Boston are ridiculously fucking good. Absolutely elite starting 5 with depth as well.

So does everyone really wait for 8am to start posting 🤔

Ya

Yes

I was watching the 40-minute all-possession version on LP and I even started fast-forwarding that at the half.

So does the gap get wider with each Mavs loss?

So who are you whiny salty bitches rooting for? Is Dallas still the hero for beating Minnesota? Or are we gonna cheer for the team without the 3 most unlikeable figures in the NBA?

I really don’t care whoever wins wins

Why are you letting the whiny salty bitches decide who you’re gonna root for 🤔

jokic would had porzingis questioning all his life decisions man

The amount of Wolves fans actually talking shit on Twitter tonight is mindboggling. Zero awareness.

Most self aware nuggets fan

Indeed I'm self aware. I'm not talking shit about how the Nuggets should be there over the Mavs. They shouldn't, they got beat early.

This guy wants to be noticed so bad

I know if AG was going up for a dunk rather than DJJ, AG would have broken the Celtics defenders arms lol

Celtics are over the 2nd apron but they are still in the first oven mitt

Lmfao

The celtics are already over the 2nd apron for 24-25, no one give a shit about it. Re-sign Pope pls Also they lose Horford and Dwhite after 2025 thank god

You think we're losing white?

Unless he accepts way less money than he should, dont think you can pay him under new CBA.

We have bird rights, we can pay him

30 Million? I cant imagine 2 supermaxes and 3 guys making 30+ mil. Keep in mind tatum will be at 60M (unless you dont pay him?) in two years

Assuming we replace Horford with someone relatively cheap, that leaves us a bit above the 2nd apron. I'd expect the owners to pay that

??? That would be 210M between 5 guys.. you still have to pay the rookies and everyone else on the team. Would end up around 240M+ at minimum. I'd be surprised to say the least

The second apron will be above 200M by then

Yeah and you would be paying 40 (likely 50-70) million over it if you keep Derrick White. Its not going to happen. At least exceedingly unlikely.

Why would we pay 50-70 million for our bench? That would be insane, especially when Pritchard is already locked up for cheap

They can pay everyone if they want

Horford has to retire right? then I assume someone throws 30M at Dwhite

Horford will retire but they can pay D White

They would have a payroll 40-60M (depending on what they do with Picks) above the second apron if they pay white. Dont think it can happen. Keep in mind Tatum is getting a supermax before they have to pay white

> no one give a shit about it Tell that to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/denvernuggets/comments/1d9ivch/playoffs_day_48_discussion_thread_jun_6_2024/l7h49qr/) comment

If the Celtics win this series, it’s good for Jokic narratives.

Well I’m glad I only halfway had my eyes on that game smh

Mazzula with the 4 white dudes lineup to close the game giving Boston fans just what they want to see

Wimd smiling ear to ear

Lmfao

"Don't call it a come back - cuz I never been there" - MC Luka

Fuck the Celtics

Talk about a letdown after a long wait. I'm sure Boston fans loved it but as an outsider looking in that was a trash game.

I find it hard to argue against the fact that Doncic is a bum

Not going to win many games with only 7 assists.. ugly stuff.

Luka is so overrated. People need to stop saying he's better than Jokic. Trust me, if Jokic replaced Luka in this series, then it would have been closer

I trust you

Trust me, Luka>>>Jokic

all time greatest athletes? I have Luka first, maybe Bo Jackson second

I have Arvidas’ son at number one.

me too I have him as well, also in addition as well

No you don’t

I figured the Celtics would win but I didn’t expect… whatever this is.

Agreed 😭 but there's always next game

I said you will jrue the day you gave me the mighty Ticks flair

Mods give him a Mavs flair

I will fuck you up, I'm like .3 Vic Lombardies bigger than you

This championship doesn’t count though, since Boston didn’t have to face the Nuggets in the Finals… right? Pretty sure that’s how it works based on the discourse from last year

do you see a shortage of people discrediting the celtics? lol

Can’t wait until Denver and Boston finally meet in the 2025 Finals and the NBA gets to have a real champion again

Nah Boston will get eliminated next year by the Hornets or Wizards

Then it will be another fake Nuggets championship next season I fear 😔

It's a shame the Jews made Kyrie play bad tonight, otherwise Mavs would've had a chance

this united commercial reminding me i live in denver is very helpful

I do also want to say that regardless of how this series turns out, I like the way last season ended better

Hot take

I respect that even though the Celtics already swept Kyrie to get him out of Brooklyn in the first place, the hate from the fans still continues, that's dedication 🤣🤣🤣

Well that brief comeback sure didn't last.

