I may have blocked out a Pacers series

So did Thibs… while he was coaching one.

Does anyone think it’s sus that every team in the assoc has signed at least 16 players at this point, and we’ve only signed 13?

Not really.

(1) We can’t sign an exhibit 9 deal until we have 14 players on the roster. We currently have 13 players on the roster.

Exhibit 9 deals protect us against injury. If we sign a player to a non-guaranteed deal without exhibit 9 and that player gets injured, we must keep the player on the roster until they’re healthy or the season ends.

Basically, unless you want some random schmuck taking up money and a roster spot to do nothing, you don’t want to sign anyone right now.

(2) We can S&T players who we haven’t re-signed. This includes several 2-way candidates, like Dillon Jones, McCullar, and Jemison.

Remember how we used DaQuan Jeffries, Charles Brown Jr., and Duane Washington Jr. to aggregate salary in our trade for Karl-Anthony Towns? We can still do that with our 2-way guys, so it’d be a loss of a resource to sign them unless another team is threatening to do so.

While we can’t take back a player with a S&T, we can take back an exception or draft rights. This allows us to aggregate salary without giving up an actual player.

For instance:

(1) NYK receive Goga Bitadze from ORL

(2) ORL receives Deuce McBride & Danny Wolf (from Nets)

(3) BK receives Sochan in S&T, plus picks

There are some draft rights also moving around. But this only works with a S&T as Bitadze makes more than Deuce.

If Wemby were a few years older, I’d agree. But he’s still a spoiled 22yo kid. I would say that he’s at strike two in my book.

Not from me. I was squarely in the “the Pacers were better than the Knicks” camp, just like I am now squarely in the “the Knicks were better than the Spurs” camp. Here’s the rationale:

In the 2025 EC finals, the Knicks lost all 3 “must win” games: games 2.4. and 6. All the games they won were games Indy could afford to lose.

In the 2026 NBA finals, the Spurs lost the first two “must win” games: Games 2 and 4. The Knicks could have afforded to lose game 5 and the Spurs still couldn’t pull it off…on their home court!

Honestly, I don’t think either series was particularly close.

When he wasn’t trying to choke out Brunson and throw him to the ground. Lowlife wormsicle.

It was also impossible to use any basic streaming functionality, like pausing and replay, without total borking and needing a reboot. Drove me mad and I was happy (though sad about Clyde) when the games went to YouTubetv.

“One of many things I learned is that the margin for error is very, very thin. Our domination stints were absolute. We absolutely dominated for most of the series, but our errors, our mistakes, were punished so hard that we can’t have ups and downs like this so much, you know. The ups are okay, the downs are the reason we lost.”