimmy for ditching Miami and watching our ATL pick get worse as Miami sinks lower.I'm actually loving this Warriors resurgence, NGL.
Half of it because Stephen Curry deserves a competent team and a shot at the playoffs every season until he retires... And the other half, because my wife is a fan
I've never quite gotten that "appreciate him while he's here" feeling with Lebron, but I'm certainly getting it with Curry.
Eh, don't you appreciate someone finally "sticking it" to Pat Riley and giving his mafia boss-ass the middle finger, though? Jimmy's a diva, don't get me wrong, but seeing the "hardass" style fail spectacularly and dramatically was quite entertaining, tbh.
I also can't blame him for worsening the ATL pick, I mean, that's collateral damage at best
Bottomline, personally, Jimmy's antics are far from enough to stop rooting for the Warriors - especially if they match up with the Fakers.
I'm personally hoping for a Warriors-Boston rematch, where I'd root Dubs, but I'd also really enjoy a Cavs-Warriors Finals with the Cavs getting a non-Lebron ring. I really enjoy their playstyle and roster.
Jokic's Denver Nuggets is the only team that I believe can we can root for without any guilt despite being a Spurs fan when the Spurs are down and out. Curry is a fantastic player and a joy to watch, but the Warriors are tainted by the arrogance of Draymond Green and the shenanigans of Jimmy Butler.
A small market fan will always find it near impossible to root for someone like the Lakers and even if I want Doncic to prove that the idiotic Mavericks and their new management are morons, it is difficult to want the Lakers to win another le.
I like the Celtics just because Derrick White plays for them (one of my favourite ex-Spurs apart from the Big Turtle) but they are over-spenders now and I dont like the compe ive balance being affected by teams that pay beyond the second apron in order to win.
What the Thunder are doing - as a defense oriented team that is winning through bootstrapping its squad through the draft and smart trades is something to root for, but it is near impossible to support a franchise and an ownership that cheated a city of its team. And so OKC Thunder will always be a "heel" team for me.
The Knicks and Grizzlies won't last long in the postseason and aren't contenders (yet). And in any case no right minded non-NYC dweller will want to root for a team owned by James Dolan, the rottenest apple among governors in the league. The Grizzlies are too brash without having the record that allows them to be that brash and so I dont want to root for them either.
That leaves Jokic's Nuggets and the Cavaliers. The latter have surpassed expectations this season but their modus operandi - shooting threes way more than the opponent isn't all that pleasing.
Its awesome watching Jokic directing the Nuggets in game after game. While they are very different players, Jokic, for me is closest to a Duncan in the way he controls the game through his brain and less of his brawn. Wouldn't mind him winning another championship. Denver is also another small market team unlike the NY, LA behemoths. It serves the NBA's compe ive model well.
Curry is fine as long as it’s not the trio Curry-Thompson-Draymond Dub-nation. That was as bad as the Kobe-Gasol with the bandwagon fans.
Tbh, those are the same bandwagoners.
Like 80% of Lakers casual fanbase switched over to Warriors after Kobe retired.
Then they went back when KD left.
Oh, I think Riley was an absolute idiot for doing that press conference. I am just mad at Butler completely checking out. You can force your way out without being unprofessional about it. I guess my take is that there doesn’t have to be a good guy and a bad guy, although that is a common narrative forced on us. They’re both idiots.Eh, don't you appreciate someone finally "sticking it" to Pat Riley and giving his mafia boss-ass the middle finger, though? Jimmy's a diva, don't get me wrong, but seeing the "hardass" style fail spectacularly and dramatically was quite entertaining, tbh.
I also can't blame him for worsening the ATL pick, I mean, that's collateral damage at best
Bottomline, personally, Jimmy's antics are far from enough to stop rooting for the Warriors - especially if they match up with the Fakers.
I'm personally hoping for a Warriors-Boston rematch, where I'd root Dubs, but I'd also really enjoy a Cavs-Warriors Finals with the Cavs getting a non-Lebron ring. I really enjoy their playstyle and roster.
Nobody’s scared of the Warriors.
When things go ugly, that Draymond/Butler could be a ticking bomb.
Yeah, I was kind of imagining that, too.
Warriors have one or two more years of 'contention' - they'll be paying Butler beyond that. Miami wasn't going anywhere with Butler especially when he was doing his diva routine. Maybe could have moved him earlier but getting off him now was fine.
Exactly
Bron already did that when he walked back to Cleveland in 2014. Though I suspect he was also giving the middle finger to Mickey Arison, as he didn't take a pay cut for Arison, he took it to sign Mike Miller. And they could have really used Miller in that 2014 Finals when Chalmers and Cole both went ice cold from the three, but Riley and Arison had amnestied him before the season.
Gotta do whatever you can to win when you have someone like Curry, because they're never getting another player like him. I'm not surprised GSW is playing great ball again with Butler, that was an obvious amazing trade for them at the time.
Oh man did they love it last year when I'd post about Sochan having billion games. E.g., a game with a statline like 1 to, 0 pts, 0 fg, 0 3fg, 0 ftm, 0 ast, 0 stl, 0 oreb, 0 dreb, 0 blk. I still get downvoted for saying they can't start Sochan next to Castle next year unless they get a real shooter to replace Evin.
Sochan was really good this year starting with Paul, y'all just have lousy and selective memories. Then he got hurt and yeah, playing next to Castle doesn't work. But you're just straight up forgetting, on purpose or whatever, that he was really good first section of the season.
https://www.basketball-reference.com...1/gamelog/2025
He averaged 15/8/3 on 55% over his first 17 games of the season. Great stats and yes, he played well.
But the thing is how much of those 15ppg were by design? As in he was almost always the least threatening player on the floor and those players usually get a lot of easy points, which he did.
His best attributes on offense were hustling for rebounds and sometimes taking advantage of size difference, which didn't happen that often.
Then the question presents itself if such offensively limited player is worth accomodating or are we better with him coming off the bench?
I said many times that I think he got the short end of the stick in both last and this season. First that horrific point guard experiment and now being forced to play as a big.
But that mostly happened because modern NBA simply has no place for non-shooting wings unless they're freaks like Giannis or Zion.
Branham better tear it up because he's playing for his roster spot now.
That was over a course of limited games against some of the weakest opponents in the League, during the soft part of the schedule in the beginning. His numbers settled into his typical yearly averages.
He was connecting really well with Paul, at least somewhat reminiscent of the David West - CP3 connection in New Orleans.
It's simply not correct to say he's bad or had a bad season. Definitely can say figuring out the roster with him and Castle is a puzzle, and certainly one that Mitch doesn't seem in any way capable of doing.
Yeah, you're the guy who says Sochan isn't athletic, which is a braindead take. Just stop.
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