Gonna be first losing day on main slate in a while, we shall see how show down goes. Hope you all had a great night tonight. Are we ready for this late night hammer with the whole celtics team Q tagged? this should be a lot of fun lol. I think at least 1 or 2 might sit going up against portland here.

If discord is something you are interested in, Will have a link below where i have in-depth content going over each slate, player pools for cash/gpps. cores and much more.

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Edit: raps out - if u are playing for a close game then i really like rj and olynyk, both going under owned. regardless i think dick and bulls legend freeman are 2 of the better values on the slate

Edit: jrue and zingus out - for some reason no one is clicking on pritchard today, really like him in gpps. tatum/white/horford look great if u think it stays close. brown solid. really like hauser as a value

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ausar thompson is OUT - i love duren now. stewert now pretty solid value, simone slight bump. cade doesnt change to much. main stand outs are duren/stew

Donovan Mitchell will miss his 18th game of the season tonight, meaning he will be ineligible for MVP and All-NBA.

Here are the others he joins on this list:

• Joel Embiid (PHI)

• Jimmy Butler (MIA)

• Kyrie Irving (DAL)

• Julius Randle (NYK)

• Kristaps Porzingis (BOS)

• Bradley Beal (PHX)

• Jamal Murray (DEN)

Karl-Anthony Towns joins the list with 13 more absences.

Trae Young joins the list with five more absences.

Devin Booker joins the list with four more absences.

Ayton put up 30pts last night, but still just 2 FTAs. One fun stat to track for the rest of the season is Ayton vying to break the single season record for least FTAs per game by a starting 7 footer (criteria 30+mpg, started half the games). The record is currently held by the great Rasho Nesterovic from the 2002-03 season with 1.2 FTAs per game, but Ayton is hot on his heels at 1.3 FTAs per game. Ayton not being a floor spacing big and being so bad at generating FTAs is downright impressive. Ironically, he's actually a pretty decent FT shooter too.

Throughout most of its history, the NBA has annually granted Most Valuable Player Awards to recognize its best competitors in the regular season and in the NBA Finals. These are the most substantial honors that an NBA player can receive. And since 2022, two Conference Finals MVPs have also been awarded each year to further celebrate achievement in the postseason.

Unfortunately, though, there has never been an award for the most valuable player in the entirety of the playoffs. For the vast majority of the league’s history, the only individual postseason award was entirely based on one series and only available to one team. As a consequence, some of the most incredible performances in the history of the sport have gone without any official recognition. So this project intends to retroactively celebrate some of those performances by asking this subreddit to award for every playoff tournament from 1980 to the present.

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How to Vote

I will provide three different comments beneath each post representing three Playoff MVP candidates for the season being discussed. Additionally, if anybody feels that another player is deserving of candidacy, they can add a comment for that player to nominate them for the award using the process described in the following section. You can reply to these comments with arguments for or against any of the players to convince other voters of your position. Whichever player has the most upvotes after five days will be declared the Playoff MVP of that year, which will be announced the following week.

Nominating Players

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2008 NBA Playoffs

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Trying to complete a rival challenge against NOLA and every time the game ends, they sent me to main menu. I can play other games no problem but i cant finish this game.

This happened 3 times in a row now. Id like to know if this happens a lot or I should just wait a couple hours and start again.