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Who will make the 2024 NBA All Star Game? Will the Detroit Pistons raise a banner for breaking a 27 game losing streak? Discussing the beginning of 2024 in the NBA ITT.
 

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Now Toronto and the LA Clippers are the only franchises with no retired numbers. Kawhi Leonard might end up being the first for both! Maybe a long shot though. Has anyone had their number retired in any sport for a team that they only played one season with?
 

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Vince Carter not having his jersey retired is complete bullshit and generally the disrespect to him is part of why I can't fuck with the raptors.
 

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Feel like this is slight win for the Grizzlies as I don’t think they would have been able to win enough to crack the Top 10 in the West.

So they may end up with a Top 5 pick and even though this draft may be weaker at the top they may be able to add a nice piece to their core.
 

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Ja Morant's entire 2023-24 season was 9 games. He currently has twice as many wins as the Detroit Pistons.
In other news, the Pistons scored 47 points in the first quarter last night against your Kings and were up 20...

...they ended up losing by 21. Four Kings accounted for 115 of the team's 131 points in the comeback victory :(
 

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In other news, the Pistons scored 47 points in the first quarter last night against your Kings and were up 20...

...they ended up losing by 21. Four Kings accounted for 115 of the team's 131 points in the comeback victory :(
Not my Kings. I'm still off that narcotic.
 

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Yeah, it seriously made me embarrassed to be a fan. Here's the full video


The team won fucking six championships in eight years. This just makes the fans look like entitled babies. Booing Krause is just ridiculous. It's been 25 years.
 

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Whole ceremony seemed kind of odd in the first place without Jordan, Pippen and Rodman there. Although Jordan and Rodman sent video messages at least. At this point, Pippen is probably as much if not more of a loose cannon than The Worm.


Look I can’t say I know what those guys are feeling and maybe their anger and pettiness is justified but it sucks that there are so many bad feelings involved for the greatest decade stretch for an NBA franchise. It wasn’t always hand holding and rainbows for any of the Lakers or Celtics dynasties but at least, the end of the day, it seemed like they were able to appreciate all that they accomplished together.

Kraus’ widow getting booed is just an exclamation point on the crappiness. It’s just an all around bummer for ‘90s kids and NBA fans.
 

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The ceremony was a cheap cash grab from Reinsdorf. Like no other reason for it to happen. He wanted to milk some nostalgia even without Jordan, Pippen, or Rodman there.

It was called the Ring Of Honor ceremony which amused me.
 
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Yeah. They centered it around the ‘90s Bulls and I wondering what the eff Artis Gilmore was doing there.

Chicago sports will be so much better off when Reinsdorf shuffles off this mortal coil. Hopefully the White Sox are still in Chicago by then!
 

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His son Michael seems to have the same frugal and cheap ideology. Sox at least will get sold, but the Bulls are stuck with that family forever.
 
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