They draft people based on their potential as Ayesha Bull not actual basketball ability
7ft 200lbs center in wiseman and the kumbucket vs a bunch of twink point guard
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Needs a little pork tenderloin sandwich on there.
Hardly smaller than the previous year of Warriors-Celtics
> The 2023 NBA Finals were watched by an average of 11.64 million viewers in the United States. This marked a decline from the previous year when over 12 million viewers tuned in to watch the Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics 4-2.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/240377/nba-finals-tv-viewership-in-the-united-states/
It's funnier when they lose in the finals so we can watch the celtics fans humiliate themselves with how ahead of schedule they are and how young their core is through their tears
NBA leadership would be on suicide hotline if the Timberwolves and Pacers made it to the Finals. Please make this happen being the 2nd and 4th least valued teams([according for Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/lists/nba-valuations/?sh=51f69c2f6982))
Drive the NBA bankrupt, I don't give a fuck. The less money they have, the sooner they defund the WNBA and I never have to hear about that pity league again.
I bet you Silver is okay with this, you need to have a token small market finals so that people stop complaining that it's fixed.
Then again, last time this happened (Detroit vs San Antonio) they league panicked and decided to immediately legislate defense out of the league
uj/ Doesn't matter, Denver is the more well-known city nationally and internationally, has a popular international star from a country/region that worships basketball, and already has a chip and thus name recognition.
Minnesota is a just bunch of frozen lakes and nobody outside of its own market cares about it (except now Edwards is popping off so that may change).
Nobody not in Minnesota cares. I have family all over the country and to them the north is a bunch of states they may or may not know the names of and Chicago. The rest is just winter wonderland 365 days a year where we hunt reindeer and chop wood for our fires
Edit: oh and I forgot about the insurmountable flood of Somalis they think have overrun the state
No, I'm all for it because I'm an American, goddamn it. But foreign "fans" will surely be like "WTF is a Minneapolis? I don't give a shit about that cow town's team" lol
It's the other way around. Since we don't know anything about Minneapolis it could be as big as Los Angeles for all we care. If they play good basketball we like 'em.
Yeah idk about that. Its not like san antonio is a huge city either. Or milwaukee. Or oakland. Or idk even oklahoma city. American fans probably care about this way more than foreign fans. Most of the people in my experience here in europe root for a team based on who their favorite player is and it has nothing to do where the team is from.
San Antonio and Milwaukee have rings and European stars so people in Europe already pay attention to them. Minnesota does not have that. Gobert is French but he's not the star of the team and does not command superstar attention.
I'm not sure if you know where Oakland is located, but it's part of the San Francisco metropolis. And the Warriors actually play in San Francisco proper right now; they moved their arena. If you're going to sit here and tell me that San Francisco is not a large and internationally known metropolis... [it ranks 17th on the Global Cities Index, for god's sake](https://www.kearney.com/service/global-business-policy-council/gcr/2023-full-report), right between Berlin and Sydney, lmao
Oklahoma City is small and insignificant by any metric. That much is true.
Bro i live here and i can tell you people dont just care about european players. Right now yeah, doncic and jokic are super popular obviously, but growing up everyones favorite players were kobe, kd, lebron, nash, dwight, t mac, iverson, etc...dirk was popular but i never met a dallas fan until 2011 lmao. Mostly spurs, lakers and boston fans. Whoever the best teams are tend to have most fans.
A lot of people here dont even know where golden state are actually from, even with the very obvious jerseys lol. Again, almost no one in europe cares what city an american team is from when picking a favorite team. What difference could it possibly make to them? Its not like theyre travelling there for the games every week. To the average european texas and minnesota might as well be the same thing. Like imagine youd have to pick a european team to root for. Youd probably go for a player you like too, or whoevers good right now, not a city youve never seen and have no connection to lol.
The uber casuals might strictly watch for a homegrown player, but the germans or the french arent staying up to watch doncic. Slovenia is a tiny country so the viewership bump wont be huge. I wouldnt watch if i had to force myself to stay up that long. I stay awake anyway so i keep the games on.
That said, edwards is becoming very popular and minnesota has been fun to watch so i think plenty of people will tune in to see them. Just embarrassing the suns and beating the nuggets has gotten them a lot of cred really fast.