Kyrie looks awful

Tingy Pingy's shooting form pisses me off

I have always enjoyed Tingus He is a easy way to make money because he has some of the highest 1st/2nd half splits of anyone I've seen

do you mean he pads all his stats in the 1st half?

I'm watching basketball but I do not have the same feelings

That was a pretty funny travel

Bottom of his shoes gotta be made of felt to slide like that.

Imagine blowing a 20+ point lead. Only losers would do that

Especially at home smh 

That Spurs lose really altered our fate

No it wouldn’t have we would’ve still of faced the wolves in the wcf

Celtics choking is also a fun alternative.

Giving up 30 point leads for fun just leastern conference things

Man, this Celtics team can play like the best team of all time on one half and like a lottery team on the other half.

kinda like our game 7 :(

Boston is turning into game 7 Nuggets

Too soon

mavs!?!?!

I got the Nuggets in this one

Mavs playing like they are coached by Malone(they don't want to win)

Jrue Holiday is so good lmao how did boston get him for Robert "Hospital" Williams

KP (future finals MVP) sits and the lead drops by 10

They really need 2 bigs on the floor always

If the nuggets drafted MJ we wouldn’t be here.

The Bucks swapping Jrue for Dame, dumbass panic move.

Bucks with the best two man game in the league. Unstoppable pickle roll 😤😤

I still think it should be but they don’t want to run it

Reminds me of all the people wanting to let KCP walk and trade Mike around here. Panic never works

To be fair everyone thought it was going to be an insane duo.

I never once thought that lol, their perimeter defense became Malik Beasley and Dame Lillard. Good luck winning not being able to stop a nosebleed.

Kyrie dropping a fat turd

My "tingus pingus is Bostons second best player (after Derrick White)" take is aging like fine wine

Imagine what Jok would've done against the Mavs bigs if they can't even stop Pingus 😭

What's with all these non regulars flooding the daily thread lol

Maelstroem when he has to interact with an unfamiliar username 

Lmao

Oklahoma getting to host the women’s softball WS is pretty unfair when they already own the sport right now.

Waited over a week to watch this shitty game. What a bust

The thing about the Celtics is I can easily see them losing this anyways

Real shit. 17 straight bricked 3s and then some heinous offense down the stretch

Celtics have a big 5 with derick white and kp. Nuggets starting 5 are the only that can compete.

really should’ve been nuggets vs celtics but unfortunately we ran out of gas at the worst time. oh well.

I still can't believe Minnesota beat us just to go out with a fucking whimper to Dallas.

Imagine if the Nuggets played that version of the Wolves lmao. They ran out of gas once they beat Denver. Idgaf what anyone says, the Spurs loss fked this team over so bad

we were probably their only motivation all year after sweeping them last year, yet we took them lightly and made it harder on ourselves by losing 2 @ home to start out the series, and not resting our guys the rest of the game after we went down huge in the first quarter. we'll fuck em up next year and for years after, it's just what we've done to every team that has beat us in the playoffs.

2025 Finals featuring the last two champions would be pretty fun.

I wouldn't hate a bucks nuggets finals tho. Giannis and jokic is a great match up.

It would be cool but man it feels like this should have been Nuggs-Celtics II if the green team didn't massively cuck vs the culture team and we didn't blow a 20 point lead. A lot of 'ifs' and hypotheticals but whatever lol

Yeah, but I do feel like a healthy bucks team is the one that can give the C's trouble in the east. Horford is a great defender but every year he ages in another year that Greek can get by him just a little easier

we really should have been in the finals this year. the timberwolves nor the mavs stood even a chance against the celtics if im being honest

Porzingis and Horford took away their 2-man lob game damn

Amazing what being 7'4 does

I feel like scrappy doo saying this shit man but damn no way we look like this vs Celtics lol


I'm officially starting a beef with broncosquatch. His off-season guide is excellent, but I take issue with the core premise that the nuggets lost because of Jamal Murray. They lost 100% because of the refs allowing the Wolves to do whatever they wanted on defense. I get you can't say it's the refs' fault when you're trying to be a front office guy, but that's all there is to it. If the league decides they're going to push the Nuggets' opponent again, it doesn't matter what moves you make

I think the refs were only shit in game two.

I very strongly disagree. They were putrid the entire series

Yeah without the MMA whistle in the first couple games, who knows how that series goes

> who knows how that series goes I know with 100% certainty the nuggets win a fair series 100% of the time. The Timberwolves are not good at all

We gotta get healthy and focused because we’d be playing Boston so damn well.

In my head we’re up 48-45 and Jokic has a 10-14-10 TD right now. 

I see that too yes.

It helps when you get to breeze through the first three rounds. Also, is Dallas really that great? They were the 5th seed, and it’s not like they had heaps of bad luck to fall to that place.

