It depends on the player even if there's an injury, as long as they can still play or they want to play they will. If I'm not mistaken, before the Warriors vs. Rockets game started Jimmy Butler was listed as doubtful to play. I was surprised too that he ended up playing. On top of that, look at the points he scored in that Game 4 he played 40 minutes and still put up 27 points. You’d think he hadn’t even been injured in the past few days. lol

About the Milwaukee Bucks, this is pretty normal for them. If I remember correctly, this also happened to them last year against the Pacers in Game 3, which went into overtime during the first round of the 2024 playoffs. They lost that series too, so I’m not surprised they lost again to the Pacers this playoff.

Let's wait for any update as it will be good if ever that this going to happened, the respect and love for Dirk for those solid Mavs fans plus the potential that he can be the middle to bring back Luka, that's going to be a big news coming next season.


It's part of the strategy and most of the time it works as it surprise the opponent's side when they expect that the player will not going to play, and they anticipated other type of system for their defense.

Yeah, it's like they really intended to give it away. They also let their bench play this time, and it was a low-scoring game for Butler and Curry. Well, nothing to worry about since they are still ahead in the series, but I really thought they would give it their all and end it in Game 5. Maybe the management sees they can win the series when they want to, business as usual, and they can end the series on their home court in Game 6.

Total bummer. While I did pick the Minnesota Timberwolves to win it all at the start of this year, I really hoped we would see another LeBron vs Golden State Warriors playoff matchup. It just wasn’t in the cards this year. The trade reversal for a center really hurt them, as did not having enough time with Luka. Next year…

And when you see Gobert scoring that much because the Lakers chooses small, then it's bound to happen that they will lost this game. From what I heard, Gobert has just combine 14 points in the first 4 games.

Now he had a monster games, 27 points and 24 rebounds, that is huge number for him.

Maybe next year the Lakers will have to look for a good center or maybe not, who knows.

It was the second chance points that killed the Lakers in that game.
They made a good run in the third quarter to keep it close, but it just wasn’t enough to get the win.

The problem is no real adjustments. They stuck with small ball even though they were getting punished inside.

Honestly, they’re lucky the Wolves didn’t shoot well from the outside, if they did, this would've been a blowout.


They had a good center I guess, but they choose not to use him.

Wait a minute, before we talk about the next round, let's focus on the current round.

Even though the Nuggets are in the lead and every game is do-or-die for the Clippers, I don’t think the series will end tomorrow. I’m expecting a Game 7, and when that happens, I don’t want to predict who’ll win, but most likely, the home team will have the upper hand with the crowd supporting them. I don’t know, I don’t wanna get into it too much. I just really want to see the Clippers win tomorrow.

They seems tired and not hitting their shots for last minutes of the games. With their performance earlier we could see that Wolves would really take this game.

I don't know why their coach still decide to play small ball on tall Wolves line up and Lakers had been badly dominated because their opponent know how to counter the small ball line up which is been overused by so many team.

Next season its better for them to get a good center so that they can perform well and possibly became more better team. Also they should stop using small ball line up strategy since this is not effective anymore.

I am 99% sure that this will speed up his departure, but I am not sure if any team could get him at the moment. It's easy to say what they say but it is not going to be impossible so we need to figure out which team can get him and how. If they can do a better job then I am sure that Giannis could worth a lot.

There is still at least 2 more seasons left, another on player option so lets ignore that but they have 2 more seasons after this and that is the most important part. If they have two more seasons with him, then it is a trade and that means a team has to pay as much to Giannis, and for a trade that worths that much, a team needs to send away their star player to get him. It is not easy to find a salary that can cover the same amount, so it is going to be a very difficult trade.