Unless you are Spo/Pop/Malone, chances are if your team doesn't win within 5 years, you are getting fired. I mean Monty Williams got fired only 2 years after the Suns went to the Finals. Or Nick Nurse 3 years after the Raptors won it all.

Yet in baseball, managers stay there all the time. Mike Trout who has been with the Angels for 14 years saw 5 different managers but most his career saw Mike Scioscia until the Angels went through massive changes in the past 6 years. Lebron already saw 3 coaches in 6 years in Lakers uniform. Prior to that he saw 2 in 4 years with the Cavs. And to make matters worse, Darvin Ham had a 90-74 record. That's the 162 game equivalent of an ~88-89 win season which makes the playoffs on most years. Why the hell was he let go so damn quickly?

This should be the All NBA Team for 2024:

First Team- G Luka, G Shai, F Giannis, F Tatum & C Jokic

Second Team- G Ant Man, G Brunson, F LeBron, F KD & C AD

Third Team- G Curry, G Booker, F Kawhi, F Paul George & C Sabonis

I would replace Booker for Kyrie if it wasnt for da 65 game requirement. I want to know from the fans perspective if this list of the All NBA should be the objective list for the All NBA team when the NBA announces the winners for these awards.

Tell me if you agree or disagree with some of the names in this list & add any names you feel should be on the All NBA Team instead.

Also I want to know y’all opinion of players dealing with the ramifications of not being eligible for All NBA due to the new rule of the 65 game requirement and the bad outcome of them losing money & not getting paid effectively by their contracts if they miss out on making All NBA. The players that could be affected the most by this rule is someone like Kyrie and Embiid.

I want to know fans perspective of my list for the All NBA team & any suggestions about how voters should vote on these players getting the award

Luka is the official 2024 NBA scoring champion. A few notes:

Shout out to James Harden for being the only player on this list (since 1954) to have more MADE FT's than MADE FG's. Way to hack the system there for a few years.

MJ is the last scoring champ to top 1,000 MADE FG's in one season. Wilt holds the record with 1,597.

I guess I remember it but seeing Westbrook listed as a TWO TIME champ is weird given his recent shooting history (13-50 vs the Mavs in the playoffs this year).

Durant is the last guy to play ALL 82 games and lead the league in scoring. MJ did it 7 times...

What else is of note?

That was so much fun.

Pat Riley thinks the NBA’s 65-game rule “sends a message that it's okay to miss 17 games.”

Riley spoke for about 40 minutes, much of his remarks surrounding Butler, and he lauded Miami’s highest-paid player multiple times — even saying he “moves the needle the most” and that he’s “an incredible player.” The Heat have 268 total wins in Butler’s five seasons, fifth-most in the NBA over that span, and have made two NBA Finals appearances.

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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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.

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Why aren’t feminists watching female sports?

The new “big” trend in the NBA is the rise of the 3 point shot and hyper focus on efficiency. I’m wondering if you guys think this prevails over the next 15-20 years OR if we will go back to the play style of the 80s and 90s that focused more on big men and the two ball.

Hi fellow Spurs fans! You may remember me from last year as I made a post about the odds of the Spurs getting the #1 overall pick. We I’m a huge Spurs fan, basketball fan, I enjoy the NBA Draft, the scouting around the Draft as well as the Draft Lottery, and I enjoy statistics along with probabilities. I’m back again to talk about the Spurs lottery odds! This year is a little bit different than last year but uses the same model as recent years, so I will not rehash my more in-depth post from last year about how the lottery works instead if you need more information you can look at the NBA’s Official Draft Lottery site ! Instead, I will focus more on what’s at stake in the lottery for the Spurs. If you don’t want to read everything I have all the significant Spurs odds along with a TL;DR at the bottom. Enjoy!

We are officially less than a week away from the 2024 NBA Draft Lottery and the San Antonio Spurs are back in the NBA Draft Lottery for the 5^th straight year with the potential to draft in the Top 5 in back-to-back years. This year the Spurs finished 22-60 the same record they had last year. But last year it gave the Spurs the 3^rd worst record and the best odds to get the #1 overall pick. This year 22-60 puts them in sole possession of the 5^th worst record despite having the 3^rd worst record 2 weeks before the end of the season.

