# NBA 2018-2019 Season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 19, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212 "2018-10-19T15:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/321 "2019-05-13T14:54:12Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > The question that I have now, is what will it take for Kawhi to re-sign with the Raptors? Is it a given that he is gone, no matter what happens? No one knows. I believe Toronto can actually offer him more money than anyone else can, but there is little indication of whether that matters to Leonard. It may be that the Raptors getting past Milwaukee would influence him. He may have already decided to leave, or to stay. He’s inscrutable and won’t tell anyone. If he leaves, they’ll have a shit-ton of money to spend on someone else if they want to. Toronto, of course, absolutely knew he might leave; they were only counting on one season, but were deliberately taking a shot at actually making a Finals. So far it was a pretty good decision. They have never had a playoff performer like this. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/322 "2019-05-13T15:02:11Z")
> [@markdash](#): > > You rooted against the Warriors for their first championship? I was rooting against the Warriors as far back as 2013, so yeah. Plus, wanting the Cavs to win titles. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/323 "2019-05-13T15:07:31Z")
I can’t help but notice that in an interview last night, Kawhi said something along the lines of “I knew that this could potentially be my last game (pause) for about five months, so I decided to leave it all on the court.” I can’t help but wonder if he was thinking “my last game in Toronto” before course-correcting. But anyway, enough depressing thoughts, on to the Eastern Conference finals. With no Lebron in the way! Just that small issue of Giannis. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/324 "2019-05-13T15:29:52Z")
Isn’t it nice that Kawhi _ **decided** _ to leave it all on the court, for those particular reasons? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/325 "2019-05-13T15:34:06Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Hating the team that drafted their championship core and plays team-first basketball is the cool thing to do. Good one! Now without KD, they’re back to team-first basketball. I think, if KD played in game 6, that the Rockets likely would’ve won that game. The Warriors aren’t necessarily better without KD, but they are back to team-first basketball without him. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/326 "2019-05-13T18:05:48Z")
Man, I knew the Nuggets were running on fumes but I was pretty confident about Game 7 at home. Even though Jokic is their bet player, they go as Jamal Murray goes. And he wasn’t going well. Hard to believe there were only 6 three point shots made by both teams combined. And Denver’s only 2 were made by the friggin’ center (Jokic). Ah well, congrats to the Blazers and good luck against GSW. I’ll be rooting for you. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/327 "2019-05-13T20:41:54Z")
Congratulations to Chefguy and his Blazers. I hope you guys kick the snot out of the Warriors, and leave their bandwagon fans feeling like all of those people who’d named their newborns, “Daenerys.” (I still think it’ll be Warriors in 5, but a guy’s gotta’ dream.) ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/328 "2019-05-13T22:48:26Z")
Only four teams left, and Nate Silver still has the Blazers with a \<1% chance of winning the title! Hopefully the Blazers will draw motivation from everyone writing them off. Great game last night, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/329 "2019-05-14T00:34:44Z")
> [@markdash](#): > > You rooted against the Warriors for their first championship? Just to be accurate, the Golden State Warriors’ first championship was in 1975 when Rick Barry and company swept the Washington Bullets. The 2015 Warriors championship was over an undermanned Cleveland team playing without injured Kyrie Erving. I like to thnk the counrty was rooting for my Cavs. The Warriors’s 2018 and 2018 champioships were well deserved certainly. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/330 "2019-05-14T00:46:45Z")
Yeah, that CARMELO prediction on 538 just seems weird. It gives Portland an 11% shot to make the finals, but it must be 9% or worse for them to win the finals themselves, to end up at \<1%. If you switch to the ELO model, it gives Portland a 14% overall chance at the title, which is more reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/331 "2019-05-14T15:04:44Z")
Hoping for Bucks-Blazers… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/332 "2019-05-14T19:26:59Z")
I’m starting the countdown to when Green loses his shit. I’m betting it will be Zach Collins who sends him into a frothing rage. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/333 "2019-05-14T23:08:13Z")
So, who y’all rooting for to win tonight’s Draft Lottery? I’d like to see Atlanta or Phoenix get it. I will _never_ root for New York (I’m a Pacers fan), Cleveland has already had its time dominating the conference, and Chicago has already won six championships. Fuck me if the 76ers cash in their 1% chance. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/334 "2019-05-15T01:07:43Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > So, who y’all rooting for to win tonight’s Draft Lottery? > > I’d like to see Atlanta or Phoenix get it. I will _never_ root for New York (I’m a Pacers fan), Cleveland has already had its time dominating the conference, and Chicago has already won six championships. > > Fuck me if the 76ers cash in their 1% chance. Now that Donald Sterling is out of the NBA, Robert Sarver is the poster child for 'shitty NBA team owner’s. Though that’s really because he’s cheap, and not a virulent racist. So screw him. I agree with the rest of your logic. Why not Atlanta? Though I wouldn’t mind seeing the Kings win it. Or NY, for the lolz. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/335 "2019-05-15T01:13:35Z")
I would have liked the Kings to have won too. Going to the Pelicans. Trade rumors will be flying like crazy the next several weeks. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/336 "2019-05-15T01:19:24Z")
I try to root for the team that has shown the least ineptness and at least has some desire to win. That certainly isn’t New Orleans, but this certainly makes this whole Anthony Davis nonsense a bit more interesting. I guess congratulations Zion, on languishing in New Orleans for the foreseeable future. I can’t think of a more boring destination. Without the 1st pick, I don’t see how New York gets Anthony Davis aside from shelling out a boatload of future picks (which they are probably dumb enough to do). I’d never trust Davis to stay without an extension, so I don’t think I"d ever trade for him, but that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/337 "2019-05-15T01:40:13Z")
Definitely rooting for philly to get it because maximum chaos. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/338 "2019-05-15T03:00:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Definitely rooting for philly to get it because maximum chaos. It’s New Orleans. Memphis second, New York third, LA Lakers fourth. Of those four teams, only the Knicks were one of the teams expected to finish in the top three. The others moved up. LeBron tweeted that he’s very pleased with getting the fourth pick. According to [this,](https://theathletic.com/978253/2019/05/14/charania-despite-pelicans-winning-nba-draft-lottery-anthony-davis-still-wants-to-be-traded-discussion/) Anthony Davis still wants out of New Orleans. I’m floored by that. He must really want to go to New York. Perhaps the Pelicans will trade Davis to the Knicks for the third pick, which they’d use to draft either Ja Morant or Zion’s Duke teammate R.J. Barrett? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/339 "2019-05-15T03:29:03Z")
Portland embarrassed themselves in game one. Bad defense, huge turnover problem, neither of the star guards hitting their shots. When Harkless is the top scorer into the 4th quarter, something is very wrong. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/340 "2019-05-15T04:21:42Z")
When the Warriors are 17-33 from deep, it’s pretty tough to beat them no matter how well Dame and C.J. play. But you’re right, not an impressive showing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212.md?page=18)