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Can Whitmore got traded to the Wizards for two 2nd rounders.
 
Hey everybody, just wanted to run something.

In the College Football thread, @Señora Airi brought up the idea of a pick ‘em for the season, and some people were on board over there. And in the spirit of high stakes fantasy football, I think we’ve even settled on a humiliating forfeit for the person who finished dead last: the champion gets to declare what their PFP (and the caption under it) will be, and it has to be kept for the entire offseason (with what I assume is the caveat that it can’t bring your account at risk).

I was wondering if anybody here was interested in something similar.

The way to do it I think would be this, though I’m open to talk about it:

Goes from the end of the Play in Tournament through to the NBA Finals.

Participants must select a pick for each series, as well as a prediction of how many games each series will be. This will serve as both a tiebreaker where the edge will go to the one who is closer to the actual length. Series result will also be added to your record (meaning that if you predict a team to win a series in seven games, your record will go to 4-3 if that team wins, or 4-3 if that team loses. If it goes fewer games, the record will reflect that.)

The deadline to give a series prediction is the first game of that series.

Participants must also provide predictions for the following awards :
MVP
Rookie of The Year
Coach of The Year
NBA Finals MVP
Defensive Player of The Year
Sixth Man of The Year
Most Improved Player

This is to serve as a tiebreaker where the edge will be given to the one who has the most correct predictions, deadline to put picks in will be the first game of the new season.

The person who finishes last will have their profile picture, along with the option of the caption under it, selected by the winner (provided it does not violate Kiwi Farms TOS) and must be kept until the start of the next regular season, or earlier if the two parties can come to a written agreement.
 
Sure, I'd be down. May want to hold off on the award picks in case someone gets some unexpected injury and wrecks my predictions but I've got time.
 
I love videos like this, I didn't watch the NBA growing up so I missed all of 2000's NBA, I love the history of the game, so stuff like this is like a window into a world I've only heard and read about. Sidenote, did anything relevant happen in Atlanta for the entirety of the 2000's? In all the podcasts, youtube videos, online posts, and other content consumed I don't think I've ever heard the Hawks brought up in the context of the 2000's ever.

Random Internet Person said:
NBA Finals MVP
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The rules all sound fine to me except this, it's hard to guess which teams will make the finals, the last 3-6 years at least one of the teams in the finals was not expected to make it out of their conference. I would be interested in participating.
 
Active User said:
Sure, I'd be down. May want to hold off on the award picks in case someone gets some unexpected injury and wrecks my predictions but I've got time.
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Kujo Jotaro said:
The rules all sound fine to me except this, it's hard to guess which teams will make the finals, the last 3-6 years at least one of the teams in the finals was not expected to make it out of their conference. I would be interested in participating.
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In anything, I may change award picks to have a deadline to be a week before they’re awarded, whenever they are. I’d also be willing to change it to where a Finals MVP pick can be changed if your pick’s team got eliminated.

I felt that the before season award predictions would make things pretty funny if those picks ended up catastrophically wrong (unless the wrong was caused by a significant injury):
 
Random Internet Person said:
In anything, I may change award picks to have a deadline to be a week before they’re awarded, whenever they are. I’d also be willing to change it to where a Finals MVP pick can be changed if your pick’s team got eliminated.
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For the Finals MVP prediction I think picks should be submitted by the start of the first Finals game: Your finals MVP is basically your finals pick 90% of the time anyways and usually you have one team you favor going into the series even if you're uncertain.

For regular season picks I guess it depends how soon awards are announced. If none of them are announced before the playoffs you could just say they're all due by the first game of the playoffs, or just the day before any of them are announced all picks are due. With the MVP race, even if you can make a very legitimate argument for one player their chances of winning might be diminished by their team record or lack of narrative, so by the end of the season it's usually narrowed down to 3 candidates at most, with one being the odds on favorite from either a stats or narrative(or both) standpoint; the other awards usually have a little more of a randomness element, maybe 1 is a lock ahead of time, but it usually feels like a semi legitimate competition compared to the MVP selection. The general NBA discourse usually does a pretty good job of acknowledging legitimate cases for awards(with the exception of the MVP of course); If you've watched throughout the season, kept up with the discourse for at least the last portion of the season, and done whatever amount of research you deem necessary, you can usually narrow down your selection by the close, or near the close, of the season.
Señora Airi said:
Dumb question: so this essentially would be for the back half of the season, plus playoffs and finals?
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That's how I interpreted it.
 
Kujo Jotaro said:
For the Finals MVP prediction I think picks should be submitted by the start of the first Finals game: Your finals MVP is basically your finals pick 90% of the time anyways and usually you have one team you favor going into the series even if you're uncertain.

For regular season picks I guess it depends how soon awards are announced. If none of them are announced before the playoffs you could just say they're all due by the first game of the playoffs, or just the day before any of them are announced all picks are due. With the MVP race, even if you can make a very legitimate argument for one player their chances of winning might be diminished by their team record or lack of narrative, so by the end of the season it's usually narrowed down to 3 candidates at most, with one being the odds on favorite from either a stats or narrative(or both) standpoint; the other awards usually have a little more of a randomness element, maybe 1 is a lock ahead of time, but it usually feels like a semi legitimate competition compared to the MVP selection. The general NBA discourse usually does a pretty good job of acknowledging legitimate cases for awards(with the exception of the MVP of course); If you've watched throughout the season, kept up with the discourse for at least the last portion of the season, and done whatever amount of research you deem necessary, you can usually narrow down your selection by the close, or near the close, of the season.
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Nothing is written is stone at this point. As I said, I was just looking to see if anybody was interested in this kind of thing.
 
Kujo Jotaro said:
Sidenote, did anything relevant happen in Atlanta for the entirety of the 2000's?
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Not really, that's why you never hear about them. They lost all their good players from the 90s and took 7 or 8 years to get a decent team together. Their roster was just a mess of has-beens and never-weres. They had Josh Smith who was very exciting but frustrating to watch, very athletic but not a great player. They brought in Joe Johnson and drafted Al Horford in the late '00s and became competitive but not to the extent they were championship contenders or anything.
 
Womble of Wimbledon said:
I will eat my hat if Holmgren is worth that money. Fairly inconsistent these past playoffs and he is a major injury waiting to happen (again).

And Booker is DEFINITELY not worth that, but it's not like Phoenix have anything else going for them.
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I'm pretty bullish on Chet. Keep in mind he broke his hip last year and came back on an accelerated recovery and still gave quite a lot, and that he's really young. He had like no lower body strength last season. As he gets older and bulks up, I think health permitting he can be a DPOY type guy while still giving you quite a bit on offense. I like Mobley better for his type of player and it is a lot of money, but I think someone else would have given it to him if not OKC. Jalen Williams is the bigger question mark to me.
 
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Señora Airi said:
Bradley Beal to the Clippers
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For the 1000th post, I simply ask the thread gods to one day free Devin Booker from the hell that is the Phoenix Suns one day.

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110 - 13.9 = 96.1 Million/5 years = 19.22 Million a Year
Let's assume that they haven't paid him for 2025 before the contract buy out.

19.22 Million in 2025 for player contracts is ranked 90/366, putting him in the ~25% top paid players.
If you spread it out over the 5 years evenly, you are essentially sacrificing bringing in a decent role-player for a guy who is going to play against you.
If they spread it in a gradient, you are sacrificing 1-2 years of bringing in a decent star.

Booker is 28 going on 29 soon. The window is closing.
Jalen Green and Norman Powell are not gonna take you to past the first round in the West.
Free Devin Booker. He dropped 70 once. Let him go to the playoffs again.
 
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