Official 2025 NBA Playoffs Thread

[timtonymanu]

Complaining about Jokic when the Spurs had Duncan (who had the famous “foul on me?” face) and Manu (notorious for flopping) is kinda hilarious.

[PopTheGOAT]

Knicks with a Brunson - McBride - Hart lineup…

I think Fox Castle Harper will be fine

[Bill_Brasky]

If he was that celebrated, he wouldn't have lost MVPs to two different FT merchants.

He lost those MVPs and literally everyone in the basketball universe acted like it was the biggest atrocity ever committed in all of sports, what the actual are you talking about?

[timtonymanu]

Celtics are cooked

[BatManu20]

Nuggets are ed. That's series. What a ty ending to it.

[timtonymanu]

Nuggets are ed. That's series. What a ty ending to it.

! I really wanted both teams at full strength.

[spurraider21]

Knicks with a Brunson - McBride - Hart lineup…

I think Fox Castle Harper will be fine

Brunson and McBride are very good shooters. Hart while not good, is at least a serviceable-ish shooter who does a lot of other things very well.

Shooting/spacing is the bigger issue than size when it comes to Fox/Harper/Castle

[exstatic]

Brunson and McBride are very good shooters. Hart while not good, is at least a serviceable-ish shooter who does a lot of other things very well.

Shooting/spacing is the bigger issue than size when it comes to Fox/Harper/Castle

Both Fox and Harper are good at catch and shoot.

[scott]

It's difficult to put into words how unlikeable of a player KAT is

[Dex]

I'm no playoffologist, but I think the Knicks are going to win this game.

[CGD]

People are gonna remember the Tatum injury, but the Knicks were on the way to the Game 4 win before he went down. They beat Boston.

[Dex]

People are gonna remember the Tatum injury, but the Knicks were on the way to the Game 4 win before he went down. They beat Boston.

Yep. As the saying goes, you live or die by the three...this time, Boston died.

[timtonymanu]

Another season where it’s not a repeat champion

[quentin_compson]

Sometimes, I really hate NBA officiating. Overall, a lot of physical play has been allowed in these playoffs - not a bad thing in general, I would say. And then suddenly in Game 6 of the Knicks-Celtics series, even the smallest bit of contact results in a foul call - and it's not like it was a testy game or anything where the refs might have wanted to prevent things getting out of hand.
Anyway, this was very likely the last game for this iteration of the Celtics. They surely will be looking to offload some contracts - Porzingis (expiring, should be doable) and Holiday (still two more years and a Player Option left, should be more difficult) come to mind.

[mudyez]

Another season where it’s not a repeat champion

While I somewhat love it and would have signed off to that in the past, I see why dynasties are better for the product.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Complaining about Jokic when the Spurs had Duncan (who had the famous “foul on me?” face) and Manu (notorious for flopping) is kinda hilarious.

Love Timmy, he has never committed a foul, ever.

Also Manu, it wasn't flopping, it was just his hair and the bald spot reflecting light in the ref's eyes or something.

[RC_Drunkford]

Nuggets are ed. That's series. What a ty ending to it.

there's no way the Nuggets win that game if Gordon ain't playing

[Ice009]

Darn. I remember Aaron Gordon tweaking something, but forgot about it. I was really hoping he was OK and would be able to play game 7. Nuggets are going to have to dig really deep.

[TDomination]

i'm actually looking forward to a Knicks/Pacers ECF
thats what I remember seeing a lot as a kid , Reggie Miller, Mark Jackson, Rick Smits, John Starks, Patrick Ewing, and of course e Lee

[John B]

i'm actually looking forward to a Knicks/Pacers ECF
thats what I remember seeing a lot as a kid , Reggie Miller, Mark Jackson, Rick Smits, John Starks, Patrick Ewing, and of course e Lee

Except e now wears bifocal glasses

[timtonymanu]

i'm actually looking forward to a Knicks/Pacers ECF
thats what I remember seeing a lot as a kid , Reggie Miller, Mark Jackson, Rick Smits, John Starks, Patrick Ewing, and of course e Lee

Yeah this was the best case scenario for the East instead of two injured teams (Celtics and Cavs) playing each other.

[LeBowen]

Where do they find these people.

[ChumpDumper]

Except e now wears bifocal glasses

Now so do I

[TD 21]

Watching this series, I think we need to start to realize the irony that while everyone is crying and whining about Joker's lack of "help/support", we may be looking at the truth that SGA ACTUALLY has no true number 2 or 3 and that his team is really filled with high valued ROLE players that play their parts but aren't capable of thriving outside of SGA. Williams has been abhorrent and he LOOKS scared to death. Murray may appear helter skelter and inconsistent, and he certainly has/can be(en)...be he has proven CAPABLE of dominating and cooking at key points and Gordon has been unbelievably reliable and has been the most clutch player so far even over Joker. Williams great game was a proven fluke and outside of that has been bench-worthy literally. Chet simply doesn't offer anything that can possibly challenge or stress a defense.

SGA has to be the driver of ALL the action and that narrative has been nowhere in sight. The regular season appears very flukey and the post season has exposed HIS lack of reliable help when having to face the same team over and over and they're playing a simple zone.

Its pretty crazy and may actually validate his MVP (tho Joker is still the better player for sure).

Don't let facts get in the way of tribalism.

Playoffs again proving to be less about efficiency and more about raw production. Murray isn't as complete as Williams, but he's a better offensive "engine".

I'm still confident that the Thunder win game 7 and the championship, but if the Nuggets pull it off, Presti's overly conservative nature will be to blame because they easily could have put this out of reach by adding one more credible creator to keep the offense afloat in non Gilgeous-Alexander minutes.

They had a window, after Wembanyama was shut down with Fox soon to follow, to take Paul's temperature on a buyout. Failing that, it shouldn't have been difficult to acquire someone of that ilk with their unprecedented draft capital.

Instead, they left it up to chance and now have all the external pressure on them while facing the best player in the world in an elimination game.

[spursgu]

the knocks fanbase is de able. I hope they lose against the pacers.