Yes, they are one of the most favorite team to win in the ECF few months ago, but their situation have changed a bit now after the trade. Hopefully they can still dominate other teams because from their position now, a play-in tournament is almost inevitable for the team. Also, Simmons? That man still remains a mystery and hopefully he won't be a liability if he play soon.

Lakers also couldn't prevent Pelicans to score 41 points in the 3rd quarter. At the half time, they were up 20 points, 69 - 49. And also Lakers scored only 14 points in the 4th quarter. That is a really really tough lose. Lebron is a beast, leading the league in scoring (30.1  pts as of now). But he definitely need more support from his teammates, scoring-wise. Only two other players from Lakers scored double digits. They desperately need a strong and healthy Anthony Davis. He cannot come fast enough.

Finally we have started to see Kyrie Irving playing for Nets in home games as well. This is great news to be honest because this will help Nets become stronger than before again. However they lost their game last night against Hornets too. It was a loss by a 110-119 final score. Irving got a double-double by 16 pts and 11 ast. KD was the most scorer of his team by 27 pts. And for Hornets, Lamelo Ball did a great work and had the biggest role in their win by 33 pts.

I feel like Lakers could just drop the towel at this point. There is no need for them to even try anymore, just be openly talk about who would be in the trading block and what you are looking for so that other teams could get ready for it.

It is not allowed to approach upcoming FA as we all know, but teams do it anyway, but at the end of the day we should not be really shocked to see trading talks, and upcoming FA talks and even waived players for the off-season talks. All of that could be done right now and that should either lit fire to Lakers, or just let them get worse and at this point that's not really that much important at all.

I mean yeah he scored 16 points but needed like 50 shots to get there.  Those are just empty stats.  He will even say he pretty much lost that game for them with the way he was shooting.  Tough as a coach because you don't want to tell him to pump the breaks because he will get streaky and still win a game for you on his off nights.  He needs to play better especially down the stretch here.

I hope you are right. I prefer to see the young Spurs over the aging Lakers team.

I could have voted for the Spurs to make it in the play-in tournament as well but I still doubted their consistency and they are running out of games. I also don't think they have a reliable player who can come up with big numbers in games that would really matter unlike Lakers who still have Lebron.

The Toronto Raptors stop the Boston Celtics in the epic game tonight which was the best NBA game ever this season. PASCAL SIAKAM! 40 PTS was really helpful and his defensive play force the game to overtime which let them lead the game and win it on their homecourt. Though the Celtics have multiple opportunities to lead the game, their shots are missing, and cannot really get some offensive rebound to have a second chance finally they lose the game by 3 points.

My plus 20.5 for GSW got eaten alive by the Grizzlies. I thought they can recover to the massive points advantage during the second half of the game. The game become completely even during 3rd to 4th quarter of the game which gives them no room forma recovery. This is my first time to lose on a GSW plus handicap bet. I thought Jordan Poole can manage ro compensate Curry and Klay absence since 20 points is already a huge margin since GSwpW bench is solid. My greediness betray me this time.

The curse of being a first time all star, hehehe, seriously though, the Warriors have bee struggling even after the All-Star and then it was compounded when Steph got injured. And then Memphis really playing high caliber basketball with or without Ja Morant, they are a bit scary in the West and I think they will be a tough team to played on in the play-off. I skip betting on this game though.

This Memphis Grizzlies team has a high morale coming into the playoffs because on how good they are.
Currently sitting at the 2nd spot, the Grizzlies just made an upset by defeating the 3rd seeded Warriors which is I agree that they are struggling just after the All-Star Weekend. Now with regards to the playoffs, I want the TWolves to stay at the 7th spot though so that they are the ones that Memphis will face in the first round and I think it will be easy for them to defeat the TWolves.

Overall, Grizzlies are a great team this season but playoffs will be a bit different and knowing that most of the players in the team don't have that much experience in the playoffs I think it might affect their whole performance as a team.