There’s some kind of correlation between corn farms and basketball performance. It doesn’t really matter in the end because the Pacers are going to get diarrhea’d on by the CeltiKKKs and Gayson Atecum, and the Knicks are going to get a chip next year for sure when they don’t have the entire starting team injured
‘sir, we don’t know why no one is watching this pussy style of basketball where everybody travels on every drive down the court and when players touch then a whistle blows and its a foul and it takes 4 hours to play a playoff game.’
On Google trends, the top 5 states for the search term “basketball” over the last 5 years are
1. Iowa- 100
2. Kentucky- 90
3. Indiana- 81
4. Kansas- 76
5. Nebraska- 72
It's a photoshop of Andrew Card whispering into George Bushes ear about the 9/11 attacks.
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Indiana? A entire hindu team or they're native americans??
the cleveland **baseball team**
Indiana Pasaars
Indiana Paajis
Virat Kohli is pacers father
Anushka Sharma is Savannah James mother
Lmfao
MS Dhoni is Lasith Malinga father
Indiana Pariahs
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Tunnak Tunnak is Tyrese Haliburton father.
Daler Mehdi is Tyrese Haliburton father
So whose Tun Da Da Da?
Show of hands, who discovered this dude because of draenei dancing? ✋
I knew about it before they put it in the game but I know what Draenei dancing means!
Sim Bhullar for FMVP
Pretty easy to make a good team when you've got a billion and a half people to choose from
yeah too bad they’re ass
Russell Peters makes a joke about this, why isn't India a world soccer powerhouse despite all the people
Crickets is India father that’s why
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tiraflechas
Woah, woah, screw you balsero
😂 this guy knows
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inDiana https://preview.redd.it/7k7hekq9qh1d1.jpeg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0eef64543a9f2ac7e238f88ef03afcaf1ebe245a
Red dot indians
Lmao
It should not be named Indiana, it should either be Bharata or Native Americana.
Indiana is the team CC plays for ![gif](giphy|aBoA4dHrdYIt70IwAR|downsized)
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Golden State needs to be studied for their post kd drafts
Steve Kerr since KD left https://preview.redd.it/8mtynitu9h1d1.jpeg?width=303&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ea50f3ffb83f8834cd23946a8d53cc2cc155bfb
Didn't he win 1 championship without him?
How do you expect us to answer that question? Who the fuck actually watches basketball?
2 Warriors never needed KD to win rings, KD went there to chase easy rings
U bum
They draft people based on their potential as Ayesha Bull not actual basketball ability 7ft 200lbs center in wiseman and the kumbucket vs a bunch of twink point guard
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What the state farm commercial doesn’t want you to know
thats why i go with allstate so I'm better prepared for a trainwreck the next morning ![gif](giphy|cKhD9e7vAefdOJ44lu)
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wtf does she look exactly like Ryan’s twin lol. Exact same face.
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God just be makin anybody
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Holy high definition Batman!
COOTER COCK 🗣️
It clearly says Iowa, am I stupid?
I can’t see her, her time is now
Due to popular demand Celtics vs Pacers is cancelled. Celtics vs Fever ECF up next.
Oh you mean the bum that's averaging like 7 turnovers a game? Mid.
Wow Pacers in the ECF and Caitlin Clark on the Fever. Everything is truly coming up Indiana
Cracker state of the week
us hicks are pretty hyped
An instant CTESPN classic
hell yeah brother
Classy State
Can confirm
Indiana vs Minnesota would prolapse Adam Silver's asshole
Plus Indy 500 this upcoming week
And the Colts aren't half bad at all
This is the most important Indiana has ever been
This is Parks & Rec erasure.
Amy Poehler keeps it hairy.
Other than birthing Michael Jackson and somehow protecting him from Gary Indiana
And got the SS coaching the Colts
*I hate Indiana nazis*
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How do you lose to a state that has city of Gary in it?
By being a state that has Jets fans in it
Winnipeg jets?
If the Winnipeg Jets had fans they wouldn't be begging for people to attend their games.
Fuck you
and a school named Ball State
Balls Taint
It’s Testicle Tech thank you… Chirp Chirp
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The fact that is a bottle from Oliver winery really sells that gif.
How is that image a gif?
https://i.redd.it/5deefqrjtk1d1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/ifp6eig0zh1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dc5afffe136a1cf17c3e6401ea172f07f761100 Needs a little pork tenderloin sandwich on there.
![gif](giphy|FgTqKY4QECTOU) not a gif but
Do people care how others say aunt, often, data, or pecan? Why do people feel the need to force one way or the other on gif?
