NBA Thread

[Stuhoo]

6 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

GiganticEnormous 

[KingPG21]

I love this tean so much

[KingPG21]

The most resiliant I have ever seen

[Brass Cannon]

Remember when TH was voted most overrated player. Pepperidge farms remembers 

[moyemayhem]

https://x.com/pitlessball/status/1919952218125427189?s=46&t=xHjmpvrXkRF0KKDD8jPdPQ

[Pagoda]

7 minutes ago, moyemayhem said:

https://x.com/pitlessball/status/1919952218125427189?s=46&t=xHjmpvrXkRF0KKDD8jPdPQ

So far he’s been the successor to Reggie.  From the clutch moments to annoying the opposition and not backing down… he’s been great.

[Demo]

 

That is an incredible stat. 

[HoosierHoopster]

4 hours ago, Pagoda said:

So far he’s been the successor to Reggie.  From the clutch moments to annoying the opposition and not backing down… he’s been great.

If only he’d do the choke-gesture to spike lee lol

[HoosierHoopster]

On 4/29/2025 at 10:17 PM, Aaron said:

Its up there but I go a lot so besides tonight been at following games that were thrilling and this is in no particular order of best one:

1. Haliburton 4 pt play in regular season early this year

2. Nembhard long three for win vs. Knicks in playoffs last yr

3. Haliburton game winner vs. Bucks in OT last yr of game 3

4. Late winner vs. Suns middle of last year

5. Bogdanovic game w/ seven three's and 30 points to beat Lebron in playoffs

6. Thriller over Knicks in 2013 to advance to Eastern Conference Finals

7. NBA finals game 3 win vs. Lakers

8. First ever game I went to beat Bulls and Michael Jordon when Bulls went 72-10.

9. Tonight of course

 

There are probably a few others but those immediately come to mind including tonight. Another note is it amazing to me how Gainbridge Fieldhouse goes from a library and my least favorite place for a game atmosphere in regular season to as good an atmosphere as any big time vintage Assembly Hall atmosphere in playoffs.

Gainbridge is by no means unique in this regard in NBA, but atmospheres from regular season to playoffs go from about 2/10 to 10/10 in postseason. I would say NBA is league with biggest discrepancy from regular season to postseason with intensity both on the court and in the stands. 

Saw Reggie’s 8 points in the final seconds to down the Knicks in that historic playoff game. Have never before or after seen 1 player completely demoralize and silence an entire arena like that.
Reggie remains my favorite player of all time, partly for that sequence. 
 

I love Haliburton’s trajectory as a Pacer and all around elite player. He isn’t the pointedly taunting, disrespectful get under your skin player Regg was, but his level of class while playing elite clutch ball is special 

[Hovadipo]

1 minute ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Saw Reggie’s 8 points in the final seconds to down the Knicks in that historic playoff game. Have never before or after seen 1 player completely demoralize and silence an entire arena like that.
Reggie remains my favorite player of all time, partly for that sequence. 

Highly recommend if you haven't watched this yet. 

[Brass Cannon]

4 hours ago, Pagoda said:

So far he’s been the successor to Reggie.  From the clutch moments to annoying the opposition and not backing down… he’s been great.

100%.  And unlike some pretenders in the past he’s fun to watch. 

[HoosierHoopster]

19 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

Highly recommend if you haven't watched this yet. 

That was excellent, thanks. Had never heard Jackson’s side of the Malice in the Palace or Reggie’s breakdown of it. Great interview/ talk all around. 
I was watching that game live at the time (on tv), couldn’t believe it. That team was so clearly locked in for the championship. They were truly stacked in the way Reggie described, such a shame that stupid fan threw that beer on Artest. Crazy to think that an entire championship year can be thrown away by one stupid fan’s conduct. Of course Artest shouldn’t have run up in the stands like that, and my stomach sank as I watched it happen, but the timing, place was a powder keg, Artest had just been separated, a brawl on the floor had just been avoided. Just nuts

 

[Hovadipo]

2 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

That was excellent, thanks. Had never heard Jackson’s side of the Malice in the Palace or Reggie’s breakdown of it. Great interview/ talk all around. 
I was watching that game live at the time (on tv), couldn’t believe it. That team was so clearly locked in for the championship. They were truly stacked in the way Reggie described, such a shame that stupid fan threw that beer on Artest. Crazy to think that an entire championship year can be thrown away by one stupid fan’s conduct. Of course Artest shouldn’t have run up in the stands like that, and my stomach sank as I watched it happen, but the timing, place was a powder keg, Artest had just been separated, a brawl on the floor had just been avoided. Just nuts

 

The Netflix doc on the Malice was good too. Most involved were interviewed for it, including the involved fans. Reggie, Artest, and O'Neal were on it at least. I watched it happen live too (which was random, I didn't grow up in an NBA house but for some reason my dad and I had it on) but was pretty young and didn't completely understand how good that Pacers team was at the time. Over the years obviously I've learned what that all meant and then the documentary packaged all of that up into an hour or so.

Also, if you listen to the right episodes, Jackson tells some wild stories about those 2000s Pacers teams he was on. The Al Harrington episode specifically had some good stuff. The show is a gold mine for NBA stories from that time period.

[OliviaPope40]

6 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

The Netflix doc on the Malice was good too. Most involved were interviewed for it, including the involved fans. Reggie, Artest, and O'Neal were on it at least. I watched it happen live too (which was random, I didn't grow up in an NBA house but for some reason my dad and I had it on) but was pretty young and didn't completely understand how good that Pacers team was at the time. Over the years obviously I've learned what that all meant and then the documentary packaged all of that up into an hour or so.

Also, if you listen to the right episodes, Jackson tells some wild stories about those 2000s Pacers teams he was on. The Al Harrington episode specifically had some good stuff. The show is a gold mine for NBA stories from that time period.

That documentary was really good. Interesting at how for a number of years they couldn't even talk about what happened that night.

Edited May 8, 2025 by OliviaPope40

[Demo]

Wow. If you’re inclined toward the conspiratorial, a sequence of the Mavs gifting Doncic to the Lakers for 50 cents on the dollar followed by them then hitting the 50-1 shot for Cooper Flagg, is about as tidy a fix as is imaginable. I’m not, but, man, that is just so bad.

[Hovadipo]

27 minutes ago, Demo said:

Wow. If you’re inclined toward the conspiratorial, a sequence of the Mavs gifting Doncic to the Lakers for 50 cents on the dollar followed by them then hitting the 50-1 shot for Cooper Flagg, is about as tidy a fix as is imaginable. I’m not, but, man, that is just so bad.

Don’t really care about the Mavs getting it other than that idiot Nico Harrison getting the satisfaction after all the idiotic stuff he said. He doesn’t deserve to manage the team with that pick. 

[Stuhoo]

Sure as heck looked like an Achilles for Jayson Tatum last night. Will find out today.

Really sad; an incredible player, hugely impactful for the franchise, and it happened to seemingly a really class act great guy.

:(

[Demo]

9 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Sure as heck looked like an Achilles for Jayson Tatum last night. Will find out today.

Really sad; an incredible player, hugely impactful for the franchise, and it happened to seemingly a really class act great guy.

:(

Yup. Terrible luck for a kid I’ve never heard a bad word from annyone about. Will say this, his game to isn’t tied to his athleticism, so I like his chances to get all the way back.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

The refs bailing Mitchell out all series is nauseating.  Hopefully Pacers can pull another one off despite it. 

[Brass Cannon]

Cavs are just a mentally weak team.  Hopefully the Celtics can win one more to drag out the series a bit with the Knicks. 
 

Pacers vs Knicks. Doesn’t get better than that