2025-26 NBA Discussion

Heroic effort by Tobias here

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Tonight is why this had to be a category in the Over/Under Contest

Now we’re at 1.7 rejections a game vs. 2 ejections. Stew had been at 2.0 blocks or over until the last couple of weeks.

It still cracks me up that Chat GPT decided to put Luka in there even though I didn’t mention him.

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I haven’t bought a ticket for the next-to-last game of the season in Charlotte. I was planning on going to this game lol. I hope the ticket price doesn’t jump after last night lol

Hopefully Pistons have a 1 seed locked up. We can see Klintmann play 35 minutes.

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McDermott randomly catching strays in the NBA chat :rofl: .

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They’ve been doing awesome thus far but still plenty of challenging games left, including OKC & Spurs twice

Nothing this Piston team does can surprise me. They lose 2 of their 3 bigs to ejection so Paul Reed is forced into action, plays virtually the entire rest of the game, and is arguably the best player on the floor. Unreal.

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Bball Paul is such a nice emergency big to have. He has really stepped up a few times this year when needed.

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Athletic’s prognostication of fallout

There will obviously be suspensions, and I’d imagine they’ll come for all four players who were ejected.

  • Diabate doesn’t have a history of fights, fines or suspensions.

  • Duren was fined for an ejection in 2023. But he and Diabate both threw punches in this game and kept getting into it as coaches and teammates were trying to diffuse the situation.

  • Stewart has been suspended eight games for four different incidents in his career. Three were for on-court altercations, and one was for a sixth flagrant foul. His history, plus leaving the bench to get involved, will certainly bring a bigger penalty.

  • Bridges was suspended 30 games in 2023 for a domestic violence incident. Will that be a factor? We don’t know.

My educated guess:

Duren and Diabate: 1 game

Bridges: 2-3 games

Beef: 10 games due to his history

I still find it funny when this broke out nobody on the Pistons bench kept an eye on Stewart. Marcus Sasser had one job to do…

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Maybe he looked for Ron first and by the time he remembered Ron wasn’t there, Beef was gone.

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Ron at home watching the game be like

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Teleportation hasn’t been accomplished yet, but I’m sure Ron was close to inventing it just on pure will last night as he watched it happen.

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Whenever I type a “K” in my search bar, at this point, google auto-fills “kneuppel brother names”

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10 games would be insane, even for a repeat offender. List of people banned or suspended by the NBA - Wikipedia

Generally 10+ games means drugs, crime or attacking a fan/non-participant

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yeah, would think like 5

I hope it’s only 5

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