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r/NBATalk is now open for everyone to submit posts

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Posted by11 hours ago

[Poll] I need help rating players' stats for a game I'm making

Hi,

Currently working on a game, I'm in need of the NBA community's expertise to give each player their correct stats and skill with objectivity.

Here's the link to the Google Form : https://forms.gle/JKqrHa74SgD4ke5u8

83 players have been carefully selected (no pre-90s legends for now) and will appear in alphabetical order.
Feel free to skip some of them if you want to focus on your favorite ones, but it's actually super fun to remember all those players and rate their skill ! 
Thanks to everyone who will participate and help me. And feel free to share it with all the NBA fans and experts around you !

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Posted by6 days ago

Is Talk dead?

This sub provided a valuable service during a time of crisis at r/nbadiscussion, and for that I shall be forever grateful. But that crisis has long since passed, so in the present day is there any point in retaining that separation?

I would argue no. The rules for the subs are very similar, if not verbatim then at very least in spirit, and I haven't noticed any practical difference in their application. The hardworking mod teams have substantial overlap. Nor has there been, in my view, a point of difference in the types and topics of submissions.

All that remains is volume. Talk is a tenth of the size of Discussion, and no-one has posted here for a month in the middle of the season. Before that we were getting one post a week, maximum.

So I throw it open to the mods and few remainiing active users: is it time to rejoin the fold? Or if not, how can we revive/improve into something new and distinct?

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Posted byu/[deleted]1 month ago

The NBA didn't put much effort into Christmas this year

I've been watching the NBA on Christmas for a long time and it's usually the biggest non-finals day of basketball.

This year, the NBA isn't having anyone wear any special jerseys. They don't have any Christmas graphics nor is the court painted any special way.

The season hasn't been super interesting to me, so maybe I'm the wrong person to say it, but the games this year could have been a little better. There's no Lebron vs KD or Lebron vs Golden State game. There's no big East vs West matches and there's no finals replay like we've had before. Some of it isn't the NBA's fault - they can't predict who will be good or bad and they are in a transitional period as new stars are coming up and older stars are going down

It just feels like they could have done better. It seems like the NFL playing today played a large role in how today was promoted.

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Posted by1 month ago

An attempt to settle the GOAT debate

Hey everyone,

So I've been thinking about the GOAT discussion and I've come up with a system which I think is a fair way to judge players of different eras.

What's the point of playing NBA basketball? To win championships. By this definition, every player who has not won a championship has not achieved their goal for the year, and therefore cannot be considered the best player in the competition.

So who is the best player for that year? The person who is the best player on the championship team. Note that this does not necessarily coincide with the Finals MVP. Magic won the finals MVP in 1980, but Kareem was the MVP of the league, so I judge Kareem as being the best player on the Lakers for that year.

So the GOAT list is essentially the list of who has been the best player on the most championship teams.

There are a number of tiebreakers here. If Two people are on the same setting, I decide based on the number of MVPs they won. For example, Magic and LeBron both were the best player on 4 championship teams, but LeBron has 4 MVPs to Magic's 3, so I place Lebron above Magic. If the players are still tied, then I go by who I think the better player is.

Given this, I have decided the top 30 (with 1 bonus) player list is as follows:

  1. Bill Russell

  2. George Mikan

  3. Michael Jordan

  4. LeBron James

  5. Magic Johnson

  6. Larry Bird

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Posted by2 months ago

Building a team around Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?

My friend and I were talking about who we would pair with Shai would create a dynamic duo. We agree that Giddey pairs well with Shai but we don’t see him as a great second option. So, we tried coming up with options of who he could play with that would make other teams scared. Some of these options are win right now, some take a bit more time.

We said Shai might play well alongside:

  • Evan Mobley (he’s got great upside and crazy versatile)

  • Allen/Ayton (idk, they get the job done and are used to be third options on a team)

  • KAT (if KAT isn’t a bitch he gets the job done as a big + he can stretch the floor)

  • Ben Simmons (I know he’s no one’s favourite right now but he does the dirty work and will get passes off to shai for sure)

We’re not fully confident but this is what we got right now. We also said Shai reminds us of PG13 and melo type players where they’re amazing, plays well enough with other players but doesn’t pair up amazingly with equal superstars which may lead to lack of rings and success.

Let me know what you think. Thought it’d be fun to think about.

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