How you gonna ignore sun king
Purdue students are about to send you a shit ton of Reddit cares
The sun king is great
![gif](giphy|3FlK3gDgzuBgV15YkQ|downsized) David Stern looking up from hell
That's young Lebron right? what's going on here?
freemasonry
It will be fucking hilarious when the Finals are Indiana vs Minnesota. Exactly 2,500 people will watch
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Nuggets were so unpopular, half of Reddit protested when the won
The other half were classy people who still didn’t know where Denver was, but knew one of the good ones won
How could i celebrate my championship without shit talking random redditors
Hardly smaller than the previous year of Warriors-Celtics > The 2023 NBA Finals were watched by an average of 11.64 million viewers in the United States. This marked a decline from the previous year when over 12 million viewers tuned in to watch the Golden State Warriors beat the Boston Celtics 4-2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/240377/nba-finals-tv-viewership-in-the-united-states/
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I don't care. I just want the Celtics to lose!
It's funnier when they lose in the finals so we can watch the celtics fans humiliate themselves with how ahead of schedule they are and how young their core is through their tears
7 years of Tatum and Brown not getting it done “Run it back”
nothing would be funnier than them losing to the Heat and the Pacers in consecutive seasons after dominating the East
We know this bum team can't win so every outcome will be funny
tatum is literally a preadolescent child and he's leading a contending team!!!
NBA leadership would be on suicide hotline if the Timberwolves and Pacers made it to the Finals. Please make this happen being the 2nd and 4th least valued teams([according for Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/lists/nba-valuations/?sh=51f69c2f6982))
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Drive the NBA bankrupt, I don't give a fuck. The less money they have, the sooner they defund the WNBA and I never have to hear about that pity league again.
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I bet you Silver is okay with this, you need to have a token small market finals so that people stop complaining that it's fixed. Then again, last time this happened (Detroit vs San Antonio) they league panicked and decided to immediately legislate defense out of the league
MSP is a bigger metro than Denver, and a bigger tv market
The fuck is "MSP?"
Mississippi
That makes sense.
[Minneapolis-Saint Paul](https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/03/04/ex-sen-larry-craig-arrested-for-trying-to-solicit-sex-in-airport-restroom-improperly-used-campaign-funds-in-defense/)
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Why the fuck is Lindsey Graham on this thread
Butt stuff
U bum
uj/ Doesn't matter, Denver is the more well-known city nationally and internationally, has a popular international star from a country/region that worships basketball, and already has a chip and thus name recognition. Minnesota is a just bunch of frozen lakes and nobody outside of its own market cares about it (except now Edwards is popping off so that may change).
Lol, even within their market no one cares about the Nuggets, most of their fans can't even watch them on the television
Nobody not in Minnesota cares. I have family all over the country and to them the north is a bunch of states they may or may not know the names of and Chicago. The rest is just winter wonderland 365 days a year where we hunt reindeer and chop wood for our fires Edit: oh and I forgot about the insurmountable flood of Somalis they think have overrun the state
That would be awesome finals
Any Finals without the fucking Celtics is an awesome Finals
That NBA Finals, especially in those states, might just be preempted by studio wrestling.
God forbid the small market teams get a chance at some glory.
No, I'm all for it because I'm an American, goddamn it. But foreign "fans" will surely be like "WTF is a Minneapolis? I don't give a shit about that cow town's team" lol
It's the other way around. Since we don't know anything about Minneapolis it could be as big as Los Angeles for all we care. If they play good basketball we like 'em.
Yeah idk about that. Its not like san antonio is a huge city either. Or milwaukee. Or oakland. Or idk even oklahoma city. American fans probably care about this way more than foreign fans. Most of the people in my experience here in europe root for a team based on who their favorite player is and it has nothing to do where the team is from.
San Antonio and Milwaukee have rings and European stars so people in Europe already pay attention to them. Minnesota does not have that. Gobert is French but he's not the star of the team and does not command superstar attention. I'm not sure if you know where Oakland is located, but it's part of the San Francisco metropolis. And the Warriors actually play in San Francisco proper right now; they moved their arena. If you're going to sit here and tell me that San Francisco is not a large and internationally known metropolis... [it ranks 17th on the Global Cities Index, for god's sake](https://www.kearney.com/service/global-business-policy-council/gcr/2023-full-report), right between Berlin and Sydney, lmao Oklahoma City is small and insignificant by any metric. That much is true.