The Spurs went 4-1 in their last 5 games including beating Denver, who were actively fighting for the #1 seed in the West at the time. For a majority of the 2^nd half of the season the Spurs had the worst record in the Western Conference. That was until the last week of the season as the Portland Trail Blazers ended the season losing 15 of 17 games taking the Spurs’ spot as worst record in the West. The Spurs winning ways at the end of the season moved them from 3^rd to 5^th best odds in the NBA Draft Lottery which might have significant consequences.

The other wrinkle of this year’s draft lottery is the Spurs could potentially get another Top 10 pick if Toronto falls out of the Top 6. Toronto ended the season with the 6^th worst record in the NBA. So, what are the odds the Spurs stay in the Top 5, the Raptors pick falls out of the Top 6, or that the Spurs end up with a Top 4 pick and another pick in the Top 10 from Toronto?

You can find the best lottery pick odds chart

Spurs Odds:

|| || |Team|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9| |Spurs|10.5|10.5|10.6|10.5|2.2|19.6|26.7|8.7|0.6|

So, the NBA Draft Lottery consists of using the lottery for only the Top 4 picks, every pick outside of the Top 4 uses teams records to determine the remaining order. Because of that it’s harder for the Spurs to stay at the 5^th pick than to slide to the 8^th pick. However, the Spurs’ odds of moving into the Top 4 is 42.1% with about 10.5% for each of the Top 4 picks. This means the Spurs’ odds to land outside of the Top 4 is 57.9% which includes their 2.2% of staying at 5^th. Simple math shows the Spurs are more likely at 55.7% to fall out of the Top 5 than to stay in the Top 5 at 44.3%. That being said the two lowest odds for the Spurs are to stay at #5 (2.2%) or fall to #9 (0.6). While not completely impossible the Spurs staying at the 5^th pick means all 4 teams in front of them (Detroit, Washington, Charlotte, & Portland) have to all stay in the Top 4 regardless of the order. The Spurs falling all the way to the 9^th pick is as close to impossible as it gets for the Spurs because it requires none of the Top 4 teams in front of the Spurs to land a Top 4 pick. Basically, the exact opposite way the Spurs stay at #5. Statistically speaking the Spurs highest single pick odds are moving down to 6^th at 19.6% or 7^th at 26.7%. The Spurs getting the 6^th pick requires 1 team from outside of the Top 5 to move into the Top 4 and the 7^th pick requires 2 teams.

Since 2019 Draft Lottery there have been at least one team from outside of the Top 4 move into the Top 4 every year. There has been a total of 9 teams from outside the Top 4 move into the Top 4 since the odds have changed. The lowest team to enter the Top 4 was the Lakers in 2019 who had the 11^th best odds. That same year saw 3 teams from outside the Top 4 get into the Top 4. That was the only time the teams with the Top 4 best odds only saw 1 team stay in the Top 4, which also saw the Atlanta Hawks who had the 5^th best odds move all the way down to 8^th. For what it’s worth the last two years have only seen 1 team each year move into the Top 4 from outside of the Top 4. In 2021 & 2023 the team with the 5^th best odds has moved into the Top 4.

Raptors Odds:

The Toronto Raptors have a 45.9% of staying in the Top 6 thus keeping their pick instead of sending it to San Antonio. But the odds of the Raptors’ pick falling out of the Top 6 is 54.1%. The Raptors’ two highest single pick odds are moving back to 7^th at 29.8% and 8^th at 20.5%. The Spurs would just need one team from 7-14 to jump into the Top 4 to push the Raptors out of Top 6. Mathematically it’s close to impossible for the Raptors to get the 10^th pick in the draft which means that it’s more likely for the Spurs to get a Raptors’ pick from 7-9.

Since 2019 the team with the 6^th best odds 3 of the 4 years have seen their pick fall lower than 6^th and last year was the only year the team with the 6^th best odds stayed at 6^th. We’ve yet to see a team with the 6^th best odds move into the Top 4.

Lottery events that need to happen for the Spurs to have a Top 4 pick and Toronto’s pick is: Spurs win the lottery at any position and another team outside of the Top 7 also win the lottery which will push Toronto outside of the Top 6. The odds of Spurs moving into the Top 4 and Toronto fall out of Top 6 is 22.7%. Mathematically speaking there’s a higher probability of the Raptors moving into the Top 6 while the Spurs move out of the Top 4 at 26.5%.

