Speaking of Poole, I remembered again somebody here who posted that Poole will average 25-30 PPG in Wizards now that he's the main star of the team. Turns out, he's the worst in terms of plus-minus in the whole NBA.

Kidding aside, the Poole-Green incident affected the whole team last season, and because of that, it affected their performance the whole year. Yes, there are no incidents like that this season, but the start of the Warriors is kind of slow for the first half of the season. Now they are playing better after the all-star game. The problem though is that the West like what others said is very tough, but the good thing is that, the Warriors are only a few games behind the top 5 Suns team. The West is tough, but for me, the Western Conference standing race last season was way tougher because, at that time, you didn't even know who would be in the top 4 even though we were only a few games left.

Overall, the Warriors are slowly getting better and better, and they need to get some wins because they're now in the 10th spot currently. I just don't know if how it this will affect the Warriors, but Wiggins will be out again because of family problems.

Last season was indeed the best of his career so far, but even 16.3 points per game average is not bad for him as he averages 15.9 points per game for his career.
Considering the fact that the Wizards are now at the bottom of the standings and are a hopeless team, I think Poole should focus more on individual stats to increase his value on the market.

After the amazing comeback against Clippers, we have seen Lakers get a win at overtime against Wizards as well. They are still 10th seed, which is not that good and looking like they will be in play-in trouble zone, it still looks like they are much better than the start of the season.

Lakers never really built a good team around Kobes last years, and never did it for Lebron neither, which shows that there is a problem with their management, and if Lebron didn't join we would see them still missing the playoffs, for over a decade now. However, one of the problems is that they are at 0.541 win rate, that means they win 54%+ of their games and still 10th seed, wins are spread out a lot more these days, back in the day this rate would have gotten you as high as 4th seed, usually 5 or 6th seed.

Truly, they are defeated in the rebounding area. Aaron Gordon and Jokic are both dominating that field and the big difference is the second-chance opportunities made by those two.
Jamal Murray. That's the Murray that we saw in the last season and the playoffs. "Too many tricks on his bag." the commentator said. He had so much talent that he could always sneak his way in even if Anthony Davis is there who is known as a good rim protector.
Then there's Michael Porter Jr. who didn't miss a shot this time. His percentage in shooting is going down and maybe he saw it and realized he must go back to being an assassin in shooting. 25 points, 10/10 field goals, 5/5 in three point shots. That was crazy.
Finally, their new rim protector, Peyton Watson. 3 important blocks were made and I think Coach Malone will start giving him more minutes if he can continue that high level of defense that he is showing.
This is the Nuggets that we have seen in the Finals, they are not lazy to defend, and they don't just rely on their strong offense. 6th winning streak for the reigning champion.

Yep, the low number of rebounds by the Lakers players is the main reason the Lakers lost. However, even though the Lakers couldn't handle the Nuggets, it was still a special game as LeBron reached and surpassed the 40k-point mark. I think he will be able to score even 42k points if next season is the last season of his career.

NBA is getting softer and less defensive as meta of every team unlike before which defense is priority and crucial to win the game. Right now, NBA is more shooting perimeter shots to win the games and leaving defense open and just recover to it through scoring. With this kind of playing style, I think someone in the new era can break records easily.

The only unique for LBJ is his great physique which is very impressive considering his age. Some basketball players with great talent will have multiple injury that affects tha5 game but Lebron is very good on protecting his body to maintain this kind of performance until now.

The Celtics are absolutely blowing GSW away. 82 points for Celtics in 1st half while the Warriors just managed 38. 82-38 half time score. Is there any chance for Warriors to make a comeback?  Would be an epic comeback, one for the ages, if it does happen. Highly unlikely though. Curry has only 4 points in the first half.

Even though they lost that one, it was really a good opportunity for them to adjust where they were short and they will gonna add some more adjustments to their rotations or probably sign more players in order to get ready in case they gonna face the Nuggets once again in the NBA playoffs which more likely to happen since the Lakers seems to go to the playoffs with this kind of games recently, let's see if they can make such consistent win in their next games. Anyway, Congrats! to LBJ for reaching new milestones, he will be holding that record for a long unless Wemby follows in his footsteps and maintains a high points percentage throughout his entire NBA career.

I was casually browsing the results of the games and was surprised at the 89-88 score played by Clippers and Wolves. You normally just see that score line in just the third quarter with the way games are played today hehe. They are also two of the top teams right now but it turns out that both teams really struggled with field goal percentage under 40%. Rudy Gobert and Norman Powell were the best player for their respective teams.

What a bad day for the Golden State Warriors. That's already a one sided game that they have no appetite to end it.

It is what everyone expected on how this game is going to end. 140-88. The game truly changed a lot and Celtics on this game shown how consistent they are, mostly their key players.