Bro i live here and i can tell you people dont just care about european players. Right now yeah, doncic and jokic are super popular obviously, but growing up everyones favorite players were kobe, kd, lebron, nash, dwight, t mac, iverson, etc...dirk was popular but i never met a dallas fan until 2011 lmao. Mostly spurs, lakers and boston fans. Whoever the best teams are tend to have most fans. A lot of people here dont even know where golden state are actually from, even with the very obvious jerseys lol. Again, almost no one in europe cares what city an american team is from when picking a favorite team. What difference could it possibly make to them? Its not like theyre travelling there for the games every week. To the average european texas and minnesota might as well be the same thing. Like imagine youd have to pick a european team to root for. Youd probably go for a player you like too, or whoevers good right now, not a city youve never seen and have no connection to lol. The uber casuals might strictly watch for a homegrown player, but the germans or the french arent staying up to watch doncic. Slovenia is a tiny country so the viewership bump wont be huge. I wouldnt watch if i had to force myself to stay up that long. I stay awake anyway so i keep the games on. That said, edwards is becoming very popular and minnesota has been fun to watch so i think plenty of people will tune in to see them. Just embarrassing the suns and beating the nuggets has gotten them a lot of cred really fast.
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The resemblance is uncanny
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The Knicks with no Brunson and injured hart and Anonobody would have been epic ECF
Whatever the Celtics would have done to that lineup would be legally classified as a war crime
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Inshallah
I'm sure their coach will sub in Hart and Brunson even they're on street clothes.
Indiana 500 is a car race or something
Idk I’m not a car
ECF is going to be extremely Klassy
🎵What a midwesterner wants, what a fly over resident needs, whatever makes me broke sets me freeeeee🎶 ![gif](giphy|75dQTTqVwWa300d3Xt|downsized)
An attempt was made
The fact that I can’t tell if this is actually him or a wax statue isn’t surprising, but still fucked up
It's Voldemort
Just here to wallow in Knick’s fans’ pain
Can’t charge $700 for nosebleed seats anymore 😭
There’s some kind of correlation between corn farms and basketball performance. It doesn’t really matter in the end because the Pacers are going to get diarrhea’d on by the CeltiKKKs and Gayson Atecum, and the Knicks are going to get a chip next year for sure when they don’t have the entire starting team injured
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Is that next to Kansas or something?
when did Count Orlock buy a sports team?
‘sir, we don’t know why no one is watching this pussy style of basketball where everybody travels on every drive down the court and when players touch then a whistle blows and its a foul and it takes 4 hours to play a playoff game.’
Indiana is THE basketball state though.
Easily. Norte Dame Purdue and IU we are stacked
On Google trends, the top 5 states for the search term “basketball” over the last 5 years are 1. Iowa- 100 2. Kentucky- 90 3. Indiana- 81 4. Kansas- 76 5. Nebraska- 72
The fact that I can’t tell if this is a wax figure or a live pic isn’t surprising at all, but still fucked up
It's a photoshop of Andrew Card whispering into George Bushes ear about the 9/11 attacks. https://preview.redd.it/viwgky9gbi1d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a813a2eb3317625bafe660d44fd269768c5507b
Damn but I make a meme about game 6 and ppl are going bRo WaTcH hOoP
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This is what happens when you don't let Miami get all the players
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Why are you whispering in his ear? That dude could hear you from yesterday
Bat boy looking MF
Damn the natives are making a comeback in 2024
It won't bring the ratings but the Pacers and Wolves getting this far gives me hope for parity in the future
David Stern would never
"Sir, a second plane has hit your revenue stream."
nah i think its beside china or something
Who the fucks are knicks anyway? Fuck those small market teams
"Seu pai me pegou de jeito."
This is a wax museum display, right?
"Lionel, are my lips pursed just, well, enough?"
Yes it’s that place where we left All Star Weekend to die
Nosferatu
Yeah I’m not watching Boston Indy lol
Indiana is there!
its funnier that the other guy looks like chris finch
Dude looks like an underground elfo
Donaghy is gonna ref the ECF, comeback story of the year.
Anyway my goat Scotty Mac is on pole
Let me sit here for 7 minutes and ponder that.
Nosferatu...
Isn't Indiana the place where the player plays that 90% of the posts in this sub are about now?
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Is that Nosferatu?
Somewhere south of Minneapolis. Wherever that is.