Here are the probabilities for the Spurs in the upcoming draft lottery based on highest percentage chances:

57.9% - Spurs don’t get Top 4

54.1% - Raptors fall out of Top 6 - 2 picks!

45.9% - Raptors staying in Top 6

42.1% - Spurs move into Top 4

31.3% - Raptors fall out of Top 6 & Spurs fall out of Top 4 - 2 picks!

26.5% - Raptors stay in Top 6 but Spurs fall out of Top 4

22.7% - Spurs move into Top 4 & Raptors fall out of Top 6 - 2 pick!

21.5% - Raptors move into Top 4 & Spurs don’t get Top 4

14.0% - Spurs odds of getting #1 overall pick last year

While the Spurs don’t have the highest percentages there are still solid odds that the Spurs will have 2 Top 10 picks this draft. Just remember the Spurs have better odds of getting a Top 4 pick and the Raptors’ pick this year than they did of getting the #1 overall pick last year!

NBA Draft Lottery: May 12, 2024 at 2pm CT

If the Spurs get 2 Top 10 picks this year who would you like the Spurs to draft?

TL;DR: Spurs have a 54.1% chance of getting two picks in the 2024 NBA Draft. Spurs are more likely to have their own pick be outside of the Top 5, but have better odds of getting a Top 4 pick & Toronto’s pick than they did last year of getting the #1 overall pick.

The 1st round of the 2024 Playoffs concluded 24 hours ago with the Cavaliers beating the Magic in the sole game 7 of the playoffs (so far). Before we get deep into the weeds of Round 2 and forget everything we watched for the last 2-3 weeks here is an in-depth recap of the 1st Round.

A side effect of the vaccine.

I've published my last post on Substack where I apply Modern Portfolio Theory from finance to NBA team building. I wanted to combined my finance expertise and passion for sports, espacially basketball, for a long time. The post is about blending strategic investment principles with basketball team management to uncover new insights into forming winning teams. If that sounds interesting, come check it out and let me know your thoughts.

We may not ever see another player with a career quite like Chuck Nevitt’s. Aside from his rookie year, Nevitt was never promoted from his fixture as 12th man on an NBA roster. Teams would sign him and cut him constantly, a light switch of a professional existence that flicked on and off for 10 years.

He never started a single NBA game: zero for 155. Guys average more steals per game than his career points average. So it says a lot about him as a teammate that he was able to carve out that 10 year career with five teams as a full time bench warmer.

Still, the 7’5” fan favorite walked away with an NBA championship ring while playing behind Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and spending two stints in the shadows of the great Hakeem (né Akeem) Olajuwon in Houston.

According to a March 6th 1989 story in SI, the two would often go one on one in pregame warmups with the loser having to bring the winner towels, water etc.

The story goes on to tell about a little gag the two centers had going for a while:

“Olajuwon, as captain, meets with the referees at center court before every game, and lately he has been taking Nevitt with him. ‘What are you doing here, Chuck?’ the head ref will ask him. ‘I'm here to translate for Akeem,’ says the honorary co-captain. This in itself is funny because Olajuwon, who is from Nigeria, speaks perfectly good English.”

Olajuwon was a big fan of Nevitt’s, saying “He is one of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet. Every day is a good day when he’s around. I think the crowd sees that; I think that’s why they love him so.”

As an indication of his cult hero status, fans indeed went nuts whenever Nevitt entered a game, and completely lost their shit on the odd chance that he put the ball in the basket.

In the end, Nevitt retired having only entered into 155 games while accumulating countless DNPs. Had he qualified, he would’ve walked away with the dubious honor of having the lowest ppg average of all time. As it stands, Michael Ruffin holds that unfortunate record with 1.7.

These days, Nevitt is a reclusive engineer, reluctant to speak about his career as an oversized NBA jobber, and impossible to reach for an interview.

With the advent of the G league and pro basketball overseas, it is unlikely you’ll ever see another player spend so many years employed on an NBA roster while getting so little run.

Highlights of Nevitt’s are few and far apart, but here he is as a member of the Pistons taking advantage of some rare court time: