I vaguely recall Denver playing multiple Sunday night late games against Minnesota last year. I think that's become a sort of rite of passage for fresh-faced Western Conference No. 1 seeds.

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I think the likeliest outcome is that Chris Paul signs with the Lakers or Clippers for the minimum. That's not even a basketball thing. I think reports have indicated his family still lives there. He doesn't strike me as a ring-chaser. He's not gonna play major minutes anymore.

Pelicans open as -2.5 favorites over the Kings despite the uncertainty surrounding Zion's health.

Chris Paul is gonna be such an elite vet minimum signing for the Lakers. Darvin finally gets his small forward 🙏

The practical basketball decision would be to break the team up, get a mountain of assets for Steph and move on.

The Warriors, specifically, should ABSOLUTELY NOT make the practical basketball decision. Steph, Klay and Draymond should retire there no matter what.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

Chris Paul: backup point guard for the 2024-25 NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

Okay, I’d love a mulligan about the laughing part… but I’m still adamant that Jaden Ivey is gonna thrive when he gets to play on a real team.

I just spent $250 on a groomsman gift for my future brother-in-law and even that felt like a bit much. This is nuts.

This can't be your play on the biggest ATO of the season, man.

I get that Alvarado deflected the initial inbound out of bounds. Have a second play ready. I don't care if you have LeBron James. You have to do better than a fadeaway jumper against a double at the end of the clock.

That should've been Zion's 'I've arrived' moment on the big stage. Just a brutal injury. Hopefully he's ok for Friday.

I think this could make sense next year, because I actually do think the idea of 'trade some of the picks for a kickass perimeter defender who can shoot' is a good idea.

For now, I'm just playing the five best guys. I don't think there's a viable starter on the bench.

Darvin Ham has narrowly escaped two 'I don't know how you come back from this' games in the past five days. This one might've been worse than the Grizzlies game. They called timeout with 38 seconds remaining only to... not run a play? Very, very lucky to escape this one.

The Lakers have played 18 clutch minutes against the Nuggets since the start of the 2023 Western Conference Finals.

The Nuggets have won those minutes by 32 points.

If the Lakers play like they did in the fourth quarter tonight against the Nuggets, they're getting swept.

The Lakers just didn't run a play during that SLOB situation. Come on Darvin.

Man if the Lakers pull this out, that 3 is gonna be so huge for DLo's confidence going into the Nuggets series.

This fourth quarter has been great for those of us with 'the Pelicans should trade Brandon Ingram so they can make Trey Murphy a long-term starter' agendas.

It took damn near the entire season, but the Lakers have found their rotation

Russell
Reaves
James
Hachimura
Davis

Vincent
Prince
Hayes

Those are the eight you're bringing with you into the Denver series.

The Lakers are to the Pelicans what the Nuggets are to the Lakers.

Give Harrison Faigen credit it was his idea.