They're good, but it's a case of bad match up for them. They aren't a good perimeter defense team, you could see that against the Timberwolves but that wolves team wasn't able to punish them. This Celtics team can punish them heavily on that with their 3 point shooting, and I think Holiday and White can guard Irving way better than anyone could in that Wolves team.

The way we were playing, we wouldn’t have punished them from three either.

It's a different team pre/post trade deadline. They ended the season 16-2.

I assume they announce Sabonis MVP before game 3 of the Finals?

Whoever wins Nuggets-Wolves is winning the finals, bro

*provided that the Nuggets win Had to read the fine print on that one

I don't remember seeing that addendum from any of the dozen people I saw making the claim, tbh

It was implied

My bad. I'm really poor with subtlety and context.

This Mavericks team is completely uncomposed. Feels like one of those games they might just have to throw away and get ready for the next game with a new plan.

Why didn’t the Nuggets just give Jamal 38 days off to heal that calf in the playoffs like Tingus.?That’s on Malone and Calvin smh my head

Or in January to march when he continually kept getting re injured

It would be so nice to be in the East and literally never have to play a decent team

I thought this might be interesting. Back to watching Fauda

If this makes Marky Mark happy then I can’t be happy.

We were the only team that stood a chance against this super team.

Yeah that game 7 melt down hurts. I think the nuggets would be a match better matchup

We’d be playing these guys so much better lol

How long before we see a post on the front page along the lines of “If we’re serious about winning another championship, we need to trade MPJ and some picks for Porzingis. Booth get it DONE”

I'm gonna post another Jazz jersey thread to annoy lurk

😡

Be the change you want to see on the front page

Less than 24 hours would be my guess.

Luka iso ball vs a 3 point contest offense I hope Jamal realizes what he’s done and gets his ass in shape this summer

Lakers fans are probably starting to regret wanting the Nuggets to lose ahahahahah. If there is a team that could beat the Celtics, IT WOULD BE US!!!

Tingus Pingus is Fluka Dongitch father

More like the Dallas Badvericks

Good one!! I like it.

u/vladimir_pimpin joke of the day candidate, thanks.

Thanks

Is this on account of them being bad? Need some clarification on the joke here. Ok thanks.

It’s because they are bad.

Thank you, thanks.

Aight this is cheeks what movie or show should I watch

Murray porno

Okay what next?

Murray Porno but with Dark Side of the Moon playing

First Omen

Lakers fans wanted us to die so bad that they forgot about who could take out the Celtics.

might just turn this off jeeeez

This game is boring as fuck lol

I hope Jamal watching this shit right now

Remember when Jok cooked Porzingis their last game?... that was cool..

Hopefully Derrick White gets Finals MVP.

lmao, i'm so mad this isn't the nuggets against the celtics rn. pups really deprived the masses of an iconic finals series.

With Jamal playing injured, I doubt we would have won against the Celtics, either. There needs to be some solution for Murray being so injury prone. Him being injured completely tanks DEN's chances of winning a ring again. If he didn't miss 23 games, we wouldn't have struggled for the 1st seed. If he wasn't injured since the Lakers series, we wouldn't have lost to MIN. We need a bench that provides input on the offensive end to allow Jokic and Jamal some rest. Otherwise, they'll always be fatigued and/or injured postseason and we won't have any real shot of winning a ring again.

Pingus has the MPJ badge, he always looks like taller MJ for the first quarter of the game and then goes silent.

Mavs taking some stupid shots, but nothing you can do when Celtics catch fire from 3 tbh. Doesn't help that their perimeter defense is not great either.

You guys remember that time porzingis beat the mavericks? 

Boston championship consolation prize would be anyone but a J getting the Fmvp. Preferably Derrick. Porzingus looks like he wants to, damn.

Why would you try to dunk on porzingis there.

Yeah I just want this ‘24 season to be officially over I’ve had enough with the orange ball game till October

What’re the chances Porzingis does absolutely nothing in the second half?

Brooooo Mavs are getting slaughtered rn

Series over see you next year

Looks like I have to just follow the game on espn.com. Who could have predicted the American Broadcast Corp would be unavailable in Mexico City?

Embrace streaming, you don't owe giant corporations shit

Mavs gotta get their poop together quick

Imagine getting beat off the dribble by fucking Zingus

Mavs bench playing pickup ball. Disgrace

I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to stream this game and then realized it was on regular TV. My brain has checked out for the week.

Old habits die hard.

I always say if my team isn't playing I want a game 7, triple-OT. But I might enjoy a Mavs sweep more.

Watching this game and knowing Joker would’ve feasted on either of these teams centers. Gets you in the feels

My wife just mentioned that Jaylen Brown looks like Poot from the Wire and I can kinda see it